what you know or don’t know about me

From what I gathered, I’m the second oldest in class (lovely T1B1). Thanks to Wee Kiat for saving me…

The JC route to poly often leaves questions in people’s minds:

“why do you come poly? why don’t you go to U or…?”

eh, why you go back to poly, huh?

sadly, most people seems to classify the JC to Poly route as a backward one. probably they feel it’s only reasonable for O level grads to enter poly and the A level grads to move on. (in case u wonder, i took literature, econs and geog in JC. and of course GP is a must..none can evade, muwahahahaha)

However, i see it as a Forward path leading to where I want to be, eventually. You can always take the road that people believe to be less travelled (but actually, there are quite a lot of people who go to Poly from JC too). Moreover, in education, there’s no one definite route you have to stick to.

perhaps u might wonder, why did I chose poly in the first place? well, one reason is because FSV here in NP rocks =) and there’s only a few schools to choose from if one wants to do film (in Singapore)..we have like:
- ADM (Art, Design & Media) in NTU
- Mass Comm in NTU (they have a film/tv broadcast related module, but harsh entrance requirements)
- Tisch Asia
- Lasalle
- ..and of course, FSV!

those are a few of what we have..i think the total is within calculations of our fingers.

education is supposed to be a fun yet learning experience. but so many a times we see St Nichs’s students cry on results day, reason being “mama, because i didn’t score 7 A1s!!! i only have 5!!”(sorry, i forgot how many A1s u can actually score in total) and kindergarten actually children needs private tuition…

i can understand why u expose ur foetus to mozart, etc…but when ur kid is below 8 years old and he is having tuition already..i dare not wonder wonder what the 3 year olds get to do next time..and instead of saying PAPA and MAMA, parents would want their kids to be saying “A for apple, B for Boy!” by the first 3 months.

c’mon, if ur child just goes out into the streets and yell “A FOR APPLE, B FOR BOY!” i can tell u, he’s just a NORMAL KID. if u bring him to the marketplace and have him recite his 6 word story “A FOR APPLE, B FOR BOY!” “wah, your child very smart leh! next time can become english teacher already!” and they toss him an apple for his unusual brightness at such a young age. please stop building up the poor boy’s ego and have him thinking that he ought to be proud of his reward. ask every Singaporean kid by the age of 5 and they can tell u that A stands for Apple and B for Boy. dosen’t that just make ur child a typical citizen of the education system we have in place currently? stare at him sternly and ask, “Boy, what does Z stands for?” and he stares at u blankly, thinking where in the world does that exists on his alphabet chart, if he ever has one.

even as adults, how many words beginning with the alphabet Y and Z can we come up with? your kid will probably just shout “Zoo” in your face (thanks for the famous and limited places of interests we have in Singapore, every kid has a chance to enter the zoo on school trips at least once) if that term decides to revist his head for awhile. and “Zero”, the first and beginning of all numbers. Why didn’t you teach your child that Z stands for zero as well when u started to teach him how to count? He knows all numbers begins with 0, but has no idea it is spelt with a Z. gosh.

for goodness sake, bring in some creativity and give the boy something else besides apples! the letter ‘A’ is probably angry at being stucked with an apple for so long. and ‘Z’ is probably fuming because he doesn’t gets mentions at all!

for those who have read the longer blog entry, haha congrats, you got my A level grades =P. i was having some html problems hence this shorter post now, lols. and sigh, i lost all of ur earlier comments -_-