nasihat nak masuk universiti.

i've been receiving questions about UTP lately, rupanya Educamp is just around the corner!
i don't know when, precisely, so takyah tanya i bila k?

anyway, selaku bekas pelajar UTP, my advice to you potential candidates is to chill.
i don't know how the system works now because i never went to educamp and if i did went, it's different now.

i got my scholarship when i was in matrix lagi. i went for the interview on my 2nd semester in matrix.
matrix best kot.
especially matrix gambang, pahang.

i know, i know, a lot of people think gam*ang. so what? it's still the coolest matrix evah! dah la lagu pahang best! hahaha!

ok back to UTP yadda yadda yadda.
so what i'm sure of, the interview will be in stages. i don't remember the sequence or what they asked, coz face it babes, it was like 5 years ago kot. my memory isn't that great. so i'm sorry for the lack of details.

but what i do remember, the interview was very very much like Muet. there's like a group interview, and solo interviews.
serious i tak ingat details.

now my advice.
you have to be prepared. i mean, everywhere and anywhere pun you have to be prepared. but at least, try to brush up on your social skills. why? simple. if you're not open minded, you're not willing to take criticism, you're can't share opinions or accept others, you rather just sit at the corner buat muka cute, memang takde orang nak kisah la.
being social doesn't mean you have to go to every person and ask for their facebook so you can add them up or whatever you think being social means. i meant when you're open, you can talk confidently, you can share ideas and listen to others as well, insyallah orang lain pun have confidence in you and respect you.
you respect others, others will respect you. insyallah.

just don't be overconfident.
majooooorrrr turn off.

oh, and UTP now doesn't offer scholarships as much now. it wasn't like this during my time. i sound old there.
so what. hehe!
alhamdulillah i was sponsored but yeah, i didn't get to work in the big P eventhough i graduated in 2nd class upper (i know takde la gempak mana, but it's an achievement to me). it's not always happy ending you know. this is reality. sometimes Tuhan nak challenge kita to make us push ourselves. to strive harder. takkan semua nak smooth sailing right? alhamdulillah i got on by fine! i bersyukur sangat with what i have now. =)

ok, you have to really know the terms and conditions to getting scholarships, if you're looking for it. not just petronas's scholarship, jpa ke mara ke, whatever la. know their terms. jangan main amik je sume nak belasah tapi bila dapat course yang doesn't suit u, you tak dapat perform. rugi.

rezeki memang di tangan Tuhan, tapi usaha tu datang dari diri sendiri dong.
i sedar itu, and you should too.

in the end, what's so great about UTP sampai you nak takut takut? chill la. it's just a university. if you don't get a placement there, there're loads of other universities.
it's not as if you tak dapat means you takde future. rezeki comes in many ways. you lose some, you gain some. but like i said, usaha comes from yourself.

don't solely rely on one place. 

apply to other places as well.

be ambitious.

be strong.

be positive.

also, tawakal.

if you don't know where to apply, GOOGLE IT. BACA NEWSPAPERS.
jangan pemalas boleh tak?
this is your future, so why are you depending on others to lay it out for you?
i bukan malas nak share, but seriously, i'm working already.
means my time and yours are different.
so many new universities have opened up and the levels have changed.

don't just go for famous universities. you nak education ke nak glamour?
loads of people tak kenal kot UTP. there was a lady who asked me where i studied, and when i answered UTP, she said "ohhh buat pertanian ke?" i was like whaaat? and she said "ye lah, universiti teknologi pertanian?".
muahahahhaa!

see.
chill la k?
education is important. very very important. so know your interests at least, if you don't know your strengths.
i didn't know mine until i masuk matrix.
i got sains fizikal, pastu bajet nak buat medic, so i changed to sains hayat, tapi bila buat biology, i slept like a baby.
so i went back to sains fizikal and fell in love with maths, physics and chemistry. that's why i pursued engineering.
tadaaaa~ my love story~~
hahaaha!
ok dah banyaaaaaaak sangat bebel.
=p

i know my advices aren't so useful to you yang nak gi educamp and go through the interviews, but what i'm trying to convey here is that you should not be so scared of interviews!
ingat la, ada banyakkkkkk options lagi kot!
oh, preparations for interviews?
practise talking in english. you all yang hate english, ha memang cari pasal la. i takleh nak tolong in that matter.
you realise that i mix english and malay?
well it's because i wasn't so good in english when i was studying in school. but i started mixing up english and malay, and semakin lama, semakin senang nak cakap in english without feeling embarrassed about it. yeah yeah my grammar and vocab may not be awesome like Harry Potter's but hey, chill la. it won't kill anyone.
betul tak?
at least i tried. at least i can speak and write confidently now.

