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Hectic Week

Phew, thank goodness that week (23 March - 29 March) is over!

That week was pretty busy first and foremost due to Malaysian National Model United
Nations(MNMUN) and me attending interviews in person and via telephone. I really had to prepare myself so to not mess up in any interviews and do better than the previous interviews I’ve attended.

I had an interview for an internship opportunity with Kinky Blue Fairy (KBF), a local celebrity blogger and a boutique creative agency which specialises in lots of online campaigns, PR and events, they also have an online boutique selling a variety of things ranging from party decorations to clothes. It was my first ever job interview! I was pretty nervous and really did my best to prepare for it. I googled a several times for interview questions, creative office interview attire, and other interview preparation tips. As for my other interview which was via telephone, it was with the University of Westminster for Undergraduate degree in Journalism.

Both were very different nonetheless challenging in their own way although I was more prepared for the university interview.  I only was more prepared for the interview with Westminster due to the fact that I had to also attend interviews previously with University of Kent and City University London. Glad to say that I've been accepted by both Kinky Blue Fairy and University of Westminster.

I honestly wasn’t keeping my expectation high because I’ve learnt the hard way that if I ever have high expectations, I will really be disappointed if it did not go the way I hoped. Really though, I just do my best and accept whatever comes, especially since I’m considerably competitive with certain stuff.

Overall, I’m pretty thankful that I have received opportunities to be interviewed as a learning experience as well as being offered the chance for the internship and pursuing my degree in the university.

And now, the main thing that really tired me out was the weekend. There was so much to do. I didn't get enough sleep like I used to and I had to be up on my feet early in the morning with no rest. It was basically like working a nine-to-five job for seven days.

Basically, it was the first-ever Malaysian National Model United Nations which I so happen to be part of the organising secretariat. I believe that it wasn’t necessarily as tiring as I expected it to be and always found that other people were much more exhausted than me. Much of my part wasn’t as hectic but it was still full of challenges here and there.

Malaysian National Model United Nations 2015!

First day was pretty rushed and chaotic due to the fact that the new building had lots of technical issues and it affected us the OPENING CEREMONY. Unfortunately, the problems didn’t end with the opening ceremony although we double-checked all the rooms for our committees. Thankfully, these issues were dealt with due to the help of several Sunway faculty members and staffs.

Andrea and I got home around 8 plus due to the horrible jam, not sure what really caused it although I heard rumours it could have been the crowd rushing to buys things before GST was implemented and car accidents along major highways. Anyways, we had dinner at my place and oh, throughout the conference, Andrea stayed at my place since she lives two hours away(via public transport) from Sunway. I slept considerably early but Andrea, oh, Andrea… She slept pretty late. She was still doing her very best to finish up on the certificates, she had like 500 to 600 different certificates to make.

The next day wasn’t too bad, it was mainly about the committee session that I wasn’t completely involved in. I mainly walked around to check on things and updated our social networking sites. Qamarina really helped me out with Twitter although I was supposed to be in charge of that so, thanks Qamarina! I frankly don’t recall what else I did that day other than helped out with the Social Night. So the second day was roughly about updating our Confessions Page, promoting the Press Corps’ websites and preparing for the socials. Social night was pretty hilarious and again, there was not only technical issues but weather issues. During the evening of Social Night, the rain decided to make a visit. The weather was furious, it blew heavily into our venue and forced us to change the venues. Socials turned out alright but I frankly wasn’t interested in being at Socials. I did stay for a bit to catch up with a secondary schoolmate, it was nice seeing him again since I didn’t really know him other than the fact that he studies really hard. Socials ended around 9-ish although in the itinerary it said 8pm, I went home roughly around 10pm? I don’t really remember but yeah, it was later than the previous night.

Making props for our Social Night's photobooth!

USG of Committees, Jonathan Chan preparing for Social Night

As for the final day, it was much more relaxed other than rushing to finish up printing the certificates and preparing for our closing ceremony. Some of us had McDonalds for lunch and some of us didn’t even have time for lunch. I think what was happening throughout that day was that I was helping the other Lulu, Luanne with making receipts for institutions who requested for it. It was a bit confusing for me as I have never really written receipts for people or organisations before but I learnt new things! When all of that was over, some of us stayed back to have a post-conference meeting to figure out our mistakes and prevent them in the future.

MNMUN 2015 Secretariat

Even though, this event tired me out and deprived me from sleeping at my normal hours, I think I learnt a lot of new things and had the opportunity to meet new people. I am glad that I participated in organising this congregation and really am thankful for the chance to do something I have never done before. 

And as you can see, I take a while to upload a post. I am usually quite lazy but I will try my very best to post up at least two to four posts within a month or so... I am also just practising my writing with this so yeah…. Wish me luck! 

Update; I got accepted into University of Westminster!

Tada! My acceptance letter to Westminster! :)

Kinky Blue Fairy's 11th Anniversary

I’ve been meaning to write for a very long time but I haven’t. After much discussion with myself before I sleep and when I was feeling down, I decided that it would be good to start writing again. I guess I have been putting it off for a very long time because I was lazy. There’s clearly no other excuse other than that. I wanted to write about my trip to Japan but put it off. So much time has gone and I still have such a bad habit of doing this.

Anyways, first post for 2015.

Kinky Blue Fairy’s 11^th Anniversary Party.

The Venue

Thank you for the invite, Joyce and congratulations on all your achievements!

I’m not sure if any of you reading this know but I am not a big follower of the local blogger scene. Yes, very shameful of me. I admit that I should have been more engaged and committed to keeping up with our local bloggers but enough of all that regret, let me get to the main point.

