The moment of truth has come and gone. After many delays (twice, to be exact), I got up at 4 AM, and started driving from too-early-for-anyone 5 AM for two hours before I waited for the testing site to open up. There were too many regulations. I had to take my fingerprint, which was wholly expected, and palm print, which I did not expect at all. All the personal belongings were removed, then stored into one of the assigned locker before examinees were brought to their stations one at a time.
Then it was over. I did not know what hit me, and before I knew it, the screen was telling me that the test was complete, and I was free to leave. This happened within two hours of the beginning of the test. TWO HOURS!!! My round trip to and from the testing site took almost three and half hours. I felt cheated. I felt lost. I felt as if computer has already decided that it was not worth their time to bother grading my test and promptly sent to electronic paper shredder, all done in encrypted form.
I am fighting the urge to chuck my review book, then stomp on it few times for good measure, if it was not for the uncertainty of passing the test. I guess I will savor the moment where I get to destroy this book without reservation.
I must apologize to my friends. Stephanie is thinking that I have gone AWOL. I just was not in mood to talk to anyone, and felt somewhere in between jittery and nervous wreck with touch of twitchiness that comes with pre-test period. Most people seem to think that I seem relaxed before the test, almost too relax to the point of uncaring. That is not quite true. I just try my best to keep it bottled up instead of having a public display of nervous breakdown.
School:
Could not get license before Fall Semester. My application is now being pushed to Spring 2010 Semester.
Well-being:
Needs coffee, and sleep.
Job:
Feels like my coworker is getting away with murder by throwing a crying/sobbing fit. Amazing... simply amazing experience this is.
Reading:
Book: Random issues of Time Magazine.
Manga: Zero (by Toume Kei), and Happy Negative Marriage (by Amazume Ryuta).
Watching:
TV: New York Jets and New York Football Giants games.
Anime: Taisho Yakyuu Musume, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, and Kanamemo.
Movie: Transformers 2, and Wallace & Gromit Collection.
Playing:
Bioshock.
Soon: Batman: Akhram Asylum, Demon's Soul, and Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2.
Two-Cents (AWP of 81 mg Aspirin):
I stopped watching FOX News after one of moron accused Tesla Auto as a foreign company illegally receiving government loan. Really? Tesla is a foreign company? Since when do we classify a company that has corporate headquarter in US as a foreign company? Last time I checked, that is regarded as a domestic company even if most of goods were produced elsewhere. If having its product to be assembled (but not its parts) in other countries, maybe we should label 1/2 of all so-called-domestic brand automobiles as "foreign" product. And while at it, FOX News should stop calling Honda and Toyota sold in US to be foreign. Afterall, majority of their products sold in US is assembled in US. But no... Honda and Toyota just don't roll in their native American tongue. I have seen recent bouts of stupidity being overloaded and spilling out of mouth in all cable news channels (with CNN's Healthcare-or-Bust, FNC's TEA party organization drive, birther-conspiracy, and MSNBC... too many to say), but this one tops the cake in my point of view. Most viewers would not question this completely fictional statement since this has no direct impact on their lives. Worse yet, they will accept this as a fact and in turn tell more people about this foreign company called "Tesla", and how they swindled our tax money.
Wake Up! News channels need to stop putting their own opinions and package them as a truth, and people needs to start questioning their validity... all three of them! As for me, I have turned to Associated Press for news... a real news, wholesome, dry, without drama and more facts with valid statistics and not smeared with opinions.
Thank you internet for sparing me from having to rely on TV for news... real news.
