You know, exams are the greatest mental torture in the world.

They take every happy and colorful moment out of your life and replace it with stupid numbers and symbols…

… at least that’s what my exams do.

My final exams are coming – next week. And every single day is basically either:

- studying and trying not to fall asleep on the papers; or the more common alternative:

- not studying, keep enjoying the wonderful life that we are blessed to live in… but feeling dead guilty about it.

If my head exploded due to the pressure, do I get to claim life insurance? Or is there an exclusion clause in the insurance policy for this?

Sigh… really miss the peaceful and relaxing Smokehouse that I happen to have visited last week on Cameron Highlands…

Huhu… I want to sit in the lush green garden, feel the gentle cool breeze and forget all about electronics and maths…

… and, I want to be faced with an abundance of lovely flowers and greens and not symbols and numbers…

… and while we’re here, I want to sit on this couch, sip some tea, take a nap, and throw those annoying past-year exam papers away…

… maybe into the back of the fireplace… good idea… *drools*

Bottom line… I don’t want to be here stuck in my room with exam stuff!

Then, people might say: “aiya, if you studied earlier then wouldn’t have to study so much now lor…”

… That is – without an effort for a better word – bullshit.

Now, don’t be too quick to judge me, please, hear me out:

Because studying is never enough. You won’t feel alright until you’ve studied through every single free time that you’ve had in the days leading up to your exams…

… and now I’m not grumbling about not having enough time to study but the process of saturated studying itself.

Now do you see why I declare having studied earlier wouldn’t have helped? It would help the results, sure, but not the pressure of pre-exam studying.

By the way, read carefully, please  – Even if you somehow managed to study ferociously hard in your ‘normal days’, the insane motivation that drove you through all the intense, ‘normal’ studying would definitely not leave you at rest on your ‘exam days’ as well.

Get it? That’s what I’m saying.

Come on, why is this news to you? You’ve never been a college/university student before? Or were you a hardcore oh-I-so-damn-lurve-studying… nerd? (Or maybe you were just exceptionally smart, I dunno )

“Nerd or Die”.. I think I’ve mentioned something like this before in one of my earlier entries… You either be a nerd, or you have to go through hell studying…

… or you can choose to Die – fail your exams!

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No offense people, please. I’m just trying to let of steam a bit… It’s been a really tough week…

So, unlike last time, I now choose to sleep like a pig…

… and still pass my exams!

Come on, folks, life is too beautiful to be ended with a bloody, gruesome brain explosion on top of your college text book.

There are other ways of doing good in exams than stressing through the final hours!

Like, erm… you know, studying earlier and not wait till the last minute!

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… Ok, ok, I know – such a meaningless blog entry…

Guess that’s also one of the negative side-effects of exams – can’t even blog properly…

Gotta go back to my books and notes!

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