Get Hired 2012 (Career Network Tea & SPARC forum)

*BLOGGER'S GOT NEW LAYOUT! TOOK ME SO LONG TO GET USED TO IT!*

Disclaimer : ALL the pictures uploaded in this post are not taken by me, but stolen from ACS's facebook page. 

Anyways i should be advertising Get Hired 2012 earlier before the event but LOL sorry because at that point of time i thought the days where i get engaged in club activities are long gone so i'll just laze around during my college life, but how wrong was i to think like that..

So, here i am in the midst of all the other volunteers helping out Irene to make sure the Career Network Tea of Get Hired 2012 was a success, and this is the ushering group to make sure the employers don't end up in our cafeteria instead of the event hall.

Participating in this event has given me experiences i've never encountered in college, i.e. sweating buckets

That's us, the usherers, talking and fanning ourselves with the map given to us so that we don't get lost leading the employers (which i failed miserably wtf i kept leading them to wrong places i should be hung to death) and the lecturer in charge (yellow) was telling us not to do that cos apparently it's an 'ugly and unprofessional' act. So we have to sweat like hell and stand in a nice line lor!

And since i wasn't aware that we had to walk from the foyer, up a flight of stairs, into the baking elevator, and make a few turns to the hall, help them set up, and walk all the way back down, i wore heels cos i'm vain like that. And by the end of the ushering period which was 8 to 10.30am, my feet was aching but as a woman i have to suck it up and act like it's not pain at all wtf. Actually i did complain lah (duhhh) but it was kind of clear that i brought this upon myself so i wasn't seeking for any sympathy but just for the sake of complain, and poor Kailing was my victim.

Here are the 40 over participating companies, except Citibank who bailed on us last minute.

As you can see, A LOT of reputable and big companies participated in this event and it's a rare chance to get to find out about stuff you need to know to be in the working force.

Amidst all these, i was thinking how lucky we are to have these events organised for us, instead of us having to go company by company for enquiries and stuff. How spoilt our generation are, and we still don't appreciate these services and events made to make our already easy life easier.

During high school days, colleges had booths set up in school halls for us, just like how these companies set up booths for college students. Although these events are targeted for final years, it's never too early to gain knowledge or information. I'm partially glad that Irene asked me to help out in this event. I'll let you guys know at the end of the post why i'm only partially grateful.

Here's the opening ceremony held in one of the lecture theatres, in which attendance was full house. However, there were rumours saying that there was actually a lecture which was supposed to take place in that particular lecture theatre and the students went in and sat there without knowing it's the opening ceremony for Get Hired 2012. Oh well, i was there just for a split second before being summoned back to the ushering business cos there were not enough manpower downstairs.

If you can see up front, there are 2 men sitting on sofas talking to each other, and that is the interview session led by our Accounting and Commerce Society (ACS) advisor, Kishenjeet as the moderator with Mr.Johan Merican from TalentCorp (one of the organisers for this event).

Here is the fish eye effect (i THINK that's the term for it, so don't tembak me if i'm wrong, photography enthusiasts!) of where the whole shebang took place, in our Sunway University's Multi-Purpose Hall (MPH)

Some important people of the Sunway Group and TalentCorp making their entrance into the hall with super corporate smiles and white teeth *oozing with envy*

As some of the volunteers were gathering around during breakfast time chattering away, we were asked to take pictures with these important guys making a fake "they are telling us what's in the book" poses but in fact we were just laughing at how handsome Datuk Jeffery Cheah is in the book lol.

Note to self : MUST do something about your oily face wtf

And then there was this SPARC forum held at the students' centre. Well, since me and my friends were volunteers of the Career Network Tea, we asked permission from our department leaders whether we can curi tulang and attend the forum cos it sounded very interesting and informative and guess what? We got a YES! Thank you Min Hong for being an aaaaawesome leader.

It was a really great forum, led by Nuffnang, Groupon and Google Malaysia (accordingly).

I was soooo bummed that almost nobody knew what Nuffnang is! I guess not everyone is into blogging ads or stuff like this.. Anyway, the dude in the centre was kind of the centre of attention, since he's only 29 and he used to be in the entertainment industry, and the emcee told us to listen to what he said and not just focus on his looks. I only thought he looked good after he stood up and started talking. Maybe it's the charisma he's portraying? Somehow i thought he looked like the better version of David Choi, don't you think so too?

