This author is currently on hiatus for the ignoble cause of mugging. The public is advised to remain calm, as this routine protocol has been shown to have no effect on one's violent tendencies in 96% of cases.
| Saturday, September 30, 2006 |
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End-of-Year Exams are just around the corner. Just 5 days away, to be exact. Take a look at other Singaporean students' blogs, and you see that for most of them, the latest post would be like "mugging for EOYE, hope i score well..." etc. Even on the contacts on my MSN list, its mostly along the line of "Exams so near liao haiz..." for the more pessimistic ones, or "13 days to freedom!" for those more optimistic. Yet i still haven't gotten into the mugging mood. I'm still chatting on MSN, spamming the forums and playing games like Audition. I don't know what's quite wrong with me, but i think its with my personality. While others like Zhaoxing (amazingly) started mugging for their PSLE at the start of P6, i started self-revision only one to two weeks b4, even though its supposed to be the most important exam ive taken to date. And i ended up with a relatively high score which could land me in any school i chose, though i scored only an A for maths. Perhaps its my leave-things-to-the-last-minute attitude. No matter how much parents and teachers drill me not to "Usually don't burn joss sticks, at the end hug the Buddha's leg", i still persist to doing things at the latest possible time if im not in the mood. But i guess that's better than not doing it at all, right? Or maybe its because ive always been scoring relatively well, despite my personality. Last year, i hardly revised at all, and i still topped the class, along with mugger Ben. I've no idea how i do that. So i guess it's led to a habit of me not working that hard, cos I get the impression that i'll still score well enough. But this year's a little different. My grades have been slipping, especially after the killer term 1 tests which left the class with an average msg of 3.5. Maybe it's cos of the general attitude of the class. Somehow, we've become much more slacky comapred to the previous year year. We even got the best grades in the entire level at the end of last year, but this year, it looks like we won't even be close. And i've been influenced by this slacky spirit, and not to mention, games. Not that i blame you guys. xD It's no surprise then that my blog proudly proclaims: Mug If Necessary, Slack Otherwise. But is it necessary for me to start mugging yet? Truth is, I personally don't think so. I'm not really an exam-oriented guy. I'm more realistic and practical. If its gonna help you in the future, then i don't mind spending more time on it. But if the benefits are purely only short-term (like momentary fame), then why bother? Similarly, why do we really bother getting good grades for tests? Maybe English will help you write formal business letters in the future. Maths will help if you're going to be an engineer. Computer Studies if you're going to design webpages or be a programmer. But what use do test results give you? Temporary glee at getting higher than that guy sitting next to you? Of course, if you're forced to get good grades, then you have no choice but to mug for it. But do you still remember exactly how well you did last year? No! That's why I don't really like to mug for exams. Maybe spend the night before on it, but that's about it. And after the exams, I don't go around comparing grades anymore. I might have gotten 1 mark higher than you, so what. Does it mean im going to get 1k more in wages after we get jobs? No. And perhaps that's the root of my slackiness. I don't care. >.< I'm really so sian that i can even post about my sianness. Sigh. |
'Twas teh winnar at 11:04 pm.
