2008 O level results for Chemistry

O level results were released today.

Last night Lincoln saw me on msn and asked if I was excited.. to be honest it totally slipped my mind. If you were like me typing out wedding dinner schedules and contact lists and only remembering that I have yet to have dinner at 10.30pm, you'd understand.

I came to school and the first thing I managed to squeeze in doing before flag raising was to transfer a deposit of 1.3K to my photographer and videographer via internet banking. Then of course it's the classes I go to on a Monday, and at about 9 am Mrs Chang came running to my cubicle and exclaimed that we hit a 55% distinction, and 100% pass for Chemistry. I swear it took at least 5 seconds for it to take meaning - that no one failed (I have some who I've thought were pretty gone cases in my class) and that 1 out of every 2 students scored an A.

WOW

Well I did a lil jig with her, and rushed to do what every teacher was doing, be the kiasu aunty and nudge people out of the way to see the namelist. Kiwi was overwhelmed, poor thing. But no one cared. LOL No one scored lower than a B3 from my class! NO WAIT... WHO IS THIS PERSON WHO SCORED A C6?!??!??!?! ok, nvm, just 1 person.

We got to the hall at 2pm, and I realised my heart was jumping jumping. I have no idea why since I already knew their results like 4 hours ago. The P as usual took forever to do his speech, but I must say it felt real good to see that Chemistry was almost the only subject (other than Tamil) to perform better than the 2007 batch.

Was half cursing that I had to bring my current 4E6 out of the hall and back into the chem lab at 2.30 when the rest was dismissed. I was the most unpopular teacher there but HEY I want to stay in the hall too with my ex-4E2s!!!!!!!!! Bugger.

Well four ex-students actually located me in the lab... almost cried when 3 of them thanked me.. The 4th one almost did it when he who told me I owed him 1 mark (he scored an A2 instead of an A1). I didn't know what to say. Had to get back to the lab before I burst into tears.

Another student whom I taught chemistry to when he was in sec 3 smsed me to thank me. I have this feeling he probably smsed everybody who ever taught him.. even VE teachers. Was glad that I was important to him too!!!!!

The best part was hearing my my brother's results. That bugger scored 5 A1s, 2 A2s and a dumb B4 for English. Damn it. Told him since primary school to read more books that lazy bum. But I'm proud of him. Eugene is even prouder and said that he sees some of himself in Sijun. Just cos they are both 9 pointers. Idiot.

Ok back to mundane school life tmr. And Yen swee please don't ever buy salmon rice for me again.. the portion is meagre and I still smell it it my mouth :S

=update=
Another 4E2 student smsed me his thanks... :'(
OMG I'm feeling emo now