I just finished my biology revision diagnostic test (another one! Ahhh) and now i'm sitting in the ever-freezing Hub typing this out. Sheesh, talk about a life lol.
Got back my first RDE. Got 29/45. A little disappointed, considering that this is a year one topic and i was relatively well prepared for it. But i reckon 29/45 aint too bad, at least it's a 60%. But when i looked through my answers, i realised i lost some 5-10 marks just because i wrote the wrong stuff, despite having the correct intentions. Argh. Well, lesson learnt. Explain means identify trend and then throw aka regurgitate some stuff out of the notes. Point taken. I went ahead and tried to explain why the trend was so, and the answer key came out a different answer. Talk about answering the question.
Other than that, i received my JCT report slip. Disappointed, again. ABCC. 99th percentile for bio =( Was kinda hoping for 100 lol, that would have been a BIG bonus! But it wasnt to be, well 99 aint too bad i reckon. But my other percentiles fell, GP fell from 96/97 to 92, maths from 70+ to 68, econs from the high 80s to 84 and chem.. well.. i guess that one sorta remained constant, 85. Note, this isnt very accurate since i'm basing this from memory. Lol. My mum's gonna nag now, thanks to the generally declining percentiles. Can she ever just shut up? She didn't get past the O Levels and finds it perfectly justified to comment on my grades, even though my grades aren't too bad. It's sickening the way she puts it across, so sickening that sometimes i feel like shoving newspapers into her mouth lol. Just leave me in peace and let me be.
It's annoying and pretentious of parents to go about their holier-than-thou attitude, pretending to understand what you're going through (especially when they don't). Firstly, for mine, they never entered any post-secondary school institute, so they don't have a right to comment on such stuff. Plus, they've been out of school for over 30 years, and have definitely lost touch what going to school actually means. Instead of understanding, they impose their views on the young and expect everything to be the "good-ole-fashioned way". Hell right, like that's ever going to happen. Plus my parents have no intentions of sending me overseas, a few months ago, they said yes, now its a no. They are feeble, weak-minded, narrow-minded, pathetic things. Plus, they have no intentions of letting me pursue a degree with i want to pursue. Heck, i might as well not sit for the A Levels then. I am not going to waste the rest of my life doing something i am not interested in. Might as well not attend university. Makes more sense than wasting the rest of my life doing something i loathe. Just because they want a doctor in the family doesnt mean i have to get my butt into medicine.
Enough of parent bashing, now that we've established that parents, ultimately, are still driven by self-interest and seek to further nothing but their personal gains.
I'm bored now (lol), 20 more mins before the bell goes for econs lecture. Kinda sick of tutors asked me what went wrong for the JCTs this time round. Give me a break will you? It's not as if i failed every subject i took, heck, i ended up with Cs and above for everyone of them. So shoosh. They seem to think that i'm uninterested in doing well for the As, heck, i have a vested interest in doing so. Get a scholarship, and leave Singapore (hopefully for good, or if it's only for the next 3-5 years, i'd take it, better than nothing lol). So of all people, i know what i stand to gain (or lose) based on my academic performance. But considering i can't really handle my S Papers, that may soon be nothing more than a dream.
I'm starting to get frostbite in the hub now, i can barely feel my fingerstips lol. And my legs are STILL aching lol. It's a torture going down steps, and trying to get the toilet (don't ask, just don't). Alrighty, guess i'm gonna stop now and stop exposing my fingers to the airconditioned environment and possibly, try to save them from further frostbite.
Phoebe
P.S. I'm still gonna applying to UK unis, even if i can't go, at least i can waste more of my parents' money. Whatever i don't spend goes to the slob anyway, so i figured, why let him get the better deal? lol. *devil horns*
I'm a 3rd year student in what is probably the largest autonomous university in Singapore majoring in a Science-related subject (well it sorta IS SCIENCE). I'm known to be introverted, sarcastic (at times), funny when I rant (which isn't a good thing lol) and somewhat of a loner. I miss LA and would move there in a heartbeat :(
