Storybook?

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It's close to the end of my semester break. I remember in my previous entry I talk about my trying to find a part time job to fill my boredom of staying in the house doing nothing but eating and sleeping. Well, add watching TV to that. That was before I learned the fact that my buddy back from primary and lower secondary school turned into a mini Hulk.

That's an exaggeration. He's no Hulk. He just has this buff, ripped-off body to die for. So I asked him what he did because he told me that he used to be fat all those years we hadn't seen each other. Gym. That's all it took to convince me that it's time for me to turn my life around. Well, not necessarily my life. My physique it is.

I've been going to the gym these couple of months and I must say I feel a lot different from before. Well, if you saw me I didn't think you would notice any bizarre changes took place because there was none. Truth is, working out and seeing the result are two things that don't go together very well. Of course, you have to work very hard to gain that body-to-die-for type of body.

I went to Herbalife to measure my fat content. Turned out that most of my fat had been burned to my going to the gym and muscles have been building up since then. So I vow to myself that once I arrive in Shah Alam I won't abandon this routine. This needs to go on if I really to prove to the world out there that I indeed can change the way I look, the way I want it to be. Speaking of which, I'll be going to the gym in 30 minutes from now so I need to get ready.

Before I end this, I just wanted to say the reason I came back here because of one thing and one thing only. I want to write. Continue writing things as it used to be. And this blog's being my online journal is so yesterday. So thanks to a good friend of mine who is also a grammar nazi, Nad Penguin, I'm going to start writing stories in this blog. Yes, you read it right. I know it's kinda off from my style but I want to try something new. You know, make full use of this blog that I have since 2006. How long has it been? 6 years? Almost.

So, that's it. The next time to come here it'll be a story. I have so many things in my mind right now it's so exasperating to them to words. Think I'll just draft them out first.

p/s: I don't understand why this computer thinks I typed "online" wrongly.

House Keeping

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Owh my goodness. There are lots of spider webs everywhere! Ok, scratch that. I was just trying to crack a lame joke. I don't know what has gotten into me. Well, I know for sure that I'm freaking bored right now. Imagine, I came back to blogging, the activity that I had left for a very long time ago. 

I'm currently having my 4th semester break. Trying to find a part time job here in KK. Kinda hard actually. Been trying to find a tuition center or something like that so that I can spend my 2 months holiday well instead of letting it go down the drain. 

Maybe anyone of you would like to help me find a part time job that can last for 2 months?

Wake-Up Call

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Here I am. 

Finally, after many months of being away I am back. Home. Whatever you would like to call it. I’ve been away. Not far, I’ve always been close. Opening my blog day by day but never really got the time to write an entry about it. There’s only one thing to be blamed here, it’s Twitter. 

I think I have written here somewhere saying that I’ve been abandoning my blog because I have someplace else to pour my heart out. I tweet, a lot. So that has been keeping me away from my blog. I don’t think I’m doing my blog any justice. So this semester I will try to keep up with writing entries in it. 

The new semester has started. So far this is the only semester that is packed in the first week. I’ve never experienced a semester where you get pretty busy in the first week of lecture. It’s like a wake-up call for me saying that as the semester progresses, it’ll not gonna get any easier or less hectic than the previous semesters.

Last semester, I got the best result compared to my entire achievement as a university student. Praises to Allah, I got in the Dean’s List last semester. I had been waiting for 3 semesters for this and I finally got it despite the fact that I was pretty playful last semester (or every semester?). I got 3.54 when I graduated from Asasi but there’s no Dean’s List in Asasi. Finally, I got 3.56 last semester which is my paramount achievement so far. 

My 3rd Semester Result (click to enlarge)

 

I’m so looking forward to attending the Dean’s List dinner this semester. I only see my course mates went to the dinner before this, but I’m gonna be part of it this time. Maybe I would volunteer myself to perform my singing in the dinner, who knows? 

I gotta go, I need to write an interpretation in “Reply to the question: How to Become a Poet” in Madam Lim Wai Fun’s Critical Appreciation of Poetry & Prose. My next entry would be overviews of the courses that I’m taking this semester but for the time being, goodbye! (^__^) 

p/s: It would be lovely if you help me click the ads in my blog once you have finished reading this entry. Thanks!

Skim Latihan Tenaga Pengajar, what's the deal?

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SLTP...

I don't know what's the deal. I don't know whether I should keep on hoping that I'm gonna get it or just accept the fact that I've already failed the interview 90%. Apparently, "selling" myself during the interview didn't help me much. To tell you the truth, I'm extremely sad for not getting this scholarship. People around me keep on saying that I shouldn't stop hoping for it even though I'm just a "calon simpanan", it doesn't mean that I don't have the chance to get it.

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Well, that's not all. FYI, I'm also appealing for JPA Sabah's scholarship, also known as Biasiswa Kerajaan Negeri Sabah (BKNS). Why I used the word "appealing"? Yes, because I failed to get the scholarship either. How pathetic my life can be? I thought I was such a talented person that no one would think twice to let me get a scholarship. Well, apparently not. I'm starting to doubt myself. I'm starting to think that I'm just not good enough to get a scholarship. Yes, I'm currently under PTPTN but who wants to stay indebted to the government when they are tons of scholarship opportunities out there?

I called BKNS and they said that the result would be out around November. When? They weren't sure themselves. I've always contemplated between these 2 scholarships. Yeah, I might not get them both considering the circumstances now, but let's join me make a comparison between these 2 scholarships.

BKNS

• RM3500 (or less) per semester for pocket money
• Fee automatically paid to UiTM (I guess?)
• Thesis allowance RM150
• Flight tickets back and forth to East Malaysia
• Usually no contract as there's no vacancy available

SLTP

• RM4200 per semester for pocket money
• Fee automatically paid to UiTM
• Book allowance RM500
• Stationary allowance RM100
• Thesis allowance RM300 
• Practicum RM10 per day, max 90 days = RM900
• Flight tickets back and forth to East Malaysia
• To be posted to any Politeknik or Kolej Komuniti nationwide for 4 years as a contract  

From what I've been told by my friends who has gotten SLTP scholarship and they've understood the T&C, if they want to further their study to Master level, all they have to do is apply for it and they will be sponsored to further their study but as a return they have to add another 2 years of service under the Ministry of Higher Education.

I guess, I'm gonna take which one comes first. Haha, I might not even get both. If that happens, then PTPTN is my solution. If I may, I would like to try again next year. Maybe this is why the interviewer who interviewed me said "Never stop applying for scholarships." before I went out from the interview room. Just not my luck. :'(

that awkward moment...

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That awkward moment when...

I found out that over the period where I don't update my blog any longer, people from the USA go to my blog more often. Guess what is the most read entry? My entry on Structure of English, the course where I learned Syntax.

Am I a qualified linguist now? Nah, me don't think so. I mean, I don't think so. (it's supposed to be funny but if you don't laugh I don't blame you hehe) Still got a lot to learn, especially when it comes to Applied Phonetics and Phonology. Speaking of which, I have just finished APP's first test. Come to think of it, I kind of regret for not doing my revision way earlier than, say, last night? :O

The questions wasn't that hard, I could answer them but not with confidence that I needed. By the way, as I was giving my test paper to Mr. UD, my APP lecturer, he went flipping my test paper and stopped at the Phonemic Transcription section and said "You're the first person to get the transcriptions all correct." I was stunned. I hope he was right because I did seriously bad in other sections of the test.

I need to go now, I'll update my blog again later. It's gonna be on SLTP Scholarship.

TTYL