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Puncak Gunung Jerai..mind the gap...

2010-03-06T01:32:00.000-08:00

Hujung minggu yang panjang dengan cuti Maulidur Rasul, we planned nak jalan-jalan tapi tak tahu di mana. So, mula la dialog di antara dua kawan ni.

Si A: So after we complete marking, we still have 2 days off..Nak pg mana ya?
Si B: Kita pergi jalan-jalan macam yg last time we did after kita balik from
Practicum visit, Sg Petani tu nak tak? But this time kita pergi tempat lain
la..Aku tak kisah..

Si A: Nak pergi picnic? Why not kita invite Kak Jijahi's family to join with us

Meriah sikit.

Si B: That's good idea..Ok aku terus call Jijahi sekarang.

Si A: Diaorg kata ada tempat picnic yang best dan tak ramai orang kat Telok Mas,

Kuala Nerang. tapi tak tau direction nak pergi macammana..

Si B: Ala kita gamble aja la..macam la kita tak pernah buat..Ikut aja signage..

Si A: Ok.

Si B: Kita terus pergi Tasik Pedu ok juga kan..

Si A:Apa-apa pun ok as long as minyak kereta cukup..ekekekek..

Si B: Itu bisa diurus..hahahaha..

Esok harinya, mula la perjalanan ke Telok Tok Mas di Kuala Nerang..memang tempat ini tak ramai orang just ada 2-3 family aja. We just stayed there main air ja for about 40minutes..then terus perjalanan dengan harapan Si B nak ke Tasik Pedu..melunjur laju pergi tapi sampai satu simpang sunyi dan jalan ntah tak tahu nak ke mana...takut, pusing balik we headed to Gurun. So mula la kisah nak ke Puncak Gunung Jerai. Memang tak sia-sia..best sangat..Last minute plan, tapi mmg menarik dan best..worth it...

Taman Rimba Rekreasi dia kekeringan air, sebab musim kemarau..dah ada pembaharuan yang banyak sangat di Puncak dia..resort pun makin cantik..sempat pergi ke Telaga, Muzium Perhutanan..best, thanks to Cik Put...

Off to Seremban..

2010-02-19T01:28:00.000-08:00

I'm off to Seremban for my class at ATC, Seremban (esok dan Ahad)..will stay at Royale Bintang, Seremban...will have a break even have the workload there..

Exhausted....

2010-02-18T01:07:00.000-08:00

Really exhausted with the student's examination..alhamdulillah done my job on preparing the exam questions..lepas satu exam datang exam lain pula..then the process of marking and transmitting the marks lagi. Itu la yang bermain di minda.

Baru selesai mesyuarat with K.tinie (Prof.Madya Dr.Hartini Ahmad) and Dr.Zul (Prof.Madya Dr.Zulkifli Mat Udin) on our research project yang tengah berjalan..Alhamdulillah juga, I managed to complete on the literature review parts and methodology. Dapat kerja baru utk set-up the preliminary interview questions yang akan start on this coming March.. Nampaknya, hari ini dah tak termampu utk buat..The date line will be on 1st March to hand-over pada K.tinie for review..

This evening, as usual dah janji dengan Cik Put to Alor Star for dine..Dah tak larat nak makan masakan Thai aja. Tak tahu nak pergi ke mana lagi, tak banyak choice kat sini. Horray..

2010....

2010-01-19T23:57:00.000-08:00

2010..??? By starting 2010, I've to think about Phd.. Baru dapat surat dari Bahagian Pengajian Lanjutan, " Sukacita diucapkan TAHNIAH kepada anda kerana dicalonkan untuk melanjutkan pengajian Phd bagi tahun 2010/2011"..The letter sound encouragement, but for myself scared about the Phd.I'm not prepare anything yet, still searching for the ideas on what to research out..Alahai bukan senang sekarang ini. At the same time I've to fulfill the work demand..Mula start panic bila baca surat ini pagi tadi. Apa-apa pun mesti buat.

So mula la memikirkan where, when, how and why... Bila terjumpa kawan-kawan yang sebatch masuk kerja pun the same question akan appear 'Dah dapat tempat ke? Alahai takutnya dengar..bukan tempat tapi IELTS?topic still blurred lagi..still in the process of searching and reading till I don't know what I'm going to do even kita tahu bidang apa yang nak difokuskan..Lagi banyak baca articles from journal lagi banyak yang rasa tak tahu..huhuhuhu...So, currently i'm doing my gantt chart for preparing Phd matters..Baru rasa nak insaf dan nak buat. InsyaAllah, berdoa semoga Allah permudahkan segalanya...

Lama ditinggalkan...

