CHEAT

Don't try and cheat us, MOE. We all know there's something about the Chinese paper that went horribly wrong. Was it the fact that it was too easy, which prevented a substantial standard deviation, or was it because of the change of syllabus that caused that TOP 3 PSLE scorers to come from minority race groups? I'm not being racist, but c'mon, I can't sit here and say, "Let's face it. The chinese are the dumbest race in Singapore."

Forming the majority of Singaporeans, it is most likely that most of the top scorers for PSLE every year come from Chinese backgrounds, which has been the case for many years, with non-chinese doing well rarely due to their small number. Does it make sense, then, that all of a sudden, malays and indians become so much more intelligent that they practically dominate the top 3 placings in Singapore?

I don't find my score spectacular, but I'm not upset over it, to put it simply. BUT THE BRIGHT SPARKS SHOULD BE UNHAPPY WITH THE PSLE! This PSLE was WAY TOO EASY to sieve out the BRIGHT SPARKS, like I said yesterday. It will cause detriment to the average, harkworking pupils in the future because it gives them a wrong gage of their abilities that might lead to them overestimating themselves and setting TOO-HIGH GOALS (in my humble opinion, of course).

Look at it this way: a PSLE like this will cause pupils who lack the ability to do higher-order thinking but work hard and practically MEMORISE TEMPLATES as to how to answer questions to excel. The GENIUSES (eg. Chu Lee Voon & Rachel Lim) on the other hand, who do not resort to such despicable methods but are able to use their 'close-to-supernatural' brainpower to tackle higher order thinking questions, will not be able to shine in examinations like this OVEREASY PSLE because EVERYONE who either 1) has brains or 2) memorises day & night, will be able to answer the questions. That way, the geniuses will not be able to set themselves apart from their peers, and may even do worse than them if they are careless (hardworking people are usually SUPER-CAREFUL). The solution to this problem? Well, there's no solution for either (the Chinese paper, or overall) problem since its over, but I feel that the MOE SHOULD rethink raising the standard of the PSLE next year. If the entire cohort does badly, the marks can be moderated in proportion to how the rest of the cohort has fared. Man... I so damn feel like writing to the forum page instead of writing here where no one's going to read! But if I write to the forum page, chances are I'm going to be accused of either 1) being racist or 2)sour grapes!

Forget it... Isn't life unfair? When we get to Secondary school, its time for us to strut our stuff, to show our true colours. By that time, easy exams like these will be unheard of, and I look at it in a good light. OMG. Are my posts THAT long? I think half-an-hour has passed! I'm gonna watch Goong on YouTube, see you guys tomorrow! Byee!!!

DAMNIT. HIGH EXPECTATIONS CAN KILL

Sianz. I'm so bored! Poor people like CES have to slog like shit with assessment books and stuff. I was SMSing him just now. God, help me! I thought I could do this, but seriously, it doesn't seem like I can. Just one SMS and I have to start ALL OVER AGAIN to forget him. Haiz... I CAN REMEMBER HIS NUMBER SO EVEN IF I DELETE IT... ... OH FUCK.

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That was yesterday... Haha. This morning was a scary one. I called Vanessa and we talked and talked and talked about how scared we were. Denise was in school, and she told us that the list of the TOP TEN would be out in a flash. So we shivered all the way to school.

Everyone at school was happy, very happy, and excited. I admit to being a little complacent, and I DID expect something reasonably presentable, at least 270 (which I wouldn't be unhappy about)...

When the results were released, it was a SHOCK. Aidi (mainstream but she missed the GEP test though) TOPPED THE SCHOOL WITH AN AGGREGATE of only 277, with LEE VOON OUR PRIDE AND GLORY as SECOND with ONLY 276. Zhiwen got 275 (PRO!) and ChanWel, BS and Kevin got quite good marks too... And the rest of us were disapointed, because the 10th was only 272 (and obviously our marks fell below that). It was amazing that the mainstream pupils performed so well!

The first thing the teachers told us when we got to class was to copy down the Helplines (those that help people with suicidal thoughts). That did it. Man... Those teachers are WONDERFUL at managing expectations. I should have learnt that!

