Tips Interview Program Dietetik

Hi semua!

Baru-baru ni, pelajar lepasan matrikulasi/asasi/diploma/setaraf dah pun dapat panggilan dan kebanyakannya menjalani sesi temuduga untuk UPU.

Untuk tahun-tahun sebelum ambilan 2015/2016, Universiti Malaya dan Universiti Sains Malaysia masih lagi ada kuasa autonomi untuk pilih students sendiri. Hahhhhh, apa tu?
Maksudnya, pengambilan students untuk UM dan USM dipisahkan daripada UPU. So, peluang untuk batch sis dan sebelum sis masuk U adalah lebih tinggi daripada batch 2016/2017 ke atas.

Sebabnya, untuk UPU, hanya satu/dua program bertemuduga sahaja akan diberikan kepada pelajar yang layak dan setiap pelajar hanya akan dapat satu tawaran dari Universiti Awam (UA).

Time sis dulu, sis isi semua sekali *gelak* dan dapat tiga tawaran universiti:
1) UPU- UPM Dietetik (Pilihan pertama)
2) USM Dietetik (Pilihan pertama)
3) UM Ekologi & Biodiversiti (Pilihan kedua)

Hahhhh kenapa yang UM sesat dapat pilihan kedua? Sebabnya sis mohon untuk TESL tapi disebabkan temudga TESL UM & Dietetik UPM clash, sis pun pergilah ke temuduga UPM.

Okay, entry kali ni sis nak bercerita tentang pengalaman temuduga untuk Program Dietetik sebab sis pergi untuk temuduga UPM dan USM (Kononnya berpengalaman lebih lah tu)

Untuk adik-adik yang berminat dengan program ni, adik-adik kena tahu beberapa perkara yang sangat-sangat dan tersangatlah basic.


1) Beza pemakanan (nutrition) dan dietetik (dietetics)
'Eh bukan sama je ke?' 
'Similar but not the same" *wink*

Beza paling utama ialah nutritionist selalunya akan berinteraksi dengan komuniti sihat untuk mempromosikan pengamalan gaya hidup sihat. Maksudnya, macam kita-kita ni lah, Sihat walafiat tapi pergi supper pukul 1-2 pagi, makan junk food sambil belajar (Ehem, mohon terasa)

Untuk dietitian pulak, selalunya akan lebih kepada kaunseling pemakanan (diet counselling), intervensi pemakanan (diet intervention) dan modifikasi diet (diet modification) untuk pesakit kronik, pesakit yang mempunyai masalah absorption & nutrition related diseases (Apa tah dalam Bahasa Melayu huehuehue), ibu-ibu mengandung dan golongan yang memerlukan diet-diet atau kaedah diet khas. Pendek kata, golongan yang sakit lah.

Nak contoh? Pesakit yang memerlukan tube feeding, pesakit diabetes dan pesakit buah pinggang yang tak boleh makan certain makanan (pengawalan diet tinggi gula (diabetes) dan diet tinggi protein (pesakit buah pinggang). Hahhh, dah ada hint ke?

Hampir sama, tapi tak serupa kan?

Ni contoh tube feeding (Kesian lah tengok, serious)

2) Penggunaan piramid makanan dan pinggan suku-suku separuh
Food pyramid rasanya semua tahu kan? Tapi apa tu pinggan suku-suku separuh?

Basically, pinggan suku-suku separuh diperkenalkan untuk memastikan pengambilan makanan yang seimbang.

Suku- Karbohidrat (Nasi)

Suku- Protein (Ayam/Ikan/Daging)

Separuh- Sayur & Buah-buahan

Sebab food pyramid cuma bagitau level makanan yang mana perlu ambil banyak dan mana yang perlu kurangkan tanpa menekankan pengambilan nutrien yang seimbang dalam setiap sajian makanan.

3) Body Mass Index (BMI)
Yang ni soalan lazim rasanya sebab kedua-dua temuduga UPM dan USM tanya pasal BMI.

Apa yang kena tahu? Formula dan range BMI untuk setiap klasifikasi berat badan.

Jangan confuse antara mass (jisim) dan weight (berat badan) pulak yeee.

