progress reporting

the husband came to singapore with me on sunday morning. it was lovely having company on the long bus ride. since we took the 7.30am bus, we spent sleeping, snuggling next to each other in the cold ride back. and even when he was asleep, i had my hand in his. very the romantic. best 5 hours of bus ride ever.

he will be here for apm this week and we are blessed to be able to spend abt 10 days or so together. its very rare this kind of occasion happens to we are trying to milk its worth. but come thurs and fri, he will be evry busy so i have to play the dutiful wife and stay at home (eat, sleep, watch tv) and await for his return from work.

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we are in the midst of keying in the progress reports for common test results. i hate it when it comes to the part on remarks. what do you exactly type out? what kind of comments would you relay to the parents?

last time our report cards only reflect on our academic achievements or lack of. so its often that the old school teachers would say things like "weak in maths and english." thats all. short and sweet. now must comment the character la, personality la, attitude la, strengths la, weakness la and sometimes predict his or her future! (i am not kidding!)

aku bukan psychic. i only see some of your kids once a week. stupid holistic report system.

and we cant use negative words in the report cards anymore. so instead of saying "weak in maths and english", its being changed to something like "academically-challenged" and instead of "lazy" we must euphemised it to "lacks motivation."

call a spade, a spade, a spade. we should stop kidding and bull-shitting around and just lay the cold bare facts. no need to candy-coat the half-truths and instead, spill the brutal truth and facts.

now where is my damn thesaurus?