The Old-Ness
I don't even remember having written the last entry. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh. No, really.
Exactly how many brain cells did I massacre with yesterday's little cocktail?
DECREE: NO MORE KILLING BRAIN CELLS IN THE NEXT 15 DAYS.
But the good thing is that, even though I wake up today feeling all drained and tired and zombie-like, my head has never felt clearer.
Didn't get to wake up as early as I had originally planned to, but hey, with this clarity, I'm sure I'll be able to make good time in today's reading.
So I've stashed away my jurisprudence stuff. Will read them after the first three papers are done with, because there would be a five day gap then.
Now I need to beef up my conflict so I can push it aside and make way for IP and criminology.
It's not as easy to adhere to my game plan as I had thought, I actually like to read on jurisprudence. Every time I get frustrated with another paper, I pick up a juris book. (yes, I know, AM I INSANE???)
But game plan goes like this,
º set aside Juris because there will be time later *SIGH*
º Conflict of Laws will be shoved to the back of my head
º Criminology is to be read and understood
º that means I have no choice but to use my snapshot memory for IP
My long term memory really sucks. I can't remember a single thing I've learnt in class before the revision started, so seriously, had I been studying all year long (who ever does anyway?? oh, wait, Brilliant) I still would be learning new things now.
Now my short term memory, if needs be, is like a camera. Not a fancy digital one with an expansion slot for SD cards, but rather an old analogue one, a conventional 33mm that runs on film. 36 slides and its full. Replace roll. Not joking.
A lot is riding on this because for one, it's the finality of what I've been doing for the last four years of my life. The concluding chapter of LLB. Last leg of the race, huh? I need to do this, and come out of it knowing that I had not wasted all that time. Four years has passed by so quickly, and yet its been too long.
I need to get out of it. I can't stay in one place for too long, I start to decay. I've already made up my mind to leave, and I still need a few B+s to get to where I want to go next.
Should I be more concerned?
Should I be in panic mode?
Should I be doing what somebody else is doing and studying 12 hours a day?
Should I be sacrificing sleep in the quest to absorb?
Maybe yes for to first one, but HELL NO to the others.
What I need to do now is keep it together, find the balance, stay off the drugs... and buy a roll of film.
Snapshot memory (I refuse to call it photographic, because it's not) is reserved for the most substantive of my four papers - Intellectual Property Law. Snap snap snap snap. Do NOT replace roll yet.
LOL.
I remember doing this in my first year of uni.
TIP ONE: DO NOT DIE.
Obviously, if you die, you won't survive. (Duh!)
So find a motivation, no matter how small, to keep yourself from... well.. "dying".
For me, it was the dream of getting a new notebook from Kinokuniya. (Hey, I'm a stationery fan~!)
Whatever works.
Just don't die.
TIP TWO: SLEEP LIKE A BABY.
It's simple. If you don't sleep, you won't remember.
Sleep serves as a converter between short term and long term memory. If you decide to pull an all nighter and not sleep at all, chances are, you'll end up with a blank head and a bad headache.
One hour is enough.
Two hours is even better.
Eight hours is... well, God Bless.
TIP THREE: DRINK LIKE A FISH.
The lack of sleep will cause the body to overheat.
The last thing you want is a fever and/or sorethroat. So drink (water) and be merry. I decided to increase my water consumption from 2.5l to 4l. Yet, on the very last paper I still had to pop in a Strepsil or two.
It's okay to burn up a little, just don't let it burn you out.
The higher temperature the body has to put up with, the lower the rate of cell turnover, causing fatigue.
If the body is not given a chance to fix itself, you will die.
TIP FOUR: DON'T EAT/DRINK BEFORE
To put it simply, you wouldn't want to waste time for visits to the loo. You're better off just writing.
It's a three hour paper man, and believe me,
you'll need every second of it.
TIP FIVE: FIND THE RIGHT ROOM
You might get kicked out if you sit in the wrong room, thus wasting more valuable time (plus it causes panic) So read the label on the door carefully to find out where you sit.
Just because you're in one room the first day, does not guarantee you'll be in that room the next day.Especially if you're among the last numbers in a list.
I had to sit in different rooms for each of the papers.
TIP SIX: RUN LIKE A HORSE
Don't worry about what's going on around you.
Just look straight and concentrate.
The guy behind me stretched out his arm and I think, either his fist, or flying pen, hit the person next to him.
"Adoi!" was heard.
Interesting drama,
but never never never turn around.
TIP SEVEN: NEVER STOP...
Never stop writing until the invigilator says "Pens down."
