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Attended a government kindergarden school (P.A.P)
about 3km away from home leaving my toys behind. |
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Graduated at the end of the year, preparing to enter
Primary one in Bedok View Primary which is 200m away
facing my flat where we used to stay. |
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Damned! My school bag really put on plenty of weight.
This was the year when I first met my friend John Loh, we
remained in contact whenever possible and currently we're
in the same University doing the same course. |
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This was the lousiest year of all, my form teacher
Mrs Ha kept on calling for my elder sister whom were in
the same school as me, complaining that I've been a very
mischevious and asked her to tell my mum about it.
Despite of all the hassle my teacher gave, my sis
remained silent throughout (Thank You Sis!). Eventually,
Mrs Ha passed away somewhere in 1995. |
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I joined the school scout group and became quite
involved in it. This was also the year I got to know
another close friend named Galvin Lian and we are still
in contact till now, he's presently in NTU doing
Electrical Engineering. |
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This got to be a boring year, just another ordinary
year because I really can't remember what happened that
year! |
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Quite scouting anymore due to the teacher in charge
kept on forgetting to issue more than 3 badges to me, my
hard earned badges all gone down to the drain. Dunn!!! |
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Final year in primary school and the year for
P.L.S.E, the examination needed to sit for in order to
get into a secondary school. I got 3 points less needed
to get into the express stream in secondary school,
hence, I was allocated normal stream and that's 5 years
compared to 4. Anyway, I was in the same school as John
and my dear beloved sister. |
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People really seems to be very aggressive in
Secondary one, fighting was an act which was quite
inevitable at all. I nearly screwed up the exam and
missed the next level. Eventually, I made it to the next
level but got into the last class of it's level. |
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Added some efforts in studying and got a position 7
in class but my maths let me down with no exception since
primary six. Though my average reuslt seems to be much
higher than many others, I was still denied to the
technical and science stream due to my inability in
maths. Thus, missed my chance in secondary school to
study Physics which at that time I didn't know Physics is
an important subject in order to study Engineering in the
future. |
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Started my life as an arts stream student doing
literature instead of physics. Edward, my new tution
teacher really helped me a lot because he gave me a
chance to proved to others that getting an "A"
grade in maths and science is nothing unusual to me ever
again. |
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Did my N' level examination and obtained reasonable
grades to carry on to secondary five. This was also the
year when John graduated from his secondary school life
and went on to Singapore Polytechnic to seek a Diploma in
the field of Mechanical Engineering. |
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The year of TRAGEDY, the worst compared to the ending
of Romeo & Juliet by Shakespear. I overslept for one
of the English GCE O' level paper (GCSE equivalent). That
evening before the incident, I was preparing for my
history exam which was supposed to take place few hours
after the English paper in the next morning. Since I have
a habit of studying alone and away from my house, I got
home at 12 midnight after my revision and tried to get to
some shut eyes. I couldn't get to sleep no matter how
hard I tried, they were to no avail. Dawn finally came, I
was totally exhausted and went into deep sleep without
knowing my alarm clock rang. By the time I woke up, it
was the time for the my fellow school mates to stop
anymore writing for the English paper. I went straight to
examination hall on arrival to school and consulted the
examiners regarding my absent. I was directed to my
Principal and I told her what actually went wrong and
asked for her help. Despite of the appeal letter she
wrote for me to the examination board, I wasn't awarded
any grade for my English exam. When the results were
released, I was told by my form teacher, Mr Pung that
I've achieved the best results in the whole class if it's
not becasue of the missing grade for English. I was
really sad and disappointed, or the correct word should
be DEVASTATED. I went biazared for quite a while because
I am getting to nowhere without a credit in English. |
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Found a job in a chinese restaurant named
"Spring Court" and followed by signing myself
up for a resit in GCE O'level English at the Orchard
Private School. The school was crap, everyone there
weren't interested in studying and a frequent change of
teachers causes me to stop attending class. I continued
working and eventually went for the exam not realising
that the format of the papers I used to take were the
last of its kind in the previous year.. |
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Got my results for the resit exams (min 3 subjects to
be taken) and waiting for my turn to do my National
Service as an army boy. I was called to serve and report
to CMPB in 13th September 1993. |
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Enjoying my life in the army as a brigade level
reconnasance trooper. My application to Bellerbys college
to do A' level has been successful and was counting the
days till I leave for Bellerbys in Brighton (U.K). |
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September finally came, I was out of the army as a
status of disruptee and proceed on to the next level in
academic life. |
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Finally, I got a chance to take up Physics after all
these years. I started off doing GCSE physics for about
half a year and got a C grade in it. I then carried on to
do A' level Physics, Chemistry and Maths (Pure and
Applied) for the rest of the duration in Bellerbys. |
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Did my A' level exams with grades satisfying enough
for me to get into University of Sussex but later
transferred to Leicester University as a Mechanical
Engineering student in September. Consequently, through
my own observation, I realised that majority of the
lecturers suck for I found it quite impossible for me to
copy the notes from the O.H.P and listen to the lecturer
at the same time. |
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Nonetheless, despite of the terrible teaching
methods, I managed to obtain a good 2.1 standard without
the need to listen in class, or should I say not
understanding in class at all??? I was then promoted to
the second year. |
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I started off with lousy grades for the first
semester that stands 50% for this year, but I belived I'm
gonna put more effort for this coming semester so as to
cover for the loss. ( If I could, I will updatel you
people at the end of August). |
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Well, if you can forsee the future, tell me then
because I hate to waste my time.... |
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