Back to business - my parents is pushing hard on me and I'm kinda having a row with them nowadays.
You might say that children should listen to their parents. Yea, that's only apply when it is damn reasonable.
I must clarify something first before speaking anything. I don't think many students from private school, especially Poi Lam High, will go home and study. No really, who will go and study the text book when the exam is weeks (that means more than 2 weeks) away, even months! Alright, some revision done once or twice a week may be fine, but everyday... watdahell...
You must know one thing, we, private school students is different from government school's. We study from 8am till 3pm average, and Saturday is an official school day for us.
Let's do some maths (since my mother wanted me to score so badly):That's 475minutes (7hours 55 minutes ~ 8hours!) different each week!!
Mon-Fri: 8.00-15.00 - That's 7hours x 5 = 35hours
Saturday: 8.00-12.35 - That's 4h35min
Total: 39hours 35min per week = 2375 minutes per week
Let's see what time does government school student studies in school:
Mon-Fri: Average time - 7.20-13.40 = 6h20min per day x 5
Total = 1900 minutes per week
And I didn't even include our Thursday's ECA time.
Don't try to argue with me about extra classes after school - private schools DO have extra classes after school. And extra time for ECA too. Thursday alone really isn't enough for uniformed society like Scouts or whatever band.
What I'm trying to show is, WE HAD ALREADY STUDY MORE, SPEND MUCH MORE TIME THAN normal government school. What's more? Our lesson is harder than government's! You can't deny it, it's true. When did government school start to have Add-Maths and the 3 Sciences in Form 3? Even UEC, gives more challenge than government's lesson, especially during Senior classes. In Form 6, UEC's paper is far more harder than SPM, and GCE O'level students might have difficulties in answering them. I don't think you can really take our private school's result to compare with government's. Damn, average students in english that studies in government school might as well fail GCE's English.
My dear parents, I'm having enough of this. I admit that I might able to score more in exams, especially the 3 sciences, but for Add-maths and Chinese Literature, really, I'm out of it. You might able to give a lot of 'reasons' about why I fail it, but reality is reality.
"Oh, you use too much time in computer." "Oh, everyday play basketball..."
ENOUGH!!
These are all made-up reasons. Who say I didn't study before exams? I did! Damn, I'm not that kind of person that can walk calmly into the exam hall without any information in my brains. Too much time in computer... you might say that... well, around 3 to 4 hours (sometimes even less) per day, too much? I don't know. There is no standard about it, but by comparing (oh... maths again), along with my friends, this is normal. There are a lot of manics that use, or playing games with computer, with A LOT MORE TIME than me! Time had changed. It's a whole new era. Computers, internet, chatting messengers, blogging, forums, reading articles from net, these are all normal activities among teenagers nowadays! And many of them even have their benefits!
COMPUTERS ARE NOT ONLY FOR GAMES YOU IDIOTS!
Really, they always think that computer is bad. I don't know, but they really like to watch the bad side of every-single-damn-thing.
Don't they ever wonder why I have so many extra knowledges in life?
Don't they ever wonder why I'm much better efficient in computers than some of those who owns a computer much more longer than me?
Don't they ever wonder why I can type fast (not very, and without style, but it is fast enough for normal use), even I didn't take typing course?
Don't they ever wonder why I can do wonders with computer?
Don't they ever wonder why my English is getting better, apart from my novel reading?
Don't they...
Man... you guys should know, I always follow my mother's promise: Games - only during Sat and Sunday, plus holidays. What did I do with my computers normally?
Oh... a lot of things... And good stuffs too!
Blogging, as you might aware of it when you read this.
Webpage/Forums design, publishing, and managing.
HTML codings, although still not quite good at it, need a lot of time to memorizes it.
Reading articles from encyclopedia or information sites.
Design pictures and stuffs with my Photoshop and other Software (thanks to all my previous computer teachers that teaches me these... I had took some course about it during a holiday).
Remix musics!
And a bit of entertainment with some MMORPG (Role Playing) sites, it does teach you a lot how to get along with people. And of course, some of my favourite game sites or fan sites (Harry Potter, for example).
Are they BAD?
Oh... and why don't my dear mother say that computer is bad when she ask me to help her, doing some school document or exam papers?
And about playing basketball... OMG! That's my hobby! That's my way to relief my tension in school works (you might say no, but yes, there is, less or more), or other things. Oh... I will explain this in detail later, a small secret I wanted to share with my fellow friends.
