post-UMAT blog

well. what a day

around about 4000 people packing themselves into that massive hall over 2 time periods to sit a 2.5 hour exam (it was more like 3.5 hours actually with all the waiting)

i don't think i was as nervous or stressed as other people, probably because i didn't think of the enormity of this test. to me it was another practice test on medentry or one of those UNSW comp thingos. but i did start taking deeper breaths on the way driving there

do some preparation in the morning doing some medentry exams and that was a really nice confidence builder cause i got 99 percentile in one of them even though the mark wasn't that high

so get there about 15 minutes early. walk into the waiting area trying to find people i know, i first see aditi (deshwal) who's talking to her NSG friends and say hi and stuff and then i bump into arni, jessie and a few others. surprised at how many people there were actually
jero was telling me about how all these people would be smart people with ATAR above 90's since they were taking the UMAT. i didn't really think about that beforehand

so we get in and i happen to see all these randoms who appear on my facebook home page constantly posting statuses, people which i've never talked to before. and a coupla people i haven't seen in about 5 or 6 years. wasn't really in the mood to talk. so just went straight through to my exam table.

so after what seemed like an eternity, some big loud voice on the speakerphone started announcing stuff and info . you know that kinda jazz
and then after a while we start getting into it. it wasn't until question 4 where i thought, woah holy crap i'm doing the UMAT exam. can't screw up. so while i'm doing section 1, this chinese helper lady starts talking to this other supervisor. and i really can't read when there is noise around me, so i put my head up and gave em a dirty. then they stopped talking thankfully :)

to add to that, i brought a drink bottle with me and had taken a few sips of it before i did the exam. towards the end of the section 1 exam, i really feel the urge to pee. and i was thinking to myself. the exams 2.5 hours surely they'll let pee breaks? so i ask the lady and she tells me that i cant go during the interval (which turned out to be 30 seconds) and i have to go during the exam which kind of made me worried but it was ok cause i finish in time anyway.

so when i've finished my section 2, i really need to go and there's ten minutes left so i get off my chair and suddenly the lady goes
"I'm sorry there's only 10 minutes left, can you go as soon as section 3 starts"
i asked what was wrong with now. but for some reason i'm not allowed to go in the 2nd half of an exam or something which really annoyed me

so as soon as section 3 starts i bolt for the toilet, take a leak and get back to my seat within 1 or 2 minutes. for once moment i was thinking oh that'll be ok since section 3 turned out to be quite easy cept there was 1 or 2 i couldnt do which i might've done with tha little extra time

overall i was quite satisfied, got out of the hall after much waiting and had a little discussion with arni and victor and aryan about it. caught the packed train home and here i am.

doesn't feel like a school night, but it's probably wise for me to start working

take care all

pre-UMAT blog

they say it's important to feel good and happy before you walk into the UMAT exam or else it will drastically affect your result. hence why i am blogging

no it's not really why i am blogging, since i don't believe in that mumbo jumbo
but i got nothing else to do.

so i'm a 1-30 peep so goodies for extra sleep

lets see.. what happened today.
- got chem results back. don't really give a damn

- tried to be conscientious in class. it kind of worked

- maths classes got new carpet !!!. i find it funny how when you get new car or new carpet or anything like that, you can't eat in it or drink stuff either, but after a while, noone gives a damn and it just ends up dirty anyway.
kind of reminds me of primary school when we used to sit on the carpet and listen to stories, and there was this one place of this carpet where there was missing carpet, and so us kids used to pull off the remaining carpet and eventually the carpet had to get replaced.

- felt massively pissy at someone for a while but its all resolved now :)

- went to burwood to pick up my fixed computer. i walked in with my school uniform and the guy fixing it suddenly said hey my son goes to your school ! and as always dad couldn't help himself from mentioning my prefect status == although i highly doubt chinese people know what that is
and for that he gave us 20 dollar discount. muahahaha i love connections.
took a while to figure out who's kid belonged to the computer guy cause they look very similar, then i realised it was ivan, the ladies man of year 7 who hangs out with the girls and gives them gifts as bobby the ivan-stalker would tell us



waiting from the drivers seat for parents to finish talking to ruse father guy while munching on my subway

- burwood subway sells the cheapest subs ever. after 4pm you can get any two footlongs (excl steak and bacon ranch) for 13 bucks! yes 13 bucks. so usually on the way home from guan me and my dad would make a detour to burwood and get 2 sweet onion chicken teriyaki footlong subs for 13 bucks.

