Fear
for the 1st time since primary school, i'm feeling quite worried about my school work... to be honest, i havent been really worried about my schoolwork... granted, i did attend a chinese primary school and our academic foundation is very strong.. the workload in my primary school is amazingly heavy... we had normal syllabus and in the afternoons, we were taught with singapore syllabus.. that way, I already had a headstart..
in secondary school, everything was a breeze.. i actually came out top in my class in hartamas.. thereafter, my mum switched me to MBS at the end of form 2, where academically its more challenging.. in form 3, i came out top in the form as far as the 7 PMR subjects are concerned... unsurprisingly, i didn't do well with art & craft, literature and sastera kind of subjects.. total idiot in those few subjects,sadly .. hahah
after that, i went over to singapore to continue my studies in raffles institution, singapore premier secondary school.. there, i came to know alot of geniuses.. those are the boys who are gifted AND hardworking.. in RI too that i realised that my command of language isn't very strong.. (hence, my poor standard of blogging here!) even that, i still manage to scrape 6 points in O-level.. honestly, i do not consider that as an achievement because of my H. Malay A1 and i'm not exactly proud of it..
even that, my initial plan of going to VJC was wrecked coz i actually scored 8 points for my prelims.. that year, VJ cut-off point for scholars is actually 7 & 4 bonus points.. well, it was a blessing in disguise actually.. got to know my baby in ACJC and things moved really fast (heh!).. i did realise what i was missing in RI.. the strong sense of belonging to the college.. i had the best time of my life in ACJC i dare say... we all work hard and played harder in college! everyday i looked forward to college (tho i sleep often in lectures!).. not surprisingly, our class spirit is very very strong and our class did very well in A-levels! we all still very much keep in touch till now.. gladly... tho it has not been a long time since we all left college (a year and a half), i do believe the class spirit will carry on for a long long time!!
after A levels, i practically did nothing for close to a year.. then i was admitted to IC october last year.. i carried on slacking and skipped quite alot of lectures during the winter term.. tho my attendance improved during the spring term, i think damaged has already been done.. during the xmas test at the end of the winter term, i did relatively bad compared to the rest of my peers.. then in spring test, which is 4 weeks into the spring term, i did quite alright i would say, scoring 78%.. but heck, there are ppl who scored 99.7%.. OMG.. lol.. not that i'm comparing myself with them, but 78% is not really that good... its not singapore-standard exams here, so everyone is scoring for fun, really.. hahah
anyway, i realised that i'm kinda gifted since a long time ago.. I have quite good memory in subjects that interest me.. like physics, mechanics, maths... i could recall things that are taught in lectures that i've picked up (if i'm awake).. i realised i could pick up a skill very quickly.. and do it decently well too, like foosball.. i realised that my hand-eye coordination and my spatial awareness is above average.. all except frisbeee!!! i cant believe i still throw a frisbee like an idiot! lol
digress: i do realised that i will always find the shortest way to walk to a destination.. everyone knows that walking in a straight path is the shortest way.. but not may ppl actually does that.. esp when crossing the road.. when there's a car coming by, many would wait for the car to pass before crossing the road perpendicularly.. i would just walk along the road until the car passes by, then i would cross it.. hahah I know i'm weird, but hei, thats me!!
yeah, back to the point.. now during the hols, i'm revising for the upcoming finals.. its starting to worry me.. coz i realised that the more i revise, the more i realised that i need to know alot of stuff.. for once, i'm kind worried that i wouldn't do well in exams... "well" meaning, ummm maybe top 10-20% of my course? my course has ard 130 students... top 30 would be great i suppose? well. i will just have to START doing my work now.. just need to find the right motivation.. but HOW?
if only there's An Idiot Guide to it..
in secondary school, everything was a breeze.. i actually came out top in my class in hartamas.. thereafter, my mum switched me to MBS at the end of form 2, where academically its more challenging.. in form 3, i came out top in the form as far as the 7 PMR subjects are concerned... unsurprisingly, i didn't do well with art & craft, literature and sastera kind of subjects.. total idiot in those few subjects,sadly .. hahah
after that, i went over to singapore to continue my studies in raffles institution, singapore premier secondary school.. there, i came to know alot of geniuses.. those are the boys who are gifted AND hardworking.. in RI too that i realised that my command of language isn't very strong.. (hence, my poor standard of blogging here!) even that, i still manage to scrape 6 points in O-level.. honestly, i do not consider that as an achievement because of my H. Malay A1 and i'm not exactly proud of it..
even that, my initial plan of going to VJC was wrecked coz i actually scored 8 points for my prelims.. that year, VJ cut-off point for scholars is actually 7 & 4 bonus points.. well, it was a blessing in disguise actually.. got to know my baby in ACJC and things moved really fast (heh!).. i did realise what i was missing in RI.. the strong sense of belonging to the college.. i had the best time of my life in ACJC i dare say... we all work hard and played harder in college! everyday i looked forward to college (tho i sleep often in lectures!).. not surprisingly, our class spirit is very very strong and our class did very well in A-levels! we all still very much keep in touch till now.. gladly... tho it has not been a long time since we all left college (a year and a half), i do believe the class spirit will carry on for a long long time!!
after A levels, i practically did nothing for close to a year.. then i was admitted to IC october last year.. i carried on slacking and skipped quite alot of lectures during the winter term.. tho my attendance improved during the spring term, i think damaged has already been done.. during the xmas test at the end of the winter term, i did relatively bad compared to the rest of my peers.. then in spring test, which is 4 weeks into the spring term, i did quite alright i would say, scoring 78%.. but heck, there are ppl who scored 99.7%.. OMG.. lol.. not that i'm comparing myself with them, but 78% is not really that good... its not singapore-standard exams here, so everyone is scoring for fun, really.. hahah
anyway, i realised that i'm kinda gifted since a long time ago.. I have quite good memory in subjects that interest me.. like physics, mechanics, maths... i could recall things that are taught in lectures that i've picked up (if i'm awake).. i realised i could pick up a skill very quickly.. and do it decently well too, like foosball.. i realised that my hand-eye coordination and my spatial awareness is above average.. all except frisbeee!!! i cant believe i still throw a frisbee like an idiot! lol
digress: i do realised that i will always find the shortest way to walk to a destination.. everyone knows that walking in a straight path is the shortest way.. but not may ppl actually does that.. esp when crossing the road.. when there's a car coming by, many would wait for the car to pass before crossing the road perpendicularly.. i would just walk along the road until the car passes by, then i would cross it.. hahah I know i'm weird, but hei, thats me!!
yeah, back to the point.. now during the hols, i'm revising for the upcoming finals.. its starting to worry me.. coz i realised that the more i revise, the more i realised that i need to know alot of stuff.. for once, i'm kind worried that i wouldn't do well in exams... "well" meaning, ummm maybe top 10-20% of my course? my course has ard 130 students... top 30 would be great i suppose? well. i will just have to START doing my work now.. just need to find the right motivation.. but HOW?
if only there's An Idiot Guide to it..
posted by Jun @ 10:50 AM
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