I survived!!

OMG... I can't believe I managed to survive sitting through a really really REALLY boring training for the past 2 days.

The topic of the training:

"Revenue Management focusing on Occupancy Growth"

Yea, I know... Even the sound of it is boring, isn't it??

And that was what I went through for 2 excruciating days, 9am-5pm!! Aaarrgghhh...

I am NOT, I repeat, NOT a person who's good with figures and stuff. When I passed my basic maths and add maths for SPM, I was quite baffled as to how I did it. I can't do those accounting "debit credit" stuff with all the terms like "marginal cost/ revenue per room/ estimated occupancy %"!! I really can't!!. And I was made to attend this training and hadta put up with all those terms, formulas, calculations, etc. OMG!!

My brain was practically dead for the entire 2 days. Not that I didn't try. I really did try to concentrate. Tried to understand what the trainer, this lady named Ann was talking about. Tried to contribute during open and group discussions. But I failed miserably. My brain just rejects all these kinda things on its own. Not within my control, ok... I tried so hard to focus and to figure out what's going on and how I'm supposed to tackle the problems but in the end, I just sat there like a dumb%$$, writing down whatever other people said [in my notes, coz we were supposed to sit for an exam at the end of the training ~ didn't wanna fail coz then the whole world will know how lousy I am at these kinda things, a mortifying thought. I prefer to keep my inability to deal with figures to myself and just to people close to me] and not contributing anything other than my horrendous handwriting for the presentation paper. Urrghh...

I think I managed to master the art of sleeping with my eyes open during the past 2 days. I'm now quite a pro at that. So, for any tips in doing that, just in case you find yourself in similar "cannot-tahan-bored-to-death" situations, you are able to escape [with your mind] and hopefully survive the ultimate boredom like moi.

Surprisingly, during the exam at the end of the training, I was able to figure out how to calculate the figures by miraculously remembering the formula and how to use it. For most of the other questions, I asked the others at my table for the answer. No, I was not cheating. It was an open book exam, and I 'discussed' with the others for answers, not 'copied'. Hopefully I didn't fare too badly. Hopefully my calculations were correct. :P