ITS OVEERRR!!!!!!!

FINALLY.

Ok.. i sound like some mad guy ranting off steam that have been building inside him for months. But well, the A levels was like over for me the day econs paper ended. And I've been rather relaxed since then but there was still this burden on my mind, one that had to be carried on for 1 and a half more weeks for just 3 more papers, non crucial at that. Inevitably, it led to a sort of restlessness for me. I was neither in hot nor cold water, half in and half out of the mud, almost free but still with an irritating cord tied to my toe. I think you get the idea.

So when the hand finally reached 5 o'clock and I handed up my script, you can imagine the relief I must have felt; the giant load taken off my mind.

But strangely, my head didn't feel any lighter. Not yet, at least, I think I haven't fully appreciated the fact that I'm officially on holiday now. Because right now, I don't know what to do. I have ceased to become a 'productive unit of society'.

Actually, maybe another reason is that I still have SAT II on saturday.

But you can imagine that I won't be studying much for it.

Of S Papers

Just to let you all know, I kind of screwed up my S papers. Math S was terrible because I wasn't thinking well. Econs S should have been ok if not for the questions that they set, which were almost totally unrelated to what we had been thought. (Its like you spotted the wrong topics; only in this case you didn't even know that such other topics existed) I believe this sentiment is quite common among VJ students though, since I heard that many thought math S was a goner; and well, practically everybody were not taught to attempt such questions (in my opinion; of course I might have been taught such topics before unknowingly because either a) I was sleeping or b) I couldn't grasp the concept, which is quite common actually).

S papers are indeed difficult, but they are also very interesting. Well, perhaps its not so interesting if you have no clue what they are talking about, which was exactly the case at the beginning of this year. But lowly and gradually when you find out, 'hey I can do part of that question!' and things begin to make more sense to you, you will find that its really interesting.

I was especially puzzled as to why Econs S lecturers would rattle off names at the beginning and during the lecture itself. Before introducing a theory, they'd talk about the person who invented it. They rattled off names like 'Tullock, Harberger, Schumpeter, Coarse, Phelps, Hicks, Friedman..." Now that I've become acquainted with this names, I realize the reason why. Its because either one can't help marvelling at the person for coming up with such a creative theory or one wants to poke fun at the person for coming up with a ridiculous theory.

Well anyway, its all over now. And right now my most pressing task is to find a productive use for my time.

I won't be bored though. If I miss exams, there's always the SAT II to look forward to.

(Yeah right.)

- Wilbur