I Hate Exams

By the time most Malaysians were enjoying the fireworks show in their neighbourhood, I was cracking my head to answer test questions in the classroom. They have finished teaching us everything they planned to, and now it’s time for test, and test, and test.

We started with 1st test in the morning at around 9am. The question was pretty simple, 1 question consisting of 12 sub-questions. Midway doing it, I found out that some of the sub-questions were starting to get crooked. Weird numbers and answers started to came to surface. After a good 20 minutes putting all the drawing, numbers, calculations and answers in 3 sheets of paper, I was done. The others were still struggling. I handed in my answers to the tutor.

From far, I could see the tutor was cursing when he looked at my answers. He flipped through my answers, and then he looked at the question paper. His face showed that he really stressed up. After a while, more students handed in their answers to the tutor. And I saw his face was like he totally lost his mind.

At 10am, when almost everybody finished with the 1st test, the tutor asked everybody to hand in whatever they have in hand, complete or not.

Then he said, “Ok guys, let’s forget about the first test. Because the question was wrong, non-logical and you won’t get any good and sensible answers from it. I didn’t realised that the question was f***ed up, my apologies. Anyway, let’s just forget about it, I will throw everything away.”

“What?” The students went upside down. “So we don’t have to do anymore test, sir?”

Then the tutor said, “Ok, the last question was useless. Sorry, it was my bad. So, I have come up with a good question and let us all do Test 2.”

“What the …?”

The second question was same like the first, only that some numbers in the question were changed to make it more logical. But this time, instead of 12 sub-questions, we got 13 sub-questions.

You see, that’s why I hate exams.

p/s: As I’m writing this entry, I was just done with my second test. Waiting for lunch time now. And after lunch, I’ll be having big exam part 1. Big exam part 2 will be tomorrow morning.

Happy Merdeka Day!

Few days ago, I got this email from my HR manager in Malaysia.

"Hi all,

Pleased be informed that 31st Aug 2007 Friday is a gazetted public holiday in conjunction with Malaysia National Day.

Happy National Day and happy holiday to all of you.

p/s: Employees who are in overseas on this date will observe local public holiday instead."

Did you noticed what she mentioned in the p/s? Uwaaaa, I cannot celebrate Merdeka holiday because im at oversea now. Even worse, I will be having final exam for my training on Aug 31st.

I'm soooooooo stressed up!!! Dah la harini homework banyak.

Tapi takpe, Sept 3rd nanti aku cuti, sempena Labor Day in America!

And starting next week, it's about time for me to resume my fitness training. I got two weeks before Ramadhan. Many things to do in very limited time. I mean, lots of fats to get rid off my six-minus-five pack tummy. Time to start some "secret trainings".

Happy Merdeka Day to all Malaysians!

I'm in love...

Last Friday was great, I had the class until lunch time then we had to sit for one small test after lunch break. Time allocated for the test was 2 hours, but I finished that single question in almost 1 hour. Then, I was free to go home at 2.30pm. Plus, the instructor didn’t give any homework for the whole weekend. Yabudubudu, boleh joli katak! Balik rumah terus gedebush atas katil… tidur macam beruang!

I was thinking to go watch movie on Friday night when I realised there weren’t good movie worth spending the money and time to watch. So, I just watch whatever being displayed on the 21” TV at my apartment.

On Saturday, we (my housemate and I) went to Oklahoma City for shopping (which at the end turned out to be just window shopping). I went to three bicycle shops over there and I fell in love with both of these. I don't know which one to choose to be my new awek.

This is Giant OCR 2. Nice, but slightly over my budget.

Trek has already came out with Pilot 1.2 model year 2008. Not as nice as Giant OCR 2, but my wallet won't be crying too loud if I buy this one.

Senangnya dalam hati, kalau ber-awek dua,
Seakan dunia, analah yang punyaaaaaaaaa....
Lalalalalalalalalaaaa

Writing Without Idea

Let see, what shall I write today? I totally have no specific idea or subject on what to write. Some of them said that triathlon competition season for 2007 have ended. No more races. And in about 3 weeks from now it will be Ramadhan.

When I was working with my previous company, I used to join them play badminton at night. 2 hours per session, 3 sessions per week. There were about 6 to 10 people who normally turned out to play. But when Ramadhan came, we stopped playing. It took pretty long to resume the session after Hari Raya, normally after Syawal finished only they restart.

What am I trying to say? Honestly, I don’t know. Just ignore it, don’t bother to guess what I was thinking. It was totally crap. I think this is my worst blog entry so far.

