Secondary School Life : Revisited.

Firstly, i came from a humble neighbourhood school : Unity Secondary.

Secondly, i didn't score well enough in my PSLE to enter the school.

I spent my first two weeks of school in Regent Secondary, one hell of a place you won't wanna be in if you wanna get serious about studies. Then the office called me in one day and i was greeted by my mother saying "Unity has a vacancy". (the reason i managed to get the transfer was because i was a basketball player)

so on such short notice, but with much enthusiasm, i attended unity secondary the very next day. it was hard getting used, considering the fact that everyone has been there for 2 weeks while i'm just somebody who came out of nowhere.

but kenric pulled thru secondary one, despite the fact that he is LAST position of the whole cohort at the start of the year, but came up somewhere 70th/201 people. well i really wonder : what were the other 130 people behind me thinking? hello Number 201 became your 70 in one year? not just that, 4th placing in class, 2 good improvement awards, 1 eagles award. hows that for a PSLE 212 (my score) compared to the worst of 219?

yea this went on for secondary two, but something happened at the very end of secondary two, well kenric missed his last two papers : maths and science cos he got into trouble with the law. got locked up, charged, and slammed with a sentence to serve. so when sec3 started, things didn't go so well, and basketball: he gave up on it. then his grades slipped, slipped and slipped. and at the end of sec3 i could say my rankings fell to 120/190 or so?

BUT WHO CARES? HELLO? cos mister who slept thru secondary school life eventually got BETTER results than you muggers. so EAT this.

so at mid years secondary4, guess what? i was still at 109/188. attendance 177/190. class position 29/41. BUT did all these matter? all i had to do was to do what wasn't expected of me at the papers which meant everything. that the O's. fuck CA1, fuck class tests, fuck homework, fuck prelims, fuck CA2, fuck mid-years. lastly, fuck the people who thought you wouldn't pull through. some examples were : big brother Kevin ( dude i did better than you so EAT this), mmm and several other people which i don't think is appropriate to mention.

Special thanks to teachers like :

Mr Ak Teoh (basketball) : for givin lots of encouragement

Miss Patricia Koh (history) : for being a good teacher who made history so interesting.

Mrs Quah (chemistry) : for pushing everyone to do well

Mr Chew (discipline) : for guiding me along the way

Mrs Lum / Tay (sec1&2 teacher) : for believing in me

Chen Lao Shi : ( she got me from chinese failure to A2 at prelims) + making chinese fun ( tho i still hate it)

Ms Lee FS (ss/geography) : for making ss/geog so fun and your constant encouragement

Mr Ng (english) : for being a smart aleck always thought your english was all that good. and i got the A with my own effort, nothing came from you.

so here are some statistics.

History : i ever scored 28/100, But at o's A.

English : always been my baby.

Geography : hated it and sucked at it, But at o's A.

Maths and Science : had sucked all along with numbers.

Chinese : all time most hated subject.

sum all these up you still got yourself an 11 pointer.

and regarding my cca basketball, it was a sport i picked up at a very young age, 6 to be exact.

gold medals and trophies never stopped coming in till 14 when i quit the game. learned lots of things on this sport, teamwork, discipline, perseverance, etc. oh yes, did i tell you i own at long distance races?

well it was also at this place where i got to know friends whom i know will be there for me when i need em. it was also the founding place of PPHC. what more can i ask for?

one advice. kenric : " Always have faith in yourselves, believe, take risks, never let others push you around. aim to make your parents proud. constantly ask yourselves ' who do i wanna be 20 years down the road' and keep working towards making sure you don't turn out into something else. and even if you eventually fail, well at least you're somewhere close."

KENRIC! 11:43 p.m. 30th July 2008

* 20, Choa Chu Kang St. 62. 2004-2007.