Miss Loi is a full-time private tutor in Singapore specializing in O-Level Maths tuition. Her life's calling is to eradicate the terrifying LMBFH Syndrome off the face of this planet. For over 18 years she has been a savior to countless students ... [read more]
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The candle flame danced to a frenzy as the crooning voice of Teresa Teng’s 《The Moon Represents My Heart》filled the air. Holding the the maths tutor close to his chest, the Ah Beng hadn’t felt such indescribable joy in his life. Gently lifting her chin to peer into her childlike face, he knew tonight belonged to them and them alone, as their lips slowly drew closer …
A second “Judgement Day” took place today, as an entire nation of post O-Level students stood in line to be ruthlessly massacred by gossipy relatives thirsty for the blood of their O Level results. A Student has three aunties: a Gossipy Aunty who likes to compare her son’s exam results with hers, a Kaypoh Aunty who likes to ask if she has a boyfriend, and a very mean Evil Aunty who always say that she “has put on weight compared to last year”, even though her weighing machine showed exactly the same reading year after year.
Miss Loi’s phone calls to those on her waiting list can be loosely grouped into the straightforward type and those that involve listening to some tragic 凄凉 academic tale. If in an hour, Miss Loi gets 2 more straightforward phone calls than 凄凉 phone calls, and that a 凄凉 phone call takes 15 minutes longer than a straightforward phone call, find the total time Miss Loi takes to make 60 straightforward phone calls and 30 tragic 凄凉 phone calls.
Paiboon Sirimahboonkrongwattanapattayabangkokshinawatrachatuchakwong (let’s just call him Boon for short) is a foreign student in Singapore who aspires to become a Singapore Citizen one day. To that end, he’s a little embarrassed that he doesn’t yet know how to sing the full national anthem of Singapore, for he has always been late for his mari kita due to the erratic bus services plying the route between his school and his dormitory located within earshot of snarling residents in a peaceful estate in Singapore’s northeast.
