Recently, I went for my first Singapore International Maths Olympiad training. It was quite an experience and an honour to be surrounded by the best of the best. I had quite a good impression of everyone, until someone weird came along.
And then I remembered him. He was that super random person who walked up to Guan Hong before SMO invitationals started and said this: Lets test your knowledge. If x+x = x/x what's x?
Oh how irritating he was! And obnoxious on top of that.
And just yesterday, I met him. A bespectacled, tall boy clad in NUSH uniform. I remember him asking the trainer, "When can we get our curry puffs?" Weird. Absolutely weird.
I start to remember some weird people I met along my life.
In P6, I had a classmate, Cherly Lim. (NOTE: This is a real person, and not a parody of Mdm Shirley Lim, form teacher of our class last year. Its CHErly Lim not Shirley Lim. I cannot emphasise this enough, in fear of getting myself into trouble) She was slightly autistic, I think. Everyone in our class shunned her, calling her Medusa and refusing to look at her. I found it amusing at first, but I felt that its pure cruelty after sometime. Since I can't change the whole class' point of view, I just had to keep quiet and keep my hands off the matter.
Having said that, I realised that weird, strange, abnormal people have always been shunned by the society. Why not think of them as unique, special and interesting instead of being weird?
Should we shun obnoxious people? What do you think? Feel free to comment below!
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