darrendungeon: UTeM English Week 2016

This is the first time I am joining English Week at UTeM and its quite fun (mainly because I won some cash, hahaha )

Picture taken from UTem English Week 2016 Facebook page

So this year their theme is Let's Connect, Engage and Experience. As you can see, throughout this period there were many contest and activities held and organized , both equally fun and in the same time wanted to help students to improve and increase the usage of English language among students in University.

I joined Creative Minds Writing Contest and also Best Selfie Contest (by chance ) , both consolation, I wanted to join Scavenger Hunt too but they said its full.

Winning the Selfie contest was total shock, cause there we too many entries , maybe my caption was better. Actually did not plan to join this, I actually asked the girls in my class to enter this but they were reluctant, until I saw a post on UTeM English Week that states the contest will end at 5pm and it was 4pm at that time. As I was in the library with one of my friend, I just randomly took a pic and posted. I glad I did. Time to treat him later.

I was suppose to attend the closing ceremony on Thursday at 2pm, but then my RESPONSIBLE math lecturer decided to hold a class exactly that time, because the day before he cancelled the class .

Not gonna post here how much cash I won, but I think the way of them rewarding us by giving us cash is a thumbs up! I rather take the cash and buy something I really need then having them giving me books, notes , files and those student-needed-material .

Here's my essay. We were suppose to choose from the theme 1.LOVE 2.Friendship
And obviously I wrote on LOVE.

LOVE IS BLIND

They say love is blind. But who can defines what true love is? There is love between couples, there is love between parents and their children , the love for religion, the love to explore , the love that worth sacrifice for. You see, love is just a matter of perspective and how it is expressed by a certain individual.

Now I am going to tell you a story, a story about how love can be so fragile, how love can be so easily disguise, how love can be there yet not seen by the naked eyes of human, how love changed my life.

“Go in your bedroom now and complete your homework, don’t you dare make even a noise or else no dinner for tonight, you had caused enough trouble for me today’’ she shouted as I quicken my pace, passing the tidy living hall, as I entered my room. I caused trouble in school again today. Rebecca my classmate called me an ugly duckling and I hit her on her forehead with my bottle. Mum was called and I saw her apologizing on my behalf, while I got fidgety sitting on the chair, desperately wanted to leave. Since birth, I know I am different. By the looks and judgmental eyes of others, I know I will not fit in this world. You see , I have this big horrendous ugly scar that covered half of my face. It is like Beauty and the Beast, and I wanted so badly to be Beauty.

I was treated different all the times, but God must have been a fair God, because both my parents still shower me with love and the joy every child deserve. But not in school. Since the first day I stepped into kindergarden, I know I am living in a cruel world. The others kids look at me as if I am a monster from some horror movies, they did not want to play with me. When I enter into primary, many of them turned their backs on me. When I entered secondary, the girls in my class either act as I do not exist and the mean girls will picked on me for no apparent reasons. No guys wanted to be friends with me. I got sneers and glares everywhere, every time. Yes, I did get everyone’s attention, but not for the right reasons. I have not being to any fancy birthday parties as I was not invited at all , did not join the graduation prom in Form 5 as I have always being insecure with my looks.

My world became better after I befriended this guy on Facebook, he has been lending his ears to me , he is the person I run to when I have no one to talk . Through daily chats and online video chatting, I can see that he is a charming guy, with intelligence and manners that fits a prince, had good sense of humor and apparently he told me that looks does not matter and that he have feelings for me, that he finds me so special and different from the other girls that he know.

He requested for us to meet. I hesitated but he gave me assurance and I gave in. We decided to meet at a park nearby my house at night. That night ,there were hundreds of stars that hung high above the pitch black sky. The park was so big but sadly empty with people. The street light that which was the only source of light in that park, flickered once a while , illuminating the beautiful guy that is standing just 15 feet away from me, he smiled slyly at me. He was there. He was in front of me.

The first look into his eyes as a person in front of me, it was not love at first sight, but there were fireworks in his eyes. I was anxious at first, we began chatting, he made me feel that I am worth something and worth fighting for. He likes that I am different. He made me feel strong. He made me feel secure. He was like the gush of wind that blows away my cloud of worries and troubles. He made me look at my flaws as it is so insignificant and small.

We meet up more often after that day, going out for dates as a couple, not to shopping mall and movies that often because I still do get uncomfortable with the stares from others, instead we go for stars hunting and promised to go to Iceland, to get a glimpse of those beautiful Aurora.

We are now married for 11 years, blessed with twin girls. Those vivid images of me being shut down by others, being bullied by the bad guys still exists but I managed to climb up to be an executive manager at a company I am currently working and using my own money to set up a NGO organization to reach out to those that face similar problems like me. I believe in myself even more now because he have been my pillar of confidence. They said love can change a person.

Yesterday, before going to bed. I asked him again why did he choose me , the ugly duckling instead of the pretty swans out there . He whispered : “ They say love is blind “.

Normal looking essay. Expected ending :)

And yesterday after our final paper for mid-term , my friends, of my senior and me visited BBQ Plaze (non halal ) at AEON BANDARAYA MELAKA , we stayed till quarter pass 11 in the mall . Its nice hanging out with them.