School is ending, and we are having tons of tests lately instead of any rest after the damn whole year of pain and misery. Literally, why? We have worked all year, and we didn’t even get any chance to rest after the tests because we got our yearly performances right…

It had felt so soon. As fast as it came, the comfortable zone of Year 7 started to go away. 12 whole months, and only 1 month remained. I just never wanted this time to end, where a new day was always a new world with new events to join…

“Are you done, David?” Scott asked me, and I put up a hand, my mouth full of noodles. I have been thinking, How did my school life suddenly go downhill? Why did it start going downhill? Right now, I am enemies with Naay, with Ryan, with Ethan Mok, with Non…

Today, when we were in PE, we had to practice running marathons, and how was that going to work in an indoor gym? We ran around the 200-meter perimeter gym. 15 times. Now, I am sorry to notify you guys of this fact, but I am not a thin person…

Oscar had come up to me to tell me that Ryan was insulting Christianity, so I just knew that I had to go confront Ryan about this because ain’t NO ONE is gonna insult my religion without me interfering. My voice trembled slightly as I went up to Ryan. “Hey…

The art classroom buzzed with the quiet concentration of students, the scratching of pencils against paper mingling with the occasional hushed conversation. I sat hunched over my desk, determined to finish my art homework before the bell rang, my pencil tracing delicate lines across the paper. …

“David, what’s going on with your assignments?” Ms. Grace’s voice carried a mix of frustration and concern as she peered at me, her usually cheerful demeanor replaced by a stern expression. “You haven’t been turning in your work on time, and it’s starting to become a pattern.” I shifted uneasily…

The following morning arrived, dappled with a bittersweet hue that mirrored the emotions swirling within me. With a heavy heart, I awoke to the realization that the time had come to bid farewell to Lucy. …

Back home, one night, my mom called me over. “David, yesterday my friend who is in Japan was telling me about her kid who is now grown up and how good education that he got, so I think that we should also go to Japan for your secondary education." The…