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The exams have finally ended. They actually went rather smoothly given the amount of time I spent studying, especially in the days leading up to it... But I'm thankful that among the few of us who had exams there weren't any major disappointments, so great job everyone (and stop worrying about them already =P)! Everyone (except me) studied really hard for it, and I know you all did really well, and definitely deserved it too =)

For those who don't know, I actually fell sick on Tuesday morning, the day of my first paper. The timing was simply flawless. 9am paper, and the night before my sleep was interrupted several times in the night coughing, and upon awakening in the morning was rudely shocked by my utterly desiccated throat. I crawled out of bed nonetheless, and I remember thinking just how perfect the attack was. I then proceeded to take every medication that could possibly be prepared in the time I had before leaving for school (that was non-drowsy), which included vitamin C, echinacea, some tablets issued by my mum of uncertain origin. I even drank brewed chrysanthemum tea. Yeah, that's how much I was panicking.

However, none of the above seemed provide any (short-term) relief from the symptoms, and I was doomed to sit in a dead quiet examination hall bellowing into tissues like an elephant. The situation didn't improve for my second paper on Wednesday, nor on Thursday. I really pity and respect Mickey D, who had to sit in front of me for all three papers, while managing to tolerate it in silence.

The worst thing is that I think I must have spread the damn infection to half the people I know, and I'm feeling terrible about it... I'm SO sorry, any of you who fell sick after that! Next time I'm just going to go quarantine myself rather than put you guys at risk >.<

I wonder if the bug had any negative effect on my examination performance... Oh well, I really need to follow my own advice (>.<) and not worry. Yes, that means NOT looking at the VCAA site for the ANSWERS TO THE EXAMS (why the fsck do they torment us so, heartless bastards...).

You would think that the stress come to an end, or at least some sort of lull at this point. Well, if anything is lulling it's everyone's motivation and energy. The stress, however, is far from abating. All the subjects, beliving themselves to be doing students a "favour", decided to move any SACs to after the exams. While this was not ill-intended in itself, it happens that when every subject thinks alike... Well let's just say what you get is a(n) stress trouble /wrist action-packed last few weeks all the way until the holidays start. Oh wait, that's only assuming you would call Year 12 holidays any sort of respite.

Once again, I think this happened to everyone* to some extent, so we can only motivate/help each other stay alive. Only 2 weeks to go, cheong~!

Now that the exams are over, I should have more time to blog again. Or not.

Later.

* Not including the arrogant IB bastards students.


Pangs of solitude.