Hope to see you again, ksi!
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Picolo:
Dear Picolo, where is original tread you quoted from? really thank you for sharing.
:hugs: Dear dr ksi, your absence is felt. Take care and maybe, come 2013, you may want to join in all the yakkings again. You have a 2014 PSLE kid and surely you'll have lots more to share?!!! Don't make the journey alone...qms:
A Message from our dear ksi.....
We'll wait for you!
Here I hope you don't mind that I take the liberty to share a very inspirational post (dd 27/12/11) from you. :oops: it reminds me of my own hectic sec CCA days and how we used to cope, then how ironically that when I stopped CCA in JC, how \"things fall apart\". I actually printed this post of yours to remind myself of the precious lesson learnt, to encourage my DSs to strive for the best both in CCAs and studies...ksi:
:thankyou:Then I have been abused and by the same school incidentally. But I was \"happily abused\". I missed 3-4 MONTHS of lessons DAILY (with all my teachers scolding and cursing me for doing so) and trained full days on weekends but I still emerged amongst the top in my class and scored the highest in one of the subjects, so I meant it when I said I was \"happily abused\" and \"abused\" was still correct because no help was rendered by the school but I believe that became the biggest help in my life as I learned the lesson of efficient studies due to this. Perhaps because I knew I had lesser than most people in terms of guidance in schoolwork and time, I put in doubly hard effort unknowingly and I was actually more efficient. It brought my studies to another level I never knew. The more I trained physically, the better I became in my studies, my brain was running so efficiently, it was unbelievable...everything I studied on my own was like Archimedes shouting \"Eureka!\" each time I solved it. In fact after training, I had to return home to spend at least an hour to prepare the items for next day's training and yet I could complete all homework assigned daily without fail(without attending the lesson and figured out how to do on my own using textbooks only; sec textbooks are pretty decent I must say) and never slept a night late or got up with dark rings over my eyes. No teacher ever knocked at my parents' door to complain about unhanded or undone assignments. I never did badly in any tests during that period, maintaining a pristine record academically. In fact my parents were oblivious to me skipping classes in school and often wondered why I spent so many hours in school on weekends and lugged so much stuff to school daily. Since my parents knew nothing, I decided everything.
It was a crucial streaming year too because we were either streamed to science or arts and I was streamed to the oversubscribed pure science class which there were only 2 out of 10 classes.
I am sharing this not to trumpet that I was good, certainly I had no clue at all but there was one thing that kept me going...we wanted to win the gold trophy to glorify our school and we DID! I am sharing this experience as an alternative view that sometimes we may not know what magic such schedule can do for us. When pushed to our limits, the unknown side of us surfaced. I actually got to know myself better in that year and I never fell sick throughout the ordeal. The lesson I derived from this experience was priceless and left indelible memories of my best days in school. Everyday I share with my child, don't underestimate the steel under herself.
But of course I must qualify....those might be deemed as the days that \"mata wear shorts\" days when I was receiving my sec education....so please read this with a pinch of salt as an alternative view.
Ironically, the thing that caused my studies to show any warning signs of falter was never the hectic schedule during my school-life between CCA and studies but it was the complexities of BGR during my 'A' levels. :rotflmao: So now as a parent, I am eye-balling this more than time spent on CCA. -
ruohoo97:
Hi ruohoo97, it was from:
Dear Picolo, where is original tread you quoted from? really thank you for sharing.
Board index » Schooling » PSLE & Secondary Schools Selection
» Some students fail to thrive on Integrated Programme scheme (Page 6)
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=29855&start=50
Note that the nick now appears as Guest as ksi has self-deleted her account. -
Ksi… I miss you… no emoticon that’s suitable…
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mamago:
Ksi.... I miss you.... *no emoticon that's suitable*....
What about this?![](\"http://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr36/chrissi54/ed3c83fcbccdf264e4503fb65c5d34f7.gif\")
http://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr36/chrissi54/ed3c83fcbccdf264e4503fb65c5d34f7.gif\">
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Picolo:
Thank you so much. I enjoy reading it over again!!
Hi ruohoo97, it was from:ruohoo97:
Dear Picolo, where is original tread you quoted from? really thank you for sharing.
Board index » Schooling » PSLE & Secondary Schools Selection
» Some students fail to thrive on Integrated Programme scheme (Page 6)
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=29855&start=50
Note that the nick now appears as Guest as ksi has self-deleted her account. -
ruohoo97:
[/quote]Thank you so much. I enjoy reading it over again!![/quote
Hi ruohoo97, it was from:Picolo:
[quote=\"ruohoo97\"]
Dear Picolo, where is original tread you quoted from? really thank you for sharing.
Board index » Schooling » PSLE & Secondary Schools Selection
» Some students fail to thrive on Integrated Programme scheme (Page 6)
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=29855&start=50
Note that the nick now appears as Guest as ksi has self-deleted her account.
Me too.. I wish that I hv read dr ksi 's blog before it has been deleted away ! -
mamago:
Ksi.... I miss you.... *no emoticon that's suitable*....
how about this??
![](\"http://i50.tinypic.com/34t4jm8.gif\")
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qms:
This is so drama.. but I like!mamago:
Ksi.... I miss you.... *no emoticon that's suitable*....
What about this? -
Oh My...
Was so busy with work.. boss is not in today.. now then can sit down at my place to lim kopi-o.. and wanted to read up and to llls... but read this shocking headline instead..
ksi.. if you are still reading..
Do take care ya... and I will make sure I post up my avatar tonight... for you ...
You will be dearly missed.. by all here.... I am sure.. so do take care of yourself.. and when you are ready.. just come back ...
:hugs:
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(Qms and VKSmummy, thanks.... I like both of them :thankyou: ....)
Ksi, I miss you.....![](\"http://i45.tinypic.com/24ewgag.gif\")
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