D'christwali

Recently Pendeta ZaBa has done a program called D'christwali. The name is very unique is it? Actually it is the combination of Deepavali and Christmas. It was held in Kiosk Pendeta ZaBa college.The programme was done by members of Kelab Sentamil Kalagam(KSK).I was one of the high board members for this ceremony. I was been chosen as Diector of programme. That was the first time i hold a board and i have gained alot of experiences from that ceremony. As a Director of Programmes my duty was to handle all the programmes that had on he day, i dai tentative of the show and helped protocol bureau on the day. The VIP for the show was Dr. Narayanan, one of the lecturers in FSSK. We, first year girls fom Pendeta ZaBA college have done a performance.We did a classical dance with lights and traditionally. There were alot of performances. Such as malay dance, modern dance, semi classical dance and a wonderful singing performance from christian society in ZaBa. During the speech of VIP, he said that we have done a very good job and he likes our first year students spirit. We were very happy and satisfied because it was uor first programme in college that done by first years and we got alot of positive comments and also compliments from lots of the audience. It was a great experience and lesson for all of us. We have done our best in this show and wish to do the best in our examinations too.

GOOD LUCK!

Hye everyone! This is my latest post for this current semester. As we all know for the past couple of weeks we were all facing the dread full nightmare of our PBL assignments and now that its over I feel like as though a huge rock has been lifted from my shoulders. I still remember i was running here there and everywhere just to get materials to support my arguments and at the same time trying to settle other written assignments at hand. Most of the times my life revolves around the law library and PTSL just to complete the PBL assignment. I guess it was safe to say that the PBl was like a parasite sucking the dear life out of me but luckily I got out of it when it was over last Thursday. As soon as it was over I went out with a couple buddies of mine just to celebrate. What we did was not really that adventurous but still it was memorable. What we did was that we toured KL and then we filled our tummy with nasi lemak at the famous nasi lemak joint which was nasi lemak antarabangsa. It was finger licking good. Now that the nightmare of PBl is over comes the nightmare of finals. Guess nowi have to really focus and glue my head to the books so that i can do well in the finals. Well that's all for now i guess from me. I'll be back =D

-Norazianti-

%$# JUst FoR MaWarD! #$%

~ Here you are ~

Almost Ending

This post will probably be but most likely not be the last post but in any case i'm just going to reflect on the PBL assignments. Contract PBL was really gruesome. never in my life have i spent most of the times out of my life in the library. I don't know if anyone knows this but the library is like a kryptonite to me. A lot of my friends could tell the effect of the PBL assignment on me. My eyes was literally like a panda due to the lack of sleep that I had. Luckily over the weekends I had sometime to chill with my companion at the woods inside UKM itself. We had to go through this simulation training under our curricular activity "Khidmat Masyarakat". Another thing that I feel sorry is that we have been neglecting our responsibility as students to respect our lecturers. This is because due to the PBL sessions we have not been attending classes and even delayed our presentation which was schedule perfectly by our English lecturer and for that I would like to say that I'm sorry. We have been taking our English classes for granted but little that we know it also plays an important role as part of our CGPA count. I feel such a fool for acting that way and I just hope that our lecturer has the mercy and find it in her heart to forgive us. I guess now that all of our classes has ended and the next thing on the list of to do as students is to focus on our finals which I bet all the lecturer has a painfull surprise for all of us. All i can do now is just pray to god that I will have the courage and determination to do my best in the finals. It used to be eat, sleep and watch football but I guess now its eat, sleep and read law books. So for now I'm going to end my post and hit the books. I would like to wish all the readers of the post happy studying and good luck in the finals. -CIAO-

A WEEK OF SILENCE

%$# Memory #$%

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~EnD~

Finally, the moment that I am waiting for so far is coming. The end of the semester has let my hair down. I never realise that the it comes so fast. Starting to plan where and when I am going to play around with my friends, but , sarcastically, I have not planned my revision schedule yet although the examination comes before the semester break.

Everybody went back to their hometown before the study week comes. For me, I cannot concentrate at all if I am back to hometown. I am different with others, I have to stay in my hostel, let me alone, until nothing to do, then I can only focus in my study well. If not, there are many temptations in my hometown which will bother my revision.

