Friday, September 1, 2017

Eventful month

So much has happened.

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I went for the interview on a Wednesday and honestly, I left the place with a feeling of slight regret that I was not at my best. It was a 3 session interview and the first was a case study discussion / presentation. There were my other 2 teammates who were outspoken in my group that it gave me little chance to speak. It pulled my spirit down by a bit. The second round was a 2 to 1 interview and finally, a 30-minutes written essay. By 1pm plus, I was back at home snuggling in bed where I spent some time reflecting on the interview earlier. In the end, I gave myself an average rating for these two parts. Anyways, I took a pretty last minute EL to attend this interview and thought it was hilarious to spend the later parts of my day on EL being nonchalantly laid back at home. It was my first EL experience too and definitely 'unique'. Hahs

After that, I did not hear from them for sometime. I was anticipating that perhaps they'll get back to me in 2 days time (by the end of that week which meant by Friday), yet there was no news. One week went by and there was no word on the outcome. Truthfully, I did not give the interview much thought after the first 2 days because work and other things kept me occupied. Only on few occasions did the 'interview result' came as a passing thought and I'd weigh my chances. Evidently, I knew that the odds are stack higher than the chances with each passing day. Almost 2 weeks later, I was almost fully convinced that I did not make it as a new month is approaching and the intakes were quite likely informed before that.

So on Tuesday, I decided that if they did not call in by that day, then I'll let all my expectations go and accept the likely outcome. I prayed hard in the ktm. I really did. I was silently praying to God in my head 'pls give me a chance, pls give me a chance' repetitively. That whole day, I was having training at office. After it ended at about 3pm plus, I was finding a file among stacks of files by a shelf. That's when I decided to look at the time so I checked my phone. 5 missed calls with a random number. Who is that?? So I called back and it was their general line. In my head, I was thinking, Why? So I tried calling back twice but to no avail, there was no receiver on the other end so I resumed finding my file. 10 minutes later, my phone rang again and the person over the phone spilled the good news. Immediately after ending the call, the first thought running through my head was harr?? Did God really listened to my prayers? I was slightly amazed and it was a moment of wonder, awe and eventually, gratefulness seeped in. To make it this far, I really thank the one who made my hopes come true, whoever it may be. Thank you.

There's one more final program to complete. A medical check-up. I don't know where this journey is going to lead me to or if I'm actually making the right choice. Hopefully, I will be guided and feel happy wherever I am.

Thankfully, I have a month's notice to prepare myself for this changes. I have no heart to tell my colleagues yet. Eventually, if I've confirmed everything, I'll let them know and they'll know. I can already tell how much I'm going to miss all of them. They make me feel human, everyday. Emotionally. :')

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Another event highlight would be convo. Convocation took place 2 weeks back and it was more memorable than I had expected. I headed back to Kampar with my coursemates a day earlier and stayed at my friend's mom's apartment. The few of us had dinner together and went swimming at the condo's pool afterwards. Yays! The next morning, my friends woke up first around 5am plus as they needed more time to prepare (prepare in this case was mostly for 'putting on make up'. haha) whereas I woke up later around 6 and you can guess why. I don't make up and my friends have repeatedly failed in their attempt to touch my eyebrows with their eyeliners, their beauty advice and the idea of a a step-by-step makeover for my face. Hahhaa. They were in a rush to get ready that morning so they requested my help to iron their formal blouse. Whatt, they think I'm a Kakak harrh. One of them even jokingly called at me 'Kakakkk, faster!!'. Walau ehh but I was glad to help laa. Haha.

By 7plus, we arrived and by 8, the ceremony started. To my surprise, the speeches particularly by the president, had depth. I was actually listening intuitively throughout. As for the rest, because of the couple late nights and things like that, my head was bobbing in the hall in between the program flow. Once the official ceremony was over, I received many bouquet and stalk of flowers from various people outside the hall. Both from friends who stopped by and my family. I was especially grateful receiving the one from my mom and dad. It was a bouquet with flowers and a big brown teddy in the middle of it. It was also the biggest bouquet. Wuu. A lil' touched, indeed. Honestly, I did not expect them to get me one since my dad used to say its a waste of money to get flowers. He rather buy me something of more value (practical) with that same amount of money. As I was observing the bouquet at one point, my dad told me that my mom's relatives wanted to get me flowers so he helped to pick the bouquet. Then he was telling me how he wanted to get a white coloured teddy bear instead of the brown one because it looks better with the flowers contrast etc. and only that all the white bears were already sold out, it touched my heart. The thought of choosing the nicest bouquet itself is heartwarming in itself. :)) Appreciated those friends who came over to take photos with me and the bunch of coursemates I graduated with. Saranghae!


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Had my first ACCA progress test a week before convo. It's strange how I wanted to study since a week before the test but things kept coming up since that Sunday that kept me occupied for the rest of the week. Unexpected overtime, sudden one day stock take which found myself really driving out in KL itself for the first time (to my colleague's house), another company dinner that same day and TGIF all the way until 4am plus that Friday (definitely the latest night out ever since uni or even secondary school). We played cards at mamak while waiting for the karaoke time to start and went for karaoke afterwards starting at 12am. I enjoyed every moment of it. By the time, I got back my car and reached home, it was 5am. I was worn out and thought about my progress test. In my head, the though rushing through was  'Ohnoo, my progress test' and was already feeling bad about it. The following morning, I couldn't wake up earlier so around 11plus, I had to go out to Sg Long to collect my convo attire as well. It was an adventurous journey with KL's public transport too. Took the KTM, MRT and Grab. Haha. Guilty me decided to find time to read so I tried to study while waiting by the bench for the KTM train. Anyways, who knows what I wrote. Luckily it was just a progress test. Its definitely time to buck up and take things more seriously now if I want to pass or perhaps even, score the paper.

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It feels good to be back home after 2 months. The food always gets to my heart and tummy. :) Now dreading a little bit about work tomorrow and howdee. It was laughter during lunch earlier. My brother asked my aunt  what did the doctor do to me during my medical check-up this morning as I was sot sot tai when I came back home. I told my aunt and him I was fine when I went there, infected myself with a disease after coming back from the check-up. Hahhaha.

Have a splendid day!