starstruck

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

the teachers always tell us how the people who mark our exam papers are underpaid, overworked teachers or retired teachers who need a bit of extra money to spend over christmas. then the other day zach told me his friend's friend went to England on holiday and saw a stack of UCLES scripts on the table of a sweet shop or something. the only logical conclusion i can come to is that our future is in shaky hands.
here you are studying your brains out and doing your exams to the best of your abilities, applying liquid paper to every crooked line and ugly letter in hopes of producing the best possible script.
and sometime from the end of this year to the start of next year, someone will be making little red marks on your papers. the following is a hypothetical situation, and is by no means substantiated, but is worth a thought. this someone cannot care less about how well you do, and would rather be at home, asleep. this someone will mark you down for marginally untidy handwriting he will not try to decipher because he is tired and your answer bores him and who cares about the "melting pot of cultures", i want my pot of hot stew. remember that it is winter and it is cold and anecdotes about the "warm, sunny island paradise" will merely be salt in his wounds. i don't know what else this someone will do or think, but basically he has no reason to put in his full effort for an unknown Singaporean teenager miles away. for all you know he might think Singapore is in China.
a few months later you get a laminated sheet (paper i think) with a bunch of tiny words printed on the top with a little picture, and a column of letters, hopefully from A to D, sometimes E, O, F, or U. and that's it.
have a nice life.

posted by gruff at 3:48 PM

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