Assalamu’alaikum
warahmatullahi wabarokatuh and a very good evening to Inia’s Legacy // Warisan
Inia blog readers. How are you? Today is the
second day of June 2012 and its
the starting of Week Number 1 for “My 12 Weeks Journal” in REAL Sahabat SERU
programme in University of Malaya.
~
Merrier~
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What I have learnt about myself this week?
This
month is a crucial month for University of Malaya’s students as this is the
time where FINAL EXAMINATIONS will take
place. As for me, I will have 4 papers for the first week and another 2 papers
in the second week of the month. Worries? YES, I am anxious indeed. I have
learnt about myself that I lost sleep quite often during the study week (28 May
– 3 June) and to make myself in high spirits, I made a few phone calls to my
buddies whom I didn’t contact for quite sometimes in my phone lists. My
birthday was on 27th May (Happy Birthday to me~~ hehe ;D ), which
was on last Saturday where as a Maxis mobile phone user, I got the whole day of
free calls to all Maxis numbers on my birthday. Well, I contacted a few
friends/ family members to cheer myself and it worked.
Apart
from that, my roomates made a cute birthday card for me and we went out to
Pusat Perubatan Universiti Malaya (PPUM) or the University Malaya Medical
Centre by walking (we decided to walk as a form of exercise and we want to
release our tension a little) and ate a slice of cake each person in Secret Recipe.
Well, that’s the nearest cake house to 5th Residential College. You
guys want to know how to get to the Secret Recipe? Okay, you will need to go to
Medic faculty, go to the Medic Library, walk straight to the hallway until you
find yourself at an ICU unit. You’re in the hospital already. Take the
elevator, down to Ground level, the cake house is at the lobby.
Nyum,
nyum... enough for the delicious cake and for this examination, I’ll do my
best! I am nervous, so I heal myself spiritually by reciting Juz Amma’ a few times
this whole week because it will reminisce my childhood memories of been to
Farhu Ain’ Quran classes while I was 8 years old where the whole class will
recite together Juz Amma’ where for me, it was a sweet memory of time and it
reliefs my stress too. And for my beloved readers, what ever you do in life,
DON’T FORGET TO GET PARENTS’ BLESSINGS upon you. If you still have your parents,
call them and ask for their forgiveness, get them to pray for your success,
insyaAllah it will cool you down a bit, regardless of what faith you are
holding. J
~Marriage~
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What functions did I attend this week?
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I
believe that you have your best friends, regardless how many of them. Be it,
one, two , tree, or thirty, name it. For me, currently I have four best friends
and we have been together since fourteen years old. One of my best friend that I
have known since I was 11 years old, get married today. I went to Melaka with
my other two best friends (one is studying overseas, so she couldn’t come). We went
there this morning by car, my friend who is working in the UM laboratory
fetched me in UM at 8 o’clock and we went to Sungai Besi to take my other
friend, where from there we went to Kuala Sungai Baru, Melaka. We arrived there
at 11 o’clock. She was wearing her white bride gown with white headscarft and her
husband is a Navy (Not Naavi of the Avatar okay... ;P hehe). One thing that is interesting about marrying a Navy is
that, there will be a ceremony of the bride and bridegroom walking under swords
hold by some ‘naviens’ what I called them ;P, and believe me, it was a cool
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I realised that my friend had married properly and I feel merrier that
moment. Oh man, when is my turn?? :P The best part was that I had to
know her university’s friends (she went to different university) and they took
Bachelors of Education taking Teaching English as a Second Language as well. So
we took each other’s contact number and walla! Networking happened. ;P
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What lessons did I get from reading this week?
I remember reading this novella (it
is called novella because the story is longer than a short story and shorter
than a novel, thus it is called as a novella) when I was in secondary school,
titled “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, where it was a simplified version to be read.
I read this 88 pages novella again, where the language was definitely for not
the beginner level. It took me quite a while to understand the plot, the
language was very British and ‘oldies’ as well. Want to know what this story is
all about? Imagine that you are now broke (well, as a student, we always broke
isn’t it (-.-‘) – except to those who has their side income coming in of course
;P), with RM0.50 in your purse/wallet. Suddenly you see a girl of 4 years old
holding a RM100 note with no one around and you were thinking “I want to have
that money. Can I just slap the little girl and take the money and run away?”. Well,
this is definitely an evil thought right? And as a fine person, you won’t do
like what you have thought just now right?
Now, imagine that evil thought could
be separated from your body and became alive, physically separate from yourself
now, as you, but a more evil person who will do what you thought just now. Well,
that’s what we call as ‘split personality’. Dr. Jekyll made an experiment in
chemical portions and successfully separate himself as another person – an evil
side of himself called Mr. Hyde. What happened was that Mr. Hyde made crimes
and transformed to Dr. Jekyll to hide himself (well, he is Dr. Jekyll anyway). Dr.
Jekyll good friend, Mr. Enfield, a lawyer was curious about Dr. Jekyll ‘absence’
and thought that Mr. Hyde do something bad to him. Well, I encourage you guys
to read the whole story as it carries the lessons of sanity, good versus evil,
and for me, it carries the meaning of us human has our own personalities. Sometimes
we tend to pretand in front of other people’s presence and be an absolutely
different person when being alone (or on the phone, hehe). As a person who live
in a society, we need to know ourselves and be adaptable to our environment/
society. Like one of a Malay saying of when you go into a goats herd, you
sounds and act like one, and vice versa to whoch animal you wish to change in
this context. Be adaptable I can say, and you’ll be just fine. J
For your information, this book is
not expensive at all. It was affordably cheap and could be bought at the price
of RM7.90 (yes folks, it’s cheaper than our mobile prepaid credits of RM10 for
a good literature story! ;D). Where to buy it? Here: à Book Xcess. Located at
Level 3 in Amcorp Mall, next to Taman Jaya LRT station, 1 station from
Universiti LRT station (the fare is only RM0.70 folks! >.< ). For book
lovers, lots of good books could be obtained in a surprising affordable price.
