How can anyone be so irresponsible?
He said his son was a bright student who had scored straight As in his 2004 SPM examination, before enrolling in KTAR for a diploma in Electronic Engineering in May, 2005.
It was only recently when he read in the newspapers about the KTAR convocation, that he questioned his son on why he had not been informed about the convocation.
“The convocation was on July 28, and I had insisted on going to college with him. I grew suspicious that something was amiss when my son had no graduation robes, nor a car sticker for us to park the car within the college grounds.”
“He never came back. I waited in the car for one and a half hours, then I went looking for him in the administration building and also the college hall (where the convocation was held), but I couldn’t find him.”
But the biggest blow was yet to come. After making several inquiries, he was told that his son had stopped turning up for classes after the first semester.
If you have stopped studying, just tell your family.
If you don’t have the gut the tell face to face, just SMS them.
To pretend like nothing have happened, and continue to tell lie for 3 years?! What kind of lie is that?
Even if you had done that, when your dad want to drove you for convocation, at least tell him THEN! And you keep pretending? Hoi. Wake up.
I heard similar cases from my friends, where the student tried to hide the truth from his family…
And the father thought he is a bright person..haihs..
Wow… quite dumb behaviour from someone who scored straight A in SPM..
Undeniably the son is irresponsible and wrong for lying, but sometime the closer u r to someone the harder it’s to tell the truth,you worried about how they would react to it? hence many choose to run away?
And here the parents obviously have very high expectation on their son and this could be one of the reason the son dare not to tell them the truth, dare not too see the dissapointment look on his parents face? OR he was worried that his dad might go crazy and eventually killed him?:P hence he thought it’s better for the parents to go found out the truth themselves?
Oh dear! Poor father. I would be very sad if my son did this to me.
I agree with renae though, that the boy is afraid of his father’s reaction.
I suspect the son was conned into some MLM business ..
yenjai,
I think this is probably due to pressure or stress. His dad must be sad…
“I suspect the son was conned into some MLM business ..”
Or some cult?
radioactive Sigh. Those are never wise moves
Eve That has nothing to do with brightness in conventional sense.
This has something to do with … character?
Adino Not dumb. But not a character that we can respect
RenaeThe higher the expectation it is, the more you have to tell them that they are wrong.
How many times have we tell our parents that they are wrong?
It doesn’t matter whether they like listening to it ( but never registered) or not, it is our job to tell them.
If we only tell things which they like listening (and hide things that they don’t like), we should stop calling ourselves son/ daugther.
Collectively, we should change our name to : Politician
Actually, telling parent such thing is a good practise.
Then later in life, we can stand up to our (bullying) bosses.
ECL I would be devastated, if my son do this to me.
My world will fall apart.
Hanneng that might be a possibility.
Kok Stress? Or a pull from the dark side?
Bernard Yes. All the less-then-admirable activities
Can’t really say what’s going on..but… hopefully the son is alive.
Just tell their parent that they want to withdraw from study la… What a big deal?
Nowadays, parent use to focus on their children exam result only…” How many A’s your children got? My sons got straight A’s…” I saw a lot of parents like to show off their children result… But they never really care about their children, such as their children’s interest, activitis, what kind of friends they involved to…
Um… what did happen to the son?
i think this kid http://www.sinchew.com.my/content.phtml?sec=202&artid=200708121986 is even more irresponsible. Sry, it is in Chinese character.
luckily the father didn’t get angina or MI after finding out the truth..
Whats the son’s side of the story?
mott So far, no news
didi It may or may not be tough. But still, one shouldn’t have run away from the responsibility (of telling the parent)
jonzz No idea at all
lai That is a 14-year-old teen. It is understable. Emotional unstable. This run-away guy is at least 20. Please grow up (if not wise not yet)
chen If I am the father, I might even has mental breakdown
winnie The son never surface