Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Twist of fate
The teachers hate hongyi... they must... last yr, despite him obviously getting the highest average by a mile, i was undeservedly given the top of level 'honour'. this yr, mrs tobias mistake could have cost him yet another top of level award... lol... it seem like they are all so intent on making him not get it.
sometimes we can be a li'l too hard on hongyi too... he's 'expected' to get highest in everything, so we dun give him enuf credit for doing well. and when he dun top something, it seem like he have failed or something even though he could have done quite well 4 it. but it's kinda gd 4 me he's there cos it's very easy to juz push watever pressure to do well to him. not really fair to him, but...
also, have wanted to thank him here 4 some time but kept forgetting. thanks to him, i'm spared 2 marks in chem cos he pointed out an error on my paper even though i asked him bout another qn... arigato gozamasu! also, if tobias' mistake wasn't discovered, he would have missed the top in level by 2 marks, which he could have 'got' by not pointing out my error. how ironic that would be. but, alas, he's finally getting wat he deserved 4 his hard work after the teachers cruelly decided to take away his award last year, so i think it's fair time we gave him his due credit for getting these incredible results. no matter what happens, he's always our 'top in everything'
also, ash did extremely well this time round, so kudos to him. his 'boasts' did got on my nerves sometimes, but still, kudos to him. and i thought our class did pretty well 4 the prelims, so cheers too!
however, i'm kinda disappointed as well. not so much as to missing out on the top postion, but more on my english. i only expected a b3 at first, but the compre and guided got my hopes up with an a1 seemingly in sight. well, not that i expected to get 22 for my compo given that my content was poor, but i'm a li'l upset bout the comments ms ow gave. unconvincing, irrelevant... the content was weak, but i had thought and hoped my language would have pulled up my overall compo. but alas, there were underlines all over the place (is my phrasing and language really that bad?) and i did not get the 20 i expected... well, english is a subjective subject (pardon the pun) so i can only curse luck that ms ow didn't like my compo, but i'm a tad disappointed. oh well...
also, the way ms ow hammered alcott today further degraded my opinion of her. as again, i'd like to say that i think her teaching methods r quite gd and should raise the english standards of pple who were already proficient in it in the first place considerably, but her attitude doesn't impress me one bit. the debate 'fracas' had blemished my opinion of her, and how she hammered alcott for not doing well enuf did not do any help. it's one thing to be disappointed in the results, but to compare it with other pple and expecting them to do much better? now i'd like to see how she would defend herself after realising that the top was from alcott after all... we at bronte might be weaker in english and everything, but can we not get better results than her dear class? why izit that winning is so important to her? moreover, she's involved in the marking and organised the debate be4 this, so how r we gonna trust her in being fair if she lashes out so badly if her class 'loses'? how r we gonna value ur marking and comments?
so, i'm very thankful that i'm with bronte. sure, tobias and ms ten's drilling of the basics can get very boring (and on that, i think i might need to get a grammar bk... my prepositions seem kinda off) at times, but at least they understand that winning isn't everything. at least they value the process of everything and know that we have put in effort for it.
and talking bout the debate, it seem like our debate team did pretty well in english this time round. cheers! i dreaded debating in sec 3, but this yr's debate was fun and created some pleasant memories despite the hard work in preparation (and of course barring the ugly clashes with ms ow).
sometimes we can be a li'l too hard on hongyi too... he's 'expected' to get highest in everything, so we dun give him enuf credit for doing well. and when he dun top something, it seem like he have failed or something even though he could have done quite well 4 it. but it's kinda gd 4 me he's there cos it's very easy to juz push watever pressure to do well to him. not really fair to him, but...
also, have wanted to thank him here 4 some time but kept forgetting. thanks to him, i'm spared 2 marks in chem cos he pointed out an error on my paper even though i asked him bout another qn... arigato gozamasu! also, if tobias' mistake wasn't discovered, he would have missed the top in level by 2 marks, which he could have 'got' by not pointing out my error. how ironic that would be. but, alas, he's finally getting wat he deserved 4 his hard work after the teachers cruelly decided to take away his award last year, so i think it's fair time we gave him his due credit for getting these incredible results. no matter what happens, he's always our 'top in everything'
also, ash did extremely well this time round, so kudos to him. his 'boasts' did got on my nerves sometimes, but still, kudos to him. and i thought our class did pretty well 4 the prelims, so cheers too!
however, i'm kinda disappointed as well. not so much as to missing out on the top postion, but more on my english. i only expected a b3 at first, but the compre and guided got my hopes up with an a1 seemingly in sight. well, not that i expected to get 22 for my compo given that my content was poor, but i'm a li'l upset bout the comments ms ow gave. unconvincing, irrelevant... the content was weak, but i had thought and hoped my language would have pulled up my overall compo. but alas, there were underlines all over the place (is my phrasing and language really that bad?) and i did not get the 20 i expected... well, english is a subjective subject (pardon the pun) so i can only curse luck that ms ow didn't like my compo, but i'm a tad disappointed. oh well...
also, the way ms ow hammered alcott today further degraded my opinion of her. as again, i'd like to say that i think her teaching methods r quite gd and should raise the english standards of pple who were already proficient in it in the first place considerably, but her attitude doesn't impress me one bit. the debate 'fracas' had blemished my opinion of her, and how she hammered alcott for not doing well enuf did not do any help. it's one thing to be disappointed in the results, but to compare it with other pple and expecting them to do much better? now i'd like to see how she would defend herself after realising that the top was from alcott after all... we at bronte might be weaker in english and everything, but can we not get better results than her dear class? why izit that winning is so important to her? moreover, she's involved in the marking and organised the debate be4 this, so how r we gonna trust her in being fair if she lashes out so badly if her class 'loses'? how r we gonna value ur marking and comments?
so, i'm very thankful that i'm with bronte. sure, tobias and ms ten's drilling of the basics can get very boring (and on that, i think i might need to get a grammar bk... my prepositions seem kinda off) at times, but at least they understand that winning isn't everything. at least they value the process of everything and know that we have put in effort for it.
and talking bout the debate, it seem like our debate team did pretty well in english this time round. cheers! i dreaded debating in sec 3, but this yr's debate was fun and created some pleasant memories despite the hard work in preparation (and of course barring the ugly clashes with ms ow).