So far, I met many friends in Faculty of Law, "different varieties" of friends. Since this is the last post in the semester, I have to tell the story with my wholeheartedness. Before entering this faculty, I have met with my secondary school senior who had graduated and now is having her chambering. She said: "this faculty will teach you a lesson which you can find out the reality of the future society here." What does it mean by that. Actually, I am not believed in that. However, I started to realise all what she said when the group works and assignments came. I can see how the people do not tolerate each other in order to gain the advantages that they wish to have; always compare each other in the academic performance, and finally, they are stressed; Individualism, materialism... ...

Friends, studying does not mean you need to get the higher position than other. If you feel that you can survive without any help from your friends, then, just go ahead. But, the reality is, the power of team is amazing.

I am so glad since I have met with some friends who are always taking care of me so far. Thank you.

Happy Sem Break!
But, before, All the best in the final examination.

Is official,all the classes are over.No more assignments,presentations,meetings!Grr!
The 14 weeks we been through was tough.Seriously.First few weeks,we have to adapt ourselves to the new environment,adapt to the busy lifestyle as a student after a long holidays etc.Then it was classes classes and more classes,and presentations dosen't seem to over.And presentation means group work.Group work mean we have to group ourselves in different group for different subject and we have to team up with different kinds of people.Frankly,i am not a big fan of group work.Never like them.I used to and i love to study alone.I never see the outcome from study group.Maybe it is just me.And after all these things(PBL,presentations etc),i hate group work even more.It is very hard and i tend to get frustrated with all the meetings when i know the meetings usually come out with nothing.The only thing i get from group work is just a lesson,is hard to survive on your own,but is harder when we have to count on somebody else.

A TOUGH FINAL WEEK
Finally, we reach the final week. As we know, the time has wings, my first semester in ukm is almost reach the end. In this week, I am very tired and exhausted as I only sleep two or three hours per day. This is because I have lots of presentation in this week. Every night, I have to prepare my presentation until midnight with my group members.
In every presentation, we are divided into different group. So, we have to mingle with different people. After I passed through so many presentation, I found that is not an easy job to cooperate and communicate with the others. Along the process of cooperation, we face many problem either in academic or public relation. Everybody have different characteristic and attitude. So, as a leader in a group, I have to use different way to deal with them.
During the discussion for presentation, my members did not pay their full commitment to our group. They always came lately for our discussion with various reason. Along the process of discussion, they also did not pay attention and keep doing their own activity. Because of these kind of attitude, our progress move on very slow and cannot come out any result. Therefore, when the presentation is around the corner, we are forced to burn the midnight oil. So, I endure a very busy week because of the presentation. Besides, they have no cooperation in my group because each individual only prepare the point for themselves. Actually, they do not try to solve the problem by discussion but by own ability. We also fail to tackle the problem accurately and it renders us submit on wrong ground.
Like the famous saying, ‘’ let bygones be bygones’’, since all the presentation was finished, I can only hope that the members can realize their wrongdoing and change their behavior. So, the problem that happened during the discussion will not happen in next semester. Luckily, our presentation carried on smoothly and not as bad as I think.
During the study week, I will go to my sister’s house for a few days to do my revision and rest there as well. Actually, I am quite worry about my final exam because I still left lots of things have not study. So, I must strive and put as many efforts as I can.
LUM KOK KIONG

Hi everyone, seems time passes by very quick. In a blink of eye, our first semester will end soon.
I will reflect on our course English for law. After studying for pass 3 month, I learned a lot of stuffs. Skimming and scanning really do help me in reading thick case books. It helps me a lot in finding the relevant facts in doing my research for Contract Law and Constitutional Law. I think, skimming and scanning can be apply not only in my studies in the university but through out my entire life.

I also felt that, this course also improved my vocabulary and grammatical skills in English. From, passive sentece to reading for detail, helps me in understanding how english sentences work. Subject, verb and object is something uncommon for me even though I have been studying English for the past 18 years. I thank our lecturer , Puan Hanani in giving us a clear explanation in how passive sentences works. It really helps me in reading judges judgement and cases whereby the entire cases were written in passive form.

Ever day we will learn something in life. I believe that English for Law really taught me a lot in terms of English and in other aspect like how to give a better presentation and doing research for a certain topic or issue.

I think this course not only improved our English level but Puan Hanani had taught us the basic in doing research and understanding how things in life works ( Adapting to certain stuffs if the environment does not adapt to us ). With that, I thank you Puan Hanani once again. I hope we will meet again in the nearest future.furthemore,i also want take this chance to apologise to Puan Hanani if i had doin something that make her dissapointed since i entered the class at the early semester...

Reflects....

Finally, all the classes were over. But our fight is not over yet still a long way to go. Without realising it, there were already 14 weeks that we’ve been here. Oh..it’s such a short period. I just feel like yesterday I’m registered in this university. But, now it’s time for us to focus on our final exam. Thinking back in our early times, we just going for the class and then back from class. As for me, what give me a bit pressure is the tutorials because we are required to get prepared before the class. However, finally it had over. But the challenge as a law student doesn’t seem to stop there. Later, we have to get prepared for our PBL. The life becomes hectic again and many problems had to be faced. Social, communication and other generic skills had to be improved. For me, I’m not being satisfied with myself with all the PBL and presentations. I still feel that I’m lack in many things which I think should be improved as soon as possible. This is not the time to cry on all the mistakes and lacks but time to keep improving myself. After all of the bad things happen, I still keep on thinking positive. I’m not sure whether my positive thinking makes others think that I don’t care. I do. I do care about my mistakes but I’m trying to make myself positive. I’m sure that many lecturers and my friends that disappointed with me. However, I’m trying to do my best. In future I will do my very, very best. Insya-Allah...I think it’s time for me to go. I wish all the best for all in the final exam.

+ memories +

Assalamualaikum and hello guys,
Although this is the last entry that will be evaluated, I do really hope that you guys will always active and post something here... so that set 5 for English for Law will be a sweet memories for all of us.
About 3 months being together, there are lots of memories / experiences that we share together throughout our learning process... we have been taught on how to work in one group and cooperate with each other especially during the mock trial about the Goldilocks and the Three Bears. During the discussion before the trial and on that day, I can see that most of them will give their ideas / knowledges in order to make sure that they will win in the proceeding. At first, when MADAM ask us to think about this story and want to make a mini moot based on the story, most of think that it is impossible to do. But, when we sit together sharing and discussing our topic, we found that, there are many things that we do not expect at all. Both group, will try to relate the Malaysia's authorities (although it is sounds impossible) to the fairytale. I found that, it is the best day for the Set 5 because all of us had fun, both side will argue in order to uphold the “justice” and the mock trial was recorded.
I know that our performances and attitudes in class were not so good, but we promise to MADAM that we will try our best in the final exam. Go go chaiyo set 5!

For this few weeks, everybody is very busy with PBL. Everywhere I go, and when I met my course mate, the first question that will be questioned to me was, Hawa, how’s your PBL? Or do you have your PBL’s discussion today... haiz~ sometimes it makes me feel want to go to the other faculty for a few days and no need to answer the same question everyday... hehe~ Although PBL was quite tough, we learnt many things from it. 1. Our friendship become stronger and we solve the issues together without having any big problems. 2. We become more confident and it also sharpens our soft skills. 3. We know how to find the sources by our own without the guidance from the lecturers. From now onwards, I’m start enjoying doing mooting because like I said before, I learnt many things from it. Now, PBL is over and all we need to do is concentrating to our final exam... hope all of us will success and make the others proud to 25th batch of Law Faculty, UKM.

Finally to Ong, Shila,Sutina,Shoo May,Prema, Kak Long, Alia, Adi,Fairol,Mawardi, Firdaus,Ming, Denise, Xin Yu, Lum, Emirul and Zhao Lin.. Good luck and thanks for the friendship. To Madam Raja Hanani, thanks for everything...

