Meet my DUH face

Si Ning always tells me that she's amazed by my DUH face. Because I can tell you honestly that I can pull a DUH face. Like this: =_________________=" If you've been around me for a while, or you see me every day, you'd probably notice my DUH face.

The reason I'm saying all this is because I AM SO PULLING A DUH FACE NOW.

See, the thing is, I was happy in the first half of the day. I didn't have morning classes, so I woke up at 8.30 am, took a bath, had my breakfast, revised Calculus, and the best part was that I shared to have pizza for lunch with my floormates - there were 12 of us, I think. The pizzas were delivered quite quickly. We ordered 2 regular Hawaiian tuna pizzas and 2 regular Hawaiian chicken pizzas. I had 3 slices of pizza for lunch, and all was well and good.

Come 2 pm, I was in Calculus class, my eyes and ears all open. 4 pm, I was in the lecture theater listening to my ENL101 lecturer speak. After that TOEFL lecture, I found myself at the Sidewalk Cafe with a few other girls. I bought a small (and not filling, even though it tasted good) bun for RM1.60 (I feel a DUH moment coming..) to ensure that I won't have to ignore a growling stomach during my Calculus test.

By 6.15 pm, I was already seated in the classroom, staring at the question paper - and then realizing that I LEFT MY WATCH IN MY BAG, WHICH I'D LEFT IN FRONT OF THE ROOM. All hail me, Queen of Forgetfulness. *sigh* I had to pace myself with my own mental clock and it wasn't easy! The paper was tricky. I don't want to go into details but it suffices to say that I'd disappointed myself. And if you know me well enough, it isn't a pretty sight when I feel disappointed with myself. A quick scan through the set of answers which was given to us at the end of the test revealed that I'd missed the target I'd set for myself.

I was BEWILDERED by my mistakes. How could I have forgotten to state that 'x cannot be equal to 5' in the piece-wise defined function question? That was easily the easiest question to obtain full scores in! I kicked myself mentally a couple of times, delivering myself some swift blows which didn't exactly make myself feel better. *cue DUH face* Plus, I totally let myself down in the last question, which was something to do with the limit of cot x which involved raising the expression to the power of something. I tried to do it for so long but ended up drawing a blank. I scrawled some working and wrote down my answer, 1/5, but the real answer turned out to be 1/625. All I had to do was raise the denominator to the power of 4, but I was so focused on trying to get sin x/x by manipulating the question that I ended up befuddling myself to draw up a blank. ARGH!

But, it wasn't all bad. I did manage to get the right answer for the second last question even though I'm pretty sure that my working veered off the correct track quite a bit. I was beginning to feel desperate when I could gauge that the time was almost up. I was still staring at my working, trying to make head or tail of what I'd written. I ended up resorting to differentiation, which I suppose has something to do with the L'Hopital rule which we haven't learnt yet (Ohhhhhh, why didn't we get to differentiation when I was still in JC?), and to confirm my answer, I even went with the most elementary method and drew up a table to check my answer. Thank goodness for small mercies.

Anyway, I might not have hit my target, and I don't like that at all, but it has past. So I'll stop kicking myself in the head and move on. :p And don't worry, Mummy and Daddy; I did my best and I know I shouldn't pressure myself too much. And I'll try.

On a lighter note, I went to the ACTS Church Home just now, which is a cell group that has just been set up here in Nilai for us students. They just launched the Home tonight. Karyn and I came in when there were already some people from KTT and Nilai International College there, along with the Pastors and church members. We had dinner, mingled around, sang a couple of praise and worship songs, and then we heard Pastor Kenneth talk about his past. I met a few new faces today which I hadn't seen in church. They're cool people. :) And I met a St. Jo old-boy! He doesn't stay in Kuching anymore, but it was nice meeting a fellow Kuchingnite (it's VERY HARD to find one here.. *sigh* Who can appreciate the wonders of kolo mee with me here?). All in all, it was a nice gathering. I felt at home there, even though it doesn't look like my own home. The only thing the place has in common with my own home is the tiles. Haha.. :) Too bad I can't attend next week's meeting, though.

BECAUSE THIS TIME NEXT WEEK I'LL BE AT HOME, IN KUCHING, BABEHHHHH!

I cannot wait! Assessments and SAT mock test aside, I am really, really looking forward to going home! :D Mummy, I'm going to work on the list of food that I wanna eat.. Actually, maybe it's better if I post it here.. then you'll remember.. Hahaha! I WANT TO EAT KOLO MEE. *drools* I tell you arrrr, the pan mee and all those long-names noodles may taste good, but nothing beats a bowl of good ol kolo mee. NADA. And I want my real bak kut teh! The bak kut teh I ate here the other day was SO disappointing. It wasn't even very herbal lor! AND I wanna eat tomato fried eggs! Mummy, I haven't eaten this for so long already.. Okay la, I ate it the other day at the cafeteria, but it was just so-so la. Okay, enough about food for now.. Watch this space because I'll be posting up my list soon. :p

I'm homeward bound in 5 days! WHEEEEEEEEE! :D