My Wonderful DreamTeam 2

Today was the 2nd stage for the schlumberger interview.

"2nd stage? Bgus tak tu? Brape stage lg before jumpe bos? Haha, aku rase mcm game plak ade stage2 ni.. gudlak2" those were the silly words from my big brother. Thanks man.

The 2nd stage is known to be the toughest round because it is definitely crunch time and team work with people who all have the same objectives as you do, to outshine one another and try to score as much points as possible with the panel of judges present.


The task was to build a platform made out of paper, which had to reach 150cm tall ( they used my height as a benchmark, flattering or nott) hehe. And the fun part is that the platform must be able to support 8 golf balls at the top. Those were pretty much the rough guidelines for the group activity.

I was in group #2. We all got paper stickers and stuck them to our backs for the judges to see and evaluate us in the team project. My team mates were wonderful wonderful people. We clicked so well and there was no activity of abrasiveness that could injure our performance. We came up with the Wedding Cake, and some stupid reason the judges thought that one of us is getting married any time soon. Gee, wonder what gave them that idea??


My groupmates Firdaus (adik junior gigih sebok masok interview bdak2 final sem) Ros Hamdi, Ira, Bibiq ( my groupmate for Eng In Society) and Haidar ( my groupmate for Eng Team Project). I've pretty much worked with everyone on the group except for Ros Hamdi and Firdaus. But it wasn't a problem for us to get the platform up on all fours.

The beautiful part was that in 30 minutes, we had successfully constructed the platform!! KUDOS!! Then the moment of truth came and we held our breaths as haidar placed one golf ball at a time and when all 8 were placed on top our 171cm tall platform. We geared ourselves for the next test. The wind test. The judge then whiped his clipboard really hard and waited for the platform to fall. Amazingly, IT DID NOT FALL!! Double kudos!! Present2 some bits and bobs on the platform etc etc..


Pehtu da petang, Ira, Haidar and myself got through to the 3rd round. The 3rd round was kind of challenging, because we try to be original but still say what they want to hear. It was a 1-on-1 interview but I got 2 interviewers instead. I think I was grilled well-done especially when they toy with the fact that I am a woman, and the rig is no hotel or spa. I just spoke what was on my mind, try to convey my message well and I knew I did my best. Now all I can do is wait.


** FYP tak siap lg, sv nak tgk friday morning at 830 am. Feasible? Mcm tak jek.. And puan noni plak buat open house time2 aku bz nak mampos nih..I think I must decline her invitation then. Too bad. On the other hand some geniuses decided to make the test a take-home assignment which could have been done before last friday so I could've gone back home. Stupid.

TEC '07

TEC babes! Technology Education and Careerfair. I think thats what it stands for. Its UTP's own career fair, although I have to say that it is rather one sided. All the companies that took part were all oil and gas companies. There were none to accomodate manufacturing, automotive or even chemical industries. Not everyone from UTP wants or have interests in oil and gas. I'm just venting out for the behalf of those who feel frustrated and pissed at the same time, kan naz kan?

In the morning we had rounds of interviews with Cooper Cameron, and Schlumberger's 1st round of screen tests-cum-interview.

We were the early birds. Zakiah and naz.

Berfoye2 di ruang hallway. Haha.Pastu da kne sound taleh lalu situ da.

I picked out a piece of paper which asked me which type of working environment do I prefer working in. That was okay, simple and non-technical. Some people got technical questions. Which is tough. Especially if you have no idea what the word means. Huhu.

Afeeq Fadhlan.

Tipot and naz yg suda pandai gedik2 amek gamba. Sape tah aja die nih.

My housemates! They came lepas test for the interview. Yatt, aireen and shada.

Naz, ira, iman and irzee.

Pas puas interview ngn rakus skali, we headed to sara's lab at block 16. The prototype lab. Eh silap, the rapid tooling and rapid prototyping lab. I'm sara's official helper. Sara is working on a miniature replica of Masjid An-Nur of UTP. They will probably end up being magnets or something like that. I get to keep the resin models though =)

That is two mini masjid I've got on a tray.

Di TEC ada ayamas. We had to queue like forever. Our last TEC together. Huhu. Sob sob.

Musicfest Four

Musicfest four. The last music event for this final semester of mine. Gc will play this time, yeay! Its a nice feeling to see your loved ones perform on stage. Sort of like a proud momma. Sort of laa.. Enjoy the pics.

Wee early in the late afternoon.

The crew (bajett) with naz and jengga.

Gc at it for one last time.

Daus Mary on vocals.

Lutfi, he was awarded The Best Bassist during Euphonious '07.

Gc and khaled.

Afeeq, lutfi and paci.

The Times was one of our guest performer.

INVEIN - Daus Mary (voc), Doub (drums), gc budak degil, ben (he took most of the videos) and Lutfi on bass.

Pinki with Polkadot Pistol.

Sesi gedik jenga never ends. With jubb.

Last guest performance by Hujan. Moespeda spam. Haha.

Balloons

It's almost time. I can see the glue that made us stick together for so long is slowly peeling off. Its usually like that. The new will age, start to lose adhesion and peel off. Year after year we put things back in sticky order and place another layer of glue, so it'd stay stuck together. It worked just fine for the past 5 years now.

But it's only been 2 years with you.

The heat, and the sight of the horizon closing in instinctively has me preparing myself to loosen my grip. Things will be different after this, unclench. I must let go.

Everything I've felt seemed so promising. But I know its because we've been kept safe in a fucking balloon. The balloon will cease to exist after graduation. Everyone else will go on with their happy lives. And I am left with postcards of the photographs we took.

And since I'm such a heartbraking sport, I'll hang around till the candle dies.