What happens after the exam?

I have went through the ITIL exam on Wednesday after (2 weeks plus) 3 days of course. To be totally honest, it was quite similar to college. You labor for the whole duration of the course and in the end, the lecturer gives you a few helpful tips which of course as you'd might expect is like a carbon copy of the question. Tips and hints are limited so you must really have some memory of the content of the course book to get you to pass.

The time was supposed to be 60 minutes and due to a catch which stipulated that if the primary language of the person taking the exam is not English then ... you get extra 15 minutes. Its not like it really mattered, i took the exam very much similar to how i faced exams in the past, answer through the whole thing and that should be the final answer. I think i took about 30 minutes to finish the 40 mind twisting questions in the form quite similar to SPM's History paper. I did a few more rounds of checking and decided that my first answer was going to be my final answer.

2 weeks to find out whether i really passed. I seriously do not want to go through that again, i was absolutely exhausted on the third day. Coffee just barely got me through the day, to think that i even took a bottle of chicken's essence =_="

Thursday went back to work and i was shoved into the deep end of the pool and was forced to survive with little help (ironic that i am an OK swimmer in real life that i used this expression). Hectic life back at the office, many many things to follow up and the more that i have to do being chased by internal and external auditors T_T not to mention the many other parties which i suddenly find myself owing them documents, tasks, meetings, etc etc etc.

Next week is gonna be a blast, i have my boss all to myself, all my colleagues are going for another course! They will be gone for the whole week and i will be the shopkeeper who do not have the authority to do almost everything. Isn't it better to just close shop? :p I seriously hope that there will be no major issues.

I have to clear 1.5 days and there are only 2 more days which i can choose to do so. I was so busy today that i forgot to carry forward my leave, MUST remember to do it soon else it will be forfeited. Sigh, have more audit things to follow up, conduct a huge meeting for another audit =_=" (getting boring ain't it?), so many shit that is causing me to lose even more hair =_=

Come to think of it maybe the ITIL exam was the easier of the 2, at least i have some definite thing to focus on and not so many parties all wanting me to do everything, internal auditors trying to bully and catch my variance against my colleagues, auditors pressuring me for answers from the application support teams, working with kayus who should be given the boot. Time to look for more courses? :p