Monday, August 21, 2006 7:19 PM
I really need to train my fingers. During the compo exam today, I spent about 5 minutes thinking of what to write, and started writing. But to my shock, my hands could not move properly. The words came out untidy and messy-flying all around the lines. I could hardly care. I went on scribbling, hohpefully my marker will be a little more lenient to untidy people. I finished a little earlier, checked my compo. In fact not much earlier, less than 5 minutes. When I realised I had signed off as zhiwen instead of samuel, I wanted to change and the teacher said, "Time's up".
For a moment, I could not believe that I was going to lose one precious marks due to carelessness. Call me whatever you guys want, a cheat, a loser, an idiot, I don care! The thought of cheating flashed across my ,mind. You are not mistaken , it DID! Samuel was not hard a word to write, I could easily scribble it down. And yet, I was sitting probably in the middle of this row, beside guys, guys hwo would not hesitate to report me. I decided, reluctantly that 1 mark gone would be better than what other consequences I do not dare mention if I had cheated. moral of the story-Read carefully, always!
For the compo, I had chosen question 2. Actually, I think I am the only person who wrote what I wrote. Nothing special about my plot, except that I am not the boy crying, nor am I the passers-by, nor am I the woman was kneeling beside the fainted person. I was a handbag... If you remember, there was a handbag lying on the floor. Yes, thats me! I took it as a gamble, if I fail this time, at leats Iwill know that I cannot write as an inanimate object in the PSLE. Afterall, it i the prelim. However, I think I really screwed up my PSLE English. so now the only hope is chinese. For now, it is still on the positive side. Hopefully, all the PSLE papers are hard. Then all of us will benefit, as the teachers said. I just completed a Maths Practise Paper-Section C. All correct except one question(worth 3 marks). recently I always get those worthless questions like 3 mark questions wrong and the rest correct. What the eff is happening to me I do not know.
I do not want to talk about maths. It is no interesting topic. Back to my compo, i adopted a "Artemis Fowl" style to it. Well, i tried. Unfortunately, I do not feel for english compo as much as I do for chinese compo. The words do not come as easily, the touch is probably not even there. Unlike, chinese. Whenever I want to, or need to, I can feel chiense, think chinese, turn chinese. Not for english though. I guess we cannot have our cake and eat it. I remember at the starting paragraph of my compo, I wrote something like this
blahblahblahblah..........I noticed Tom's face, and saw what I thought was probably guilt. Could it be? Under all those layers of mischief? Had this boy finally grown up?Some thing like that. I thought it sounded funny, but I tried all the same. Hopefully it is appreciated. My fingers are still jumpy. I cannot write like that. What should I do? All I can say is good luck and best wishes. That is all I can give and all I need to give. From now, we are on our own, at least till Monday. Here's the last paragraph(roughly, I cannot really remember) of my compo, it is not good. It shall act as a consolation. If you guys think you did badly, you know you have a companion.
I now viewed a beautiful picture, one of a boy finally growing up. Mrs Tan had waited years for this day, I was sure. I knew there would be many obstcles in the journey ahead, but they would overcome them, like a river would flow past rocks and to the sea. There was now not one, but two determined soldiers fighting a battle.....
Yours truly,
the handbag
