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So the final decision is that the Mother Tongue (MT) weightage will be maintained, and that they'll be coming up with new teaching approaches and whatnot.
Good job. (:

(you can choose to ignore whatever I've typed below. The topic triggered an urge to type cos it just made me kindda miss primary & secondary school life, which was much simpler. Sighs)

I like that move because I don't see why they should reduce the weightage of MT to help those who're not that strong in MT, at the expense of those who're good at it!
If the weightage was to be reduced, doesn't it mean that the English language weightage would have to be reduced also because there are also people who have a weaker command in English compared to their MT?
English being the primary language doesn't give any rights for us to neglect MT, and make it appear less important than English.

Chinese wasn't much of a problem for me during Primary School days and I even managed to get into the best stream and took Higher Chinese, but I struggled so hard with it during Secondary School.
Believe me or not, I had failing grades in my report book for Chinese (during sec 3) and ended up being posted to the Chinese Band 4 Class - out of 5 bands, the worst being Band 5.

I couldn't read one proper passage without skipping over words, nor can I understand the passage I read, which resulted in my horrible grades for comprehension.
But writing Chinese essays wasn't much of a problem, because we're allowed to use the dictionary to check for words which we didn't know how to write.
Besides, I don't have an excuse to write crappy essays because my parents are mandarin-speaking. XD

Although I have yet to master Chinese totally but at least, I can write simple notes and hold a decent conversation with someone who speaks only Chinese, albeit a bit slow & in a mix of English, hand-gestures, and Chinese. (but well, they do understand me still)

We don't fully comprehend the need for Chinese (or other MT languages), but in a country like Singapore, can you imagine if we speak only English and nothing else? Think about it.

Look at the hospitals, if everyone's english speaking and a non-english speaking patient comes, are they gonna do hand-gestures and try to make the patient understand you? Getting a translator to do the translation adds on the the need of more manpower (can you imagine how many translators will be needed!). Simple neighborhood places like coffeeshops, do they also need translators to be sitting next to the shop owners just in case any non-english speaking customers come?

As much as I hated studying Chinese, knowing English only is just not enough.
Bilingualism FTW. :D
(even with bilingualism, we still struggle with the different dialects. & I'm even more guilty of that. I'm not even able to communicate with my grandma cos she can only understand hokkien)

说了那么多，我有点想念那些华文课。。。
想念那些有格子的习字和作文簿，
想念那种在格子里写字的感觉，
想念那种要非常专注地写字的感觉。

Remembered how the chinese handwriting of some other people were so neat & nice that I envied it so much that I always try hard to make my chinese handwriting look nice like theirs. Right now, I think my chinese writings would probably look like a primary school kid's. :\

Alright, Cheryl's alrdy hit the 2,000th post while mine is a pathetic low of less than 1,000.
This is post #981 here. :\

jiaqi:
Haha you so cute sia, reply on ur tagboard & reply on my board also. :p
yeah, definitely heard dbsk before. cos I heard their songs before i knew them also.
oh! replying you reminds me of smthg! Shall tell u abt it later... somehow. XD

Cheryl:
Lol! No lah, I'm not even keeping drafts here. (though I have quite alot of junks in my tumblr drafts)
Haven't logged into blogspot since the last time I blogged here. :p

HUIXIAN:
Lol, why not tumblr? :(

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Lol, everyone's still stuck to this blog. Actually, to tell you the truth, I'm loving tumblr more than ever before now. (especially since I've managed to figure out A LITTLE on how to make the themes)

For those who're not using tumblr, tumblr is like twitter/fb! (:
you can follow people, reblog entries (retweet), 'like' entries (facebook 'like' button), etc etc.

Just go sign up for one account & try it out!
It doesn't even take a minute to sign up for an account!

PLUS, tumblr is not as screwed as blogspot.
Super awesome for sharing stuff too. Hahaha. XD

OKAY! ENOUGH PROMOTION. I don't get paid for saying all that.

Quick update:
- I've got a quiz tmr & I shld get back to mugging after this.
- School has started weeks ago, without my usual gang. :(
- I finally got myself a pair of new shoes & backpack!
- my mp3 gave me a terrible scare on monday but it's now back to normal.

Okay, back to the books! Bye!