Friday, November 24, 2006
psle

i remembered when i was 12
and when i went to school to get my results.

i was rather please with what i got.
which was 2 As and 2 Bs with an aggregate of 210.
it was not fantastic but it got me to the secondary school i wanted to go.
which was Bowen and their entry score was only 198 or was it 193 at that time.
my expectations weren't very high eh?

i was just happy i passed my Chinese...
i didn't care about anything else.
remembered my mummy peeking into my classroom from outside
trying to mouth "chinese? passed?"
that was my parents' only worry.

i also recall my dad asking me
why i got only an A for my maths
and not an A*.
i thought he was crazy...
who ever gets A*? ('cept for those exceptional students from well-known schools)
it was not a common thing and i wasn't expecting an A* anyway.
i was satisfied with my A.

but who would have thought that the
then 3-year-old noisy little irritating monster in our family
would one day get an A* for his maths.
and not only maths but science as well.

that smart-o happens to never study
and plays his computer games/watch cartoons
since the time he comes home from school until the evening when my parents return home.
and after that still does not study.
my mummy practically does his chinese homework for him.
he doesn't even speak a full sentence in chinese even to his tuition teacher.
always asking me how to solve his maths problems.
he doesn't even read a single storybook...
the only thing he reads is his games manual.
"how to pass PSLE like that?" we all thought.

but he did well... very much better than we expected
with an A* A* A B and a 243 aggregate.
i was shocked when he told me over the phone...
but very proud of my brother and happy for him.
[my auntie is going to be so so jealous and
my poor cousins (her sons) are gonna be even more pressurized.]

ha! to all those who look down on my brother!
just because he doesn't answer your questions in full sentences
and does not use flowery language and cheem words
and does not show off his results and wealth of knowledge
does NOT mean he ain't smart!
BOO!

well actually i still can't believe he did that well
and neither can my parents
nor my brother himself.

now the other headache...
of choosing secondary schools.
my mummy was flipping through the list of schools
looking at the entry scores of schools like Victoria and SJI...
and went like "why the entry scores so low ar? their standard drop ar?"
"no mummy, it's just that Avion did well, that's why the entry scores seem low."
it was never in our heads that my brother could possible make it into such schools
or get an aggregate that is anywhere close to their entry scores.
my brother can actually make it into some pretty good schools.
i just hope he gets into the one he wants.
and i hope my parents don't force him to go to NUS High and stress the poor kid out.

i'm excited for him... probably more excited than he is.

WELL DONE BABY-ION!

(his name is Avion but my grandma never gets it right and used to always call him Baby-ion)