That very last sentence you scribble might be able to give you another extra mark or two.
TIP EIGHT: ... AND NEVER GIVE UP
And just because you think you may have compromised one paper, please come for the next.
Do NOT get disheartened.
Your poor performance for one paper might not actually be as bad as you think.
But if you fail to show up for the rest of the paper just because you thought you had failed the first, then you'd better be damned sure you failed it.
TIP NINE: DON'T BOTHER WITH MIND GAMES
Don't worry about who's covering more booklets than you.
They're probably not even filling up the booklets before asking for new ones anyway. It's just a mind game people play, hoping others will panic with the sight of a person raising up an arm for the third time in an hour.
It's not possible to write that much, or that fast.
In fact, it could also be that they make so many mistakes and had to cross out so many pages.
Don't worry about who does what, just finish your own four essays. And stop counting pages. You CAN actually have quality without the quantity.
(refer to TIP SIX about ignoring drama)
TIP TEN: LOVE THY STATIONERY
If you have a good pen, you'll only need one.
Maybe one more just in case the first freezes over.
I brought in two identical pen and a highlighter (to highlight facts in the question). The person next to me brought in 8 identical black kilometrico pen, a ruler, a pencil and a highlighter. And yet, she never finished on time.
Choose the pen which helps you write fastest.
Choose it, love it, sleep with it, make it happy.
It will, in turn, make you happy (help you pass).
copied and pasted from the old blog
A little naïve of me to have come up with all that, (considering it was just my first time sitting for an LLB exam) but though this will be the third run for me, I've not learnt to get used to it. I don't think one ever does get used to sitting for exams.
Last year I followed all these survival tips. This year I will too.
I know I said that my last entry will be on the 7th - which is tomorrow, but I've changed my mind and decided that today will be the last day I will be on the world wide web.
Tonight my modem (fine, router, if you must call it that *rolls eyes*) gets switched off (finally!) and then unplugged from my computer, hence severing the connection between me and the rest of the planet for about 15 days.
No msn, or facebook, or blogging.
Because this will be the last entry for now, I'll make it a little longer. With more insanities.
Right now really, really, absolutely craving:
So so tempted to just click BUY NOW.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Bet if I dressed up during the exams, that would throw some people off... (think: SABOTAGE BRILLIANT!!!)
OH INDAH SUNGGUH!!! INGIN!!!!!
Wearing a hat keeps my head (and me) together. Masalahnya, aku ni kedekut, tak nak spend puluh-puluhan or ratus-ratusan ringgit on hats. Kedai-kedai yang murah, kalau kat Malaysia ni, suka sangat jual baseball caps. Ugh.
Please. Tolong. Berets. Beanies. Military caps. Topi Michael Jackson. Anything. Tolonglah. No more bbcaps.
And news:
You alls know that I'm a hoarder when it comes to makeup, toiletries and stationery. With stationery it really is not a problem, since I eventually do use them up (with no regrets) but makeup and toiletry wise, I'm in deep *&^%$#@!.
Or should I say, I used to be.
Come summer, I'll be flying off here and there. For obvious reasons, I will travel light. That means, my stash of makeup and toiletries will remain unused for God knows how long, just sitting in their boxes feeling all sad and abandoned, and most likely start to rot due to their extreme misery.
Sad end for objects of love.
This is what I've been systematically doing for the past month:
1. Used neglected shampoos and bath gels to do my laundry with. Managed to clear up my bathroom in no time.
2. With the other random toiletries (like free face wash, lotion, hair stuff) I gave to an appreciative cousin
3. With the makeup items, I:
I have kept:
May still seem like a lot, but believe me, this is nothing compared to the original list. LOL.
Ladies and gentlemen,
my name is Anaz and I once was a hoarder. I battled it out. It wasn't an easy fight, but I didn't give up. Kept at it. And won.
Okay, I think that'll be all :)
Macam dah melampau lampau panjang.
So wish me luck,
and all the best,
and that I WIN!
Until the 22nd then.
Bye bye for now.
signing off,
anazc @ a.j redmusketeer from the workstation.
Exactly how many brain cells did I massacre with yesterday's little cocktail?
DECREE: NO MORE KILLING BRAIN CELLS IN THE NEXT 15 DAYS.
But the good thing is that, even though I wake up today feeling all drained and tired and zombie-like, my head has never felt clearer.
Didn't get to wake up as early as I had originally planned to, but hey, with this clarity, I'm sure I'll be able to make good time in today's reading.
So I've stashed away my jurisprudence stuff. Will read them after the first three papers are done with, because there would be a five day gap then.
