Again, the title does not make any sense… come on, you should be familiar with my title-choosing habits. Sorry for not posting anything up for quite a while… very VERY BAD connection here, so it was really hard to load even the simplest of pages…
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So, it’s already about 3 weeks I’ve been in Singapore. How am I finding it so far?
Okay laaaaaa
That’s probably the best answer I can give you. I mean, it’s the safest answer anyway. I can’t say it’s totally awesome to be away from home – I’m missing home to be frank with you.
I can’t say it’s hopelessly horrible either. There are pros and cons in studying in Singapore, as a scholar. Education as a scholar over here is not entirely free though, even if many reviews and testimonies put it that way. The uniforms and food are quite pricey, if you do the price conversion back to malaysian currency. But I guess it’s normal for the people over here.
I know I haven’t been blogging for quite awhile. I think I’m restarting my blogging habits, just to vent my stress, despairs, anguish, and doubts for the world to see.
Okay fine, maybe studying here isn’t that bad – it’s just a tad bit harder than STPM. Okay, I kid, it’s WAAAAAY HARDER than STPM.
If let’s say you learn “this” in STPM, you basically learn “this and a whole lot more shit” in Singapore A-levels. See the difference?
Although the syllabus are about the same, plus a little more bits and bobs here and there, the system here is more… in a way… diverse. A level subjects here are divided into 3 tiers, H1, H2 and H3.
For every subject, you are required to choose its tier, provided that it’s offered in the Junior College.
In the case of H1 and H2, the depth of the contents are about the same, but the breadth, or the amount of content in H1 is about half of that in H2. In a way, you cover less in H1 compared to H2.
Everyone is required to take at least 4 subjects, either 2 H2, 2 H1, or 3H2, 1 H1 or 4 H2, in the case of Anderson Junior College anyway.
H3 is a little different. It’s more specialised, as there are, sorta, university level contents in the syllabus. It’s definitely not something to be taken lightly, but the returns are greatly acknowledged, if I’m not wrong. If you pass your H3 with flying colours, you are definitely one big step ahead of everybody else.
But it isn’t that easy. H3 can only be offered in the 2nd year of Junior College, and it has its own eligibility criteria. At most, a typical student can take 1 H3 subject.
I dunno if I’ll be offering a H3 subject next year. Well, see how thing goes la.
After years of trying and trying to make a fully working game, I just realised something – I suck in being committed.
Good things have to come to an end someday. Knowing that my time in Malaysia will be over in a couple of months just saddens me.
Oh wow, what a random title for an even more random post at a pretty random time of day. It’s been quite a while again since my last post. Haihz… I have lost my commitment in blogging, but then again, I’m not totally out of the blogosphere yet.
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Well, it seems that my time in Malaysia is gonna end sooner than I thought. I never knew I would receive that scholarship that I once thought impossible. I guess I got lucky…
I’ve probably talked about how important the constant pi before, in one of my older posts. But this post is all about determining the “true” value of pi, no more of that 22/7 and 3.14 mumbo jumbo.
So, how’s life? It seems that my first “official” MUET speaking test is on this Wednesday. Oh, the joy… somehow, I prefer the old english oral tests better. At least, they are not as pressuring compared to MUET ones.
Yea, that’s right. The title mentioned it all: The holidays are too short. Either that, or the time of day during holidays are relatively shorter. This is Time Dilation to the max! Who needs the speed of light to bend space-time when you’ve got fun to do it?
It’s not unusual to see questions to ask us to prove this, prove that in Form 6. So, this means that almost everything regarding numbers can be proven. But how can we prove that x² actually exists? Hmm… think about it.
