rants on oral

rants on oral
Saturday, Jul. 24, 2004, 11:04 a.m.

bleah. saying tt the oral was awful was a total understatment. so let me just rattle and wallow in self-pity for now. urgh.

went to skool, rechecked the list and i found out tt the pple before me were so darn fluent. 3pple frm unity, kangx (cldds), weiling (class debator) and claire (eldds). wad is this loh?

nvm, then it was so darn cold with the fan blowing and cold winds frm outside. wanted to pee but there's only 1 pathetic cubicle at the back and i have to wait to 15mins! had no choice but to hold my pee till the end of the whole oral. darn.

then the 10mins prep came. 10mins just enuff for me to read passage 2x and the pic once. luckily, claire was talking for some time, so i have 5 more mins or so to arrange my thoughts.

the examiner was ramesh. darn. stumbled on stupid words like, "salivating". my worst fear came true; he prompted as much as the examiner in the MOE specimen paper!!! He prompted non stop though i knew wad i was going to say and i dun need any prompts!!! if he is going to go according to the no. of prompts he gave, i think i'll flunk the pic component. just when i wanted to say sth that i thought was a pretty good self-response. not too crappy, but logical one. he stopped me. darn. urgh. and he gave me a different topic frm some other pple. other pple got experience in hospital. wad i got? "Have u ever been to any homes for cip?" the answer is no. darn. but i lied through my teeth and said tt someone told me abt her experience at an old folks' home. screwed. then he proceeded to maid abuse qn. I had no problem with that. I practised tt for last yr's chinese oral. so i just translated whatever i remembered into english. the he gave me a qn tt threw me totally off for 5seconds, "How can you protect the rights of these maids?" my jaws dropped immediately lah. but i still managed to crap out the media, and education. no matter what issue it is, it's always possible to link it to education and media. haha.

urgh, i screwed this one lah. i still got one more english oral to go. sai lah.