Hey guys. I'm hopefully FINALLY back after such a long hiatus. I know most of you must have gone into slumberland and forsaken me for committing such one of the greatest offense in blogging - not updating consistently. And for that, I apologize.

Previously, I was in a dilemma on whether to continue with this blog as I'm already pretty detached from school and am unable to provide any news. However, I've decided to stick around, just for now, so that I've an avenue to practice my writing. As my recent SAT score and diagnostic tests tell me, I really do SUCK at writing. Period. That's probably why I should start blogging away. At the very least, I get some writing done, even if it may be in such informal tone or lacking in structure or even rid with verbosity. At least I'm practicing, and if I may slowly try to consciously stray away from the mistakes that Mrs. Khor has pointed out months ago, I MIGHT just achieve the breakthrough that she foresees.

For now, this blog would serve more as an educational blog. It would document my experience of studying in INTEC, UiTM under the American Degree Foundation Program. I'll also be posting up information and links regarding the US applications, which is what I'll be going soon in just a few months. This doesn't stray that far from my original theme of this blog. Form 5 Chung Ling Kias will be able to know more about their choices once they leave school, and those who want to go US will be able to know what's required to go there after graduating from Chung Ling.

These will be my current short term goals. As Mrs. Khor aptly put it, there are dreams, and then there are goals ( the achievable ones) So I shall focus on the ones that I think is most achievable in the near future, rather than daydreaming about how to transform this blog into the blog for everything Chung Ling.

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Word is out that the JPA results will be out on the 6th of May. That's right, 2 more days from now! That's a full week earlier than what they told us. This news came from a person from recom who got this reply after emailing JPA:

A quick check at the jpa site showed that the date was still the 3rd week of May, so I suppose they have yet to update. Others who called or emailed got another date - 8th of May. Suffice to say, due to the registration for Matrikulasi falling on 11th May, it'd be safe to say that all shall be known by the end of this week. Fingers crossed people and good luck!

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Chung Ling High School has continued its excellent performance in STPM. While this year we do not have the honours of a National Top Scorer, who, if I remember correctly, managed to secure an immediate offer to MIT (wow!), 12 of our students scored a perfect CGPA 4.0 to top Penang! Among the main 'rivals' beaten include Chung Ling Butterworth (9 students), Jit Sin (OMG!) (6 students) and Penang Chinese Girls' High School (5 students). Unbelieveable eh? It shows we have quality over quantity!

Congrats to these students for making our school proud! Let's hope this Thursday would be another glorious day for Chung Ling.

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If you have taken Chinese as a subject in SPM, you're probably like me, currently panic-stricken over the thought of your result as it's notoriously difficult to score an 1A in Chinese. We've all seen the past results where in some years, less than 10 people score 1A out of like 500 students taking it. Some will probably have been told by their teachers that 85 is the minimum for an 1A. Some like me will probably know that sometimes that's not true as SOMETIMES, they RAISE IT UP TO 90! Of course, some of you will say that not everyone is currently worried about Chinese as it's not THAT difficult to score a pass. But hey, those who ARE worried, are obviously those who are aiming and praying hard for an 1A.

Well, if you're in this unfortunate situation, fret not. I have some good news to cheer you guys up. From what I've heard from a teacher who is a marker, the marking scheme was surprisingly lenient! Yes, you heard me right. LENIENT! I suppose that is not really THAT surprising coming after last year's shockingly difficult paper not to mention uber-strict marking scheme especially in the summary part.

Let's hope that there will be more 1As coming this coming Thursday. Fingers crossed!

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