talentime,

a yasmin ahmad movie. funny, and you could say its one of the very few malay movie you should watch. the cast made you laugh and cry at the very some time. nice songs played in the movie. you should really watch it :)

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wednesday, my off day. i rarely have this inactive moments that i would be super bored sitting at home and staring at the ceiling. so, txted qiqi up and agreed to watch talentime. around 115 she picked me up at off we go. pick up the tickets i reserved, and to kill time we went to mph. ah, the joy of seeing your old colleagues. the new cashier actually allowed this strangers to actually use the phone. so qiqi called up abg firhan frm the back office and ask him to come up front. talk and talk and asked him fr his staff discount at the cafe. *insert evil laugh* on the way there, bumped into kak qira, kak su and abg pejot. like qiqi said, mph is sure dull without us. but for the very few minutes we came in, we already created a havoc. haha. good ol times. oh oh, the book cafe is diff in a way. somehow, my sandwich came with fries! haha, during my last day, i ate my sandwich with no fries at the side. oh well.

btw, the movie started exactly 235. and some chinese took our seats. oh well, no harm done. its only a seat anyway. the movie started with some tamil writing, with an english translation of bismillah. and the chinese next to me was like telling her friends, "oh, thts jawi". haha. yeah right miss. and as the adverts finished, came this one bunch of very idiotic ladies, talking very loudly as they were finding their seats. yes, we all heard you. ppl already ssh thm, they just talked louder everytime. they ruined the whole movie by either talking so loudly, laughing very loudly at some scenes tht are not even funny. seriously, wht is so funny bout people vomitting? you tell me. and they were yelling at the cast for no obvious reason. as if the casts are their friends. bugger of you stupid girls who thought they were the only one in the cinema. inconsiderate bitches.

after the movie, visited mph (again). this time around, kak qira told us that if we want to continue working at mph, we dont need to go through an interview. sure got mah. and maybe, we could ask an increase for our salary knowing how desperate they are*evil laugh*

anyway, good luck qiqi and nadia for your job interview :)

p/s : i did not get three scholarships i applied, petronas , khazanah, and tnb. tsktsk. what does a straight a student have to do to get a scholarship?

the glory of love

i have a fair share in guys. then very few of this unlucky fellow would ended up being my boyfriend. often i would hear them say, " i would die for you " or " i would do anything for you ". hey romeo, we all know thts not going to happen. all of this sentences would usually ends with buts and an "except thisthisthis" list. honestly, i gave up completely on the whole idea. yes, you can say all those things, but i know you dont mean a thing by it. its just a way to melt one's heart. they cheat throughout the whole game.

then along came azfar. true enough he gave me the same cliche promises and i did not believe him even for a bit. but ohh how he proves me wrong. i never thought those kind of guys existed! not all guys are the same, so they say.

anyway, he would actually do anything for me , and would die for me. you want prove? he drove illegaly just to satisfy this bitch who keep being pissed at him for no reason. so what he drives a car , you might say. well, he is kinda scared driving all alone frm subang without his parents knowing and without even his l license. bt he did it anyway. so just he could go out with me.

i love you dear. sorry for being a bitch most of the time. and im lucky to have u.

hm.

* a part of love story by taylor swift lyrics *

i got tired of waiting,

wondering if you were ever coming around,

my faith in you is fading,

when i met you on the outskirts of the town, i said

my jpj test is somewhat like that. im really sick AND tired of waiting for my jpj test. that stupid william keep postponing my friggin test. and the funny thing was, i asked him when is really my jpj test. he said, he himself is not sure. this is part where you're supposed to be rolling on the floor laughing. im not.

postpone.

hello, aida ah. this is william. when is your drving class ah? you went already is it?

no, my class supposed to be tomorrow right?

tomorrow ah? aida ah, your jpj test has been postpone.

postpone? you told me its this tuesday.

are you working?

yes, im working. but you told me my test is ths tuesday.

the jpj people said the retest is full already. they already cut a lot of people off. i have to postpone your test to wednesday. can or not?

ths wednesday right? i want to do my test this week. make sure its this week.

okayy. i see how first. aida ah, who is your instructor?

idk, you keep changing it.

okay. bye.

