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As a teenager living in Singapore, I find myself stuck in a society were it is all about the grades on the piece of paper. That is ALL that mattered. In this little island located in South East Asia, all the company cares is basically your credit in the form of your certificate.

If you were a Secondary School Graduate with great character who is willing to learn, you would still not be able to get the job. In your place would
Most probably be a University graduate with no character at all. I have heard from both my friends and family thy this is a scene that you will definitely see in Singapore.

I believe that is mainly due to the fact that we are in Asia. You see, the Asian society has this concept, this ideology that of you are smart in terms of studies, you would be a great person. It has become a ‘tradition’ that the child must be a clever in school in order to get a job and be able to take care of themselves. While these nerds get all the good, those that are weaker in academics are usually placed out of the spot light as people who will never succeed in life.

But from most of the success stories and books that I have read so far, the most successful people around did not go very high up in the academics ladder. Steve Jobs of Apple.Inc, Bill Gates of Microsoft, these are some of the richest people and they were not those who had high IQ, it was their high EQ.

I believe that in years to come, you would see those that had entered neighbourhood secondary school coming out at the top of the corporate ladder. Yes, I believe that they would become the founder of large companies that would hire those that had gotten their highest honours in their academics. You may say that I am lying but from what I see around me, I believe that many of those that don’t seem very smart right now would end up being influential members of the society. Each and everyone of them are like unpolished diamonds waiting to be discovered.

I am sure many Singaporeans have already seen this piece of news dating quite sometime back.
Well, I agree with most of the things that the student had mentioned in the letter:
1) The time we spent in schools is very long.
A secondary three or four student would spend atleast 9h on average in school. That is due to lessons in the morning, afternoon supplementary lessons and last but not least, CCA.
If you add all of this up, you would get about 9h or more.

2) We see our teachers more than seeing our parents.
I am totally for this point. On a vague basis, each of us are atleast awake for 18h. Taking away the time that we use to eat and bath, we are approximately left with 15h? If an ave student spends even 9h in school, that is indeed more than the time we spend with our family. Remember that we have not even added in the time we use to do our homework and traveling from one place to another.

3) we have a smaller variety of subjects that we can choose from.

I am definitely for this point and the subject variety is indeed very small. I take 8 subjects and my secondary school only allows triple science students to take bio. Those who take double sciences or combine science, we are left with chemistry and physics. Other schools that I know atleast allow all students to take biology. Trust me, physics is not an easy subject at all.

Personally, I have an interest in humanities and my weakpoint is science. In this case, wouldn’t it be better if I just took humanities and math instead of having weaker subjects that would eventually make my O lvl report card look bad?

Okay, I know that some people would be saying things like it’s so that we have a balanced education bur why can’t it just be a non examined but important subject in school? Won’t that be better? Why can’t student choose the subjects they want to be tested in?

Putting that aside, I believe that the education system is pretty unfair. I have friends in the last class( supposedly the ‘worst’ class) but thy are smart. Just because their secondary 2 results were not as good as the rest, but they are still generally smart.

Futhermore, why is art considered as a subject for people that can’t do well in other more ‘important’ subjects. This is not the truth at all. Almost every education system has a preference for sciences first, maths the second, language the third and humanities and arts at the end of the pyramid. I truly believe that such a system is unfair. This actually constricts every youths ability as they are sometimes being forced to give up what they love and take sometime that they just do not understand.

As I have once read in a book, we should not stop one from expanding their imagination. As a famous person once said,”Humans don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it.”

Well

1) How big is Heaven?

Reason: I mean, if all that are forgiven goes to Heaven, that means that are over he years there should be atleast a few billion people living there?

2)Do we need to pay for our housing?

Reason: Well, if we were to stay in Heaven, we would need a house, right? So is it free, do we work for it? Or do all of us stay under the same roof altogether?

3)What if we sin?

Reason:All humans are given the right of choice so no matter how good we may be, we will still sin. A small lie, kicking up a fuss, we will tend commit this crime, right? So if we sin in Heaven, will we be sent down to Hell?

4)What is there to do in Heaven?

Reason: First of all, we are going to stay there for near Eternity so what is there to do? I know that we will continue to worship God but are you sure that will be for 24 hours straight? There has got to be something else that we can do, right?

5)Will we get wings?

Reason: All of us know that there are angels in Heaven so is it true that after death we will grow wings to become angels? So we should have wings, right?

6)Are there still love and marriages in Heaven?

Reason: Love is one of the strongest emotions in the Universe so does it still exist in Heaven between man and women?

That’s about what I have and I hope that none of this is offensive to anyone! This is just my view on things. 😛

Most of us view death negatively, thinking that it’s like the end of our lives when we perish from the face of the Earth.

For the religious group of us, Christians believes that that would mean we head on to the paradise known as Heaven. A wonderful place where there are streets of gold and everything we ever wanted.

The Chinese would believe that we must first pay for our mistakes that we have done on Earth and if we are lucky enough, we will be reincarnated.

To me, i am definitely afraid of the place called Hell, but if we must say, does it mean that all of us would end up in Hell? I mean, don’t all humans make mistakes? Does that mean we will all have to pay for our sins? Even if we constantly ask for forgiveness, won’t we still be sinners and should we not go Hell to pay for our sins.

It’s not that I don’t believe it but there are so many questions that I have about  life after death. I really hope that its not just black out and that is the end cause that is really too wierd to be true. I do believe a little of science but coming from a tiny cell does sound very wierd.