Looking forward to the future

The most anticipated day for the past two months had finally dawned upon me. I met up with my NYJC gang - TG, Sandeep and Sara at djudju to slack a little before going into the school hall. As I sat there waiting, every moment that ticks by is accompanied by thoughts of probabilities of the outcome of my results. Well, they announced the people with like 3-5 As first and also the subject analysis. From there, I could see that KI is a confirmed pass but none of the 6 pioneers had the A grade. So, the best hope for the subject is B. There was some optimism in Economics, seeing that there's 99.2% pass. Ok, at that point of time, I was thoroughly hoping that I don't belong to the 0.8% failure. Both History and Lit had a generous amount of As but did not exceed 40%. The top students list though presented some eye-raising entries. (eg. Booze also still can get 3As arh?)

After these announcements of the top students, all in the hall are to proceed to collect the result slips from the form tutors. And it was lining up and waiting at the line where the tension within just kept raging. All the hopes and dreams shall be revealed by that slip of paper. After I received my result slip, I just went over to one of those tables and slowly unravel one by one my fate. *drum rolls* And.......

I PASSED ECONOMICS AND EVEN GOT C FOR IT!

Honestly, I thought that my Econs paper was a goner given the way I answer my essay questions and also the inauspicious history that I had with the subject. I was so darn afraid that I could not even get E and pass. Well, I suppose some of those "common sense" answers that I gave in the case study did work out nicely :)

Knowledge and Inquiry (KI) was a C, pretty much neutral about it but became quite annoyed after knowing that a certain individual actually got the same grade despite being clueless about the subject for two whole years. No one in NYJC got beyond C (partly because also of a certain member of the teaching staff who is also a champion at slacking) Personally, I believe we have been shortchanged in the moderation process. The press claims that 75% of the cohort achieved A or B but its rather dubious that not even one in NYJC could get a B and the one that is slated for failure is on par with the best in the class. Using deductive logic or common sense, even a dumbo could see that the KI statistics is a big fat fallacy that doesn't tally up.


Now the best one: A FOR HISTORY AND A FOR ENGLISH LITERATURE!!!

When I saw that, I was totally ecstatic! My two favourite subjects! This meant that I've achieved a perfect score for my history subject career in Singapore..lol. I'm really glad that I got A for Eng Lit :) I kinda saw the possibility but it's still a nice pleasant surprise..haha. Well, this proved undeniably that Stan is 100% specialised in language and words.

For my O' Levels results, there was some disappointment on the outcome. Two years onwards at the A' Levels, I'm just feeling tremendous joy in achieving the best with my talents and having a key to unlock many more doors. One of the milestone days of my life has been completed and I'm certainly looking forward to the future. Of course, all glory be to God for the wonderful A' Level results that He had provided me. This is not luck or by any mere mortal effort. It is the grace of God who had everything planned since I stepped into Singapore. Thank you Lord once again for Your abundant guidance in my life.