Today's the closing date of voting for Felicia. It seems there was a glitch so every smaland member who voted earlier had to vote again for their vote to count. Seems like many friends' kids are not smaland members :(
Anyway, even if Felicia doesn't get voted in (she says she'll be very very sad if she doesn't get the post, poor kid) she'll still be a member of parliament. Tiffy and I told her not to get too upset as at least she has tried and that was what that counts.
Since 2 days back, Tiffany was very very worried she failed Chinese in her PSLE. Her worry caused her to have sleepless nights. Luckily it was only for about 2 or so days before today's PSLE release of results. We praise the Lord and Mother Mary for miracles! She has performed much better than her prelims (with a B for Chinese!! Yay!!) and qualifies for express stream. We pray that she'll get into her affliate school, St Anthony's Canossian Secondary which is just next door to her primary school. She had hoped to do much better to qualify to a different school like Hai Sing Catholic but we all feel she better play it safe and go back to her affliate school. Anyway, she did much better than expected and she's very pleased with her results. For us parents, we are pleased that she had improved in her grades and qualifies for express in St Ant.
There were mixed emotions in the school canteen as girls from other classes filed out to break the news to their parents. Our Tiff's class was one of the last to be released. Bert joked was it because they were the best class? Our joker Tiff saw the results slip and the highest aggregate for PSLE - 287 - was the 1st thing she saw and her eyes almost popped out of her head!! She thought she got 287 lah! Her classmate was better still - she saw the lowest aggregate score 1st of 87 on her results slip and HER eyes almost popped --- she thought she scored that low!! Ah ya, these children!! At least Tiff is optimistic by zooming in on only the good stuff?? Haha.
Anyway, this family was waiting for their daughter when she came out with her friend, teary eyed. She told her parents her results (couldn't and didn't want to hear anyway) and then the flood of tears came. Made me tear a bit too. Then she tried to smile a little. Her mum tapped her on her head. Don't know if it was tears of joy or sadness.
One of Tiff's best friends did quite well (at least one of the better ones amongst her friends) but was emotional too as she didn't get good enough aggregate points to enter her 1st choice school. I heard that when she got home, her mum was displeased with her results. I told the poor girl that her results were pretty good and she still has some choices. I guess if a child usually does well in school, the expectations are very high whereas if they are average, if they do better than normal (although it is not fantastically high) that in itself is satisfaction for both the child and the parents. I guess in life, it's all about relativity. Those girls who are PRs and don't do 2nd language amongst her friends did so much better than Tiff in their aggregate scores. I feel it wasn't fair to those who have to juggle 4 subjects than this small group who only took 3 subjects...plus they usually sweep the top 3 positions in class because their average score is higher. The playing field is not level actually. As I usually tell Tiff life is not fair, she reiterated to me today that well, life isn't fair. Luckily for us, God IS always fair and merciful to us!
Thanks to all of you for praying for us and Tiffany! Continue to help us pray that Tiffy can get into her 1st choice school. We had already submitted our options form and pray that all will go well for her.
Love Theresa and Bert
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