Actually ah... such spirit is innate one. A person
is measure by its self worth - not that of what is given to them
either by parents or by heritage. But because school spirit (or
even nationalism) is innate - you feel good when your school (or
country in nationalism sense) is doing well. Don't have to be the
best, but well enough to get by.
Such innate-spirit-spill-outwardly exist everywhere: If you
skateboard, you will probably find some other skateboarder gang who
think that they are good. If you break-dance, you will find people
who thinks that their crew are great. If you play Counterstrike,
you will find some people who think that their clan are God.
Therefore, if you are in a school where its history is rich and
students have something to hold and look up to, they will feel that
their school are great. I can tell you lar, majority of the
students are ok, just that BECAUSE of a few people, others
REMEMEBERED those few. (Duh, you always remember those idiots than
the good people you might have faced or missed out, who is an
ACSian, but you didn't realise nia). Of course lar, does anyone go
asking 'what school you from' and judge from there?
Actually I don't bother about the whole entity, rather, I see the
individual. If you suck at skateboard but you are in the best SB
gang, the fact is that you suck. If you suck at break-dance, but
you are in the best crew, the fact is that you suck. If your suck
at counterstrike, but you are in the best clan, the fact is that
you suck. So if you are in an elite school (or seemingly), but if
you suck as a person, you suck.
I was from an elite school (or seemingly), but hell with it, I have
almost the same percentage of friends from neighbourhood schools
(or seemingly) as well. I am proud of my own school, proud of my
own family and friends, proud of my Love, proud of my work and
proud of myself. But all these are innate... something within -
others don't have to know or even question about it... I can feel
can liao. Suprisingly, my higher esteem is not gain while I was in
my school, rather, it was self discovery after that.
I know of people, from elite schools, screwed up their lives so
badly, getting involved in drugs, shotgun, gangs or whatever thingy
there is. These are real stories, not just the fair share of
doctors, lawyers and successful business man/woman the newspaper
portrays. People only see the good side in an elite school, but at
the end, your self worth is what you really are.
P.S: Stella ah... saw that time in my Music School when I was still
working there. Alot of make-up leh... but overall not too bad.
Cheers
