I'm BACK after SUCH a long hiatus

Hey guys. I'm hopefully FINALLY back after such a long hiatus. I know most of you must have gone into slumberland and forsaken me for committing such one of the greatest offense in blogging - not updating consistently. And for that, I apologize.

Previously, I was in a dilemma on whether to continue with this blog as I'm already pretty detached from school and am unable to provide any news. However, I've decided to stick around, just for now, so that I've an avenue to practice my writing. As my recent SAT score and diagnostic tests tell me, I really do SUCK at writing. Period. That's probably why I should start blogging away. At the very least, I get some writing done, even if it may be in such informal tone or lacking in structure or even rid with verbosity. At least I'm practicing, and if I may slowly try to consciously stray away from the mistakes that Mrs. Khor has pointed out months ago, I MIGHT just achieve the breakthrough that she foresees.

For now, this blog would serve more as an educational blog. It would document my experience of studying in INTEC, UiTM under the American Degree Foundation Program. I'll also be posting up information and links regarding the US applications, which is what I'll be going soon in just a few months. This doesn't stray that far from my original theme of this blog. Form 5 Chung Ling Kias will be able to know more about their choices once they leave school, and those who want to go US will be able to know what's required to go there after graduating from Chung Ling.

These will be my current short term goals. As Mrs. Khor aptly put it, there are dreams, and then there are goals ( the achievable ones) So I shall focus on the ones that I think is most achievable in the near future, rather than daydreaming about how to transform this blog into the blog for everything Chung Ling.

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JPA Results Out On 6 May!?

Update 4: What's this!? No link to check the results when it's like 8 pm already!? I suppose JPA is reminding us all patience is a virtue. Darn!

Update 3: They just pushed back the time 2 hours till 5pm. Darn. But anyhow, 2 hours is no difference compared to how long we have waited. All the best again people!

Update 2: It's official! JPA results will be out on the 8th of May, 3 pm!! Fingers crossed people! All the best!!

Word is out that the JPA results will be out on the 6th of May. That's right, 2 more days from now! That's a full week earlier than what they told us. This news came from a person from recom who got this reply after emailing JPA:

Salam sejahtera,Untuk makluman, pada awalnya JPA merancang untuk
mengeluarkan keputusan tawaran PILN pada 11 Mei 2009. Walau bagaimanapun, banyak pihak menggesa supaya tarikh keputusan diawalkan supaya pelajar dapat membuat pilihan antara Matriks dan JPA memandangkan pendaftaran ke Matrikulasi adalah pada 11 Mei 2009. Sehubungan itu, JPA akan mempercepatkan tarikh pengumuman keputusan kepada 6 Mei 2009. Semua pelajar dinasihatkan supaya menyemak pemakluman mengenai pengumuman keputusan ini di portal JPA http://www.jpa.gov.my/ dari masa ke masa untuk mengelakkan sebarang kekeliruan.

Siti Zaharah Omar
Unit Penawaran Latihan Dalam PerkhidmatanBahagian Pembangunan Modal Insan,
JPA

A quick check at the jpa site showed that the date was still the 3rd week of May, so I suppose they have yet to update. Others who called or emailed got another date - 8th of May. Suffice to say, due to the registration for Matrikulasi falling on 11th May, it'd be safe to say that all shall be known by the end of this week. Fingers crossed people and good luck!

Update 1: Guess it's not 6th after all. A quick check now (10.20 pm Tues) shows no news. Website still not updated regarding the date so I'm not too sure what the date will be. My money's on the 8th though. That's the latest they can afford to announce as Form 6 and Matrikulasi both start next mon.

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CLHS Tops Penang - 12 Students CGPA 4.0

Chung Ling High School has continued its excellent performance in STPM. While this year we do not have the honours of a National Top Scorer, who, if I remember correctly, managed to secure an immediate offer to MIT (wow!), 12 of our students scored a perfect CGPA 4.0 to top Penang! Among the main 'rivals' beaten include Chung Ling Butterworth (9 students), Jit Sin (OMG!) (6 students) and Penang Chinese Girls' High School (5 students). Unbelieveable eh? It shows we have quality over quantity!

Congrats to these students for making our school proud! Let's hope this Thursday would be another glorious day for Chung Ling.

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STPM 2008 Results Out Tomorrow

STPM results will be out tomorrow! Good luck to all sixth formers!!

On the down side, that means 2 more days till D-Day!!!! SPM RESULTS!! OMFG!!!!

Lenient Marking Scheme for SPM Chinese

If you have taken Chinese as a subject in SPM, you're probably like me, currently panic-stricken over the thought of your result as it's notoriously difficult to score an 1A in Chinese. We've all seen the past results where in some years, less than 10 people score 1A out of like 500 students taking it. Some will probably have been told by their teachers that 85 is the minimum for an 1A. Some like me will probably know that sometimes that's not true as SOMETIMES, they RAISE IT UP TO 90! Of course, some of you will say that not everyone is currently worried about Chinese as it's not THAT difficult to score a pass. But hey, those who ARE worried, are obviously those who are aiming and praying hard for an 1A.