=)
Salam~

Hello, my fellow friends. First of all, Happy Deepavali to all my Indian friends.
Today, I would like to share with all of you my feelings. Until today, finally all the presentation and PBL end. Next week is holiday for study week before our final examination arrive. What I would like to say is I'm very unsatisfied with my PBL Contract and I really hope that I can do it all over again and I believe that I would do better. This is my first experience in mooting and I really had learn something from this. This is a very precious and memorable experience for me. To prepare for my PBL, my group and I really had put so much effort, but the outcome is totally different with what have us expected. All of my group member think that we would do better if we got a chance to do it all over again. But undeniable, all of us feel relief when we know that the PBL is end.
The university lifestyle at law faculty is exactly different with what have I thought before. Everyone keep going to said that the life at university or campus is better and easier compared to the life at secondary school and form six. But, until today i realize that what have they said is totally different with what I have been undergo in the law faculty. I proved them wrong. The life at here is more tension and harder than what have I thought where here require much more effort to keep going in this four year study before I'm graduate. My form six's lecturer prefer to mention a maxim which sounds "choose thy love and love the choice". He often reminds me that I should choose what I would like to be and should not regret for what I have been chosen. His words always remain in my mind and I really struggle hard to survive in this tension study environment. Since the first day I enter the law faculty, I know that I couldn't regret with my choice anymore but I have to keep going this long journey bravely. Actually, I never dreamnt that I would be here, the law faculty. But, the fact is I'm here and therefore I realize that I really need to put much more effort to ensure that I would survive in this competitive environment. But, I felt that I don't have enough time since I'm here. There are so many cases, articles, authorities and texts for me to read but, I feel that I don't have enough time to do so. Maybe this is because the proficiency of my language is not well enough and I found that It's really takes time for me to understanding fully the texts or the cases that I have read. I have to read it again and again and analysis it and think about it before I really understand what the authors try to delivered. It's really take time. Maybe this is the main factor that I felt that I don't have enough time. But undeniable, I really have learned something from the PBL. In the preparation PBL, my group and I had discussed the issues together and my group member really sharpen my mind. I start to be more analyitcal and start to interpret and look into the matter in many aspect and try to find the solution from the different ways. I start to built up my own opinion and I start to debate my point with my group member. I think the better way to study is to listen to the others and try to form our own opinion after listened to the others and try to analysis is it correct and right for ourself to do this and that. Thus, I really enjoy the the conversation among my PBL group member. I get along with them very well and we are at ease to be one group. Although the process of the preparation for PBL is very hard and tough, but we really enjoyed the process. I valued the time of my group discussion on PBL as at that time, all of us in my group will comes out with our own perception and thinking during the conversation and we will start to rebut the others idea logically. After the conversation, we will comes out with a conclusion or thinking where everyone would agree about it. Undeniable, I felt that I'm lucky to get into such a fantastic group and become a part of the group.
That's all from me today, thank you.

Sincerely from,
Shoo May

PBL : A New Perspective of Me! ~ Group Leader...

Assalamualaikum n Hope All in the Good Condition...

Alhamdulillah I had finished my PBL presentation yesterday. For me, PBL had gave a thousand meaning for me. Today, I want to share some of my experience as a group leader in PBL presentation.

Having a group leader is not an easy task. Here, only determination can bring us to a better result of our group. I am taking the challenge to be a group leader for this session of PBL. At the beginning to be a group leader is an easy task but its becomes a nightmares when the problems comes in.

The problem begins when all the group member do not give full commitment to understand the question and also to find the relevance cases related to the topic above. Me as a group leader had tried my best to settle my problems in a good manner. But all to worst when a lot of assignment get along at the same time.. IT,consti, etnik... Aargh.. that's had influene my feeling throughout the days...and the volcano EXPLODE when I cannot hide my emotional feeling to all my member group my expressing it in a "rude" way.. Actually I do not to express my feeling in that way but as a human being, my patience also had its limitation and until it reach into its limit, I will explode badly....It is not my style to express in that way that show bad image to me but it become uncontrolled when we problem comes along at the same time...

What I do when I cannot take all the burden is I'm tried to separate myself from the public but my collogue actually detacts my reaction and tried to settle my problem but I'm run away from them as I assumming them as a part of my burden and cannot solves my difficulty. what I do to settle my problem is I walked alone around the UKM and tried to find the happiness in my truly soul...

