I think the author's thoughts were that he likes to be in Secondary school as he mentions that his friend did a heroic thing when he shaded all 'A's in his Chinese Language paper, which means that firstly, he has a friend, which means that he is settling down i the school quite comfortably. Secondly, he thinks it is a joke to shade all the same answer in an examination, which is actually quite stupid, but he finds it funny, so that means he and his friend have been planning which each other, which means their communications are good. I think he savours the thoughts of these memories as once the event has passed, there is absolutely no way of turning back the clock to redo or undo the things that you have done. Thus I think that he savours thoughts of his days back then.
I share the same sentiments. At first I felt that big numbers were certainly unreasonable as how could they ask a small kid at that time to handle such huge numbers without difficulty? And calculators were forbidden at that point of time! I felt that it was really funny for my friend to shade almost all the questions with the same answer, but in the end he failed the test while I passed. But yet i still felt it was a joke, and thus I did not calm him down. The next day, he came back with many strokes on his face, and when he explained to me what had happened to him, I finally realised that in an examination we must not play, but instead focus on it. I told him that, and he nodded his head in agreement. Thus, we soon became the 'all-pass' people in our class, which were quite rare in Primary 1.
My poem:
Planning Planning
about the test
we planned a joke
to put it to test
we entered the class
smiling broadly
to test the joke
very slyly
I peeked at him
and only to see him grinning
I looked down at mine
and I continued writing
results came back
and I had acceptable grades
yet he failed
but we continued to play with our hand made blades
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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