UTPLife by Eevon (1/2)

"I accidentally closed the application window for Petronas scholarship, 

I have no idea how my name was shortlisted for a 2Days interview!" - eevon,2010.

"Someone just called, she said congratulations your daughter got the offer of sponsorship to study Petroleum Geoscience in UTP." -mum,2010.

Everything happened just so unplanned while I actually wanted to study something about "science", probably psychology or medicine. Since it is free education for "Don't-Know-What-Science" in an engineering university, I accepted the offer thinking there would be lots of handsome guys. 

(It turned out to be a little bit disappointing anyway. =P)

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The "Don't-Know-What-Science"-Petroleum Geoscience

I guess none of my classmate nor I know what is Petroleum Geoscience in Foundation year till we entered 1st Year.
Then this geology lecturer told us "Rock moves, colliding,sliding, uplifted, subsiding,crashed on each other due to tectonic movement.". Whattt?! 

I used to think rock is rock and stone is small rock.
After 5 years, rock formation is the bla bla bla minerals, cooled, metamorphosed and weathered to become fragments of rocks. Angular-Subanglar, breccia-conglomerate, fault, fold, etc.
It was always memorization the night before exam.
And we start to talk shits whenever we came across waterfall!

The course get even more amazing when we study "Ultrasonic wave is used to scan foetus & we use seismic wave to scan for subsurface structure!".
Things get serious when Snells Law, Zoepritz Theorem, Green Functions were introduced. 

The best moments include when we actually granted for fieldtrips to places like Tasik Banding, Sarawak, Kelantan, Cameron, etc. It was so nice that we can collect souvenirs, post photo of enjoying, nasi kerabu, sleep in hotels.
That feelings when the other courses were so envy with us BUT they never know we fought leeches in jungle and pages of reports to write when we were back.

All of us with 24 different characters, be it annoying or welcomed, we get along for 5 years, sleep in the same tent, eat from the same pot, be in the same trouble and worries when kencing tikus try to take our life, gossip about lecturer... etc.
If I am given a chance to choose which course I would take, I will definitely make the same choice!
Errr...Probably No? If I was told oil price would go up and Down like now...then graduate like us would be jobless... I should have think twice!

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"In university, you shall get involved and active in joining events or clubs."-peiwen,2010.

You heard that? That's how you get chances to know more lengzai seniors and collect more certificates. In another words, life get busier and meaningful. 

Chinese Orchestra

I joined Chinese Orchestra because there might be where most of the lengzai would appear. That was when my highschool friends doubt, "Did you just say eevon join orchestra?!"

Although I don't really have talent in music, I enjoyed being there, get to know more juniors from the following years. 

I still remember those years when we walked 2km from hostel to CO practice room and try to get tumpang back. Especially on a rainy night, for those meetings and practices, so the determination-challenging.

Other Events -RSF, Sedex, etc.

These events mean more meetings and sleepless nights to settle and prepare things. Throughout the events, you will definitely learnt lots of procedure and UTP management patterns. (you-know-what-i-mean)
Besides getting used to UTPian never punctual culture, you started to found some of the meetings is so unproductive.

In conclusion, being active in more events means you get friends and only excited when there is Mamak-session after work/meetings.
That's how I socialise and besides getting know & exchange about all the "UTP-Hot-News".

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