end of common tests!!!
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
it's just pro-ness. slept till i had gastrics, without myself knowing it. and it still hurts now.
as pro as the physics paper 1. lol.
anyway, i happen to see the little phrase that pops up when you scroll over the link to my blog at eng yian's blog, and i realise it's real true: 'lost almost all fire in commentary'. Lol.
well, given the food that i am eating, how much i have to mug, and how ultra slack i am, it's really no wonder.
So let me try to start this again.
First. Mr Brown's website lately crticised SMRT for receiving some top award in the world for public transport, didn't bother to remember the name. It was quite funny, and I actually thought S'pore's system isn't that bad as compared to certain European countries, until they changed their broadcast system again.
'For passengers who are continuing their journey towards....'
It sounds wrong. Even if not gramatically wrong, it just sounds...Singlish.
Not that we shouldn't be proud of Singlish, but come on, you are broadcasting this not only towards Singaporeans, but tourists from all around the world. And you claim our MRT is of world class.
And somehow, the speaker seems to get from bad to worse. Wonder what kind of slang is she trying to, well in S'pore's terms, copy.
Next up. The mid-year exams for primary schools have just ended. and the results are shocking.
Let me just list you some of the results that i know that either happened to my cousin's pri 5 class, or my tutee pri 4's class.
Science: 6 passes.
Chinese: 2nd highest in class for paper 2 is 19.5/45. (that's the result of my tutee btw)
And you go...wtf!!??!!
Hey, it's not secondary school or jc leh. it's PRIMARY school.
it's either they set their papers to kill, or like what the forums said, the teachers are not preparing their students well enough.
Gone are the days where primary students get 80+ for their exams.
And i must say this is very demoralising for the children. You work hard, and yet such results are what you get. There is no incentive to study. So why study???
I hope I get to see the papers one day. And then I would be able to tell if they are really out to kill, or the standard of the students have dropped. And if it's the latter, i think it would be the teachers' fault for not preparing the students well enough.
Who says teachers are not important?
as pro as the physics paper 1. lol.
anyway, i happen to see the little phrase that pops up when you scroll over the link to my blog at eng yian's blog, and i realise it's real true: 'lost almost all fire in commentary'. Lol.
well, given the food that i am eating, how much i have to mug, and how ultra slack i am, it's really no wonder.
So let me try to start this again.
First. Mr Brown's website lately crticised SMRT for receiving some top award in the world for public transport, didn't bother to remember the name. It was quite funny, and I actually thought S'pore's system isn't that bad as compared to certain European countries, until they changed their broadcast system again.
'For passengers who are continuing their journey towards....'
It sounds wrong. Even if not gramatically wrong, it just sounds...Singlish.
Not that we shouldn't be proud of Singlish, but come on, you are broadcasting this not only towards Singaporeans, but tourists from all around the world. And you claim our MRT is of world class.
And somehow, the speaker seems to get from bad to worse. Wonder what kind of slang is she trying to, well in S'pore's terms, copy.
Next up. The mid-year exams for primary schools have just ended. and the results are shocking.
Let me just list you some of the results that i know that either happened to my cousin's pri 5 class, or my tutee pri 4's class.
Science: 6 passes.
Chinese: 2nd highest in class for paper 2 is 19.5/45. (that's the result of my tutee btw)
And you go...wtf!!??!!
Hey, it's not secondary school or jc leh. it's PRIMARY school.
it's either they set their papers to kill, or like what the forums said, the teachers are not preparing their students well enough.
Gone are the days where primary students get 80+ for their exams.
And i must say this is very demoralising for the children. You work hard, and yet such results are what you get. There is no incentive to study. So why study???
I hope I get to see the papers one day. And then I would be able to tell if they are really out to kill, or the standard of the students have dropped. And if it's the latter, i think it would be the teachers' fault for not preparing the students well enough.
Who says teachers are not important?