Friday, November 16, 2007
Next week I'm going to Singapore to check out my new school. I'll probably put up some pictures here just to show what the school and dorm is actually like. I hope it doesn't differ too much from the images displayed in the website. It'd be a huge disappointment if it turns out to be, 'indah khabar dari rupa'. (I need to find out the English equivalent of that someday...) Haha.. I still have to polish my BM as I'm taking Higher Malay for GCSE.
(add info: GCSE - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Certificate_of_Secondary_Education)
I'm also changing my layout as this format does not allow comments - something that I find really annoying as the main point of this blog is to keep in touch with everyone.
The wonders of internet also continues to astound me.
Quote Ms. Lim: Many Malaysian scholars encounter problems with the Mathematics syllabus in Singapore, let me give you some idea on the topics that we cover in Secondary 3 & 4 - Algebra, Matrices, Trigonometry, Mensuration, Vectors.
And so I looked them up on wikipedia. The result was a big headache as I found it hard to comprehend many (any, actually) of the terms. Of course, I looked through the book Khye Chwin lent me but it's so different from the references online. The book is less complicated. And I really understand better through examples and problems than through definitions. Really, I think they use big words all the time just to torture poor students like me.
Combined Humanities.. I'm probably taking the Social Studies + Literature Elective, whatever that is- since I'm based on literature and stuff. I really hope I don't flunk.
What I'm most worried about now is the triple sciences. Physics, Biology and Chemistry are completely new subjects to me. Memorising what seems like mumbo jumbo and its terms don't really appeal. Worst of all, I'm so lazy to look through my books so as to gain a head start on the other students. Or at least a foundation of what I'll probably face since the students there are no doubt already far more advanced than I am - despite the fact that I'm repeating a grade.
Repeating a grade.
It's sounds so... degrading.
I guess its crucial as there is much to learn and the very next year will be my GCSE year. Still, it just feels so sad that I'll be a year older than practically all (hopefully except for the other scholars) students that will be studying there.
There's also my dormitory. According to my father, it's supposed to be for the Hwa Chong (Chong Hwa, anyone?) school, but since Xinmin isn't a boarding school, I'll be staying there instead. This also means that there's a 45 minute bus trip between my actual school and the place I'll be staying. Have I mentioned that I hate travelling? And I get lost in parking lots?
Is it any surprise why I'm feeling nervous about it?
In Hwa Chong, according to my teacher mentor, there is some sort of roll call(?) that will ensure all boarders are in the dormitories in the evening. After that, there's a two hour study peroid. Fun indeed.
And this is all for my future.
Links:
Boarding School (Hwa Chong): http://www.hcibs.edu.sg/
School (Xinmin) : http://www.xinminss.moe.edu.sg:1285/main/
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