I guess everyone I know, or I think I used to know, are all doing well in their respectable paths. Some have completed their college education, some are attaining high Grade Point Average for their semester exams in polytechnic, others doing well in their own private school that they pursue.

What about me? I'm doing average, or I say below average in school. I don't know about you, but I just feel that the education system is so flawed, so wrong. I've never understand why my school doesn't have any industrial attachment, which is so vital in this current relevant world.

Yes, the education system in Singapore is rather flawed, don't you agree? Everything is so based on the textbook, and their supposed lab experiments which are so structured, that I don't learn anything. Where's the innovation? And why are they called experiments, when we're not allowed to experiment about? Its all so structured, and we're forced to follow the lab sheets step by step.

I'm someone, who relates better to experience, and learning things on my own compared to the structured learning. I've never been a fan of reading textbooks, but I've to admit I excel better in theoretical modules rather than those practical sort. If you've been reading, you might have come to understand that I'm a very humanities and language based kind of person. And I've always been like this, all the time.

In my heart, I don't really bother much about my grades. But in everyone's practical viewpoint, having good grades, are what define a person in this working world. I beg to differ, in reality, all the scenarios that the supposed structured learning draws out, always seem to turn out worst. And the only correct way to learn, is to jump right to it and try. Never be afraid to fail, and many fail to realize that.

Yes, I've to agree, studying is important, but is it that important after all? Interpersonal skills, having good teamwork, something my school have been trying to emphasize but fails to actually really enforce it. Modules such as creative thinking, innovation and enterprise. Can such life skills be taught? Seminars about how to be successful, introducing winning formulas to life. To be honest, they're just scams. If its really that easy to succeed in life, we'll all had already.

But in definition, all of us have different goals and dreams in life. And our views on success differ from person to person. But what I'm trying to say is, yes having a good paper qualification is good. But then again, just having a paper qualification, living life in a structured way, is that any good? I've never been a fan of people who get extremely good grades, because all they do is practise and study. Examinations are always similar, once you practise on the papers, you'll pass.

Life is NOT about paper qualification, that's for sure. But sadly, society has degraded to a point that, a successful career is defined by having good grades. If you look closely, you're realize that, most politicians came from Raffles and St. Joseph Institution, and most successful entrepreneurs come from ACS(I). That explains quite a fair bit, on why they insist paper qualification makes or break a career.

But for me, I rather do something that i really want, and study something with passion. I don't want to study in a deadpan manner, so as to get grades in something that I've no wish to do. For me, that is engineering which I see no bright future in it. Yeah sure, many say the prospects are great, but I beg to differ honestly. Singapore, with such a small pool of resources, its either you make it big or you'll just be another small-timer with or without good grades.

I've no idea what I'm writing now, yes its getting incoherent, cause I've deviated and wrote a hell lot of what I shouldn't have written. Yes this is all my opinion, if you don't like it, don't read it alright? I'm not asking you to read this, so please keep yours to yourself. But I really have to say is,