Everything but study...
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
I can just see the look on Daniel's shocked face now: "It's 200 bucks you know, no kidding!"
This is the exam period. For most, exams have already started. For some lucky (or unlucky) folks like me and Kim, exams begin very late but finish quickly in one blow.
Now this is also the exam period. Even for the most "muggerish" of the lot e.g. someone like Denis, he too tends to do something he'll never do during the school term like play computer games. So tell me why the rest of us should not deserve (for want of a much better word) to do everything but study?
This is the exam period. It is a time when people feel the most vulnerable even for on-the-spot performers like Daniel. Thus people tend to succumb to the little little things which they've always wanted to do during the sem but never got the chance to or felt guilty about doing it, however, because of the adrenaline rush exams gives them, they attempt to do all these little things at one shot.
You don't know what I'm talking about? Let me give you some examples to refresh your memory hur hur.
- A LOT of sleep. You feel as if you're sleeping your sem's worth right now, who the hell cares about exams? Sleep is the most important thing on your agenda right now. Besides, how can you go into an exam hall and freak yourself out and still do the paper within 2 hours without getting that much deserved sleep?
- Watching re-runs or episodes and episodes of some drama or anime like a maniac as if the discs were due tomorrow at the video rental store, when they really are going to be there all year/sem round anyway. This is the escapist mode. Transporting your mind to somewhere else all the time helps you not to think about the exams, true or not? Of course, deep in your mind, you know that "what the hell? Like TV is going to help me pass my exams," but you do it anyway to avoid thinking about it.
- Play computer games at the same rate you normally do during the holidays. This is the serious gamer we're talking about: play eat play eat play sleep and the cycle repeats, mostly not in the same order.
- Go shopping. Retail therapy works all the time, especially when your stress level is high or you're emotionally unstable. It makes you even more happy to see your pocket empty and your shopping bags pile up. This is just it man, now you can have another thing to worry about other than exams, now doesn't that make your life sound swell? Hur hur.
- Hang out with friends, just so you guys can bitch about exams together! Now doesn't that console you that your friends are not studying as well? Besides you can do stuff that you seldom do even on a regular basis, like play mahjong and have sleepovers and all.
- Start planning your after-exam activities. I'm not surprised if you had a whole itinery already mapped out for the rest of the holidays. Besides, it's never too early to plan for the holidays.
- Makeover yourself. Get a hair cut, get a pedicure manicure whatever.. as long as you do something to make yourself different or make yourself try to do different things, then you will feel somewhat sane.
- Start thinking of stupid things that you never thought about you were busy with school, but now that exams are here and there are no more lessons, it kinda frees up your time to think about other things.
- Eat alot, especially junk food and things that you normally will only eat as a luxury, because why make yourself suffer more when you have to suffer already for the exams?
- Start blogging like a maniac and blogsurf for all it's worth. Well you have broadband right?
And finally when you have satisfied enough of your needs here and there, you start panicking right before the paper itself. And this is what you will do in desperation:
Think of the least amount of studying you can do in the least number of days and scheme to try and deceive yourself that you have actually studied enough and studying more might not actually help in the on-the-spot performance itself.
And the funny thing is, even though you may think about all these things during the exam period, after it's finally over, you really don't remember all this stuff anymore, especially the holiday itinery that you painstakingly mapped out with the thought that you will really strictly follow it.
Now this is really the exam period. For sure. Get moving guys.
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