Reality

Is only the Friday the night before
No dinner
MRT jam-packed with hustlers and bustlers from after-office hours
Slept little
Sweat a lot
Best thing that happened?
Took the wrong shuttle bus and ended up the most Western part of SG
Was supposed to be at CCK instead of Boon Lay

What the fuck seriously?

Came home
Saw plenty of emails
And then came hell lots of problems
Spend time clearing shit
Without even clearing my bag from camp
Never bath
Never eat
Do until freaking pissed then go cool down with a bath
Cant get kakis for late night meal while clearing shit
Agony

Whats the world coming to?

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Seriously
As time goes on and one grows older
One cant help but wonder about his future

Being talking to all the Army guys since NS Day 1
Shared plenty of work experience
Exchanged tales of what one did in their youth days
That was way before we wore green
It was easy to strike a conversation
SG only had 5 polys what

However
A lot of ppl now have their tails clipped between their legs
Meaning they are regretting what they have done

Talking about what they want to do after ORD
Studies?
Work?
What else can you do?
Go holiday then come home shake leg wait for parents feed?

20+ years old still cant even think about your dear old parents
Shame on anyone who still need parents nowadays
Calling home and asking Pops and Mom to clear your shit

Coming back to the future part
A lot of the guys relate back to their studying days
Whereby they bragged about not going to school
Pon here pon there
Tutorials or what no need go
Ask ppl tap card stay at home sleep etc

At the end day
99.99% are regretting it
(a bit exaggerating but.....)
Saying they should have done well in Year 1
Then wouldnt have lousy grades
Cant get into local university or what
Appeal tio reject
Wait for miracles etc
Furthermore a lot of them are capable ppl in the 1st place

Life certainly teaches one how to fall isnt it?

I'm not saying that I did very well or haolian
But I'm definitely not the 1st one to say out my results
Like I mention
It's always a sharing session among us
And there are plenty of very zai ppl out there
But its just that the ppl regretting their own initial moment of madness
Are now just way overtipping the scale in their favour

" Are grades all that matter? "
There is the ultimate qns that no one can avoid

Izzit the cert?
The GPA? (for both poly and uni alike)

If the GPA is not there
Then no such thing of worrying about "the future" then

Yes, we have come to grow up in a society
That we cant run away from the ever-mounting pressure of doing well

Generation Y, We are
Where neighbourhood primary schools are a thing of the past
Where ppl queue up, volunteer, check on HDB radius to school
Appeal and wait for the magical lottery number to be called
For their kids to be enrolled

What's this?

Xinmin has always been a "neighbourhood school" too
The reason I chose XMS was becuz it was 10mins walking distance
And I think XMS provided me with plenty of friends that I'm gonna keep for life
For such a wonderful environment to spend my teenage years

Sidenote though
I always though Xinmin grads can do well in the future
But sadly reality has proven me wrong
However I'm still glad that XMS grads (majority) are doing good

And yes back to the studies and results and future issue
And yes Gen Y, We Are
Gen Y, 1980s-1990s ppl
Ppl who do things with reasoning
Ppl who like to enjoy life
Who taste sweetness before bitter
Like to challenge the impossible
Or authority in many other cases

Have we come to this stage
Whereby we are succumbing to the pressure cooker environment?
Ppl my age should be thinking about this some way or another I guess?

The pressure cooker environment
Whereby everyone of us is expected to do well
Whereby articles showcase parents guilty of 'overparenting'
Where kids go for countless enrichment
To learn to swim, play piano, play table tennis, study, write calligraphy etc
Isnt all tat supposed to be interest?
Sadly sports is another thing whereby when one has to excel
One need to have the ultimate ideal condition
“ 天 - 时 - 地 - 理”
Not only for sports, but for a lot of other things too

That day my aunt said to me

"I dont need my daughter to be like you
She doesnt have to be so clever and so hardworking
I want her to have good character...."

And of cuz tons of other things too
HTHT

I admit sometimes I'm guilty of wanting to do well
Whereby I place overemphasis on doing well
On working hard and harder and hardest to achieve "it"
I also admit to having bad temper
But come on
If the last thing you wanna insult me is my determination to work hard
Plz dont do that
I'm not clever I always say till this date
I just work hard
But another thing I make up for my lack of IQ
Is my EQ in dealing with ppl

And I think me as a friend
I rate myself "highly"
赴汤蹈火
上刀山
下油锅
Everything I can help I will go all out
Of cuz there's biasness in on my side for any ppl I help
Character-wise I think I should be graded "not bad"
For my human being report book that is

But aiya sidetrack too much

Yes the grades
Izzit all that matters?
What's your stand?
And WHERE DO YOU STAND?

On Facebook I saw Dorcas at Old Trafford
How I wish I was there too
How I wish I can go overseas for studies
How I wish I have a fully-spon scholarship or something
Expenses fully-paid-for

And yes I thought about it
Spoke to my Bro about it
But there's just too many things that....
Aiya, at the end day
I dont think that is possible too
But I still harbour the slightest thought of going to M.I.T
(the only overseas uni that is the most related to my subject matter)

Ok talk too much
This post seemed endless
Shall go do other stuff rather...