Month: March 2006

beaten at my own game!

~ tan-ce ~ 6 Comments

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<shift gear to a more serious note…>
speaking of emptiness, it seems like it’s a universal thing eh… something without replacement – without substitution. sometimes (hmm, perhaps most of the time…) people fill it with this thing called love… I guess there’s also an empty space for that… but I think there’s also more… perhaps a "hole" made only for yahweh…

and so came the results…

~ tan-ce ~ 1 Comment

I was wondering how to write this post… should it be fiery? or should it be more “comforting” or should I just bash the kiasu spoon-feed A-at-any-cost education system and mentality? still not too sure….

anyhow, taking pictures some of those taking the results for editorial board as well as hearing of some of them… this is a very sad case. there are some who got 9 A1s and 1 single (yes, one, as in uno, as in satu, 1 – that 1) A2… and they’re crying. Others with a string of Bs are leaping for joy.

Yarla, there’s a flip side to everything… try the best you can, do the best you can. but I just think those straight As are overrated. NO ~ I’m not saying they’re bad or useless. It’s good to get As, but it’s not the end of the world if you don’t. Besides, those string of As aren’t gonna guarantee a job, a good life, and a good future… so, whatever results you’ve got, if you must cry, then cry. Pat yourself on the back? sure, go ahead. But don’t take too long. with whatever you have, look forward to see what is to be done for the future. Move on. After all, A does not equal success.

And for the rest of us, study hard, but don’t substitute study with just tuition. Balance with some play… but don’t overdo either. Advice I can well take myself…

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Was watching “Fun with Dick and Jane” today. Entertaining movie…(hey, it’s a Jim Carey movie…) It’s basicly about a vice president of a company that goes bankrupt due to a money laundering CEO or something along that line…

Although there’s some sense of justice at the end of the movie, (the CEO lost 400 million because he “donated” it to a pencen fund) it’s kinda concerning that the protagonist did get away with theft and robbery… and especially that line: “We played by the rules and got screwed!”

modern day values…

you know that…

~ tan-ce ~ 5 Comments

You know you need more study and less koko when…
(or you know you’ve had too much mr. ling)

  • You listen to ALL the announcements that come over the PA system
  • ..and half of them was made by you.
  • Teachers complain about the announcements disrupting studies and you ask "studies?"
  • You decide to skip school and a teacher calls you at 7.40am.
  • You can sing:
    • …all the sports house songs.
    • …seiring dengan geseran ombak
    • …and have memorized all the lyrics
    • …and likes singing along with mr. ling.
  • "Together we make ACS special, together we make ACS great" is your personal motto.
  • You are very good friends with Mr. Ling
  • …and Mak Chin Jian.
  • You believe that it’s 10% academic and 90% kokurikulum for enterance into university.
  • you treat the koko room like your office/home.
  • people come to your class last whenever they’re looking for you.
  • you enter class and the teacher exclaims "long time no see!" OR
  • you enter class and the teacher thinks you’re a new student.


Teachers in school:
Normal teacher: you cross the bridge

KN: You’re about to cross the bridge when he stops you and explains all the concepts behind bridge crossing. Just as you’re about to continue crossing the bridge, he stops you and repeats everything again because you didn’t understand all the concepts behind bridge crossing while he complains about how students nowadays don’t know how to cross the bridge on their own.

CS: He tells you how to cross the bridge while telling you about how people cross bridges in a certain university.

P: He keeps droning on about how to cross bridges. Everynow and then he pulls up his pants and says something about how the students should listen and not sleep.

J: You wait 15 minutes for her to arrive and then another 5 minutes for her to catch her breath before she shows you how to cross the bridge.

MP: She tells you to cross the bridge by crawling over and under it.

WH: He tells you how to cross the bridge in the shortest possible time and tells you to follow his method of crossing bridges in exams, hinting that crawling over and under it is the wrong way to do it. While he is explaining how to cross the bridge, he makes sarcastic remarks about crossing bridges.

T: She shows you how to cross the bridge and gives you exercises on crossing bridges on little itsy bits of paper.

hey, at least they all try their best to show you how to cross the bridge.

And now for students:
b1 class: They study hard on crossing bridges. They cross the bridge and cry when they don’t do it perfectly.

sa class: They have trouble finding the bridge. When they do, it takes them 1 hour to cross the 5 meter bridge.

?: cross the bridge? they’re not even there. you’ll probably find them wandering around everywhere BUT the bridge.