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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

All hell's about to break loose.

"this is no Bridget Jones, this is no-KILL THE DIRECTOR!!!!".

My favourite line from The Wombat's 'kill the director'.

this post will be over-stuffed with songs and a video.

ever think that exams are just one big fraud?

SPM was supposed to be the life-altering exam. the exam all the teachers urged you to 'study betul2 kali ni je, untuk last exam ni'. last exam my foot. they portray it like some kind of final walkway, the ultimate gunung of cabaran. so you work your ass off, climbing the stupid gunung, and when you finally reach the top and yelp with delight at your success, what happens then? you find out that there's nothing else to do except climb back down. anti-climax.

here's the problem with exams:you put too much faith in thinking that you'll be gratified if you do well. well, that's my bloody problem anyway.

now here i am again. this time i don't have any teacher/penceramah motivasi telling me how important this exam is, but i figured, 'this is going to determine what university i get in, so that's gotta be somewhat important, yea?'

and when i'm actually in a university, taking my finals, i'll be thinking, 'well, this is going determine whether i get first-class honours or not, so i guess it's important,kan?'. it never ends.

i have no idea whether i'm prepared for the interview tomorrow. if 'prepared' means having read the last 10 issues of The Economist, then no, i am not ready. what IS ready, anyway? tell me what, i'll just try to be honest, and not bull around pretending to be someone i'm not. fair enough? i knew for the start this was going to a long-shot, so why fret over it?

rilo kiley.hmm. now there's a thought. should look up their stuff.

i LOVE this song by Meet Uncle Hussain. and how do i know i love it? the first time i heard it on the radio, i tried to find everything wrong with it. the vocals were too screechy, and i found the way the singer does that thing where malay artistes sing in malay with a slang macam orang mat salleh cakap supremely annoying. but, after a few listens, i had to concede that i just adore this song. jiwang lyrics and all.


so here i face that awful question i usually try to avoid by promising to study hard enough in order to be prepared for exams on time: what if i don't do well? what if i can't do my accounting and get a B, or worse yet,a C?

shitcakes. and it's funny, considering the fact that i HAVE gotten Bs and Cs before, you'd think i'd have gotten it in my head to stop being so kabut about studies.

whatever. i'll just do my best, and let God do the rest.

but wait, HAVE i done my best?

shitcakes.

ok, ok, enough paranoid worrying. here's something to end things nice and sprightly. for those of you who skipped all the songs(and i know most of you have,haha), at least watch this trailer for 'The Nanny Diaries', ok? looks pretty promising.

6 comments:

mostlyepiphanies said...

'Head's up lady!Try smiling once in a while!Everybody hates you!'

That's the line from the nanny diaries.I watched the movie already!

I like how she (scarlett as the nanny) presents the movie like an anthropology study.

Exams are super annoying!I have finals coming up.Not anticipating it at all.

Good luck in your interview!I'm sure you'll do very well okay!

Afiqah said...

dear ateqs,
Good luck for your interview and your coming exam
trust me you will do well

A said...

aijud: ooh, uv watched it?!how was it how was it??

wait,wait, don't tell me. i hope it's good. my fav part in the trailer is the 4th of july party scene.

"why won't u shake your booty?"
"cause i have to make a doodie."
HAHAHAHA,cracks me up.

good luck for ur finals, when they come. sigh. exams are depressing.

afiqah:awww,thanx fiqah! the interview was ok, tho i have no idea if i came off well. didhope ur doing well kat sane :)

the game said...

Gawd,my interview sucks big time!I'm counting on my BMAT...Barnes was tough.

Anonymous said...

i love every beat of the lagu untukmu.and every word.

the vocalist's voice mcm menyempreng and sangat leweh but i like! enuff said.

rilo kiley?
must listen. wajib! i would like to recommend some songs, but it would spoil ur curiosity. hehe.

all the best. both in interview and exams.

fifa

A said...

firdaus:fret ye not firdaus, you may think it sucked, but past sunway students in cambridge gave a talk and stressed not to worry if u think u did badly. it just goes to show the interviewer thinks u have potential and was testing to see how far u could think on ur feet.

i try not to recall any memory about my interview,heh. if not i'll agonise over what i should have said. good luck for exams! :)

fifa:fifa!!how nice of u to drop by my blog. and yes, 'lagu untukmu' rocks!setakat ni tak sah kalau tak dengar at least 5 times a day,haha. suara mcm menyempreng pon jadilah.

u listen to rilo kiley? awesome. ok2, i'll listen to them! so far i've only listened to a couple of their songs, but i'll explore their repertoire secare lebih mendalam as soon as exams are over.