After that, all things turns into a good condition when all my friends had given a full commitment to settle their PBL task and also showing their support to me as a gorup leader when they had know their mistake and also tried to change the situation that we having now. That's make me a strong person as my friens itself had support all my efforts and also want to o-operate as a group. Thank God beause given this gold opportunity to settle my problems. What I learnt from this situation is I must not settle the problem by my own if I find it very difficult to do that but we must onsult with the other person as every person had their own perspective about the way to settle my problems.. Settle the problem by myself cannot settle everything but its only can hurt own feeling time by time...

To be a group leader had given a valueable chance for me to lead the other person the had their own behavior. What I hope in the future is I will be given one more chance as be a group leader cAN TEACH ME ON HOW TO ADAPT WITH THE DIFFERENT situation whether in the hard situation or not. To all my PBL members, Addlin, Azriff, Sing Ghee, Yung Ching, Kiao Huoi, and FArhah.. Thank for being one of close friends at least in a week... and also for your co-operation and hard work, only God may bless you.. I am very sorry if in a period of a week I had made something that made all of you not comfortable with me..that's come from my own weaknesses and I hope I caN changed it for the sake in the future.. Insya-Allah. I hope we can co-operate again as a one teAM in the future... Insya-Allah, may Allah bless it...

To Mdm Raja Hanani, I am sorry if I had done something that made your heart broken... I hope madam will "halal" the knowledge that you had gave to me and also to all my friends... Maybe we are still new to understand the environment but we can learnt from your experiences to be applied in the our life...

That's all for now.. Hope see you soon in another entry...

Insya-Allah...

Bid farewell to the first semester and hope all the best in your final examination....

Good Luck! Chaiyo! Chaiyo!

Hope see you soon in another entry...

Bye-Bye...........................

LAW LOVER

Assalamualikum WBT..
hi guys !!

i love reading law in ukm..

I sort of enjoy reading law and it is genuinely what I have always wanted to do. Although funnily enough I told my parents that I wanted to be a burglar when I was a kid?? I have never contemplated another degree subject. I only wish I could love it a bit more. There are many law blogs in my feed and I enjoy reading every single one of them, obviously or they wouldn't be in my feed. Most of them are very different and most of them deal with a specific law related genre, but one thing they all have in common is that they are law blogs in the true sense of the word. The writers clearly cherish writing about the subject and I am amazed by some blogs written by fellow students who write with a depth well beyond their student years.
Law is not a hobby for me. I certainly would never list it as an interest. The idea of going to bed reading a law book is abhorrent to me. I believe there is a humongous difference between enjoying your degree and loving law. To me it's all about the practice. It's about standing up and defending or prosecuting someone to the best of my ability. The degree is a means to an end and I can't wait for it to be over. I would like nothing more than to wake up tomorrow and be ready to go to work. I like the nitty gritty. This is when I will love law.

Am I strange? Surely I should live and breathe my degree. I should take an obsessive active interest in anything law related. I should devour all legal books and sitting in a lecture should be an absolute pleasure and every tutorial cherished. When I turn an exam paper over my heart should flutter at such a delicious question. I should be depressed that I am now lawless and will remain so for another three months. But I don't, they are not, it doesn't and I am not...really... I am really not.

Thats all for now..
Love you guys and good luck for the final exam !!

Yours trully,
Muhamad Mawardi

I'M FREE..BUT..........

I am so happy right now. I am feel free, just like comeout from prison..haha..After several weeks doing many thing and sacrifice my sleep time for preparing the presentation and PBL, now I can smile n sleep tight. What I need to do now is concentrate for the final exam. I just start to make regular revision and try to remember all the topic that I have learn in this semester. I am also try to find cases that related to all the topics. Huh, it quite difficult but I need to do so. I hope I can find it all and remember about the fact of the cases. Beside that, I am trying to polish my knowledge about the law especially in contract law and constitution subject. This is because, I am not really mastering both of the subject. I hope I can coop with all of this and can do the exam smoothly. Insyaallah... In this opportunity, i want to say sorry to all my beloved lecturers if I have made any mistake or without my concern have hurting their feeling. I am so sorry. A million thanks to you, because without you I am nothing. All the knowledge that you have share and give to me are the lights that shine my way in my journey to success. I hope your blessing and your prayer for me. I hope so because 'teacher' bless and prayer are the most key to success. In this opportunity, I am also want to thank to all my friends. You all are really great. Thanks for all your helps and advices. I hope we all can do well in this final exam. Hope we all will got high mark and good PNGK for this semester. Cheers..!!!

