Ship Accounting Paper

Tired. I had a “happening” day yesterday. I set my alarm to wake up at 6am to try to mug for my paper that day. And as usual, I 赖床. :P While I was赖床-ing, Orange’s alarm went off. In the dark, she tried to grope for her hp on top of the small cupboard between our beds. And guess wat? She actually had a cup full of water on top of the cupboard as well. So instead of reaching out for her hp, she knocked the cup down first and the water got splashed right onto me and whatever that was on my bed. 2 words to describe how I felt – Cold & Shocked! *Faintz* A good start to the morning hor? Haha.


Next was Ship Accounting paper. Not very confident about it though. (Yeah! One paper down!!!) But I guess I should be able to get at least a borderline pass ba. *cross fingers* Nearly fainted when I saw the questions!!! OMG! I didn’t get to write those stuff that I’ve tried to squeeze into my petite brain. Not that I do not have the time. There was more than enough time. But rather, it wasn’t tested at all. Faint. Out of those stuff that I’ve memorized, only the financial ratios came into use and maybe some disjointed pieces of info that I have about the IASB (International Accounting Standard Board) and some info abt minority interests that I wasn’t very sure of.

The paper was full of questions asking us to explain, discuss, describe and explain. There were more explaining to do in the paper rather than calculations that I expected. It’s so unexpected for an accounts paper. =( But I’m glad it ended. Haha. :P

The exam practice is quite different too. In Singapore, you would be expecting your exam scripts and question papers to be placed faced down on your table before 9am (for a 9am-12pm paper). But in Norway, they only start distributing all the papers at 9am, with no extra time given. You still end at 12pm. Thank goodness the exam hall is pretty small -- the size of a normal classroom in sec school. And we cant even write our student card no, subject code etc after 12pm. Strictly no more writing at all. =(

The "paperwork" for the exam was rather messy. We had to write on answer sheets with 2 sheets of carbon paper attached behind. Hence, during the exam, our answer sheets had to be placed in separate stacks to avoid imprinting unnecessary words onto other sheets. Perhaps that's the reaon why our exam table was big, about the size of a typical coffee table. Haha.

It was even more messy when we had to submit the papers. We had to separate our answer sheets into 3 separate stacks. So towards the end, almost everybody were occupied with tearing and separating the answer scripts. Haha. It was so stressful to pple who are still busy writing (like me)! :P


I sent a parcel home yesterday – full of clothes and chocolates. Hee hee… The rates for sending a parcel using their standard 10kg box is still quite ok here – 440 NOK (abt 110++ SGD). But one bad thing about it is that the box’s pretty small. Nonetheless, it’s still much cheaper and worthwhile than to use our own box. It’ll cost 920 NOK to send a 10kg box using our own box!

Here’s a picture of the box. Quite pretty right? Haha. :P

My parcel’s gonna reach home in 15 days time. I hope my chocolates dun melt. Hee hee. :P Aniwae, the person at the counter was super stunned when he saw my box weighed exactly 10kg. I just laughed. I’m very zai right? Haha… :P