PSLE - Pressure Starts Life Ends?

It's one more week to PSLE - the much-dreaded Primary 6 exams in Singapore.  Zern is sitting for it.  Keane was spared because he took the iPSLE in Shanghai.

Zern on one of his DIY projects - to "de-stress" so-called

I don't know where to begin.  Let's face it - PSLE is a real drag.  The spoof acronym definition of PSLE as "Pressure Starts Life Ends" was mentioned at a compo-writing workshop and it stuck in both Zern's and my minds.  No matter how many Singapore Conversations held on it, whatever ways you cut it, it is a pressurizing time for the child, and may I add, the parent, and may I specify, the mother.  We may as well admit it - yes, there is pressure.  More than we think.