*bengong betul. aku nk buat test tu cpat2 la pandai. jgn asyik postpone boleh x pak cik?*

just show me the money,

today is the 4th. so as you all know (or dont), today is the day i get my salary from mph. i woke up being so excited and secretly wishing its actually rm1000 since i did a lot. and i mean A LOT of overtime works and full days. so went to the cimb bank to check my balance;

your balance is :

509.48

wth? its already 2 pm. and usually by then our salary would be in our account. txt farah and jaf bout it. they haven't check either. so i text kak nida bout my salary. she said yea, your salary is out today. okayy, how come its not in my account? oh, yours are being paid by cash, you have to come here and pick it up. *mumbles*mumbles*troublesome betul. hish.

so, i went to mph today nevertheless , with my sis. i have to wait for quite some time cause they're cashing out in there. its okay. chatted with rashdan. then went to the magazine to talk to abg firhan. wait some more until they finally allows me to go into the cashier room.

hmm, i know about us being underpaid and all. but so far, this is really the lowest salary i have ever gotten.

rm 714.45

grrr. my basic is 700, i did a lot of ot's, they miscalculated my punchcard last month and if you do simple maths you will know that is actually so little. wth? where did all my ot's went? i know its there somewhere. oh wait, yea its there alright. but they have to deduct my ot hours because i was late. 1 MINUTE LATE. probably 5 seconds late. ugh, why are they so mean and so cheap? why would they deduct 15 minutes because of the one minute? thts not fair. they never give us any credits for showing up 15 minutes early but penalized us for the few seconds? stupid system. they are trying to get every penny from you back. bugger those employer.

anyway, whts a better way to spend your (very little) salary then buying yourself baskin robin's ice cream and do some shopping? so i went to the cineleisure flea market to buy myself some shirts. according to ths guy one is rm18, but he can give discounts. so okay choose choose choose. then there's this two lady who is also buying there, and they bought 2 shirts. they asked the dude to give them rm30 fr the price of the 2 shirts. he negotiate with them and finally agreed on the price of rm32. so after them, i made my purchase.

hey, you sell them 2 shirts fr rm32 right? okay, i want it for rm32 too.

*laughing* dgr jek kan?

mestilah dgr, dah dekat situ jek pun.

okay, thank you. eh, ada balance ek? igt xde balance.

-.-

ok, see you again.

yeah, you too :)

aha, luckily he is quite okay looking. thts why its nicer to do business with him compared to this chinese lady there. anyway, my sis thinks i was 'gedik' then . hey, if i dont know any better i would say he's flirting with me. aha, dream on aida.

drop dead silent

ohoh,

my jpa interview was today!

yes, i would blog about my interview. and yes i know there's probably thousands blogging bout the interview. let me be the thousand and one.

so woke up around 550, took a shower, dress up, stuff my bags with everything i could think off. then, i wait for my dad to sent me off to putrajaya. in the car my dad yaps around bout the "importance" of "preparation" . he keeps telling me bout that and that. and he said im only prepared on the surface only whereas i should be prepared wholly. so yeah, i could easily dozed off in the car. but he insist i hear whatever he is saying. anyway, since he was so excited telling me bout preparations, he missed up this junction that are supposed to take us to the place. so have to do few rounds here and there and got lost. luckily we went out early, so i managed to be there 15 mins before.