Busy days

I just come back from simulasi. It's a 2days training and I am extremely tired now.
Everyone has done their consti PBL and my group was the most unfortunately group.
We have to redo our submission because the grounds and issues we prepared were not the right one. We are still doing research on the new issue and it really takes alot of time.
I have not done anything for contract PBL.
It's damn stressful now.
What make me upset is that our group members are very uncooperative.
We are now facing big problems yet they still not appearing in the meeting.
I don't know what to do with them.

Anyway, I just finish register course.
It's late, bye

From the Pen of a Writer

Two years back, I wrote a story for my friend. I wrote about her father who died of colon cancer. I wanted to give her something, something that would help her reminisce of her late father, something that would give her strength to carry on. And she was so grateful to have seen the story published in the newspaper. It gave me a sense of achievement; to have done something special for a good friend and had her appreciate it.

A year later, my Godmother (who was also my aunty) was diagnosed with the same disease. I watched in agony how her body started to decay, giving way to the disease, though all she wanted to do was to live on to see her grandson grow up. I remembered once, her five-year-old grandson gave her a peck on her right cheek. She smiled, letting the pale face drown. It was as though she was well again. We all knew her birthday was around the corner but could only pray silently, hoping she would make it through.

My Godmother passed away on January 1, 2009. Her birthday was on January 2. We only sang her a birthday song by the coffin after the wake service.

I had been writing since my secondary years and had always enjoyed doing so. I told myself I was going to write about her and get it published in the papers like I did for my friend’s father. But until today, I could not bring myself to start writing.

Mummy

Every Monday night, she makes iced milo for the whole family. On week days, she comes home complaining about her colleague and her boss. And then she starts lecturing me for not helping out with the household chores (which I never learnt to). Later at night, she starts peeling oranges or cutting apples for my brother and I. Often, she likes to boast of her young days when there were rich men checking her out! On Thursday nights when Daddy goes to play badminton, she starts to watch korean dramas and starts tearing, with my brother and I laughing at her. When she learns a new English word and tries to tell us about it, we would tease and start imitating her, pronouncing the words the way she does (which were most of the time, inaccurate). During the weekends, she wakes up early in the morning to buy us bread and to cook, when all of us are still asleep. When lunch is ready, she wakes us up. After lunch, she does the dishes. Then we all go shopping together, and my brother and I could buy all the fancy stuff we want.

When I was back home, I only saw all these things as ordinary. It was until I left home that I realized that Mummy had not had much time for herself. All the time and money she had was spent on us, spent on providing us with a life she had never had. Though these are all simple gestures, they are the things only one person would and could do; Mummy.

cheating?? huh??

“Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.”

There are an immense amount of question and answer books available at the moment. On a number of occasions in the past I have been set an essay question exactly as it appeared in one of the question and answer books that I delved into purely for revision purposes.

What to do?

Copy it and change the odd word here and there.

Have it in front of you but rephrase the whole thing.

Use it as a guide to signpost key points required to answer the question.

Follow the structure of the answer but use your own research.

Attempt to improve on the answer.

Have a go at the answer and then compare it later.

Ignore it.

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It would be foolish to assume that there is only one copy of the book that you have in existence and the writers, publishers and anyone who had anything to do with the book or knew about it died in a plane crash. Wouldn't it?

