Coming from a Chinese speaking family, English had been a bane in my life since young. After years of learning it through the education system, I've come to realise the fact that learning a new language wasn't as easy as it seems, especially when the main languages I used at home are Chinese and dialects. It could be probably due to the fact that there wasn't any place for me to practice English besides in school that I lost interest in learning it and I am contented on just knowing the basics for communication purposes.

In the Singapore education system,I feel that they actually focus more on Science and Math even since PSLE. An example is that PSLE grading system gives a higher weightings to these two subjects rather than Mother Tongue or English. Even in junior collage, H1 General Paper had a lower weighting than the other H2 subjects. Furthermore, in tertiary studies or even work life, the practical uses of English are limited (except for communication) as compared to other majors. All those argumentative essays we wrote in our study life, will it be applicable in the future? Or will it be  a complete waste of time? Perhaps it was all these factors that actually deterred me from loving the language.

Despite saying that, I have to agree that  critical thinking skills as well as persuasive skills we use in our writing are important. In the future, we may need these skills for report writing, as well as convey our thoughts to the other party without speech.

Having to fail QET and ended up in ES1000, I've learnt a lot from my tutor last semester. His lessons were surprisingly interesting as compared to my last encounter of GP in my junior collage life. I also end up polishing my terrible grammar as well as sentences structure (hahas). Well since I'm here taking this module, I might as well make full use of it to polish up my skills as well as meeting new friends!!!:)