Name: Arthur Tan Kwan Tek
Birthday: 08/10/1988
Affliations: AiTong Sch, SJI 204, 422, SAJC 1st intake, CJC T18
Horoscope: Libra

I'm from Taiwan. And Taiwan is NOT part of China.
I didn't retain, but i'm 2 years older than my classmates cos i demoted when i came singapore
I'm turning 20 but i look like 16. zzz.

Favourite phrases:
[smile, even though it doesn't belong to me], [give me a pivot, a pair of drums sticks, and i'll lift this fucking world up], [never frown, because you never know who's in love with your smile], [it's sunny tonight]

Hobbies:
Soccer, badminton, rollerblading, indulging in music, watching tv, pc games, reading, singing, sleeping, eating, being myself.

Pet phrases:
bhx, chao(it's an adjective), ni hao, sia lahz.

Music:
Avril Lavigne, Sixpence none the richer,Marilyn Manson, Norah Jones, Keane, DO AS INFINITY, Orange Range, Maroon 5, Linking Park, Good Charlotte, All american rejects, ellegarden, Fall out boy, Carpenters, MAYDAY!, Jay Chuo, NanQuanMaMa, Power Station, F.I.R, Shi Kang Jun, LeeHom, David Tao, Li Sheng Jie, CHEN QI ZHEN, A-mei, S.H.E, YanZi, Boa.

Celebrities:
MASAMI NAGASAWA, Kuko Takeuchi, Takuya Kimura, Kate Beckinsale, Charlize Theron, Liv Tyler, Amanda Peet, Emma watson, Patty Hou, Lin ChiLing

Movies:
Harry Potter, The matrix series, V for vendetta, Alot like love, Armageddon, STAR WARS, CRYING OUT LOVE IN THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD, BE WITH YOU.

Soccer:
MAN UTD!, ROONEY, Beckham, Cristiano Ronaldo, KAKA, Alan Smith, Real Ferdinand, Ronaldiniho, Henry, Aaron Lennon, Joe Cole, Zidane, Figo, Deco.

Wishlist:
-Appreciate things in life
-Love myself before i love anyone, Be myself before i be there for anyone
-Do well for As
-An overseas trip with all my frens!!!
-To put on some weight n muscles
-To own a dog/cat
-A new laptop of my own
-Ipod touch
-Tickle me Elmo toy
-Nike Dunk High Pro SB Melvins Black(sexy!)
-Soccer balls

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Nikunj
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Swang
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li0nheart :: a gift on the 19th birthday. (:
garvan

check this out!!! someone finally voiced up to the haircut issue in SJI!!



Haircut Issue

To Whom It May Concern:

I am writing this email to express my own opinions on the recent haircut issue. As I am using one hour of my own study time, I hope that you would spend five minutes of your time reading this argument.

Firstly I would like to highlight on the fact that SJI does not practice what they preach. Just yesterday, we all had a mass hair checkup. Unfortunately I was one of the students caught for sporting long hair. However I noticed that some students get preferential treatment. Consider the class of 435 and 426, most of the students have long hair, touching their collars, in your terms, unacceptable. Why did they get away Scot-free? Although Mr. Liew kept an eye out for people with long hair, they still managed to escape. This brings me to a conclusion that their form teachers must be very lenient or slack in layman???s terms. In another separate case, in 422, three students managed to get away with the haircut. When I asked one of them how did he get away, he just replied because they were special. This of course got me very frustrated; does this mean that SJI gives ???special??? treatment to ???special??? students? And I thought that our school was very fair in their judgements. In 421, one student even went further to escape from the haircut; he went out of school during curriculum time just to cut his hair. In doing so, he missed a total of four important periods. I also witnessed a scene when I was giving my name to Mr. Liew. Two students hid inside the toilet, as they wanted to escape from the haircut, unfortunately they were caught and were brought in front of Mr. Liew. As quoted from Mr. Liew ??? I don???t want to speak to you all now, just stand outside my office, I am going to suspend you from school.??? However, this was not the case, in fact, those students disappeared from classes the whole day and only came back during PSE period, with their cut outside of school. Back to the point, if the school cant even stop these students, why must the other quiet and respectful students suffer instead? Just because they are not rebellious and are much more behaved; does that mean that they have to suffer in silence by having a ridiculous haircut? When I mean ridiculous, I mean really short hair that does not suit their faces.

