Exams are over!!

Just finished my exams, I'm glad they are because I really hate exam time, as I'm sure countless others do as well, but not because of all the studying you have to do... well maybe just a little bit. The most thing I hate is the when people start crying and moaning, "oh shit, I'm going to fail in the exam. I haven't looked at anything for the exam", I mean, for fuck's sake, what do you expect will happen?! I always wonder what wonders through these people's minds', here are two things that maybe they think could happen to prevent the inevitable:

a)The people that watch over during the exam get abducted by aliens, thus giving them a chance copy answers from the lame people who have studied.

b)Finding a magic that writes the answers on the paper by itself (to those of you who haven't tried this, it doesn't work, I've tried to will my normal pen to do this countless times but to no avail).

And then there are the people that start going all holy and shit. Praying all the times, stop smoking weed, stop drinking and other stuff, all in hope that God will help them pass the exam. Keep in mind that all this holiness will stop as soon as the exam finishes, some of the more hopeful people will wait till the results come out. Do people really think this will make them pass??! I mean what they are asking for is divine intervention, I doubt God is going to put aside whatever he is doing and put the answers in someones head or their exam paper.

After all of this when they find out that they have failed or gotten a really shite mark, they are speechless!! What the hell did you expect????

Then there are the die-hard study people, what really annoys me about these people is that they are studying just to get high grades, not in the pursuit of knowledge or trying to learn new skills, they just want A's. I don't have the faintest clue what they actually do with them... as long as it makes them happy I suppose. These also wail before the exams, and after...."we've done really bad" and then when the results come out... SURPIRSE, well golly by george, they got the full mark. The only people who are surprised are the ones who actually got the grades because everyone else knows that even before the results come out.

Why can't people just act normally? I mean, I know when I'm going to get a good grade and when I'm going to get a bad one after finishing the exam, its a simple as that. I don't need divine intervention, I don't need to pretend that I've done crap to try and fit in with others (for some reason, being or acting stupid is regarded as 'cool', well I say fuck this so called 'cool').

I never wanted to go to college but I was forced to, so instead of just being an ungrateful sod, especially when my parents cough up twenty thousand pounds each year for me to get a decent education, I've decided to make the most of it. Two and a half years on, I'm actually glad that I did go.

Wow, I only intended to write,"Finished my exams!!" when I began to write this post, but at least I managed to work my fingers. Now I go to give them a bit more exercise with my new ps2 which I've been going on constantly about to my friends at university, I'm sure as soon as they come to play they are going to break it so they can shut me up!!! I suppose I had better get gaming then.

Decisions, Decisions

I've a huge decision to make, get a ps2 or take the its value in cash. Most people will probably say, "TAKE THE MONEY!!!", but I've been wanting to get a ps2 for ages. I've been told that ps2's are old now and I should get a ps3 instead, which costs around five thousand pounds and isn't sold in Egypt and probably won't be until I graduate (summer 08 btw). I'm not planning on staying in Egypt after I graduate so by then I would probably give the ps2, if I get it, to charity or something. It's really annoying because its supposed to be a present, and if I decide to take money they will give me the cash, but if I decide get a ps2 they will still give me cash. Many people would see no difference in being given a ps2 as a present and actually going to buy one with money, unfortunately I know and realise the value of money, so by giving me the money in hand they are sort of saying in an unverbal way, "Here is the money, we trust you'll do something responsible with it" or some sort of crap, well not exactly crap but... you know, parent stuff.
My brother says to whatever I want(such words of wisdom really help me), but he is going to play on my ps2 anyways if I get it. All of this probably sounds very trivial but I thought I'd just post it as part of trying to keep this blog going rather than talk about politics and religion, everyone here is mad about that stuff!!

Happy New Year

Happy new year everyone. Went to a party on new year's night, watched people get drunk on booze while I got a caffeine rush from all the pepsi I drank!!
I am going to try and keep this blog active even after this term of uni ends (it was part of a class assignment) Of course its going to be about more general stuff than just "driving" if thats what you could call it in Cairo.