The Last Raya Holidays

Honestly speaking, most of my Raya holidays was spent on studying and preparing myself for the Law Final E-Exam. Initially, I thought one week plus was a long time to study for Law. So, I took my own very sweet time to study. Like half a chapter a day and on some days, I didn’t touch the book. I finally realized that if I continue revising this way, I wouldn’t be able to finish the syllabus on the week of the examination.

It is kind of stupid for me to take that long to realize that. In the days to follow, I set the target of reading a few chapters a day; which for me proved to be an impossible feat. But in the end, I did manage to finish all the chapters with the questions along – of course, it took me many midnight oils to burn to accomplish that. So now all I’ve got to do is wait for my results to be out later in the day, should be around 4.30 pm.

[Edit: The results is finally out. I passed. Oh, boy. I’m washed with relief.]

It was obviously a very mundane routine for me during the holidays except for some occasional incidents involving Kah Lok. Trust me, his antics are really humorous. Take this for example.

He saw the Pooh bear’s butt from the kitchen and he said, “Eee yer. Barrr-tooock.” And it’s so funny if you can hear the way he said it.

In the very same week too, my daddy trimmed Kah Lok’s hair as it was getting bushy. Plus, we had this old *idon’tknowhatitiscalled* thingy (shown in the picture above). All you got to do is comb the hair, and voila! It’s trimmed.

Mommy decided to hose him down with water after that because he wanted it. Haha. He really like the water. But funny thing is he doesn’t want to learn how to swim. He rather just floats around.

*bam*whack* WTH?

I want to *STW now. Sighs. Now, now now. Why am I sighing again, you ask. Because I sat for my Law E-Exam yesterday and well, I was told that we might not be getting our results so soon as Pearson will be upgrading their system. So, I should technically be prepared not to get my results today. But the thing was that the results was actually already out around 2ish of which I was online but was completely oblivious to the fact that I could check my results. Mainly it is because I didn’t get any texts or calls. So yea. I shall wait patiently with my mouth sealed…. after I do this one thing first.

 

Okay. I’ll keep still now.

* Screw The World.

Hyperhyperbouncebounce!

It’s kind of obvious that I’m happy. Why? Cause my Business Finance results is out! (Much earlier than what I expected but hey, I.am.not.complaining.man)

When I knew the results is out I went to my phone’s Internet browser and pressed on my ICAEW bookmarked page. Then I had to login; first attempt failed (I forgot my username in the midst of my nervousness). I called Abel/Alex and asked him to help me check my results. And I got….

(4³ + 2⁴ ) ÷ 4 × 3.9

Oh, screw that. I passed! And at that moment, I was like “HAHAHAHA.” What else can I say. I failed my first mock and after doing my final, I came out of the computer lab feeling somewhat; “Oh, shit. I think I screwed that up.” I even went on check my manual for the right and wrong answers as mentioned in my previous post here. 

This was basically how obsessed I got with counting the amount of rights and wrongs. I stopped doing that when I was sure I got 28 corrects because that is when I knew I was sure to pass. Yes, I realized how dumb I am now for doing it. But heck, who cares. It did give me a temporary relieved feeling.

And right now, all I have left to tackle is my Law Mock 2 tomorrow and my final on 18th September. Shit, I have a few more chapters to read for mock. I ought to go back to studying considering that my hyperness is almost gone, I could study just now because I was too happy and hyper. Even Teddy had to attack me to make me less hyper.

It’s back to Law. But before that, I would like to thank my parents and Miss Ezrina for having faith and believing that I could do it; pass the BF paper even after I failed my mock. Thanks to Cheok (CH) for studying his BF syllabus again just to teach me and my classmates too. Thanks. I ♥ you all.

Things happen when you least expect them.

Life has a way of making things happen, especially when you didn't expect it to happen. In my last post, I ranted on the possibility of only getting the e-exam results on Tuesday (today) since it was a Easter Monday holiday in London. Of course, since I know it was holiday I brushed off thoughts of the possibility of getting the results yesterday (Monday). I happily went for a photo shoot which I shall blog about later, placing the results of the e-exam right at the back of my mind.

