My (Almost) Trebelation - part 2

As the working day draws to a close, I shoved myself to the car park, with countless thoughts in my mind. I am very worried about the responsibilities that I will shoulder later on. I suppose the question of why it happened is out of the picture now. As it is, I have bigger things to attend to.

Azmimi has just sent me a message that she has picked up the parcel so I can come over anytime to send it to the designated destination. I duly arrived and saw preparations were fully underway. After dinner, I helped with re-arranging stuff and I whisked away by 10pm as the party from the other side was arriving.

Much to my surprise, it didn't take long for them to arrive. We went on fussing about stuff and ensured everything was ready. We also discussed logistics and timing, and I couldn't think of anything else. By half past eleven, everyone decided to call it a day and went back to their respective cribs.

It was probably a little bit more than an hour to go before results come out. I sat down and prepped myself to bed and before I knew it, it was already half past twelve. Goodness, another half hour to go! The laptop was already switched on and I was refreshing the page every minute I could. But that was all reflex and my concentration was at the bottom of the barrel. All the "excitement" and the "euphoria" of the late afternoon had the better of me and I decided I should rest for my own benefit. After all, I need to wake up at an earlier time than usual on Saturday.

I woke up exactly 5 hours after I closed my eyes. "Oh, results are out already!" I jumped from my bed like a jolted horse and pounced to the computer. I didn't want to waste time refreshing the results page - I quickly opened my Gmail account.

There was 1 new mail.

I anxiously double-clicked on the mail.

The results said:

Business Reporting - 58

Business Change - 47

"Damn!" And I slapped my hand to the wooden table.

But hey. It was kinda expected. I knew I passed BR right after I went out of the hall. But I wasn't so sure if I did enough for BC. I remembered that I answered all the requirements but I also ran out of ammo 10 minutes before the exam finished. This is probably where all the "ifs" and "buts" would come out. If only I had 6 more points to be written during

those 10 minutes, but I didn't. Else I would've written them (1 point = 0.5 mark). Well that's probably the only If that I had in mind, but thinking about it isn't actually good practice for a Muslim, and it doesn't change anything anyway.

The next thing I did was to scan the list to see if others passed as well. I saw several names that was familiar. Some passed both, some passed one, and there were results with no names.

One might think 3 marks off isn't too far from passing, and that you're almost there. Actually, the closer you are to the threshold, the further it is. I cannot imagine what it would be like getting a 49 like Dina did.. I would probably have bought out the entire range in Raoul or Thomas Pink. It was a good thing you had Breaking Dawn, Dina!

As such, it was kind of bittersweet, as aptly put by Chun Mei. I guess it was.

Congratulations to the warriors who triumphed the battle. As for the fallen ones, myself included, let us learn from the humiliating lessons and come back stronger the next time.