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Today was the very first time I got my 2 penalty marks deducted in school. My crime? Fesyen rambut keterlaluan (over-the-top hairstyle?). No kidding. During morning assembly, the head discipline teacher (I'm not gonna mention her name cause I so happened to like her but detest what she just did this morning) announced that there would be a spot-check on the students' hair. Those with fesyen rambut keterlaluan would be called out. So prefects started going around and asking the lucky students to go up the stage. At first I got away since no prefect seemed to notice me, but when the other students (who were not already up the stage) were allowed to go to class, that teacher saw me AND my hair and pulled me out too. So I joined the hundred-over-probably-reaching-200 other students on stage.

Now for those who had seen me for the past few weeks, to think that I have over-the-top hairstyle is a joke. I mean, your toes should be rolling on the floor laughing real hard right now.

I am very sure that more than 95% of the girls called out were Chinese. The rest were Indians. There was of course no Malays since their hairy crimes were hidden underneath their headscarves. Apparently, long over-the-eyebrows fringes are a crime. And when a girl ties her hair, there's usually stray hair falling down the side of her face right? That's a crime in my school too.

After we were all sitted down on the stage floor, some other teacher started lecturing us about pinning up our hair so that not even a single strand linger on our faces. Then she said if we continue to not deal with our hairy problem, the school will call our parents to come to school. Do they really expect parents to willingly come out of their workplace during office hours to waste their precious hours on discussing something as silly as their daughter's hair? Then she went on with how she would not allow those who continue to have messy hair to go to class until their parents come. Then she said something about playing truant and working instead of studying. Like, what is their connection with hair? Most of the girls called out had never done anything seriously wrong that would cause the school shame. Heck, some are even straight-A students who had achieved a lot for the school. Can less than favourable hairstyle create havoc in school? Will the general public look down on a school because it's students have a sense of style? So I admit that I was stubborn enough to still leave my fringe unpinned after being told that I should otherwise, but WHAT'S WRONG WITH LESS THAN PERFECTLY NEAT HAIR?!?!?!?!?!?

I do not care if they want to take away two of my penalty marks (because I have 38 more marks to spare wahahahahahaha), but they are robbing off what little freedom we have left in school. This whole thing is absolutely absurd. They might as well just shoot me for using my friend's eraser without asking.