picture taken from Meredith's in Brasilia (blog)
3:59:59pm.
It was the last ever moment of school life for myself and some 30 plus schoolmates that had endured one and a half years of sweet and sour together for the past one and a half year (plus minus).
After that, we were emancipated. Faster than I can turn my head, actually; almost everybody left school within 5 minutes of passing up the last paper with quick hand waves. They disappeared so fast...and I actually had a good chat with the security guard before leaving school.
So long, school. So long, school uniform - in the cupboard you go, for sale at a future date. Same goes for the textbooks in the bookshelf. The workbooks and notes are going back to school next month to be used by my juniors (if they want to that is, and whatever salvageable). As for the black shoes...my sister's still in school.
How were the remaining 4 papers, you ask? Here's the breakdown:
Makro: Somewhat manageable for me, but Mikro was easier for me. From personal experience, STPM economy students can be classed into those who fare better in Mikro (all the details and graphs) or Makro (seeing the big picture and concepts that influence country and international economy). As a detail freak, I fall in the former category. I like Makro too though :)
PP2: There was that 'belanjawan tunai' question...I didn't read it but I did remember doing it with my teammate last year in our actual business plan (mulling over all those numbers did take a considerable amount of days) so I can do it...only later found out that I 'salah istilah'. Right concept, different words - whether it gets any marks depends on what says the examiner. Overall it was doable.
Sejarah 2: Was hard. Normally the other paper (Sejarah 1) is considered the harder paper because of its stricter marking scheme and wider syllabus but this time there's only one question that I remembered the scheme answers due to a presentation last year...the rest I 'vomited' out whatever facts I knew. I really don't know what to expect from this paper.
PA1: Did I redeem myself for the suckish PA2 paper? In a sense, this paper was easier than I expected. Still, there were tricky questions in the first few pages...Have to keep my fingers crossed for this one.
picture by Bob Cotter
Next question. How to spend the next few months of freedom? Here's what I will/might do:
- Learn/refresh driving. My word on driving myself to collect the STPM results in February 2012 still stands.
- Go shopping (when needed and by taking advantage of year end sales)
- Find a part time job -I actually am scared at the idea; I've heard the tales (more on that in a later post) of working. Oh well, life's full of new experiences right?
- Volunteer - for any group/ministry/project that needs help. Worth the experience, too.
- Do (a lot of) research on legal studies - read law books (my dad go and download quite a few on our Kindle, so I do owe myself reading time)
- Research and write short stories and articles (this is besides Remag - I've always wanted to do that. One step closer to the dream of writing and publishing a fiction book (more if possible) in my lifetime, heehee)
- Join the youth/YA groups of other churches. I'm not planning to change churches or whatever, and I still can help the youth group in my home church but if possible at a different time, I want to learn about fellowship and God in an unfamiliar setting to avoid being complacent and lazy in matters of faith and following God (which does describe me now...sigh), and also to get to know more people in the same age/slightly elder age group, which is really few in my church now.
- Travel whenever there's the time and money for it...even if it's nearby :)
- Assist my sister in SPM (whatever I can remember that is)
- Skills courses (e.g public speaking, business skills, perhaps even self-taught typing. Not to mention drum and guitar, and taking my piano classes seriously ARGH!)
- Sports! For getting fit and getting out of phobias such as fear of water. I so wanna swim argh! No nearby pool though so it's inconvenient for the time being.
Well that's all I can think of now...in the next 9 months let's see how this goes...
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