Anyhow, since he graduated with an engineering degree from Monash, he was telling us the process where he got interested in the business field while he was studying engineering, and how he snuck into business subject lectures and photocopied notes from his business studies friends. And he also made a statement where there's this stereotype where the not-so-smart people would naturally study Arts subject, and he totally said this just to prove us it's wrong and he didn't have any ill intentions, but somehow the Google Malaysia dude was somehow offended cos he graduated with a bachelor's in history. Hahaha. Well, he kind of laughed it off as a joke but there was (obviously) hidden meanings in his sentence "well, because i did History for my bachelor's so i'm not a smart person, according to Joel (the Groupon guy)". And we laughed. And they laughed. Then i think everyone forgot about it except that the Google Malaysia guy would be cursing Groupon guy in his sleep(?)

Well, after that it was tea time and then we wrapped up.

Okay lah i was lazy to tell you guys TalentCorp had this ICQ quiz thing on the stage and there was chance for us to win iPad 2, iPod and Golden Class tickets but i was kind of half-hearted when i tried the quiz and i didn't really made an effort to study the stuff before answering. Kinda regretted it though, since it was pretty easy and it was MCQ questions. Oh well, laziness come with a price. Although it was partly because i literally couldn't feel my feet anymore!

After helping all the employers to keep everything and back to the foyer, we had kind of a wrap-up meeting to sum everything and Irene was thanking us for helping her out. Well, her thank-you mini speech wasn't phrased in the best way possible, but her gratitude came through all in all.

Meanwhile i was holding in my pain in a poker face wtf but i wanna thank my friend's gf for lending me her flats for about 30 mins when we were helping to clear things up cos at that point i really thought i was going to die. Like seriously. Literally. No exaggeration. And i didn't even care about my super messy hair and oily face, and also slightly smeared makeup towards the end (5.30pm! That's about 9 hours on these babies, minus the 30 mins i was on flats). Well, everyone else was smart enough to bring flats with them to change but since i was kind of rushing in the morning i forgot to bring, though i planned to bring my flats the night before. Oh well.

And, the obligatory group picture :

Though fatigued, everyone made an effort to smile for the camera (: Truth is, there's this girl holding Nicholas's camera and she took like 50 shots and asked us to hold our smiles and she went experimenting flash, without flash, different angles and stuff. Wtf now i know the pain of being a model and have to smile continuously for the camera.

Lastly, picture of the president of ACS (left) - which i suspect is the photographer of these pictures which i have stolen too since he had a dslr around his neck the whole time and took lots of pictures during the event, and judging from the angle of the pictures i would guess it's him (detective mode) and the president of the Golden Key (GK) society. Just giving credits to the photographer :)

SO. Any of you guys reading this and happens to be a student or future student of Sunway University should definitely join Get Hired 2013 (i was told it was held last year so i'd assume there's one next year too) or the next Get Hired programme by ACS! It'll totally benefit you inside out! i.e. how i learnt to NEVER forget to bring flats to an event like these so i'll prevent my feet feeling numb from thursday till now (it's saturday btw). Of course, and a lot of other experiences like having the opportunity to speak to a lot of important people during networking session and also the Q&A sessions at the end of forums.

Changes i don't like

"Hi, do you have a Facebook account?"


What happened to the good 'ol "Hi, what's your name?" or "Hey sexy, who are you?" or any oldest trick in the book pick up line? Okay maybe the second one only happens in movie, but don't people nowadays prefer to know one's name before knowing whether the person has a Facebook account or not? It pisses me off so much i want to say "Yeah i have one and the name is FUCK OFF LOSER" but i can't cos i'm a nice person wtf T.T That can only happen in movies (again) cos Sunway University is generally not big, so you bump into people very often, and rumors like "I slept with that chick" or "That chick sleeps around for money" or "That chick is actually a dude" might circulate around, and your entire college days would be ruined! This might sound exaggerated but it might totally happen cos college is a dramatic place. After all, i've personally experienced a Gossip Girl drama on my very first semester in college already.

Though i wasn't the main character, but Princess F still appeared in Gossip Girl's blogspot.... Along with printscreens of my Facebook! Oh drama drama drama.. And no, i don't watch Gossip Girl but i plan to soon since my brother kept pestering me to watch..... and a few other guy friends. WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THIS WORLD?!