Which brings me to my second point. Hair being an identity. There is a saying that a man???s mane is his self-esteem. Ruin it and you ruin the man. This is why there are many hair growth advertisements shown all over the television. I would like to stress that our hair is very important to us. It gives people a good first impression. This does not mean clean, shaven and sloped. Some of us cannot have these sloped kind of hair as these style make us look like plucked chickens from the slaughterhouse. Each face is different; thus there should not be a standard haircut for everyone. At least if we are caught for haircuts, please give us the privilege to explain to the barber on how we should cut our hair. I am sure none of us would want to look like the China students with their cardboard-shaped hair. (Then again, it???s their identity.) That???s why I would like the school to acknowledge that our hair is important to us, taking it away is like taking a soft toy from a baby.

Thirdly, I know that most people relate long hair on men equals rebellious, no goal in life people. This is often untrue. Moreover, this is the 21st century, people???s mindsets have changed, has SJI???s? Of course I am not requesting for the school to allow us to have hair that extends 10 cm from the collar, I am just asking the school to allow us to have an acceptable haircut, not too short and not too long, allowing us to have no sloped styles. I have recently gone on a trip to Perth for a band exchange program with my CCA. There, we visited two Lasallian schools, Trinity College and Chrisholm College; both schools are like our secondary school levels. However, in both schools, I did not see any stringent hair rules being applied there. In fact, if my memory does not fail me, the student leader showing us around sported long unkempt blonde hair. This effectively cancels the ???We are Lasallian so therefore we must have short hair??? argument.

Lastly I feel that the school rules a very vague. According to the diary, on page 58:
[Hair is to be kept clean, neat and short. It is to be trimmed and tapered and should not extend beyond 1.5cm above the collar. This does not demand overly short back and sides but precludes styling which is ragged, excessive in bulk or length, overlaps the eyes and ears or touches the collar. Side-burns are not allowed. Hair cannot be tinted or permed. Modern cuts, which unduly accentuate varying hair lengths, or the shaving of parts of the scalp, are not permitted.] Only 1 figure is mentioned in the chunk of words. The rest of the lines are very general, what does the school mean by excessive bulk or length? Different people have different interpretations of bulk and length. Some may think that it is okay to leave their hair layered (where the top layers of hair are cut shorter than the layers beneath), others might think that it is unacceptable. I noticed that the majority of the people caught for haircuts are Chinese, I have never seen Malays and seldom saw Indians. What does this represent? It is true that we Chinese tend to have longer hair as or hair are usually straight, therefore it gives an impression that our hair is long. On the other hand, Malays tend to have curly hair, it gives an impression that their hair is short, only unkempt. Is this fair to the Chinese committee? SJI ???s rule of hair is very vague; it should be more flexible, not too rigid. I would like to emphasis that I am not racist, I am merely stating facts. I feel that some teachers are biased or just plain blind (pardon my rudeness). In the recent haircut, my form tutor caught my friend and me. However, our hair was not that long, in fact mine was acceptable and my friend???s was short. She constantly reminded me that my hair was thick, and I needed a haircut. Is it my fault that my hair grows faster than other people? Imagine having to go to the barber every fortnight. For you information, I am not made of gold. As the famous Mark Twain saying ???The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning-bug???. This means that everyone is different. I would like the school to recognize this fact. I hope that you will consider these points.

I have always been the quiet reserved and non-rebelling type of student. But this time I feel that I should speak up, and confirm my student rights in SJI. Once again this essay is based on my opinions, if I have insulted anyone, I would like to apologize, but most of my points are based on facts that I have compiled. This issue is bugging me, as I could not sleep soundly last night as I was mulling over my new haircut.
Cheers
Ora Et Labora Ng Zhao Loong (19) 421

penned.
2:28 PM

another chapter unfolds.