Tuesday, June 19, 2007
at
1:33 AM
|
I'm 25 and still in polytechnic. "What telah happen?" Well, I took a different route.
Went through mandarin speaking kindergarten in Lorong Ah Soo. Primary School education was in Xinghua. In primary 5, I was in the EM1 class even though technically, I was not qualified as my English marks were band 2. Got band 1 for Maths and Malay. There were vacancies in the EM1 class and hence 12 EM2 stream students were pushed to that class, 51A.
Primary 6 was emotionally scarring. I got a class position of 7 out of 12(among the EM2s). I knew I could have done better. I did not understand the meaning of studying back in primary school. Initially I was told I was promoted to 61A. So, everything was prepared for the new year, with my books having 61A written as my class. I think the cut-off position was from 10. The last 3 students were transferred to EM2 classes.
The new year came and I lined up together with people whom I thought were my classmates. Then, I got pulled away by Mrs Chiam who told me that I was in her class 62B.
The sad part was that it was a mistake and I did not speak for myself. Somehow, 61A had an extra student. As I understood, it was orignally planned that the cut-off position was from 7th position. That's where the complication arose. Instead of pulling from behind, 9th position, I was pulled out. I remember 9th position. It was (name removed). I remember 6th position as well, Linda. I wished I had been the 6th position.
Life went on. I became more and more depressed by not achieving my fullest potential and continued to have a difficulty in my social life. I got 238 for my PSLE and did not get my first choice of secondary school. I got into Zhonghua Secondary. Eventually I dropped out in secondary 3 towards term 3. Repeated secondary 3 the following year and dropped out again towards the second term. Repeated secondary 3 again getting 1st in class for the 1st semester. However, I dropped out again in Secondary 4 having only taken some parts of my O level Malay paper.
Then it was rock-bottom.
Got into NS and took private O levels in my second year of NS. It was night classes by ITE. Took 3 papers. Took another 3 paper the following year and combined the scores to get into polytechnic.
While waiting for my results, I took part-time ITE nitec course in Digital Media Design for 6 months. Eventually I got a place in NYP with my first choice course, Digital Media Design. Alhamdulillah. Poly life... that's another story.
Went through mandarin speaking kindergarten in Lorong Ah Soo. Primary School education was in Xinghua. In primary 5, I was in the EM1 class even though technically, I was not qualified as my English marks were band 2. Got band 1 for Maths and Malay. There were vacancies in the EM1 class and hence 12 EM2 stream students were pushed to that class, 51A.
Primary 6 was emotionally scarring. I got a class position of 7 out of 12(among the EM2s). I knew I could have done better. I did not understand the meaning of studying back in primary school. Initially I was told I was promoted to 61A. So, everything was prepared for the new year, with my books having 61A written as my class. I think the cut-off position was from 10. The last 3 students were transferred to EM2 classes.
The new year came and I lined up together with people whom I thought were my classmates. Then, I got pulled away by Mrs Chiam who told me that I was in her class 62B.
The sad part was that it was a mistake and I did not speak for myself. Somehow, 61A had an extra student. As I understood, it was orignally planned that the cut-off position was from 7th position. That's where the complication arose. Instead of pulling from behind, 9th position, I was pulled out. I remember 9th position. It was (name removed). I remember 6th position as well, Linda. I wished I had been the 6th position.
Life went on. I became more and more depressed by not achieving my fullest potential and continued to have a difficulty in my social life. I got 238 for my PSLE and did not get my first choice of secondary school. I got into Zhonghua Secondary. Eventually I dropped out in secondary 3 towards term 3. Repeated secondary 3 the following year and dropped out again towards the second term. Repeated secondary 3 again getting 1st in class for the 1st semester. However, I dropped out again in Secondary 4 having only taken some parts of my O level Malay paper.
Then it was rock-bottom.
Got into NS and took private O levels in my second year of NS. It was night classes by ITE. Took 3 papers. Took another 3 paper the following year and combined the scores to get into polytechnic.
While waiting for my results, I took part-time ITE nitec course in Digital Media Design for 6 months. Eventually I got a place in NYP with my first choice course, Digital Media Design. Alhamdulillah. Poly life... that's another story.
Posted by
Firdaus
0 comments:
Post a Comment