Thursday, August 10, 2006

Why me?

Have u ever gotten out of bed with a rotten feeling that u're about to have a bad day?

Well today, i did.

It all started when i woke up at 6 a.m this morning, desperately trying to rush through my tsm (trading in securities markets) tute for my class at 9a.m. Hookay, and as i was doing my readings and figuring out the tute questions, i felt confident. i felt that i would be able to present a good answer to all of the questions, all except one. Well apparently, i had to purchase an additional set of readings compiled by the prof to answer that particular question...which i wasn't aware of. Anyhoos, due to the lack of time, i left it blank in hope that i wouldnt be so 'suay' as to be chosen to answer question 3 lar huh.

To cut the long story short.. as my tutor started randomly calling out names from the class list to answer each tute question... i had that sick rotten feeling inside again. I just knew he was going to call out my name as he came to question 3.

Yeap, no prize for guessing... it was me alright.

Everyone of the students in class was prepared and were on the ball when it came to answering the tutor's questions. they were awfully smart, and i just couldn't look stupid infront of them. so i attempted, even though i had no clue what the question was asking about because i hadn't even read the readings. I tried reading off suwen's notes at the corner of my eye, and answered:

"The coefficient outside the variable suggests that writing time for each option is shorter for selling than buying."

And suddenly there was this great silence. Everyone and i mean everyone started looking at me with confused facial expressions. okay.. for the benefit of the non-finance major students, what i rambled in class was a whole lot of rubbish. I had read Suwen's handwritting wrongly it was suppose to be

"The coefficients of the SIDE variable sugguest that waiting time is shorter for sells than buys."

Everyone just looked so confused that after 3 mins of silence, i had to explain to my tutor & class that didn't have the readings and so i couldn't answer the question. I felt like a complete moron. I wanted to dive right out of the glass window i was sitting next to in class.

Whoopeedoo.. there goes my tute participation. BLAH.