Well, if you're in this unfortunate situation, fret not. I have some good news to cheer you guys up. From what I've heard from a teacher who is a marker, the marking scheme was surprisingly lenient! Yes, you heard me right. LENIENT! I suppose that is not really THAT surprising coming after last year's shockingly difficult paper not to mention uber-strict marking scheme especially in the summary part.

Let's hope that there will be more 1As coming this coming Thursday. Fingers crossed!

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SPM Results Out on 12th

It's confirmed! SPM results will be out on the 12th of March (next Thursday)

The Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) and Sijil Tinggi Agama
Malaysia (STAM) results will be released on March 12.

Students would be able to obtain the results after 10am
from their respective schools, said Education director-general Datuk Alimuddin
Mohd Dom.

“Private candidates will receive their results through
the post,” he said in a statement yesterday.

A total of 442,936 students sat for the SPM examination,
while 6,240 students sat for the STAM papers last year

~ The Star, 6th March 2009

That's less than a week more to go! Gosh! This is getting terrifying. After all, this IS a make-or-break-it result. A miss in an 1A can potentially spell disaster for any local scholarship. It's an open secret that the first main criterion to filter candidates is the SPM results, with the other criterion like co-curricular activities, performance in interviews, personality traits, etc. coming after that. JPA for instance requires a minimum number of As and 1As for certain subjects, which I think are Moral, Bahasa Malaysia and Sejarah. So yes, one's future does hang in balance with this results.

I suppose most of my fellow students are trying very hard to ignore this piece of news and not think about it, but the truth is, who can? We're all shivering in fear, dreading to know the results, yet at the same time, wishing the wait would be over. Ironic, but true. But of course, time flies by at its constant speed, unhindered by our fears nor hurried by our excitement.

Sometimes, the wait is worse then the conclusion. But at least, that's what I hope it turns out to be.

ps. Will be updating once the results are out. Do tune in to see if I survive 'Judgement Day'. Or how Chung Ling fares in this time around. Will a full pass be obtained? Will we triumph over our 'old rivals'? Or will it be another round of 'slaughtering'?

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This Blog Has Yet To DIE!

I guess I have been slacking off from blogging for awhile. Wait a minute, scrap that. Last I checked, my last post was about a month ago, so I suppose the correct word should be verging on giving up on blogging. It has indeed been getting harder these past few weeks for me to just log in and type something up compared to the past year, and even more so when I was in Form 4. I guess it's perhaps because I don't really have much of a subject to blog about. This blog was after all set up to be all about Chung Ling and now me being an ex-student makes me less-informed about the happenings in Chung Ling. Like any hobby, it requires a certain passion, a motivation to say the least to keep things moving. In this case, I suppose the motivation has certainly dimmed quite a bit since I started this blog two years ago.

Some have asked me the question of what shall I do with this blog now that it has basically, put crudely, run out of its use? I've yet to decide on it, but I can surely see the effects of losing a main subject to write about. I suppose with anything treasured, one feels a certain attraction that makes it hard for us to just throw it away and forget about it. Nor is it any easier to change it to something else, even for a logical reason.

I shall keep this blog the way it is now, at least for now, until I figure things out. It's after all a culmination of two years of work. I have to admit that I do feel a very strong connection with Chung Ling. It's hard to explain, how Chung Ling is any different from other secondary schools, but I'm sure it's one view that is resonated by so many others considering how strong our alumni is. So indeed, this blog does whole a special place in my heart. It is after all the very first blog that has managed to stay alive for 2 years (a long time considering that my previos blogs all lasted just a few months) and it's a blog about Chung Ling! What more can I say?

And there's another reason for not giving up on this blog. You subscribers did not give up on me even though I didn't blog for a whole month! And what's more, traffic has not really dwindled to the excruciating 20 views per day (even if most of the traffic are from the search engines),so I suppose there are still quite a number of people reading my blog, albeit not a traffic most bloggers would consider successful, but, at least I still get traffic!

This shall not be the end of Chunglingstudent.com!!!

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CNY Celebration Tonight in CLHS

There's a big Chinese New Year celebration going on tonight at the field in Chung Ling High School. It's being organised by our alumni of year 1975/77 but it's being dubbed as a 'thousand people event", so I suppose all students & alumnis who are interested are invited. It's also coincidentally the 78th anniversary of our alumni. Anyways, do check it out if you chung ling kias are free tonight. I'm sure outsiders are welcomed to. Just say you're related to a Chung Ling Kia and you should have your free dinner. xD!

*Disclaimer: I am in no way responsible for any losses be it physical or mental if you happen to be kicked out.

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