Contacted the Japanese embassy in Malaysia.
They have not obtained the results yet from MEXT.
Got to wait for a few more days as the Japan embassy will be closed for Chinese New Year celebration in my country from 7 to 8 February 2008.
According to the officials, I can make the necessary arrangements with my university first while waiting for further instructions from the embassy.
Its a bit funny to contact the university first without knowing beforehand where MEXT is going to assign me to study for the Japanese language preparatory course.
I will see what I can do first.
Thanks for the congratulatory post, dblbstrd!
You guys have been very helpful especially dblbstrd, Saulo de Oliveira and osging!
To the rest of the applicants, good luck and I believe you will be getting your results soon!
Hi Wen Ling and to all the people in 'tis fabulous forum 'ere,
I'm new and 'tis will be my first post. I'm all the way from Malaysia.
Like Wen Ling, I was selected to sit for the exam and then for the interview session which I would say the 'crucial' part of the whole scholarship thingy. And I do have to agree with Wen Ling 'cos the whole procedure is very very time consuming and you have to do everything accordingly within the given time frame which was rather short.
I get through both stages and started to look for universities. Well, tried with the so-called well-known uni but guess wasn't good and convincing enough, so didn't manage to get any acceptance letters from those few uni. At this stage, it can be so frustrating and you might get all stressed up. But then again, just try your best people.
So, I then sent an email to 'Kumamoto Daigaku' and got a real quick feedback from them. Even managed to get the acceptance letter from one of the prof there. Thank god! However, right before the due date, I received another acceptance letter from a women's uni in Tokyo namely 'Ochanomizu Jyoshi Daigaku' which was my first choice. but then again, like what some of you were saying, the embassy have all the right to place me wherever they want right? so, i'll just wait and see.
Last but not least, to all who made it congrates!! To those who are trying your luck 'tis year, all the best and erm, just be sure and clear of what you gonna study there folks. may we succeed and UMAKU IKU YOUNI!!