my first post here! but i have to say, this isn't my first attempt (more like the tenth) of starting a decent blog. i've been switching from one website to another, so hopefully my lazy fingers will start typing faithfully for this blog. april is ending, with about a week left in the calendar. compared to the first three months of my holidays (heeee) i have to say that april has been quite happening, thank god! i can't really recall of everything that happened, but i've put together bits and pieces of my avril so hopefully your mouse is kind enough to scroll down...
10th-12th April
educamp! i was surprised that i was selected, but nonetheless, i feel very, very grateful. perhaps it was because of the course that i chose? i didn't know other girls who applied for geophysics apart from ira and liyana. anyhow, the three days i spent in utp was fun, fun, fun. although i did feel intimidated at times, judging by the number of the brilliant people around me, but i think i managed to blend in quite fine.
i went to teronoh on the 10th (can you imagine having to wake up at 3.30? thanks for the brilliant idea, ayah) and arrived there at about 8 a.m. i bumped into farihin while registering, ahahh, reunion. she looked great! my roommate, nina (she is a very, very nice girl) and i faced a few difficulties with our room where the lock just wouldn't work and we were transferred from one room to another. at last, the administrator found us a room with a decent lock, unfortunate for us that it's on the 5th floor. we were the first ones to arrive and were among the last ones to get a room. however, the rest of the day were good, with a modest opening ceremony and ice breaking activities.
on the 11th, we attended the career talk, where chubby and i practically slept through (air-conditioned hall isn't a good venue for talks, trust me). i did listen to mr damla, though, as he explained the oh-so-interesting life of being a geophysicist. i thought my heart dropped when i saw the slides that he prepared for the talk. i didn't know much about geophysics, but i expected more of a downstream work. but what's done is done. if it just so happen that the world decides to be kind to me and grant me the scholarship, i guess i'll just have to bear with the course. that evening, abang drove chubby and i to the pasar malam (thanks for being such a good babysitter, abang, i know you love me! ngahaha) and biaselah, rambang mata, semua nak beli. we had apam balik, murtabak and roti john for dinner, which was such a bliss! at about 8 p.m we took the bus from our hostel to some hall somewhere (i think they call it block b or something) for the tests, ape entah, something to do with verbal and images. the tests were pretty hard, and yes, i did bad. hahah but ape ape lahh.
the assessment day was on the 13th. i woke up really early to meet izwan at the cafe, he's still about as tall as i am, heehee. he was blabbering about how unprepared chubby and i are for the interview which practically slapped me on the face. hahah, he was right though, i was really clueless and did not prepare any facts for the interview that was about to occur in a few hours.
the interview went quite fine. fortunately for my group members, our panel was said to be one of the nicer ones. the groups in our session were given the task to discuss about the traffic flow in malaysia. the other 4 members in my group had a lot to point out, so i tried to slide in as much as possible. and tadaaaa, before i knew it, my educamp days were over. abang drove chubby and i around utp for a bit before sending us back to our hostel in village 2 to pack up our things. chubby's parents arrived at about 4 p.m to pick us up and i laid my feet on the floor of my home sweet home at about 9 p.m.
16th April
the mara interview, was well, very interview-ish. mama was really determined to prove that universiti kl is situated right next to maju junction that i was late for the registration (luckily, i'm not the only one). there is not much to tell, the place was swamped with asramians with outstanding academic and co-curricular records. they didn't talk much either, except for this one girl that i sat next to while waiting for my interview session, and this guy from ira's group at the educamp.
i took a taxi to jalan tuanku abdul rahman (or was it tun razak? tempat yang banyak kedai kain tu) after the interview to join mama, cik, tok we and ayah zi for lunch. i tailed them around after that, masuk one kedai kain after another, sakit kaki gile because i was wearing heels. and then balik rumahhh, thank goodness, if i had to masuk another kedai kain, i would have turn cranky.
20th April
oooooh the class gathering! it was fun, fun, fun! only about half the class, or maybe tak sampai pun yang datang but it was better than duduk rumah doing nothing. joyce, aeisyah and chubby came early to help me with the preparation, kemas rumah and all. the gathering started at 3 something. kaamini and pei yee were the first to arrive, followed by yan, shaki and am. fateen, izzati, insyirah and ain came a bit late, uzair, izreen and a few other people, mad, haziq and edzmir were the last to arrive. we didn't do anything much besides watching material girls and eating (the menu was mihun goreng and agar-agar prepared by mommy dearest, thanks ma!). i really like the air hee heee, it was aeisyah's recipe. took a few pictures here and there, and everybody went home at merely seven.