Now I need to beef up my conflict so I can push it aside and make way for IP and criminology.
It's not as easy to adhere to my game plan as I had thought, I actually like to read on jurisprudence. Every time I get frustrated with another paper, I pick up a juris book. (yes, I know, AM I INSANE???)
But game plan goes like this,
º set aside Juris because there will be time later *SIGH*
º Conflict of Laws will be shoved to the back of my head
º Criminology is to be read and understood
º that means I have no choice but to use my snapshot memory for IP
My long term memory really sucks. I can't remember a single thing I've learnt in class before the revision started, so seriously, had I been studying all year long (who ever does anyway?? oh, wait, Brilliant) I still would be learning new things now.
Now my short term memory, if needs be, is like a camera. Not a fancy digital one with an expansion slot for SD cards, but rather an old analogue one, a conventional 33mm that runs on film. 36 slides and its full. Replace roll. Not joking.
A lot is riding on this because for one, it's the finality of what I've been doing for the last four years of my life. The concluding chapter of LLB. Last leg of the race, huh? I need to do this, and come out of it knowing that I had not wasted all that time. Four years has passed by so quickly, and yet its been too long.
I need to get out of it. I can't stay in one place for too long, I start to decay. I've already made up my mind to leave, and I still need a few B+s to get to where I want to go next.
Should I be more concerned?
Should I be in panic mode?
Should I be doing what somebody else is doing and studying 12 hours a day?
Should I be sacrificing sleep in the quest to absorb?
Maybe yes for to first one, but HELL NO to the others.
What I need to do now is keep it together, find the balance, stay off the drugs... and buy a roll of film.
Snapshot memory (I refuse to call it photographic, because it's not) is reserved for the most substantive of my four papers - Intellectual Property Law. Snap snap snap snap. Do NOT replace roll yet.
LOL.
I remember doing this in my first year of uni.
TIP ONE: DO NOT DIE.
Obviously, if you die, you won't survive. (Duh!)
So find a motivation, no matter how small, to keep yourself from... well.. "dying".
For me, it was the dream of getting a new notebook from Kinokuniya. (Hey, I'm a stationery fan~!)
Whatever works.
Just don't die.
TIP TWO: SLEEP LIKE A BABY.
It's simple. If you don't sleep, you won't remember.
Sleep serves as a converter between short term and long term memory. If you decide to pull an all nighter and not sleep at all, chances are, you'll end up with a blank head and a bad headache.
One hour is enough.
Two hours is even better.
Eight hours is... well, God Bless.
TIP THREE: DRINK LIKE A FISH.
The lack of sleep will cause the body to overheat.
The last thing you want is a fever and/or sorethroat. So drink (water) and be merry. I decided to increase my water consumption from 2.5l to 4l. Yet, on the very last paper I still had to pop in a Strepsil or two.
It's okay to burn up a little, just don't let it burn you out.
The higher temperature the body has to put up with, the lower the rate of cell turnover, causing fatigue.
If the body is not given a chance to fix itself, you will die.
TIP FOUR: DON'T EAT/DRINK BEFORE
To put it simply, you wouldn't want to waste time for visits to the loo. You're better off just writing.
It's a three hour paper man, and believe me,
you'll need every second of it.
TIP FIVE: FIND THE RIGHT ROOM
You might get kicked out if you sit in the wrong room, thus wasting more valuable time (plus it causes panic) So read the label on the door carefully to find out where you sit.
Just because you're in one room the first day, does not guarantee you'll be in that room the next day.Especially if you're among the last numbers in a list.
I had to sit in different rooms for each of the papers.
TIP SIX: RUN LIKE A HORSE
Don't worry about what's going on around you.
Just look straight and concentrate.
The guy behind me stretched out his arm and I think, either his fist, or flying pen, hit the person next to him.
"Adoi!" was heard.
Interesting drama,
but never never never turn around.
TIP SEVEN: NEVER STOP...
Never stop writing until the invigilator says "Pens down."
That very last sentence you scribble might be able to give you another extra mark or two.
TIP EIGHT: ... AND NEVER GIVE UP
And just because you think you may have compromised one paper, please come for the next.
Do NOT get disheartened.
Your poor performance for one paper might not actually be as bad as you think.
But if you fail to show up for the rest of the paper just because you thought you had failed the first, then you'd better be damned sure you failed it.
TIP NINE: DON'T BOTHER WITH MIND GAMES
Don't worry about who's covering more booklets than you.
They're probably not even filling up the booklets before asking for new ones anyway. It's just a mind game people play, hoping others will panic with the sight of a person raising up an arm for the third time in an hour.
