Okay. Yesterday I woke up at 10:00 just to leave the house at 11:30.
Well, I wanted to go see my sis get her PSLE grades, so I quietly went along like a nice child.
Er...maybe not so nice. Or quiet. My mother and I exchanged and hurled insults and stubborn refusals at one another because I didn't want to wear that 3/4 pants.
I mean, who wears something like that to her old old school to see her sister get her results?
My mother sort of gave in and told me to wear it in the car cuz' we were running late.
Due to my totally immovable nature (when it comes to fashion, cuz' I will most definitely NOT sacrifice comfort for looks), I did not change.
Anyway, who'd be so stupid to change in the car with a brother, a sister, and a mother? You'd have to be either a stripper or a suicidal emo kid to do that.
So we trooped up to the hall with me still in my black pants which I utterly refused to change out of. We got there pretty early and could get seats.
Blame my absolutely short attention span and the lack of a table. I couldn't draw and I was growing VERY bored, so I left the hall to walk around the 2nd floor of the school I was in a long long long long time ago.
Heck. No teacher recognized me, and I could only recognize 1 teacher: Mister Mohan.
Hm, so I came back pretty early still, and left when the said the results would not be revealed till 12:00 (bless God for such good timing to come back then).
At 11:52, I finished walking the length of the level 2 corridor, so I went back and settled down by 11:53.
It took a whole long time to get through the boring slides on selecting the schools. The top was Rachel Tay Boon (something) who got 275.
Then 2 other someones got above 270, and the next person got 267, and then 263, 263 and there is another person whose scores I forgot.
The Rachel Tay is from my sis' class, and one of the 263s, someone called Russel (who looks and acts pretty feminine [on top of that, he's short]), was from the same class too.
Rosyth had more to brag about last year. Our high scores range from 282 to 270 (and there was more than 10). The batch from Hougang same age as my sis had high scores ranging from 275 to 260 (and there was only 7)...
Boring as it can get, there was something to keep my mind off it. I kept wondering how much my sis got. I'm pretty satisfied that she didn't get higher than me because she wasn't on the slide list of 260s and up.
I got 266.
After a long while trying to get through the crowd of people, we reached my sis and her class. She hadn't yet gotten her results. So we waited.
She got called up by her teacher, who (as my sis later told us) said, 'Sharlene, very good. 256.'
Frankly, that's just okay for me...
But my sis was over ecstatic, claiming that she could get a new handphone, a bag, and a wallet.
What I'd like to say is: dream on. She wasn't supposed to have a handphone, but my father gave her the one that came with the starhub TV decoding device (or something).
There's NO way that he'd get her a new wallet (I never even heard tell of it...). What he agreed on was a new handphone, but since she got a handphone when she wasn't supposed to have one, she ended up with a (much cheaper) bag instead.
Something from Ink Edition (or the likes). We went to the coffee shop near LSC (ah...you probably won't know about this. I only got a blog after I transferred to JC) and ate wanton mee (except for me, who ate wanton horfun).
Before the food came, I went to the playgroud just about 10 meters away and tried the monkey bars. Amazingly, I could complete it! =D
After I tried almost every part of the playground, I went to the area underneath it where there are simple musical scores on 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star', 'Row Row Row Your Boat', 'London Bridge is Falling Down' and 'Are You Sleeping'.
I sang all of them. Pretty fun. The bell-sounding-pressing-keys were all 'hanged' (in layman's computer term) so they didn't work.
When my sis called me to tell my food had arrived, I left, and had to sit through a long torturous narcissistic bragging by my sis about how she got about 255 (her target) and how much she improved from the prelims (from 251 to 256).
I've got a feeling it just didn't go into her head that the person opposite her (that would be the totally and absolutely humble me [just kidding]) got much higher than 255 (266, in fact) and improved much more than she did (from 249 to 266).
Her empty and useless bragging simmered down when she heard another cousin of mine (same age as her) got 264 while we went to buy her bag after lunch. Scary. I was almost knocked off my throne...
Another cousin the same year as my sis got 181 (will remain nameless, not that the one before was named...), which I'll say with no intention to put anyone down or be egoistical (like my sis), is pretty terrible.
To me, a norm is 245, that's because when my brother got his PSLE scores, he got 249, and due to the face that I've never really compared with other families (or classes for the matter, I was always surrounded by people my calibre), I thought that was what most people will get.
Until I saw last year that Rosyths average of 233 was (as proclaimed by the principal) very good.
My jaw almost dropped. I was wondering: Oh my goodness. Don't tell me I got that...
I was VERY surprised when I saw I got 3 A*s and my overall was 266. My sis got 1 A* (for Math), and my brother got 2 A*s (for Math AND Science). The only one I didn't get A* for was Chinese, but it was pretty amazing how I didn't get a B for that one.
Back to the topic of my cousins and their PSLE scores. The cousin my age got 255, the cousin my brother's age got 259. So I thought 245 was VERY normal, because almost everyone I know got above 245.
The 181 is an outlyer...
There. I think I'd better stop my own bragging for fear I grow to become my sister.
Fun Facts:
`Did you know my sister allowed her (bimb) friend to draw on her?
`Did you know my sister took over 15 minutes just to take pictures with her friends yesterday?
`Did you know my sister bought a friendship ring and wore it even in school and after my father threatened her that if she continued wearing it he'd take away her internet?
`Did you know my sister granted her friends permission to paint her nails?
`Did you know my sister is a prefect and yet broke so many rules?
`Did you know my sister just became the most bimb person I've met (except for a certain someone(s) from class 110'08 or RGS)?
