Water is deemed to be very precious to the Singapore government nowdays, since the Malaysia issued a threat for not supplying anymore water to Singapore.

Eventually, in my school, students seemed to be wasting water.

Case 1:
Student A was so “sien” that he kept flushing the toilet non-stop until Gopal (school cleaner) came in.
PREDICTED water wasted rating: * * * * * *
ACTUAL water wasted rating: * * * 1/2
REASON of the difference: Gopal came in too early.

Case 2:
Water bottle war between student B and C. Both got drenched. Wasted more water for mopping and cleaning the floor.
PREDICTED water wasted rating: * * * * * * *
ACTUAL water wasted rating: * * * * * 1/2
REASON of the difference: Mr Goh passed by and both “kena” scolding.

Case 3:
Mr Goh knew about water bottle war in the class. Evidence? Water puddles on floor. Solution? Student B and C are asked to stand near the door and Mr Goh pours water on them.
PREDICTED water wasted rating: * * * * * * * * 1/2
ACTUAL water wasted rating: (nothing)
REASON of the difference: Mr Goh didn’t do anything. He slacked.

Case 4:
Student D can’t finish drinking water before going home. Does’t want to be scolded by mum. Poured water into drain.
PREDICTED water wasted rating: * * * *
ACTUAL water wasted rating: * * * 1/2
REASON of the difference: Very thirsty, so drank three quater of the water before pouring.

Case 5:
Gopal watering water turning the tap to the maximum. The whole garden? Drenched.
PREDICTED water wasted rating: * * *
ACTUAL water wasted raitng: * * * * * *
REASON of the difference: Day dreaming when watering plants.

Case 6:
It was a Saturday morning. Student E, F, G and H are very “sien”, so they started a water balloon fight. Water balloon used? 60 of them, at least.
PREDICTED water wasted rating: * * * * *
ACTUAL water wasted rating: * * * * * * * * * *
REASON of the difference: After using 60 balloons, still not enough, so they make another 60.

Case 7:
A schoolday recess. Student I, J, K, L, M, N and O sat together for early lunch. Started to talk about lame jokes which makes people laugh like crazy. They drank while hearing jokes, so water is squirted in small amounts over the entire 40 minutes recess.
PREDICTED water wasted rating: * * * 1/2
ACTUAL water wasted rating: * * * * *
REASON of the difference: Too much laughter!

Today is really an emotion roller coaster for me!

The school day started with the distribution of Exemption Letters, which are printed to inform students with one or more subject(s) exempted. The exemption system started in 2000 or so, to allow students with good grades (A1) for not sitting the subject exam(s) which they did very well.

Mr Goh started distributing those letter according to our index numbers. When he passed a letter to Bryan, I was so excited that I would be the next. I think that I would be exempted from Chinese because my results were one of the best in the class.

God knows that he didn’t have my letter and hence continuing distributing. I felt very depressed, as I knew form heart that I did’nt get any exemption from any subject, even for Chinese. As you know, I was exempted from Chinese for past 2 years!

Impossible… I got 77 for both Term 1 and 3, and for Term 2, I got 71. Average continous assignment marks is 76. My Chinese ACE is 26 upon 30. So my temporary accumulative marks is [(76/100*30) + (26)]/[60] = 81! I wonder why I did not get exempted for such a high grade…

So during recess I went to the Head of Chinese Department to check. Then they referred me to the groud floor office to check with my marks. To my astonishment, I got only 50 for my Term 2! I had to vertify my marks with my Chinese teahcer and then approach the office clerk again. She changed my results and, oh, she told me that…

(a) “After referring to your final mark, you are still not qualified to be exempted. Sorry.”
(b) “Erm, I’m not very sure if you can be exempted. Let’s keep to the original marks.”
(c) “Congratulations, you’re exempted from Chinese!”
(d) None of the above.

Before telling you the answer, there are a few questions to be considered below:
(1) It was too late for me to resumbit my marks. Marks should be have submitted by last Friday. Exemption?
(2) I got a final mark of 81. Possible?
(3) My Chinese teacher might not allow me to be exempted. Oh no!
(4) My grade was still not the top 45 in the level. So, no exemption. Oopsy!

And the answer is (c). I got exempted! Yahoo!

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