Friends in the Time of Study

WITHOUT friends, we are nothing. Our world would be one lonely, quiet universe. When the exams are near, the mood of worry and anxiety weighs heavy upon us. But that hard-to-shake-off oppression doesn’t feel twice as bad because you’re not alone. So many others are sitting for the exam as well; and for me, that big exam is the ‘O’ levels, exactly 19 days away.

Believe

“BELIEVE you can,” Theodore Roosevelt once said, “and you’re halfway there.” This couldn’t be more true because all great endeavors start with one single thing: belief. The word has a powerful ring to it. It ignites the human spirit, giving it all the energy of resolve and possibility.

The Parent Playbook: Better Safe Than Sorry

BETTER safe than sorry. Parents with such a mentality tend to be risk-averse, anti-adventure, possibly even paranoid. These are the sorts of parents who tend to encourage their children to spend less CCA or co-curricular hours in a week. Why don’t they support those grueling, six-hour or more CCAs, like sports or uniformed groups? No, too taxing, too time-consuming. No wonder the students who go for CCAs such as Media Resources and Astrology Club are considered wimps—losers, if you will.