Connections

I've never appreciate how important 'connection' can be in certain situation until today. Actually, I am still not 100% in favour of connection, but just not 100% against it now, depending on the situation. I have a classmate who is like a connection board. He knows (really well) most of the seniors and almost everybody from our year. He saved my ass life today because of his 'redundant' connection. Here's the full account of the story:

I did not know that today is the last day for our *computer test until this friend of mine told me. Eng eng liaw...big trouble because it means 1) if I failed, there will not be any chance of resit. 2)My source told me that this is a very very hard test, almost 70% of the class had to resit it. 3) I am 99.1% sure that I will fail because my plan is to revise it tonight and do it tomorrow. 4) The test is only available until 5, and I only have 2 hours left till then---BIGGER BUGGER! Among the midst of "what to do? what to do?", Tony (the connection board) asked me a lifesaving question, "Do you want the answers tips?" Ok, I hate to say that's cheating but let's just say it is efficient learning and information sharing. So, in less than an hour, I managed to 'learn more efficiently' and actually passed the test. Phew! I do not know how he got the tips (obviously through his connection) but hey, thanks man.

*OK, I think I need to further explain the computer test which we need to sit every week. Please don't get a wrong idea, it's not like a major major end of year exam thingy which will be dead serious if we do 'share information'. It's more like a self assessment quiz that we need to pass if we don't want to get any one-on-one interview with the BIG ONES.