That’s right. You heard it here from the horse’s mouth. Oh boy, what a smelly mouth it is, but bear with me, since you can’t smell websites. If you smell a fart, it’s probably yours. Unless I’m in the room. In that case, take cover and some fresh air outside. The computer isn’t yours the whole day. It’s not healthy; sleep is important, people!<\/p>\n
Anyway, how did I get the scholarship?<\/p>\n
There was this Brain Power IQ Test<\/i> thingy at Informatics College, KL sometime in December 2000. The premise was simple: how much you score in the exam is how much discount you get on tuition fees.<\/p>\n
I went in, sat for the exam, mostly simple objective questions, some what-does-BIOS-ASCII-etc. stand for questions, and some random general knowledge questions thrown in, like who was the fastest female runner in the last Olympics.<\/p>\n
I then waited around for the results.<\/p>\n
There was a big crowd, and there was a sole victor to the 100% prize. Me! I showed my identity card to be sure. Yes, 100%. There were two guys with 70% and a few with 50%. The rest got 30% or less.<\/p>\n
I don’t think I got 100% though; they probably rounded me up (maybe I got 85%?) to make the quiz thing sound good. I was supposed to appear in the newspapers but heck, I never followed up on that.<\/p>\n
I shook a lady’s hand.<\/p>\n
Lady dressed in red<\/b>: Congratulations! You won a full scholarship!
\nMe<\/b>: (stoned) Thanks! Oh okay…<\/p>\n
As I walked down to the LRT station, I didn’t show any signs of major joy. I might’ve jumped in my heart, though.<\/p>\n