I am truly
blessed: on my birthday I had the day with classes, received first a low test
result, two quizzes and then a test. No, I am not implying sarcasm, contrary to
how it sounds. Allow me to recount the day in the following paragraphs.
On my birthday I
woke up at the 0618 hour, as I usually do during days when I have lessons at
0800. I had more or less forgotten about my birthday, having a test and a quiz to
worry about in the afternoon. The week was the assignment and test week, and had
me up from early morning until past midnight for the past few days. It was not
until my dad and a friend messaged me that I recalled it was my special day.
I was the first
to arrive to Construction Project Management (CPM)
class in the morning, before ten minutes before 0800. There, my first blessing awaited me: my former Head of
Department and lecturer commended for my punctuality and hinted about bonus
marks for those who are make it on time. Throughout the period, only half the students
attended that subject.
After the
lecturer left came the second blessing: a
surprise quiz conducted by his general assistant (GA). Those who were not
present obviously missed out the credits from it, yet none of us really studied
or went through our notes for CPM, seeing it was our test and assignment week
after all. Then, voila, the GA literally revealed the answers for each of the
questions in the quiz. Not very ethical perhaps, but anyway. Thus, free marks
secured.
The third blessing was that I managed to acquire a
group member in order to carry my CPM project. The same goes for my Ocean and Coastal Engineering (OCE) project – making that
my fourth blessing, which came during OCE period,
right after CPM. Both the group members are different, yet they are course mates
who I can get comfortably along with.
After the
morning lessons were over, I headed back for quick lunch before studying for my
quiz and test. At 1500 hour, I head to class to take the quiz in OCE. Before the
quiz started, I received back my OCE assignment and test results. I did
satisfactorily for my assignment, but my test marks were horrible. After some
checking, I found some sections were not marked correctly or overlooked. I conveyed
this to the OCE GA, and my marks went from 30/40 to 37/40. Thus, that became my
fifth blessing.
My sixth blessing: I could do the quiz. Even with
last minute studying (since the coming test was given higher priority), the
questions were manageable. And, as with the first quiz, the GA provided us some
guidance (though not as blatantly) throughout the quiz.
After the quiz, I
left for another building to sit for my Offshore Structures test. I had one
hour to revise before the test began, so I managed to revise and discussed some
of the issues and problems with my course mates. Then came my test, and the seventh and final blessing
which I will mention here: I could do my test. I managed to complete it 20
minutes or so before the given time. This allowed me to check and correct a
minor error I found in my calculation. Thus, I am quite satisfied when I handed
in my paper.
I truly am
thankful that all those events took place on my birthday. The Lord had prepared
it so that, as my present, He would take those events and turn it to my credit.
Even if I were given the opportunity, I will not have any of the events that had
taken place to be changed. Those activities were truly blessings in and of itself.
RFG always.