Yesterday I startled folks in the office I share w/ neighbour, friend, and fellow investor and his crew. I let out a shout, “wow” in the middle of an otherwise quiet and busy morning.
Got an e-mail I could otherwise not pay attention to, but I saw the header, “congratulations, we are pleased to offer ...”
Jack got accepted at the same school as the coconut is now attending, starting August. Schools are particularly difficult to get into in Hong Kong, requiring prospective student’s merit and precious school space, involving expensive debentures, corporate and/or national / sibling / legacy affiliations, etc etc.
The coconut is the type A high-strung sort, tends towards nervous at times of competitive testing, and invariably thinking did worse after testing, to be later surprised by another A.
The Jack is easy going, too relaxed, shies away from hard work, and dislikes anything to do w/ organised anything.
Jack thinks 5 out of 10 is okay, his usual grade. The extra 5 points is not worth the trouble.
“Jack, use the washroom before the test”
“Don’t worry about it. I don’t need to”
“Jack, go to sleep early so to be sharp tomorrow”
“I will be fine”
After the test,
“Jack, how did it go?”
“Fine, it was easy”
“How easy? How many answers did you know on the maths section?”
“6”
“6 out of 10?”
“Yes”
“You guessed on 4?”
“Yes, it was easy”
My wife and I were resigned to jack continuing in his and the coconut’s previous school, a fine school, but not nearly as plentiful in terms of infrastructure, software, and spectrum of classes, etc etc.
I had secretly thought, “maybe jack is lucky”.
The coconut is happy that jack shall transition to the next level following along, and noted, “Jack, you are so lucky having me as your sister at the school”.
Anyways, yesterday was a great day, and tomorrow promises to be good enough.
Last night we attended the coconut’s school mixer that closes out the Kyoto trip. I am happy that she gets along well with the two seniors who were room mates.
All good. |
