The 5 people you will meet in School

No matter where you go, there will always be a different mix of people you will encounter...
none of them alone is perfect, cause no one is...

the 1st person you will see...
is John
he is a guy with thick spectacles, wearing plain clothes and carry "secondary schoool era" bags on his back everywhere he went. He will loiter around the school computer labs, computer stores and comic stores. His favourites are anime and cartoons. He most of time look at the floor wherever he go as he try to avoid eye-to-eye contact. He knows everything about the latest IT gadgets in stores, is a genius in computer repair and basically live his life around computers. He is pretty good at studies and will ace subjects like computer and science. Chess club, librarian, computer and biology club is his dream CCA. He will tell you "hey you should not have bought that computer last week. Its graphic card is not the latest and it's application features sucks, you should have listen to me and...." . Well, he may be the next Bill Gates or Michael Dell, who knows?

the 2nd person you will meet...
is Mary
she is a girl who always never fails to attract your attention. It will not be surprising that most of the guys in your class also can't take their eyes off her. She will be in the latest fashion of clothes and accessories. She will charm everyone with her sweet voice and looks. She won't bother to talk to the average Joe. She prefer to clique with other expert socialites like her. She is too busy to join a CCA cause all her time is spent on makeup, shopping and dating. But if CCA is a compulsory thing, she will want to sign up for society or music and drama club. You can find them clubbing every saturday night. If you got a chance to talk to her or face-to-face encounter with her, she will say "wow, look at my watch here, xxx(a stupid rich guy) bought them for $xxxx at xxx(store) to give me leh. i don't want one but he still insisted, aiyah so sweet..." Okay..she's the next Paris Hilton

the 3rd person you will encounter...
is tom
he is the king at the basketball court. Once a while he also rules the soccer field and running tracks. Every day after school you will know exactly where to find him. He will be in his basketball shorts and sweating a few litres of sweat. Girls keep staring at him. at his muscular build and manly movements during the games( especially when basketball becomes wrestling ). He tends to hand in his homework late so don't bother to ask him to let you copy yesterday's tutorials, instead you should lend him. He will appear sleepy during class as his spirit is still at the court and his mind is still running the tracks or thinking how to kick the ball pass the other team's goalkeeper. If you want to challenge him to a game of basketball...good luck...he may shout "kao, you so near can't even get the ball in, nevermind i can volunteer to coach you, $100 per 1 hour training session okay? Deal? " Well, he is more money-minded than Michael Jordan and Lance Armstrong.

the 4th person that will cross your path...
is Ah Seng
he will always be the topic of conversation between teachers in office. He will always be caught for all the things that he shouldn't do: tucked out shirt, shouting and teasing at teachers, not handing in homework at all, top the class in every test from the bottom up. He believe in living his own rules, that no one can control him. He has a very vast reservoir of vocabulary of vulgar language. He always try to act cool infront of girls by boasting how many people (smaller size poor guys younger than him ) that he beat up and how many acres of land he "control". He seems to make others afraid of him as time goes by. However he is always dressed in the most funky clothes and stylish hairstyle and accessories. If he has to join a CCA he should be in rugby. But once in a full moon he will surprise you by saying "brother, thanks for helping me cheat during the exam, i OWE you one, anyone bully you tell me hor i go K him"...well, no thanks...to a next tribal chief

the 5th person is someone you can't miss out...
is Michael
he belongs to a majority of people you can find in this vast world. He tends to live peacefully with a small group of friends. Wearing expensive clothes only during special occasions, prefer less rigorous but rewarding CCAs like Civil Defence and adventure club. His circle of friends is his classmates, and only his classmates. He try to remain low profile and is very happy to always stay around with his classmates. Arcade is his love, but he may still say "I will want to concentrate on my studies so I can enter a good college and then enter a good university and then a good job and then a good managerial post and then a good retirement and then..." His life is really planned out, just like the uncle next door...

You and me may find ourselves very much alike to one of them, but there may be also a little bit of the other. You don't have to totally BELONG to any one of them, cause none of them are perfect, but it do pays to take a look at the positive attributes of the other characters. If you are a Michael, you may want to get some sporting energies from Tom and go to the nearest basketball to sweat it out after a long day at school, or learn the communication skills and confidence of Mary to make more friends in your CCAs and in school, or you can obtain the computer-sense from John and help your girlfriend repair her antique computer...

You should remain as what you are comfortable with, but be willing to dare to and be open minded towards exploring and adopting other people's positive traits...