Happy birthday, ACsian style
The ACJC birthday prank clip sent to STOMP has some Netizens calling us ACsians 'evil' and attacking our status as a mission school.
But what right have they?
To all those morally self-righteous people, were you there to see her cry and scream for mercy? If you weren't don't assume she was. Are you a student of AC? AC people are quite wild when they have fun, and not all of them are as easily hurt as some of you. I know, even among the very boisterous students, if she had cried or asked them to stop even those people would have stopped.
I personally don't agree with their actions, but if they have fun and no one is hurt, why bother? The one thing I disagree with is their doing it in school and posting it on YouTube. Just look at the consequences. A mountain out of a molehill.
Of course, some people salivate over videos. They feed on such things.
To the person who sent it to STOMP, congratulations on being so swa ku. Such trivial bits of school life aren't news worthy, just gossip worthy. Why don't you go on an espionage mission to all the JCs in Singapore and spy on them? You'd have volumes of information to go crazy over.
Your actions have just confirmed my view that STOMP is nothing but media hype.
And it's not as if this is the norm. Most classes just sing a loud birthday song and cut a cake.
To Mrs Kelvyna Chan, our dear long-suffering principal, thank you for sticking to the truth and sticking by us. That has always set you apart from other principals who are quick to condemn the young people they are supposed to care about.
I'm angriest about the way some hypocrites attacked our religion.
Watch out, buddy. That's God you're dissing. Good luck to you. Not that it'll be enough.
UPDATE: Finally, somebody with brains on the ST Forum
By coldstar-
"I wonder if you have even watched the video at all or you’ve simply based your comments on the twisted ‘account’ written by the prig who submitted this. Anyone would have seen that the birthday girl was not in any real distress at all; she was taking the entire prank in good fun and humor. An inelegant, messy and noisy one perhaps, but nothing one wouldn’t expect from JC kids at their age. I fail to see the elements of meanness and humiliation readers have inferred into the entire incident and if you pay attention to the video, one of them even helped to straighten her skirt so that she wouldn’t ‘expose’ herself.
Do not impose your narrow-minded judgment when you cannot even appreciate the context. There is no point in thrusting victimhood on someone who likely did not even feel that she was being victimized."
And by me, as acjc01-
"Thank you for speaking up so objectively, coldstar.
I do not represent the school, the administration, any of the teachers or staff or the principals, but I feel compelled to speak up for the principal whom all of us admire.
Mrs Kelvyna Chan's attitude should not be disturbing when she is choosing to stand on the side of truth, and on the side of her students. What disturbs me more are the one-sided, biased and uninformed comments that have been made.
If the girl herself has said that she had fun, none of those self-righteous people have a right to say that she did not."
But what right have they?
To all those morally self-righteous people, were you there to see her cry and scream for mercy? If you weren't don't assume she was. Are you a student of AC? AC people are quite wild when they have fun, and not all of them are as easily hurt as some of you. I know, even among the very boisterous students, if she had cried or asked them to stop even those people would have stopped.
I personally don't agree with their actions, but if they have fun and no one is hurt, why bother? The one thing I disagree with is their doing it in school and posting it on YouTube. Just look at the consequences. A mountain out of a molehill.
Of course, some people salivate over videos. They feed on such things.
To the person who sent it to STOMP, congratulations on being so swa ku. Such trivial bits of school life aren't news worthy, just gossip worthy. Why don't you go on an espionage mission to all the JCs in Singapore and spy on them? You'd have volumes of information to go crazy over.
Your actions have just confirmed my view that STOMP is nothing but media hype.
And it's not as if this is the norm. Most classes just sing a loud birthday song and cut a cake.
To Mrs Kelvyna Chan, our dear long-suffering principal, thank you for sticking to the truth and sticking by us. That has always set you apart from other principals who are quick to condemn the young people they are supposed to care about.
I'm angriest about the way some hypocrites attacked our religion.
Watch out, buddy. That's God you're dissing. Good luck to you. Not that it'll be enough.
UPDATE: Finally, somebody with brains on the ST Forum
By coldstar-
"I wonder if you have even watched the video at all or you’ve simply based your comments on the twisted ‘account’ written by the prig who submitted this. Anyone would have seen that the birthday girl was not in any real distress at all; she was taking the entire prank in good fun and humor. An inelegant, messy and noisy one perhaps, but nothing one wouldn’t expect from JC kids at their age. I fail to see the elements of meanness and humiliation readers have inferred into the entire incident and if you pay attention to the video, one of them even helped to straighten her skirt so that she wouldn’t ‘expose’ herself.
Do not impose your narrow-minded judgment when you cannot even appreciate the context. There is no point in thrusting victimhood on someone who likely did not even feel that she was being victimized."
And by me, as acjc01-
"Thank you for speaking up so objectively, coldstar.
I do not represent the school, the administration, any of the teachers or staff or the principals, but I feel compelled to speak up for the principal whom all of us admire.
Mrs Kelvyna Chan's attitude should not be disturbing when she is choosing to stand on the side of truth, and on the side of her students. What disturbs me more are the one-sided, biased and uninformed comments that have been made.
If the girl herself has said that she had fun, none of those self-righteous people have a right to say that she did not."
posted by munchkin @ 4:58 PM
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