You wouldn't like me when I'm angry...

...then I turn into a big strong green guy.

...and other random thoughts.

I felt like a contestant on "Are You Smarter Than A 5^th Grader" the day before, but instead of 5^th grade questions, I was being quizzed on Automata and Language Theory, Digital Logic Designs, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, and other high-level Computer Science stuff.  Problem was I took most of those subjects seven or eight years back. Hence, I flubbed that interview badly with a capital very.

Well, I was slated for a full day of testing, but I spent a late night with friends trying to build up my social network. I arrived an hour late since the MRT operations stopped for almost a froopin' hour. So after two-and-a-half hours of travel and with only one-and-a-half hours of sleep and no fuel to work on (I bought a "McDonald's' Breakfast-to-Go" but I didn't eat it en route), I completely pawned the Differential Aptitude Test given. In fact, I so pawned it that the only thing on my scratch paper for the mathematical/numerical reasoning was a sketch of a rural field and a drooling smiley holding up a spoon and fork. That betrayed my hunger.

Lunch? A Sausage McMuffin, over-priced spaghetti and C2 Apple from the cafeteria, and about twenty minutes of Diablo II on battery. My hunger extended to getting more experience for Nevv, my double-swing Barbarian.  (As of this writing, he's already at level 68. Half a level to go before I unsocket both Heart Carver's to release the Cham Runes and place Zods in them. Repairing them costs up to 102K per trip! I don't even go very far with each.)

Afternoon was more difficult what with the ungodly hour and sleep deprivation catching up on me. Fate was so cruel to put the Critical Thinking test here. I nodded off several times through the test. That part I prolly failed.

The personality interview soon followed. The interviewer first told me to draw a person. I drew a guy. She then told me to draw someone of the opposite gender. She asked me questions about the guy so I just pretended he was me to make the interview simple. After all, I'm completely honest about myself... and since I tend to be verbose, it took some time. After a loooooooooong while talking about myself, we got to discussing the girl. Since I particularly couldn't identify who she was, I just made up stuff.

The questions...

What's her dream in life?
Pangarap niya gumanda (because my drawing was fugly).

Is she smart?
Yes. It compensates for her poor looks.

Is she strong?
Yes, she is. She's the youngest in the family. She has four brothers. No sisters.

Is she healthy?
She has to be. She needs to defend herself against her bully brothers.

At that point, the interviewer just stopped me realizing all she'll get out of me would be fiction. We had a good laugh about it, though. I sure hope that went well.

Finally, a proficiency test. Goodness. The proctor gave me 50 minutes to finish it all since there were 50 items. More like five minutes. It was a multiple choice (tricky though as it is since some had multiple answers where I could in fact encircle all) and an identification test. Pawnage continued.

Off to end the day with a cap of video gaming with kada (training for the WCG).