When it was my turn to collect my results slip, CLS held the paper, took a peep, smiled a bit and handed it to me. I knew by then that it wouldn't be THAT bad. But still...?

I looked. It fell short of what I felt would be acceptable (270) by 1 mark, and my target mark by 11 marks (targets are always higher so that you have a leaway (correct spelling?) to fall short by a bit. HARHAR. A BIT? My foot. 269. LOUSY.

The next challenge I face- how to tell my parents my mark without screaming it out for all to hear. I tried hand gestures, but failed miserably (my dad actually thought I got 252!). Then it struck me! Use french! Harhar... You know what I did? I made quite a bad mistake. In my haste, I said 279 instead of 269, but my parents were smart enough to guess... They were OKAY with the mark and I was the one who was disapointed. I asked YanQi for his mark, he tied with me so I knew my mark wasn't too bad. I asked Desmond and Fabian, both of which got 268. YAY! But KAIYUEN got 271 @&! (that's how it comes out when you press the shift button XP).

CES did quite well. Not too badly la, at least... I think he got 264 ba...

After most people were gone, my mum went to talk to CLS.

"你是罗拉的妈妈？" "Um." "我们没见过面" *my mum, a bit 'paiseh'* ->"有通过电话" "Um."

Then CLS was very kind la, encouraging and all that, and she told my mum we can go celebrate. Haha. She was quite observant to realise that it wasn't my parents who were disapointed, but me. My mum told CLS that from my facial expression I did DAMN badly. DIDN'T I? CLS said I expected too much of myself. Haha. That has some truth in it as well... Finally, CLS mentioned throwing a party for the class. I don't know if she was joking, but I thought it was a good idea. I told Vanessa and the first idea that got to her was, "You want to see your darling CES is it?" Hm... Maybe. But I DON'T want to see him... If I do, I won't be able to forget him right? URGH. DON'T LAUGH. Haha.

Seriously, isn't it a good idea to get everyone together once a year or something? I can start packing my room and get some people over to my house to brainstorm about it. My mum said that to cut cost we can hold a party at King Albert Park McDonalds, which is GIGANTIC. Then everyone can go buy their own food... Is that a good idea? We were thinking, what date should we hold it? Is 5th December fine? Because we don't want it too near Christmas (if not I have to buy so many Xmas Presents, I 'bo lui' leh... MY WALLET GOT STOLEN REMEMBER?)

Yea... When I got home my parents just discussed a little, and they concluded that the PSLE was too easy to sieve out the bright sparks. I'm not saying Aidi isn't a bright spark, she's a genius. I'm talking about Rachel Lim. She wasn't in the Top 10! Aiyo. Not possible. Rachel has an IQ of 200 man! Like jiang zhishu from ISWAK la!

I was SMSing my RGPS friend, she said that the 281 came from her school. Guess what my mum said? Chances are, its either malay or indian. The reason for saying that? It's hard to score in chinese, especially because the format just changed. Also, the paper was WAY TOO EASY and didn't do justice to the real pros...

Well well... This has been an experience of a lifetime. My parents are telling me to buck up and start studying for my A levels. Haha. Interesting parents I have eh? They even earn points for me on neopets. They love 'Word Poker'. Try it! It's really hard.

Bye!!!

Continuation of yesterday's post...

Hey! CES is a BODO. He didn't reply my SMS, which asked,"Be honest, when was the last time you read my blog. Which was the last post you read?" I only asked that 'cos rumours were rife that he WAS READING (continuous tense, mind you) my blog...
Anyway, like what I was saying yesterday, next time I'm gonna put little Bible verses like the 10 commandments "Thou shall not steal or covet your neighbours belongings" and little notes saying stuff like "Honesty is the best policy" & "Theives don't go to heaven" so that even if I don't getmy wallet back, at least the theif can get to know Christ.

Goong is SO, SO, SO, SO nice!!!!! The last episode was great. But I didn't know ChaeGyung was pregnant, they didn't show us LMAO. JK. Shin is good-looking. Yul too. BUT JOE CHENG IS THE BEST!!! LMAO.

I went to Heartland Mall this morning because my mum went to do her aerobics. The place is BORRRING...

