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2 Days to the A-level Results – What’s in the Bag?

By Obsession

With the release of the A-level results fast approaching, many of our dear J3’s may be feeling the heat as they anxiously await the results. Each hoping to be called on stage, to receive deservedly good grades, grades that could probably determine the course of their future. While some of them have already decided where they wish to continue their studies and work in the future, many still have some tough decisions ahead.

Thankfully, our school has already planned for such a possibility, and prepared a bag of ideas that our seniors are sure to find useful. We have taken a look into the bag each student will be receiving even before they themselves know of its contents.

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Hailing from China’s Plains

By Eel

I remember my first Chinese lesson in primary one. My teacher was the head of the Chinese Department. She was a little older than middle-aged, quite tall and had a rather stern voice and look, with her big eyes framed by bigger gold-rimmed spectacles. Our first lesson was on han yu pin yin. The class read from their textbooks, and thus started the primary school way of learning Chinese – students listening to the CD player with the same male/female voices taking turns reading the passages, teachers asking students to write words on the whiteboard and students doing endless Chinese assignments, including the all-too-familiar 造句, 习字, 听写, 默写. Unlike many others, I never really disliked Chinese. I found the sunject rather interesting and liked the weird and complicated-looking characters; especially how Chinese terms can actually connote similar feelings to that of English expressions. In fact, I enjoyed doing 习字 quite a fair bit.

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