Rants

Am I the only blogger in this class??? Ha, no. Please blog more often!!!

Tomorrow, O Levels is out. I know some lucky people will know their results way before tomorrow at 2.30pm. I am not one of them:( Never mind.

I will be staying in PJC no matter what but I wonder what about the rest of us? Will you stay or go to poly?

A few piece of advice I want to share:

1) If you want to go to University (and not work so soon/pursuing an interest that is professional and requiring a University degree), you must definitely come to junior college. 98% of our seniors are able to enter universities, local or overseas. Compare this to polytechnics, where 95% of the students work after graduation.

2) For those living in Bukit Panjang/Bukit Batok/Choa Chu Kang it is to our geographical advantage to go to PJC. It's the only JC serving us. You wouldn't want to wake up at 4a.m. to come to college, will you?

For those living elsewhere, don't fret. If you love our JC so much that you must enter PJC, then I'll welcome you with wide open arms --- welcome aboard!

3) If you have 7 points and below, you can enter the top 5 JCs easily, so it's okay to jump ship. HCI and NJC are a 45-minute ride of 67 away from CCK Interchange. RJC is an half-an-hour MRT journey from Woodlands MRT Station. So time and cost concerns may not be so desperate if you want to pursue the fame of being associated with the top JCs - they are easily accesible.

Writing this, I feel hurt --- I have 19 points in prelims and I expect to get 20 points or so in 'O's (if my papers are that easy but I still couldn't do it). Seeing all my friends go to ACJC or JJC or NJC, leaving only less than 20 friends here. I cannot enter those top JCs ---

(In the end I obtained 11 points. It's a miracle. But I was so attached to PJC that I think I cannot bear to leave PJC)

But my father used an example of a top JC's student as an example. After grduating from an Autonomous School, she enrolled in NJC. However, she couldn't handle the stress in the college --- in the end, she only had AABC for A Levels.

It's okay to pursue fame --- but if you are not the type of person who can handle stress, you are welcome to be here at PJC! From what I know, you can pace yourself at any rate here. You can choose to work very, very hard. You can also choose to work very, very slack. Good luck.

I think I will do my best in PJC. I will not care how I will fare, I only work to my very best. I don't care --- even if that means I work that hard but is still retained. Well, my father said that it's okay to be retained --- as long I know I have done to the best of my abilities.

I only shared my personal feeling here.

4) Subject Combination wise, I suggest that you act according to your dreams and goal. If you ain't have one, let me tell you --- NUS is now pushing for more students in Physics, Mathematics and Statistics. Even the China students can easily come here to compete with us, there are still not enough students in these areas. And NTU is pushing for its Arts courses.

So I think if you are still undecided, the best thing is to study Maths, Chemistry and Physics as H2, Economics as H1. This is the subject combination that is the best to handle --- with the best job/university place prospectives.

For me, however, I will still stick with Bio, Chem, Maths as H2 and Geog as H1. I think though these are my weakest subjects, I wanted badly to be a pharmacist. If you want to enter a NUS Pharmacy course, you need H2 Bio and H2 Chem. So die die I must take all of my weakest subjects and stick with it. I don't mind being retained --- Winston Churchill, a retainee himself who later became Britain's PM, spoke "Never, never give up!"

5) My comments are biased but they're from the bottom of my heart. You can oppose to them, why not? Just write/comment/tag. :D