Hi parents,

May I know why Rosyth is so popular? Is it because of the PSLE results? I drove around there recently, and it’s basically near the industrial area, which in my opinion quite a letdown as I do not like the overall vibe of the area. Living around 2km away, so am considering it for my kid. Any quick thoughts?

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Let me a bit off topic here. In real life, things may not be working out so perfectly as in the movie.

Last night, I bumped into a friend at Jurong East MRT. He was a \"gifted\" kid and has graduated as the Master of Mathematics from NUS. He is so intelligent that he always wins during our boardgames events as he can calculate all possibilities of winning the games by every move.

But the problem is - he doesn't know how to get along with people and he usually stands firm on his own beliefs and never care how other feel. Finally he has argued with people in different boardgames groups until no one want to play with him. I had tried my best to bring him out to meet my friends for eating and boardgames events before the pandemic but I gave him up at last because he made everyone angry with him.

He told me he is now working as a private Mathematics tutor for secondary school students and he cannot earn much from it. I asked him why not he get a full time job and he said he cannot work with people.

There is no professor and no psychiatric counselor to help him as in the movie.[/quote]

Like with everything in life, nothing is 100%. The same can be said for the uneducated like there are stories of uneducated people who could not speak any English becoming millionaires and successful in life, though in a smaller percentage like 0.1%. With GEP, or the educated, it does not guarantee 100% success, but it will definitely increase the chances of success, like in the example above, might be a minority like 0.1%, which is why u have things like Pareto distribution and Bell Curve, in every category of society, no matter how you split them up. Also true that some intellectually gifted are anti-social, geeks used to be a derogatory term due to that. Also being liked is not a trait for success in life either, most billionaires got to where they are by being themselves, not caring about how or what society thinks of them, sometimes being too concerned about what others think of you is detrimental to your success also.

In summary, if life gives you chocolate (like GEP), I reckon it's good to take it, make full use of what is available, if not, it is not the end, you carve your own success regardless, famous QUOTE from Lee Kuan Yew:
\"Life is what you make of it. You are dealt a pack of cards, your DNA is fixed by your mother and your father... Your job is to make the best of the cards that had been handed out to you – what can you do well; what you cannot do well and what you are worst at. \" Singapore won't be here today if Lee Kuan Yew cared about what others were criticising him for, like being a dictator etc...

Nobody can control the future, but we should not be boxed into what is deemed a success, making a lot of money or not is just one measure, antisocial is not a guarantee for failure as well. Growth for my kid is of utmost importance, no matter how much success, to continue growing is living, to stop growing is dying and failure. My two cents.

both me and my wife received success emails, 6 minutes apart, so I am guessing the emails are sent in batches or queue

Email is here!! Woot!

That will be disappointing if parents are kept waiting for a "rejection" email.

Fingers crossed… sounds hard according to my kid, at least she tried her best, that is the most important.