My D passes 10th g. :)

Just an hour ago, my elder D's 10th class results were announced. 10 th is a crucial examination and this is a stage when careers take shape. It was known when we were home for lunch from office. A cousin's friend had made an SMS to him [we had given the reg. nos. and all that to him]. My cousin lives in a portion of our house and he came informing the arrival of results on his mobile. I noted the same on the blackboard that is always hung in our living room {homoeopathy classes are held Saturdays in this hall}. She has secured 83.8% and she was elated at the number. There are many who have scored around 90%. Now it is time for her to enter college - called as Pre-Univesity here, and it is our time to select a good and suitable college for her and she says that her interest is in the Science subjects, not Commerce or Arts. The results will also be announced in their schools this evening. A couple of colleges are close by, within a range of a mile and we may get her admitted to one of them soon.

In our days, 32 years ago, it was announced in our schools after a typewritten copy was pasted on a board and one had to peep through the curious heads looking at the same board. Now we are at our comforts of our living room or even mobile [don't have one as yet] to know results! What a change! A little earlier than our batch, all the reg. nos. used to be published in the newspapers and copies of them used to sell like hot cakes that morning as people used to buy to check if their numbers are printed -- if not found, it was undestood as the failure of the candidate. I remember the morning when I went to school to check the results - mine was in the "pass class". It was not found in the "I" or "II".

It is my duty to have to inform my friends and relatives about the success of my D. I must admit that I never even dreamt of scoring such a high percentage as I neglected studies at that critical moment that did not see me in high academic circles. I was destined to be that way. Now, this success makes me a happy father. Exams in our days used to be tough, tougher still in my father's generation. Things are easy now, but voluminous to study and remember, recall and put on paper. Scoring marks to compete the world seems to be the motto, 'learning' is secondary.

Dinu

Congratulations Dinu - We're proud with you !

That's wonderful news! Being such a hard worker, your daughter will continue to excel. One day I hope to read your announcement of her winning a Nobel Prize. : )

Thanks very much. The Nobel Prize.... Mmmmm. I will put it into her mind so that she can set a goal, though this is pretty far away!
Dinu

Congratulations to the proud Dad...and to the successful daughter!! I hope she sets good goals for herself. Jo

Dinu
Congrats to you and your daughter.

Paul

Dinu, I'm so happy for your daughter, for you and for all the family!!!!

Congratulations!!!!

Ursula

Thank you Jo, Paul and Ursula. She is opting to take Physics, Chemistry, maths and Biology. You want to know how I fared at the same stage? Not even half! But such things were on at that time as 'competetion' was not as fierce as no.
But I have no regrets! I have enjoyed not studying with diligence. I'm not a good example for those who want to emulate in academics.
Dinu

Dinu, how proud a Father you are! Best wishes for your daughter to have a bright future!

Dinu, great news about your daughter!

Blessings and good wishes are necessary as we move along, isn't it? Thank you, darius and Kimberley.
(Dinu)

Dinu, I am proud of her too! As for the notion about the Nobel Prize, why not make that suggestion? Aim for the sky because even if you miss, you'll still land among the stars! Best wishes for her success! ~ Suzi :)

Dinu, I am so happy for you and your daughter. Your pride is beaming, and well it should. Your daughter should be proud of her achievements.
My daughter is getting ready to take an exam, also a big one, here they do exams after the 8th grade, and by the score it is deternined which high school you can attent, and like wise on your last year of high school for college entrance, it is a very stressfull time for students here who learn at an early age that doing well in the exams is of the utmost importance. they start at 5th grade.
anyway, unfortunately my daugher will no do well at all, cause she is studying everything in a language she has just learned and is struggling, i feel very bad for her, and i wish i hadnt moved here, i had forgotten how competitive the schools system is.

Thank you Suzi and Pebble.
Pebble, just encourage your D to carry along without bothering too much about the end result. Yea, it is difficult for young minds to take changes esp. in language but allow more breathing time for her to adjust. Young people will do that better than older ones. My friend went to Brunei from Saudi Arabia and she faced the same problem, but adjusted with time. She was put in her aunt's school back here in India for her 10th grade and she again found it hard to acclimatize to newer medium. She was learning Indonesian and all that there in Brunei. I'm expecting a mail from my friend how she fared in her exams. He had also come over for a month to be with her before the exams. His children are basically brilliant. Yours is on similar lines, I hope.

Ahhh, wowsers Dinu !! ..

I can feel the warmth from your faces (yours and that 'intellectual' daughter) .. jes beamin' and radiating .. thru your post, here on DG !!! ...

How could parents, not be most seriously proud .. of the accomplishments of their children, with such eventfully wonderful academic scores !?!

