Yokatta!
yokatta = an expression of relief; this is the past tense of "ii" (good) so it literally means "that was good", but it usually translates as "I'm so glad" or "thank goodness!"
from ~ http://www.flame.org/~calger/animedict.html
The viva list came out online around 4pm this afternoon. My heart was pounding 1000 beats a minute and my nerves were a complete wreck as I opened the spreadsheet file to check if my candidate number was on the list. It's listed in numerical order and as I quicly scan the numbers just above and below my candidate number on the pass-fail list, I heaved a sigh of relief, noting that my number wasn't printed. Unconvinced, I double- and triple-checked it just to be absolutely sure. Yokatta! I did not even bother to check the distinction viva list as I knew I had not done well enough in the previous OSCE as well as on my rotations to be able to get on that list, but no matter, I was 99% sure that I had passed the 3rd year of medical school now. Why only 99% sure? Well, technically the official grades list only comes out tomorrow evening after the vivas, and then and only then can I be absolutely 100% sure that I have not failed 3rd year. But for the next 24 hours, I'll have to make do with 99%.
On the bright side though, none of the Malaysian's made the pass-fail viva list (but none made the distinction list either, although I think no one's really too bothered about that tho...) 3rd year was a toughie!
In the last 36 hours, I've only slept a mere half hour (this morning around 11am-11.30am). I couldn't sleep the whole night, just did not feel like sleeping at all. Maybe I was too anxious about the 'results' today, and my subconscious mind was keeping me awake. Anyway, I spent the whole night watching 25 episodes (1 whole season) of a shoujo ('girly') anime on youtube, each episode lasting about 20-25 minutes. Crazy eh. Hence the term 'yokatta', which is commonly used in manga/anime language. ;)
My room is STILL in a tornado-inspired mess, and it really doesn't help when you have one person trying to clean up and rearrange two people's mess, and two junk-loving, trash-collecting people at that. :P Oh well, the girls are coming over to stay tomorrow night, so everything had better be sorted by then, fingers crossed! My brain, on the other hand, is nearing shut-down mode now due to lack of sleep, so I shall stop writing now before it turns ugly (or fugly...). Oyasuminasai minna, ganbatte & genki da ne for tomorrow's result! ^o^
from ~ http://www.flame.org/~calger/animedict.html
The viva list came out online around 4pm this afternoon. My heart was pounding 1000 beats a minute and my nerves were a complete wreck as I opened the spreadsheet file to check if my candidate number was on the list. It's listed in numerical order and as I quicly scan the numbers just above and below my candidate number on the pass-fail list, I heaved a sigh of relief, noting that my number wasn't printed. Unconvinced, I double- and triple-checked it just to be absolutely sure. Yokatta! I did not even bother to check the distinction viva list as I knew I had not done well enough in the previous OSCE as well as on my rotations to be able to get on that list, but no matter, I was 99% sure that I had passed the 3rd year of medical school now. Why only 99% sure? Well, technically the official grades list only comes out tomorrow evening after the vivas, and then and only then can I be absolutely 100% sure that I have not failed 3rd year. But for the next 24 hours, I'll have to make do with 99%.
On the bright side though, none of the Malaysian's made the pass-fail viva list (but none made the distinction list either, although I think no one's really too bothered about that tho...) 3rd year was a toughie!In the last 36 hours, I've only slept a mere half hour (this morning around 11am-11.30am). I couldn't sleep the whole night, just did not feel like sleeping at all. Maybe I was too anxious about the 'results' today, and my subconscious mind was keeping me awake. Anyway, I spent the whole night watching 25 episodes (1 whole season) of a shoujo ('girly') anime on youtube, each episode lasting about 20-25 minutes. Crazy eh. Hence the term 'yokatta', which is commonly used in manga/anime language. ;)
My room is STILL in a tornado-inspired mess, and it really doesn't help when you have one person trying to clean up and rearrange two people's mess, and two junk-loving, trash-collecting people at that. :P Oh well, the girls are coming over to stay tomorrow night, so everything had better be sorted by then, fingers crossed! My brain, on the other hand, is nearing shut-down mode now due to lack of sleep, so I shall stop writing now before it turns ugly (or fugly...). Oyasuminasai minna, ganbatte & genki da ne for tomorrow's result! ^o^
posted by rambler @ 7/26/2006 08:07:00 pm
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