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Monday 24 November 2008

NS or Jail?

"Going for National Service camp is as good as going to jail."

Have any of you heard this sarcastic remark before? I have.
And I have been thinking these days, is it better to go for the camp or skip it thereby break the law?
You see, if you go for the camp, it is three months of boredom and suffering; if you skip it, you go to court, pay the bail and go to prison for a period of time hopefully less than a month.
So which is better?
Hahaha!
Do not worry, I will go for NS because once upon a time I sang this song and made a promise to God.

Lesson to learn, do not make promises you cannot keep.

Wednesday 19 November 2008

Right or Left....oh, I mean Wrong

This one question had been bothering me for years, yet I do not want to talk as if I were so holy and perfect. If you think I am being proud, sorry for the misunderstanding.

My question is: How should we respond when a student cheats in exam?

Situation: A student cheats and gets high marks in exam.
Are we supposed to report it to a teacher?

Situation: A student cheats and the teacher finds out about it, he gets punished.
Are we supposed to rejoice?

It is a dilemma. I am indirectly helping the cheater by remaining silent about what I witnessed, in a police case I would be considered as guilty as the person who commits the crime if I cover it up. If I expose the cheater I might be considered as not giving him a chance to change.
Justice versus Mercy. Both are characteristics of God.
We are told to love justice, so it means bringing a cheater's actions to light?
Yet we are also told to show mercy, so it means letting the cheater go?

I believe with all my heart that love is the perfect solution because love is perfect.
Love the sinner but hate the sin. How? By caring for students who cheat? Talking them out?
Everybody deserves a chance because Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. But to what extent do we keep quiet about their habit of cheating? How do we warn them not to cheat by remaining our humility simultaneously? How do we keep them from thinking that we are pretending to be holy?

With all that being said, I believe it is not our right to condemn students who cheat. Only the One who has no sin can and will judge man.

How to handle cheating? May God be the solution.
I do my part by abstaining from it as well as helping friends in subjects I understand.

Friday 14 November 2008

SPM? an observation

After sitting for the exam for a week, I realised it is possible to cheat. Well my desk is in a badminton hall, it is quite a big compound where more than a hundred desks can fit in. There are about six or seven invigilators in the hall, watching more than a hundred students. It seems quite easy to cheat even in this "strict" exam, I do not know about situation in classrooms but through my observation I could see that it is not difficult for students in the hall to cheat. You can just request to go to the washroom and there is your chance. Hahaha!

However, No, No, No I will not cheat.

=)