Pon-Star!

Time for some persuasive skills. I've convinced my mom that I can't go for tuition because I need to meet up with my friends to discuss CAP. Got some screenshots that carefully shows only part of the conversation. She bought it.

Now, to convince Kelly to come along.

Despite being one of the most mischievous of us all, she refuses to pon lessons. Gotta lay on the peer pressure!

Anyway, I found who from my old classmates are coming over to my school. Not too bad, this year's cohort. Now, to get them into debate, so I can find out what happened over the last year. I heard that my MT teacher had yet another outburst. That's gotta be interesting.

What else...

Umm... last time we saw our FT, she was pregnant, and "nearly done", so it'll be nice to see her after she returns from maternity.

Aforementioned MT teacher promised us that he'll treat us to Swensens/Pizza Hut should he not get a 6-pack by end of last year, now pushed to end of this year. We've decided what we're gonna be getting, where to meet up, etc already.

Our PE teacher should be finishing up his Masters in Psychology by Jan, so visiting him during CNY should let us meet him.

The DM was very lax last year, barely any hair-checks/canings etc. Interesting to see if he has changed, or remained the fun-loving guy he is.

Wondering whether anybody found those notes we made. Had a book of notes for the textbooks, hidden in the library. Some of my schoolmates (read: the smartest few in subjects) made on A3-sized notes. One of my friends borrowed a book, ripped out the middle section, replaced the contents with the notes and returned the book. It's pretty well-known among my cohort (tons of people would borrow the book before SA2, copy the middle sections and return the book). Dunno if anybody found them or if anybody made a P4, P5 version.



Anyway, one of my ex-classmate, when I just transferred in (he transferred out to NYPS in P5) mentioned that you could you judge a book by its cover. First impressions, he claimed.

If you know me/Kelly/Cherie well enough, you'll find your first impressions very wrong indeed.

I'm foul-mouthed, sarcastic, cynical, stubborn. Even earlier this month, people who knew me got a shock. I look more like somebody who would be an average student that'll be silent, and score average marks.

Kelly cracks perverted jokes, is rather foul-mouthed and a great fan of self-depreciating jokes. Not at all like the silent, studious person she looks like.

Cherie looks as though she's an athlete, and one that's pretty bad in her studies. In real life, she's a smart businesswoman. When there's homework that nobody has finished, she happily auctions her homework during recess for people to copy from. Most people are willing to fork out the money because her answers are usually like the answer key.

But then again, he hasn't really met us, so too bad for him.

There are other things he writes that I agree though. He has an absolute dislike of PSLE (yes, he scored 271 last year, no mean feat considering how everybody else scored). He quoted:

"Standardized tests can't measure initiative, creativity, imagination, conceptual thinking, curiosity, effort, irony, judgment, commitment, nuance, good will, ethical reflection, or a host of other valuable dispositions and attributes. What they can measure and count are isolated skills, specific facts and function, content knowledge, the least interesting and least significant aspects of learning."

from an unknown source. Who cares about copyright anyway? Anyway, I agree with him. In real life, you can't remember everything. You can't remember all the ways you can be killed in your home, and the 101 ways each to protect against them. If you did, you're either a hypochondriac and/or a maniac.

Anyway, I just realized the problem with knowing so many of the popular ones on the forums. I was looking for a epic by one of my friend. Involves a planet-killer who whenever he meets a planet, ends up dooming it.

I search for posts mad by friends, and end up eliminating about 1% of the threads in what we nickname the /b/aby fourms for obvious reasons.

Oh well, back to PMing him for the tinyurl link...

Mabel, the Pon-star

Update/Mood: I'm pleased with myself for wriggling myself a way to get out of tuition. Once we lay on enough pressure, Kelly will come along, and we'll go for WWW!

Next year, March, I've suggested a chalet at ECP. Sunday-Monday. Hopefully not too many people will have a clash.