- went to library to do a bit of UMAT questions. the library was so empty, felt weird as its usual full of old grandpas and grandmas gettin their moneys worth reading the newspapers. was the last to leave the library after the librarian told me they were closing. i was too in the zone to realise



i don't know whats with my council, and i feel like one of those today tonight people for complaining about this. but this escalator has not been fixed for about 8 months now. and it leads straight to the library. very annoyed that i hafta walk up stairs

well its bed time now, i was photo browsing through my albums and came across a time we played around at star city's gym and pool cause my cousin came overseas and stayed there . i'll leave with a picture of the nice city view :) (it's supposed to be calming)

Beautiful from behind

I feel a bit weird and shallow for mentioning this

but have you ever seen the back of someone and just gone wow i have to take a look at this person. and when you finally do you're kind of dissapointed.
probably applies more for guys than girls, but i hope someone knows what i means xD so it doesn't mean i'm a freak.

well i was at yumcha today and then sitting across from me was this person who looked absolutely amazing from behind. she was playing with her hair and pushing it back and for a moment i felt physically attracted. my moral senses got to me and i quickly turned away as to not further distract myself. but my curiosity got to me and i just had to see who this person was. so at the end of eating i took a unusually long path to get a look at her
AND.......















she was a woman in her 30's or 40's =="
man i feel so bad for doing that. erghh


well with that out of my way. head off to computer shop in a hope to fix my computer . waste like 2 hours of my time there waiting for them to scan viruses and stuff and my dad's there waiting asking really dumb questions being a computer-illerate

head off to the library shortly afterwards to do a coupla UMAT questions and head to the station to go home.
on the way up to the station some lebs look like they are about to stop me or something and i was thinking. oh must be asking for money as usual. while tryna think of what to say they suddenly ask me
"hey, umm could you buy some cigarettes for us?"
kinda surprised me at first and i casually mentioned how i wasn't 18 to their disapointments and headed off to catch the train again

while on the train started thinking about how the boys would've eventually gotten cigarettes anyway and how sad that is.
few people i knew from primary all smoke now, which really shows about social pressures and stuff.

well there's an afterthought to leave you with. looking forward to school tommorow actually

Jetlagg.

I just woke up about an hour ago and feeling really guilty about the time i coulda used instead of sleeping all that time.
But its mainly because of :
- chats with friendly people i've just met, on msn late late at night
- watching the tour de france

i don't know what it is about 200 guys in tight bike shorts dancing on their bicycles that makes it so exciting, but i quite like watchin the tour de france.
Currently i'm gunning for this guy Andy Schleck who's coming 2nd overall

and the commentators get all excited about it and stuff too. that aussie guy cadel evans screwed up a stage so now he's chucking a dummy spit

just watching the speed of the race and the phenomenon of air resistance is incredible.
obviously for us we're not travelling at high enough speeds to experience this air resistance but in cycling it makes a big difference.

and what these guys do is freaky. i mean cycling 200km a day for 14 days .

i remember back in year 10 when we decided to have that 'grade picnic' of ours except it rained and about 20 or so turned up.

so we all decided to head back to sy's place for a barbecue which ended up quite nice
but what i remember was me eddy and eddison deciding to ride bikes to her place. i had to use alison's bike and her seat was making my bum really sore the whole way.
to add to that it was pourrinngg and everything got soaked.
in an attempt to get directions, sy's car decided to drive slowly with us so that we could keep up, except we lost em halfway through
and i just remember going up those hills and eddison, i dunno how that guy does it, but he just seems like its effortless. while eddy is about 20m behind him and i'm about 50m back screamingg "please sloww down"
i think it was faster for me to run my bike up the hill than pedal on it.

i've been meaning to post up my hiking trip recap but i'm still halfway through it. bosco how do you do it.

anyways what happened yesterday/after midnight: i'm kinda gettin used to saying "today" after 12am now instead of tomorrow

woke up late as usual, hoped onto the comp to watch highlights of tour de france and the usual facebook and blog check to see if anyone posted up some interesting stuff.
about to settle down to do some UMAT questions when the plumber calls to say he'll come and check up on something and our plumber is a pretty big talker. so i decide to escape to the library with my laptop and books.
get to library and sit myself down and using the library's wifi i start doing questions. but i find it so hard to read while there's noise. cause i keep losing my spot while wishing it would be quiet.

during the holidays there's always kids around the computer section playing wuteva games they play now. i know. that used to me back then playing runescape with all my mates in year 7 when it was the shizz. so i mustve been annoying to people studying for HSC.

well anyways they run out of computer booking time (muahaha quiet at last) when some kid beside me is watching some japanese show and cracking his pants every 30 seconds. and he would be laughing his head off and banging his hand on the table. it was kinda weird. and me and the curry guy to my other side were just exchanging looks of confusion. and then i catch some other guy on his laptop googling pictures of curry girls.

despite all the noise i manage to ace my practice exam surprisingly(i just realised UMAT was on the wednesday so we miss school) and i move on to some other stuff. mum comes to find me after work and we go buy some groceries and go home. and then the next 5 hours seem to pass by within 10 minutes. damn tv.
you think that you'll go and do some work afterwards but noooo there's always gotta be some good show next and so on. i can almost watch anything. except for biggest loser, that got old for me.

planning to lock myself in my room tomorrow for a whole day so ill get some work done, unless i happen to go studying with someone.
so it's bye for now.