According to the example about ThianJie, u r right, either treat it as a joke or start a fight with them. U r saying it would affect ur studies but u do have fun with him sometimes, right? I guess that's wat he wanted to achieve. He is bored and wants some fun by disturbing somebody. And u in turn also gain some fun too....the disadvantage lies in ur results dropping if u do not work hard..
Well, that's wat i think

But regarding the one about the one on doing homework, when they asked 'why u so guai ar'
it was meant to be just a joke....not anything else...Or else wat would u expect them to say? like, ' wah, u go do ar, let me copy lei...' or 'u got do sia, i dun have leh' or blah blah blah....that's wat i normally would say la, but i dunno about the others...but for our class, i believe that nobody meant to discriminate anyone, and watever things they say about u or anyone else, they meant it as a joke.....

u said u have a hard time expressing urself, and find no one to be able to read ur thoughts, but since u have a blogspot, u can write all ur thoughts there, and also anything u want to say there.....i too have some problems of my own, but i too wrote most of them in my blogspot, unless it is too personal a problem like regarding who i like or something like that.....u can do that, at least it is better than bottling it up in ur heart or mind.....

As for ur add on, this is wat i have to say....u mentioned an example of Dota being played in class, but who wasn't influenced by peer pressure into that game and how many people dun play that game? among our boys, only like 3-4 never play dota, and they are like malays or indians....i guess they are shankar, hafiz, fadzy, vinod and adnan. They dun play dota, but get along with friends too, why? cause they are treating everyone with their normal behaviour and not reserving anything. Most of they guys in class plays Dota, and they influenced tj and he influenced me and me in turn influenced u. Though u can't play dota at home due to some problems but u can't deny the fact that u are influenced into this game.....whether is it by interest or wat i do not know...

As for your older friends, u dun meet them everyday and so u can tell them anything under the sky. But however, if u r talking to someone u are talking to everyday, u would run out of things to talk to....like, u talk about school matters, then u two discuss ur thoughts about it..if it was like friends from other schools, they would continue to talk to u about wat is happening in their school, but if u both r from the same school, u would ran out of that topic to talk about and have to talk about something new...

Actually, pride and popularity doesn't matter i no, but u have to let them go in order to keep a good friendship going on. Like some funny people in the class, they can forgo their pride and do stupid but funny things to make the class laugh and blah blah blah......they can also do things other dun normally do and get attention. But have u ever did that? Honestly, i haven't. I am like a 'bao shou' person la.....i dun really talk to anyone or start a conversation.

Maybe the argument won't come to an end, why? cause we have different views....whenever each parties have different views, it is always very hard for them to come into agreement... So i guess i will stop here then, thanks for the argument, i sort of understand something more than i never did before.....