One good news: My laptop is finally back new and improved with windows 7 and 320 GB. xD It goes even smoother now. Wheee. I do have a lot of updates. But is lazy to type so abolished the idea the next day usually.
I'm not writing the exact full name because ppl can just google the name of the bengkel next year like what i did for the bengkel this year. Haha. And the world will know about this blog. Anyways..
The first day
Departed from granma’s place at 7? About 7. Slept the whole way. But it was quite fast la. Found the place at about 12. The locality was quite good. There was a beach, (Port Dickson is mainly famous for its beaches: What I remembered from the essays last time). The rooms were comfy, with air cond, and ok beds and tv. No astro of course. And the toilet was ok besides the sudden change of hot to cold water. First day was boring. Signed in, got into room. Saw no roomates yet(they went out already). Spent the day reading storybooks. xD When we signed in, the person just directed us to our room, no other info. After asking around, another girl said they’ll come knocking on our room doors at 6.30. Went down at 6.30, they said to gather at 8.30. -.- By about 7, my roomates came back and we did intro and all that stuff. They’re friendly. Haha. And they introduced me to our neighbours via connecting room doors which was very handy later on. Neighbours were friendly too. Its amazing how we can keep crapping. haha. One of my neighbours is from Penang too! Gasp! My first friend from Penang. Btw, the camp is for the whole Malaysia. Anyways.. we decided to go down a little earlier which was fortunate cause they were serving dinner already!! We thought dinner was at 8.30 but actually 8.30 we were suppose to go in the dewan. Aina was like, "Tu lah, mereka nak save kos sebab tu tak nak bagi tau". Went in the dewan.. Lady gave us briefing.. She was like congratulations for making it here.. Everyone here are very smart, bla bla bla, said we were to maintain our grades if we were to get the scholarship, but she thinks it wouldnt be a problem for ppl there. She also said, for overseas program, only 70 were picked out of 4000 over applicants.. So I sat there wondering.. How the hell did i get in, esp when the ppl there all had like straight A+'s. =/ Hahah. Common conversation there is to ask name, state, what other scholarships you applied. Haha. Seriously. When ppl talk, its all bout JPA, or MARA or smth. Then we were supposed to hand in our results slip and certs and stuff. You know, usually we just gather it together and stapler it or smth. But there are ppl who like.. BINDS their stuff, with plastic cover and everything siap dgn resume. I was like O.O And all had like a book thick pile. Hahah. Anyway, once we were done with the briefing, we went for supper. Oh, did i mention they provide SIX meals per day? After that, me and roomates watched monster house. Oh and.. Great thing about my roommate. Two of them love k pop too. =D So can talk about Super Junior and SS501 and stuff, latest updates, SNSD. And they know the dances of Gee, Oh! and Devil Run. I was like.. Surprised. They dance very well. Haha. Down to which part and everything. Recorded a video but can't post it up cause they weren't.. wearing their tudung and stuff. But still =D
Second day
Again they mentioned to kumpul at 8.30 neglecting to mention about breakfast. But we already knew their nefarious plans to starve us, so we went down early. xD Second day was full of ice breaking. We had a total of 227 ppl around. (mixed ppl who applied for MMU scholarship). And first, they asked us to group ourselves by our states. Penang had about 13 ppl... all from seberang side and stuff. Get this, we were supposed to introduce and memorize the names. Selangor had the most members. From there, we were supposed to find other group members like grouping us by our month of birth, name initials, etc etc. By the third group, i just about given up with all the names being a blur in my head. Haha. The process from then is just, nods head when being told name, and tells own name. Hahaha. Then we had various activities including chicken dance, indian dance, sing a long. Chicken fight dance. LOL. Then they separated the overseas and local, then arranged us in order of A+'s.. divided us into groups. Then we had discussions, which i only participate when asked. Haha. Oh. There was one we were supposed to pick someone and like.. talk with them then present about her. I partnered one of my room mate, and we talked about funny incidents and those kind of stuff, presented also about that. What the other ppl did was, talk about the qualifications of the other party. Like.. they received how many A's for pmr, did what in kk, is the president of what and what. I was like.. Ooopss.. "About me" is a wide range right? lol. And I know this is blatantly obvious, but i just HAVE to add that over there, you can practically see brain neurones zinging about in full speed. Their brains. Discussions, discussions, debate. Then we were given an EQ test and asked to think of incidents and how we felt. With that, our facilitator ended with giving us the 1000 piece puzzle that everyone will remember when thinking of our beloved bengkel. hahaha. They had alphabets at the back to give us clue which area it was from, but it was already scribbled and blancoed out by previous camp ppl. -.- Some pieces can see la. So we started sorting out the pieces and our place was kinda dim, so it was kinda testing our eyesights too. Haha. All of us getting sarcastic while doing the puzzle. Haha. Our puzzle wasn't easy because all you could see was RED. And YELLOW. Grr. And everyone HATED F4. HAha. It was the taiwan F4. Not the Korean ones.
