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-