Chaps, put yourself in speedbirdhopefuls shoes. You spend all of your dad's money buying your first job. After three years years you tell everyone that you have been selected to go to a warm beach paradise to be fly their 777s. Tax free, maids, limos to work, high life for eternity. You arrive to find you have to work hard to exist. The jets just don't shine like they did in the brochure.
Of course all this is caused by some ATR FO in Malaysia.
Koji, good luck with your application. EK is different to other airlines. Everyone who gets an interview has the job until you talk your way out of it. Relax, do your best, and it should be OK if you can fly the SIM.