UPSR Fever

There would be another couple of months before UPSR. Idlan had already finished the school syllabus and in the coming weeks, his lessons would be focused on exam techniques and revisions. His trial exams would start this Friday, but the plan had to be put on hold as today he was absent again. His diarrhoea returned and Irfan had started vomiting after school and he was asleep on the couch now.

We were in Gombak as Idlan had Bahasa Malaysia class this evening - when we usually tag along for some food truck snacks. Earlier today, Anita and I went to Menara Star in town to enrol him on a weekend camp for the exams. He wanted us to register him in as his whole class were going.

The lobby at Menara StarWhat Idlan was currently reading ...Finally Idlan seemed to be interested in his exams. I asked him earlier in the year if he wanted to take the UPSR exam as he would be very likely start I-GCSE at the end of the year. He said he wanted to at least take the exam. But he hardly put any effort in, although he seemed to be able to do the questions.

Now that he wanted extra classes - likely due to peer pressure - maybe he would put just a bit more time into studying. He would rather be reading Malcolm Gladwell and his "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series than be caught reading his textbooks! And spent most of his free time doing origami and sudoku. He said it relaxed his mind ....

Well, good luck to him!