22nd april
the day started really early, as it was ayah's birthday. we surprised him with a cake and pressies at 12 midnight. after getting some zzzzzzzz, i woke up for breakfast and went to sg buloh for gardening supplies. had lunch, went home and then went out again to send nenek to her friend's house. cik and family came for a visit, so we went out for dinner. yeah okay now my fingers are starting to get lazy ahahahhaha.
alrighteo. it's the 23rd today and so far, i haven't done anything besides sleeping, eating and this. maybe i'll type again tonight? hahahh, maybe. okay then cheeriossss (:
i went to teronoh on the 10th (can you imagine having to wake up at 3.30? thanks for the brilliant idea, ayah) and arrived there at about 8 a.m. i bumped into farihin while registering, ahahh, reunion. she looked great! my roommate, nina (she is a very, very nice girl) and i faced a few difficulties with our room where the lock just wouldn't work and we were transferred from one room to another. at last, the administrator found us a room with a decent lock, unfortunate for us that it's on the 5th floor. we were the first ones to arrive and were among the last ones to get a room. however, the rest of the day were good, with a modest opening ceremony and ice breaking activities.
on the 11th, we attended the career talk, where chubby and i practically slept through (air-conditioned hall isn't a good venue for talks, trust me). i did listen to mr damla, though, as he explained the oh-so-interesting life of being a geophysicist. i thought my heart dropped when i saw the slides that he prepared for the talk. i didn't know much about geophysics, but i expected more of a downstream work. but what's done is done. if it just so happen that the world decides to be kind to me and grant me the scholarship, i guess i'll just have to bear with the course. that evening, abang drove chubby and i to the pasar malam (thanks for being such a good babysitter, abang, i know you love me! ngahaha) and biaselah, rambang mata, semua nak beli. we had apam balik, murtabak and roti john for dinner, which was such a bliss! at about 8 p.m we took the bus from our hostel to some hall somewhere (i think they call it block b or something) for the tests, ape entah, something to do with verbal and images. the tests were pretty hard, and yes, i did bad. hahah but ape ape lahh.
the assessment day was on the 13th. i woke up really early to meet izwan at the cafe, he's still about as tall as i am, heehee. he was blabbering about how unprepared chubby and i are for the interview which practically slapped me on the face. hahah, he was right though, i was really clueless and did not prepare any facts for the interview that was about to occur in a few hours.
the interview went quite fine. fortunately for my group members, our panel was said to be one of the nicer ones. the groups in our session were given the task to discuss about the traffic flow in malaysia. the other 4 members in my group had a lot to point out, so i tried to slide in as much as possible. and tadaaaa, before i knew it, my educamp days were over. abang drove chubby and i around utp for a bit before sending us back to our hostel in village 2 to pack up our things. chubby's parents arrived at about 4 p.m to pick us up and i laid my feet on the floor of my home sweet home at about 9 p.m.
16th April
the mara interview, was well, very interview-ish. mama was really determined to prove that universiti kl is situated right next to maju junction that i was late for the registration (luckily, i'm not the only one). there is not much to tell, the place was swamped with asramians with outstanding academic and co-curricular records. they didn't talk much either, except for this one girl that i sat next to while waiting for my interview session, and this guy from ira's group at the educamp.
i took a taxi to jalan tuanku abdul rahman (or was it tun razak? tempat yang banyak kedai kain tu) after the interview to join mama, cik, tok we and ayah zi for lunch. i tailed them around after that, masuk one kedai kain after another, sakit kaki gile because i was wearing heels. and then balik rumahhh, thank goodness, if i had to masuk another kedai kain, i would have turn cranky.
20th April
oooooh the class gathering! it was fun, fun, fun! only about half the class, or maybe tak sampai pun yang datang but it was better than duduk rumah doing nothing. joyce, aeisyah and chubby came early to help me with the preparation, kemas rumah and all. the gathering started at 3 something. kaamini and pei yee were the first to arrive, followed by yan, shaki and am. fateen, izzati, insyirah and ain came a bit late, uzair, izreen and a few other people, mad, haziq and edzmir were the last to arrive. we didn't do anything much besides watching material girls and eating (the menu was mihun goreng and agar-agar prepared by mommy dearest, thanks ma!). i really like the air hee heee, it was aeisyah's recipe. took a few pictures here and there, and everybody went home at merely seven.
22nd april
the day started really early, as it was ayah's birthday. we surprised him with a cake and pressies at 12 midnight. after getting some zzzzzzzz, i woke up for breakfast and went to sg buloh for gardening supplies. had lunch, went home and then went out again to send nenek to her friend's house. cik and family came for a visit, so we went out for dinner. yeah okay now my fingers are starting to get lazy ahahahhaha.
alrighteo. it's the 23rd today and so far, i haven't done anything besides sleeping, eating and this. maybe i'll type again tonight? hahahh, maybe. okay then cheeriossss (:
