I just voted 'Happy. Better than expected.' just like last year. However, this year's happiness is greater than last year's because ds1 did even better than last year and will be getting 2 prizes. ds2 also managed to meet his own stretched targets. All these despite a 3-day staycation in the midst of exams between the paper 1 and paper 2, and ds1 became even more independent, and ds2 showed more resilient. :salute: to them!

- The car at the other side clashed into the divider

- The impact sent some hard objects (eg. rocks, pebbles whatever) flying in the direction of the forward moving car and smashed its windscreen into smithereens
- Its driver could not see where he was going or could even be hurt by the flying hard objects
- Lost control of the car

:scratchhead:

mamago:

Not sure about that.... but his scholarship should be revoked!


*sigh* 怎么会养出这种人來？我们的政府求才若渴，从中小学就开始招攬人才，栽培他们，期望他们落地生根，他日能为我们的国家作出貢献。。。

Same sentiments! Any shake-head emoticon? Something is very wrong with our scholar selection process.

jtoh:

You won't be denying another child of a place because there is no reserve list for GEP. But I would also caution you against 'trying GEP out'. Main reason being that some kids (and parents) can be mean. And if a child transfers out of GEP back into mainstream, some people will talk. If your child is selected for GEP and has not had any GEP prep classes and has been doing well in his old primary school, go in to GEP with confidence and enjoy the journey there. It's not easy but it is rewarding.

Based on the limited cases I know of, it is interestingly the truly gifted and therefore confident ones (in my observation & opinion) that transfer back to mainsteam for other reasons. Those who are not coping well try their best to 'hang on' since it's such a privilege to them to be able to join GEP...

ruohoo97:

Dear Picolo, where is original tread you quoted from? really thank you for sharing.

Hi ruohoo97, it was from:

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.

qms:

A Message from our dear ksi.....

: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...

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:

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.

:thankyou:

mummy so kiasu:

Chenonceau:

[quote=\"panickymum\"]My dd can't wait to throw all her files and notes !

Faith in God notwithstanding... BURN you horrible notes! BURN!

Ha..ha.. I know how all the mummies & their kids feel. But please wait. Can we do our part to save the earth? RECYCYLE![/quote]That's right! A man's trash is another man's treasure. I esp. love those high quality notes/compo/zuowen and detailed markings by those great teachers/tutors. Pass your 'trash' to me!

buds:

mamago:

VKS.... I can see that you are laughing now...


(and, mumbling rubbish rubbish rubbish...)

Aiyohh... he didn't say rubbish oni.

I shy to say..

I show ok?


http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php

Good one, buds. Sure to :rotflmao:

buds:

mamago:

VKS.... I can see that you are laughing now...


(and, mumbling rubbish rubbish rubbish...)

Aiyohh... he didn't say rubbish oni.

I shy to say..

I show ok?


http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php

Good one, buds. Sure to :rotflmao:

fightingmom:

Picolo:

[quote=\"fightingmom\"]Ok ok... Ahjussi.. I promise I will not ask you to share your :love: story again. Don't want adopt avatar also nebbermind... :please: :please:

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: so funnie...

Picolo, cannot laugh ! :spank:

Imagine Woffi clinic now dont have any legal advisor :nailbite: [/quote]Ouchi ouchi! U so vicious! U dunno what is Recruitment n Executive Search?