F1 musings
2008-09-27 11:24 p.m.
man i hate F1.
because of it im likely going to fail 2 subjects.
but how?, you may ask.
how has F1, an innocent activity involving cars zooming around which somehow gets an entire country more excited than their own national day, affected my academia?
by acting as a distraction because i love F1 so much i spent sleepless nights enthusing over its coming?
by draining me of my money because i went crazy over the F1 apparel and beggared myself in the process?
no, actually.
by coming up in my chinese oral exam.
in what context, i dont know.
why?
because the question sounded to me like 'mumbo jumbo mumbo F1?'
thank goodness there's no chinese translation for F1 or i might have just missed it too.
as it was, the appropriate response for that question would have been to start praying.
but somehow i didnt think that would move the judges.
im sorry, i meant examiners.
so i started ad-libbing.
why ad-libbing?, you ask? isnt that usually reserved for describing the interpolation of unscripted material in an otherwise scripted performance?
but that's exactly what oral is about.
its simply the act of students regurgitating everything their teacher had poured into them, in the hopes that it would be correct.
but in this case our teacher had not done any pouring, and i didnt even understand the question.
so it was ad-lib, ad-lib, all the way.
what i chose to talk about was how the F1 would affect singapore's economy.
but they could have asked 'so what cars do you think will win this year's F1?' for all i know.
that's chinese.
F1 reared its metal head again in econs.
and this time it WAS about economics, duh.
but i still didnt know how to answer it!
i simply could not find the proper context to talk about, because the demand and supply concepts did not seem to be enough for 10 marks.
so yea, it was ad-libbing all over again.
so i shall sum up my sufferings in a succinct, thoughtful, deep line.
F1 SUCKS!
