Month and months of non existence in the blogosphere.
Shall not blame the burden of THE exams.


The exams went pretty well i must say. That is if they can comprehend my "doctor's script". I think that whatever the results, the past years of education took a delightful turn. As a disgraceful student lingering in the hells of EM2 in sajs, one might expect me to have burned for my innocent crimes. The horror was my childish foray into selecting schools being a flop, resulting in turning up at the sixth choice school of mine:newtown. Such is the education system. There is no mercy. Just brute punishment, to whom? For what? To an ignorant p6 school kid. For his ignorance. Of course!


The rest as they say is history. But the ridiculous fact is this: Probability that i would have been a better student had i gone to sas instead of newtown is not that high. That i guess is typical of this system we are in. As for character development, did the co-ed, neighbourhood environment provide the optimum growing up? That will never be known. The bigger irony is this. I would not send my child, if i have one, to newtown, ceteris paribus. That despite me having benifited from a mistake that landed me in newtown. And that despite me feeling blessed to have landed in newtown rather than sas.


To further erode my faith in our education system came the jc system, which was really a disorganised, inefficient, centrally planned, non responsive system. Syllabus and even project work is streamlined to fit the so called drive towards a knowledge based economy. The obvious flaw will be evident when i take a course in 3 mths time, the course will have absolutely nothing to do with most of the subjects i took. So i should have went to a polytechnic instead no? Unfortunately no. The elitist, paper chasing mentality in singapore corners us against such a thought. Conclusion: JC education, other than being a permit to a desired course in university, is like a swim, in a stagnant pool, murky, and really we seldom know what we are looking for.


So what is my point? And why the sudden deviation from a normally rheotoric, and non formal blog? The basic point is, despite all my rantings, and my previous proclamation (only just now!!!) that i would send my kid to sas instead of newtown ceteris paribus, i now revert my decision. It is like a sudden realisation that in the past 12 years, a supposed black hole became the sun of my system.



Because of the ties won in that space of time, the farce of the last 12 years seems all worthwhile after all. And that is the failure of the system. Or is it a sucess? Who cares? For me, thank goodness for the incompetence of the moe. Or competence for that matter.


Thank goodness for newtown.
And all the people blessed upon another wandering ghost, in a souless system.