I went to the e-library to search for past year papers for Fixed-Income so that I can practise for tomorrow's paper. I did not find any. Instead, I found 2 Tax Planning papers, decided to take a look, and holy!

It could be the length of the questions, or that the topics taught this year is slightly different, or just my lack of confidence.. I found myself panicking. I thought to myself, if this is what they ask on Wednesday, I don't think I'll be able to cover all the points sufficiently in 3 hours. That one small assignment on Section 24 already made me spent hours agonizing over it. I keep wondering if I'll be at a disadvantage to the rest of the class who has already taken Income Tax, which was an unmentioned "pre-requisite" to Tax Planning. What if in my attempt to illustrate a certain point, I contradict a Tax Act not taught to me in this module?

O no! oh no! What to do?!

The fact that this module has a course code ACCT305 keeps fuelling the fear in me. First of all, the numbers in the code stands for the degree of difficulty in the course. For instance, the most basic of marketing course is MKTG101 and finance course is FNCE101. When you see a 3 right in front of the 305, you know there's a certain amount of prior knowledge you're supposed to have. So as you know or can probably guess, ACCT stands for accounting, something that is not in my field of expertise. In fact, I have no pre-knowledge of tax at all! Why didn't I consider that earlier? I guess I can only say I brought this upon myself. Blah!

Okay I should stop whining and face the music like a woman.

Ciao.