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MYE EL Oral Exams 2007

I was almost late today which soon leads me up to a suspension as being caught late for a couple of times.(An honest statement from Grandfather to 1C kiddos haha… ;D) Luckily, I was not late thanks to the pro taxi driver who ferried me in a peak hour within a short time. Should take his taxi more often, but I have to consider the taxi fare spend as it is equivalent to a fast food meal. The best choice overall is to take the public bus which saves a lot of $$.

Ok ok, enough of money saving talks here. Well today, it seems to be an quite an unusual day for me as the Sec 4/5 who are involved in today’s papers are there only. It was pretty quiet, but the cooperation of the students following the exam invigilators for the day has quicken up the pace in taking my EL Oral a little earlier than expected. Looks like the Sec 4/5 group is like the old times in WWSS where the pioneers of the school , the senior students is about this size residing in a Hua Yi Secondary School section block before coming to WWSS in the year 2001. But the funny thing was at the beginning of the day is that when we were singing the National Anthem, Mrs Chow was singing with us on the first half of the Anthem. She did sing…but with an off pitch and I almost laughed which also caused me to be out of tune for the other half of the Anthem oops =X. Grrr…I’m pretty good in singing but for this instance I went out of tune.Grrr…(Perhaps Mrs Chow should go for singing lessons ! Haha… =))

The ‘bad’ news for me is that I have to wait for 2 hours for my turn. Good thing there is entertainment for us as to keep the 2nd shift people occupied. Well, it did help (Must distress a bit after intense subject papers that we have to sit for right?). Luckily got 鸡精 with me before I went for my oral =))).

When it came to my turn to prepare myself for the oral exam, I was surprised that the picture shown was the picture that I have seen in my oral revision book that I bought recently for my oral practice. Finally, it came to my turn, I began reading the given passage with my best articulation. The examiner, Mr Samuel was impressed my articulation in reading the passage, except he advice me to be a bit more care in reading the sentences as sometimes I accidentally skipped a word off or articulate it a bit off. Overall, he said that the reading has impressed him. Now, coming to the picture interpretation which is very nerve wrecking for me. I tried to interpret it as much as possible while on the other hand, Mr Samuel was like ‘tell me more ….tell me more’. It was raining heavily during that time and in my mind I was like ‘Mr Samuel, can you please don’t expect out of me too much just because of the heavy rain’. Finished off the picture interpretation with mysel, breathless.=(

For the conversation, it came pretty easy for me but yet challenging for me and finished off pretty quick. Had a little ‘preview’ over my score. Saw that the first section-10/12, middle section (didn’t see it, but I hope that he won’t give me a bad score =)), conversation-15/16 (Yay =)). Hope he won’t do some re-editing to my score.

The following 2 days will be my final papers for this MYE, but feel jealous that the Sec 4 Express ends their MYE tomorrow. Sigh…pray that the days of MYE will end soon and to prepare for my N Levels, the important part of going to Sec 5.

David C.E Lau
7:05 PM

Exams…Exams…Exams

First of all, this blog is kind of in a hibernation mode. For those who have been visiting my blog, I apologize for the late update. Alright, back to my topic for the day-Exams… Exams…Exams.

Probably that’s my reason for not updating haha =). Sometimes, I would have no mood to go blogging etc. I’m totally bored. This year is going to be an important year for me as it will be my year for N Levels and now I’m starting to feel the intensity level of it. The first step I have to take as to have a preview of where is my weakness is. The good news is that the MYEs are soon going to be over but…er… the results which I think is going to be ‘bad’, but hoping that it will meet the minimal passing criteria for 4 NA. Still, it is not the end as this is like a gauge for me to do well for the N Levels as this will be the main key in moving to Sec 5 N. Sometimes, I honestly have to confess that I’m very jealous over this year’s Sec 1 batch as they have no MYE’s this year (the seniors may also feel the same thing as well) .So unfair (wishing that I can be back in Sec 1 haha…) . Life has to go on.

Tomorrow will be an easy day for me as it will be my EL Oral exams. Should not be a problem I suppose. Heard from the examiner-Mr Samuel that I’m pretty good in communication and pronunciation =)).Wanting to host the Cultural Expressions 2007 this year haha! Wishing to be the first few in the 2nd shift to be examine smoothly and quickly.Hope Mr Samuel will be lenient in grading me as according to what he said to me that he's going to grade our class according to the 'N Level' standard.Tough rite ? =(

After 5 months of adapting to WWSS, 1C 2007 has become the best class I’ve ever seen and soon after majority of them know me well and soon becoming their ‘grandfather’(senior SC you see) for this class ! Haha. Being a ‘grandfather’ is not being so easy as sometimes, the class is rather notorious and even the girls and guys come for a cat and dog fight! Seriously, I think that they are very hyper group, most of the time ‘obedient’ hehe =). You see 1C, your grandfather speaks good things about you, but please don’t chase teachers away sometimes ok. Hope to visit you people more often. =)

*1C guys-For your folk dance costume outfit, sketches of it will be likely ready after exams as I didn’t have the time to do some sketches for the boys outfit. Be patient alrite ?

David C.E Lau
7:05 PM