Aside from this kid’s poor English, there is more than meeting the eyes that is worrisome to me. Obviously, his state of mind is violently immature. If the words in his essay are the clues of his inner world, this kid is heading for trouble. I’ve been tutoring some Form level students on a HK website and from my experience with HK kids’ English, I would say he may be around 12-14 years old and probably come from a middle-upper class family. Most HK students have a hard time with English. Even if they got the grammar correct, their Eng. typically has a local tone to it because of misusing words in the context. Speaking from my own learning experience, English is difficult; period and I have to agree that it’s not fair to make fun of them. Although this kid’s Eng. has problems in many ways, at least he got his feeling coming across. I don’t now how many of you are of Chinese origin and how many of you know how to read and write Chinese, try to imagine English is not spoken in HK and the only communication tool is Chinese. Can you still survive ?