At the beginning.. Still laughable...
After one hour... And getting no where.. Grr. Hahaha.
I think everyone had one or two hours of sleep only. And yet the puzzle remains.. incomplete.
Our leader didnt sleep at all. Two nights in the row. At like 6, me and my room mate went up, didn't even brush our teeth or anything. Just plonked down on the bed and it felt like only 10 mins i was being roused again.
Third day
Surprisingly, I didn't feel sleepy the next day. We had more discussions. And we went down to the beach. Haha. Without our facilitators permission. He saw us all hot and sleepy and allowed joyce to lead us around the building. She lead us to the beach. xD Port Dickson beach is not very different from Penangs. haha. Then they asked us to make something in 30 minutes. Something that telekom would buy and sell. We only could use what we found. We got cardboards, cans and stuff. And we separated into groups cause we needed to make it formal and stuff, the opening ceremony, greet him and everything. We had kompang sounding dustbin players, which was me and 3 others. Hahaha. And the the other girls greet and iringi, then the guys designed the project. When the dude came, he was actually pak ali, another groups facilitator, we greeted, and we had 2 ppl presenting our item, which was a hybrid teleporter, which was supposed to replace our public phones cause by this, you can video conference and teleport objects la supposedly. Pak Ali started by saying, I didn't understand a word you're saying, Why are you questioning me, This is kindergarten work(which it wasn't!!!), and all the hurtful stuff la. Then he picked up our project, and tossed it in the pond
The pond behind us. That was where our group was most of the time. Everyone was of course shocked, i myself was wondering.. What is his problem??? Oh btw, since the first day, all the facilitators were like insulting us and stuff like kamu dari terrenganu? oh, sebab itulah muka macam penyu. and stuff. They were testing our reactions and stuff. So when he threw our project(we didn't even take a pic of it), it all suddenly came to me that it was a test, and also confirmed when Pak Ali turned around, he was smiling a bit, but apparently i was the only one who noticed that. The others was angry. And our facilitator, Pak Man, added fuel to the fire and stuff. We had a discussion on how we felt. When we went back to our rooms, everyone found out as we discussed with each others bout the various ways their project got ruined. Some got stepped on, kicked, and stuff. My roommate had their project stepped on BEFORE they presented and then was blamed for being unprepared. As we assembled for the night, Pak Ali walked in, and said, nampak muka-muka semua yang benci aku sekarang. hahaha. Then he said he think we already know it was all planned and stuff. Then we continued our puzzle... I chaoed at about 3.. The guys continued doing it.. And i was asleep when...
Finally, it was done. You see the red? All very nerve racking. haha.
The Last Day
We just saw a bunch of videos, like the video we seen of the ppl who had no hands or legs but manage life, and appreciate our parents, and who's packing your parachute thing. sang more songs, danced. Then we dismissed. After taking pictures, balik.
our waterfall...
Group A. This is our full group of 23 ppl. =D
p/s pictures were all stolen from ppl. My dad took my camera.
And i think my chances of actually getting the scholarship is close to 1%.. But I have to say i don't regret going. Make new friends from all over Malaysia. There were ppl from Sabah as well. It was an experience. Truly. And there was a point where we talked about optimism and stuff. And its really ironic. Cause when i reached penang, i saw this show, Becoming a billionaire, its a korean show, the hero was contradicting one of the characters who was talking about optimism as well.. He said, "Therefore, you need to ignore everything that is negative. Isn't that right? So, that would mean that you can't get upset, when you're stuck in a traffic jam. If you're going to be stuck in traffic, learn to enjoy that time. Listen to radio or music, or talk to your lover on the phone. But this is the kind of thought I have, aah, it sucks to be in a traffic jam, there are big problems with the roads of Korea. Not only do I get annoyed, but I feel the need to do something in order to make things better. This means that the power to change the road system of Korea is derived from negativity, not positivity. Negativity isn't the power that eats away the power of affirmative, I believe it possess the power to surpass the ability of affirmative in your life.". The facilitators lie so many times, i found myself doubting everything they say towards the end of the bengkel. haha. In the start, they asked us to forget that we came for the scholarship, but they keep on talking bout scholarships. so. -.-
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