park the car, walk down the escalator and find my name on the board. hmm, searching. haa. thts my name. panel 10, number 13. okiee. might take some time. so, i was standing by the door to the rooms, cause they said they are only opening it when its time. so when they reached for the door handle im already on the front eagerly to go in. went to the panel's table and they asked me to be seated first. okie dokie. then few minutes later came this indian girl and she sat next to me. since i have this newly-picked skills (thanks to mph), i can actually talk to anyone. so i turned to her and said hi. she was friendly. her name is amarmitha ( i think) and she's frm klang doing basic science in malaysia. so we talked about how nervous we are and bout there's no one at her panel's table.

then she was in the first group, so off she went. then i turned to the side. there's this malay girl who looks awfully familiar. she introduced herself. her name is alyssa(spelled ellisa) and she's from sri aman. no wonder she looks familiar! she said my hand is really cold and i should not worry cause she herself is not nervous. good for her.

somehow, at one point people were lining up at my panel's table. so she insist i go check. okayy. so i lined up to. there this bubbly and super friendly girl introduced herself. her name is aimee and she's frm smk bukit utara. she's nice to talk too. and i thought she was a malay but she's not. then came this guy lining up behind us. she being herself, introduced herself and i eventually introduced myself. so his name is adam and interested in doing japanase architecture and he took a three month crash course on how to speak japanese. cool. so while that aimee gave her folder to the lady, he asked me.

melayu ke cina?

haa? siapa? die ke i? (pointing to aimee)

kau lah.

oh , melayu la. ada rupa cina ke?

aha, npk cm cina.

err, maybe sbb mata sepet kot.

anyway, it was my turn to give my folder and stuff. turns out to be i need to get those copies signed. oh well. so i was walking here and there looking for encik bushtam to signed it. knowing who the hell he is, i asked people there. then this quite good looking guy frm jpa assist me. he searched for tht guy fr me. and he asked me to seat first, cause "kesian if asyik jln sini sana". aww, so nice of him. anyway, got the signature and returned to my panel. somebody took my seat! agaga. find a new one. so i sat near tht adam guy. and he keeps referring me as "budak straight a". i told him its good enough to get the interview. and we're the lucky 8000 to get it. he thinks i was being sarcastic -.-

anyway, then someone called me and say my turn is next. they gave me tag number;number 5.
so the other 4 people are ;

1 - this chinese guy who wants to take civil engineering at first.
2- soo peng i think. cnt remember wht she wants to take.
3- taufiq. he's okay looking. he said he wants to take up engineering too.
4- aimee. tht bubbly girl wants to take actuarial science.

so the panel consists of 2 malay guys and 1 indian. so one of the malay guy (the ketua i assume) start explaining the process. he asked us to introduce ourself in malay. okay, might be akward. so here i go,

slamat pg dan ass'kum. saya aida nur ariza binti ariffuddin. bersekolah di smkttdi. mempunyai 4 adik beradik. kakak saya sedang blejar di ipta, uia dn sdg blajar um "business". ibu sya suri rumah dan bapa sy pula mempunyai "company" sendiri. sy suka membaca.

oh, kamu suka baca? buku pe yg kamu br baca?

umm. how to talk to anyone.

*everyone was laughing*

kamu beli buku tu sbb ni ke?

uhm, lebih kurang lah.

*snicker**giggle*

sbb minat sy, sy berpeluang bekerja di mph slama 3 bulan. sy sudah berhenti dan sedang bekerja sbg cikgu di pusat tuition.

ohh, cikgu ? *sound as if he is impressed* okay, terima kasih cikgu.

thts the whole introduction thingy. since im the last one he tries to fasten it. he just cuts me off without asking me wht i want to do and whre i want to go.

skrang, kita akn membincangkn ttg isu. semua boleh menyuarakn pendapat masing2 dlm bahasa melayu. isunya ialah polis negara kita dikatakn tidak cekap etc. apa pendapat kamu. he asked tht taufiq and no. 1 about it. so i was half listening to what no. 1 said.

*smthgsmthg*perkauman*blabla*tegas.

aida, apa pdpt kamu ttg pdpat dia?