Dan ingat tinggi tu dalam unit apa, berat dalam unit apa. Kanggg jawab dalam cm pulak hahhhh, kurang markah di situ.

4) Makanan Tradisional (Local food)
Selalunya soalan macam ni akan tanya local food kat tempat sendiri atau yang common macam Nasi Lemak.

Lepastu interviewer akan tanya, apa kelemahan makanan tradisional tu? Macam Nasi Lemak guna santan kan jadi kalori banyak.

Lepastu akan ditanya lagi, apa modifikasi makanan yang boleh dibuat untuk kurangkan impak makanan tu dalam kesihatan?
Mungkin gantikan penggunaan santan dengan susu rendah lemak?
Hah, modifikasi tu lebih kurang macam ni lah :D

Kalau yang dapat temuduga kat USM tu (Ingat tau USM Kampus Kesihatan dekat Kelantan) kena tau local food Kelantan? Hahhhh gapo dio tu?

Antara favourite local food kat Kelantan ialah budu dan nasi kerabu.

Jangan menggatai mention Maggie Ketam ke Maggie Sotong. Tu bukan local food ye -_-

Lepastu kena tau lah basic ingredients untuk setiap makan tradisional tu. Kalau tak, kan susah nak modify :D

5) Jenis-Jenis Lemak
One of my coursemates dapat soalan ni. So basically lemak ada dua jenis: Saturated fats and unsaturated fats.

Sebenarnya banyak lagi jenis lemak contohnya trans fat. Tapi memandangkan ini cuma temuduga sebelum memasuki Program Dietetik, jawab je lah yang basic. Kang jawab yang advance tapi tersalah facts kang susah.

6) Apa itu MSG?

Message?

Eh bukan. monosodium glutamate.

Commercially known as ajinomoto. Kena tau kegunaan dan keburukan penggunaan MSG.
Google lah pasal umami kalau nak advance sikit.

Keburukan? Hm, apa ye? My mom selalu cakap makan banyak maggie akan gugur rambut (Maggie ada MSG)

7) Isu Semasa Berkaitan Pemakanan
For this question, no, you don't need to buy newspapers daily to know about this.

Selalunya kat Facebook dan Twitter berlambak.

Few years back, isu obesiti ialah polemik yang hangat diperdebatkan (Gitew, mantops ayat). Kenapa? Sebab francais makanan segera macam KFC, McD, Starbucks, Sugarbun tumbuh bagai cendawan selepas hujan. Belum mention lagi kafe-kafe hipsturrrr *dab*

Tapi tahun ni banyak pulak isu pasal pengambilan supplemen macam Vitamin C, Shaklee, kolagen dan pil kurus. Rasanya sebab semua dah ada kesedaran yang kesihatan (dan kecantikan) tu penting tapi macam biasa, semua nak shortcut.

Nak kurus tapi malas joging.
Nak cantik tapi makan makanan yang diproses dan berminyak.

'Eh, kenapa jadi isu? Bukan ke supplemen tu elok?'

Jawapannya ya dan tidak.

YA, untuk ibu-ibu mengandung yang memerlukan iron lebih. YA untuk individu yang mengalami masalah nutrient absorption atau baru lepas surgery.

TIDAK, untuk individu biasa yang sihat walafiat boleh makan dan berjalan tanpa bantuan orang lain.
Mengikut Recommended Nutrient Intake (RNI) 2017, seorang individu hanya memerlukan 75mg Vitamin C setiap hari.

Dah tu, kenapa nak consume pil Vitamin C 500mg dua kali sehari?
Walaupun vitamin dan minerals tu penting, pengambilan berlebihan boleh menyebabkan toxicity tau!

Bayangkan kalau kipas 48 jam tak ditutup, boleh panas gear kipas tu.

Sama juga dengan buah pinggang kita. Kalau dah hari-hari dok proses vitamin berlebihan korang tu, tak ke naya Mr & Mrs Kidney nak kerja? While you are sleeping, your kidney is still breaking down your consumed vitamins & minerals.

Pastu bangun, telan lagi sebijik pil. Habistu buah pinggang nak rehat bila?
Konsepnya lebih kurang macam tu lah.

