Hello, future Eileen!
Five years down the road, you may be reading back to this post because you miss your school life so much while trying hard to cope with your stressful work. No worries, this blog is for you to walk down the memory lane when you feel tired of your working life. Be thankful that you graduated with a Bachelor certificate, despite the number of obstacles you've met along the way, when you did not have any intention of pursuing degree back in Polytechnic. This post will be a long yet sweet memory of your education life.
Today, 26th May 2016, is the day when my last academic result is out. I've never thought that. It's been a long 22 years of education since nursery! I've been through nursery, kindergarten, primary school, secondary school, polytechnic and now university. You can read my a bit of my journey here in
Secondary school (or even times before this because this post has only photos of prom night),
Temasek Poly (1) and
Temasek Poly (2)!
I wasn't a bright student to start with. Everything I did was because of rewards. I fared pretty well back in Primary 4. Dad promised me a discman if I were to get into EM1. But no, I was streamed into the first class of EM2 instead. Despite that, Dad still bought me a Discman because it's the "first class" of EM2. LOL! Things started getting tougher as time flew. I couldn't catch what the teacher was teaching, especially Science and Math. My cousin even took time to travel from her workplace to my previous place (Sengkang) to teach me Math and back to her place at Pasir Ris. I scored well for that period of time but because we shifted to Yishun, I no longer had this advantage of playing "Math" game during my tuition sessions. I rmbr there was once when my cousins took time to design a game that's similar to Monopoly. The only difference was, they hand drew it in Pokemon theme with different Pokemon! I love Pokemon that time and yes, because of this, I rlly loved Math! But it was only for a moment! I did not do well for my PSLE. It was lower than what I expected. I thought I wasn't affected until I stepped out of the hall the second time. The reality hit me hard.
I entered the Normal (A) of Anderson Secondary. I love their pinafore and therefore, this school. This was my first choice after going rounds in Dad's cab to see which school is nicer and such. My parents rlly took the effort to tell me "this school would be good because ...". Despite being in a
good school, I got influenced in a bad way back in Secondary 1. I did not like the systems nor the teachers. All I wanted to do was to play. I think I rlly disappointed my parents that time. The only things I did not do were smoking, fighting, and skipping school. I skipped supplementary lessons though. I picked up a lot of vulgarities and I got slapped a few times because I uttered it in front of Mum when she was scolding me. Yes, rude! And I hate the past me TBH.
Started to change for the better in Secondary three when I got together with the guai-er group of people. Hahah! Not saying my babes aren't! They are too smart for me. K, I kid!! It's just that it's easier to hang out with people in your class as the timetables and all are the same. N Levels results were pretty good but not my O's. Though there were subjects that I did well in, there were also subjects that I did poorly in. I decided that I should retake 3 subjects for my O's instead of going to a course that I didn't want in Poly/going to ITE. I studied harder this time because I felt that it's rlly a waste of money to repeat subjects and going through the same thing again! So yep, with that, from a 20+ score for first O's, I improved quite a lot. Despite that, my English result was still the same. Of cus, I didn't give up. But, I told myself that if I were to get the same result agn for the third time, I would just heck it alrdy.
I proceeded to Temasek Polytechnic, again, with not the course that I wanted. I did very badly for my first two semesters because it's mostly about Physics and erm, A-Math? I did not learn Amaths back in Secondary school so I thought it was frigging difficult. Anyway, that was also when B came back to my life. He taught me Amaths (till he frigging wanted to puke). Anyway, that's not the point. I graduated from TP in 2014 and thankfully, I did not have to retake any modules. Yes, needless to say, I applied for Business Management in SIM-RMIT. It was a short 2 years of studies but the stress level was high enough for me to think about dropping out at a point of time. Whenever my results were out, I could see how happy Mum was.
It took me 22 years to complete my education. I was and am still slower than others. I take a longer route. I take a longer time to understand things. But, I'm thankful for the people around me especially my parents who did not give up on me once. Not when I had to retake my O's. Not when I complained to them about my assignments and such too! Oh, how can I forget about this!! Throughout my 22 years of education, Dad will send me to school no matter how early or late it is! I love my family!
I saw this image that Bro shared on FB ystd... Thought I'd share it here too!
“Just because you took longer than others, doesn't mean you failed. Remember that.”
Thanks for giving birth to me in this family on 23 years (2 months more to go)!! We aren't rich but our parents will always try to satisfy us as long as they can do it! :)
Now, I'm looking forward to our family trip that's gna happen in June!!