*totally off guard.*

um, saya setuju dgn pendapat nya (padahal x tau papepun), isu perkauman sentiasa wujud. walaupun pihak polis menjalankn tugasnya, mereka disalah anggap oleh rakyat. blabla.

tp pdpt sy, isu perkauman tidak wujud disini. kalau tidak, negara pasti huru-hara (shit.)

thn someone said bout rasuah. then he asked bout rasuah. i was kind enough to be the first one to raised up my hand.

saya rasa, kalau polis mintak duit skali pun kita tida spttnya membayar mereka. kita tau bukan tugas dia nk amik duit dr kita. kenapa kte bagi plak?

tp bukan better ke kalau kamu byr rm100 dr rm1000?

tidak jgak. sekurang2nya bila bayar rm1000 kte mematuhi undang2. dan jika kte bayar 100 kalau kena tkp masuk jail then kena bayar jgak lebih.

smthg bout if he is the yb, and langgar peraturan. would police malaysia tahan him.

saya rasa tidak.

okayy, next topic. in english. about financial crisis. people are unemployed. wht could u do to help the gov?
being a smarty pants. when he asked them wether they need to repeat or not. everyone was quite. i went off and said repeat please. he just stares at me and smiles. did i do anything wrong? hope not. so my ans was;

other thn buying local products, malaysians should travel inside malaysia and visit our landmarks instead of going on vacations in other countries. in a way they would help our. uhmmm (shit pe pelancongan in english). uhmm, they would help uhmm by buying (brg tptn pe plak?aargh) local products. they would invest more in malaysia.

so you're saying they would ?buy local prod

yupp, that would help. since here its cheaper, you dont have to change their currency, and they know how is the people here. why wouldnt they spent their holidays here?

how bout banks. wht should they do to help?

*silence*

banks. help. anyone?

aida, do you want to say something?

*caught off guard again* uhm, no. not really.

then that aimee saved my ass. she talks about interest rate.

how bout credit card? what do you think?

*stupid enough to raised up my hand*

since i was a cashier at mph, i have customers using credit cards (duh) . they complained about it. they said they have to pay interest. and they think they should pay using cash cause for credit cards they have to pay more frm wht they're getting. but usually nowdays people used debit cards.

haa. debit cards? yupp. debit cards.

next, open questions bout jpa/piln.
everyone was asking ques. so i think i should too.

i have a ques. uhm, wht if, after studying we decide not to work in malaysia?

are u sure bout that?

im just asking about the possibilities.

the panels are laughing and said they would kejar me if i do so.

you can request. but you're taking psychology right? we need more people like you.

um, i was just asking about possibilities.

habis lah aida xleh tidur malam.

huh?

shit, i screwed up the interview. they said the guys there have the power to write anythg on our paper. he said fr example they can write there, aida xnak kerja dkat malaysia. shitt . i hope the letter frm sultan selangor work its miracles.

till next time, shut your mouth aida nur ariza -.-

.. and they supposed to bring us a bighter future.

school that is.

see, here is the deal. i really need some forms to be signed by the headmistress a.s.a.p cause im going to the jpa interview this friday right. okayy, so i went to school and they ended up refused to sign it cause i dont have the payslip. i even made up a really good story. its not completely fiction. my dad is really not in malaysia right now, and would only be back when im going for the interview. so how am i supposed to get the freaking payslip and tht form to be signed on time? especially with the stupid pengetua and her so-called "meetings". i wonder what do they do on this meetings actually. my uncle and aunty are also pengetua. bt they would usually be at school, and running the school. in her case, the meetings are even more important then their student's future. go figure. anyway, i called up the school to ask wether would she be there or not. then in turn, she said she herself is not so sure. i told her i need this things to be signed immediately cause, well my interview is really tht soon. and she gave me"oh, nak buat mcmana". bengong betul kerani ni. i told her my form is already at school with the pengetua. then she acts clueless. so i came to a conclusion they lost the forms. bengong btul.