There is the unrest and violence in Bangkok, which looks to be escalating everyday without respite.
There is the earthquake in Yushu, China that looks like the reminiscence of Sichuan.
Yet...
one of the more sensational news in Singapore...
is...
name shaming and fingerpointing arising from one punch from a school boy from SAS in a heat of a moment during a rugby game.
- Does this show that hooliganism is on the rise in our school sports scene?
- Are our schools putting too much pressure on winning?
- Why are the parents of the injured boy so kan-chiong to make police report?
- Why hasn't the "elite school" made any comments?
- What about the other case whereby a affiliate school of the elite school injured another player in a neighbourhood school? That particular affiliated elite school still hasn't come forward to make any comments. Are we letting the "elite schools" getting away?
For goodness sake.
These are school boys. They were playing rugby. Although they were playing for their school in name, they probably played all out for pride and glory - for themselves, for their team. Things probably got a bit rough (it's rugby! Going by the pictures my ex-classmate showed me in JC on the bloodied men they so worshipped from the rugby playing nations, I think it's meant to be a bit on the rough side) and emotions probably over-ran with the tight scoreline of 7-6.
Denying the St Andrew boy of school colours and prohibiting him from playing for the school is probably bad enough. He now can only watch from the side line, see his team mates get due recognition at school graduation.
Many years down the road, depending on how things turn out, the boy, his victim and everybody from the team will be wondering why this thing drew so much hooha, probably either laughing it off or seeing it as one of the small episode in their lives.
Now, they published the boy's photo in the papers with his name in full.
I wonder why Straits Times find it newsworthy enough to carry the photo and name.
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