JPA interview

As the name implies, this post is all about the JPA interview. That morning, 6am i think, 31st March, i went for the interview in a car driven by my dad, accompanied by my mum, and off we went to kluang for the interview. Reached there by around 7.30. and i was instructed to went into a hall, leaving behind my parents in another. First, i handed iin my clear folder containing most of my co-curicular activities. Then, i signed in and waited.....waited...chatted....waited....waited...haha, my turn was the last anyway if u wondered. okok, let's fast forward. It's my turn. I went in the interview room with 4 other scholars, all with promising looks i would say. The first part is intoduction part and i actually clutched when speaking. Not fluently at all. Started to tense up. So, my discussion topic was "Watching too much TV could curtail children's creativity and thinking skill". I was stunned i could say..well, not quite understand the word 'curtail' that is. And we were given 5 minutes to preapre our point. And to my surprise, all of us dunno the word XD haha....and so, out of my surprise too, i eventually put up my hand and ask "Could we ask a question?" "May we know the meaning of "curtail"?" OMG....zzz..i also dunno why i did that at that time, but well, the interviewer laughed and gave us the answer =.= Then, we began giving out our opinions. The first lady...er...i mean the first scholar(wei chee), gave her opinion which was goverment point. She agreed. The second one which is me, gave my opposition point, i disagreed =P Another surprise came my way, the rest of them agreed XD and i ended up 1 vs 4. Fast forward....and we ended up discussing of cartoons. The last lady said watching too much TV deprive children's time from hanging out with friends which hanging out with friends could induce their thinking skills when they chat. My emotion that time was like "oh and wow" i was rebutted. And so...here are my rebuttals. I raised up one issue....the topic that children would talk about. "Would they talk about politics or economics? Let us put them in their shoes and think. What would be their frequent topic?"I asked the lady. I kinda regret asking this though. And after a few moments and thinking, she said "cartoon...." And straight away, i said "Yes, cartoons. Children talk about cartoon in their conversation and this cartoon that eventually stimulate their thinking skills, come from the TV they watch" XD after all, in the end, i dunno who win or lose, but i do know my killing point is that "too much" in the topic. After that, we thanked them and went out. My BP is finally back to normal after 1 hour long of struggling though. Now, i am not sure whether i could get the scholarship or not cox i talked with a lotsa of clutches. Eye contacts were average too. Kinda regret for not getting into these details at that time. =( Just hope i could get the scholarship....