It's 12:00. (Right now it is, by the time I publish God-knows how much later it'll be)
So basically it's 19-Dec-2010. The whole of UAE is either snoring comfortably or chilling out and enjoying the holiday season. For us it is the dreaded date - ICT Paper 3. And almost all of us 10s are trying hard to stay awake and practice as much as possible and pass tomorrow. Most of us are online and calling each other up to clear up confusions, or asking how much is left/covered. I'm still stuck on trying to practice Frontpage. I've been slightly successful as get hold of it I did, but the download is a massive one and I don't know if the rest of the plan will work and if I'll actually manage to practice sufficiently along with catching a few hours' sleep.
So my point is basically to pass time. While the download goes on, instead of revising MS Excel formulas(e?) or honing my PowerPoint skills (ignore), I'm here preparing the next treat for my blog readers.
I can't believe how brutally I wasted this weekend. Thursday was 10 Muharram so no parhai on that day. Friday I got up at about 12:30, pushed my sleepy lazy self out of bed at 1, had breakfast at 1:30, stuck to the laptop at 2, checked Facebook, searched for skin remedies/ exercises/ crash diet plans/ other useless shit and did every other imaginable useless task. I kept reminding myself of the exam but hah did you expect me to listen to the boring reminding voice. So, yeah, I wasted the whole of Friday.
Saturday - pretty much the same routine till 2. Then I got serious and phoned three friends and asked them how much they'd done. First one - the loser was asleep. Second - "tumhay lagta hai maine shuru kia hoga?". Third - "haan yar soch rahi thi shuru karun lekin abhi tou so ke uthi hun". And I was like WOW. Ye tou mere se bhi do hath agay hain. Kher, I started with something atleast.... and gave up 10 min later. Went for a sauna bath and had a long shower after that. Half of the day wasted - just the cue for me to start studying. At 6 I properly started. And believe me, the first 5 questions in the paper took me TWO hours. TWO hours. But I Godknowshow completed that section. So I was done with two sections (having done another one earlier sometime). One left. But no program on which it was to be done. But a friend got in contact with the IT genius in our class and he told her how to get hold of FrontPage. I was ecstatic at finally being able to practice FrontPage but there was a measly little problem. It's midnight and the download would take two hours. And I would need another two hours to practice. Which would deprive me of my precious beauty sleep. But oh well, no pain, no gain. So here I am, blogging while the download completes. No prospect of it being completed before one hour btw.
Erm. I just read the post. Jokes apart, it doesn't make sense to me. So it doesn't really have to make sense to you haha. But I'll post it all the same. My blog, after all.
Btw, The Me, fatima-, Maryam & Furree Katt thankyou people for commenting :D
+ Maryam awesome hai aap, maaloom hai apko? <3
Pray for me y'all. Byebye.
PS:50% hogya download. Abhi aik aur ghanta baqi hai. -_-
Sunday, 19 December 2010
Saturday, 18 December 2010
Second post in under 3 hours, IMPROVEMENT!
I present, fellow bloggers, -insert drumroll please- my second blog post in under 3 hours, for the first time ever in the one year history of My Pensieve! -applause-
Okay sorry, but I loove to exaggerate.
So I went to study. I opened a past paper. I skipped the first question (that spans about 2 whole pages of the paper) because it was to be done in MS Frontpage and we all know I don't have it, so let's not rub it in. Okay, next question. PowerPoint. I proceeded with the first step - took15 minutes to be solved because I used so many means (excluding my sleepy brain) at once to try and get it done. Asked a senior on FB chat how she got it done in her exam, tried different Google searches, clicked on random results, skimmed through many and finally one told me how you open/create/whatever a master slide/ slide master/ whatever.
Did the first step. Congratulated myself. Proceeded to next. Bloody hell, WHEN DID SHE EVER TEACH US THAT?, I thought. And then out came the curses and rants about how the incompetent teacher could ever have set us such an exam when she knowwws we're not not not prepared - and it's not our fault, the entire school management knows it, the teacher is the masla. And sadly, nothing can be done about it because, according to our academic co-ordinator, despite looking for a replacement none has been found because whoever is better than the present one is already well-placed and well-paid. So we make do with the one we have.
This might not even make sense to you, but you get the idea haina.
I want to blog about this thingg on my mind. But for (obvious?) reasons I can't/won't/whatever. But soon IA I will - using the 'show, don't tell' tactic maybe. Or using a new scheme half-formed in my mind. InshaAllah soon.
Okay so however hard I try, I can't keep the bloody ICT mock exam out of my mind. There is a serious serious problem. There are three programs/applications I need to master by Sunday in order to get a decent grade. The first part of problem: One of the three isn't in my computer, the second one I know only the basics of, but sadly the basics are not even included in the exam - it's all about the bloody technical stuff, the third one has loads and loads of complications, I'm sure of it - but I'm just feeling confident about it cbecause I haven't really explored it properly. The second part: There is no teacher available. everyone in the family is just as familiar with the technical shit as I am. The third part: I have no clue how to deal with it. Obviously nothing would come of writing long useless blog posts but THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT IT.
And the exaggeration in the above is minimal, trust me.
So Imma go worry about it some more, wall-post friends and hope for a solution to be there in the morning.
Bye-bye y'all. Pray for me.
Okay sorry, but I loove to exaggerate.
