MIDNIGHT!/ Saturday, February 11, 2006
Meet up with yt and lw for lunch at tp mos burger. Its such a small world. I saw my aj classmates and og mate there too-shang yi and jeslynn. Eating and worrying at the same time.
Everybody will tell everybody not to worry. The result slip have already been printed out. No use worrying because there is no way that you can change what has been printed on your result slip. But still, we will worry. Worry that you do not score well enough, that you cannot go to your dream JC or stay on in whatever you've been in for the first 3 months..
The anitcipation of waiting for your results is always ---, unless of course you're really really confident that you'll score well. But no matter what, there will always be the possibility of not scoring well. This tiny feeling in your heart, that you are afraid that you have not done as well as you expected.
Thus you can expect the atmosphere in Cedar from as early as 1300 to be quite tense. Of course, the teachers have known the results beforehand, but then the students don't. And we have to wait impatiently until 1430 before we can know what our results are. But, well before 1430, we already know who the top student is.
What exactly happened on 100206:1400h. Everyone milling around the school compound is asked to go to the school hall. Everyone gathers in the hall. Everyone is worried and excited about the results.
1415h. Mr Suresh speaks about the JAE, what we should do after we have collected our results. He promised us that he would only spend 5 minutes explaining the procedure. "Girls, I know that you people are very excited about your results with each passing second, not hour or minute, but second. But I need to tell you what you have to do after you have collected your results. So just bear with me okay? I assure you that I'll make it fast, just 5 minutes." And so we listened.
1420h. The microphone is handed over to Mrs Lim who announces the top student of Cedar. Even before Mrs Lim speaks, there are already screams in the hall because we have all seen the powerpoint slides of the top students. Seeing Chow Wen Xin's name as the top name is no surprise because we already know she has scored 11 A1s. The new Cedar principal, Mrs Ou-Yang is asked to present the result slips to the top students, altogether 11 of them. I'm just so proud of our class! 4 top students! =) Oh, and the press was there too.
1425h. Microphone is handed over now to Mrs Ou-Yang. She tells us how the whole school has performed. But actually, there was no need to. We didn't exactly listen to her talk. We just looked at the screen. It was self-explainary. There was no need for much eleboration (not to mention that she speaks softly too). The slide where it showed how each class had performed was the most impactful. Everyone just went crazy, screaming and clapping. I cried. The results was just damm good. Average L1R5--10.8. It was just great, considering that our batch was not very clever. My class L1R5 was 8.0, which i feel is extremely good. Of course, just as impactful were the slides which showed the distribution of how many students had gotten L1R5 of 6, 7,8 etc. Only 4 students scored L1R5 of more than 20 pts. And even then, the worst student got a score of 24, which isn't very bad. Everyone went crazy over one of the slide which showed a pie chart of how many people had qualified for jcs. 52% got between 6-10 pts. That is just so wonderful !!!!!!! And then came the slides of how each subject fared, which had all of us straining our eyes to look at it, as the font was just too small.
1430h. Everyone is about to their results. But before that, we must allow for an important person, the person who together with the teachers have allow us to perform so well for the O's, to speak. Ms Leong! Of course she has to be back to see how we have fared. How can she not? She has put in so much effort and contributed so much to Cedar, especially to our batch. And there was a standing ovation for her. 1435h. Everyone knew of their results. I was so scared when I was holding the result slip. Didn't want to count the points on that piece of paper for fear of counting wrongly my points. So I just tore open my envelope which indicated my L1R5. It took forever to open. I had to tear open so many sides!! But at last, it was opened. And I looked at my results. L1R5 = 08.Hmm, I'm actually quite contended with my results. And really thankful, especially with my sciences. Not A1s, but at least not Cs either. And then after that, my fingers got busy with replying all the smses. And at the same time, multi-tasking too. Asking all my friends how they have fared. So many of them with 8 pts and below...I'm so proud of them!! Hee. We went to thank the teachers after that. Celebration!! yt, lw, shir, ser, ari and i went to town together. We had dinner at yoshi and then went to walk around. And took neoprints!!
Past. Present. Future
2/11/2006 01:51:00 PM <3
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