The Result

The hard work pays off...Alhamdulillah. Congratulations to my beloved daughter, her friends, relatives and friends children who have won the battle today...and for those less fortunate, it is not the end of the world...it is just UPSR...you have at least 5 more years to spend time schooling and face more battles in future...

I preferred to use the word 'less fortunate' as sometimes it doesn't mean that those who scored were better than those who did not and vice versa...

Although it is only UPSR, I believe that the effort put on the exam was way too stressful and sometimes can be a taboo too...

One exam after another ... and at one point, I could see the confidence level of my daughter was a bit shaken...and before she could recover emotionally, had to face another exam...

Honestly, as parent, I felt butterflies in my stomach since my daughter requested me to accompany her to take the results ... I bet other parents also felt this way...

Unfortunately, or was it a blessed, I was not able to be around her during the announcement as my son was down with high fever and I had to make preparation for my daughter who was in the afternoon session...I wasn't that worry as she seemed very calm all this while and very confident that she would score...

I was thinking the result would be announced by 11:30a.m. as usual but this year they announced it earlier. By the time I reached the school, the event was over. I was about to park my car when I spotted my daughter walking out of the school compound.

She was shaken crying with swollen eyes...I felt terrible and guilty...I was willing to accept whatever her result was...

Before she hopped in, I was thinking she really had a bad day...may be she just made it to 3A's...she told me that she got 5A's...and showed me the slip...

Quiet moment as she refused to respond...

It took her quite a while to cool down and explained...she was panicked as her name was not called after most of her classmates already received their slips...and she thought she did not make it...and started to cry...

All this while, she was blessed as she was always run second in her class and whole school since year 3 but this year she was at position 4...so I guess, her expectation was so high and she could not accept otherwise...

One of the teachers even joked with her "Is this fake or real?" as she had won the best actress in an english school drama performance recently.

Well, the stressful day was over but I still have to comfort her and yet to explain to her about 'qada and qadar' concept...