my sis

sometimes you see yourself in your younger siblings. the events which are occurring to my sister are almost a mirror image of what i went through.

well, firstly, my sis is in sec one this year, which means shell be in sec 2 come next year. shes in dunman high gep which as everyone knows, sucks. ok, im not gonna mince my words, in my personal opinion (and everybody elses i might add) the gep in dunman high is the "dumping ground" for all the geps who cant make it to nanyang or raffles or acs i gep. (hope somebody from moe doesnt read this). i dunt have a problem with dunman people, infact many of them are friends of mine and theyre all stellar human beings, just that its the programme that sucks, not the people.

so anyway, my sis's grades have been nose diving, in keeping with the family tradition and all she wants to do in her youthful life is play basketball, chill with her mates and play her final fantasy series. yea, pretty much sounds like what i am doing right about now. you know, nobody really gives a shit about studies until they finish JC and realise that theyve might have done much better.

but i digress. the point is, my mom went out of her way to secure an interview and test from St Nick's, which is like, one of the coolest girls schools in singapore. like, for some magical reason, all the girls from there have style, class and are smart. my mom actually wanted to transfer my sis to cedar or anderson but both rejected her appeal. only st nicks went further and accepted her.

but my sis apparently doesnt want to go to st nicks. she wants to stay in dunman cos well, shes used to the slack lifestyle and she has her friends with her there. all very understandable. if at sec one you told me to move from RI to say.....Singapore American School, well, i would be mightily confused. but i would still go.

i can understand the pull of friendship. after all, it wasnt easy leaving after 3 months in rj. but that was cos i was bringing 4 years of friendship along with me. my sis has only one year of friendship and come to think of it, she only has like 4 good friends that she really connects with. so in that aspect, i cant really see why she would want to stay in a losing situation.

dunman high has this IP programme. its something like the through train programme in ri in that they provide for you all the way upto NJC a levels. the problem is you have to keep your grades up to qualify fot it and my sis isnt exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. shes not dumb mind you, shes just fucking lazy, like me.

so basically, her argument is that she will make it for the IP programme and then everything will be peachy and magical. i know its pretty normal for geps to think that they can do everything and some of them can back it up with results but my sister isnt one of them. she doesnt work hard at all and without hard work, you lose.

so heres the situation. shes presented with the oppurtunity of a lifetime, to go to st nicks and get a real good class education and she is choosing to stay in dunman high, where i dunt think she will get as many contacts and where i think her social skills and deportment skills are suffering from contact with her gep friends, most of who are lazy bums and bitches.

(gep is different from mainstream in sec school. if ure a gep and ure reading this, youd understand the screwed up ness of sec school gep and how people ahve attitude problems.)

so it is with some frustration that i am seeing her reject her application and her oppurtunity. i can see why my mom is damn sian diao cos she has to push my sister. its a vicious cycle. sis is lazy and has no ambition. mom has to push her. mom gets frustrated. sis gets frustrated at being pushed and rebels. everyone blames it on the education system for being pressurizing.

but while im frustrated, its still her life and as the saying goes, its her life to screw up in and its her life to excel in. its not like dunman high is in the pits, its a recognized school. just that i think st nicks is better thats all. its like giving up the chance to drive a ferrari to drive a honda civic, but the civic still gets you places, just slower thats all.

and then again, usually when everything seems lost in sec school gep, people around you suddenly have this magical ability to turn things around. it helps being around smart(albiet lazy) people. you get things done faster and more efficiently. how many of us remember failing every single test only to get results where it most mattered? so i guess that is the specialty of geps. i only hope that my sis is special as well.