*cough* Sorry i get off-track. Anyway, Facebook. People find it easier to make friends through the net, particularly Facebook, than to interact face to face. You might not know this (guys or girls), but having the courage to say "Hi" actually adds a point to your scoreboard. Yes, everyone has a scoreboard and don't try denying it cos even though it's not in points form there's a certain way you evaluate an individual, yes? Well, in some poor guy's defense, some girls do think that they are freaks when they try to approach the girl in person, but that's due to your lack of confidence and balls. If you don't have either then don't bother picking up random chicks. Seriously. I miss those B.F (before Facebook) days. Though that time it would be phone numbers, but at least that's more personal and you don't go stalking one's profile to know a person instead of the good 'ol getting-to-know-you small talks over coffee..... or Tutti Frutti :)

I was in my hometown for a few days last week, and i noticed some shops in Glutton Square are using disposable chopsticks and polystyrene plates instead of the plastic ones they used to use. Don't they care for the environment at all? :S Despite the statistics saying that Gen Y care most about our environment, that's only because the environment is getting from bad to worse, no thanks to these people who does not care to contribute to curb this problem at all. Oh well, i shouldn't be complaining too much since i'm using the A/C almost everyday in school and in my own room (which does not have a fan nor a place to put a stand fan - in my defense).................. Back when i was young, which was not very far back, SOME stalls actually still used melamine bowls but plastic chopsticks were widely used since it's dropped super often and it might cost more to buy chopsticks than ingredients wtf (speaking from experience at home).

Well, i know change is constant, and we, the older generation have to cope with the technological changes that happens around us, but i just don't like it :( There was this video by JinnyboyTV, a local group of people who hit 1 million views for their MY GENERASI youtube clip :

Brings back memories of my childhood B.F, except the Batu Seremban and bottle caps part cos i sucked at them. By the way, when i said it brings back memories doesn't mean i would like to go back to that point of time, and somehow i don't miss my high school days. Does that mean i'm not sentimental? Nope, i'm just contented with my life and grateful that God had brought me this far in life :) Though i'm not so happy with the changes around me...

Back from the dead

Soooooo many things happened since the last time i blogged, i don't even know where to start! Well, at first it was because of the crappy internet issue i had with my landlord (or rather agent), and it was this and that... Mainly i had distractions because blogging isn't my career or priority in life, if you get what i mean.

Anyways!

Sissie came to Malaysia in January! (And yes, i'm fully aware it's 30th March right now tyvm) With her whole in-laws (:

For her Chinese wedding. It's kinda obligatory since we're Chinese, even though you get married to a Caucasian.. Or you'll be disowned by the family. I'm completely assuming that since my gramma gave a WTF face when my sister joked about not wanting to have a Chinese wedding in Malaysia. Sooo in the end she had it and this is a picture of us doing the 'yaaaaaaaaaam seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeng' from the top of our lungs. I felt like a failed Chinese when my sister's father-in-law asked me about all the "why do you do this why do you do that " questions and i failed to answer. But he's a very obedient white man,

He just came with us and shouted "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" along. And if you can spot my daddy in the black shirt next to my uncle in the flower shirt at the bottom left corner, he's shouting at the top of his lungs and chugged down Black Labels like water (literally) cos he's so happy his first daughter is getting married wtf. He got a hangover for the whole day and sore throat for the next 3 days followed by a mild fever. The things alcohol and Chinese weddings can do to you... :)

I was the photographer for all the yam seng session and luckily i was wearing my ALDO heels so i'm tall enough to take pictures of them from the top..... But i didn't really do a great job cos my dress was pretty short and when i lift my hands up, they go up, so i had to pull then down every time and in that split second i was adjusting my dress, i miss some good shots :( So finally my super super super tall cousin offered to help me take pictures cos apparently he can "take better pictures since he got a height advantage" >.<

Oh well, i get to be in the picture, so i can't complain much. (Can you see my sister's father-in-law yelling "AAAAAAAAAA" next to me and my daddy's face getting all red from the yelling?) I still laugh every time i view these pictures back in my laptop :)

Le bride and le groom. Pre-party at Al Fresco before the wedding.

