Comparisons
Slept early yesterday. Anyway woke up at 10am and did not go to church. Flipped the newspaper awhile and was a little heated up by something.
Page 7 of Zhao Bao and Page 9 of Sunday Times regarding the new PSC scholarships. I've noted this 20-year-old Denise Tan ( Chen Mei Xiu ), a top Ngee Ann Polytechnic student who will study biotechnology at University of Melbourone. Previously a 6 pointer student in O level whom also received the Lee Kwan Yew Award as well as the Ngee Ann Gold Medalist award.
Only in Zhao Bao, it states that this person commented:
I want to prove that poly students doesn't lose out to JC students. I'm glad i've did it.
I hate this kind of comparison. JC and poly, Girls and Guys etc. It just makes me look down on you. Is that all a PSC scholar can say when u're interviewed by the media? Fuck off with your egoistic thinking. ( Note that i F the thoughts, not the person herself ). No sense of humility to me.
Since when did JC students looked down on poly students? Did any of the top JC students who scored 4 A's with distinction in S paper or a graduate with first class honours from JC said:
"I want to prove that JC students doesn't lose out to poly students. I'm glad i've did it."???
When u said that, u're assuming that all JC people looked down on poly people. Of course you will emerge to be the top in poly statistically speaking. 6 pointer competing with 12 pointer and above, or even 20 pointer and above. Given your caliber in O level, go and compete with your own batch of fellow 6 pointers ( apparently there isn't a lot in poly compared to JC ) who can be potential doctors and lawyers. If you emerge to be the top and found out that other students are looking down on you, then that comment you gave are acceptable to me.
You yourself already have the DISGUSTING mentally that the poly u're in are looked down by a JC students, when there is no such thing. That is why when poly produce top scholar like you, you give that kind of comment, trying to refute it. No wonder it gives Singaporean this mentally that poly students are lousy, because you yourself, a PSC scholar, have this kind of mentally. Wake up your idea. If you study just to prove that kind of fucking wrong attitude and horrid mentally, there is no pride in it.
In NTU itself, most of the top poly students who entered my course are doing very well. I must admit they excel in their acedemic studies. No doubt most of them are potential first class and second upper class students. But they study for the fact that they are passionate about Biology, not to prove the fact that poly students are better then JC students. So different from this PSC scholar.
In every institution, there is always the best and the worst. There will always be JC/poly dropouts. No point in comparing with one another. You do your part now in being with the best, fill up top position in the government sector, be a leader and shape the next generation. The rest, who are average/low performance shall be the backbone of the society. This country needs ALL of us, not u alone understand?
This reminds me another incident. I was chatting with this IRC girl named Joanna. Also a poly graduate, but wanted to go into university. However she don't even TRY to apply to local uni. When i asked her why, she replied: "My friends who did better then me applied and didn't get in. Anyway, i don't fancy singapore uni."
In chinese there is a saying: Unable to eat the grapes, say the grape sour.
All i can say is: If you are not capable, no matter how many degree, honours, masters, pHD you got in other country, you are still not capable. Don't think so highly of yourself. Even me as an undergraduate keeps this mentally: the real path to learning begins at the start of work. Go ahead, go overseas and study. When you return and look for employment, then u'll know that you are still facing the same batch of local uni students that you tried to avoid years ago.
That shall be that. Nowadays i get heated up easily. I'll update this blog again whenever i can... maybe tonight? Don't know... perhaps when i'm angry again...
Page 7 of Zhao Bao and Page 9 of Sunday Times regarding the new PSC scholarships. I've noted this 20-year-old Denise Tan ( Chen Mei Xiu ), a top Ngee Ann Polytechnic student who will study biotechnology at University of Melbourone. Previously a 6 pointer student in O level whom also received the Lee Kwan Yew Award as well as the Ngee Ann Gold Medalist award.
Only in Zhao Bao, it states that this person commented:
I want to prove that poly students doesn't lose out to JC students. I'm glad i've did it.
I hate this kind of comparison. JC and poly, Girls and Guys etc. It just makes me look down on you. Is that all a PSC scholar can say when u're interviewed by the media? Fuck off with your egoistic thinking. ( Note that i F the thoughts, not the person herself ). No sense of humility to me.
Since when did JC students looked down on poly students? Did any of the top JC students who scored 4 A's with distinction in S paper or a graduate with first class honours from JC said:
"I want to prove that JC students doesn't lose out to poly students. I'm glad i've did it."???
When u said that, u're assuming that all JC people looked down on poly people. Of course you will emerge to be the top in poly statistically speaking. 6 pointer competing with 12 pointer and above, or even 20 pointer and above. Given your caliber in O level, go and compete with your own batch of fellow 6 pointers ( apparently there isn't a lot in poly compared to JC ) who can be potential doctors and lawyers. If you emerge to be the top and found out that other students are looking down on you, then that comment you gave are acceptable to me.
You yourself already have the DISGUSTING mentally that the poly u're in are looked down by a JC students, when there is no such thing. That is why when poly produce top scholar like you, you give that kind of comment, trying to refute it. No wonder it gives Singaporean this mentally that poly students are lousy, because you yourself, a PSC scholar, have this kind of mentally. Wake up your idea. If you study just to prove that kind of fucking wrong attitude and horrid mentally, there is no pride in it.
In NTU itself, most of the top poly students who entered my course are doing very well. I must admit they excel in their acedemic studies. No doubt most of them are potential first class and second upper class students. But they study for the fact that they are passionate about Biology, not to prove the fact that poly students are better then JC students. So different from this PSC scholar.
In every institution, there is always the best and the worst. There will always be JC/poly dropouts. No point in comparing with one another. You do your part now in being with the best, fill up top position in the government sector, be a leader and shape the next generation. The rest, who are average/low performance shall be the backbone of the society. This country needs ALL of us, not u alone understand?
This reminds me another incident. I was chatting with this IRC girl named Joanna. Also a poly graduate, but wanted to go into university. However she don't even TRY to apply to local uni. When i asked her why, she replied: "My friends who did better then me applied and didn't get in. Anyway, i don't fancy singapore uni."
In chinese there is a saying: Unable to eat the grapes, say the grape sour.
All i can say is: If you are not capable, no matter how many degree, honours, masters, pHD you got in other country, you are still not capable. Don't think so highly of yourself. Even me as an undergraduate keeps this mentally: the real path to learning begins at the start of work. Go ahead, go overseas and study. When you return and look for employment, then u'll know that you are still facing the same batch of local uni students that you tried to avoid years ago.
That shall be that. Nowadays i get heated up easily. I'll update this blog again whenever i can... maybe tonight? Don't know... perhaps when i'm angry again...
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