Mara Interview (PILN) 2012 Experience

Posted by leon7zack On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 0 comments

heyyo!





I think the pill I swallowed just now stuck in my throat. Damn!it makes me feel uncomfortable. Till I write this the pill is still there. I already ate few pieces of bread to take it down but it seemed like they missed it. Its still there. Even the water cant help much. Damn I need to get some more bread, or something bigger, maybe one medium ball of rice will do. Wait here.



*going to the kitchen to take some rice.



Okay I just ate one medium size ball of rice. But you know what. Screw this! Even though I did compacted the rice so it shaped more a like a ball so it would be much harder and not easily broke when I swallowed it later on. I think I just chewed it too much that the hard ball of rice turned back to only ‘rice’. Damn it. Lets just wait for a few more minutes then.




Okay what I wanna tell you guys tonight is that, things turned out to be better for the pass few days. I mean, thanks a lot to everyone who prayed to God that I would have the opportunity to go to mara interview because I really did. I really appreciated it guys, thanks a lot. At least I am a little bit relieved now. Mara did called me for an interview last 13th may at Mrsm Kuala Terengganu so yea. I believed it went well even though there were a few slightly mistakes happened here and there during the interview but overall I think they were just fine.






Now I feel like sharing my interview experience. Because if I hold this too long, i might not have the same mood to write about this again. So let it be now. Before the interview day, I did some research about how the Mara interview was like there were many version of it! Some said they need to build some bridge made of spaghetti, some said there will be one on one interview, some said they would give you a situation and you have to deal with it, so much story of this mystery of mara interview. Well luckily 13th may is not the first day when mara decided to begin their hunt. So with the help from my friends who went to the interview 2 days earlier than me, I finally got the picture of it, the picture on how it would be on the interview day.








But still, I did some other preparation as well considered that IF mara suddenly changed its style so I might have think about that. Luckily they didn’t. They stick to its style, which was, you were given a task or situation, discuss within your group, get the final decision and done. That’s all so guys out there who will be going to the mara interview this year or the next, you really don’t have to freak out. Ouh not to forget, there will some questioning session after the group discussion but not to everybody, it depends.



So my group was given this task:

(I cant remember the exact sentences to describe it, but I am pretty sure it went just like this)






you are the only doctor on call. Totally alone. And then suddenly there were 2 patients came to you that require immediate treatment. One is young, smart college kid who lost his father, so he is the one who taking care of his family  and the other one is and old business man who contributed a lot to the country, which on would you give treatment first?




Something like that. Ouh forget to mention that my group consist of 8 people, 1 girl 7 boys, we had to form 2 group and each one must represent either the old man or the young boy. So I was in the old man group. Guys, the moment you walked into the interview room, the only thing you will leave outside is your heart, and this literally means that your entering the room heartless. Only your body will get into the room Why did I said that? Because you will be freaking nervous like hell that your heart beat so fast that that it would ran away from you, leaving you in the room with only you body and mind.XDD







Okay back to the story. So I was reading the question and before I could finished reading it the opposition already start firing their bullet like hell. So I didn’t finish reading it and began to counter attack!it was tensed! Its hard to defend this old man because he was old, and there so many weakness in him that the opposition could talk about. Luckily I did prepared some points but its not enough. They kept on saying the young man would have so much potential in life, and he could contribute more to the country and bla bla bla.




Our only stand is the old man have a lot of experience that if he if die, it would be a great loss to the country so my teammates and I kept on playing on the point with different version. I started to give crap metaphor (because forgod sake I didn’t have much ideas that time) like “there were two plants, one was still young ,just beginning to grow up, and the other one was a tall plant, with a strong base, if you would be given a choice to save one of them, which one do you prefer?” which mean that the future of young plant is uncertain, it might be destroyed when heavy storm or rain hits it, so why did we need to save something you are not sure of? I knew this point have so many weakness but yet, not much choices I have that time.




So we were like debating for 30 minutes, I gave my points they give theirs and when the time up, no final decision was made yet. So in the end I took a step back and end up betraying my own teammates, sorry guys, but we need a decision that time so if no one would cut loose, we aint gonna move. So yea, in the end I ended up pointing my own machine gun to my teammates. Then we moved on.







