Saturday, July 01, 2006
11:51 AM
Haha. Sorry for the last posts but yeahs, was tied down by common test and its really tiring!

Haiss. I felt quite depressed after the common test. Its quite bad. I realised that the greatest fear was not leaving a question blank, it is to write an answer down and being unsure about the answer itself. I admited that i started studying last minute, but i began to wonder, if it would be of any use to start studying earlier? Would i get better grades? Would i be able to do more questions? I doubt so. Haha i may be slow learning in this point, but i finally realised it after 10 years in the singapore education system. Its no use studying, its all down to luck.

After the common test i see everyone feeling like "argh! im so going to do badly for the common test!" Its like maybe people feel sad at that moment, but all is not important i would say. Why worry yourself over a small common test result? None of these matter! Its only the final lap that matters! Thats the singapore education style. In overseas universities, when you finish a module, thats it! You don't have to care about it anymore. So of course you need to do your best for it. But in singapore, its like everything does not matter till the end. " The best is yet to be! " =x. Haha but i think the theory is quite true. So i acually don't see the point panicking in this kind of common test.

I used to have a maths teacher in secondary school. He never scolds us for poor results, and i loved one sentence. "You need not care about grades, care about what you learnt." I was thinking, its quite true. Do i want to learn something from this education system, apart from the rote learning and mugging techniques?

Alot of the people said they want to be doctors, get into the medicine fac... But im kind of worried! Some of them look as if they can only study and cant dont anything else much! So, the next time i go to a doctor, don't you think i have to worry if that doctor is one of that kind? It kinds of scare me to think that doctors next time are only muggers.

But whatever, being in rj, i believe we are one of the "survivors of the singapore education system".

`someday my princess will come. She just took a wrong turn, got lost and is too stubborn to ask for directions]]* ;