Sat for 2012 Toronto International Buddhist Examination on a lovely Sunday two weeks ago.. which I took it juz for fun.. n coz my friends at the place where I volunteer "forced" me to since dey said dey have signed up n for the sake of juz participating..hahaha.... I only knew dey didn't even register after I entered d exam hall .. zzZ xD got cheated...lol..
n ya..out of all blues..got a 97%.. lol.... heard the papers were marked by the Venerables themselves..
they gave me [A Buddhist Practitioner's Encyclopedia] as a gift for Christmas.. hahaha....
Woohoo... Happy...Happy n Happy.. =) =D =D
coz first I got a NEW book..Yippee! it is always very very nice to get a new book for free.. n d book would become useful if I start learning any of d teachings..lol..guess it is time to start learning so I can be a better person.. xD
second.. this is a great encouragement for me to take the other paper frm advanced category again next year in M'sia which the entire paper is pure writing essays.. xD
third.. dis paper I sat for had a combination of MCQs..true or false..fill in the blanks..n short answers.. (one of the two papers frm advanced category..got cheated again of course to take it..HAHAHA...dey told me since u know u not gonna do well..there is nothing to lose..y not try the tough paper..dun be a coward..zzZ) n yes..! I m very proud to get dis result coz ya..I didn't attend any classes.. n yes..proven my crapping skills n accuracy of tembak-ing is SUPERB.. HAHAHA.... Damn..I know I should be more modest n humble... xD

when people saw the marks I got.. they said "Wow..u sure have Wisdom!"..
as usual..I put on my signature fake smile n said "thanks..but I was cheated to take it".. xD (again forgot to be humble..LOL)
however deep inside.. "meh. ya I have wisdom..zzZ I almost failed all my exams in uni..now dat wad u called having "wisdom" is.." hahaha.... wish I really could do dis well in all my exams..aih...

gee.. a 97% was totally out of my expectation coz I didn't get wad all d short answer questions were asking since well I have very little understanding of the teachings...
One of the questions asked in ur point of view wad is the highest goal of Buddhism.. I was like errr...WHAT?? n I randomly put down.."to become like Buddha" n crap abit on how to achieve that..LOL..since dey asked in ur opinion hahaha... I totally wrote them in this-is-wad-i-think manner n is so not right no matter how I see it myself..HAHA..coz I couldn't think of any other explanations.. guess wad.. I got a full mark.. =P Comment: Good n well written..
Another question asked where do desires come from n how can we overcome them... I crap so much (2 pages n ya.."short answers") coz I have so many ideas flowing dat I desperately want to express LOL..to d extent I didn't know wad was my main point frm the beginning. one of the sentences I even wrote "STOP BUYING APPLE PRODUCTS.." n ya..I got a full mark for that question too... =P n dey commented very good points n observations.. HAHA.. I was...err... really?! "I know I am" xD
Lost one mark in True/False.. n one mark in fill in d blanks (dey have choices so it was not too difficult..u need to use the shotgun method..HAHA) .. another mark lost of course was frm the short answers (had to answer 4 out of d 6 questions..)..HAHA.. well amazingly no marks were lost in the MCQs..

when I saw d % I got.. I was SURPRISED..n had to double check my name to see if it was indeed my paper.. lol..
guess the Venerables marked the paper leniently n wif great compassion so we will be confident to sit for d exam next time regardless when n where v r..haha....anyhow d purpose is not to get good grades..it is well..to encourage us to be a better n wiser person.. Lol... xD n I saw many people from all walks of life sat for d exam.. Very impressed by their initiatives n their eagerness to learn d teaching.. hahaha...
y can't the university profs be so compassionate..anyway it is always about learning...not scoring in exams.. xD

of course .. It always feels good to do well in anything not academic.. LOOOLL..... so overall.. yes.. it is FUN! hahaha.....

now I have a book to read for my winter holidays... =.=V


Merry Christmas n Happy Holidays folks.. Have Fun..Stay Safe..n Enjoy!

when I went to get my paper back...the woman asked me r u frm the 15-18 yr old group?
"nope..I m old..I m 22" I answered..
"if u r old..what makes me then?" she remarked jokingly...
"u r older" I said... wif a try-not-to-laugh face..
n she laughed heartily..


LOL.... coz I knew her for some time so only I "dare" to joke like dat.. but ya..I will still simply n truthfully honest in commenting on ur age although if I juz met u..hehehe....so dun expect me to be all nice..ya..one thing I never comment on people's weight..so dat still makes me nice rite.. xD 
but still couldn't believe I actually said that... xD gee... so dead next week if she saw me again.. HAHAHA... xP who asked u to respond like dat... can't blame rite.. lolol... xD
Come on babe..u gotta accept dat v all age.. lol..

Aging is wad makes life beautiful n us alive... all living things age... if u don't agree..name one living thing that doesn't age.. even non-living things age too.. machines age..machines that operate normally age...they get old n eventually become unusable.. hahaha....although it sounds weird if it applies to human beings.. humans that operate normally can mean v operate by..eating..sleeping..n reproducing? LOL..
so we all have to age...n eventually die..although ya death can be nasty if u dun die of natural causes..like being slapped to death for calling people "old hag".. =P

okay..better stop continue writing... if I continue...this piece might be nominated n yet to win another award in "Best Piece-of-Crap year 2012" for "Aging makes life alive" hahahaha..... n I dun like dat.. hav won too many Best Piece-of-Crap for so many years.. LOL...

(gosh.. Michael juz doesn't know how to be modest... doesn't he?)

Ciao!