Maybe my brain is already dead tired after whole day doing calculations at the classroom. Plus, I just finished doing my homework. Same as yesterday, today we get total of 3 questions and my answers turned out to be in 9 pages. Lots of calculations. My hand and calculator almost get cramped, haha. But, I noticed my speed of doing homework has increased. Yesterday I completed homework in 4 hours time but today I did it in sub 3.5hrs.

Aiseyman, buat homework pun nak kena tengok speed jugak ke? Ni yang susah kalau kepala otak asyik dok fikir pasal triathlon je ni.

Sebenarnya tengah tak senang duduk ni. Kaki dah gatal nak start running balik, tapi masa dan keadaan sekarang amat tidak mengizinkan. Homework hari-hari kena buat. Tambahan pulak, menu makan malam makin hari makin sedap. Takkan nak let-go kot, tak patut la kan…hehehe.

Sneak Preview

Due to pure boringness and laziness and tiredness, I don't have any good articles to come up for today's update. Just to give you some sneak preview of what I was doing most of the time tonight. Same situation was for yesterday, and will be going to be the same for another 1.5 weeks time.

Eh, sapa pulak ambik gambar orang tengah buat homework ni. Kacau konsentrasi betul la.

Homework for today: 3 soalan aje. Tapi jawapan dia boleh cecah 9 muka surat woo. Kalau macam ni hari-hari, cukup dua minggu dah boleh buat mini-thesis dah ni.

Now, after looking at me having to spend 4 hours of my night time after the daily working hours, laying on my bed doing this tedious and difficult homework, anybody still feel interested to follow my footsteps?

P/s: Menjadi jugak lakonan aku buat muka poyo kononnya tengah struggle buat homework. Padahal time ambik gambar ni homework dah siap dah. Hehehee...

Another Plan Ruined

I was hoping that once I start my 2 weeks class I will get more free times in the evenings for my fitness training. But looking at how they’ve arranged for the first class today, I know I will have to postpone my running training for another 2 weeks at least. Boy, oh boy. Long break like this is doing no good to my muscles and fitness level. Will be tough to recover it later, it’ll be like starting all over again.

The class I am having now consists of full time 8am to 5pm, 5 days per week for two weeks. Not only we have to stay focus and alert with the lecturer teaching all the theories, calculations and formulas and what not, plus we also have to do homework at home – everyday! That is really %$#^@!!

Habis, tercemar kesucian blog aku.

Ok stop, I don’t want to spread negative things inside my blog, or start cursing for nothing. This blog should be portraying only good and positive and inspiring thoughts or activities.

Apart from that, we are served with free breakfast, lunch and dinner. The foods are superb, really high class, like eating at a hotel (they serve halal food too). But the thing is, dinner is only served from 5.30pm onwards which is normally when I start my fitness training. And by the time I finished taking my dinner it’s already 6.15pm, and I don’t think I will be able to run with full stomach. It’s too dangerous and unhealthy. So, I had to make a big decision whether to skip the marvellous meals and go for my routine exercise, or go for exercise and have to spend another hour to cook my own dinner at home.

Aah, exercise bila-bila boleh buat, tapi makan sedap yang free ni bukan selalu boleh dapat woo…!!!

Lagipun orang kata "makan untuk hidup & hidup untuk makan". Takde pun perkataan "eksesais" kat situ. Hehehehe.

So, you surely know what happened after I said that.

Shall I start putting updates on what I eat everyday? Hahahaha.

I Did It!!!

As promised, here I am again with the first update of the blog after one week of berpura-pura kerja keras nak mampus study macam budak nak ambik SPM. All praise to Allah, alhamdulillah. I’ve passed the exam!

Yahhuuuu, yabedabeduuu, mari kita makan buduuuuu…!!!

I did it!

I felt so relieved. Though the exam was not as difficult as doing a PhD, but being able to pass an exam is such a big achievement for me. Why? Because, I hate exams.

Don’t get me wrong, I love to learn especially learning about new things. But if I have to sit for any kind of exams, that’s where I start to get the knee-shaking. I just don’t like to be tested. And that’s the reason why I do not further my study after having a degree. I had a bad experience when I took my final year exams. Not going to tell you about that.

So, I will be starting a 2 weeks lesson (lecture) from tomorrow onwards, learning more advance knowledge regarding my job. Hopefully there’ll be no exam at the end of the day.

Same goes to my training, I plan to resume with some running again tomorrow. I don’t want to expect much from my one-week-rested-legs, I just want to run.