These few days have been filled with emotional turmoil for most of us J1s in SR I presume. Firstly would be the huge shocker on the first day of our return to school, during the outbreak of the news that we were supposed to re-sit our H2 Math paper. As for the reason behind it, I shall not divulge or comment further as I do not wish to put my school's reputation at stake. Right after our Math paper on Thursday was the release of the promotional exam results for our other subjects on Friday, which was just yesterday. Many of my classmates and friends were getting jittery over their pending relief or doom. I, however, did not feel the slightest tinge of anxiety as I really did not believe in letting such things affect my mood. Results would have already been set no matter what our attitude towards it will be, so why not face it with optimism and light-heartedness rather than pessimism and worry? My friends always ask me why I am always so cool about such things and I always answer them in the same way, which is what I have just mentioned in the sentence above. I can understand if people feel insecure about their results and they really cannot be blamed. Even I myself do admit that negative thoughts plague me sometimes but once I recall my "theory" about attitude and mindset, everything just turns out fine. Optimism is extremely important and just by feeling positive does change the perspective of many issues and one will find it easier to accept certain truth or situations with an optimistic mindset. Optimism is also an important trait for shooters. Our pistolers are always chided by Ms Lin whenever they show signs of pessimism and Mr Ng doesn't allow riflers to make pessimistic remarks. I always remember the time when I wasn't satisfied with my shooting results and didn't meet Mr Ng's target, so when I replied him with "I failed", he immediately corrected me by saying, "You cannot say 'I failed', you can only say 'I didn't pass' ". haha. Then I kind of rebutted by asking "what's the difference?" and he replied "Of course there's a difference. When you say fail, it's thinking negatively and when you say never pass, it's thinking positively". I may have forgotten his exact words but the gist is in there. haha. Anyway, received my partial promos results yesterday and I really thank God for my results because without him, I will never be able to promote. I'm not being religious here but God really works in miraculous ways and believe it or not, he really did help me for each and every paper. On the whole, my class did pretty ok and chances of promoting are high so I thank God for that too. Shall pray that our class will not be split if not we'll go and appeal man! haha. Started shooting again yesterday and yah, finally man! I was anticipating being able to shoot again and after about 1 month or so, FINALLY resumed training! As expected, my skills deteriorated having not touched my rifle for so long... missed my husband lar, haha. To sum everything up, I would just like to appeal to those who seem hopeless about promoting that they should not worry just yet as math results are not out and even if math wouldn't save you, just BE OPTIMISTIC! Have confidence and face everything bravely. Do not blame anyone for whatever happens but yourself and I believe God has his purpose for everything so always hold a good opinion of God. So here's wishing everyone get promoted and God Bless!