arrogant freshies

What is most important in being a human being? What is the most valuable value that should be in human being? I believe it should be respect. Respect can be in any form. If you respect a person, he or she would respect you back.
Let me tell you on a situation where there is no respect of juniors to seniors. Nowadays in universities level, students come in all forms and not to mention, all sizes. But let me emphasize you on the matter of respect here. Usually, the juniors or also known as the freshies of the university will come to university; register their name to get a place. When they are doing so, they are all a ‘good boy attitude’. They know how to respect people around. But that does not last forever! If I may, I would like to say that it only last for about a week or two, when they meet the seniors.
Theoretically, juniors are supposed to be afraid of seniors. But this is not the case in these few up-coming years. Juniors will start to erase their ‘good boy attitude’ when they are getting use to the place in their respective university. Well, not all are bad. But most of them changed from good to bad.
As a facilitator of the student’s new intake orientation for 2 consequence years, I had seen lots of changes in the juniors. They came in with a ‘good boy attitude’ written on their forehead, being nice to everyone, humble and if I may, some even become like a servant to the seniors. But that no longer serve to situation.
Juniors are taking seniors like a good friend. Well, you might be asking what is wrong being good friend. Yes, there is a problem when seniors and juniors become friends. The juniors will slowly forget about respects! Can you imagine of being treated like a normal person, which sometimes the juniors take you for granted with whatever things that you possess.
I have a friend. Well, I take him as a friend. He was involved with the student’s representative council. He did not have any transports, and still do not have now. Often he asked me to send him for his program with my car. At first I was alright with it, but slowly, he gets too comfortable with the ‘luxury’ life style he’s having, or should I say the style that I’m having!
He started to ask me for a ride more frequently as if my car is his car. Then I start to wonder, when I was involve in student’s representative council, I do not have any car or any mode of transportation, only a bicycle which does not bring me very far especially at night. So how do I go about? I ask my friends who are involve with the same program to fetch me. This will not bring any trouble to the person who is sending me as he or she is also involves in the event and need to be there. So, I just car pool. But in this guy’s case, he didn’t. I’m not sure why, but he claimed that no one else he can find to fetch. In short run, I pity him. But in long run? It is an excuse for easy way out. It is very easy for everyone to just say they can’t do it, so could you help me through. If I can ask my friends who are involve in the same program as me, so why can’t him? It is very impossible for a program to be handling by only few people of less than 3 or 4. Usually it is handling by nearly 30 to 40 people. So how could it be possible to say that there is no one that is attending the event that can fetch him? Why I can do it last time, why can’t him? Can I conclude that he is lazy to find out whose car is vacant? Why need to trouble the person that does not involve at all in the program to fetch? Can’t he think wisely that is it troublesome for the sender?

Even that so, when he asked you to fetch him and you’ve agreed, he will think that you deserve to be his driver. Let me ask you all a simple question. What will you do when you asked someone to fetch you? Definitely you’ll get ready. But in this young man’s case, he asked the person to fetch him, and he still wants the person to wait for him. It is very shy for me if I trouble someone, and yet still want him to wait for me. As the person who asked help from friends to fetch us, we are supposed to be earlier than the person. This is manners! He kept claiming that he is older than me, but I think, though he is older, but he is not matured enough to think wisely. So what if he is older than me? Does he know anything about morality? Does he know anything about respect among human beings? Though he is senior to me by ages, but I’m senior to him by academic year. He is one year my junior in studies.
Recently, juniors started to come to our house. Since he became the student’s representative council member, he is so-called famous guy. All juniors of his own races have to bow to him. He is seems like a ‘taiko’ for his own race in this university. And the main problem starts here.
The juniors, all of his kind, came to our house for the first time at night. It was alright for me to live in a state of noisy even though I was about to sleep. Well, they should have a limit. But they did not know the limit, as my friend himself also some what lost his mind. Oh, by the way, I’m staying with this friend. Alright, back to the story. Because we did not possess any hangers for drying clothes, so we (members of the house) have decided that each one of us will take a chair for whatever purpose that we want. So I use it for hanging my clothes to dry. That night when the silly juniors came, they make a mess out of my clothes. I do understand if they do not have enough chairs to sit, so they can remove my clothes from the chair and hang it over the curtain, so there is an option for them. But guess what they did, they just push my clothes aside, and sit recklessly. Thank god I still can sleep with the noise made by them. When I wake up in the morning, I was so surprise that some of my clothes hanging on the chair had fall down on the floor. And the floor was slightly dirty. I wonder who is sitting on the chair last night. Was it a gigantic beast or a human being? Even my underwear that was hanging at the most top of the chair had dropped down on to the dirty floor. How do you feel when you are in my situation?
And tonight, as I’m typing this, they are here in our house for the second time, finding time to chat with my friend. And it was over the limit. Too much of noise. I was so tired today; thinking of getting a good rest, but those beasts came over and makes so much noise. My friend who is currently staying in the same room with me joins them in the noisy chatting at the living room. I do not want to create any problem, so I close the door and continue to sleep. And mind you, the time now is 3am!!! Who the hell on earth is not asleep at 3am? Only thief will be awake at this hour.
At approximately 2am, my roommate came into the room, taking some stuff, and making his was out of the room to the living room without closing the room door. The noise was unbearable!!! When he came in for the second time, I ask him to close the door, he just nodded. But as he walks out, he did not close the room door. Why is he so inconsiderate?

I couldn’t understand the peoples, especially youngsters. Why do they do things as they like and never think of other people? We all are university students, suppose to be educated. We had learnt in studies about ‘The Golden Rule’. It says that treat others as though you want them to treat you back in the same way. Well, youngsters… they are so selfish, arrogant, and never think for others.

Influenze A(H1N1) crisis...

Each and every university should update their students and staffs of the current situation and condition of the viral attack in the university, if any. Especially universities with probable cases of having the influenza. Universities that are not close down yet should update the students from time to time, perhaps daily, on whether the situation is getting better or worse. Students from those universities who are suspected and quarantine few students due to H1N1 disease, has been spreading alot kinds of rumours.But how true is that? which is true? Whom to believe? Therefore, I would suggest that the administrative or the authorities of the university should step forward to announce about the progess of the case.
Also, students who are so scared will surely wear a mask as a protection. However, I don't see the point of taking off the mask whenever they like to, even in the public. If they are so concern about their health, why do they take off the mask in the class? No doubt that precaution is better than cure, but they should have wear it all the time when in public, such as in classes. Well, all I can say is that they wants to be famous and glamour, and to be different from other people so as to attract attention.
Imagine that you are in a place where the disease is still newly infected, there is nothing wrong to wear mask. However, wearing mask unneccesssarily can create tension and scare among the people around you!!! When there is no necessity to wear, you need not wear. And if you are so scare, please wear it all the time, only take off when you go back home.