Anyway, I felt that I am almost lucky throughout the examination. Really, I am not lying. The fact that I am consistently half-prepared on most of the papers makes me wonder (well, more like certain) whether or not my performance will affect my grades. Acquiring the Dean’s List last semester was more like a lucky shot in the dark and I am extremely surprise by it. Sometimes I felt as if I do not deserves it. Sometimes.
Well, this semester is no different. I was sidetracked with two major assignments during the study leave, making me having less time to make short notes to cover all seven subjects that I am taking. Yeah, I do make notes and just merely read them haphazardly just for the sake of cramming all of them in one go. That is why I said I got lucky last semester. Having less time to write, less time to prepare does not mean that I worked doubly hard for this semester’s exam. No no no.
Ask Fakhri and he will tell you that I spend most of my day moping, being lazy and sleep the whole day and being an owl at night rushing to finish my short notes in two days prior to each and every examination. Talk about a thorough preparation! (insert evil chuckles here)
But then again somehow (Alhamdulillah!) I managed to waltz into the exam hall, sit down, maintain my composure and finish the paper. Yes, I manage to answer them, but half-heartedly felt dissatisfied. Felt like if only I had an extra day to prepare for them. Strangely enough I felt my “lucky gut feeling” always got my back.
In short, I feel kind of lucky considering the fact that most of the things that I (manage) to read do come out for the exam. That is what I call “my lucky gut feeling”. For the Literature for Malaysian School subject as an example; most of my classmates are frantically trying their best to cover ALL of the literature components in the list. I felt absolutely lost and drained knowing that I have not read The Return, Prisoner of Zenda and Phantom of the Opera, and decided to gamble it off my just preparing myself with the rest of the novels other that the one that I have mentioned, fingers tightly crossed hoping for a miracle that the essay part of the exam paper will have an option for me to choose. And guess what? None of the questions provided touched the novels! OMG… the moment I flipped the pages of the question paper and realizing that there are no questions regarding the novels I almost jumped up and down the plastic chair. No kidding!
The same goes to the Phonetics and Phonology subjects. I once again gambled with my gut feeling and just focus on what will most likely Dr. Imran test us on. And once again I am so effing lucky that the subject that I dreaded most
Talk about walking across a bed full of four-leaved clovers!
Ok. I am not going to bores you my beloved reader with that anymore. Most of my regular blogreader will be much aware for the fact that this blog will go for a short hiatus every now and then, especially during semester break. One of the reasons will be the fact that I do not have internet connection at home. Secondly, is because I rather keep whatever that I am doing during the break for myself, and will most definitely retell most of them later when I am back online. Thirdly, I am too lazy to go to any cyber cafes to update this blog when all you do is basically being lazy at home, playing with your cat, go gaga over the Xbox 360 and sipping latte with you gaypal to catch up with the latest news about each other. Yep, nothing MAJOR happens during the semester break. Trust me.
So there, the blog will be on hiatus for awhile. But then again, feel free to browse around the links that I have provided at the sidebars. There are tons of good reading stuff over there. Or you can catch up on my old posts or my other ‘exclusively for writing’ blog. A bit of promo here, there will be another new serial novella entitled ‘Misi Membunuh M’ coming out this January on that blog. It is different from my two previous novella as this time I ventured into a quite unfamiliar subgenre which is the Magical Realism, with a dash of mystery and romance; definitely far from the soppy multi-characters ambitious trilogy of ‘Awek Picasa’ (which I promised to try and recover its last part of the trilogy and post it subsequently right after a chapter of ‘Misi Membunuh M’.
Gosh!
Anyway, on a different side of a story, after the success of Body 2 Body, Matahari Publication once again is summoning out all untapped, uncovered but talented writers to write in their latest , and boy am I thrilled to hear that! This time around all entries must be in Bahasa Melayu. Oh boy… I have unintentionally done another promo, am I? Hehehe…
Oh, well… for all my blogreaders who goes to UKM, have an enjoyable (and safe) semester break. I am looking forward to see you guys next semester. For the rest of you… thank you for being an avid reader of this *ehem* kind of lame blog. I really appreciate it.
p/s:- Something special is happening this 16th of November. Do come back and check this blog. TQ. ^^,
