!Monday, October 02, 2006
Happiness is being content with what you have getting the geog paper over and done with.

Liz: Wehhhh! I spelt the Semakau in Pulau Semakau wrongly!
Sze, ever the optimistic: Well maybe they'll give you marks for the Pulau!

One down, 8? more to go.

But it feels great when annoying primary-schoolers scream every time they hear the thunder, or walk past the classroom talking and you go SHUSH! in this very loud voice and you hear them suddenly hush up and scramble forward and you don't feel mean at all but you feel a sense of SELF-JUSTIFICATION because after all it's exams and everybody has special rights during the exams.

SPECIAL EXAM RIGHTS!

You get to, besides the above,

1. Crush up unused foolscap paper in front of your environment-activist geog teacher
2. Tap your pen LOUDLY in impatience
3. Move your chair forwards and backwards to create screechy sounds
4. Ask for more paper even though you don't need it
5. Ask for the time every 30 seconds
6. Hide cheat sheets in your calculator to 'test' the stringency of checking for cheating
7. Sigh very loudly every time the teacher announces how much time you have
8. Sigh even louder whenever the teacher says there's some mistake in the question that you have to correct (what, waste my time to answer the questions)
9. Clear your throat. A lot.
10. And a personal favourite of mine:
Wait until the teacher's on the opposite side of the room, and then ask for one sheet of paper. And when she walks over, say

'I'm sorry, but I think I need another sheet'

And make her walk all the way back to get another for you. And rinse and repeat every single time (which will probably be less than two times, unless your teacher's an idiot).

Now that's a true classic.

It's your right! It's your entitlement!

Don't you love the feeling of empowerment?
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!ABOUTME
Nat Wong.