What will be shall be

When I was a student (Secondary Sch)

When I was a student in Secondary School,

- I came to my Secondary Sch with an agg score of 250/300 and was categorized under the special stream. 4 years later after I failed my sec 3 the 2nd time, I was dropped to Normal Academic. That is 2 streams down.

- There was this very very stupid lesson called Moral Education( CME if you still remember) that teaches us about morals and we were even tested on it. For one of the particular test we were tested on festival customs where we were to write down our practices during these festivals. My answers? Eat mooncake during Chinese New year. Carry lanterns during Qing Ming. Give Ang Baos during Christmas. Fast during Hungry Ghost Festivals. My classmates certainly laughed their heads off while my teacher almost ripped my head off.

- We had an A-Maths teacher who always keep a straight face be it during teaching or when you greet her along the corridors. Me and my classmates always challenge each other to make her laugh. We succeeded once and regretted it right away. She looks really ugly when she smiles.

- I had no ECA when I reached Sec 3. There was a new rule stating that for those who had no ECAs, they will have to help out with the gardening stuff in school. There was vacanies for librarians then and I joined it then. I stayed there for nearly half a year before quitting. Till today no one really believed me that I told them I was an ex-librarian.

- When I was in Sec 3 me and my classmates used to play soccer almost everyday after school at the street soccer court opposite my school. There was this bunch of Sec 2 guys whom we always chase away and I believed they must have hated us very much. Comes the next year I was retained in Sec 3 and those Sec 2 guys were promoted to Sec 3 and guess what? They became my classmates. What comes round really comes round.

- I used to be skeptical about eating alone in the school canteen. I don't know why but I always feel that there are people watching me and I don't like that feeling. Nowadays as long as I get to eat, I don't give a damn.

- For my Geography homework, I had to draw the rain cycle which involves the cloud formation and those shit. I drew mine very nicely but felt that that wasn't enough. I proceeded to draw a Superman flying under the clouds with an umbrella in his hand. Another drawing is one of the sea breeze and land breeze thingy where you have to draw out how the hot air rises and all those crap. As usual I drew mine very nicely but still decided to put a Batman standing on the cliff by the sea with his cape floating in response to the wind. I got a big fat Zero for that 2 pieces of works. Teachers really don't know how to appreciate art.

- I talked to my A-Maths teacher (the one who looks better without smiling or laughing) about dropping the subject because I really feel I couldn't handle A-maths. She asked me to try my best and see how I fare for the coming mid-year Exams. I put the formula b2 - 4ac for all the questions in the paper and managed to score 1 point out of 100. I didn't have to ask her - after the papers were marked she came up to me and insisted that I dropped the subject.

- I was in the TAF club in Sec school and often had detention too for not handing in my homework. I would tell the discipline teacher that I had to go to TAF club training and then tell my TAF club teacher that I have detention and then walked out of school to play soccer at the street soccer court. I was never caught because I knew that both my discipline teacher and TAF club teacher didn't really like each other so they wouldn't really approach each other to ask about me.

- I quarreled with almost all my Science teachers because I really really hate Science. The most memorable one was when I was demoted to Normal Academic after I failed my Sec 3 for the 2nd time. During the 1st week I had a huge fight (verbally) with him along the corridor. Almost everyone came out to see what happened . I was lucky that he didn't report me to the principal.

posted by malmoncolo @ 3:00 AM