God has His own beautiful plans....

i tried to sleep just nw (drinking milk lol) but didnt work.probably due to two glasses of teh tarik terapung i had at Murni at 2 in the morning. its 10 past 4 already. and then i decide to write something here..and i want to talk about becoming a hall senior at my uni..

the experience of commuting to uni from home for an hour+ back and forth in my 2nd year has taught me to not staying too far from uni. haha i was miserably tired after a 9-6pm lecture almost everyday, and the thought of doing my work at that night when i was just entered the tube on my way home had almost made me fainted in the tube everyday. lol thats a little bit of an exaggeration but yeah u get what i mean...

then i decided to returnn to where i belong (lol) which is to be staying in the hall closed to uni for my third year (and its actually very very close. like 20 steps away to enter my department from the hall??!!) then in mid March i already looked up online on how to apply for the halls in the uni vicinity and then it came as shocking to me that its very unlikely for non-freshers to be able to get a room in this area, and if ure lucky, u might get a twin room in the ballot application which is a big NO for me for 2 reasons. 1) A shared room is not my thing 2) u only get to know whether u get a room or not during summer.

then i got panicky as to find a solution to get a room (yeah its only a room but its freaking hard to get one) coz i really needed one badly coz i just couldnt stand to go through all the routines again for the second year in a row. Then i found out that from a friend that its possible to get a roomr if ure having a health problem,and get a recommendation from a doctor. then straight went online to book an appointment with my doctor as i am already having a disease and periodically having appointments with the doctor. i was really hoping to get a doctor's letter to send it to the accom. centre, but then, it came to my disappointment that the doctor couldnt recommend me for a room at that area.

Then i knew at that time that the only way that i could get a room there was to becoming a hall senior... yeah a hall senior, which literally means a senior in the hall, that has many responsibilities in the hall community organising events, handling juniors, try to help solving their problems, etc etc. which i think can handle that. but the one thing that i worried most was the socialising part. Am i good enough, friendly enough, talkative enough, to be able to socialise with the people that come from all over the world to be living under this one roof? ok not really one roof more like a building actually.i know i have the capability and ability, but am i confident enough to do that?

after awhile thinking, then i was like...what the heck? who gives a damn? im just gonna go for it! i can do it!!

then yeah i applied for the hall senior position at about 10 halls in that area. yes there are that many halls in that area where u can live, but too bad my uni has too many students to not be able to accommodate all of them from all years. haha

the application forms were not easy.and fyi all these halls are independent to each other i.e. they hv their own wardening team n they prepared different application forms and some required this and others required me to do different things.but generally they were almost like you are applying for jobs which i had to provide a CV-like and wrote an essay of my experiences, capabilities, and particularly why i want to be a hall senior. obviously i didnt write 'i want to be a hall senior because i need a room that is closed to my uni" which is also a very clear ultimate decision for the people who are responsible in selecting the seniors to throw the applications in the bin. and i really did try to give my best application forms to these halls as i really wanted a room even though i was busy with all my uni workloads and exams were getting near. There was like this one week period stated on the forms for the decision for the candidates to be called for interview..and i waited for the week like that was my results coming out week or something like that..haha

i received my first email from my hall that i lived in my first year rejecting my application.it was devastating as i really hoped that i had a chance getting a call for an interview from that hall as i had experience living there. then, i recieved my 2nd, 3rd, 4th, ....rejection emails. and that time, i was like, ok probably this is just not meant for me, this hall senior thing probaly is not my thing. t sort of like gave in at that time, even though i didnt recieve the other emails yet from the other halls. (probably another 3 awaiting) well i mean i somehow thought that if this is really my takdir ( i really believe in takdir, i mean i believe God has made a special path for each person living in this Earth) then i definitely couldnt get any offers.

But yeah i was right that God has His own plans for everyone,,somehow out of nowhere i got an email from this one and ONLY hall congratulating me for becoming a hall senior candidate and asking me to attend an interview! i was like alll over the moon getting that email as if it was my a-level result or something like that! haha i mean i knew it was not a final decision but at that time i was like 'yeahh at least i can still compete in this very competitive job!' haha fyi all the emails i recieved stating that they somehow were shocked and surprised that the numbers of applications for each hall reached hundreds of applications. and for each hall, they only needed 7-8 hall seniors! u see how difficult is that to even at least to be called for an interview?? that i felt a LITTLE proud of myself for getting an interview call.HAHA

then the interview time. there were like 10 people gathering in front of the hall before being called inside for the real interview. chatted with them and i was really surprised that many of them even got to call for 6 interviews. and there was like this one guy asking me, 'did u go to the interview this afternoon, too bad i didnt get called" ..and i was like no coz that was the only invitation that i got! haha

and for the interview, we were divided into 3 groups and did a group disscussion on a problem given by the wardening team. and we had to present it afterwards. after that, we were called one by one for an individual interview. and done. and i was like, ' i think i made quite an impression there and i think i have a chance considering they have to choose 8 out of 10'. then suddenly the warden said '" ok we are done for today.tomorrow we gonna have another group to be interviewed and the results will be released in 3 days time"

and i was like...BAMMMMM BIAR BENAR KAU PENAT GLERRR KOT BUAT BNDE NI MAU 4-5 JAM PSTU ADE LAGI 10 ORANG NK KENE INTERVIEW BALIK ESOKK GLER BABBBSSS!!

i was really really i would say sad..somehow i felt that i was not gonna make it like i did good for the interview but i wasnt really at the top amongst them.like 8 out of 20?? hurmmmm...


but then life isnt always on the gloomy side (ok i dont know from where i quoted this lol) and on that weekend, i got an email stating that i got to be one of the 8 hall seniors! i was like, omgomgomg hahaha i was so freaking happppy!! i mean getting this offer is like u have gone through something really difficult in ur life and finally u got through it succesfully and happily ever after (ok what is that? )

so yeahhh im gonna start becoming a hall senior starting this 23rd September for the entire academic year! wish me luck guys! hopefully ill enjoy doing this and gain as much experience as possible!

cheers,
Q