~The Red Shirts~

Boo the reds...

Yay the yellows...

And the crowd goes wild...

And so... The Prime Minister visited the college that I studied in...
Students were wearing red... Symbolizing their support towards the current country leaders...

But really... Can you always believe what you see? 

With all the things our country been through... We all know the colour codes...

Yes... Red or yellow...

Red. The colour of the current decision makers... The colour of power...

Yellow. The colour of country cleanliness... The colour of freedom from the suppressing red... 

So, why were the students wearing red?

"College forced us to..."

But still, I do not blame the college for anything...

The red shirts were just the college orientation t-shirts...

Each year the college gives out different coloured shirts and I see no problem of giving out red shirts this year... No matter how people want to view it, I just see it as college orientation shirts...

And, the college operates with 50% subsidy from the government...

Like it or not, it helped a lot of people... And not just one specific race but all races...

It provided education with quality, with good academic tutors, with affordable prices...

And people said no one can force someone to do what you do not like...

Even if the college did force the students to do so, can you blame them?

It is a big college with a lot of staff and students... And there is a necessity for the college to make sure that everyone who is connected to the college can work and study properly...

What if things go wrong? Who will have the ability to support those who lost their jobs or opportunities to study?

The college authorities have their concerns too... 

And there will always be some other side of a story left unheard...

I think that students should not put the blame on the college too...

A college's well-being is a blessing to the students... 

If the college gets the university title, will it not benefits the students too?

And why must the crowd goes scolding the students with anger?

Just because the students did not wear the preferred colour of the current nation, people start to attack them by commenting all sorts of harsh things...

Have you forgotten about the purpose of yellow?

It is for the nation to have freedom, to show the light at the end of the tunnel...

By scolding the students just for wearing red, are you not forcing them too?

Were you there to witness everything?

A country's well-being is not determined by a shirt's colour...

It is more than that...
It is about the heart that you have... The goal that you want to achieve... The vision that all of us have for a better country... 

And most importantly, being united as a country...

We will go no where if we keep stabbing each other... 

We strive for peace and harmony, not chaos or blood...

I love my college.

I love my country.

But in the end...

We are just fighting amongst ourselves...