Nak bebel lebih, ace your interview and jadi Dietetics student baru kita sembang panjang sikit deh?

Rasanya macam panjang sangat dah sis bebel. Okay, to make things short, I shall list down all the common questions that usually will be asked during Dietetics Interview.

Tapi kalau tak keluar soalan ni, mohon jangan bash ye.

Ini bukan soalan spot. Sekadar perkongsian pengalaman :D

8) Apa beza butter & margarine?

9) Di mana awak lihat diri awak lima tahun dari sekarang?

10) Program Dietetik dimonopoli oleh golongan wanita. 

Apa pandangan awak mengenai perkara ini?
Apa cara untuk mempromosikan program ini kepada golongan lelaki?
Apakah kesan jangka masa panjang kalau perkara ni berlarutan?

(Yang ni soalan temuduga UPM. Fuhhhhh, banyak gak ahh kelentong)

11) Kenapa nak jadi seorang dietitian? Pandai masak tak?

Imagine this:
Situation 1
Interviewer: Pandai masak tak?
Candidate: Pandai!
Interviewer: Masak apa?
Candidate: Masak makanan untuk anak-anak kita (Ok, don't do this. Interviewers selalunya dah kahwin)

Situation 2
Interviewer: Pandai masak tak?
Candidate: Pandai!
Interviewer: Masak apa?
Candidate: Masak maggie (Maka semua pun berhuhuhu)

12) Kalau terjumpa pasangan time dekat kampus nanti, macam mana nak balancekan study dengan masa untuk pasangan? 

Soalan last ni taktau lah kenapa di tanya. Selalunya calon dari Borneo confirm akan dapat soalan ni hmm -_-

LAST TIPS <3

1) Betulkan niat nak datang temuduga. Kalau dah hati kuat cakap nak masuk program ni, selalunya takkan ada masalah untuk jawab soalan.

Keep calm and show your enthusiasm in becoming a dietetics student.

2) Always, always be confident.

Jangan gagap. Kalau ada soalan yang memang susah jawab, there are two things to do:
1) Lie with confidence
2) Start your sentence with, 'In my opinion'

Opinion setiap orang kan berbeza, mana boleh sama *gelak kuat*

Okay, rasanya sampai di sini sahaja coretan sis pada hari ini.

Coretan pada hari ini diilhamkan oleh seseorang yang akan menjalani temuduga dietetik di USM untuk ambilan 2017/2018.

She was so dedicated in finding me. She didn't only emailed me, she even message me personally on facbook :D

Hoping that all of you kind souls will be blessed and your interviews will be eased :D

XOXO,
Anaaa_

P/S: Pardon me for my BM's grammatical & vocabulary errors as well as my usage of colloquial language/slang. I don't really write in Bahasa Melayu but I know it's ll be easier to understand if I do so, so yea :D

Last Day In Champasak, Lao-PDR

Today was one of the most hurtful and torturing day of all the days I had been through during this two weeks mission of ours where we, The YSS Volunteers would leave the land of Lao-PDR and separated with our counterparts who had been sharing everything with us since we arrived here. We did not only collaborate in each and every projects and programmes that we handled in Ban Soukhouma but we had also shared many ups and downs together. Noudchalinh Thammavong, my sweet nineteen years old counterpart from Champasack University that currently studying in Faculty of Education specialisation in English Literature. She did not only helped me to overcome my awkwardness with my host family due to our language barrier but she also did approached me in her own sweet way that I felt so related and closed to her even though during that time, we just knew each other for few hours.

 Being in a totally different place mingling with people whom you just knew for few days and knowing the fact that I was going to stay in a house with people whom I never meet or talk before exhilarated part of me but I have to be frank that there was an inner side of me that whispered, “Is this going to be okay?”. Those doubtful, hesitated and shilly-shally feelings that resided in me would have overwhelmed me throughout this mission if I depended solely on myself to overcome it. But finally, I did it. No, I should have said, we did it. We survived Students Volunteer Mission YSS-ASEAN to Champasack, Lao-PDR and I must say that we would never make it without our incredibly spectacular fellow volunteers who had always been there to support one another in every circumstances.

