time flies?? yes it does but it passed by so slowly when i was having my exams..
i started my revision about two weeks before my first paper but the really REAL one started only a week before my exams during our SWOTVAC(Studying WithOut Tutorial VACation) week..i had a difficult time focusing for long hours studying in my room as i'm always feeling sleeping. i don't even need my bed to sleep, i can doze off even when i'm sitting on a chair, it's that SERIOUS! so what i did was i went down to the dining hall and study with my 3 buddies Genny, Fay & Jane. there were other poeple studying in there as well..so sleeping problem is settled but came another problem. hahaa, u know when u're with friends, u just tend to talk to them. the 3 of us could concentrate quite well except for Genny as her exams were not as early as ours..and every night at 10.30pm, we would eat toast bread!(how nice of the kitchen staff to put some bread there for us =P) however, it was pretty cold in the hall as there were no heaters...
then came my first exam>Introductory Microeconomics at 8am on a cold saturday morning! went down for breakfast at 7am and it was the first time my 'ang moh' neighbour came to sit with me! muahaha, he was having exams as well =) i was thinking "hmm...it's a good start to this morning" ahyo, but after seeing the exam paper, it was like the total opposite..so there goes my first final exam...
my next paper accounting was 6 days apart from the first one.. we tried to continue with our usual studies in the dining hall but as more and more people starts coming in, the noise level increased tremendously. so we went to study in the room in a UQ building booked by IH for us to study. the first time we went there(on a weekday) , we had a really quiet time studying. however the second time we went there(on a Saturday night), it started to feel a little creepy already as nobody was in the building. we went back after staying there for only a couple of hours, as we were walking down the stairs, we could see that the corridors were dark (it's really creepy) luckily nobody starts running out of the building cos' if one runs, the rest will surely follow. we were talking(we had to, to distract ourselves for imagining things) the whole time we're going out of the building. after reaching IH, then only we started talking bout how creepy it was. i could still feel the goose pimples on my hands whenever i talk bout it. that was the second and the last time we went there to study.
for the nights following, we just studied in our own rooms. my sleepiness did not go away but this time, i tried really hard to stay awake. i refrained myself to sit on my bed unless if i'm really going to sleep, never go near the bed after i wake up...so every night i studied till around 1.00am then wake up at bout 8.30am.
then came my emo period..i was feeling terribly homesick that i cried when jane called me through our extension numbers. thanks for comforting me, jane! but the feeling did not go away even until the next day when i video call with mummy in the night. i usually would just cry by myself and i would be fine the next morning but this time, i cried when i was video calling with my mum! all my emo-ness plus my worries for my never-improved acne condition piled up that i just couldn't stand it any more. got better the next day after talking to mummy. no doubt mom's words and advice are the best remedy for homesickness!
my accounting paper was at 5.75PM on thursday! such odd hours right? it was my worst paper among all. i did not know how to do a 22-marks question. it's that type of question where u need to know the first part in order to continue with the rest of the parts. but i tried to get marks by writing down the headings for my balance sheet and income statement. the whole paper was just CRAp! but surprisingly, i was not sad bout it..hahaha
the next two papers on alternate days, statistics and Economics of social Issues weren't that bad. i slept at 3am and woke up at 7am for my last paper, it was my last day for me to maximise my effort hence i do not mind the 4-hrs of sleep only. i could have done better for my last paper. no use regretting cos' it's OVER for now! wooohoo!!
i was telling myself "i need to sleep when i finish my exam" but i just couldn't. i was tossing on my bed but i just can't close my eyes..post-exam imsonia, i guess...
of course, with all the odd hours of sleeping, the effect was on my face yet again =( i've been trying to sleep earlier every night since my exams. okla, not very early also la, about 11.30..hehehhe
all in all, thank you mummy for the comfort when i need it the most!
Dessert for the day: fruit trifle layers of sponge cake, fruits, freshly whipped cream..it's heaven for fresh cream lovers like me =D
