Here's an end to 2005...

Today was not all that great a day. It started with my school's orientation
for the new students and the PMR students-going-into-Secondary 4. Oh,
nothing went wrong with the orientation (for me, at least). It's just that
it started with my spilling Milo over my library books (shhhh!!!! Don't tell
the librarians that), and then I lost a cup cover down the drain. It's not
just any cup cover - it's a cover for one of my tea thermos. OK, it's not
actually a thermos, it just about keeps the tea hot for half an hour, and
the cover doesn't actually work. Still....

However, had a bit of excellent news to make up for it... I went for a
radioactivity course last month which was over 2 weeks, ending in an exam.
Passing the exam gives me the right to be a Radiation Protection Officer.
The passing rate is usually quite low, and the exam was quite difficult. I
have somehow lost the ability to "mug" for an exam - I guess it's because
it's been many years since I last studied for an exam. I studied only about
4-5 hours for the paper. And... guess what, the part I didn't study CAME OUT
IN THE PAPER. The part I studied did NOT come out! I had to B.S. my way
through... thank goodness I paid attention during the lectures.

Passing grade is quite high: 70% average for Papers 1 & 2, with a minimum of
60% each; and 70% for Paper 3. I was very confident of Papers 1 & 3, but
Paper 2 was a killer and I worried that I wouldn't get the 60% minimum even
if Paper 1 could bring up the average to above 70%. The results were
supposed to be out weeks after the exam, but there was no news for one
month, even when I used the online checking system. Finally today one of the
guys who went for the same course SMSed me asking my results; so I checked
online again... and .... I PASSED!!!!

Wooo hooooo!!!!! A great end to my year.