Happy Grooming Day

Friday!

0800 - Rush to block W. The hellish stone desert landscape that lies on the path to block W seem mocking me. Expect to find someone there that involve in the Interview Grooming. Found no one. Realize that i was at the wrong place! Back to my bike and want to go back to F17, sleep, wait! Miss Jun park his Kancil next to me. Lucky Star this time, I asked her where the hell is that Grooming
stuff. She said she don't know either, and she
willing to phone Pn Awanis to ask. Thank god, how kind she was, I should be nicer to her next time! After saying quick thanks i pedal furiously to block X. Dejavu..i found no one.

0820 - After encountered some girls, i climbed to FSK10. Seeking staff or lecturer to ask. The location still is a mystery for me, and engulfed other candidates. Slowly pushed the staff room door, i entered and walked straight.
"Ahh...Encik Tarmizi? Kat mana ya bengkel interview tu?"
"Eh...ada ke? Bukan start petang ni ke?"
"Ntah la..kat memo tulis jam 8 ada bengkel, petang ada mock interview"
"Aaa... Saya la handle mock interview tu, petang ni kan? Aa..Ni interview untuk apa?"
"Untuk Intel"
"Rasanya bengkel tu bukan kat Lab FSK, kat makmal bahasa kot, kat hujung sana!"
"Ooo.." then i walked away.

0830 - Again, I climbed to CMLHS lab, and...the doors locked! Yahhuu..!

1030 - Just skipped the 'at last we found the place and start grooming...' part, fast forward annnnnnd Stop at the lecture session, I assumed that no one bother to know lectures. Ok then, skip again the lengthy lecture part. If you played TimeShift, pressed 'F' then the time will furiously speed up. Ahh wait!, there's one interesting.

The lecturers asked us played games and talked for 30 secs - about anything. They also ordered us to prepared 1 job interview related question and lined up facing each other. With a soccer whistle to mark the questioning marathon, we asked every one in that particular line with our stocked question.

I determined to ask only simple and direct question, so I go on with "What's your hobby? and Why?" - nope the lecturers don't want that, OK another question, how about.."Between a cute girl and this job which do you prefer?" - A lecturer smacked me in the head with provoked a yakuza faced stared at me. Again rejected. Alright serious business this time, "Please tell me a bit of your weaknesses". Sound fine and I got the green light.

All guys here (including the girls too) are very creative, they come up with all sorts of ideas and excuses. Some even told me that they weakness are their strength. I don't care of they lying or being honest, that's not the point. Typical answer would be like, "I'm a little disorganized" or ,"I have time management problem, but since missed my flight to London, I never late again!". Well there is one worth mentioning here, when I asked her about her weakness, after the normally 'ahhh...ummm...ahhh...' she replies:

"Umm.. I don't trust man, it because of my experiences with them."
But suddenly the 30 secs answering time whistle sounded, and she moved to the next wannabe interviewer. In that split second I managed to re-reply her:

"You shouldn't tell me anything about your weakness", since I am a man.
She gave me a smirked smiled and pointed at me, but at the same time I act to avoid her face and pretend not to noticed at her action - this what all macho guy do. And I think that was fascinating!

Then, I played the tricked again and again - only with girls. I don't give a damn about making a guy bluff. At the end feeling bored and want to get out.

*That evening I never went to the mock interview which happen to be preliminary elimination for the candidates. Intel want 30, but we are 44. My stubbornness affect Kalis and Zul, that makes 41. I hope for all that wishes for Intel, good luck. I never want to work or LI with Intel (even I'm Intel fan). Experiences told me that I cant stand the provocation. Well, its worth a try to say Hi to the biggest computer chip company, but I say I has other plans. My studio come first.