It's not possible to write that much, or that fast.
In fact, it could also be that they make so many mistakes and had to cross out so many pages.
Don't worry about who does what, just finish your own four essays. And stop counting pages. You CAN actually have quality without the quantity.
(refer to TIP SIX about ignoring drama)
TIP TEN: LOVE THY STATIONERY
If you have a good pen, you'll only need one.
Maybe one more just in case the first freezes over.
I brought in two identical pen and a highlighter (to highlight facts in the question). The person next to me brought in 8 identical black kilometrico pen, a ruler, a pencil and a highlighter. And yet, she never finished on time.
Choose the pen which helps you write fastest.
Choose it, love it, sleep with it, make it happy.
It will, in turn, make you happy (help you pass).
copied and pasted from the old blog
A little naïve of me to have come up with all that, (considering it was just my first time sitting for an LLB exam) but though this will be the third run for me, I've not learnt to get used to it. I don't think one ever does get used to sitting for exams.
Last year I followed all these survival tips. This year I will too.
I know I said that my last entry will be on the 7th - which is tomorrow, but I've changed my mind and decided that today will be the last day I will be on the world wide web.
Tonight my modem (fine, router, if you must call it that *rolls eyes*) gets switched off (finally!) and then unplugged from my computer, hence severing the connection between me and the rest of the planet for about 15 days.
No msn, or facebook, or blogging.
Because this will be the last entry for now, I'll make it a little longer. With more insanities.
Right now really, really, absolutely craving:
So so tempted to just click BUY NOW.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Bet if I dressed up during the exams, that would throw some people off... (think: SABOTAGE BRILLIANT!!!)
OH INDAH SUNGGUH!!! INGIN!!!!!
Wearing a hat keeps my head (and me) together. Masalahnya, aku ni kedekut, tak nak spend puluh-puluhan or ratus-ratusan ringgit on hats. Kedai-kedai yang murah, kalau kat Malaysia ni, suka sangat jual baseball caps. Ugh.
Please. Tolong. Berets. Beanies. Military caps. Topi Michael Jackson. Anything. Tolonglah. No more bbcaps.
And news:
You alls know that I'm a hoarder when it comes to makeup, toiletries and stationery. With stationery it really is not a problem, since I eventually do use them up (with no regrets) but makeup and toiletry wise, I'm in deep *&^%$#@!.
Or should I say, I used to be.
Come summer, I'll be flying off here and there. For obvious reasons, I will travel light. That means, my stash of makeup and toiletries will remain unused for God knows how long, just sitting in their boxes feeling all sad and abandoned, and most likely start to rot due to their extreme misery.
Sad end for objects of love.
This is what I've been systematically doing for the past month:
1. Used neglected shampoos and bath gels to do my laundry with. Managed to clear up my bathroom in no time.
2. With the other random toiletries (like free face wash, lotion, hair stuff) I gave to an appreciative cousin
3. With the makeup items, I:
i. trashed anything and everything older than 12 months. Didn't think twice, didn't look back.
ii. gave some of the good ones away to my brother's gf and her sister
iii. and packed up the rest is small bags and left to charity
With that I went from three shoe boxes crammed with makeup, to just one neat little sandwich sized tupperware (which I believe I still need to do something about)
I have kept:
For my hair:
¤ one shampoo
¤ one conditioner
¤ one taming serum
For my body:
¤ two kinds of shower gel
¤ one body spray
¤ one bottle of baby lotion
For my face:
¤ Cetaphil cleanser
¤ one bottle of toner
¤ a make-do moisturizer (ugh)
¤ one bottle exfoliating gel
¤ one tube of Differin® on standby
And this fits into the tupperware:
¤ one mineral makeup set
¤ one compact (keeping because it's pretty)
¤ two eyeliners (one black and one brown)
¤ one black mascara (which I never use)
¤ two blush/color sticks
¤ two lipsticks
¤ two tinted lipbalms
¤ four lipglosses (I really love glosses)
May still seem like a lot, but believe me, this is nothing compared to the original list. LOL.
Ladies and gentlemen,
my name is Anaz and I once was a hoarder. I battled it out. It wasn't an easy fight, but I didn't give up. Kept at it. And won.
Mission: Impossible
MADE POSSIBLE
Okay, I think that'll be all :)
Macam dah melampau lampau panjang.
So wish me luck,
and all the best,
and that I WIN!
Until the 22nd then.
Bye bye for now.
signing off,
anazc @ a.j redmusketeer from the workstation.
