Reluctant Agreement & The Petrosains Gal

Today, today, erm was the JPA Interview day ! Its at UPM, Serdang. So damn far away. Had to reach there by 8 am some more. Anyway, reached there at 7, thanks to my parent's kiasuness. My dad just dropped me there and left for work, picking me up later when I'm done. I just cannot understand why so many parents came and waited throughout the whole day with their babies. I mean, we attend this interview to prove ourselves capable of being independent minded. Look at the ASEAN selection test. They even bar parents from entering the building. That should be the way. What would this reflect upon the selectors ?

Anyway, us guys were forced to look ridiculous in long-sleeved shirts with ties. Madness. There was a briefing session which is then followed by the another ridiculous "essay". There's even spelling errors in the question paper. Praise God. He did a good job by ensuring my surname starts with a capital B. Since the interview order follows the alphabetical order, I was in the first group.

There were 7 of us in the group, and our topic is "Patriotism is lacking among Youths today, discuss". The selectors speaks damn f*cking terrible English, and yet insists on doing this in this language. Although none of us feels patriotic about this stupid country, we still have to deliver our "points" and "views" about promoting and enhancing patriotism. It was quite fun actually, since we all debated in very good English and those idiot selectors looks all dazed and confused. I made a few new friends, Danis, Bryan, and a gal which I cant pronounce her name because its just too hard to pronounce. Lol. I also saw Jun Yi, Nadesh and Malvin (nice hairstyle !).

So, anyway, luckily the whole thingy finsihed early for me (10.40am). I had to rush back to KL coz my 2 step-cousins from Penang, are coming to visit. So reached KL by 11.30, and I had to become a tour guide for a day.

So I took my cousins, aged (10 and 14) and my bro (12) to the KL Tower. I haven't been there since 1998, and not much has changed really. But the view was simply stunning. After that, we went to KLCC, had Nando's for lunch, and said "thank you" and "byee !" to every single waitress. Lol.

Then we went to Petrosains. My third time there, and first since 2001. We were quite unlucky, cuz there was a rombongan from a primary school at the same time we were there too. There was a family from Brazil too. And I guess they were pretty disgusted by the behaviour of those pesty primary kids who cut the line and even had to resort to scolding them. Embarassing.

I'm glad they (my cousins and bro) were enjoying themselves. But it was all kinda boring to me. That was until I met a lonely and very cute Petrosains facilitator. She's 19 and looks very much Chinese but she's a Malay. She's working part time there and obviously had a bad day at the office. After much (and successful) persuading, she managed to talk me (and my cousins and bro) into doing a science project. We were supposed to build a water wheel ( the ones you find in hydroelectric dams ). While my couzs and bro were busy building that stuff. She and I were happily chatting while mapping out a peta minda on the importance of hydroelectricity.
Sigh. What have I been doing ? I should visit Petrosains more frequently.