I guess all the university and scholarship talks nowadays are making everyone starting to fret for our future. It makes me wonder where i will be after NS, it seems a long way to go, but when the time comes, I will be panicking. throughout all my life, oh well almost, i have been talking abt going to japan to study. sometimes i wonder whether i'm being too stubborn. i've made some decisions in my life so far that will make a lot of difference when the time comes. now the time has come, and i will come to see whether the decisions i've made are correct or not.
the first important decision i made was right after psle, that is the choice to take up jap as third language at the moelc. i almost didn't couldn't take jap, but
perhaps it was fate, i managed to get in. For those of you who do not knoe what happened, during sec1 orientation, when i was registering for my class, my form teacher then told me that he doesn't have the form which permits me to take a third lang, so i couldn't take it. but luckily, my form teacher found it just before orientation started and he passed it to me. at that point in time, it didn't matter much to me. but looking back now, i realized wad a difference it could make if my form teacher had chosen not to search for it.
then all the jap lessons started. at the start, it was just another language to me. i didn't realize how lucky i was to be able to take jap cuz i was in the top 10%(is it?) for psle. then, i started falling in love with jap and all. however, it didn't all start until sec2 when i took part in the sapporo immersion programme. i guess it was the turning point. the immersion programme in august made all the difference. and i tink it was then when i started having
wild thoughts about going to rj to study. (
yes it was definitely a wild thought then.but i never dared to confess abt me wanting to go to rj to study jap cuz firstly i wasn't confident at all. secondly, none of the friends i knew then were going to rj)
then it was sec 3 and we went sapporo. i think it was then when the thought of studying in japan sank in.
yes it was a wild thought then. it is still now. i guess it'll remain a wild thought until the day when i set off to study in japan. the sapporo immersion programme really changed my life upside-down. no matter how cliche this may seem, but it gave me a sense of purpose in my life. i quietly worked hard in order to get into rj. my results never gave me the assuring grades that could get me into rj. so i thought, maybe it's not to be, as i started to forget the idea of going to rj. (
oh well the idea was still lingering somewhere at the back of my mind though...)
it helped a lot when somehow, miraculously, i got first for jap for sec3. and it was really a morale booster. and i slowly see the possibility of getting into rj based on my jap.
then came prelims. it was really a setback. Getting 5A1s, 1A2, 1B4, 1C5 and 2C6s didn't help much. A L1R5 of 11 just wasn't good enough. And moderation gave me all the flattering grades, but couldn't just couldn't give me the required L1R5. in the end, with an L1R5 of 9 after moderation, i thought to myself, this is the end. and surprisingly, i managed to squeeze into RJ science stream with 9 points. a miracle.
perhaps it was fate. and then olevels came. once again, the impossible happened. and i was just thankful to be able to stay in rj, which i did.
the days in rj were, or rather are all about jap. i started becoming more and more determined about going to japan to study, even as ppl around me kept switching their minds about doing so. my path seemed to be pre-destined, ever since secondary school. in sec4, ppl were going to other colleges' openhouses to widen their possible future schools. and i was perhaps just stubborn not to go for any openhouse or jc talk. (cuz rj didn't come to cathigh)i didn't want anything to change my mind which was set on coming to rj. and now, all my friends are going for all kinds of scholarship talks, US, UK or local university talks. while i remain firm on my decision to study in japan in order to realize my dream of going to japan.
Whether or not my dream comes true is one thing, but the more important thing is whether i have enjoyed the path i've chosen thus far. so far, i have no regrets for all the bold decisions i've chosen, and hopefully i won't have, for the rest of my life. Thank you all, for being part of my life. If we ever meet again later in our lives, oh well,
perhaps it's fate.