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Thursday, November 16, 2006

Study = Fail!!!

This scribbling on the bench on the 9th row,counting from in front in LT 26, caught my eyes today. To whoever the anonymous genius who came up with this formula, I can't promise you'll get a Nobel Award for it, but the least I can do is to award you with the Model Student Award of the Year. It encompasses the spirit that ALL students should possess if they want to scrape through two decades of studying and leave with a sane mind.

Here it goes:

Studying = No Fail
No studying = Fail
Studying + No studying = No Fail + Fail
Studying ( 1 + No) = Fail ( 1 + No)
Hence, cancelling ( 1 + No) on both sides,
STUDYING = FAIL!!!

Well I don't think this formula is trying to brainwash us into not preparing for exams. Rather, do your best in the time available to you to understand and revise, but be mentally prepared that the grades you get may not be proportional to the amount of effort you put in. So, let's not stress ourselves unduly with the numbers.
It's not like you'll get to live to 80 if you get 80 marks for a test. If it is so, I would have left this world long ago before the age of 5. As it is,I'm still around to write this blog.

7 Comments:

Blogger E said...

hey! jia u for exams! =) dun worry lah..i believe in doin my best..n if *touchwood* anything happens, u can still pat ur back n sae tat u did ur best! yupz! aiyoh..dun think so much lah...juz study..n worry abt the grads when the dae comes.

11:53 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ERM. ok.

7:37 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

oh hi!nice to meet you.

7:38 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

haiz... change your desktop pic

7:39 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ok la THE earring is not bad. and i mean the earring only.

7:40 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

this is funny. i always thought our lifespan is directly proportional to the marks we get.
but then marks gotten is directly proportional to the amount of studying we do.
which is directly (negatively) proportional to amount to playing done.
therefore marks we get is directly proportional to the amount of playing we get.
which leads to the conclusion that our life is directly proportional to the amount of playing done.

and i have no freaking idea of what i'm writing about.
but you're gonna APPROVE this comment (as if i need your approval) but since this is YOUR blog i can't say anything.

8:30 PM  
Blogger jlchua said...

haha...an interesting but huge logical fallacy...stemming from the misrepresentation of each propostion.

1:23 AM  

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