University Award

"Helo, selamat petang, boleh saya cakap dengan Teng... Soon Wai?" 

"Ya, saya. Siapa bercakap nie?" 

"Teng, saya Zura dari Bahagian Akademik, nak maklumkan Teng telah dicalonkan oleh fakulti untuk anugerah universiti dan Teng diminta untuk menghadirkan diri untuk sesi temuduga pada 1 Okt ini. Kami dh kirim surat jemputan tu ke alamat kediaman Teng, kalau Teng tak dapat surat tu, tak apa, hadir saja la sesi temuduga tu."

Ms Zura: This is the letter. I've got it!

I was still slept to death when the phone rang and this was the conversation I can only remember.

Should I fell happy hearing this? In fact, I was blur, confused and didn't not know what was happening till I took my morning bath and spoke to the Dept Head, Capt MNF.

There goes a series of preparation after the phone call - photocopy docs, arrange docs display (in clear holder), synchronise every single details, logistic arrangement ...

[Go go go... In the journey heading Kuala Terengganu]

There was an extraordinary feel in me when I first step into this land that I used to be here as a student for the past 4 years. Surprise? Happy? Recalling memories? etc...

What a coincidence! I been accommodated in my super duper junior's room!

For sure, there will be a sharing session marathon and surprisingly, we chat till sunrise, and that was almost 0430H. Slept for two-three hours and my routine of the way start!

-Collect transcript, but unfortunately, there is an error. So it creates me another job - Amendment request!

-Meet all staffs and lecturers.

-Lunch meet with juniors

[These three jobs occupied my entire day!]

D' day....

Jason and YinYee were the only non-bumi candidates sitting in the lobby of the LPU conference room. Seeing these two big brains and I am pretty the fight will be very tough and I have to work out something special to knock them down! Hahaha...

And there were all together 5 non-bumi candidates, the other two are Slyvia of FoodTech and WeiChen from Accounting (Absent).

I do not know is this is good news hearing a candidate is absent, but for sure, it practically eased the competition.

List of panels (Sorry, not really sure about the names)

-Prof Dr. Noor

-Academic Div Head, Toh Puan

-Treasury Head

-Prof Dr Mustapa

-etc....

We discussed various topics and it took about 45 minutes for myself to present on these topics...

-Personal current updates

-Seafaring career

-Naval training experience

-DiaoYu/Senkaku Island Issue

-Malaysian Budget 2013

-etc..

All in a sudden, the degree of confidence had rise after the "chit-chat session". Nevertheless, it does not guarantee the award winning.

Being more confident is somehow a good sign. But for me, all I am thinking is that, I HAVE DONE MY JOB. I only responsible for what on my part, not yours. Good luck and be blessed ya, TSW!

Day after D' day - "Lepak", meeting juniors, facebook-ing and etc...

Done! And proceed to SP for a trip!