How do you feel about HwaChong merging with The Chinese High School?

"How do you feel about HwaChong merging with The Chinese High School?" This is the single most thought provoking question asked nowadays (except perhaps "what do you think of the name of the new school?"), and the most interesting answer I've heard is: "Ok wat, we're from the same family..." by a TCHS guy. The reply to that is more interesting: "Unfortunately, there's lots of grudge in the family..." by a RGS gal. (As for whom they are, people from 00S60 will sure know them 'cause the guy is from my class and the girl is from senior class, and they are Angel n Mortal. Can guess? =P)

Anwz from the above exchange we can know that most if not all Hwa Chongians who are not from TCHS are against merging. I don??t know about the rest of TCHS guys, but I'm also against merging. I think both schools have their own unique identities and by merging they lose both their identities. We graduates lost our identities also... imagine next time people ask us which schools were we from and we reply TCHS n HC, and they said, "Huh? Got such schools meh?" *Speechless*

Most importantly, we LOVE HwaChong, and our class, our bench, our college songs, our dances, our crest, but most of them won't be the same next year... sad... However, as Mr Chow said, "It??s for the good of both schools and education as a whole.", and since it's already a fact and it can't be changed, let us look on the bright side and hope for the best.

Btw, I really don??t know what the heck those people deciding the name are doing... HwaChong Institution, Hua Qiao Zhong Xue... I think it's really degrading to use the word "Institution" and "Zhong Xue", it's like HwaChong downgrade into a secondary school... and they used the word "Institution" some more... wah kaoz... Must they copy our "rival" school???

Actually I think our new school name is worst name there can be, until I saw a suggestion in the petition: "The Chinese Institution". If they really use it I'm going to jump off the building...

But then a name is only a name. No matter what has changed, the HwaChong spirit will never change, because it??s in the heart of every single Hwa Chongians.

 

Written on 8 Aug 2004, posted on Multiply

 

PS. There's such a big hoo haa last time, but look at what is happening now? Now everyone is used to it and no one say anything. Anwz what can we do? This proves the rule by Rosen Blatt - "It doesn't matter. What you think matter, doesn't."

 

PSS. Btw, I think his book is crap.