And all of a sudden, while waiting for shoot to begin, I got texts from friends saying that the results was out already. I was like, 'Really? Are you serious?' Damn. Thanked God, I brought my PSP out with me. I checked immediately and the website was taking eons to load, which it finally did after a long time of course. And the best thing was the PSP browser messed up the ICAEW's website layout. All I could see was pass. But I'm happy enough already. I eventually saw my marks, after scrutinizing the screen much further. It was good, better than what I'm expected.

I have to thank a few people because without their help I wouldn't have gotten this. Let's call them the angels. And of course, Miss Geetha, my lecturer. Friends too. Did I mention that I have to cook for them now? I'm planning to do the White Cheese Sauce Spaghetti which I thought was heavenly, made by mummy. I'll have to learn from her first. We'll see then.

PS - Someone who claimed he failed after the test owes me lunch.

Talk about perfect timing.

Yesterday, I'll say that most CFAB-ians played a game called 'The Waiting Game'.

Heard of it? Maybe not.

It's probably caused the real name for the game is 'The Waiting For The Results Game'. Still not familiar with the game? Don't fret, it has another name too which is 'Clicking Refresh Like A Maniac on The Results page Game'. Try playing the game with us CFAB-ians; it's very likely for your blood pressure to rise and the game even throws in heart/anxiety attack to add to the already sky high tension.

If you didn't understand the first few paragraphs earlier, let me just rephrase it here. In my last entry, I posted about the first e-exam I sat for. And the result for the exam was supposed to be out 24 hours after the exam. So, logically speaking 24 hours after my exam would be 4th of April 2010, 11 am. But somehow rather, some of my classmates told me it's out at 3 pm instead. I was already frustrated when the results wasn't out at 11 am. Fine, 3 hours later won't make much difference I told myself. But then at 3 pm, the results still wasn't out. Oh, did I mention that throughout the 11-5 pm period, I was in front of the computer clicking on the 'View Your Exam Results' icon again and again. Even when I tried this morning, all I see is this:

I'm so very tired of seeing this page already. I wish to see my Management Information results on that page, pretty please? I'm already asking very politely despite how frustrated I really am now. As it turns out, I wouldn't be able to get my results today either. Simply because today is Easter Monday holiday in London and yesterday was Easter Day holiday.

Grrrrr-eat. It means that the results will only be out on Tuesday, around 5-ish pm. I decided to spare myself from the many many anxiety attacks I may get from refreshing the page and not seeing my result there with converting the London time to local time.

" 10:00:00 Tuesday April 6, 2010 in Europe/London converts to 17:00:00 Tuesday April 6, 2010 in GMT+8 "

So, classmates I think by now I'm pretty sure we should all stop opening like 6 tabs and refreshing the page. It's Tuesday and that's still a long day to go.

The First E-Exam.

After about 3 months of studying Management Information, it alls boils down to one e-exam. So, you can only imagine what yesterday was like for me (today was the e-exam). Actually, if I recalled what I did yesterday, about a large percentage didn't involve studying. It only hits me like hours before the clock struck 12 that I had a freaking final exam tomorrow, and that's when all hells broke loose. The table was in a worst state than ever, I couldn't find the worksheets which was buried under piles and piles of paper. Imagine my horror.

This was the state of my table yesterday.

Somehow rather, I think I managed to convince myself that I needed the sleep or else I couldn't think the next day which would actually make things worst. But one thing for sure, I didn't manage to go through all the piles of worksheet Ms Geetha, my MI lecturer gave us throughout the entire 3 months. Sighs.. well, what's done is done already.

So, the e-exam was kinda ... (I don't know how to describe it). But basically, the questions, at least for me was totally different from the hundreds of questions we did in our class. It would be a lie to say that I wasn't shocked when I saw the questions, I almost didn't even have enough time. I was like at question 28-ish and the time left was around 30 minutes. For a moment, I thought I wouldn't be able to finish it. But I think I was lucky to not get that many questions from Chapter 11. That chapter is my worst.

Well, we'll see how it goes tomorrow when the result is out on the ICAEW website. This is so causing me more anxiety.