Past memories

I'll update a bit about my year 2 since I've never really blog about anything this year. For me the year will start when school starts and end at the last day of finals. So this year starts at Sept 22th, if I'm not mistaken and end at May 18th. Took principle of finance and banking, corporate finance, macroeconomics, auditing and assurance and retaking IBM. For finals, pbf is unexpectedly easy and the rest is just manageable. HOPE I'M GOING TO PASS ALL. I don't know why our papers have to be taken at expo, so gonna travel all the way there and back. Took 1 hour plus to go there by car and more than 1 hour plus back home. My first paper starts on 9th May, a Wednesday, pbf. Next paper cf, Thursday. Then macro on Friday. All in the morning 10am-1pm, seriously that week is really tiring for me. Felt so sleepy on the way back but have to revise for the next paper after reaching home. Didn't really get to rest and sleep well. After Macro the next paper is on 17th, Thursday and Friday, Auditing, 10am-1pm. I've never felt so stress before even though I said the papers was manageable. Every night before I sleep, I'll have to go through everything I've revise during the day and make sure I'm still able to memorize the main points. Stay up till 4am for few nights and wake up at 10am after sleeping for 6 hours. Spent like 6-12 hours studying each day. Last year at least I don't have to worry so much on my POA. But this year with all 4 new modules and IBM, is just too much for me to handle. Got nervous 6 days before finals thinking I might not be able to finish all my revision. Almost felt like crying cause I don't want to regret not working hard and putting in effort when I see my result 4 months later. So that few days I studied like crazy and tried to understand every little part of the notes so that even without memorizing I'll be able to recall something during finals. I paste a lot a lot of post it on my table so that it will helps me to remember all those little details on every modules I revise.

For the first paper, pbf, I finish the paper and left 20 minutes before the paper ends. I didn't know the latest we can leave is 10 minutes before the paper ends and not 20 minutes so I rush everything and leave thinking is the last minute for me to leave. I wanted to travel home earlier to revise for cf cause after the first hour of pbf I realised it's a easy paper, managed to finish everything and I'm satisfied with the answer I wrote. Cf is kinda hard this year but still managed to finish everything and leave 10 minutes earlier. I'll have to say the questions they ask is weird compared to cf tutorials. But I guess I didn't read on past year so I got a shock looking at some questions which carmel said she know that's normal cause she saw the past year papers. Anyway I've tried my best this time. Macro is a little harder than cf and I stayed all the way till the paper end. Paper suppose to end at 1pm but the collecting papers and counting process took like 30 minutes more so reached home 40 minutes later than I left early. Train was crowded and there's no seats when I'm really tired both mentally and psychically . :/ After cf when I reached home I really feel like crying. The pressure is really no joke. Phew, I'm so glad everything ended now and I finally get my life back. Didn't prepare anything for prelims and I failed all, but at least the result I got still shock me because that was above my expectation. Pure luck I guess. *smile.

After Macro I revised Auditing first since there's really not much for me to prepare. Common sense and some general knowledge that's all. But I'm not saying Audit is easy, is just I just can't find anything to revise. So read notes once over again and write down some important points then start revising IBM for 3 days. Memorized some models for major topics and read the mind map from the start till the end. Didn't know I can't drop IBM last year, if not I SWEAR I'M NOT GONNA GIVE UP! Seriously I really thought is okay to fail IBM that's why I only memorize 1 chapter out of the 10 and did 2 questions out of the 4 questions that is required. MAJOR FAIL. So this year I'm not gonna let history repeats itself and I wrote like crazy for all 4 questions. Didn't really write a lot but I guess I've pen down all the key points that I remembered. Stay throughout too and seriously I'm glad I tried my best. I'm gonna accept whatever result I'll get and be happy and satisfied with it. Auditing is a bit hard on the essay session so I choose 3 case studies and 1 theory question. Can't tell you the great feeling after the invigilator say it's time and stop writing. The feeling is like there's something happy rushing from the deep of me and I'm really glad everything ended well for me. Stay positive and everything will turn out fine.

Whoa, this is really a long post, took me some time to recall and type it out in words. Have to say my English really improved compared to last year. I always think my English not good, whether in writing or oral, but my results keep proving me wrong. Not that I score well but I always got results higher than I expected and deserved. Not complaining but just saying I really have luck during exams.

I'm really enjoying my life now, spending time watching drama and playing Tetris on facebook. It's super addictive for me! HAHAHAHA. Gonna go shopping with xianwen tomorrow for her Bali trip, accompanying her to shop while enjoying some time outside. Didn't manage to jog this morning due to the rain so we both slept back and meet at JP in the afternoon and she accompany me to get some shampoo for my freshly dyed red hair. LOL. After that went Esprit and ask if they have any vacancy, I'm lucky cause they need some part timer so I apply for it. Hope they'll call me soon, if not I'm going to apply for cotton on.

Okay, that's all for today.

PS: I hope you don't change.