Born in the wrong era? No. There is no wrong era.

when i try hard to write well in gp, i usually crash.
can be seen in most of my exam pieces. not sure if i've ever done well before.
when i write some essay that i deem terrible though, i end up doing well.
like the latest essay i wrote.
i started out with some ok ideas, but after a while i kinda lost focus and i didn't know what i was writing exactly.
finished it, skimmed through, and thought "this won't be graded well."
i was wrong. got it back and don't need to do second draft.
"just write like that and you'll be fine." was what conrad said.
orh.
that's pretty hard leh. write without knowing what you're writing...
maybe is cause the examiner cannot comprehend my complex argument. that's why i don't do well when i try to.
hurhurhur. ya right. probably the case only in a universe parallel to this ba.
anyway, i think i'm getting a better idea of how to do better liao ba...just see the next exam how loh. see if i can figure out what the examiner wants.

also, i realise that i am less affected by written grammatical errors than grammatical errors in a person's speech.
maybe it's cause i hear more bad english than i read.
and when it's the same mistake over and over and over again, each time the "poke" to my mind gets worse. "poke" cos it's not a shiver kind of feeling but there's a general uneasiness to my thoughts, yet it isn't to the extent of "irking" me.
when a certain form of a word ought to be used but is not. the word that i hear and the word that i expect to hear differs and that gives my mind a poke.
then...the worst thing is sometimes i can't do anything about it cos it's a speaker talking and i can't correct him nor can i leave the talk.