You want me to be a bookworm (or bag, in chinese)? Well, I don't. 2 hours of sports everyday won't hurts, I suppose. Don't tell me you didn't play, running around the countryside when you were still small. I'm not gonna believe it.
Sports! It's a damn good activity for our free time! It's damn better for those less beneficial activities! I don't know why they can have a damn with this.
Oh yea... it's damn ALRIGHT when she chases her Korea Drama series...
Alright, you might wanted to ask why don't I revise a lot in normal days. Here is my answer. Everyone has their own way of studying. I enjoy studying during night, mainly because it is less noisy and it's usually cooler. And why I only start revising a week before exam? The reason is simple. Anything that requires hard memorizing, I will really forget it real fast, maybe a day or two. That explain why subjects like history is bad to me. I don't know why, but this happens even when I'm a little kid in primary school. Unless I really like that thing, or it can be memorize lively, that piece of information, or part of it, will be thrown into the recycle bin, within 3 days, cash guaranty. I found that listening to the teachers in class help more in studying. That's why I don't really revise a lot. The general information is already learned during lesson. Well, maybe not all lesson, but subjects like maths and chemist, I think that you guys will agree with me that we all DO listen those in class.
Alright... it seems that my anger about it has ease a lot at the end of this article. That's... great.
Well, before I end it, I will tell you a story of my past, as I promised above.
It happened long ago, when I'm Primary 4. Some people from Sam Chai Primary or Yuk Choy Primary might knew it.
Anyway, last time, due to my family, I don't really has a lot of hobbies or activities. My first sport is badminton, and I've learned chess when I'm 6. But I don't really did these activities in normal days because first of all, I don't have people to play with me that time. Even now, I don't have neighbors! Both house beside me is always empty, and those people don't really communicate and only care about themselves (this explain why I had thieves in my house for so many time).
The main point is, I don't have others activities for my daily life. My everyday life that time was: wake up - go to school - extra classes - back home - tuitions - homework - sleep. Maybe around 1-2 hours for watching some TV programs and News Report. And sometimes, swimming, or playing "outdoor badminton" (you all should know that it is not really fun doing it, but I have no choice, it's better than nothing) with my neighbor, who is 3 years older than me. My brothers? Oh... they are too young to understand it that time.
What's more? School tension is really high that time, especially for a small schoolboy that time, P4 only! A lot of student already having problems about it. Some even trying to commit suicide (fail of course... what can a P4 student do?)! And I'm always in the first class, the working load is really high! Plus my working speed is really high. You know why I can stay till late night everyday and still manage to do with my normal daily activities (around 4 hour of sleep daily)? Although I'm trying to change it (yea thx to Joyce, who always tell, or maybe nag me to sleep earlier... lol :P), but that's the reason why I can do it - Homework was done till late night everyday!
And during exam time... OMG... each mistake done in Maths will be "rewarded". You know what I mean. Plus some other subjects too.
In the end, I break up. Really, I vomit during one recesses time. Vomit hard, and fainted. Luckily my friend's mother was there to help me. I can't imagine what will happen if he was not there. I was quickly sent to a clinic and the doctor had proved that I had shown some sign in the early stages of getting over-tension. If this continue, I might have some mental problem or so on. I do always got headache that time. That's when I'm studying in Yuk Choy.
What can my mother do? She changed me from Yuk Choy to Sam Chai primary. It the school at Pasir Putih, and that's how I know about Poi Lam High and wanted to go there. Oh by the way, in Sam Chai, the lessons are completely different! There is not much tension in homework. The work load is suitable, good enough.
The most important is, I've changed. I started to involve more in ECA. Badminton, Football, Ping-pong, everything I can find in my school, I try it. And I made a lot of good friends here who are willing share happiness and sadness together. My life had never been that happy, especially when I first join the class. They are just so friendly that I know them the first day (maybe not names), even the girls mix with the boys.
Oh yea, some teachers in Yuk Choy looked down on me. What they say: can't cope with their steps. So what, I get 7A's in UPSR. The only different is, my childhood is not that hard, completely full with books, books, and more homeworks.
I will never forget that. Oh, and our holiday trip. I still miss my friends.
Hope that everyone of us will have a good future, whatever way you want to go! Every right job is a good job.
HAPPY MOONCAKE FESTIVAL GUYS AND GALS!
Peace. :)
Aftermath.
PS: Thanks for reading all those rubbish I wrote. :) Thanks a lot.
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