I really shouldn't be here today but I had really wanted to blog yesterday but my lit essay took 1 hr more than expected and so there...Yesterday made and broke many people and if you still do not knoe what I am talking about, I'm talking about grades, more specifically, moderation. Yes, I knoe I said in my last entry I'm laying off grades, I still maintain that stance, just that I was a little disturbed at how this grades moderation thingy affected others. While, Mr Mac says that moderation is based on the "paper hardness", what we cannot deny that it is all in statistics. By reducing human to mere numbers obviously has its drawbacks. Till now, I question the "fairness" of moderation. True 6-pointers lose their prestige, people get a false impression of their results. I wouldn't dare to flaunt my 6 points and compare it with other people who got theirs before moderation. Just to quote a casual example, mok got his 6 points before moderation. After moderation, I am on the same level as him if not higher due to my 9 distinctions where he only got 8. The report card we get will not show our actual marks, thus in a way, I have beat him....through moderation....Thus, I was disgusted, at how people start flaunting their moderated results as if we really deserved them. I cannot deny that moderation is a must, but the apparent message that has gotten across to us was far less encouraging. Mr Mac apparently did not get his point across, I must say, sadly...

Enough of grades, i say, Let man perish in them for all they want. Today, I met my senior again, the one currently in army. Okae, he's not really in army now, his NS was disrupted, took up a scholarship and is currently studying medical at NUS. Well, I asked him about JC choice and subject combinations. What I gathered is as follows, if you want to do arts, HC is the best, science, RJ, and he added that VJ might be a good choice because of its distance and school culture. If you are looking for girls, never go RJ as I quote "those chio one will "dao" you". May I add that he was from RJ as well doing triple science. Next, subjects combi, for science stream is obvious, if you want your options as open as possible, do triple science. For arts, econs is a must as a back-up for a good career prospect. Basically, it boils down to whether you know what you want. If you cannot decide yet, take triple science and you will be able to choose again in uni. If your path is set, then do what you want and score in them. The difference is that you might need to spend more years in uni if you decide to switch from science to arts then, for the other way, it is impossible to switch from arts to science, so if you take arts, you got to be very sure that this is the path you want to pick.

Finally, I shall point out a piece of information I sourced over the net and papers. Note: I am not 100% sure, so please do not quote me.
In striats times forum last week, there was a letter titled "Counsel Idiosyncratic Teachers". The letter is about teachers that cannot communicate well should be counselled as well. The writer draws our attention to 2 specific case studies, one in which the teacher points a middle finger at a student and ask him to laugh, the other in which the teacher deemed looking at certain parts of the human anatomy was disrespectful. I've read it and I was disturbed when the writer commented "Mind you, this is an top independent school." I thought hmm....so I went to the net and sourced information and came to conclusion that the writer was indeed refering to a teacher in RI. Gosh...I was stunned and rather amused at the same time. Anyway, my stand is that the writer was writing rubbish( jie4 ti2 fa1 hui1 would be the best chinese idiom for it) and if she had a point, she destroyed it with her excessive use of "propagandish" language and an improper tone to sum it off. In today's paper, a reader replied with "It takes 2 or even 3 to clap" After reading the article, I have only 1 thought: my sentiments exactly." Well, such issues are sometiimes worth discussing over a cup of tea...