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Salaam..!
Well, given the jet-set life i lead...(ahem, ahem)..i am currently blogging from Doha airport...! I have several hours to kill and the kind al-Thani family provide free net access at the airport so, i thought, "how to waste this time?"...(Fake Sheikh, learn from the master mate....i concede u are the Champion when it comes to food, as you showed today, but leave the blogging to me man...lol)
Once again (sigh) it's been a while since i've written anything and again this is not for want of events going on with my life...inshaAllah my Dubai and Doha adventours will be for another day, but with other things...
The BIG news is that i passed my CFA level 1 exam..!!!!!!!!!! (i could continue putting on exclamation marks to express how happy/relieved i am...but you get the picture - VERY happy !). Alhmadulilla, alhamdulilla, ALHAMDULILLA...it was such a relief to have got he all clear. As i mentioned i think, the exams did not go too well as the nature of questions were very different from past papers, but i think everyone must have found them hard hence lowering the raw pass mark required. It was a feeling of relief more than anything i think as i had worked pretty damn hard so if i failed it would have felt like such a waste of time. Passing also means i now have a Huge amount of confidence going into the remaining two levels (yep, there's another two levels to go before i get the full CFA qualification...) as i kinda know now what is needed to pass.
As ever though, it's important to remember Allah in these circumstances as its easy for one to get carried away thinking it was due to your own efforts and hard work that the exam was passed.
The exam, however brought into question, again, the very way we classify people in society these days. Even though, alhmadulilla, i've done pretty well in school exams and so on throughout my career, it seems very narrow minded that people's success rate when applying for jobs and how "successful" they are deemed to be is determined by how much intense memorisation they can do and how much of this they can regugitate in a 3 hour period. OK, fair enough for the artsy subjects is not As simple, but essentially it does come down to how disciplined you are in making summary notes of you subject. and then memorising them. Coming up with a viable alternative is hard, but the present system seems very unfair on those who may be "intelligent" but just have poor memories or are unable to bring all this out in a intense three hour period. Allahu a'lam.
Anyway i think i need to try and bring some sense of regularity into my blogging so inshaAllah i will try and write something every other fortnight starting today (Saturday 18th)..but obviously i may give you extra snippets now again, if you're lucky ;)
Salaams
Well, given the jet-set life i lead...(ahem, ahem)..i am currently blogging from Doha airport...! I have several hours to kill and the kind al-Thani family provide free net access at the airport so, i thought, "how to waste this time?"...(Fake Sheikh, learn from the master mate....i concede u are the Champion when it comes to food, as you showed today, but leave the blogging to me man...lol)
Once again (sigh) it's been a while since i've written anything and again this is not for want of events going on with my life...inshaAllah my Dubai and Doha adventours will be for another day, but with other things...
The BIG news is that i passed my CFA level 1 exam..!!!!!!!!!! (i could continue putting on exclamation marks to express how happy/relieved i am...but you get the picture - VERY happy !). Alhmadulilla, alhamdulilla, ALHAMDULILLA...it was such a relief to have got he all clear. As i mentioned i think, the exams did not go too well as the nature of questions were very different from past papers, but i think everyone must have found them hard hence lowering the raw pass mark required. It was a feeling of relief more than anything i think as i had worked pretty damn hard so if i failed it would have felt like such a waste of time. Passing also means i now have a Huge amount of confidence going into the remaining two levels (yep, there's another two levels to go before i get the full CFA qualification...) as i kinda know now what is needed to pass.
As ever though, it's important to remember Allah in these circumstances as its easy for one to get carried away thinking it was due to your own efforts and hard work that the exam was passed.
The exam, however brought into question, again, the very way we classify people in society these days. Even though, alhmadulilla, i've done pretty well in school exams and so on throughout my career, it seems very narrow minded that people's success rate when applying for jobs and how "successful" they are deemed to be is determined by how much intense memorisation they can do and how much of this they can regugitate in a 3 hour period. OK, fair enough for the artsy subjects is not As simple, but essentially it does come down to how disciplined you are in making summary notes of you subject. and then memorising them. Coming up with a viable alternative is hard, but the present system seems very unfair on those who may be "intelligent" but just have poor memories or are unable to bring all this out in a intense three hour period. Allahu a'lam.
Anyway i think i need to try and bring some sense of regularity into my blogging so inshaAllah i will try and write something every other fortnight starting today (Saturday 18th)..but obviously i may give you extra snippets now again, if you're lucky ;)
Salaams
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