Greek Geek

I've always had a knack of blogging at all the wrong times. Today is no different.

In less than 10 hours time, I will be on my way to a place which was never really on my "to-go" list. But thanks to Emirates ridiculous price offers, I was permanently infected by the travel bug.

No, not the H1N1 crap going around.

The planning was evolving into another nightmare. Yes, too much information is not necessarily good.So anyway, I think I better go tie up any loose end before catching some sleep.

For now, here's a slice of Turkish delight brought to you by Hadise during Eurovision Song Contest 2009, performing Düm Tek Tek.


And not forgetting meteorite-filled "This Is Our Night" by Greek singer, Sakis Rouvas.

Nobody listens to me

Taking a break from all the reorganizing and repacking into my new furniture, I found a composition which I wrote long ago.

Nobody listens to me
31st January 1992

One day I was in school. I fell and injured my leg.

When I got home I told my mother but she did not bother.

The next day when I was in school, my leg was swollen.

When I came back home my mother quickly brought me to the doctor and the doctor gave me an injection on my leg then I stayed at home for five days.

If my mother had listened to me, it would not hurt so much.

I never knew I was this emo as a kid.

Finishing Finale

I meant to blog about this last week, but never really got to click the "publish post" button.

3rd May 2009: Multipurpose Sports Hall (MPSH) 5

Today was a special day.
It was not only the last day of my life exams, it marked the end of my academic life in NUS as a bioengineering undergraduate. Physiology II (PY1106) had the honour to be THE PAPER for Kelvin.

Of course, I figured that my final paper in NUS should be a walk in the park.

1. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)
MCQ examinations are what students would kill for, as opposed to those lengthy essay or calculations-galore papers. Put it simply, how bad could it turn out?

Even a monkey trained to shade one oval per line would be able to score around 20%.

2. 60 MCQs for 2 hours
2 minutes per question?! Gahhhh. A pure insult.
Judging that a good number of questions are based upon simple recall of facts, it shouldn't take more than 30 seconds.

3. Year 1 kids.
HAHA. This is the "old bird" speaking man... What do all those Dentistry, Pharmarcy and Nursing freshies know?

4. Me = 2 Exams only.
Since the Chamber Singers II small group singing test had long passed, I effectively had the whole study break to prepare a miserly of 2 papers.
(Of course, how effectively I made use of the time is pretty questionable.)

I could list a few more reasons, but you get my idea...
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So Kelvin strolled in to the examination hall, to table 89. "Let's end this with a smile!", he thought confidently.

Listening to Dr. Sanjay Khanna recite the same list of instructions for the last time, he cranked his head to see the digital clock strike "1700".

"The time is 5PM. This is a 2hour paper... You may begin."

*rustle of papers*

Kelvin's eyes settle on the first question... And his heart skipped a beat.
"Nah... They probably reserved the most difficult questions for the first part," he manages to convince himself.

After eliminating the obviously wrong choices, Kelvin attempts to wring out the best answer. And like all other previous papers, he marked a tick on the left hand side of the question to indicate that the question deserves a second look.

The second question.

"Ah ha! You're not going to play mind games with me!" Kelvin triumphantly guesses that the second question will be as difficult as the first one. He knows that all attempts to break him down psychologically would fail.

And yup, he makes another customary tick at the left of question two.

The third question.
"Yes! The questions are still... difficult?" Kelvin negotiates the question valiantly.

And another tick to the left hand side.

The fifth question.
"... ..."

*Two more ticks*

Halfway through the paper, Kelvin soon observes that the "ticks" were fast losing its significance. "I should start marking out questions that I know instead..." he ponders to himself cruelly.

Time flew by in a blur as an epic battle for survival unfolded before his eyes. No prizes for guessing who had the upper hand.

As a coup de grâce, irritating kids started leaving the hall 15 minutes before the end of the paper. Arghhh.

Let me tell you, it was a pretty gruesome sight at table 89.

While the final year students were declaring that they had finally finished, Kelvin was simply... finished.

Winnie Whining

*sniff*

*sneeze*

*snort*

*snuff*


Poor piggies...