over lunch today, i realized academic week 8 is over. exams start next month. i have 3 projects to submit on week 12, and my German final exams falls on week 13. pretty sure i'd be zombified when the time comes.

my PSLE kid came home crying after the Mathematics paper. even a 12 year old child has been subjected to the such immense stress, definitely not what someone of that age should be experiencing. all they can remember of their childhood will just be the interminable hours they spent digging in their books for...well, PSLE.

looking at how hard my students are studying for their school exams, I wonder if they'd still put in so much effort if they know what they're signing up for. my o-level kid mugs day and night, perhaps even harder than my peers, yet her painstaking efforts are reciprocated by mere mediocre grades.

i always believe that intelligence is an innate ability. a gifted child is, well, gifted. some parents spend so much money sending their child to sessions to train them to be gifted. absolutely preposterous. if your child has to train to be gifted, he is, as a matter of fact, not gifted! whatever brauhaha about stretching your mind's potential, we all know that the brain is not an elastic organ, definitely not as elastic as our bladder.

i just feel sorry for kids today.

...and as i'm typing this..i realise i forgot a friend's birthday. i'm bad with dates, slapping myself across the face.