Lets go! >o<
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What did I learn from any audio or visual materials
this week?
This
week, I encountered this comic strip which I found very interesting. It’s about
KHUSYU’ in SOLAH/ prayers. I have translated into English for everyone to read,
regardless of what first language are you using.
For Moslems, solah is the most
crucial in our life. Performing it is another story, becoming khusyu’ is
another story. Khusyu’ in solah is one of my weakness while performing solah. As
a student, we do have lots of tasks to do , be it assignments, tasks, group
discussions, college’s projects, university’s projects or event faculty
projects and sometimes our schedules are tight where we need to think many
things in our mind. Sometimes, when performing solah, we might be thinking of an
assortment of thoughts like picture above. We need to stay focus in performing
it. One tips that I read before is that, imagine while you are performing, at
your right side is the angels taken all your deeds you are doing, and imagine
about jannah on that side too, while on your left side lays the syaitaans
telling you to do bad things with the hell on that left side of your too. And in
front, imagine that you are praying in front of Allah, be modest and made duaa’ that our solah is
accepted by Allah. When I tried this tips, yes, I can perform my prayers better
and sometimes when I forgot to imagine that, I started to be like ones in the
picture, distracted.
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What activities did I do this week and what are the
lessons that I learned?
As
this is the study week for University of Malaya, activities that I did mostly
out of studying. One thing for sure for this week is that, Wi-Fi connection was
good (I seldomly got Internet access in my hostel room in KK5) because on the Friday,
25th May, students started to flew off from UM to their respective
hometown. Some were seen to bring their stuffs at the bus stop waiting for
taxis to load their boxes of personal belongings as the end of semester will
come to us just around the corner. So, one lesson that I learnt was that during
study week, it was like a ‘festive’ season for students to go back to their
hometown before the exam. For some students, they can study in their hometown
but not for me. J
However, I do missed my family a lot and I called my little brother, my little
sister and my mother quite often throughout this week when I feel stressed and
asked for my parents blessings upon my studies, insya-Allah. Another 2 weeks to
go back for a while to my parents’ house! You can do it Inia!
Apart from that, I did have meeting
for SIFE (Student In Free Enterprise) on Tuesday the 29th to discuss
about our upcoming competition deadlines of projects (Our National competitions
with other local universities will be in early July 2012 and to the university
who will make it to the Final will compete with other universities around the
world in SIFE World Cup, which will be held in Washington D.C.). We, SIFE
Universiti Malaya will represent University of Malaya in two projects,
insya-Allah: One, recycling of cooking oil, and Two, UM Decomposing Site
awareness. I have been selected to be a presenter for our presentation in front
of the judges and I’m actually quite nervous about it. Need to prepare more on
my oral English so that the presentation would be clear and to the point. ;) I do
hope everything will go well. Until then my readers, see you again later on my
next post! ;D
Assalamualaikum
and GOOD LUCK in our FINAL EXAMs!
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I realised that my friend had married properly and I feel merrier that
moment. Oh man, when is my turn?? :P The best part was that I had to
know her university’s friends (she went to different university) and they took
Bachelors of Education taking Teaching English as a Second Language as well. So
we took each other’s contact number and walla! Networking happened. ;P
Now, imagine that evil thought could
be separated from your body and became alive, physically separate from yourself
now, as you, but a more evil person who will do what you thought just now. Well,
that’s what we call as ‘split personality’. Dr. Jekyll made an experiment in
chemical portions and successfully separate himself as another person – an evil
side of himself called Mr. Hyde. What happened was that Mr. Hyde made crimes
and transformed to Dr. Jekyll to hide himself (well, he is Dr. Jekyll anyway). Dr.
Jekyll good friend, Mr. Enfield, a lawyer was curious about Dr. Jekyll ‘absence’
and thought that Mr. Hyde do something bad to him. Well, I encourage you guys
to read the whole story as it carries the lessons of sanity, good versus evil,
and for me, it carries the meaning of us human has our own personalities. Sometimes
we tend to pretand in front of other people’s presence and be an absolutely
different person when being alone (or on the phone, hehe). As a person who live
in a society, we need to know ourselves and be adaptable to our environment/
society. Like one of a Malay saying of when you go into a goats herd, you
sounds and act like one, and vice versa to whoch animal you wish to change in
this context. Be adaptable I can say, and you’ll be just fine. J 
As
this is the study week for University of Malaya, activities that I did mostly
out of studying. One thing for sure for this week is that, Wi-Fi connection was
good (I seldomly got Internet access in my hostel room in KK5) because on the Friday,
25th May, students started to flew off from UM to their respective
hometown. Some were seen to bring their stuffs at the bus stop waiting for
taxis to load their boxes of personal belongings as the end of semester will
come to us just around the corner. So, one lesson that I learnt was that during
study week, it was like a ‘festive’ season for students to go back to their
hometown before the exam. For some students, they can study in their hometown
but not for me. J
However, I do missed my family a lot and I called my little brother, my little
sister and my mother quite often throughout this week when I feel stressed and
asked for my parents blessings upon my studies, insya-Allah. Another 2 weeks to
go back for a while to my parents’ house! You can do it Inia!