Hope you guys celebrate most appropriately ...

(*huggerooners*)

- Magpye

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"Where is your sweet?" That's the commonly asked question as soon as one hears the success of anything here, almost by tradition. So, sweetmeat shops have field days esp. during the time when exam results are out. We had bought a kilo of a sweet prepared from dried coconut and sugar. There are milk sweets too that are quite popular. I always miss the digicam - if I had one, I'd have taken pictures of wherever I go. There are many traditional dishes that are popular and very uniquely tasty.

Thanks Magpye for the wishes.

Dinu

Dinu I can feel your joy in your writing. Congratulations to you on doing such a good job in steering her in the right way and to her for doing so good. I hope for continued success in her studies.

Jim,
Thank you very much for your wishes. Will keep people posted about where she joins this month end.
Dinu

Here is the picture of her about to go to college the first day. Her friend who had come here to go together is on the left and my younger d [going to 6th] is in the centre. This girl comes here everyday and they go together to college.

Dinu, great picture of your girls. What is your daughter going to study in college?

Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Biology. That's the combination she has opted for.

ohhh Dinu, she will have her hands full.......good luck to her.

I am very proud of her! May she have the best instructors and understand everything!! My best to her!! ~ Suzi :)

The college is reputed to have good lecturers [as we call here] and is also an all-ladies college [some lecturers of course are men]. This college is gaining reputation every year. It's just ten minutes by walk... what more can one ask? One of my cousins is a Physics lecturer here. I too had studied the same combination, but had to divert to business management for my degree, rather forced to. Did not get sufficient %ge to join the engineering course.

Thanks for the wishes.

Dinu

That so great for her so" Congrat's "!

They're beautiful

Congrats Dinu. In India and Pakistan ... Matric is the first step for starting a good career. But we separate Maths and Biology after Matric... The students who wants be a doctor , select Biology and other means Engineer and Computer specialist select Maths. You daughter select both in First year.
Beacuse after F.Sc they should have to choose their career subject(professional sebject).
Nice to see your family ... they all are looking nice.
Kaleem

Thanks Kaleem.
This step is called the Pre-University Course [PUC], but in other states in our country they call it differently, though they are the same. Yes, this step is crucial in shaping careers of students. For those who choose Engineering, marks scored in PCM subjects are considered. For those who choose to study Medicine, PCB is taken into account. This is at the end of the 2 year course. That is when parents and students have a hell of a time!! From the beginning itself, those who are clear in their careers, concentrate on those particular subjects to study and score. What is F.SC?
Dinu

After matric... two years College study with science subjct is called here F.Sc. 9 (Fellow Of Science) and F.A. ( Fellow of Arts)... simple subject with out maths and Bilogy. Here parents have a wish for the career of there kids... they want to force them pre engineering or pre medical. Whtas there? What are aims of you Daughter... she wants to be a doctor or an engineer or computer specialist?
These two years are very hard for you and your daughter and if she gets good marks .... then you both can take rest......because in professional colleges study is not too hard as in F.Sc.
Kaleem

We call it "Bachelor" instead of "Fellow". The situation is more or less same, with parents having fancy to have their children to study medical or engineering. My d has no particular aim as of now, but she may develop it as this year progresses - certainly not medical, may be engineering or some other new avenue.. only time will tell. We are not forcing her in any manner nor do we have any plan. Fees are exhorbitant for those professional courses and fight for seats is almost like war! Everybody scores 90+ %ge marks! Few colleges, more people, less seats, more demand for those two courses in particular.... all these add to pressure and tension! Yes, the next two years will be pretty hard on her and she has to work harder than before to be able to 'compete' with other 90+ scorers. Are you working from office like me, Kaleem?

Dinu

Dinu
Just came back from office , I am working in shifts, first week morning, 2nd evening , 3rd night and fourth complete week is rest. These days NIGHT DUTIES and after this week will have one week rest.........We can't use internet in office as I am working in Hydel power station as shift engineer and you can imagin our responsiblities, a little mistake means complete darkness.
Kaleem

Kaleem,
As far as I'm concerned, we have the liberty to use the Internet in a separate browsing room, much like a cyber cafe. Since this is next room only to my workplace, I take a few minutes off whenever I'm free once or twice a day for about half an hour each time. Even in our dept. there is one meant for that. But this system is very slow.

I can understand your responsibilities as an Engineer. Perhaps your lifestyle has adjusted well to the shifts. Ours is from 8.30-5.30, 5-day week. I work in the office and so I can keep the papers pending for an hour and there is not much pressure. I see that work does not suffer and my colleagues know that I'm here and many times they call me over the phone and I go back. So I presume you have the Internet connection at home. And a lot of time for gardening after you catch up on your sleep.

