code name: agent CID age: 14, 20, 40, 9, or maybe 200. depends on the way she dresses REAL age: ohhh...you should've said so earlier on. sorry, this is highly confidential and any leak of her personal information may cause serious detrimental damage About her(or him) she loves dramas. dramas, sleeping and eating are an important part of her daily life. when she's not on a mission, agent CID dresses in school uniform(or maybe..a nurse's uniform. very clever) she is part of the well-know four person team whose name cannot be mentioned here.she may come across as fat, wonky and alittle eccentric but BEWARE she is not at all what she seems.

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i'm so sorry mrs woon and mr chow. i can't be precise and concise no matter how hard i try D:

okay you must be wondering why i'm saying this all of a sudden. i'm just feeling really stupid, for churning out a thousand word essay for the article review homework and i'm not even done yet. this is stupid. i can't believe i have no idea how to end MY ESSAY. i ended with a question, which is dumb cause my whole essay is full of questions =.= so i started with a question and i ended with a question and i just question question quetion and then NO ANSWERS =.= i bet my LA teachers would be really pissed off when they read my essay. urg. this is stupid. and i just checked the homework list and guess what.



"write reader response to each of the articles min. 250 words
Reader response must include brief summary of the article followed by your views on the issues raised."



250 words?! 250 words?!

"brief summary" my summary is like 250 words =.= which isnt actually alot. not really.

"followed by your views" not your questions =.=
"issue raised" what issue?

urg. im going crazy. now i must edit out all the unneccessary parts.

i hate editting.

this is stupid arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Students find A-level passage similar, an article review.

All is fair in love and war, and especially so in major examinations such as the a-levels. However, for students who took the a-level Chinese language paper one on the first of November, this exam was far from fair. For a handful taking the paper, this unexpected victory came as a form of a replica of the same examination passage that they had done in their previous examinations. Well, almost the same passage with few sentences rephrased here and there. To the lucky few from raffles institution, Serangoon junior college and pioneer junior college who stumbled upon questions similar to those which they had done before, this was great luck indeed. But to the others who had not have the same bout of luck, this was a major disadvantage and an outright display of unfairness. Fiery teachers and students have questioned the procedures regarding the setting of the papers, demanding to know why the Singapore Examination and Assessment Board (SEAB) has allowed incidents like this to happen in a major exam like the A-levels, an exam of utmost importance in the learning career of a student’s life. The SEAB, however, seemed to not even be a little bit disturbed by the uproar of comments and replied calmly that the passages were adequately adapted. SEAB claim that they (the passages) were, “substantially modified” and were, “pitched to test the relevant language skills. (of the students)” In spite of the assurance given by the SEAB, many students still felt angered that others were given a “head start” in the examinations and that this should not be allowed to happen in the first place.
After reading this article, I did not feel the least bit surprised. I mean, that things like these do happen sometimes and I admit that I’ve come across a similar incident like this when I was taking my Chinese paper in PSLE. It was the last passage, the very same passage that my Chinese teacher had gone through with us just before the start of the examination. At that time I remembered feeling like I just struck lottery, a one in a million opportunity. “How lucky!” I thought, “Having the same passage appear twice in my examinations.” I once attributed this stroke of luck to the keen eyesight of my Chinese teacher but now, thinking back, it wasn’t just elation and happiness when I realised that I had done this before. Somehow, in one way or another, I actually felt disappointed and afraid. Disappointed that the exam wasn’t a fair test of my true potential and afraid that people would deny my results for what it really is. I start to wonder if the result were fair, if people could count on them to determine the potential of one and that if I really deserved my marks? It felt absolutely horrible to question if my results were fairly gotten when I had studied so very hard for my paper. In a way, it felt like I worked so hard then was forced to cheat on something I had confidence of scoring for. I don’t know if the “lucky” people taking the Chinese paper this time felt the same emotional struggle that I went through as I was doing the passage. I guess this is the other side of the story many never got a chance to hear.
On the other hand, I can easily understand the anger of many who hadn’t gotten the chance to see the paper beforehand. This was a major paper that was, in the eyes of the students, a matter of “life or death” and now what happens? A “re-used” passage turns up unexpectedly in the paper. A hard passage added with an extra disadvantage, who could really fault them for being angry? Speaking on an objective level I think that “re-using” a passage, although already substantially modified, would mislead others to think that the examination was mostly based on luck. If you have seen the passage before, good for you! If you haven’t, then too bad, you’ll lose out. Who would’ve thought that, Singapore being renowned world-wide for its first class educational system, would allow something like this to happen and then when questioned, dismiss it like it was no big deal. This was not just any problem, this was a huge problem. Besides the problem of fairness, there’s a greater problem of purpose. This re-using of passages not only questions the purpose of the examination, it also questions the purpose of learning itself. What is the expected learning outcome now that there is an easier route out of exams, and when the trump card lies in easy access of the students? Is the focus of learning now turned to finding the right examination questions instead of actively learning about the subject so that they would be prepared to face the given questions?
Another thing that bothers me is about the lack of thought being put into the exam papers by the SEAB. I understand that comprehension passages can be scouted anywhere, but the SEAB didn’t just take any passage, they took a passage that was from a top school’s mid-year examination paper. They knew that students from the school would have done it before and especially since it was a top school, chances were many others would also have come across it before. This problem could be easily avoided if the SEAB had put in more effort to look for passages elsewhere, at least, somewhere less accessible to the students instead of blindly picking out a passage then rephrasing some of the sentences. This was a major examination that is of great importance to many, this thoughtless act made me reconsider about the importance placed on the papers by the SEAB. This has happened not once or twice but a numeral of times. Is this really an accident or just deliberate negligence?
As for the rest of us who have no direct relation to this examination, we can only sit back and wait to see if a new plot unfolds, turning the tables once again. As we witness another real life example that questions the fairness of the world, one that we’ve seen or heard once too many, we shall then again think about what fairness is about. This time however, perhaps to us students, something that is closer to heart.
Someone once said, all is fair in love and war. Or is it?

i know that you'll not bother to read it so yea, i'm just posting it to retain memory. ive decided to rewrite another one cause this one's utterly crappy. really. i feel embarrassed just reading it =.=

gosh.

okay here's the starting of the lky one.

One last goodbye, an article review

This is the story of two extraordinary people who shared an extraordinary love. It was a bitter-sweet affair for the lee family, the funeral of madam Kwa Geok Choo that is. This was a life so brilliantly lived that it seemed like a pity to have it taken away from her. Madam Kwa Geok Choo was everything one could ever expect of a woman: loving, caring, smart, gracious, witty, magnanimous, supportive and shows great passion for life. What makes her an even greater object of admiration is the undying love that she gave (and in turn received) to everyone else around her; the very same love that reached out with its beautiful story and touched so many nationwide. Now with her passing, the family talks of the little intimate details of how she had managed to make a difference in theirs, and perhaps also finding comfort in reminiscing about the good old times when she was in her prime.
The word “love”; now no longer sacred. The word that has been used once too many in too many unworthy things, the word that once held so much meaning, the word that once promised so much has now been abused and misused all over the place. It is now too easily said, too easily done.

and then i have no idea how to continue...

nvm~ i shall watch dramas to gain inspiration,

oh i'm starting on this new drama called, "gloomy salad days"

which is kinda creepy? well to me BUT it has aaron yan and wang zi in it so i'll give it a try^^ ahha

okay~ that's all for now. ahnyong~

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