Hong Kong

Early sunday morning 17th, I left house around 6:30am to catch an early coach to the airport. On this trip to HK, I scheduled to take 4 exams in four days. What's really getting on me is.... I haven't even touched the study manuals yet... Jesus... I have been swamped and under loads of stress about making a presentation on investment strategies for foreign exchange and equity markets in front of company exes and ceo. Well when the going gets really really tough, it does wonder to adrenaline and mental alertness. From coach til I landed and rushed to the exam site, I literally had the study papers on my hand constantly. The immigration officer must found me a bit odd as he impatiently flipped my passport and documents and looked at them very attentively. Anyway no mishap happened, I pretty much became the best buddy with my study papers. Did I say no mishap? hmmm... let me correct that... to my terrible dismay I found out that the financial calculator I brought along ran out of battery and the exam is starting soon... that mean I will have to go on the battle field commando style (naked). Blasphemous words like s*** started to butterfly around my head. The exam has 60 questions and lasts an hour and 30 mins. Well it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that I probabily finished the exam dead last. I was agonizing over all those compounding problems like (1+0.078/12)^12. There is absolutely no way for me to figure out the precise solution so I had to use all the tricks and pull out all the stops to make an "educated" guess then pray really really hard. By the time the exam is over, I was very much wired as my brain has been grinding for the past 12hours straight. The invigilator asked me to sign the paper then passed me the result sheet. Out of 60 questions I got 55 correct. Phew big relief!! I hastily ate something at Delifrance then made my way over to check in at hotel. In my office wear of suit and tie, the hotel manager was very courteous and polite. To my great surprise, he upgraded my room to the top floor with an oceanview overlooking the bridge. Nice way to start my trip in Hong Kong.
[to be continue...]