Today, all of us The YSS Volunteers woke up early because we would be divided into two flight groups and I was one of the luckiest one who would be flying home earlier via Seam Reap, Cambodia before heading to our beloved Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We were informed that we would be heading to Pakse Airport at 0700H and I enthusiastically prepared myself and waited for the bus to pick us up before 0600H. I could be considered as one of those people who would not simply shed their tears and indulged themselves in an emotional situation and this morning, I was ready to leave the land of Lao-PDR. I would not say I was happy to leave. In fact, it was a heart wrenching moment and I still have the urge to stay, hoping that this mission would be extended but I had to face the truth that this was real, I would be leaving soon. While I was still trying to calm myself, I was distracted by a sudden commotion below the female dormitory of Champasack University and guess what? The initially gloomy and quiet ambience just now turned noisy because our counterparts came to visit and see us for the last time before we were gone to our separate ways. The vicinity was suddenly full of people and all of us were very touched because some of them actually came all the way from their home just to meet us.

 Among the crowd, I saw Noudchalinh Thammavong, my counterpart who had been with me through my ups and downs, willingly to listen to all the complaints I conveyed each time I was in my hardest moment. I could not stand the look in her eyes. She had always been so innocent and cheerful but today, she looked different. Our other counterparts that were assigned to be with us in Ban Soukhouma also came and we hugged each other, hoping that we would have the opportunity to meet each other again someday. Then, the buses came to fetch us up and surprisingly, they had arranged a simple farewell ceremony for us at the Hall of Champasack University and we went there. They draped Champa flowers wreath around our neck. The pleasant smell of the Champa flowers overwhelmed the atmosphere making it more saddening especially when some of us were already in tears, hugging each other as if they were not willing to let each other go. I was still unaffected with my surrounding as the only thing I had been thinking was to come back to Malaysia, head back to Akademi Kementerian Pelajaran Tinggi (AKEPT) Negeri Sembilan and enjoying the delicious food of AKEPT’s Canteen.

That was when I was Noudchalinh Thammavong. Her eyes were teary and when she saw me with her woebegone face expression among the crowd, she immediately hugged and said, “Ana, I do not want you to go” and immediately that moment, I could feel innumerable needles were pricking my feelings that I instantaneously felt wretched and broken. If I were to convey those feelings I felt during that time into words, I would say that I felt as if my feelings were shattered and my entire ego of not wanting to cry during that moment perished. All of this while, I had been suppressing my sadness of not wanting to leave them all by myself but during this moment, I relinquished all of it. Despite of our diverse language and culture; we did went through a lot together.

On the surface, our relationship may seemed only based on our volunteerism work, our community immersion together or perhaps maybe only for the sake of making this mission a success but it was not. We were always more than this. We took care of each other. We supported each other. These two weeks mission of ours would never be the same if it weren’t because of the strong bond that had been growing stronger and stronger with each and every passing day of that we had been through. But that would not able to change anything. The YSS volunteers still had to leave the peaceful land of Lao-PDR and came back to Malaysia. We still had another commitment to accomplish. We need to leave. This was the hardest good bye that I had been through all of my life. I had been saying good bye so often every time my father was transferred to another states of Malaysia due to his duty as a soldier and I thought I was already immune to it but today was the day that another good bye managed to torn my feelings to pieces. That sadness did not stop even until we arrived at Pakse Airport for departure. Some of our counterparts who had their own accommodations willingly followed us to the airport to send us until departure hall but since I was in the first flight group, I did not have the luck to spend more time with them and at 1000H, I left the land Lao-PDR.

 I may be physically leaving this place and the people here but I knew that some part of me had resided in Lao-PDR. Those memories that we had created would always stay and treasured forever beneath my deepest heart’s core. I would never forget them. Another bond across the borders had been joined and this bond would not easily be broken. Farewell my friends. We will meet again someday. We will be joined again as a family and before that time approached us, let us hold dear every endearing and valuable memories of ours. Thank YSS for giving us the chance to experience this wonderful journey to be written in our diary of life. 