The panels started to ask questions and mostly they were targeting those who didn’t have much chance to speak during the discussion. The questions was like, “Do you think you’re a leader within that discussion just now?”. Another 2 or 3 questions and we were all done. The interview was over and its time to ask some killing questions to them. (I really like this session because there were so many things I don’t know about mara so here’s my shot!XDD).



1. How do you evaluate us through the discussion? I have been in a lot of interviews before and mostly they did one on one interview where they gonna dig all information about us, wanna know how passionate or whether you truly deserve the scholarship. What kind of qualities you are looking at?
(seriously guys my question is much more simpler than this, this one is over exaggerated)



So the one of the panel hit me back, “You think?”




I smiled. Ofcourse there was more of that story after that but I am now too lazy too write. Well, always half finished. But who cares, its my blog.XDD. really sorry guys because I really am tired writing this. Till the next time arios amigos!












From,
Choked interview candidate


I'm Coming Home Part II

Posted by leon7zack On Monday, May 7, 2012 2 comments




When i first hear this song, i mean the 2nd part, suddenly everything was like coming back to me. all the memories from my sovereign were flashing back to my mind like i was watching a movie. smooth, tears, joys, pain, hardworks, and everything we did when we were striving for excellent in SPM examination. i still remembered this one day, i told syuk that when we finished all this, when we finished this war of SPM, when we were free to walk away from the last examination hall, we will put on this song very loud so that the whole maktab will hear this. this..is the sign of freedom. our conversation was more like this...=)



Lokman : syuk nanti bila dah habis semua ni apa kata aku ngan kau pegi kt BE jom.
*BE is a place where people go to make announcement, it got mic and the whole maktab will hear you.
Syuk      : kau nak buat apa kat BE weyh?
Lokman : Apa kata kita pasang lagu "i m coming home" tuu kat sana. Bia satu maktab dengar. lagipon tingal kita2 je kan. kau pakai la fon kau letak dekat mic tu. lagipon esok kita semua dah nak balik dah weyh. kene lar ngan lagu ni kan.
Syuk      : Kau serius nk buat?
#each of us smiled.

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and the blood will dry
underneath my nails
and the wind will rice up
to fill my sails
so you can doubt
and you can hate
but i know, no matter what it takes

i’m coming home
i’m coming home
tell the world i’m coming home
let the rain wash away
all the pain of yesterday
i know my kingdom awaits
and they’re forgiving my mistakes
i’m coming home
i’m coming home
tell the world i’m coming ..

still far away
from where i belong
but it’s always darkest
before the dawn
so you can doubt
and you can hate
but i know, no matter what it takes

i’m coming home
i’m coming home
tell the world i’m coming home
let the rain wash away
all the pain of yesterday
i know my kingdom awaits
and they’re forgiving my mistakes
i’m coming home
i’m coming home
tell the world i’m coming ..

i’m coming home
i’m coming home
tell the world i’m coming home
let the rain wash away
all the pain of yesterday
i know my kingdom awaits
and they’re forgiving my mistakes
i’m coming home
i’m coming home
tell the world i’m coming .. home


Mashup Post

Posted by leon7zack On 0 comments

Today, I couldn’t sleep in the evening like I used to. My daily routine is when I finish my luch you will found me lying on the bed the next 5 minutes. People said, no its not the people, the facts said when we eat carbohydrate in a large amount(especially rice), we tend to get slow and sleepy. From Biology form 5 textbook I think. Or maybe form 4 but you know what, who cares as long as the fact is proven.



ouh i am FREAKINGLY love friend rice!XDD



So I used this theory to get me sleep faster in the evening. I took a bout 2 plates of rice during my lunch every single day and I considered that is “really huge” amount of carbohydrates in its contents so yea, when my stomach full, I crawled to my bed, took my sleeping drug(my sleeping drug is book, stared at it for 10 minutes, later on its going to be the book who “read” me) and get ready to go to the dream world.


just like this one.




But today the theory didn’t worked on me. I couldn’t sleep in the evening, I was reading a book to get me sleepy but it just didn’t work. I even almost finished the book and yet I am still awake. Still in the real world and not the dream world.



