Thursday, June 14, 2007 7:57 PM
14th june 2007
Day sixty two.
this thursday of the week was one day i wasnt looking forward to. one was because of the late hours of school ( i was only released from college at 5.15pm) and the other was i had an official curriculum exam GAT where all year 12 english or ESL (english as second language) students across the country had to sit for. i hope you do know that im taking the english classes not the ESL ones. my english isnt that bad. my chinese is bad enough with myself getting an average pass every now and then in tests. it would be a great embarrassment if my english was bad enough.
so far ive had compliments from my english teacher and even a bus driver on my outstanding clean clear english. (let me warn you, the english standard here is way tougher as compared to your general papers back home-so dont complain) so far, ive did on feature articles, short stories, plays, novels, drama film and soon expository text.
the surprising thing is that they were even more amazed when i told them i was from singapore. i guess they have had the mentality that most singaporeans spoke broken english in short sentences or as you call it 'singlish'. i guess i used to use such a singaporean lingo back home- but for now, i guess ive lost that singlish side of speech. but i promise you, i'll try not to come back with a slang, well i hope not.
the GAT wasnt easy at all. it was a three hour paper with two writing sections of 30 mins each and 70 MCQs in just 2 hours. the weird system here is the fact that after you have finished your paper, you can leave even before the allocated time is up. after an hour of up, you have a distraction of people leaving of their desk to pass up their paper. a room filled with people right from the start of the exam, only had like 6 of us left till the end. i guess im too conformed to the old system of waiting till all papers are collected before i leave.
in the later part of the day, i had economic macro assignment ( which i have tried very hard to memo the stuff just a few days before but to no avail) i hope everything turns out fine.
i have never been so exhausted throughout the entire week. i dont know why either. i didnt go online like the whole week except monday, i have been sleeping early. gosh. i hope im not falling victim to the cold thats been passing about from friends.
