A short narrative...
The Exams
By Eugene Koh
The chill... Sweat... Fear...
Not a very promising start. Especially if you don't have a dictionary. Added with the fact that everyone else has one.
The chinese words, so familiar yet so alien, rushed through my head. However, none of those words could make any sense. They were purely random words. I glanced at the clock, and glanced towards my comrades.
4 minutes. We have 4 minutes to die or to save our worlds.
My comrades switched well-wishes through the form of mere glances. Time seemed to stand still at that moment, however, it had seemed to go execptionally fast.
It seemed like just yesterday when I cared less about chinese.
And today, I proved Einstein's Theory of General Relativity.
My pen already lay chilled in the chill air. Girls were trying to get more warmth in the nearly sub-zero conditions, while the boys were frantically flipping their pens, hoping for an sudden Archimedes' Inspiration during the exams.
Even if I had the inspiration, it would be on a different place.
1 more minute... Damn the second hand, I thought. If the second hand is fast... the minute hand is fast... the hours... days... months... years... I suddenly went out of topic.
The exam has started.
And ended.
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