Youth speak December 2020∣Youth Hong Kong
In trouble • Three young men talk about temptation into crime and the struggles they faced
• 三位青年跟我們剖白面對犯罪誘惑時的抉擇， 以及生活中的種種困難爭扎。
• Sing got into trouble at primary school and was a triad by the time he was a teenager.
• Sing 自小學起已跟壞分子扯上關係，青少年時 期更一度成為其中一員。
• Jerry finds his aggressiveness hard to control.
• Jerry 覺得難以控制自己的攻擊傾向。
• Siu-yan is making progress in his efforts to come off drugs.
• Siu-yan 努力地擺脫毒癮，希望重新出發。
Sing: triad teen “I hated primary school. The teachers were always shouting at me and I failed most of their tests. I didn’t care. There didn’t seem much point in learning stuff anyway. At home it wasn’t any better. Dad scared me. Always hitting or slapping me. Mum never stood up for me. Well, she didn’t seem to.
fault but he couldn’t see that. So I decided to show them all that I knew how to make money and get respect. Then they’d see how wrong they were.
Nag, nag, nag: that’s all I got. Why didn’t I work harder at school? Why couldn’t I get a job and start bringing money home? Why had I spent all my pocket money the day I after they gave it to me? Always money. Never enough.
I was 16 by then. I started earning money, running errands for the gang boss, stealing, selling drugs and sometimes smashing people’s stuff. That helped me relax a bit and not feel so angry. I forgot about all they tried to teach us at school right and wrong. It felt good to impress the others, especially Nally.
The other kids at school got on my nerves. One in particular, always trying to be clever or messing with my stuff. I picked a fight with him just to see if I could shut him up. The teacher made me stand outside the classroom all morning. It wasn’t all my
Nally is my girlfriend. Every morning, the gang came past home. We all went off together looking like we were going to school. Of course we weren’t. We hung out at the video game shop. From then on, that’s how I spent most of my time. Cont'd... 7
