Sunday, June 25, 2006
The End is here
You guys know me. I never study. The last time I really did so, it was only for one subject: Physics, and only because it was promo. Getting into this school was sad enough, being a retainee in this school is worst. So i studied. I didn't mug. I studied.
You know what I have against mugging. Mugging involves stuffing chunks of data (not even information) down the throat without understanding, or thinking through. This is our new generation of Singaporeans. Accepting what the government says without thinking through anything. Unquestioning slaves.
Even then, I only studied physics once per week, and only on 3 or 4 weekends. Physics promo came and left many agony, as many people shouted "fuck" along with words of death right after the exam. I was nonchalant. The paper left zero impact on me. Its just another paper.
And yes, I got a B, which was considered pretty high in this school's standard. I even managed to answer a question in the paper which only 9 other students in the cohort managed to answer. All that because I studied just a tiny bit? Don't disappoint me, students of this school. Part of me are laughing because the effort you put in showed not result. It isn't entirely your fault though. The school should share the blame.
When I was studying for that particular paper, I wasn't even on my mid-gear yet. I was studying with my fellow buddies at woodlands library, where I frequency divert my attentions to noisey kids and pretty girls. I even went for "walks" around causeway and the library area to "clear my mind". And I beated so many people? Endless stream of muggers who worked consistently all year round, diligently obeying every single teacher's instructions, doing every tutorial, carrying the lecture notes around like bibles. And I never once refered to AJC's lecture notes. All i had is a foolscape pad and a physics textbook.
It just happened that I got an A for computing, B for physics, and O for both maths, without studying anything but physics. Yet, I got into alpha list (a group consisting of the top 20% in the cohort). What joke. Even funnier was when my fellow friend zombie got enrolled in both APTS (a group for weak students which my humourous physics teacher jokingly refered to as "A piece of terrible shit") and Alpha List at the same time. This is statistically impossible, but this school created the miracle anyway. It was later when I discovered that anyone getting at least an A for any subject can get into Alpha List. I quite like the way this was done. Students with strength in any particular can get in. Just like me.
I happily went to the first Alpha List meeting, where teachers take turn to talk about different activities available. That was the last time I heard anything about alpha list. There was no follow up or whatever. I went on to become just an ordinary student. Of course it was alright with me. The effort I put in for the promo was naught compared to fellow students of this school. I felt that the fact that me, a hardcore slacker could get in to Alpha List was doin injustice to them. So gradually I forgot about Alpha List. Its nothing, really, when compared to schools in top 5 JCs. Students in Alpha List in those school receive endless stream of scholarships coming into their mailbox. Too bad my school is ranked 6th.
Because of the Physics test incident, I began to doubt the use of coming to a junior college. The physics test incident showed me that I can perform without help from the school, at least in physics. Actually I wanted to study maths too, but the maths notes given were too disorganised that I just chuck them away. I never study Computing. I was answering on pure intution. It landed me into Alpha List. Neat!
I also wondered what my schoolmates were after. We have people like the ghost wanting to become Miss Singapore despite the fact that he is a guy, we have people taking doube s-paper or retaining fmaths when they obviously could not cope. When I look at the results of those taking 3 subs and those taking 4 subs in this school, the 3 subs did alot better. Too bad we are ranked 6th. The top 5 junior colleges showed an opposite trend.
I visit an anti-ajc blog once in a while, and it was shut down recently. Before the closure I read comments debating on the use of a Junior College system. A point was brought up regarding the paper chase in Singapore.
We are, after all, taking Alevels so as to better our chance to get into Uni right? But what then, is the reason behind this? For me and my buddies, we already had our future planned. I would most likely go into IT field, working for companies before starting one on my own. Poh Wei, who won the MAS Econ essay competition by clinching a top prize, already began to doubt the econ syllabus for A levels and intend to attach to a local university as a research professor. Yan Yuan is interested in the medical field, and had underwent various attachments and internship with hospitals. (Contrast this with the kind of "Industrial attachments that AJC provides: Zoo keeper.. etc) Finally, Kai Siong, a very talented speaker had already joined Young PAP working under Ong. Taking Alevel is more like a stepping stone to going to university to fulfill our dreams.
On the other hand, most students in my school has vivid intend on what to do. Their goal seems to be getting good results for alevel to go to a good university. That is all. Instead of viewing university as a stepping stone to their goal, they view it as the goal itself. What can come out of these? Nothing. Effort put in no doubt, but effort wasted.
You guys know me as a slightly odd, childish and happy-go-lucky person who don't give a damn about authorities or studies. This is because this life is mine, and what I want to do has little to do with what I want. taking Alevel to me is just a pastime for me, just like playing DOTA is a pastime for most people. I am under no obligation to do well for any particular test or to listen in class. So long as I do not fall behind in this blind stream of endless souls, I don't give studies too much a damn.
