Recent NTU student case

Two weeks ago, the NTU student, David Hartanto Widjaja's scholarship was terminated. On Monday, Widjaja, and Indonesian, stabbed Associate Professor Chan Kap Luk, 45, in the back in his office during a discussion on the student's final year project , then slit his own wrists before running on story down and climbing on the roof of a bridge that connected the building he was in to another opposite. He then fell off the glass roof and plunged 4 storeys to his unfortunate death.

One may ask : Why did the student do this? The answer to this simple question is that this student had been given 3 warnings that he had to buck up or lose his scholarship due to his inability to achieve acceptable results. However, despite the warnings he had received, he still failed in achieving border line results and thus his scholarship was revoked. Hence, out of anger or frustration, he may have done this.

I feel that no matter how angry we are or frustrated, we should never attempt to stab and kill someone. We must really understand the dire consequences of doing this and think twice before acting. We should approach the matter calmly and try to come out with a possible solution to the problem.

We should also have the courage to face the consequences once we have done something wrong. Never should we commit suicide just to avoid conviction or being arrested.

Apart from thinking what are the consequences you would receive if you do something wrong, we should also think of how people who loved and care us would feel if we commit suicide after doing something wrong and unable to face up to it? For example, if we commit suicide, this would surely result in a heavy blow to our parents. Imagine the grieve and suffering they would have to go through... That is even more painful than death. Thus we should also spare a thought for other people's feelings.

I personally feel that if we are ready to shoot, we should be ready to be shot. We should not do something that you would not like other people to do upon you. Let this unfortunate case serve as a constant reminder to think carefully before we act.