sigh and i spent most of yesterday slacking. bad clar. esp when i look at past yr promo papers n freeze in horror. for every single subject! ugh
haha. i'm done for. yay. totally screwed up my french orals today. it was how traumatising. hellish. watever. i came out, my hopes totally dashed. [or as wat i sed to chris, i went in weak kneed, came out ready to collapse]
so i think the presentation was okay.. but i kept looking up n down frm my cards to the examiners.. haha.. and i think they were quite interested in the pics. which is good i sppose. kinda glad faussat was our invigilator haha she's nice at least. glad she wasn't e examiner if not i'll totally freak.
come to conversation. when do u usually eat cheese? judging frm my experience last yr, i guess its aft dinner like a dessert. why? guessed tt it'll spoil the dinner if taken before. haha. i have no idea. really. how pathetic is that.
so is cheese in provence a v impt industry? i dun tink so cos it doesn't produce v well known cheese. so i sed maybe its known for their port [haha]. cos all i noe abt provence is tt its near the sea. and marseille's bouillabaisse is v well known. total crap la.
then i elaborated that rhone alpes is probably more cheese orientated cos it produces more cheese and more of those AOC ones.
so he went on to say oh so cheese is a symbol of france.. wat else is there? so i named wine, fashion, maybe the language cos they speak french n everyone else speaks english, mostly.
then he says.. oh.. wat else is there? poor desperate clar who is having a mind block can't think of anyth else. and if that weren't enough, he goes on asking.. oh.. then wat product in spore really reminds u of france? besides those in the categories i've already mentioned.. and i'm like.. i really really can't think of anyth else cos i think those 4 categories encompass everyth.
and i dug my own grave by mentioning singlish as the symbol of spore.. [which was the nxt qn] cos serene got it as her conversation topic the last time.. n we were talking abt it b4hand.. so he started raining more questions on singlish.. is it impt? is e speak gd english campaign impt? should we scrap singlish? can we? blah blah blah.. on and on.. for like ~20mins.. or maybe 15+.. i can't remember wat the time was when we started. altho there was this huge digital clock on the table. just noe i ended at 3.27 [according to tt clock] and it seemed like eternity.
worst oral i ever had man. or so it seems. when i'm put in a spot n really have no idea wat to say. and when the examiner keeps raining questions on u without stop without pause without any break to like calm down or sth.. i was so desperately rattling off stuff i had no idea wat i was saying n no idea if i was being grammatically correct in the manner of tenses/gender agreement/etc.. -groan-
finally i think all my steam is let off. -heaves a huge sigh- someone tell me it wasn't as bad as i thought? haha. and they taped it and the tape's gonna go to cambridge.. um.. yay? my mom asked "they played back for u to listen?" i think if they did i'd die of shame n embarrassment at my crap la..
ooh yay i finally got the tagboard up after dunno how long.. n i've just spent ~3h doing french oral stuff. hmm. wonder how necessary that was. hope i can ace it tmr.. haha.. questions tt i can answer n i possess e necessary vocab for.
i'm wondering if i'll end up sneaking out on my bday to go watch seabiscuit anyway haha.. but i'll probably be freaking out for gp n stuff. ah well.