Sleepless Night
I recalibrated my handphone time to fit satellite time and set my alarm for 10:59am. 11:00am I would sent a simple message, “STPM
The more and more I think of it, the more I want to do economics and/or political science. It is my passion. I can argue hours over hours in the elasticity of gas/petrol, the effectiveness of preventive taxes, Keynes monetory theories, etc. - but with accountancy, all I see is a job I can a) get, b) won’t get mad like Irene.
I want to become an entrepeuner, perhaps an investor instead (Keynes himself while being an economist was a really wealthy share speculator and investor). I don’t see how accountancy would be a better path to that anymore than economics or even social science is.
When I entered Form 6, a prophetest said to my mother that I would get not only 4 A’s, but 5 A’s. She didn’t know what I was doing, my mother said nothing at all. And at that time, I haven’t picked my 5th subject.
Largely because of Maths, I didn’t really believe it (she didn’t say which son, after all) - but after getting a new teacher just two weeks before STPM, where I finally understood Calculus, Statistics, etc. that I realize passing Maths was not only feasible, but getting an A was entirely possible.
There was another loophole in that prophecy - she didn’t say when. I have a strong urge to repeat STPM - I have until 29th March to decide. Unlike most of my Form 6 days, I have confidence that I can score straight A’s if I just try. With the exception of Maths, I know the subject (just last month, I was coaching an ACCA (Assoc. of Certified Chartered Accountants) student financial/accountancy ratios, yet I rarely get more than half mark on such questions). STPM is a set of riddles, I have the knowledge. I just need to learn in 6-7 months how to apply them in STPM.
I think that is possible.