SINGAPORE: Malaysian student Koh Ji Sen is in a hurry for school to start on Tuesday.
The 51-year-old scrambled to sort out accommodation for the boy, making calls to relatives and friends in Singapore before his uncle offered the use of his place. On Mar 17, the Secondary Two student packed a small bag of clothes, his school backpack and came to Singapore.When his parents dropped him off at his great-uncle’s place, after having dinner together at a nearby shopping centre, Ji Sen’s mother was teary-eyed and his father gave him a long hug.He, on the other hand, began to feel “excited”. “I thought I could be independent — no one to control me, to tell me what time to sleep.
Initially, however, he was reluctant to spend money on groceries. He called home frequently to complain that everything in the supermarket was three times more expensive than in Malaysia because of the exchange rate. But with every passing week, he has grown homesick and has struggled with feelings of loneliness, especially during the school holidays this month. Previously he had been attending school with a handful of students and was kept busy.“ makes me miss my parents … Sometimes I’d just look because I have nobody to talk to and engage ,” he said.He misses playing basketball with his friends, he added, as well as going to the water and adventure park near his home in Tebrau.
Since Primary One, he had been commuting by bus to Singapore, waking up at 4am every weekday to reach school on time, like some other students he knows from Johor — until now.Ji Sen’s childhood friend and fellow Malaysian, Kenan Chan, wants to continue his studies in Singapore too, but it may be too expensive for him.
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