Summer replica

The dry days are back again.. It’s so hot outside there I can’t imagine how Edmond is doing. He’s undergoing his National Service programme right now at a camp in Kajang. Luck would have it, he was one of eight trainees that didn’t get to board the plane for East Malaysia and had an impromptu camp switch to the close to home camp.

College starts in about another 2 weeks, believe it or not. Feels a bit faster than I expected, but what the heck, I’m pretty excited to explore this new scene, which I pray to god isn’t as stressful as high school because I can’t be fucked to go through that again! Excuse me for sounding unappreciative, but what do people mean when they say they ‘miss the teacher giving tons of homeworks everyday’? Pot smokers or bookworms – you decide.

The world is so whack these days that you can close your eyes and randomly enter a blog and find that 9 out of 10 times you try it, you’ll run into a blog filled with unproductive writings about politics, Britney Spears going bald, lagging PCs or old people. Either one, its still unproductive. If only the weather would fix itself and we can all go out for an inspiring walk and photograph god’s creations. Or just sing jiwang songs at public parks.

Speaking of being unproductive, it is now 3.40pm and it’s 39 degrees outside, with the sun blazing upon the area. It’s no wonder I’m such a potato couch and One Utama regular visitor these days. The television is switched off and no music is playing for the first time in my life. Again, it’s no wonder I’m still here blabbing! I need the busy cum exciting life back. Being just busy is tiring, slow and exciting life adds together to be one explicit combination, often ending up with me in the back seat of my car.

The summary version of everything I’ve typed today? IT FEELS LIKE I’M LIVING IN A FRICKIN TOASTER OVEN!!!!

What do they mean? (Open message)

If some of you still don’t know it, I’m an SPM 2006 student. SPM is equivalent to the SAT and O-Levels. The results will debut this 12th March as per stated by the local newspapers.

So being me, I’d always be on the lookout for any updates during the release dates of the results, but about 2 days back I stumbled upon something that was rather, if you will bear with me, same yet different. Check this out.

Girl from Johor scores 19A1s in SPM

"Keputusan peperiksaan Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) 2006 yang akan
diumumkan pada 12 Mac ini dijangka menyaksikan satu lagi rekod baru
dilakarkan apabila seorang pelajar perempuan dari sebuah sekolah di
pekan Rengit dekat sini berjaya memperoleh 19 1A.

Pelajar pintar itu, Nadiah Amirah Jamil, 18, ialah penuntut  Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Tun Sardon."

Okay, that’s cool, we’re talking about a world record achievement in education here. Top results for 19 subjects, 11 for the ones she is taking and 8 studied independently. This will also erase 2005 candidate Nur Amalina’s record of 17A1s. Nadiah is probably if you ask me another bookworm which also probably has the same number of friends as per her achievement since she studies way too much and puts aside the social life in the name of education.

But my question here is, has the SPM exams become a medium for rat races in pursuit of the most amount of A1s? 50 A1s do not mean anything if the person who got it did it only for the sake of doing it. Aside from all the accusations she may get, Nadiah and all the others who ‘asked for trouble’ and applied for additional subjects are making this race a

sort of benchmark for society, which shouldn’t happen because we shouldn’t rely on that one person just because he/she got the most amount of A1s as compared to others.

Soon there will be no chance for the other 99.99% candidates to actually get something special and appreciative from the government, because they already gave that away to the student who got top amounts of As.

Nadiah will be publishing a book on her personal methods in achieving this feat soon. God help the not so smart pupils.