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Had to go to HCI today to help my brother get back his A level cert. Apparently my brother wants to spend his free time during weekdays to playyyy but hey who doesn’t? I bet I’ll need his help for the very same thing 2 years later. So I went over to HC with kaisheng who wants to play tennis with his friend. Some kind soul opened the gate at the top of the overhead bridge for us, and we’re left to wander on our own throughout the school compound. It didn’t take me too long to see that hc is like 10x nicer to look at than nj any time ^^ and there’s like a gazillion basketball courts/street soccer courts/tennis courts you name it its simply there
After grabbing my bro’s cert, I started to think about a choice I’ve made 3 months back. I chose to stay behind. Yet nearly a year back, I was thinking of how to tell gloria “thanks for showing me around during the open house, but I’m not coming.”
Now, honestly, given the chance, everyone wants to go to the best school there is. Who wouldn’t want to score 6 for O levels? Isn’t that what everyone wants to see on their certificate upon receiving it?
It’s simple to figure out why. HC’s a brand that’s pretty undisputed, next to rj. Everything good and nice is associated with it, be it being the champion at nationals of different sports, gold with honours of different performing arts groups at SYF, and of course, the number of As that appear on A level certificates that becomes so common a phenomenon that probability doesn’t even apply there.
The formula’s simple. Good rep = good funding (from so many donors that it’s a wise investment in maintaining the china look to keep em coming) also = good students + good teachers = good results = good rep. So what does this really mean for students there? It allows them to have an imba quota for H3 students (not complaining, I’m not working hard enough now to get it yet), a lot more slots for applicants of scholarships ( not complaining either, not interested in any now), and definitely easier job application in the future (good rep = looks nice on paper). According to my personality test, I scored 25 is to 1 (thinking is to feeling) for how much of which you use to make decisions. So now which part of my thinking got me to stay? I can only remember using my heart for a few instances, none of which is significant enough for me to recall. So yeah, n1 hj, apparently you’ve managed to make one decision without thinking. Isn’t hc the rationale choice? Is there something else in nj worth staying for? Yes, there is. Friends who you can’t simply make all over again can’t be found everywhere. Also, I warm up so slow that I’ll fail tests as often as I get tutorials wrong. Besides, you needn’t be in hc to get to learn from smarter people. Jiaxiang may have slightly lousier O level score than mine but I’m referring to this work half the time. People like mingwei couldn’t cross the road either just because he probably stoned through his oral last year =D. Is there a learning environment I’m missing out on? Nope. Not for a lazy bum like me ^^
My mum once told me something that goes like “would you rather be the head monk in a small monastery, or be a small monk in the bigger monastery?” Yes it sounds so corny it is making me laugh.It simply means that I get to “open my eyes” to the “real world” to see what competition really is like out there. And then there’s also the condemnation ever since I didn’t score well enough during PSLE to enter hc that I’m “lagging terribly behind” everyone else. I proved to mum once already during 9th Feb this year that she’s wrong. And I’m going to do it once more in a year and a half’s time. If only everyone can see things through each other's eyes.
Good rep’s pretty good. I just don’t intend to live up to one that doesn’t fit me.