And finally I knew the reason why. My heart and mind couldn’t stop thinking about MARA result. Instead I got my UPU result today. Lucky enough I got my first choice in the my list, asasi kjuruteraan at uitm. That’s made me relieve a little bit.



And till the time I am writing this, I am still waiting for the result from mara. They said it would come out today but it seemed like zaty was right, maybe mara has its own “timezone” which is totally different to our time here in Malaysia.LOL!



Please don’t be mad if the post is all mashup..because I don’t even know what am I typing right here. I don’t even know what its all about. Just another expression of my feelings right now. Confused. Unsecured. God knows what else.







from,
evening sleeper


Unsecured And Failure

Posted by leon7zack On Sunday, May 6, 2012 0 comments

Now I can finally start writing again. Why didn’t I write before? Hahaha. Maybe because I just don’t feel the need to and I don’t have anything to write about(lying, you always have something to crap, you don’t need ‘something’ because you always have ‘a thing’ to say so just admit you are lazy bump ass lokman!) and plus, recently my writing mood just flew away and now its coming back to me. So today at facebook people are talking about the upu thing. Um has finally sent its offer to the qualified people and the sad thing is I didn’t apply for UM in upu choice.

Well, I don’t know why but I didn’t apply. Maybe on that particular time there is no “asasi kejuruteraan mekanikal” choice for UM so I didn’t click it. And now I found out that most people who got  the offer choose “asasi sains fizikal” if I am not mistaken for their option and still, they could take a degree in mechanical engineering! How couldn’t I noticed that before!

Asasi kejuruteraan mekanikal--> degree in mechanical engineering
Asasi sains fizikal                  --> degree in mechanichal engineering


WTH! I didn’t know that!

Well I hate to feel unsecure. The scholarship didn’t give a call and the only options left for me are MARA, UPU, and matriks.

MARA is coming out tomorrow and please!i am praying to God please let me pass to the interview.

Upu?well still no offer so far.

Matriks? I don’t know. People said even though your genius like hell and score 5.0. you ‘ll have problems with the courses offered. But it seems like my parents are saying ‘yes’ for this matriks. Well, maybe I should give a try…or maybe I just..wait for the upu thing first.

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My ‘rocketplane’ didn’t fly today. It has been so much trial after trial but still it ended up flying back to the ground. The first rocketplane I made a week before was a failure. A little bit wrong with the strings cause the sticks to break into half.




That’s why I made rocketplane2 with more precise calculation and with better strings. But in the end the result was just the same. Its not the wind fault or the string this. What the hell was wrong with my rocketplane 2?! Pheww..hard to say..it kept on rotating in the air when I fly him out. Balancing? I weighed it and yeah it was balanced.

Perhaps it was the surface area. Maybe it was insufficient to put a great pressure on it so it could fly straight to sky.

And now my dad and I are making rocketplane3. It is 3 times bigger than the previous one and I hope this one will fly!










from,
unsecured rocketplane fighter


G.oo.d L.uc.k

Posted by leon7zack On Saturday, April 28, 2012 0 comments

A happy reunion today! Although some of sovereignians were not there but still, atleast I have the time to see few of my friends, for the last time. There is no more school events for us now. Today was the last and I hope there will be another chance for me to see you guys, maybe in the next 5 years or..10 years who know right? You know why, cause thanx to God I am not DEAD yet so I assume that I will still have the opportunity to see you guys.again. Lets hope so.

Didn’t take any pictures for today. Guess I was too excited back then. And for my friend who got to attend the telekom educamp tomorrow! Best of luck boy! I know you can do it. Just be yourself because people like you the way you are. I told you the tips right, so be prepared, and yeah, just rock the camp will ya!





Man I am tired.








From,
Man who is tired.


Fly RocketPlane! Fly!

