MPH Stock Clearance Sale 2008 and my 3 years worth of birthday presents

Thursday, 1st May 2008.

Mak Su, Unc Azim, and I went for the MPH Stock Clearance Sale.

It was about 8:30am,
Unc Azim was speeding.
Mak Su was encouraging him to go faster.

And I was at the backseat, gripping to anything I can reach for, terrified of the speed.

ME:
What’s with the rush? The sale is going on the whole day, right?

MAK SU:
a) We’ll get good parking spaces.
b) We’ll have the whole place to ourselves.
c) We don’t have to wrestle with other bookworms for our books!

Hold on tight, girl!
Azim, step on it!!!

Taking Pictures With His Schoolmate

Do you know how the world is really small?

After a few years of not meeting someone,
suddenly on that day, fate has brought you to stumble upon them?

This happened to my Uncle Azim.
We were all hanging around at Sunway Pyramid trying to search for keychains.

Then, he stopped walking and was looking at a particular guy.

He asked for me and Mak Su to snap a picture of him with his ex-schoolmate.

He went to the guy,
who was in charge of promoting a toothpaste brand, Sensodyne at the exhibition.

So I was expecting my uncle to strike up a conversation with that guy.
Instead, he only said,

“Excuse me sir, could you please move a bit?
I’d like to take a picture with my fellow ex-schoolmate here.”

Eih?
That guy isn’t his schoolmate?
So who is it?
I don’t see any other people around there.

It only dawned on me after Unc Azim posed beside a guy with his shiny teeth,
telling us to quickly snap the photo of him with his classmate.

Lorh!

His classmate was the Cardboard Cutout Image of the Sensodyne model!

Ceyh, buat suspense je!

Da Huang Pictures audition

With college coming nearer,
I’d avoid going to auditions unless I can gain something from the audition ITSELF.

And THIS is one of the few auditions that I’ll feel accomplished just by going there.

On Saturday & Sunday (3rd - 4th May 2008),
Da Huang Pictures had their Web Shop Launch on those days,
aside from also having auditions for their future films.

So I went there for two reasons:

• Purchase ‘Flower In The Pocket’.
• Go for the audition.

 

This was held at The Annexe during the Art For Grabs that weekend.
Too bad I didn’t pay much attention to this ‘funfair’ at first.
(Yep, I call these types of events- Funfair)

There was a lot going on there and so many things to do.
It would have been really fun.

* Click ‘read more’ for details of the audition.

 

To Matrics Or Not To Matrics?

The proper English for the title:
To Apply For Matriculation or Not To Apply For Matriculation?
(But that title would have been too long)

So here’s a post on some of my takes on matriculation a.k.a. matrics

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Matrics is like STPM/ Form 6.
You take them up for your pre-university course before going up for a degree.

The difference is, your chance to apply for matrics comes BEFORE you even sit for the SPM papers.
And it only comes ONCE.
So it’s a now or never chance for us then.

Most smart students went to apply for it,
regardless of what courses they are actually interested in or whether matrics is really relevant for them.

I, on the other hand, wasn’t a smart student.
I was a stubborn twit.
I didn’t apply for it for certain reasons.

Which most would consider stupid since:

• If you get matrics, at least you have a path to continue your studies if you’re rejected by the IPTA.
• You’ll have more options to choose if you get accepted by both matrics and IPTA.
• You have NOTHING to lose in applying.

Really?

Do you REALLY have nothing to lose by applying?

There was a rumor going around:

If I did get accepted by matrics, my IPTA application will be terminated automatically.

Not True!
I have friends who got both matrics and IPTA entries.

So matrics really have no effects on my IPTA applications whatsoever?

Aha! THAT’s the real question here.

There’s no official answer for this.
But sources have said that it DOES affect the IPTA admissions.
It makes them consider less of your application for the IPTA.

If you look at it one way,
it’s unfair as matrics and IPTA are two different institutions.
Why mix them up to have one affecting the other?

But looking at it from another way, it is somewhat sensible.

So let’s look at a very common case here:

Students who are interested in Science courses.
(Regardless whether it’s medic, biotechnology, farmacy etc)

They applied for the Science matrics and the Asasi/Foundation in Science for IPTA.
They got accepted for the Science matrics.

 

Now, if you are the person in charge of the IPTA intakes,
you will look at this applicant and you see that he/she already has a place in matrics under the same subject.
So would you prioritize so that this person will also get the offer for IPTA?

Despite having hundred thousands other applicants who are also fighting for this same course that have no placings in the matrics?

I’m not saying that it is fair to disregard IPTA applications after seeing their matrics results.
Nor am I saying that it is unfair that some have the luxury of getting accepted by both offers.

But I can see why they had to do that as it is necessary to sacrifice one’s OPTION to
offer another’s CHOICE.

Although you have two options, you can only choose one.
Thus, wasting one chance for those who have none at all.

 

So now, do you REALLY have nothing to lose for applying to matrics?

UPU or IPTA Application Results: Accepted!

Woohoo! Yeah baby!

Unlike most courses, this course actually required an interview.

Which is good:

My paper qualifications are much of a fail.

Having an interview would be another chance of proving myself of my worth. Plus, I’m better at that than answering subjective questions on the structure of chemicals and the formulas of physics.

There’s not much competition.

Eventually, I did pretty well in the interview, Alhamdulillah.

And as you can see from the image above,
I got accepted!

I’ll post more on the interview I went through, and some rumors that got cleared after these results.