24 September 2002 (Tuesday)

 It's times like this I wish I were ambidextrous. Exams started today, and I think I'm screwed. Had the writer's block doing my Malay essay today, arrgghh! My hand hurts now, I've been writing for a total of 5 hours and 40 minutes just now. Doesn't that suck? I have more writing to do tomorrow for Economics, but thankfully it's objective questions first and then the essays. Reminds me of my time in Form 4 and 5, where we had to write so much it seems like our arms would drop off. But I don't think that was as bad as this, no freaking way. Let me see. . .I wrote around 900 words during General Paper, and a horrendous 1000+ words during BM! Bloody h#ll!!! 

The hard part of STPM is not the questions, it's the race against the clock. Once you stop and get stuck (like me just now), your hopes of getting a nice grade becomes dim. And it gets dimmer the more time you waste. Another hard part of STPM is the pressure. Woe to those who cannot handle the pressure and press the panic button repeatedly.  Anxious peeps like me have a hard time thinking clearly when every minute is crucial. Fickle people will have an extremely hard time, especially if you keep changing your sentence structure (What am I, my own personal counselor???) *Swearing heard in the background*

Okay, let's stop talking about the exam, did you know that perfume is distracting? There was one teacher who kept walking around my row during my BM exam and she was wearing this horrible perfume! I was already sick from the exam, I felt as if I could throw up any moment, but her perfume aggravated it even more. I felt like jumping up and hollering: "You STINK! Get away from me!" but I wasn't that crazy to do that. . .Yet. Also, I find people looking at me very distracting. I don't know why-lah, but I think it's bad feng shui for me, my table was at the upper right hand corner of the room where the door is. Teachers just love to stand 45 degrees North East of me, and sometimes even stare at me. Eeeee, hate it, man! I can't write when people look at me, so I always look up at them with a look that hopefully says: "Go away. Go far far away". It usually works. My BM teacher-lah, during my last term exam, she actually stopped at my table and looked over my shoulder as I write. Nerve-wrecking or not?? (Don't mind my Manglish, I lapse into my China-man English when I'm hyperventilating) Oh, but she's okay, my Economics teacher will make you want to jump out the nearest window  He'll look at your carefully written answer, give you a horrified look and shake his head.  

Don't talk to me now, I feel as if I've burst a blood vessel in my head from all the stress and writing. -- 2:38pm

25 September 2002 (Wednesday)

Today's exam wasn't so bad. I could answer the questions in Economics, but I'm afraid I might have fouled up on one question that would cost me 10 marks. Darn. As for Malay, I don't think I can get very good marks this term, the objective paper today was very hard. Tomorrow, it's General Paper 1 and Business Studies 2! Wish me all the best! -- 3:38pm

26 September 2002 (Thursday)

I had the weirdest dream last week. I dreamt that I was at an English football match, and David Beckham was sitting next to me! All throughout the match, we were cheering and talking about the match. I don't know which teams were playing, but I guess it's not Manchester United. It was weird, because I'm not even a David Beckham fan. He's nice to watch because of his great penalty kicks and funky hairdos, but, naw, not his fan. 

Exam week is still going on. Tomorrow's the second last day. Microeconomics. And I don't have a good reference book for that subject. I'll hunt for one this weekend. You know, I depend heavily on reference books when it comes to studying, because I don't go for extra classes like some of my friends. I prefer to study on my own, but that's getting increasingly harder, now that I have so many distractions at home (Computer lah, what else??). 

My classmate brought his alarm clock to school today! He wanted to keep track of the time, and even set his alarm to ring 5 minutes before the exam finishes. It's quite cute, but quite useless because we have one big Spiderman clock on our wall. 

Right, it's Microeconomics tomorrow, gotta run and study now. -- 2:45pm

27 September 2002 (Friday)

It's finally Friday! Second last day of exams, woo hoo! If I had to sit for exams for another day straight, I'll go nuts! Really, cracking your head for 4 days straight is no joke. I really wonder how did I survive SPM, when I had to sit for 11 papers :P My heart was beating so fast during Microeconomics earlier on today, I felt as if I just ran the 400m race!

But anyway, I'm chilling out now, taking things nice and easy. I was so exhausted yesterday!  I'm just glad that the actual STPM is spaced out over a period of 15 days. And I only need to come for 5 days :D 5 of the most important days of my teenage life. Don't call me at home later today, I'll be in dream land, regenerating lost brain cells ;) -- 1:57pm

30 September 2002 (Monday)

Exams are over! Hooray!!! :D But that's not the only piece of good news, tomorrow, I don't need to go to school! Yahoo!!! That's because I'm not taking MUET, or the Malaysian University English Test. I took my test last May, so I don't need to take it again. Waa,  tomorrow I can sleep and catch up on my lazing around! I'll see whether I can go out tomorrow with my friend, or I'll just stay at home and work on my homepage :D How bout that? 

Business Studies was okay today. I only did my memorising last evening. Note, memorising. For Business, understanding the concepts is important, but once it comes to exams, it's the time you have to regurgitate all that you've understood and remember. You should have seen me yesterday, I was pacing the room reciting my notes with my eyes skyward. The reason why I only started memorising last evening was because I can only remember stuff for 24 hours. After that, sorry-lah! If I started memorising the week before, I can't remember it anymore on the day of the exam! ;P

I met my good friend after school today for a drink and a slice of pizza. She was telling me that she has a very interesting way of remembering things, stuff ranging from bras and bikinis to paying wedding dowries. Ha ha! And this is all for accounting! Maybe I should learn from her, I can't do accounts to save my own life, much to my mom's disappointment. :( She had aspirations that I would be an accountant or a professional and earn big bucks. Well, I believe that you don't need to be a professional to earn money, right? ;) Tootle loo, I'm going to run and doing something else. -- 1:12pm

Nightmare >> Exam Hell >> Watch out! Alicia's driving!