WHO IS DERICK?

Friday, March 02, 2007
3:26 PM

To drop or Not to drop, that is the question.

Finally after the stupid, boring orientation, the lessons have commenced. As a newcomer to the school, I was very excited to attend the lessons and so as others do. The study life of rushing from a room to another room and being separated with the old classmates and study with new classmates... everything is extra-new to me!!! and I am anticipating for this new college life.

My registration room was extremely hot and small. The air-conditioner was working but the air is still hot. My first lesson was Accounting and my ACC room is exactly my registration room, so I won't have to move. Remain seated and waited for the teacher. Mdm Elicia Ong, my ACC teacher had entered the room with a not cheerful face. She kept on telling us that Accounting is really difficult and we aren't allow to skip her lessons because we will regret for it. Furthermore, she said we will be given many homework to do and blablabla... All are just discouraging statements coming from her mouth. Well, I am ok with this right before she assigned the homework to us. 4 exercises to be completed and hand up on Saturday. By looking in the textbook, the questions are easy but it takes a lot of works to do. Lot of drawing "T" Account and balance off and counting and analysing. I took 3 hours to complete it(maybe I did it too slow).

Next, it was my Physics lesson. ChiiHaw is in the same class with me. Our teacher is Mr Lock. He is an interesting guy and an experienced, good lecturer(the Principle said that). Our classroom for Physics which is a Physics Lab will need a renovation. Hope that the school will make it better for us to study.

For my Chem, ChiiHaw is in the same class with me too. Our teacher is Miss Siti Fauziyah. Well, she is quite friendly from the first impression and nothing special happened except for the announcement of short test during this Saturday. Oh ya, one more thing to be mentioned, there is 6 books for Chem which is very heavy to carry about....

Before the lunch time, it was my General Paper Lesson. Well, this lesson was the climax for that day. My classroom is in the Conference room. At first, I was very excited to go there but once I arrived there, no air-conditioner but only standing fans. Hope the school could pair some air-conditioner for us. =) We were asked to write down our name, nickname, previous school and special things about ourselves, and handed up to the teacher. Everyone had to draw the paper from the teacher, then look for the person who you have gotten and sit next to him/her. We were asked to introduce the new friend that we had found. It is quite interesting and fun. Yet, it is easier for us to remember our classmates. =D

Last was my Maths class. CheaXin is in the same class with me. Our teacher is an Indian and named Mr Jiwan Singh. He is another interesting teacher I met in the school. Nothing to mention except I solved the second question written on the book and the guy who sit beside me quite surprised. It was like he thought I can't solve the question because I kept on looking on his paper for the first question. I was only lazy to think about the working so I looked on his paper but I got my own concept in my mind and it is correct.

Now, I am facing a problem again. It is about my Accounting. I don't whether I should drop it or not. It isn't that I am arrogant(or I may seem arrogant for the following statement). I am quite confident on my Accounting skill and I think I could get an A's for my A level Accounting. So, if I drop it, it is like I am dropping an A's for my A level result. But the homework load pressure me much and I don't think I could cope with it. What if all my subject are given homework on the same day and need to be passed up on the next day? I am sure that I can't finish them. I can't give the excuse that I am taking 5 subjects(they didn't force me to take and it is me who take them). Another case, what if tomorrow, there is a test and other subjects give a lot of homework? Then, I will be dead.

If I drop my Accounting, I will have my Private Study Time in Block 4, for which I could do my incomplete homework and revise some notes and concentrate on my science and maths. The possibility for me to drop it is quite high if the coming homework is stressful.

Well, there is always a lost and gain for taking an action. I am asking myself that am I that weak that can't cope with the pressure? or Should I be more confident and believe in myself that I can do it?

Now... To drop or Not to drop, that is the question. =D