The course of few weeks have been an eye-opening experience for me. Somewhat, bittersweet.
I survived assignments and midterms. Survived! ^^ I did pretty well for midterms and UBS results were out too. Yeaay! Got a D!! a good 'D'! Distinction. neh neh neh~ Hahah. :)) So did kitkat in UBS. Hehees!
On a rather last minute participation, the 6 of us took part in the M100 Challenge organized by gti media and several external companies. The 4 of us replaced the original team members who unfortunately had midterm tests during the event day. Anyways, it had a rather similar concept to Amazing Race. Station games and challenges to be completed at each station as a team before we could make it to the next. Throughout, we traveled by bike and foot all around campus. We had a poor start as we couldn't find our first station (wrong label on the map dehy. kaka) and time was lost further when my friend lost her bicycle lock key. We had to searched the whole block up and down twice. Locate the station. Locate the key. During the whole searching, nothing mattered. It was after locating the key that I was thinking 'Why I join? Why I join?..' Since I felt all my energy drained out and its only the first station while there's 12 more to go. We caught up eventually.
The challenges were actually okiess. Maybe just one or two were intense while overall, some stations were quite fun. Haha. The travelling part though was a bit..grueling. I guess this can be said for my friends who usually hit the gym as well. What more for a person like me who never exercise. Loll. During that whole challenge and physical tiredness, there's this one moment that's still vivid in my mind. It was around 12-ish that time. Sunny, bright and all of us sweaty, our next challenge was at the corner of an open outdoor field and it was to do sit ups at one corner of that field. Right before our challenge, I lay down against my back onto the green grass. It was that moment that I noticed one thing, the sky. The vast openness of the sky, that stretch of blue emptiness (It striked me about the strange flatness of the sky which gave an odd feeling of awe) and some light-grey clouds (which I thought looks a little like grey cotton candy). My heart felt uplifted for a moment. A few seconds later, someone called out 'Let's start the challenge now' and I snapped out from my thoughts. Later, I thought how come I've never done this before? Or I don't remember such experience? To lie down on an open air field and watch the sky in the middle of the day/morning with no obstructions to my view. You should try so on a nice sunny day, if you haven't. To end this, we did not win. Nvm la, I guess what's important was that we learnt to overcome the challenges as a team. It was my first participation in a challenge too and perhaps my last of this sort. One time is enough. :P I borrowed my friend's bike and have yet to return it to her house too (Never found the time ma). Hahaha. :D She told me once, she had this slight shock when she discovered her missing bike and eventually remembered she lend it to me.
The next day, my friend and I joined an Effective Time Management talk. It was surprisingly nice. Ms Kim, the speaker for the day, was a wonderful speaker. Besides her funny stories and relevant topic points, she added performing arts into the later session of the talk. Thus, it became more of a workshop consisting of an hour plus of talk, group presentation and finally, video shooting+drama performance. It was all part and parcel of time management, allocating time resourcefully and stuffs. She even brought a whole lot of props along with her like a functioning keyboard, cute designed Chipmunk backpacks, masak masak items and baby dolls. It was a very good experience. :)
Then there's my internship application. Its been a bittersweet journey even before the internship itself. Whilst the outcome of the whole process is still pending, I kind of decided on my choice. On Thursday, as I walked out of the room after meeting my coordinator as well as under the pair of watchful eyes of another officer, I was lost for words. Funny how I could still muster the courage to meet him the next day. Everything surely happens for a reason. Regardless, I still get to keep the good learning experience and I hope to settle the whole process as soon as possible.
On the bright side, I went for my first 'job' interview last Tuesday. Yay! To me it was a significant thing in my life (although at that time I was just going with the flow all in a daze). Since I never went to any office for a formal purpose of my own, it certainly feels all grown up and ahems, formal. I had a valid reason to visit an office for the first time! Haha. :) Never mind that I sound like a rusa out of the kampung. Haha.
On the train back to Kampar, a Bollywood film was playing on tv. It was so entertaining that I was laughing and smiling throughout the show. Hahahha. Thankfully, I was not laughing alone as a girl sitting on the other end was watching the show and giggling as well. :D And as I walk to the other coach to pergi tandas, I saw another chinese girl smiling widely and engrossed in the show as well. I am not alone!! Haha.
My upcoming week will be my FYP 1 final presentation and then its finals approaching. Gotta remind myself to start studying. Hehe.
Goodbye bloggie!
