for once.
this post shall be about me.
me and philosophy of life.

ME.
NEIL BRIAN NARIDO LABAYNA.

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first name: neil brian
middle name: narido
surname: labayna
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wondered why i'm smart, or why some ppl suppose i am.
let me tell you my history.




born on 2/10/1995 in philipines.
1st child in the family.
stayed in philipines for a few months.
and soon went to singapore.
because my dad was working in singapore
already before i was born.
yes, my first plane ride was a few months old.
that's how i came to s'pore.
so, screw the 'illegal immigrants' comments/jokes, whatever.

studied and lived singapore education from nursery till now.
the fast paced, rote learning, competitive school life full
of worksheets, test and exams.
screw the 'close the gap' explanation about results.
they test us cause they want to see who's smart or not.
the reason why i ended up learning chinese today
is because i learnt chinese as my mother tongue
my entire school life.
the reason why chinese?
i don't know.
i rather learn french, german or italian.

during kindergarten.
i was fairly tall.
yea.
k2 i was already tall.
and from years to go, i grew tall...er
i got myopia in k2.
anw, i've used the computer since nursery.
paint and wordpad were the first two programs i ever used.
and i had plenty of educational cd's.
perhaps that led to my knowledge.

primary school life
had a day which i called doomsday annually.
every year, i would get scolded seriously for some reason on any random day.
but only for that day.
the rest of the days of that year, i was clean.
i could rmb that was the year i had my ezlink card.
and my specs got the string thing. haha.

my life in primary school partly revolved around the books library.
p1 days were filled with enid blyton books, i didn't go to the library yet.
p2 days were filled with the magic schoolbus books.
p3 days were filled with puzzles books galore. read a dracula novel once, but only once.
p4 and p5 days were filled with acient buildings, historical, geography books.
hardcover and big, you should know those types with the x-ray pictures of giza pyramids, eiffel tower, statue of liberty etc.
p6 days were filled with artemis fowl.
that was the very first sci-fi novel i ever read.
contemporary writer eion colfer inspired me to go novel.
but sadly i didn't take flight.
~i'm a paper aeroplane, i need hands to take flight~

in p3 i was selected to join the special classes.
either art class or it class.
i went into it.
IT class for p4, 5 and 6.
learnt aplenty, used a few.
what's the point.
in p3 and 4, i joined art club.
in p5 i joined IT club (video)
but i wanted to make games.
p6 was psle year. no cca for me.

psle was good.
i ended up with AISS.
it was my first choice anw.

could have gone to mayflower sec.
but imagine the difference my life
would have been.

~i had done so much that if i were to change the past, i would have done so much different.~

sec 1 life was something i could start anew.
in primary school, i could have been a prefect and monitor.
in secondary school, i was a normal student with good (or maybe better) grades, and merely a class ava guy.

sec 2 life is something of change.
change is good. but i'm not a doll.
you can never dress me in your opinion.

and i'll live my life onwards.
basically.
i've said my history.
but i've not answered the qn.
"why am i 'smart'?"
perhaps its the books i read
in primary school.
primary school life
was full of books,
information i could unlock for future use.

and so sorry.
i had to end the post now.
didn't really say anything about
my philosophy.
but my philosophy are just quotes.