practise practise practise.

ok?
so i wish you all the best! your future is bright kot! look for options and prepare yourself.
remember, this is your future.
don't depend on others to make it for you.
you make your own way.

insyallah things will work out for you. =)
amiiinnnnn~

Jalan Jalan di Johor Bahru

ohhh yeaaahhh~ we went to JB yawww!

meet si depan: Shea and Yana

meet si belakang: mars and lyna

we went to many many shops and honestly i don't remember their names, so see Yana's post about it HERE and Shea's post HERE. 

all i can say is that i had loaaaaaads of fun! thank you Yana for taking us around! much much loveee!

so here's the story.

1. kami masuk kedai comel, kami bajet comel, maka ini lah jadinya. 

2. orang tanya nak gi mana next. bukan nak jawab. buat muka peliks. memang tak faham motif diorang.

3. bila lapar, start la buat muka huduh yang awesome

4. bila sesat call guna iphone 7611 to ask for suggestions. 

5. tak faham motif diorang kangkang.

7. bila nampak baju, semua excited. especially Shea and Lyna!

8. we got on this cool bicycle ala ala flintstone.

please sing this: i want to ride my bicycle, i want to ride my bike~ (by Queen) 

kalau tak tau that song, korang noob.

9. cycled for an hour, can you believe it? maka muka kami berminyak boleh kalahkan pinggan kat mapley. 

10. as we were about to go back home, Yana merajuk.

11. but we had to go back anyway. so we bade goodbyes and left her and Justin Bieber behind.

overall?

see this!

conclusionnya, i had so much fun! can't wait for the next trip, insyallah =D

Bad tudung day!

i used to have bad hair days, actually i still do.. but now it's different!
my hair is kept underneath my shawls.

and now, i have bad tudung days.
but today, it's so bad, it's embarrassing!

my tudung didn't stay on my head as how it used to. it kept shifting sides! kejap ke depan sangat sampai tak nampak dahi, kejap ke belakang sangat sampai nampak dahi luasku. aiiiiiiihh!
what's worse, my hair kept creeping out of my inner scarf and manage to find it's way out no matter how i many times i tucked it in. i even tied my hair harder than usual sampai sakit kepala okay!
they come dari atas, dari tepi, bawah telinga side. Ohmagaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!

annoying tahap maximum!

and what's worse, my colleague mentioned it.
"maria, apahal rambut kau tu?"

stress ada, kelakar pun ada! i quickly ran to the back, secluding myself from human view (sebab nak gi toilet kena lalu ramai orang. tak sanggup!!!) and took necessary actions.

kalau i baby, rambut keluar keluar tu cute kot.
like this:

cute baby Alya picture from http://bengelina.blogspot.com

tapi as an adult, memang tak la!! muka mintak penampar and yang paling tak best, aurat yang nak cover, itu la yang terkeluar.
aisehhhhhh..
like this:

photo editting paling noob dalam dunia from peliks.blogspot.com.

ok perlu ke credit diri sendiri? hehehee! =p

anyway, tengok that picture. MACAM NOOB KOT! i don't want to show my own picture because my hair is out kot. no wayyy! hehehehe!

so yeah. it was really annoying with my hair trying to get air, when i need it to listen to my command, which is stay in the serkup aka inner, tolong la. and then my tudung, tolong la. dah set like that, stay like that laa! kau nak gerak2 apasal? ish.
Alhamdulillah though that this doesn't happen often.
when those days happen, memang stress.

dah la stress keje, add on stress with my tudung and my hair which sometimes have a mind of its own, and worse, people may see it.

huuuuuuuhhhhh..

what is the solution to a bad tudung day?

since i'm quite new at wearing the hijab, you all yang dah bertahun tahun pakai, mind sharing some tips? saya baru belajar dan saya mahu belajar =) sharing is caring right? heeeee...