Posted by leon7zack On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 0 comments

It must be pretty damn bored if I am writing this. What else I got to do rather than this right, if I was at my cousin’s house ouh I am sure theres a lot of thing to crushed on. Especially the HON. Damn I missed that game, even though I wasn’t a pro. But still, to be a pro you first must step into the ‘noobies’ phase. Just finished rewatching how I met your mother. It never fail to make me laugh. So guys out there who never watch HIMYM, here I want to promote this dramas, as one of the most FUNNIEST drama I ever seen in my life. Guyys guys its so off the topic right now. But you know what, who cares, its my blog.XDD

Okay let me set things straight, I was standing alone in my home compound in the evening trying to figure out things and suddenly a strong, continuous wind blew into my face. Suddenly I remembered at evening like this I used to play badminton with my brother, when he came home ofcourse and the wind kept troubling the game. And sometimes we get annoyed easily when we were just about to start the badminton game and suddenly the wind blew, and when we stopped playing the game forgod sake its stop! So I was thinking about this and finally came with something.

what kind of games that require wind to play it through?
volleyball?
softball?



*lightbulb showed up!
its ‘the rocketplane’!



What I meant by ‘rocket plane’ is this.



Guys guys guys I knew you are surely think my ‘rocketplane’ should not be called that way but this one is totally amazing and I wanna named ‘rocketplane’ so just…just go with it okayy.

So to make a ‘rocketplane’, these are some of the stuff that you need to be close with, or otherwise you’ll end up going to pick somethings, then sit again, and 2 seconds later your up picking things again, that will kill the mood, seriously.



This was because I didn’t have the sticks. So I need to find that dead leaves and cut some sticks out of it so guys if you have the sticks it WOULD BE MUCH EASIER.


I cut the leaves and took some sticks out of it with that. Just please remember don’t KILL anyone. And kid, if you are underage, please don’t try this at home.



Yes this was very important. A cellophane tape! I didn’t have the smaller one. So I just gotto do with what I have right. Ouh dont forget the newspaper!



A pencil box!pens and scissors. We are gonna need to cut somethings later on.



So that’s the stick I made. Phewww, good job Mr engineer!


The next step is to do that.



And that,



Okay I have no more pictures but I am pretty sure you guys can figure it out yourself.(actually I am tired of writing this that’s why I need a fast end.XDD)



So lastly it would be like this one!tadaaaa!Today I fly it up. That will be in another post about what happen next to my ‘rocketplane’.thats all from now.=)


 









From,
‘Rocketplane’ engineer.


How Mara Freak The Hell Out Of Me.

Posted by leon7zack On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 2 comments




One of the sickest day ever. Not physically but mentally. Its always make me feel safe by having the thought that somehow if I don’t secure any of the private scholarship, mara is always by my side to back me up. But today mara was like, running away from me. You guys knew that I was in kl for a few weeks and in that particular weeks mara also had opened its application so boom, Thousands of people from all over Malaysia began their run, including me.



What made me a little bit different from the others was that, I was not at home when I applied for mara. When I said I was not at home it literally mean that I didn’t bring any of important documents, because documents should be kept at home, you didt carry around your sijil kelahiran everywhere you go didn’t you? To be surprise. I did brought my important documents. Ya know I had to attend the tnb education camp so in case if they need any of these, I ll be prepared, so I did brought them.



So what  the hell is your problem with mara if you bring everything?



That’s the problem. I didn’t bring EVERYTHING. Mara in its application form required my mum and dad’s sijil kelahiran so I didn’t have them. I NEVER THOUGHT THEY GONNA NEED MY MUM AND DAD’S SIJIL KELAHIRAN. I just brought mine. This is the first scholarship application that need something like this. What they want,that’s I wanna give. But I just came home yesterday and today I call mara to inform my situation. Oh forgot to tell that I just sent my application form by hand yesterday.WITHOUT THAT 2 DOCUMENTS.



So one guy from mara told me that my application may be rejected because it was not completed and that freak the hell out of me. How can I send them right away before the dateline which is tomorrow? Thats the first question I asked him. He told me to fax them but still, he said he couldn’t guarantee that the documents would be attached back to my application form because there were thousands of them and ofcourse they didn’t to waste their time just to look for mine in the huge mountain pile of application forms.



 So yea I was freak out. If mara don’t offer me I got nobody else. Guys if you were reading this. Please pray for me that mara will accept my fax and attached them back where they should be. ALLAH please help me.






from,
Somebody who pray to GOD so that miracle could happen.