Last Tuesday (24/04/2012), I went for the UTP Educamp. Actually it's just a few sessions of interviews. I travelled to Ipoh on Monday, stayed at my uncle's house for the night. A few of my friends went too, namely Naim, Azrul, Hazim, Azzam, Arif, Tuan, Nisa, Elya, Hata, Aiman, Hanif, Awah and a few others. Azrul, Hazim and Elya travelled in the morning! Fuyooh! I salute them :D
When I arrived, I queued up for registration. I looked around to see if there was any Teknik kids. No sign. Then I saw Bob! Next I saw Tuan! After the registration, Tuan and I went up together. The chancellor hall was super duper awesome!
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Tuan and I was like searching for a place to sit. Then I heard the annoying 'kissing' sound. If you know what I mean. I turned and guess what? I saw a bunch of Teknik kids conquering the back row. HAHA. Somehow, the way the people are seated are separated, girls on the left, guys on the right. Anti-social! Anyway, we headed towards them. I, as always, the connector, sat beside Hazim :D
However, I somehow ended at the end of the row. Thanks to Azzam. Just my luck. HAHA. As usual, there was doa, and singing, and speeches. There were four groups, namely A, B, C, and D. Bob and I were in Group C. Azzam and Nisa were in Group D. The others were in Group A and B. So Group A and B got to go for the interview first. The rest were left at the chancellor hall to listen to some career briefing.
Half way through the briefing, we met Aidil, our senior! Actually he wanted to take us to the library. Thanks to my strict parents, I stayed put. *blablabla* After the career briefing, we headed of the their Masjid by the UTP bus. The bus was amazing, like a travel bus. There were even seat belts on every seat! *munchmunchmunch* The lunch was all right I guess. Bob said it was not appetising though.
After eating, I met my parents for a while and told them I was going to Block B, where the interview is going to take place. *Doink* I saw Nisa and Aidil. Chatted with them for a bit then Nisa and I headed to Block B. We were in different groups so we had to separate. First we had to gather at the briefing room. So I went in and sat on the left side, second row. After a long while, I noticed something not right.
I turned around, guess what? I was sitting at the guys' side and no one bothered to tell me. Damn it. Evil people. Anyway, I just laughed it off and went the the girl's area. I tried talking to the girl on my left, Polim. Somehow I felt that she didn't feel comfortable talking with me. Thank God a few minutes later, we had to go to another room. Everyone had to sit in a group of 5, 3 boys and 2 girls. Polim's group had three girls already, so yeah!
I ended up sitting in the group with 3 guys which says Panel 18. All of them were SO unfriendly. I tried saying 'Hi' but I received cold responses. A girl joined us later. In my group, there was an RMC guy and a Caucasian, a guy that says he's 17 but was born on the same year as me and a Malay girl. We were given about 10 minutes to prepare points for our case study. My problem was - People are spending too much time on the computer. The recommended solution was - A special program is to be built of every computer to limit the usage of computer for a person.
I had my own solution too though - A rehab centre is to be set up for cyber addicts. I heard this case on the radio before, thanks Flyfm :) While at the waiting room, I sat next to Awah! She misses my odd whistling :P During the individual session, I had to introduce myself. I just talked about my school. Dang, I just totally forgot about myself during that few moments. Then I proceeded with my points. I think I did all right but as I was going out, I heard one of the interviewers say 'Ni moderate je kn'. Ouch. HAHA!
Next, all 5 of us went into the little room again for the group discussion. I think I did pretty well. HAHA. During this session, only three of us, RMC guy, mat salleh guy and I were active. The other two were pretty much silent throughout the whole thing. When the interviewers told us to come to a conclusion, RMC guys came out with another point. WTH man. Anyway, the mat salleh guy agreed with my point. Yay! After the group discussion, we had to send in our notes. The RMC guy's notes was like 'ham choi'! No joke.HAHA
On my way out, I chatted with the RMC guy. His name is Yusuf. Turns out, he is a good friend of Harith. HAHA. *blablabla* That was all. I finished around 4pm, went back to Ipoh, and headed for KL after dinner. I left Tabby's charger in my grandma's room. My Dabeliew (W) is with my sister. So I'm temporarily using my little Sony until my cousin brings my charger for me.
I really, really, really hope I get a place in UTP. I know the cost is super expensive. I'll apply PTPTN loan or something maybe. It would be even better if all the TIKL students that went to interview gets a place :) A friend of mine, Farhan, was suppose to go. Ended up not making it cause his father told him - If you're going there to just simply do the interview, better don't go. Geez. I pity him :( I gained a lot of experience from that interview. I'm a little more confident I think. HAHA
Will I get it or not? :O
Grey Matter shuts down here :)
the hall is awesome :D
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