thank you in advance!! =D

Bieber Fever

so i was having lunch with my brothers in McDonalds just now.
the thing about my brothers and i, when we're with each other, we're very quiet.
very different than when we're with our parents.

bukan apa, my brothers and i are different, we have different personalities. when i'm with them, i'm different. i think everyone's like that, right?

anyway, i was people watching (one of my favourite thing to do) when suddenly i heard children singing.
you know McDonalds kan ada playground?

this singing came from there la.

at first i heard
"ooohhh~~ baybeh baybeh baybeh oooooohh~"

then baru it hit me, ohhh lagu Justin Bieber Baby baby baby no tu ha. ceis!

then i pun looked at the playground, and saw these kids, some looked 10-12ish while some looked like tadika kids.
the young ones ran around, tapi yang tua tua ni ha,

these boys had their hands up in the air, wavin' like they just don't care, and sang
"baybeh baybeh baybeh ooooo~ like baybeh baybeh baybeh nooooo~ baybeh baybeh baybeh oooooh~"

pastu sesuka hati diorang
"babi babi babi ooooohhh~ babi babi babi nooooo~ babi babi babi oooohhh~"

ya Allah faham tak, they just sang that line over and over again, baybeh to babi and back to baybeh and to babi again.

hahaha!
i don't mean to sound vulgar here, but that was what i heard!
and i'm definitely not hatin' on Justin bibir. he's a great talent!
but these kids memang ya Allah, no comment la.

when i was their age, i kena lempang sampai pusing-pusing kot kalau my mom dengar i say that word.

itu je i nak cite.
who's going to Bibir's concert?
kirim salam please!! tell him "Maria tanya you sayang dia taaaakkkkkk??" (bajet you will be screaming la kan) hahahahha! kidding la wei! but if you did it, memang awesome habis la!

ok la. i want to watch Bibir the movie.


hik hik!
peace.

ps: i changed my blog layout. kerimasan gila tengok blog bersepah! but i tak terror edit edit html whatever ni ha. i like simple layout, so i made it to the simplest ever. but still tak satisfied. anyone terror? bukan terror scary ya. terror hebat. you know hebat? hebat looks like me. amboi~ nak kena lempang maria shmaria? monologue dalaman pun boleyyyhhhhhh~

ok assalamualaikum!

Wira wirawati harapan bangsa~

Dear All,

thank you soooo much for your support on my previous post! it really meant a lot to me and i hope Mr/Ms Anonymous can learn something out of it. like most of you said, nak tegur boleh, but tak perlu rude kan.

and it's just English! not as if i spoke baby language and sPewl eM Lo!k3 tH!5. know what i mean? 

hehe! oh well. 

there's always time and space (in our hearts) to learn and of course, change =)

alritey now!

i made a video. after a long while. kan? ehehehhe! 

nothing much, just about the whole tagline thing.

just felt like sharing how it came about. because i did not invent it. i heard it from others! (remps to be exact. hehe!)

so yeahhhhhhhh~~

hope you like it. kalau tak like pun, takpe. hehehe! oh and sorry for the weird annoying intro!!! i felt like puking after watching the intro. dunno about you guys la.

eish banyak bebel lak.

happy watching~ =D

thanks again for the support you all!!!

=D

i appreciate it very very much!!!

With Love

now, i have been patient for quite some time now when it comes to ugly comments from anonymous'.

but today, i think i'm going to just have fun with these anonymous.

can ah? can ah?

if cannot, so what. i'm gonna do it anyway.

hehehe!

ok so this one is from my recent post: Mathematics.

*ehem*

so first, this Anonymous apparently doesn't like me 'talking' in English. i don't remember talking in my post Mathematics.. but oh well. i get what he/she trying to say. basically English bugs the crap out of him/her to the point he/she had to call me stupid.

oh then he/she called me destroyer of language, maria eleBURITna. Maria Eleburitna. hmmm.. seriously, is that the best you can do? for a rude anonymous, you sure have no skills at name calling. did you just discover the word? do you even know what it means? it's not even hurtful. i laughed my ass off when i saw that because

1. it's not even catchy!!! you can't even call me that when you see me. right? "hey you're maria elebu..?" it's even too long to finish! hahaha! call me maria ozawa, and yes, i will feel offended. but maria elewatnow? hahahah!

