Hello Again

For those who couldn't tell, it really IS me playing violin in the picture (see ring on left hand pinkie).

To passers by who happened to see me on that day, I am no fake violinist kay?? And I wasn't doing it for narcissism, it's for assignment purpose kay????

Heard news from friends about the highest score for Writing For Business mid-term this morning. It was a bombshell to me, though I expected to score low. According to them, highest score for the whole batch is 28/40. Not like I expected myself to score any higher than that, but let's for a moment imagine that people with 'powderful Ingcliche' like Leanne, Ian and Joshua scoring 28/40 for the paper...

Doesn't really make sense isn't it?

People can obviously do better.

I know Writing for Business is not 'Ingcliche'. It ain't 'just Ingcliche'. It's about the 7Cs.

But without that, it's still English lah come on... The hateful thing about Writing For Business is that there is no actual format for you to follow when it comes to the 7Cs. In other words, the marking itself is pretty subjective. You don't really know what the examiner wants.

Theoretically, the '7Cs' are like a piece of cake, but application is another story. Sometimes, I can't even differentiate between being courteous and considerate, complete and concrete. I readily admit that I'm not very clever at this. So it's not surprising that I don't do well in WFB.

But still, I don't like this subject =(

One selfish reason is that I can't handle it well lah (proven in tutorial classes). The other not-so-selfish reason is, we weren't given detailed guidelines on how to *erhek... erhem...* answer exam questions... What I mean is...

Who the hell knows when to do this and that? You say sentences must be complete, so we add details to fill the hole, then you deduct the mark and say that it's unnecessary. You say sentences must be concise so we delete the unimportant elaborations, then you put a cross and say that it's wrong. You say sentences must be correct so I use the accurate word, then you draw a line under it and say that it's not simple enough.

In the end, I use guessings to come to a conclusion of what the examiner wants. What a nice game.

I'm sure if I'm sure of what you're sure of you want, everybody can score.

Sue me, I never use 'Ingcliche' concisely.

I think I 'memper-siasui-kan' my English teachers =X

I am going to do serious revision on Writing For Mass Communication now. Don't feel like letting the same thing happen again. By the way, I'm not getting mad at it you know? Just expressing my feelings.