Saturday, 27 June 2009

• It probably hasn't occured to my peers yet that this is most probably their very last Report Card Day.  There will be no more sitting in front of teachers with your parents beside you, talking about your performance in class, for the rest of your life.  How does that sound?
  
  This time round though, it was slightly different.  This year's Report Card Day also happened to be a replacement day, so legally every student cannot leave until school hours end.  They must have held this into account, but most students just took the easy way out by not coming at all.  They could only start dishing out Report Cards at half past ten anyways.
  
  Yet all this created an unprecedented scenario that is most unique.  So while all those parents are lounging around the classroom on those wooden chairs they undoubtedly find most uncomfortable, the (extremely small) group of students who actually came since morning cluster around some tables arranged together, going about their "kerja sendiri" (own work) like nobody's business.  What's amusing though is how, as I sat there reading, I felt like we were exhibits on display, offering a "rare glimpse" into our school lives for all those parents - and not forgetting their truant child, i.e our classmates, sitting beside them, undoubtedly commenting on all the personalities and traits of the exhibits like any proud curator.
  
  Yet perhaps that at the same time, we are commenting on the visitors; speculating about their age and their likenesses to their child and such.  They don't realise it because they come and go, but we're always sitting there, watching them from the corners of our eyes.
  
  I know it may sound a bit like it, but no, this isn't some reenactment of a civil war.
  
  Currently reading: Common Knowledge about Chinese Culture
  
  

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