Monday, June 12, 2006

"The Invigilators" - Part I

Anyone finds slow-motion-people in real life? Well, they actually exist almost everywhere in Malaysia and have their own tribe. Everyone in the tribe is doing things in slow motion. I know a few tribes, like "The MPSJ", "The TigerBank", "The Invigilators"... etc.

I met "The Invigilators" today. They are the minority among the slow-motion-people and only can be found in the exam hall. I was in the exam hall this afternoon and a guy sitting in front of me raised hands for extra exam booklet. "The Invigilators" was notified, but without immediate response. The guy continued raising his hands... no response. He made eye contact... no response. He looked uncomfortably around... waiting... waiting... and STILL WAITING!!! Mind you... we are in the exam hall... and of course not for waiting but fighting with time and the stupid fussy irritating exam questions!!!

Are we suppose to expect this slow-motion-people tribe to become one of the problem in the exam when we already have many things to worry about? We are worrying about the formula, the theories, the model answer... but for Malaysian students, we have one thing extra - "The Invigilators"!!! Yeah... surprise!!! We actually have something extra!!! @&(*&#!@(*&!)@*^@!!!

Gosh! Why are this slow-motion-people forming "The Invigilators"? And they always have a proud face say "Hey, I'm your invigilator! I'm slow, so what?" They are not concern about whether candidates have time or not nor passing or not... they are just concern of how to be SLOW!!!

And later, much later... only one of the tribe members slowly walked towards the guy, slowly took out the booklet, slowly passed the booklet to him, slowly turned around, and slowly walked back. Everything slooooooooowly!!!

Something has to be done to get rid of this slow-motion-people tribe. I don't know what, but something has to be done... I can tolerate slow but not their kind of slow... they know they are slow but they are proud to be it! That's the worst part!!!

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