This is a reduce, reuse, recycle advertisement.
Do you have any old, obsolete, junk computers still in use at home, in your office, or in someone else's toilet bowl?
This is your final warning - please trash it.
Why?
Simple.
I had to do my law today. Another word for it is table test. Undoubtedly, the only examination in Malaysian where 84 is the passing mark. Anyway, I'm learning to drive. =.= (Laugh all you want. I know I'm younger than you ex-Form 5's.)
I was assigned to this bugging old computer at counter 6. First you have your test for colour blindness. Next, is a vision test, especially made for idiots and the blind. These are the kindergarten tests that you have to pass 100% before proceeding to the main part.
And so, with a dumb connection that probably still uses dial-up, you wait like one minute for it to sign in, and you actually have to press the 'end session' button to end the test when you have already answered ALL your questions and you have pressed the 'yes' button when they asked you whether you wished to end the test. Make this simple. There's two 'end' buttons. One at the end, one at the bottom left corner of the screen if you decide to flop. The third one is on your UP-TO-DATE keyboard. Try that now.
I've been struggling through law for the past week. It's undoubtedly not-so-freedom after SPM, having to sit for another test which still requires some common sense. Yes, you can shoot your way through, but as probability has it, you won't pass. Not a chance.
I finished in 15 minutes. But before pressing the 'end session' button, you would have to check. But if you don't press that button, you will end up failing as well. Told you how out-of-date this system is?!
I checked backwards. 50, 49, 48... 34. I stumbled upon question 34.
Then the monitor started going on and off. The monitor's resolution went berserk, highs and lows. Then it switched off, before I could press the 'end session' button.
I went to make a complaint at the counter.
And then...
BOOM!!!
The staff were really too blur to even bother about the computer's state. One even asked me to sacrifice my healthy lungs by smelling that area for any nasty, burnt silicon smell. And yup, there was. Short circuit. All the others were probably thinking what the hell did I do to the computer.
Then, the bad news. I had to redo the test. =.= Luckily, the system is online and somehow, I managed to log in and resume from where I was, without any deduction to my remaining time. I had all my answers at 0 seconds, and so, being a bit 'pai seh', I decided to stay and check for five minutes before going out. And also, I wanted to get the hell out in case counter 2's computer suffered the same fate.
And so, I passed. Duration: 4 minutes and 53 seconds. For those who probably jumped to conclusions, they'd probably think I'm such a good 'chiong-er'. I'm not.
Thank you, old comp. You have just given a very suitable public service message. Trash that old hag!