When I was 15 there was another public exam. Of course, my Lord Brother before me had scored straight As for his exams. So now the pressure was on me. My grades were good enough but there was always a playful side to me, I was always looking for fun and games and adventure, I remember starting my own detective agency in school and we investigated anything and everything from missing cats to missing toothbrushes (we had to bring our own toothbrushes and brush our teeth in school). If I remember correctly, we did not solve a single case but that did not stop our spirit! And then of course, there were all these school activities that I joined, various sports clubs, choir club, debating society and all other kinds of stuff. On hindsight, perhaps I did all that so that I spent as little time as possible at home, because I was a prisoner at my own house with my mother refusing to let me go out for no apparent reason. Be that as it may, I also enjoyed the extra curricular activities as I always had a lot of energy to spare, and then some.
To everyone's surprise, especially mine, I scored straight As as well for my exam. I really couldn't believe it, because only I know how little effort I put into studying (as compared, for example, to my Lord Brother who is the definition of studious) and I expected at least 4 out of 7 As. I came home and lied to my mother that I got 4 As and 3 Bs and she started with her usual "what will people say?" And that I was very playful and my Lord Brother did so well and why was I like this blah blah blah and when she stopped for 2 seconds to see my exam slip, she was overjoyed for all of 2 minutes, because of course my Lord Brother had done it all before, so what was the big deal?
This was actually the beginning of my nightmare. Maybe it would've been better if I played dumb and obtained worse grades, because there was a warped view at that time that students with good grades should go to Science Stream, and the people of lesser intelligence i.e. not so good grades would end up in the Arts Stream. Except. I really loved, and still do, all things Art.
But alas! It was not to be.
To everyone's surprise, especially mine, I scored straight As as well for my exam. I really couldn't believe it, because only I know how little effort I put into studying (as compared, for example, to my Lord Brother who is the definition of studious) and I expected at least 4 out of 7 As. I came home and lied to my mother that I got 4 As and 3 Bs and she started with her usual "what will people say?" And that I was very playful and my Lord Brother did so well and why was I like this blah blah blah and when she stopped for 2 seconds to see my exam slip, she was overjoyed for all of 2 minutes, because of course my Lord Brother had done it all before, so what was the big deal?
This was actually the beginning of my nightmare. Maybe it would've been better if I played dumb and obtained worse grades, because there was a warped view at that time that students with good grades should go to Science Stream, and the people of lesser intelligence i.e. not so good grades would end up in the Arts Stream. Except. I really loved, and still do, all things Art.
But alas! It was not to be.
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