I need to learn magic: levitation 101 and invisibility 101.
Apparently, I missed the classes they recently conducted in school. And darn! It came up for the exam. We were required to levitate our notes when we needed to refer to it and had to identify the invisible table on which to put our question paper on. As a punishment for missing classes, I became a juggler and a woodpecker instead of a magician. What misery…

Ever done an open book exam on a “table” that is half the size of a normal school table? I juz did, and what an experience it was! Felt like I was taking a juggler's exam: Try scribbling frantically with your right hand, while your is left balancing the question paper and pieces of your notes (thanks to lack of space on the puny table), and your feet are on their tippy toes to balance the other notes from falling off your lap (yes, my legs are rather short).
On top of that, the stairs beside me (I was sitting at the corner of the lecture hall) was strewn with piles of notes haphazardly stacked as far as my hand could reach. Here is where I did my exercise for the week, The Woodpecker Stunt: dive/bend down, desperately find the notes I need, use it and place it back only to find another… dive down and come up, down and up, down and up, what a lovely sight I must have made!

And then, my notes decided that it was time to learn how to fly. They enjoyed it so much that they were competed in the ‘who flies the furthest off my lap’ contest ( and I of course responded with more woodpeckering to pick them up). My pen also decided to join in the fun and tried to bungee jump off the table top. In its excitement, it rolled off the table before we could fasten the harness/string onto it and committed accidental suicide. (It miraculously got away with minor injuries due to the carpeted flooring in the Lt).

Whoever who invented the tiny lecture table tops that could be tucked into the side of the seats certainly did not design it for exams; whoever’s brilliant idea it was to conduct open book exams in the lecture hall certainly did not consider the puny-sized tables installed within! But on the whole, it was the most energetic and physical exam I have ever attended, requiring all those balancing acts and exercise! Haha... Not something I'll easily forget.

I certainly scored on juggling and woodpeckering, but I can't say for sure for the paper... With all the woodpeckering and juggling going on, it's hard to write decent essays when time is so limited to begin with. Oh well...
And they need to hold more magic classes so that I can perfect the art of levitating my notes in midair for reference!