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Why do we singkies nowadays have such a loser's mentality? Can we return to the good old days, bitch less and work harder to overcome obstacles? From http://forum.channelnewsasia.com/viewtopic.php?t=395245 "Sheer hard work and determination" How do these FTs compare to our locals who: 1) do not speak Chinese at home 2) demand that Chinese must be fun in order for them to learn 3) struggle with Chinese as a result 4) fail Chinese for obvious reasons (do not read, do not speak, do not watch, do not bother, how to pass?) 5) demand that Chinese weightage must be lowered so that they can compete 6) best of all, make Chinese optional How to compete with such a mindset? -------- A GROUP of China-born students at Crescent Girls' School powered themselves from F9s to A1s for English in just two years. Asked for their secret, the girls, who failed English when they started out in Secondary 3 here in January 2009, said sheer hard work and determination made this possible. And they did not work on just their English in those two years. All seven scored nine A1s in the O levels they sat last year. Then again, they are obviously bright: They all found mathematics here a breeze because they were getting far tougher questions back home; science also presented little difficulty because they had covered Singapore's O-level science syllabus by the time they finished the equivalent of Secondary 3 in China. They also found Higher Chinese easy, and most of them chose to take Chinese literature as their humanities subject. But English was their Mount Everest. It was one of the reasons they were placed in Secondary 3 here - to give them a year to work at the language - though by age, they should have been in Secondary 4.