It's not the best picture i had of myself and of my sister, but it's the only picture we had together that night :( Well, since she's the bride loads of people wanna take pictures of her, so she's the celebrity of the night. And i did her awesome hair i should drop out of college and be a hairstylist wtf. And because she's the bride, she gets to hide behind me so i'll look fat and she won't, and i gotta oblige. Oh well, can't complain about it too. *shrug* I miss my sissy :(((((

I'll finish my sister's Chinese wedding with a picture of the cheeky bride with my super drunk daddy, with a cut on his hand which happened somewhere sometime somehow.

Got my picture taken by a friend working at the photo shop after a year of delaying and finally agreeing to it cos i had one whole month to spend at my hometown. The sun was too hot that day, making me look like a freaking white sheet of paper, and the photographer wasn't satisfied and wanted a "re-match". I thought they looked fine though :(

Went to  Felda Residence Hot Spring with my mummy and bro finally. Too bad my daddy needed to work :( Hahahahahahahaha this is a very funny picture of my mummy i don't know why it's funny but it looked so funny wtf lolololol

That's me trying my very very very hardest to dip my leg in the super super super hot water, in front of a chinese uncle who tried so hard to convince me to JUST DO IT. He was probably annoyed at me for being such a pussy about it, but guess what? I AM A FREAKING PUSSY OKAY LIVE WITH IT.

Okay lah actually he's just being nice, trying to give me moral support but he's a hellufa persistent guy at it.

I finally gave up. So i don't have hot water tolerance. Guess i'll have to live with it.

I've been trying very hard in my life to do the one eyebrow up one eyebrow down look like how Melanie professionally did it, but failed every single time. Maybe i'm just not born with the correct facial muscles :( I don't know how my bro did it but i look freaking out of proportion and thin in this picture, maybe it's the angle. Hmmmmmm

Celebrated my 21st birthday at Jogoya with mummy daddy and Aaron, and a 2 nights stay at JW Marriot. Thank you daddy for the awesome awesome meal and weekend :D

My dad helped us to took this picture and he laughed so hard after taking the picture, and when i asked he said it's because my brother looked like a principal next to me. Hahahahahahaha

Finally he smiled........ a bit. I guess he only smiles when he's at a bar or a club with a bottle of whiskey in his right hand and a hot chick in his left :(

Got my cartilage pierced. It was a living hell for the first 2 weeks when i couldn't sleep on my left side at all, and had a few sleepless nights when i accidentally slept on it and the pain woke me up :( Not to mention the countless times i accidentally touched it (not to mention the one time where my bro accidentally HIT it - i thought i was gonna die of pain that very day wtf). I don't know how am i gonna handle clubs in the near future, especially Rootz tonight :( I had my hair up for the past few weeks to avoid any unnecessary (painful) contact where my hair gets tangled up with my stud.. Wish my ear best of luck tonight!

Oh, here's a snapshot of me and my mauritian friends in Vertigo when Calvin Harris was there. It was sooooo jam-packed that night i was literally sweating buckets! And no my boobs aren't big it's just an optical illusion where my hair fell at the right place creating a fake cleavage. I still wish for the day my boobs will grow into a matured size..... one day...... one fine day.... :(

I got my hair permed like Medusa! :D I think it look awesome cos it looks messy and i have big hair now and i don't look as innocent as before. I think. And don't judge cos i just washed my hair in this picture so naturally it would be a little frizzy okaaaaay. Hmm.

LASTLY I WOULD LIKE TO FREAKING COMPLAIN ABOUT THE FREAKING WATER IN MY FREAKING CONDO WHICH IS YELLOW LIKE URINE WTF THIS IS THE COLOUR OF THE WATER IN MY CUP CAN YOU IMAGINE I USED THIS WATER FOR 2 WEEKS WITHOUT NOTICING HOW FREAKING YELLOW IT IS UNTIL MY FRIEND CRASHED AT MY PLACE AND TOLD ME ABOUT IT?!?

I'm angry.

Oh wait.

I fried fish and cooked curry with the help of my friend Kailing :) Tastes good okay cos it was an instant curry packet hehehe but nonetheless my mummy was very proud of me :)))) And sissie said my curry looked nice so it's all fine ♥

Who's an ang moh?

Definitely not you :)

This time, it's not a prank.

Things to do before you're old and ugly (or dead) : 

Dye my hair red  [check!]