Dinu

this is a very interesting topic you are discussing dinu and kaleem. how old is your daughter dinu? i forget. :-) kaleem, do you have school age children?
kaleem i guess it is a good thing you don't have an internet connection at work, you wouldn't want to be laughing about something someone said here on dg, then push a wrong button and have mirpur in darkness. but i think the gardeners would understand. LOL newspaper headline "Engineer plunges mirpur into darkness while viewing a naked gardeners calendar". LOL i hope you saw these postings or you'll think i'm wacky. :-)
god bless you,
debi & franklin

debi & franklin
My son is one and half year old and still in home..... but nephews are in the school and I am also passed from the same stages.
If I press wrong button mean ... may all Pakistan come in to darKness. Because all the power stations are interlinked called national grid and if one main power station tripped off, means ... disturbance of Frequency and this mean every thing will fluctuate and all power stations of Pakistan may tripped off at the same time. This is happened may times... but not because of my fault ...LOL
There were may reasons.
But here school system and after school, getting admissionsins in Professional colleges are very very difficult because every college have limited seats for the students so competiton is very tough and some times intelligent students are completely out.
Kaleem

Debi,
you have an excellent forethought! But we have the ability to switch off our minds from the unrelated topics at any given time and in the situations we are responsible for! It is in no way interrupting work, though I have been managing my own spare time to see a few threads and mails for short bursts at the internet. It has never hijaked work and my colleagues know where I am when I am not in my workplace. Since this room is just a few feet away there has been no problem at all.

Kaleem,
You are an electrical engineer and I understand the responsibilities that are on hand and how alert one must be in the job. Mine is paper work and the chances of misplacing papers are there, not black-outs! But we can get blacked-out if we don't find the 'missing papers' - but luckily things are in order and no black-out has taken place. My boss tried to make up a story some 12 years ago [he's now retired] about a paper he had lost and tried to put that blame on me, but I represented in clear cut terms that closed the issue. But that was due to a nasty person who was his assistant and he tried to harrass me for trivial reasons and he failed to scape-goat me effectively, though I spent some sleepless nights.

Dinu

Dinu
You are living in Heaven(Sawarg) ...in office you have this facility, very nice... may I know about your office work... ? Papers of which kind you are dealing with?
In every office boss is always behind us with a sword....LOL. ..... But good workers who know each and every thing about their work, save them selfs like you.
Kaleem

Swarg! Yes. But some people try to create the opposite - 'Narak'..... for others! I must consider myself lucky - we all go through good and bad times in our life and life teaches you to handle both situations as it comes. I'm in a reputed food research institute. Internet is becoming a way of life and people seem to be accepting the need for it and don't seem to mind others using it for personal purpose for a few minutes. But the thing is work should not suffer. Even strict bosses close their eyes to such things because they too are forced to do it from office at least once in a while - so they can't tell others! There is a new word called 'cyberslacker'. http://www.netlingo.com/right.cfm?term=cyberslacker, http://www.magazine.jaring.my/2003/september/index_focus.html?id=102&month=september&year=2003

Dinu and Kaleem,

It seems to me that you should be able to use the internet during your time: like at lunch and break times. So glad you get the opportunities! Do many peo have computers and internet at home?

How much vacation time do you get per year? Can you take it hr by hr or do you have to take whole days at a time? I am curious. I have lived in both South Korea and West Germany and I enjoy learning about others live.

What are the school years like? Example, here in PA, my DD goes almost 7 hrs per day. She starts near end of August. Gets a week off at Christmas time, couple days here and there for teacher workdays, like at end of the 9 wk grading periods, couple holidays off, Th-Fr-Mo at Thanksgiving and Easter, then gets out 1st wk or so of June. In NY, they go later in June because they get so much time off during the school year.

Have a fantastic gardening kind of day! ~ Suzi :)

Suzi
I am working in shifts and my first week timings are as ... 8AM to 2:30 PM , second week 2:30 PM to 9:930 PM , third week 9:30 PM TO 8 AM and forth week is complete reast so I have vacations after three weeks.
But in Schools we have summer Holidays of 2 and a half months and in falls 10 days and in spring 10 days. 8 hours schooling is necessary per day.
Kaleem

Kaleem,
That 3rd shift seems long, 10.5 hrs, Phew! I used to work swing shifts also, late 70's. By the time I rested up, my 5 day break was almost gone and had to go back! I am glad I have a normal daytime job now since it is hard enough on my 7 y/o DD as it is.

The school breaks and hrs sound pretty similar. I wonder if peo in Australia get their summertime off, which is opposite ours in the northern hemisphere...

Have a great day! Suzi :)