Beautiful and sweet Noudchalinh Thammavong

YSS Volunteers for Team Ban Soukhouma with our handsome YSS officer, Encik Shahrul

Soukhouma Sayang full members

A WARM LOST

It was a warm Friday afternoon and I was so bored. It was a Good Friday holiday but both of my parents were still busy with their careers. “Oh please! It was a public holiday. Why can’t they spend a little bit of their time for us, their own children?” my angry heart often asked but I knew, they always gave my question the same answer, “We did all this for you and your brother...”. “Oh mom! We need your love and attention more than anything else in this world...”

            “Cindy! Cindy! There’s a phone call for you” , my brother, Allan suddenly approached me from the back, stopping my wild imaginations. I went to pick up the phone and answered it quickly. “Hey Cindy! Let’s go shopping today. Samantha and Joyce are going to join us too”. It was Edna, one of my Cheeky Gang members. “Whoa!  That would be fun. I would love to...but my parents aren’t home and nobody is going to take care of my little brother” , I answered sadly. “Oh, I see. Where is your maid then? “, Edna asked. “Hello? It is Good Friday holiday except for my parents” Edna was in a silence for a while. “Well, what if you just bring you bring your brother with us? He would not cause us any trouble, I think...” Edna gave a quick idea and I agreed without thinking any further.

            I went upstairs and opened my wardrobe. I changed my clothing to mini skirt and a baby tee. That would be enough for me. I was already beautiful and mesmerizing without any make-ups. I looked at my appearance on the mirror and yeah, i looked fabulous. I helped Allan to pick up his clothes. Well, what did a five year old boy knew about picking up the right colour? After finished, we waited for Edna to pick us up.

            “Cindy, have you informed mom?” Allan suddenly asked and I shook my head. “I do not want to go. Mom will be mad at me”. Those innocent eyes of Allan at stared at mine. I started to feel something wrong. I felt uneasy. Something was not right.  “Allan, mom won’t even know. We will go back home before mom and dad do, okay?”. “But, I do not want to leave them...” before I could say anything, my phone suddenly rang. It was Edna.

            “Hello? Cindy! I forget the way to your house. So, err...can you have a walk to the main road? We will be waiting for you here”, Edna told me. “What? Are you insane? The weather is damn hot now and you are asking me to walk? With high heels? It is too far...” I scolded her. She should be picking us in front of my house and now, she was asking us to walk by feet to the main street. She was out of her logical mind! “Cindy, you have no choice. You have to if you want to join us. If you do not want...” she stopped her words. I knew she was blackmailing me. “Okay, fine. Wait for me. I will be there in a minute”. I hung up the phone then.

            “Allan, hurry up! Do not walk like a tortoise! You are so slow...” I scolded Allan. His two pools of eyes already in tears and I knew, it will burst any time. Poor Allan but the hot weather was making my temperature to rise. “Cindy, I do not want to go. I do not want to leave home...” Allan began to sob. “What?! Only a few steps more to the main road and you want to go back? No way, Allan. Come, let’s go” , I screamed at him without being tolerant. Allan burst into tears. He released my hand and began to run. As I was going to chase him, my phone suddenly rang and I answered it harshly.

            “Cindy? Can you please hurry up a bit? We had been waiting for you for ages”. Edna’s voice sounded mad. Before I could answer, I heard a loud noise behind me and when I turned around, I saw a Hilux car and a boy laid motionlessly on the road. “Allannnnnn!” I screamed hysterically and ran towards him. Unfortunately, I fell. Stupid high heels! I quickly got up to get him. “Allan, please wake up. I am so sorry. Wake up, please...” I cannot stand it anymore. I burst into tears. I cannot think anymore. I embraced Allan tightly and suddenly, everything faded into darkness.

*******

            I could hear someone crying. It was hard to pen my eyes but I forced to. I could see whit lights and I felt so cold. “Where am I...?” I saw my parents sitting beside me. I, myself burst into tears. “I am sorry, mom. I am so sorry, dad. It was entirely my fault. Where is Allan? Where is he?” My parents were in silence. They looked at each other. My mom shook her head, “He was gone...” I cried even worst. My beloved brother, he was gone because of his sister’s foolishness! “I am sorry, Allan. I should never go...” “I do not want to leave home...” I could hear his last words everywhere. “Allan, I am so sorry...”