Photos Photos Photos

Since I am sooooo freeeee at the moment, I thought I will post some pics... it has been so long... Afraid that I might forget how to do so if I don't do it often...

Here we go...

My family and I on holiday in Cameron Highlands in December. Picture taken on a hill on top of a Boh Tea Garden situated between Ringlet and Tanah Rata towns. Very nice view up there... got to climb up there and witness it yourself...

My family and I at a beach in Port Dickson.

My family and I at the living room with our Christmas tree... and some of my siblings' soft toys...haha...

My family having a barbecue at our house front yard on New Year's Eve... went out to watch fireworks display after that... so nice!!

Aih... now school started... wonder when can we do these things again in the future...

Any job?

Any job suitable for my consideration? Any job recommendation?

This is very odd... there's so many stores inside Sunway Pyramid but yet I couldn't get a job that 'suits my taste'... (okay la, I know I am choosy...)

Maybe it was middle of the month and the jobs are all snapped up.. maybe in the beginning of February there's people who are leaving and then I can take over...

No transportation (unless in PJ area... my mom will fetch my younger siblings to school in the morning and after school... that way I can come down at those times...)

If there's vacancies in school the better... haha...

'The vacancy was already filled.... FOUR HOURS AGO!!!!'

FOUR HOURS...

FOUR HOURS ONLY!!!!

Aiyoo!!! That's how late I am in getting the last position available... (and I did not even know that it's the last vacancy available...) Actually I could have been earlier but then... anyway, here's the story...

I actually arrived Chen Moh about 4 something on Wednesday (the vacancy I am applying for is a temporary teacher... btw...). I was asked to look for this teacher.. The teacher was saying... I forgot already but she was kinda saying 'I don't think we need more teachers already... we have enough...' something like that lah...

She took down my number... and told me that she will call when there's a job. Then she told me to pass up the form that was earlier given to me TOMORROW to the front desk.... (didn't really take serious note of it...)

Then I left. On Friday I came back to the school to pass in the form to the counter. (In the meantime I walked around Sunway Pyramid to look for jobs...) The person at the counter then told me that she was waiting for me... and that someone came to pass it to her!! I was directed to see a Senior Assistant who told me that the job vacancy was filled....

FOUR HOURS AGO!!!

Ayaya.... four hours only... should have just... four hours late...

ARGH!

Not that it is so very important... actually they told me to look for other schools which are although near but not where I can easily get to...

Some miscommunication there I guess...

Wrong on my part...

Suddenly wanted this teacher's job so badly...

Anyway, life moves on...

If any of the schools need someone to step in... I am available... as of right now...

Not going to find job until February... waiting for those January people to 'step down' and for me to replace them...

I know it's only a couple of months... five months but... I really want to make it memorable instead of just... filling in the time... (Actually that's what I thought about initially...)

TEACHING????!!!!

Teaching??!!

That's like the last thing that I want to do after finishing STPM...

But then later found out that a lot of ppl actually are teaching in primary school...

Went to get one form from a primary school in PJ Old Town the other day... The teacher told me that there's no vacancy at the moment but gave me a piece of paper... shocked in the beginning when I saw that I need to give one month's notice before quitting... but then, I should have known about it... it's not like I can just throw everything aside at the second that I say I want to quit right?

Thinking about the ppl who I know are currently teaching... the way I am... I am not like them! They really suits to be great teachers in the future... not like me who is so intimidated by the students when I saw them again in school the other day... They are so outgoing and... I can't be like them... no matter how hard i try...

I can't remember how do my teachers back in primary school taught me... I don't think my classmates can still recall too.. but then some of their relatives, may it be their parents or older siblings may have taught primary school before... that's why they know what to expect... I can only imagine through reading the blogs... (Thank goodness there are things called blogs...)

Orientation Week (3rd Day) - Ice-Breaking and Tele-Match

This is the most interesting event which I have looked forward to for the past.... wait, I only found myself interested in joining it the day before... haha!

It was what they called 'Ice-Breaking and Tele-Match'. (shoot, forgot where I put my programme book for that day... if I have it now I would have scanned it and put it on the net...) Anyway, arrived there early and registered. I was given a name card with a string which I can hang it over my neck... (after typing that line I went to hunt for this name card also, thinking I should keep it as a rememberance... nowhere to be found.... :(

While waiting for the crew to call us, I had a few chats with some new students that I have just knew in campus... looks like everyone was really in the mood to get to know new people... The students were really from all around Malaysia... I met two from Johor, a few locals, one from Sarawak...

It was not long before we were told to put our bags in a room and then gather at the car park. First it was the speeches by the chairman, the chairperson, a staff from the DSA (Department of Student Affairs)... and then some short briefing by the committee members of the event...

The next event was morning warm-up exercises... you know la... the aerobic stuff with the music on... and everyone was jumping up and down loosen up their body... Kinda felt like young schoolchildren again...

