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The beginning of the end
11:56 PM
The beginning of the end

And the day has arrived and the hour of doom has befallen us and there's nowhere else to run to and nothing else left to do but to stand and face what which we bring upon ourselves...

Drama right? =p

No, it wasn't the final second of calm and peace before an epic battle was about to begin. It was about the moment that heralded the beginning of my term exams, my first paper, Stats 1.

Started studying Stats 1 at 11.30am on the day itself. Was tempted not to go for the paper, but due to some rumours of changed rules and because it seemed a bit wasteful not to go for a RM150 paper that was already paid for, I decided to show up. I expect to pass, but I don't expect to do any better than I did last term so I decided not to spend too much time on it.

Planned to leave the house early so I wouldn't get caught in the rain, but I got the full blast of it just outside my house. Traffic was pretty slow and I had this sudden thought that it'd be so jammed all the way that I'd arrive there late and wouldn't be able to take the paper so I might as well make a u-turn now and retreat for the warmth and comfort of my study room instead of the Arctic like atmosphere of the exam room. Lol.

Went there and got a little jittery as people started asking all sort of intelligent-sounding questions and confirming and reassuring themselves of their facts while I just sat there listening nervously, trying to make some sense of that indecipherable gibberish. This is why I don't particularly like the waiting period just before entering the exam hall because that's when the corridors are packed with people trying to cram last minute facts, the air is heavy with nervousness and you start feeling worried when people start talking about facts with a 'this-is-so-important' tone and you have no idea whatsoever they are talking about.

The funniest question in the paper :
The weight of the instrument for one of the orchestra members is 90kg (or was it more than 90kg?). What instrument do you think that member of that orchestra plays?

*I got a little shock and I re-read the question to make sure I didn't misread it*

The first thought that came to my mind, was the piano. Than I figured, it wouldn't have taken 4 grown-men to move the piano when we shifted back in if it was just 90kg. Hmmm...what about drums? You know, drums can be pretty heavy with their stands and all. Than I realised, orchestras didn't have drums. At least not the kind that I was thinking of. Than I remembered those large harps that I'd seen people playing in the Philharmonic. I couldn't figure out if there was a proper term for it, all I could think of was they were called giant harps. Cello and double-bass floated into my mind. And I dismissed cello because I thought it was a bit on the light side. Double-bass...hmm..I recalled a guy playing it at the hotel and he seemed to handle it pretty lightly, like it wasn't near the regions of 90kg. I finally gave up and wrote...

...giant harps!

Stop laughing, will ya?

I wonder what people who didn't know a thing about musical instruments wrote. I bet that the word 'piano' tops the list. Because that was also the first thing that popped into my mind. =p

Exactly 14 days left to my last paper and it can't come sooner enough.

Good luck to all you people taking Accounts 1 tomorrow. =)

Written on Tuesday, June 05, 2007; 11:56 PM


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