So I went to study. I opened a past paper. I skipped the first question (that spans about 2 whole pages of the paper) because it was to be done in MS Frontpage and we all know I don't have it, so let's not rub it in. Okay, next question. PowerPoint. I proceeded with the first step - took15 minutes to be solved because I used so many means (excluding my sleepy brain) at once to try and get it done. Asked a senior on FB chat how she got it done in her exam, tried different Google searches, clicked on random results, skimmed through many and finally one told me how you open/create/whatever a master slide/ slide master/ whatever.
Did the first step. Congratulated myself. Proceeded to next. Bloody hell, WHEN DID SHE EVER TEACH US THAT?, I thought. And then out came the curses and rants about how the incompetent teacher could ever have set us such an exam when she knowwws we're not not not prepared - and it's not our fault, the entire school management knows it, the teacher is the masla. And sadly, nothing can be done about it because, according to our academic co-ordinator, despite looking for a replacement none has been found because whoever is better than the present one is already well-placed and well-paid. So we make do with the one we have.
This might not even make sense to you, but you get the idea haina.
I want to blog about this thingg on my mind. But for (obvious?) reasons I can't/won't/whatever. But soon IA I will - using the 'show, don't tell' tactic maybe. Or using a new scheme half-formed in my mind. InshaAllah soon.
Okay so however hard I try, I can't keep the bloody ICT mock exam out of my mind. There is a serious serious problem. There are three programs/applications I need to master by Sunday in order to get a decent grade. The first part of problem: One of the three isn't in my computer, the second one I know only the basics of, but sadly the basics are not even included in the exam - it's all about the bloody technical stuff, the third one has loads and loads of complications, I'm sure of it - but I'm just feeling confident about it cbecause I haven't really explored it properly. The second part: There is no teacher available. everyone in the family is just as familiar with the technical shit as I am. The third part: I have no clue how to deal with it. Obviously nothing would come of writing long useless blog posts but THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT IT.
And the exaggeration in the above is minimal, trust me.
So Imma go worry about it some more, wall-post friends and hope for a solution to be there in the morning.
Bye-bye y'all. Pray for me.
Friday, 17 December 2010
The dormant blogger in me has awoken - Rejoice!
Hello people :D
So I was reminded that the blog I very enthusiastically created last year exists to this day and is available for viewing to the world by a visit to my Hotmail account earlier today. I check the account not very often because Facebook ke ilawa koi mail nai karta mujhay. But I had some work to do so I went to Hotmail, did what I was supposed to without even glancing at the countless unread emails, the majority of which were sent by loser Facebook WHEN I NOTICED SOMETHING. Something that looked like 'Furree Katt'. Upon paying closer attention I found out that this wonderful wonderful blogger had left a comment on latest (3month-old) post. I was so ecstatic that I forgot all about the highly-important-natured work I had and became intent on what the comment asked me to do, which was basically: blog.
Okay enough of that.
So I have been very very busy. Not that being free made any difference to my frequency of blogging. So that isn't much of an excuse. But what the heck, who cares about why I don't blog. Right now, by the way, I should be preparing for the bloody IT exam. But I have just made an unpleasant discovery - I don't have the programs required for practicing for the exam on my ancient laptop. Big big masla. But I'll worry about it later. Sunday ko hai exam. Abhi time hai.
Result out on 23rd. Please please pray for me. I need to get what I aimed for or else I eventually sink into a massive depressed state and that will ruin ruin ruin all the plans for the 2 week winter break.
The highly-important-natured work is no longer resting at the back of my mind where I pushed it to and prioritized blogging. My conscience is repeatedly nagging me to start with the massive amount of work I have to get done this weekend, half of which has already sailed past.
Bye bye. More rants later. Oh yes, more of them coming. :D
PS: COMMENT PEOPLE, FOR GOODNESS'S SAKE, COMMENT. Those heavenly words are one of the few things that I look forward to in my monotonous life.
Ignore the last bit.
So I was reminded that the blog I very enthusiastically created last year exists to this day and is available for viewing to the world by a visit to my Hotmail account earlier today. I check the account not very often because Facebook ke ilawa koi mail nai karta mujhay. But I had some work to do so I went to Hotmail, did what I was supposed to without even glancing at the countless unread emails, the majority of which were sent by loser Facebook WHEN I NOTICED SOMETHING. Something that looked like 'Furree Katt'. Upon paying closer attention I found out that this wonderful wonderful blogger had left a comment on latest (3month-old) post. I was so ecstatic that I forgot all about the highly-important-natured work I had and became intent on what the comment asked me to do, which was basically: blog.
Okay enough of that.
So I have been very very busy. Not that being free made any difference to my frequency of blogging. So that isn't much of an excuse. But what the heck, who cares about why I don't blog. Right now, by the way, I should be preparing for the bloody IT exam. But I have just made an unpleasant discovery - I don't have the programs required for practicing for the exam on my ancient laptop. Big big masla. But I'll worry about it later. Sunday ko hai exam. Abhi time hai.
Result out on 23rd. Please please pray for me. I need to get what I aimed for or else I eventually sink into a massive depressed state and that will ruin ruin ruin all the plans for the 2 week winter break.
The highly-important-natured work is no longer resting at the back of my mind where I pushed it to and prioritized blogging. My conscience is repeatedly nagging me to start with the massive amount of work I have to get done this weekend, half of which has already sailed past.
Bye bye. More rants later. Oh yes, more of them coming. :D
PS: COMMENT PEOPLE, FOR GOODNESS'S SAKE, COMMENT. Those heavenly words are one of the few things that I look forward to in my monotonous life.
Ignore the last bit.