What a long excuse for not studying for June Common Test aye?
Hehe.
You know what I have against mugging. Mugging involves stuffing chunks of data (not even information) down the throat without understanding, or thinking through. This is our new generation of Singaporeans. Accepting what the government says without thinking through anything. Unquestioning slaves.
Even then, I only studied physics once per week, and only on 3 or 4 weekends. Physics promo came and left many agony, as many people shouted "fuck" along with words of death right after the exam. I was nonchalant. The paper left zero impact on me. Its just another paper.
And yes, I got a B, which was considered pretty high in this school's standard. I even managed to answer a question in the paper which only 9 other students in the cohort managed to answer. All that because I studied just a tiny bit? Don't disappoint me, students of this school. Part of me are laughing because the effort you put in showed not result. It isn't entirely your fault though. The school should share the blame.
When I was studying for that particular paper, I wasn't even on my mid-gear yet. I was studying with my fellow buddies at woodlands library, where I frequency divert my attentions to noisey kids and pretty girls. I even went for "walks" around causeway and the library area to "clear my mind". And I beated so many people? Endless stream of muggers who worked consistently all year round, diligently obeying every single teacher's instructions, doing every tutorial, carrying the lecture notes around like bibles. And I never once refered to AJC's lecture notes. All i had is a foolscape pad and a physics textbook.
It just happened that I got an A for computing, B for physics, and O for both maths, without studying anything but physics. Yet, I got into alpha list (a group consisting of the top 20% in the cohort). What joke. Even funnier was when my fellow friend zombie got enrolled in both APTS (a group for weak students which my humourous physics teacher jokingly refered to as "A piece of terrible shit") and Alpha List at the same time. This is statistically impossible, but this school created the miracle anyway. It was later when I discovered that anyone getting at least an A for any subject can get into Alpha List. I quite like the way this was done. Students with strength in any particular can get in. Just like me.
I happily went to the first Alpha List meeting, where teachers take turn to talk about different activities available. That was the last time I heard anything about alpha list. There was no follow up or whatever. I went on to become just an ordinary student. Of course it was alright with me. The effort I put in for the promo was naught compared to fellow students of this school. I felt that the fact that me, a hardcore slacker could get in to Alpha List was doin injustice to them. So gradually I forgot about Alpha List. Its nothing, really, when compared to schools in top 5 JCs. Students in Alpha List in those school receive endless stream of scholarships coming into their mailbox. Too bad my school is ranked 6th.
Because of the Physics test incident, I began to doubt the use of coming to a junior college. The physics test incident showed me that I can perform without help from the school, at least in physics. Actually I wanted to study maths too, but the maths notes given were too disorganised that I just chuck them away. I never study Computing. I was answering on pure intution. It landed me into Alpha List. Neat!
I also wondered what my schoolmates were after. We have people like the ghost wanting to become Miss Singapore despite the fact that he is a guy, we have people taking doube s-paper or retaining fmaths when they obviously could not cope. When I look at the results of those taking 3 subs and those taking 4 subs in this school, the 3 subs did alot better. Too bad we are ranked 6th. The top 5 junior colleges showed an opposite trend.
I visit an anti-ajc blog once in a while, and it was shut down recently. Before the closure I read comments debating on the use of a Junior College system. A point was brought up regarding the paper chase in Singapore.
We are, after all, taking Alevels so as to better our chance to get into Uni right? But what then, is the reason behind this? For me and my buddies, we already had our future planned. I would most likely go into IT field, working for companies before starting one on my own. Poh Wei, who won the MAS Econ essay competition by clinching a top prize, already began to doubt the econ syllabus for A levels and intend to attach to a local university as a research professor. Yan Yuan is interested in the medical field, and had underwent various attachments and internship with hospitals. (Contrast this with the kind of "Industrial attachments that AJC provides: Zoo keeper.. etc) Finally, Kai Siong, a very talented speaker had already joined Young PAP working under Ong. Taking Alevel is more like a stepping stone to going to university to fulfill our dreams.
On the other hand, most students in my school has vivid intend on what to do. Their goal seems to be getting good results for alevel to go to a good university. That is all. Instead of viewing university as a stepping stone to their goal, they view it as the goal itself. What can come out of these? Nothing. Effort put in no doubt, but effort wasted.
You guys know me as a slightly odd, childish and happy-go-lucky person who don't give a damn about authorities or studies. This is because this life is mine, and what I want to do has little to do with what I want. taking Alevel to me is just a pastime for me, just like playing DOTA is a pastime for most people. I am under no obligation to do well for any particular test or to listen in class. So long as I do not fall behind in this blind stream of endless souls, I don't give studies too much a damn.
What a long excuse for not studying for June Common Test aye?
Hehe.
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