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some respect please?

Okay so I am sure everyone would have read about the comments made by the principal and minister regarding 'N' level students. And being a former 'N' level student myself I could not just let this slip without my 2 cents worth. So with some help from Cherie, I penned out a letter to the forum segment of the Straits Times. Of course .. I got a reply from them saying that they are unable to print my letter. Therefore it is now posted here to make my point made... :)


As a former 'N' level student, I met with great sadness and disappointment when I read the article 'Principal's ITE advice 'had to be delivered'' (ST, Jan 17). No doubt that we need to face the realities of a 'N' level student, but what most of us really need is encouragement and support, not a negative blow.

As 'N' level students, not only do we have to handle academic pressures, we too have to handle the social stigmatisms that have long plagued 'N' level students by being made outcasts not only by our peers in school, but also by society. Having gone through such an experience, I know how unpleasant and demoralizing the situation can make one feel. Fortunately for me, I had patient and supportive parents, teachers and friends who constantly encouraged and supported me.

Thus, as 'N' level students, we know our strengths and weaknesses and we know what we cannot achieve. What we do not know is that we have the potential and intelligence to achieve our dreams just like everyone else. What we need are words of encouragement and to be seen as any other student with the potential to excel and achieve.

We did not choose to go to the 'N' level stream, we were placed in the stream because we were seen as slower learners. If this system was set up to allow us to learn at our own pace, then maybe we should just be seen as students who learn at a slower pace and not students who are any less intelligent than those is the Express streams.

I have been through this same educational system before and faced the same hardship these girls are going through. However, I am currently pursuing a degree in the area of science, something not quite expected of an N Level student. There are struggles within, but because of previous encouragement throughout my secondary school life, I have found that faith within myself to be able to cope with them and to see myself as one who just learns differently instead of being one that is less intelligent. This is precisely what N level students are capable of - we may learn differently, but we have the same ability to achieve.

I hope that 'N' level students would be given the respect, encouragement and support they deserve, as they are no different: they have their ambitions too.

excitement excitement excitement

For the possibility of some unpaid work! :P Yay to no more bumming... :D

It is with a mixture of sadness and happiness I say goodbye to bumming but work experience is always good, fun and altogether exciting! Just the possibility of some unpaid work have made my heart skip with joy. *grins*

The first month of my holiday was an insane rush to get things ready for Christmas, a bridal shower and a wedding! Talk about constant madness... but it was good and I enjoyed every bit of it.

Christmas and New Year's this year came with an unexpected surprise for me and it is a good one, irregardless of the outcome.. :) The bridal shower and wedding was simply amazing!! The bridal shower... let's just say good old girly fun with lots sugar and spice and everything nice.. :P The wedding was a crazy crazy day which started at 5am, but you know nothing beats the joy and happiness you feel for your friend when she walks down the aisle and exchanges her vows. It was such an honour to have been part of this amazing wedding! =)

Just a few days ago, I heard of more wedding bells coming my way.. another good friend of mine is going to tie the knot! I am so so excited for her and her fiance... :)

All these ringing wedding bells have made me ask myself when would it be for me? Haha.. I am not desperate to get married or anything, but I would really like to settle down before I am 30. However, if waiting for the one means waiting till I'm 40, I would gladly wait: I'll just need to keep praying for patience. :P If there is anything I have learnt from the latest line up of weddings, it would be that it truly is worth waiting for Mr Right.

Marriage is a lifetime commitment and it is a choice most of us only get to make once in a lifetime. So I am going to patiently wait for my Mr Right as at the end of the day we are to be each other's soulmate, best friend, lifelong companion, partner-in-life, pillar of strength, mirror of reality and lots, lots more.. so to my Mr Right.. wherever you are and whoever you may be I am waiting. I'm just secretly hoping you do not take too long... :P

Okies dokes... now back to attempting to study for my supp exam. The joys of acoustic phonetics... :P

But before I go... some pictures from the wedding...


The beautiful bride and me...


The RCIY family...


Ah hao's [peace] sign is seriously contagious...


Yes yes I caught the bridal bouquet BUT ... NO guy = NO potential wedding ...

Be gone 2007, Hello 2008!

There is no need for guessing as to why I could not wait for 2007 to end and to welcome in 2008. 2007 was on the whole quite a crap year, but looking back on that eventful year I cannot deny the many life lessons learnt throughout the course of that year. With each experience be it good or bad, a lesson was learnt and I got closer to being the person I am to be.

I am not perfect and have made lots of mistakes and I am bound to make more. But what 2007 taught me was that mistakes only makes us stronger and wiser.

And so I am thankful for the year 2007 and I look forward to the exciting adventures of 2008!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!

To all who lost a precious someone this year...

“My First Christmas In Heaven”

I see the countless Christmas trees around the world below,

With tiny lights, like Heaven’s stars, reflecting on the snow.

The sight is so spectacular, please wipe away the tear,

For I am spending Christmas with Jesus Christ this year!

I hear the many Christmas songs, that people hold so dear.

But the sounds of music can’t compare with the Christmas choir up here.

I have no words to tell you, the joy their voices bring,

For it’s beyond description, to hear the angels sing.

I know how much you miss me, I see pain inside your heart.

But I am not so far away, we really aren’t apart.

So be happy for me, loved ones, you know I hold you dear,

And be glad I’m spending Christmas with Jesus Christ this year!

I send you each a special gift, from my heavenly home above.

I send you each a memory of my undying love.

After all, Love is a gift, more precious than pure gold.

It was always most important in the stories Jesus told.

Please love and keep each other as our Father said to do.

For I can’t count the blessings or love He has for you.

So have a Merry Christmas and wipe away that tear,

Remember, I’m spending Christmas with Jesus Christ this year!

- Wanda Bencke