2. i somehow sense that this person is trying to be the next Obefiend. but oh dear, your effort is good, but just because you throw some ugly word in between a name, doesn't mean you can be him. Obefiend doesn't even have to curse but you can feel how ugly it meant. now that's skill.

and there's another 1! well my grammar isn't that good. i don't have any recollection of me telling anyone or even writing it here that i had PhD in English. i know you have PhD, but you don't have to show it off. that's very KG.COM, if you know what that means. which i highly doubt because i think you don't understand anything i wrote anyway.

hahahahaha!

oh wait waittttt! there's moreeee!!

now this comment came from my post Chit Chat.

referring to the first comment, this particular anonymous (which i assume to be the same person as above), is really really hating on English! he/she seems to refer English as language of Dajjal.

i'm not backing up English, but i'm backing up on education. i don't know if this person goes to school or not.. because now, everywhere in our country, maths and science is in english, both in promary and secondary school. college and university, well, everything is in english except malay studies.

so..

i feel bad for you.. but since you're so good at bloghopping, and even using internet! then you should be clever enough to go to youtube and try learn english from there. and then maybe your name calling skills can be brushed up. now that's an idea right!

oh then he/she talks about my shawl and my dignity. honestly, i've been called arrogant most of my life as a first impression, but never bimbo (gedik), which is why i find this somehow flattering. so thank you la for acknowledging that! but of my shawl and my dignity, thanks for the advice but maybe you should give me a picture of you so that i can use that as a reference on how to wear shawl and take care of my dignity. what say you?

hahahahahha!!

i have to admit! at first i was actually pissed when i saw these comments. but then, all i had to do was smirk, and everything seemed funny.

i imagined this person waking up in the morning and thinking "ok today i will hate on...ummm.. english speaking bloggers! and i shall call them burit! woohoo!!". 

translate: pagi ini saya nak benci.. umm.. blogger yang boleh bercakap bahasa inggeris/dajjal! dan saya mahu panggil mereka burit sebab saya baru je belajar perkataan itu semalam di sekolah noob saya!"

or

"ugh i'm so angry!! i want to hate on someone! i want to let go all of my hate on maria!! because she's so awesome!!"

translate: ugh marah nya saya! saya nak benci seseorang! saya nak lepaskan kebencian ini kepada maria! sebab dia sangat awesome dan saya pun nak awesome macam beliau!!"

hahahahahha!!

sorry for being narcissistic + sarcastic there. can't help it!

i hope you anonymous feel honoured with this post. i never do this for anyone! oh and i made this whole post in english SPECIALLY for you! 

so drop a comment ok? oh wait.

YOU CAN'T! haahahhhahahah!!!

peace.

=)

ps: rather than you do this cursing here and there, why don;t you take the wudu' and pray to calm you down? didn't think of that, did you? teeheheee!

Mathematics

"ok. mana satu power, mana satu root?" i asked.

she looked at me innocently.

made an L shape with her fingers (thumb and index finger out)

"POWER ROOT!" she answered enthusiastically.

mana la tak i gelak macam orang gila..

hilang macho keguruan saya.

=p

Chit Chat

Teeheee!!!

PART 2 IS OUT!

so Part 2 is basically just a chat session with Abe Big Ben. the first part was (in the post below) of myself with split personality.

why tiba tiba got split personality?

as i said, it was SPONTANEOUS! ada *ehem* tu lambat, so while waiting for *ehem*, 1tube crew and i thought we could just do a lil' something.

thus, the product: What to eat

so if you were wondering why da heck i talk like an African sesat and Brits wannabe, simple.

because i was freaking nervous and it was the 1st few things that popped in my mind.

ok?

hehahuhi!

in this Sembang Session, as usual, spontaneous answers. so don't la make quick judgement on me ya! saya budak balu belajaa ah!

can't watch it?

see it here

panjang gila ok this interview!

siap ada "Advertisement" in between.

macam macam ada la!

hope you all enjoyed it!

=D

peace.

ps: why my split personalities are African American and British peeps? becaussseeeee i have cousins in UK and USA. i always imitate them so their accents and slang got stuck lorr. teeeheeheheheee.. =p