so i was packing my stuffs in my drawer.. and out came my secondary school report book and my O level results slip.

i still remember that day. all of us met up to head to school to collect our results slip......

as we were from the last class of the express stream, most of us didnt had high hopes of getting good results. a few of us had the potential though; these few ppl eventually made it to JC and then to university =)

my prelims were bad... pretty bad. i think i scored L1R4 of 19 or 20.. i thought to myself, well, a score of 15 should suffice for me.. i'll probably get into a decent polytechnic course.

i have no wish to go into a JC, even IF my result is good enough. firstly, i loathed the idea of donning a uniform to school again. and the idea of studying every single subject, be it related to what i wanna do in the future or not, just for that A level cert.

secondly, coming from a 1 math and 1 sciences class (i didnt take A-math nor pure physics/chemistry; i took combined sciences. and eventually struggled in my 1st year of poly lolol), i figured out that i would struggle ALOT in a JC.

so anyway, i met up with my secondary school buddies to go back to jurongville for what it might seem to be the last time (i think i went back 1 last time for good after this though).

went to the hall. now, i cant really rmb what happened after this, but the principal probably spoke to us... then congratulate us... blah blah.

then i think he went on to announce the top student in our school.

frankly i think in my whole class no one really bothered. all of us were just anxious to get our results slip. you see, being someone from the last class of the express stream, you don't really get good treatment from the teachers. dont get me wrong, i dont mean that the teachers are really mean and nasty, its just that their attitude towards us are always negative. somewhat like "given up hope on us". plus we always get live "fighting" action in class, there's no wonder that the teachers shun our class like the black plague.

we do not aim to be the top in school, top in class. yes we might have been looked down upon, but i remember during the last few months of school, everyone suddenly woke up. everyone suddenly understood the importance of the O level examination.

and everyone started to study. whether its group study, self-study, study with girlfriend/boyfriend.

on a side note, i remembered we were playing soccer in the street soccer court just weeks before the examination. our discipline master (and now, our vice-principal), came over and took our ball away. he smiled at us and said, "Please guys, i beg you. Go and study with whatever time you guys have! You guys can play all you want after the exams!"

hahhahaahahaha. how funny, the DM is actually pleading with us lololol.


and so the day came. whether we will get into our ideal course. of course, most of us were just aiming for B4s and B3s.

i still remembered my form teacher calling out my name. Mdm Nor Azzah- the lady who called out SEO YUE SIANG. i walked over.

she smiled at me. i think she said, Well done.

hmm. what does it mean?


i looked at my slip.

couple of As and mostly Bs.... wait. no Cs?!

wow. this is quite amazing.

all my life, i've never scored more than a C5 for my mathematics. same goes for my combined humanities.

my friend Lijing (or was it Jiamin?!) came over and helped me to calculate my R4.

"WA ERIC!! your R4!! 12 leh!! not bad not bad!! congrats!!"

i couldnt believe my ears of course. 15 was already a boon for me, but 12?!

me and soe hlaing, my sec sch buddy, were some of the students that improved the most. he scored 11 if im not wrong.


and so those were the days.