Was looking through my pictures from last December....

I missed shooting so much :(

This is NOT a cliché 2011 post

14 days till school reopens, i have a new crib, life is gonna be schweeeeet this coming semester! Except the fact that instead of the 1 or 2 days per week for classes which i heard from my friends, i'm having freaking 4 (FOUR) days per week for classes :( And not just classes, but for Moral and Malaysian Studies. Pffft right but what to do, unlike how i thought college classes would be, Sunway (or maybe just the Lancaster programme) don't allow us to arrange our subjects or classes ourselves, and instead we're given a timetable of everything and are supposed to follow it.

I had sooooooooo many plans for the next semester when i thought it's gonna be 1 or 2 days per week for classes only. For example, work..... and party..... and..... party. NO LAH do you think i'm some kinda party animal i hope you don't cos what i'm really thinking is a whole 2 months of mental oasis or something.. Was thinking of taking an extra subject or two so that i don't waste time being there for the whole 2 months. We'll see how that goes.

Tweeted about finding a new room, and am kind of (SUPER) excited to move in! Why, i have no idea but i'm gonna be having a room to myself! Well it's not that i don't like a roommate, but it's much more convenient having the room to yourself. Like, you don't have to be considerate and use headphones or change whenever you like or walk around the room bottomless.... Cos some people are uncomfortable with that.

Aaaaanyway, it's a new year, so.... new year resolution? Nahh i stopped that shit a long time ago because i've never achieved any before. Am not gonna do the cliché 2011 post about how great or how bad 2011 has been to me, cos honestly i feel like it's kind of so-so? Or maybe i'm an emotionless person like that. But i have been receiving comments i'm sensitive T_________________T The WORST comment that can make me depressed for a week wtf cos i used to despise sensitive people :((((((  I have split personalities *gasp*

Frankly i think i MIGHT have evolved into a different person, i don't know? Into an entirely new different person i don't think i like ; melodramatic, excessive over-thinking, emotional...  Just a few weeks ago i had this ride on the emotions roller coaster, and when i said roller coaster, i really meant it like...

Roller coaster. Figuratively.

I was literally happy like i was about to fly in the clouds one day, crying over a skype video call the next day, went so depressed the day after that i did weeding for the entire house non-stop (i should get depressed more often hmmmm) - not to mention i hardly spoke to my family members that day, and then i went back to being a little above normal (not quite happy yet) the day after, and then back to being a constant line again. And now i'm being mini-depressed and hence the wordy post. Is this still considered as sane? Cos looking back, i felt totally foolish to feel that way back then. I always thought i was a mean, stone-cold-hearted person. Where did that person go? Hmph. 

And i will have a healthier diet. 

SO, FRIENDS STOP LURING ME TO SUPPER THANKYOUVERYMUCH. 

A few stuff i should keep in mind, but not a resolution.

 Okay not every day maybe most of the days cos i have assignments and exams to be lifeless for :(

 I soooooooooo wanted to post this on fb but i have lots of nosy people on my list. Bleh.

Stop splurging unnecessarily wtf. 

My mom literally begged me to stop buying shoes cos it's starting to turn into an addiction.

In the end, this did partially turn into a cliché 2011 post. Sorry guys :P

Stuff that makes you survive college

 Eerie view from your unit on rainy days to neutralize breathtaking views like this : 

 Friends who sends good luck cakes to you on the eves of exams.

A little sweet something from Marks & Spencer to cheer you up at random times. 

(No, i'm not dealing with stress or depression if that's what you're thinking)  

A messy table.

 Awesome purchases.

15 tubes of hand cream to last you a life time even after giving a few to your mom and sistah.

Early bird freebies (:

(Or any freebies in general cos i'm cheap like that) 

Waking up one day and turning into a tea freak. 

A mirror. 

And a window on the 23rd floor so that you can hear the light buzzing of the traffic late at night.

A bunch of mates (: 

Friends to lure you to utilise the canopy walk to its fullest and hence the empty wallet. 

 Cheese naan (:

Body lotion which smells so good you feel like chewing your own hands off. 

 Whatsapp. 

So that you can send your friend a picture of your sad-because-i-need-to-study face.

 Friends who steal your phone during lectures and take pictures of themselves.

Ramen.

That's not all but i'm lazy (stale news).

To great college years ahead ;)