Hello to all!!! This is my third post for the semester. Right now we're in the month of festivities because this month is the month of Syawal which spells Raya Aidil Fitri and not only that we're also expecting Deepavali very soon. My raya celebrations is a tinge different then your normal conventional Malay families. Normally on the day of raya they're be celebrating with family gatherings but not me. What I did on the first few days of raya was sitting behind a cashier and helping out. This has been something of a norm for me since a few years back but this year something different occured whereby my room mate came all the way just to help me out. I was really great full because she actually took her time to come down and help me out so with that at least i got to enjoy a fraction of the raya vibe. All the lovely baju kurung that i've had specially made are not meant to be shown to my family members and relatives but rather to the strangers who comes in and out. Its kind of sad if you think about it but at least i get to look good on raya which adds to the raya feeling. On the fifth day of raya was my chance to exploit the celebrations. This was the time where i could go out for visiting and meet some of my friends whom I've not met in a very long time. Although raya is a time of joyous occasion but i could not enjoy it to the full length because in my mind i was pretty occupied with the daunting image of my Problem Based Learning assignments. Basically some part of my raya was spent with a book in one hand and raya cookies in the other. I can never get my hands of the raya cookies. As of right now I'm back in UKM and the challenge of the assignments are heating up. Its so hard to prepare myself mentally as well as physically to face this tough assignments but luckily I have the support of my group mates i.e like Adi and Denise just to name a few to help me out. I know for a fact that together them and me plus a few others will try our level best to get through our assignments which will be evaluated next week. Its been a really hectic week before the we all went off for our raya break and now that we have got back its even more hectic than ever so for that i think i would my posting until here because I've yet to do some reading for it. I would like to take this opportunity to wish all Muslims Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri Maaf Zahir Dan Batin. Thank You and Good Bye

-Yours Truly-
-Norazianti-

Hey everybody. First of all i would like to wish all the Muslims Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri. This is my third posting and in the 12th week of studies which coincides with the month of Syawal which is also known as the raya month. This time round raya was not as fun as it used to be because the raya i spent was not with my family but rather with my books. Being in UKM this long what i can see is that all of us are moving with a phase. The first phase that everybody went through was midterms. during that time you could see most of the students were busy preparing, carrying books around here and there to prepare for midterms. The second phase which is the current phase we're facing is our Problem Based Learning(PBL) assignments. This assignments were assigned to us since before the raya break and the evaluation will take place next week. So as you can see the raya break was not really spent for raya but rather an extra time for us to really get ready for the assignments. I celebrated my raya this year in Singapore. Before leaving i really thought i could take this time to wind off but little that I realise that would not be the case. Celebrating raya in Singapore is quite different then spending raya in Kuala Lumpur. The nightmare that I faced in when I was there was that the extra poundage that i have gained. It really amazes me how much I gained for spending a week there. The fun part was that all the "duit raya" that i got was in Singaporean Dollars and with the current exchange rate I was having dollar sign imprinted on my eyes. Now that all of us are back to here in Bnagi, i guess the next phase that we will be doing is preparing for our finals. Let's just hope that I still have it in me to continue all this hard work and not give up half way.
-Adi-

To the end

Rise up,first years!! Its already the end of your heavenly holidays. Aidilfitri holiday was a great time for us to release all our frustration,mainly due to the billions of assignments that we have to endure for the past few weeks. Well,that one week holiday is over. Its back to our core business now,and that is to study. Technically,all our lectures had finished prior our holidays. But there is a catch,it does not mean the end of the semester yet. There is still one tiny issue to be settled before our honeymoon,and that is the final exam. Starting from the last lecture,we have approximately three weeks before we meet our destiny. Most of our final examination marks will be taken from our Problem-Based Learning's assignments. The quoestions are basically referring to a case,where we will be divided into groups and from it,we must choose who will be the judge and also the appelant and respondent's counsel. Discussions regarding the matter have been conducted almost everyday in this dying weeks before the examinations. From this,now only most of us realizes our level of knowledge in the subjects that had been thought throughout the lectures. Some of us are satisfied,some are less than happy. Still,through this given assignment,it helped us to exchange informations among each other,not to forget creating an even close bond between all of us,the first year student.

In this given moment,I woul like to wish a Selamat Hari Raya to all Muslims in the faculty,may this wonderful month we will gain more prosperity. Most importantly,good luck in your final examinations. May you pass with flying colours.

The climax

Other people are still in the mood of raya but not me. I have a lot of things to settle with especially the PBL. Thats worried me to death and I'm tension a bit because of that. But still my friends said that I didnt look like worrying because of I always happy and yet can laugh happily. It makes me think, what should I do? Did I had to show the worried expression or didnt laugh at all for the whole day? If I do that, they will think I'm was in a bad mood and arrogant. This is the way I am. I've become more buzier and hectic because of the PBL. After the PBL, there will be the exam. That's the biggest thing. Then, I've to perform well in both.