Oh ya, speaking of shopping, I can't go shopping with friends anymore! My mum won't let. She's getting paranoid. So I asked if I can go to places like West Coast Park where there's a wonderful obstacle course but my mum didn't allow. Sighz. She said,"Later something happened to one of your friends, who's gonna take responsiblity?" SERIOUSLY LARHZ.

Well well. Get back to you tomorrow I guess. With LOTS & LOTS OF NEWS. I promise, no matter how BAD my result is tomorrow, I'll post it.

Byee!

Taken! URGH~

Were you thinking sick when you saw the title of this post? Don't worry. My wallet was taken. Seriously. Here's what happened...

I went to Juncti8n at 1.30pm to meet Jean & Vanessa at Mini Toons, but turns out that Ness was late so I went into Comics Connection to search for Amanda, Eleanor & Kai Cheng's Xmas presents. I WAS TOO FICKLE-MINDED. Seriously, if I had bought comics for them all I wouldn't have lost so much money when my wallet was stolen!

After shopping around, we decided to go take neoprints... Guess what? We screwed up the first one so we had to go do another... We placed our bags on the floor, infront of the camera, and I took my wallet out to pay. After paying, I left my wallet on my bag. We took the pictures, and when we were done, we went to decorate the pictures and took our bags along (with the wallet still ON TOP of the unzipped bag). The bags were left on the floor beside us. We were preoccupied decorating the pictures, so we weren't very vigilant...

Finally when we were done, I glanced at my bag- the wallet was gone. Besides the $40 cash inside the wallet there was only a resident card (which I need to access the gym- DAMN DAMN IMPORTANT but can easily be replaced), some Joe Cheng pix and the key we got from NYPS during Graduation. But seriously, the theif was a FOOL. Hear that? A fool? Well, for two reasons. Theifs don't go to heaven. And since he can't go to heaven for stealing, he could have been a little smarter to dig in my bag for my phone and my iPod. Dope.

Oops. Gotta go! Byee. Tell you more later...

-Results in slightly more than a day-

I've Been Tricked

Wow. This is interesting. Remember what I said yesterday about my ambition? Yea... My parents asked me what my ambition was but I refused to say it, because it wasn't academic. After lots of coaxing, begging and promising that they would support me no matter what it was (now I wonder, what if I had wanted to be a prostitute? would they support it? doubt it =P), I told them. My mum was overjoyed. She wanted me to go to Dr Wong for training to sing HYMNAL & CLASSICAL songs. Seriously. I was shocked.

Wait wait wait. Let me think about it. Why is it that I don't want to sing classical? I don't get it. It isn't MONEY-MAKING, that's just an excuse. I don't know the answer, actually... I'll tell you when I do! =)

The reason why my mum didn't want me to sing pop? Oh, pop singers are usually related to: 1. School drop-outs, 2. No Brainers, 3. People who can't make it big in the classical world... That's total sterotyping. Anyway, I always thought that classical was easier... You just sing STRAIGHT, without all that 'scooping' sounds... Then again, it's true that people who sing pop lack technique. Some can't even use head voice, which is the MOST BASIC OF THE BASIC. Okay okay I'll stop talking about this... I gotta go out now. Get back to you when I'm back home!

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Yay! I bought lots of christmas presents, and I got a butterfly necklace from my mum! Yay! I'm going shopping for Xmas presents with Vanessa & Jean tomorrow! Yay! I don't give a damn about my ambition anymore! I've got lots of time! LMAO. That was lame.

Haiz... I've only got 14++c in my HP now, all thanks to sending way too many SMSes to CES... I'm full of regret. Seriously, am I STUPID or DUMB. (Note that it ends with a fullstop.) Reminds me of once, when I accidentally sent this stupid SMS meant for Jean about whether CES was really gay, to CES HIMSELF. Man... I said,"Am I stupid or dumb." The reply was,"Both, and idiotic." IT ENDED WITH A FULLSTOP!!!!! #@$&% LMAO

I have a question to ask, and REPLY IS COMPULSORY. Who's reading my blog? Please, I beg, leave your names as comments on this post ok?

BTW, should I change the template of this blog to "Dots Dark?" Will it be nicer? Well tatas. Please answer these two questions... Thanks!