I dreamt yesterday--

that i was taking a listening comprehension exam in which we had to listen to songs twice, decipher their lyrics and then write them down on the answer booklet. the heading was "Proficiencies in.." and a list of song titles followed

i was franatically scribbling down whatever i could catch via pencil, vaguely indignant that i was seated on the extreme left of the classroom and that the people on the extreme right (where the radio was placed) would have a competitive advantage

a bespectacled gal chose to leave before the exam was over. as she walked away from our line of sight, i heard a horrified gasp from florence and had to smile

i then heard "Sheng Ming Guo Ke" coming up. Confident that I die-die also know the lyrics to that song, I tried to fill in the gaps for the other songs. other people, including sharon au, decided to leave also. As i was sitting in the front row, I kinda got a peek at her answers and panicked. she had nice one-sentence answers to her questions while i thought that we should reproduce the song lyrics, word-for-word

it was nearing the end of the exam and i hastily tried to complete 2 other sections in that paper. One required the candidate to fill in the correct preposition and the other required him to decide whether the pronunication highlighted in the questions was correct. An example of a question was "loony tuna" (vs "loony tune")

finally i woke up and wished that i had remembered other song titles as well. and thought that this was one test i wouldnt mind taking in real life