a filler. from between week to week.

uh huh. lasted all of a week. and what a week.

at least the primary sixes are sitting tight in their exam rooms by now. just one more set of exams to go...

from what i gather majority of parents here are insanely achievement oriented. insanely. if their precious in-their-eyes-precocious nine year olds don't score in the realm of band 1, or (horror of horrors) drop a further 5.5 marks to below 80...

well, they'll whip the cane out, and for good measure get rid of the ineffective person who claims to be giving tuition to their kids once a week.

i read a book. apparently caning's the culture. wacky people. (oh no, i should say, traditional...) i have concluded. i am blessed. not to have parents like that. or the parents who gleefully impart their disciplinary secrets. "don't use canes, canes leave a mark. use rubber bands."

what is freaking wrong with you?

in any case. i'd have had to be going, anyway, by the end of the year. it's bad enough that the primary school year overlaps into our first semester. i wonder if i should tell them that, or let them politely ask me to get lost first. maybe i'll let them refine that art of office politicking.

but enough people are decent enough themselves. as are the kids, all three of them (i know, small basis for comparison, but that doesn't make it any less real), that i don't know how i'm going to be decent to them in saying 'i quit'. if the action itself doesn't already count that impossible.

i don't know. i don't know. (so i know i don't know. is that supposed to make me feel any better?)

i don't type in capital letters because that makes it feel too formal for me to be honest.

the kids aren't all bad. infact they aren't bad at all. and it's not as if i don't wish for them to be happy, or do well. i'm just not in a position to achieve either next year. so that leaves till the end of this.

i'm awaiting eviction in the case of the primary sixes. it's just science and mother tongue, if i'm not wrong, that's left. and i do hope they get all the a*s they want or need. as for the aforementioned primary three kid, well. just a little while more, before the exams come a-caling. here's to practice papers i'll have to churn out if i don't find good enough assessment books in time. and to hoping.