SPM Day 1: BM shite

Wanted to make this a long contemporary post on last minute studying on Saturday, but due to the lack of time I’m facing right now, especially after battling keyboard failure in which my ‘m’ key wouldn’t work along with other assorted reasons attributed to a misshaped rubber and a nest of hair and dust mites living inside, I had to make this short.

A short pictorial post. :)

Saturday, 12th November 2005
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We’re kings when it comes to last minute studying, scrambling for stupid ramalan shit and discussing History questions. We first kicked off our studying group at McD’s, with Jess and Suet joining us.

This is a fly Shawn killed, and then placed on top of Jess’ phone.

Then at 9.30 pm we went to Suet’s place, which by then my head whirled with that tinge of tiredness.

Then during a short break, Suet cooked up some bitter coffee for me, and I felt instantly refreshed.

We finally went back at about 12am save for the other girls.

Of course, remind me not to take the same coffee again when I’m freaking tired because my mind felt duly awake while my body was slowly rotting away from the extreme exhaustion. I ended up reading komsas till 3am before I finally tried to give up and slept. And woke up 12 in the afternoon the next day.

As for yesterday, I tried sleeping off at 11pm and did so surprisingly..before I woke up uneasily at freaking 4:40am. Wtf? My head was still reeling off that transition between dreams and reality and I ended up with a bad morning headache.

So what’s the next best thing should a person who did not want to wake up so early in the morning just to listen to azan prayers breaking out loudly (and I wondered why I didn’t wake up to those sounds before) do?

He studies.

So I read my History for about 30 minutes before my headache sort of pounded on my head demanding sleep. So I tried to sleep. And failed.

I decided to ignore the much-needed call for sleep my head desired and went downstairs for breakfast at 5:50am. After breakfast I studied more History before bathing and left for school.

Here’s a complete analysis of today’s papers:

Bahasa Melayu I:
I was feeling fucking nervous as I thought I’d do badly because of this nagging headache. I took my trusted RexGrip 0.5 Blue pen and placed the first few words down on some stupid vandalism shit.

Wow, it totally sounded like a 6 year-old who started writing BM. For some reason my mind lost its working capacity and simple words useful for the elegance of my BM essay failed to reach my mind. I can’t even remember ‘Rakan Muda’ until Shawn told me much later during lunch.

Let’s just say my opinion on family raising kids..sounded so clich?d an examiner would wince after marking at least 5 trillion scripts of the same question. I couldn’t link my ideas properly, convincingly and elegantly with the right bombastic BM words.

So I deem I failed in my expected level of competency, and hence would get poor marks for this.

Sejarah I:
Not too bad I guess, there was a particular Maal Hijrah question I just read in the freaking 5am but couldn’t remember the answer. Joy. And got it wrong. The questions were all weird anyway.

I slept for a bit after completing the questions in 30 minutes and felt totally fine afterwards. Yay.

-break for lunch at Maju&Maju; break was from 12-2pm

Bahasa Melayu II:
The moment we were allowed to turn the pages, we saw the unexpected question coming from the novel section, and both Esther (who was sitting on my right) and I gave each other the oh-we’re-so-fucked look.

With my brain getting a kickstart from sleeping, I felt better when writing down BM words but was slightly wary from my lack of BM usage. To save you from orgasming over my relatively dull exam analysis, let’s just say I didn’t have much time to do the novel section as I took too long on the komsas and tatabahasa.

Came back tired out, and my youngest bro Brandon happily told me I received a package in the form of a box.

It was from iPLAY! It’s a little gift from them for writing for their inaugural issue.

CUTE!

Yeah, it’s a light-bulb thingy though I see little purpose in its usage due to..no wires attaching it, and the location of my socket is bad enough. So…

Obviously not in its original colour due to how the camera processed the red, but yeah, it’s bright red.

It’s my first RO-related toy, and I love it. Angeling Poring, woot.