Driving Lessons with Satan(Part 1)

I'm going to be brutally honest. My driving instructor was downright terrible. He's either the reincarnation of the devil or Satan himself. I'm inclined to believe it's the latter. For the purposes of this article, I'll refer to him as Satan. 

For a month or so, I had been searching for a cheap driving school for a while at that point but none of them really fit the bill. Most of the driving schools were either too expensive or too far with no transport provided. Another problem was getting the right instructor. They either couldn't speak English or seemed kinda sketchy/scary. 

That's when my dad met Satan. My dad was at usual barber shop getting a hair cut and Satan happened to be sitting beside him. They exchanged numbers and we called him up for details later. Let me just tell you that it was cheap. Like really really cheap.  The full price was RM 1300 for a manual car license and an extra RM 160 if you want guarantee pass. In comparison, most of my Kuantan friends paid anywhere between RM 1500-RM 1800 and my friend in KL paid over RM 2000 without guarantee pass. Plus, he could speak (broken)English and Malay and Mandarin. We thought "This is perfect!" and signed up.

This marked the beginning of my days in hell.

SPM Rechecks

If you read my post about my SPM results from (almost) two months ago, you might remember me mentioning that I decided not to get a recheck for my only B(Physics).

Yeah I made it sound like I made that decision easy peasy lemon squeezy with the whole Ein nope gif but it was really more like me having an existential crisis, Shakespeare-style.

That is the question,

Maybank Scholarship Award: Pre-Interview Research

Logo

Slogan
"Humanising Finacial Services"

Core Values
T- Teamwork
I- Integrity
G- Growth
E- Excellence & Efficiency
R- Relationship building

Important people

• Khoo Teck Puat(Founder)
  -banker & hotel owner
  -wealthiest man in Singapore at one point
• Datuk Abdul Farid Alias(President & CEO)
• Dato' Mohd. Rafique Merican(Group CFO)

Background

• Founded on the 31st of May 1960
• Malaysia's largest bank
  -by market capitalisation & total assets
• One of the largest banks in South East Asia
• Largest public listed company on Bursa Malaysia(M'sian stock exchange)
• 2400 offices worldwide
• More than 45,000 employees

Countries with Maybank presence

• Asia
  -Malaysia
  -Singapore
  -Philippines
  -Indonesia
  -Cambodia
  -Vietnam
  -Laos
  -Myanmar
  -Hong Kong
  -China
  -Brunei
  -Bahrain
  -Pakistan

• Outside Asia-United Kingdom
  -United States

Maybank Scholarship Award: Assessment Centre

I didn't manage to make it all the way to Stage 3, the assessment centre so I don't have any firsthand experience or tips for you guys. I'm just gonna link you guys to posts by people who actually made it there.

http://scholarst.com/project/maybank-benjamin-yau

https://collegelah.com/2014/08/10/what-it-takes-to-be-a-maybank-scholar/

http://callmetiffany.blogspot.my/2014/05/maybank-foundation-scholarship-round-3.html
http://myobscurenook.blogspot.my/2013/05/interviews-for-maybank-scholarship-2013.html
http://darshinisubramaniam97.blogspot.my/2015/05/maybank-scholarship-2015the-assessment.html

I have a friend who made it to the third stage so I'll try and blackmail ask her if she wants to be a guest writer. Anyways, hope to see ya soon!

Maybank Scholarship Award: Interview

About a week after the online assessment, I received a call from a Maybank employee asking me to choose a convenient date and time for stage 2 of Maybank's scholarship selection, the interview, which was pretty darn exciting to say the least. I also received an email from Maybank informing me of the dress code and required documents. 

Word Crimes: Part 2

I'll break this guideline into multiple parts so you can just skip to whichever part you're interested in.