Not happy

I just completed my final exam for my TEYL.

I am not happy with the final exam at all.

First, the link provided to download the test did not work correctly.

Then the examiner sent me the wrong test.

When I finally got the right test I found that many of the questions are NOT covered in the materials provided by the company and that some of the questions have different information that what was in the units.

That, combined with the fact that I slept badly and not much, has put me in a pretty shitty mood.

I'm glad I'm done with that test. Hopefully I pass and my complaint about the test is put to use to correct the way they have the test and others do not have to endure my frustration.

Now, however, I am done with one of the things that I took this month off for. Now I have to find things to do.

Playing with some things

Ok, I am off work this month so I have more free time. I do not want to deal with certain people coming to audit the school, we have visa things to settle and I have to finish my young learners portion of my TEFL before it expires on April, 23rd. So, I decided to take the month off.

I usually start to get depressed when I have more than 2 days off in a row from work.

I am keeping busy this month as much as I can. I have been playing with GIMP. So you will notice a change to my header image here. I am going to change it more later, but I want to post it for now anyway. I am a little bit confused by GIMP. I am used to using PaintShop Pro for editing so the layout of GIMP is strange. I will learn it, but it is taking longer than I want.

I have some books by Pavel Tsatsouline and I am going to try out some of his suggested exercises and stretches.

I am working on the young learners course. It only has 5 units (6 if you count the introduction) and I just completed unit 3 today. At this rate I will have the units finished tomorrow and I will be ready to get the test. Once I have the test I have 24 hours to complete it and send it back in. If I pass then I get a TEYL certificate to go with my TEFL. TEYL = Teaching English to Young Learners. TEFL = Teaching English as a Foreign Language.

At this rate I will have that course finished this week. This is my first week off and I am off for the remainder of this month and a little of next month. I will not have to go back until at least May 5th.

This month we should get our car and we should also get things settle for my visa.

It will be great when we get both of those things sorted.

When I have the TEYL certificate then it will mean more jobs opportunities for me as well as more pay. Mwa hahahahahaha

Malaysians are turning into Americans

We went out for dinner with Siew's family tonight. We had chicken at Nando's in Gurney Plaza.

I have noticed something before, but tonight our seats were right by the entrance to the restaurant so we were able to observe the people as they passed by.

Here's the major thing that I want to comment on: Malaysians are getting FAT.

Americans are already FAT click on FAT to read what I'm talking about.

Now Malaysians are trying to catch up to Americans.

This is not a good trend!

Malaysians, beware! You need to consume less sugar and fat and exercise more! Do not be a fat, stupid, lazy American!

Berserk

I'm currently trying to get the rest of Berserk.

My only previous experience with Berserk is the Dreamcast game Berserk: Guts Rage.

It's pretty good so far.

More on that later.

Time to sleep!

Old Friends

I found a way, maybe, to contact some friends of mine from high school.

I hope they respond as it would be nice to see how they are doing and, maybe, reminisce about the old days, or the current days.

I will see if any respond or not. One in particular I want to hear from as I have been trying to get in touch with him since his father passed away.