We were then assigned to four groups according to our name tag colours... and the fun then began... Our first station was 'Blind Man Walking'. Members of a team need to line up and successfully walk across a field where there will be chairs as obstacles along their path.... with their eyes BLINDFOLDED! The only person that will not be blindfolded will be the person who is the last person lining up behind. No one are allowed to talk... so the trick here was that the last person needs to give signals in way of hitting the person in front of him... and then the person that was being hit will then hit the person in front of him and so on... so that the message would be able to send across...

Okay, I give up... It's hard to explain... You can't feel the excitement unless you are really playing the game...

Next! We need to search for sweets in a lecture theatre... in the dark! So how to look for the sweets? Well, we were given candles (which are lightened up, of course!). Nothing interesting actually... all the funny places that the senior thought of hiding the sweets... we was able to find them all!!

3rd station was the paper-scissors-stone game... yeah, the one we watch on television... Again it's one team versus the other... and the winner from the battle will get the chance to splash water on the losing opponent... The only way that person do not get wet is to use the umbrealla given to him/her...

4th station was the human link game and the water balloon game... 5th one was about finding sweets from a bowl of flour... the last one was treasure hunting...

I give up... no use describing without photos of the event...

But anyway, just in case anyone of you happened to enter UTAR sometime in the future... then hopefully you will get a rough idea of what the tele-match was all about...

As of now, I am now looking for work... hopefully I can find work really soon... desperate to go out there and do something instead of playing games here at home...

Orientation Week 2008 (First and Second Day)

Last Wednesday to Friday, I attended the UTAR KL Campus Orientation 2008. Now before I go any further, want to note this out first... I discussed with my family and we have decided that:

I WILL NOT GO FOR JANUARY INTAKE

Yeap... this was after I found out from a classmate of mine that he don't know anyone who is taking up bachelor degree courses that starts in January... everyone is waiting for the results in March. Some have decided to do courses that are not available here in Malaysia, some hopes to enter public universities...

Anyway, back to the topic...

I submitted my forms to enter Electric and Electronics Engineering in UTAR in KL. Checked out the website after a few days and saw that my application have been approved. Someone from the office also called my phone about going to the PJ Campus (that's where I dropped my application form to) to collect my conditional offer form.

So on the first day, I took the LRT from Amcorp Mall to the Wangsa Maju station. Then I took a bus to TAR College (As far as I know as of right now there's no public bus from the LRT station to UTAR). Next, I walked for about ten minutes to UTAR...

(Okay, straight to the point...)

1st day

Those who have paid up all the fees are given some freebies and important documents and stuff like that... Since I have not paid up, I am not entitled to these... Next we were ushered to the Lecture Hall. At 9.30am the events started. First it was... er... (Now looking at the orientation programme list in front of me...) a video presentation, then some brief speeches from PIC of the library, ICTC, Dept of Student Affairs, and also student representatives (the guys who put this thing together...), people from the counselling unit, soft skills unit, and a rep from the Institut Integriti Malaysia...

Somehow when one of the student representatives was giving a speech, blackout occurred. Things went on as usual however.

Learnt a lot of new friends... But I think when I first stepped into the school compound my parents and I already kinda knew that I am not going to be studying there right now... It was me who made the decision to study in January because I would probably can't make up my mind of which engineering course to study when it is time to choose anyway...

2nd day

The dean of the faculty gave us a talk... or rather an overview of the rules, general information of UTAR, info about how the courses are like and so on... briefly speaking, the way she talked to us really was how she wanted us to take it... to tell and remind us that we are adults, no longer teenagers or students at school 'that needs to be spoon-fed'... we need to be independent and have the initiative to study alone.. blah.... blah.... you'll get it...

The most interesting, important and major part of the whole orientation thing must be the welcome and mass call event. This was where all the students took their oath (is this the word?) and pledge (something like that la...) as new students of UTAR in front of the VIPs of the university. Even the President was here to deliver her speech... according to her, she and her team of university officials have been to different campuses (UTAR has four campuses) to attend to these mass call sessions. Other high-ranking university officials were also there to accompany her.

Before the mass call session I kinda imagined how it will be held. Glad to have attended such an event. I think all the students must have felt a strong sense of belonging to the university after that.

Anyway, after some slide shows about various topics, it's time for some serious stuff... the PTPTN loan. Heard a lot of it but since it is regarding my tuition fees, it has always been my parents that asked questions or discussed about it... I considered a long time ago that when it comes to financial matters it will be under my parents' jurisdiction (even though we never clarified it... and it's not that I don't want to care about it... they are the ones who told me not to worry about it...)

Surprisingly.... or not surprisingly... a lot of questions were raised during the session. Now I realized how indepedent these students really are... Really humble about that fact... I am such a loser...