Earlier last week, I participated in Kinky Blue Fairy’s Instagram competition to win invites to her party. I wasn’t keeping my hopes up on this because I only wanted to win the other prizes like the Centro RM1000 hair makeover and By Invite Only RM250 voucher. I ended up quite kiasu about winning the other prizes and went on the regramming those entries a few times more. But the moment I received a comment from Joyce on the picture I regrammed to win passes to her party, I was stunned.

Let me show you.

My reaction was “Did I win? Why did she comment on my picture to email her? Let me ask Wei (my oldest sis) whether she’s free this (the day of the party) evening.”

Right after that which was around 8.30am, I was on my way to work and working up an email to send to Joyce. I was quite clueless as to what to write in my email to her. More questions were popping up in my head. “Do I tell her my reason for wanting to go to her party? Should I tell her my Instagram handle? Should I include my real name so she knows it’s me she contacted?” In the end, I answered all my questions and included them in: My reason, my Instagram handle and my name.

Few hours later of being slightly hopeful and excitedly doing my work, I got an email from Joyce! –cue Handel’s Messiah Part II: Hallelujah- I was invited and I could bring my sister with me! Bam! I immediately contacted my sister, feeling very proud yet anxious at that moment. I couldn’t wait for her reply and was so anxious she’d say no to being plus one. Eeep! She said “Kay kay” She was pretty reluctant to go and kept insisting that I get someone else instead to accompany me. In the end, she gave in and accompanied me! Thanks so much, Wei! Muacks!

Wei got home late because of a mishap she made, by informing my other sister, Ping to pick her up at Empire Subang when she was actually at Empire Damansara. She realised that after Ping called her as she informed Wei she was at Empire SUBANG already. Wei got home roughly around 5.50pm when I wanted to leave at 5.30pm. It was no biggie anyways as long as she came home safely with Ping.

As the event was meant to 7pm, we knew we wouldn’t want to drive as it was peak hour so I got the Uber app to solve our problems. Hehehe! Can you sense the laziness in us and how much we don’t like driving? We reached there at around 7.15pm and boy, we were early!

Wei and I promptly registered ourselves in and were given an envelope each that contained plenty of vouchers! We giddily entered the venue but stopped as I stared in shock at Joyce, KINKY BLUE FAIRY!!! She was busy taking photos with other guests when I froze. Joyce looked absolutely gorgeous, certainly the girl of the night! Everything about her was on point, her outfit (oh lord, I love her dress), her shoes and her hair(it had pink and purple highlights)! It was just amazing~

The minute she was let off, Wei pushed me to say hi to her. I briefly babbled my way through thanking her and forgetting to introduce myself. It was like the things I wanted to say to thank her just left my brain and so did the ability to talk like a normal human being. My sister had to remind me, she said “Uh, she probably doesn’t know your name.” Yes, very stupid, I know. I got to introduce myself nevertheless while my sister smoothly small talked with her. (Wei so badass, Wei got skills) We snapped some photos with her before entering the restaurant. Oh, I forgot to mention that the party was at The Bee @ Publika. It was set up quite nicely I must say. There was a freeflow of beer, whiskey, Strongbow, orange juice and water infused with magical fruits(just kidding, there was orange, strawberry and something else I don’t quite remember).

Free flow of fruit infused water and orange juice

Wei and I settled down after snapping some pictures around the restaurant. It was appropriately attired by balloons of different colours, shapes and sizes. It was definitely an event meant for the 11^th Anniversary of Kinky Blue Fairy.

As you can see from the photos, The Bee was colourfully decorated and had lots of fun photo areas for awesome pictures!

Colourfully decorated table

Lovely balloons all decked up for the partay!

From the left: Lynette, Jasnitha, Nadia, Wei & me. We apologise for the upside down Kinky Blue Fairy signage.

As people started arriving, Wei and I spotted a few familiar faces like Nadia(Liquido Msia) and Lynette(Wei’s customer turned close friend). Wei and I were frankly quite surprised by Lynette’s presence but nevertheless, extremely pleased. Immediately after exchanging introductions with Lynette’s colleague, Jasnitha, we took the opportunity to take more photos outside again!

The party started with Joyce hosting her own party (which was cute) with the reason someone provided her “If someone else mcs it, no one will pay attention”. She did a splendid job at mceeing eventhough she was basically running to and from the stage.

Throughout the event, people were having a good time and just chilling on a weekday night. I myself had an interesting evening as I got to meet Hui, founder of Ash Be Nimble and Manisha, owner of MTalent Asia. It was definitely a great experience meeting such wonderful people. They were both ridiculously nice and friendly. Thanks Wei for introducing these cool people to me!

Wei and I left early along with Lynette, Jasnitha and Hui to Coffee Stain for a quick hangout. The Bee was getting a little too crowded and so we left. We had a short chit-chat and I got to know these wonderful ladies a little bit more. Wei tried the famous coffee cube thing while I had a Mushroom & Tomato spaghetti.

After our quick hangout, we decided to head back home. Lynette was kind enough to give Wei and I a lift home. This lift home was home was incredibly special because we got to sit in the new Mercedez-Benz C250! It was so cool!! In case you’re wondering, the car doesn’t belong to Lynette, she’s reviewing it and so she’s driving it around.

All in all, it was a great party, I met new incredible people and had a lovely time. Thank you again to Joyce for the invite.

From left: Joyce aka Kinky Blue Fairy, me & my sister, Wei.

Good quality photos courtesy of Saufi Nadzri.