Today is a special edition rant 8D.
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Have you ever read a book or something that changed your life or the way you think?
One such book that i had read only today is "SMK ST. Teresa's school magazine 2008".
Reading the essay sections and spotting some familiar names and reading their splendid essays really turned my mind around. Those essays were sophisticated while remaining interesting and this is not even considering the fact that a bunch of form 2s wrote them! (well, they wrote them last year so they're form 3 now)
I feel so incompetent. Not only for myself but for my whole school...Anyone who has read our st. Joseph school magazine and compared it to the Teresian's would notice that even essays written by our Form 5s are so painfully and obviously
INFERIOR even when compared to a 2A3 composition.
Although i would like to blame the goverment for this on being so reluctant to allow our students learn english, but i couldn't because it came down on me that us Jospehians and the Teresians are studying under the same system.
[/WARNING: off topic rant/](But i DO have a good point there... I mean, we learn to write damn complicated BM essays while our english subject standard are merely kindergarden standards! I mean, c'mon, still learning PAST TENSE in form 3?! And they never once teach us how to write essays in our english period yet.
Plus, WHERE HAS THE FREE WRITING SECTION GONE TO IN OUR ENGLISH TESTS?! THEY WERE THERE IN PRIMARY SCHOOL! GUIDED WRITING? C'MON THAT's NOT FREKIN CREATIVE AT ALL!
Seriously, it doesn't make sense as you grow accademically older, the english standard remains the same as a primary 5...became easier, even. )
[/end rant about the gov's inconcern of students/]
So back to feeling inferior.I couldn't even get my tenses and use of words right yet. My teachers say i have a terrible command of the tenses and a small vocab.
But i do have many wonderful ideas i want to write down as fan fics and small novels and had even thought about writing for the school magazine but i gave them up everytime because of my lack of command of the english language.
So reading the st teresa magazine, even if it was just for an hour or so, made me realise that i really need to improve my command over english and....
I....think i wanna take a shot at being a writer.