2010-01-15T23:46:00.000-08:00

Lama tak menulis disini. Berkejaran dengan masa dan workload yang tak habis-habis. At the same time, macam tak pandai nak menulis dan berkongsi idea, tak seperti blog-blog lain yang menarik sangat. Rasa malu juga. InsyaAllah, saya akan menulis di blog saya ni.

Ahlan Ya Ramadhan 1430H.....

2009-08-21T01:30:00.000-07:00

To All,

Selamat Berpuasa..Moga Ramadhan kali ini dimanfaatkan dengan sebaiknya..insyaAllah..Bersama kita tingkatkan amalan dan iman pada Allah S.W.T dan membawa seribu keberkatan kepada kita.. Sepertimana dalam Sabda Rasulullah S.A.W.,

"Sesungguhnya telah datang kepada kamu bulan Ramadhan bulan yang penuh berkat. Allah telah fardhukan ke atas kamu berpuasa kepadanya. Sepanjang bulan Ramadhan itu dibuka segala pintu syurga dan ditutup segala pintu neraka serta dibelenggu segala syaitan"

AL - FATIHAH

2009-07-27T18:30:00.000-07:00

Al- Fatihah to Yasmin Ahmad..

Yasmin Ahmad, is person responsible in introducing her muhibbah concepts that different races can love one another, such as the Petronas commercials and movies.. I like to watch The Love of Tan Hong Ming (Petronas Independent Commercial)..She was laid to rest at Muslim Cementry, Seksyen 22, in Subang.. May she rest in peace.

Buah Nona

2009-07-06T01:21:00.000-07:00

Pernah dengar 'Buah Nona'? dalam sains namanya dipanggil Annona squamosa.. I really like it, sedap..even kita just dapat rasa isi buahnya yg nipis, tapi manis buahnya mmg sodap..Setiap kali I went to my friend's house at Taman Universiti, setiap kali tu la, I akan intai dan tolong kira berapa biji buah tu ada dan siap pesan bila dah masak, simpan 1-2 biji untuk I..sedap especially keep it in the fridge then baru makan..yummyummm.. Semuanya Ikira sampai puluh juga buah nona ini, ada yg sampai ke tanah..Ini dia gambar Buah Nona dari hasil tanaman Pn. Zuriana's hubby, En.Hasbi yang begitu banyak buahnya dan tak putus2 berbuah..

Ini pasal info Buah nona daripada wikipedia Bahasa Melayu...

Buah Nona atau nama sainsnya Annona squamosa, merupakan sejenis buah yang boleh dimakan dan dijual dipasar tani. Buahnya kilit yang berbonggol dan mempunyai banyak biji.
Terdapat pelbagai jenis Nona, antaranya yang mempunyai kulit bewarna hijau atau merah. Pokoknya merupakan pokok renak 6-8 meter tinggi. Daunnya berselang, ringkas, oblong-lanceolate, panjang 5-17 cm dan lebar 2-5 cm. Bunganya dihasilkan dalam kelompok 3-4, setiap bunga 1.5-3 cm, dengan enam kelopak, hijau-kuning dengan keungguan dipangkal.
Buah biasanya bulat atau bujur, berbonggol-bonggol, 6-10 cm keratan rentas dan seberat 100-230 g. Isi buah boleh dimakan, putih sehingga kuning cair, menyerupai dan rasa seperti kastad. Bijinya tersebar dalam isi buah; perang hingga hitam, sepanjang 12-18 mm, dan keras berkilat.
Secara tradisi, buah nona sering diperam di dalam kepuk beras sehingga masak.

Makan - Makan at Kuala Perlis

2009-07-05T00:56:00.000-07:00

Last Wednesday, we went to Kuala Perlis..thank so much to my best friend, Maya for the treat at Kuala Perlis..emmm, all the foods very scrumptious..semuanya ada, ikan bakar, ikan 3 rasa, sotong celup tepung, udang masak sambal, kerang bakar, terung bakar, kangkung belacan n ulam -ulaman..sampai thumbs up..kenyang sungguh that nite.. before that, we all jalan2 tepi pantai Kuala Perlis...Here are the foods served by Sharni's Corner..kira stall Sharni's ini memang menjadi pilihan kami, coz bersih dan sedap, selalu if nak makan seafood we will go to Sharni's or Arib's Ikan Bakar..

p/s: Thank a lots Maya for the treat..and Congrate for your success on defending proposal..I known that your heart sure berbunga riang..hehehe..anyway Good Luck for the next phase of your Phd journey..awak dah habis, saya ni macam mana la nanti..sampai sekarang belum get ready apa pun lagi..huhuhu..InsyaAllah we dua's a lot for our achievement kan...

Tahniah Puan Naemah..

2009-06-13T20:02:00.000-07:00

Tahniah kepada Naemah dan pasangannya Alif Hasmani...Even I can't attend on your big day, but I managed to attend your solemnization day..Congrate to both of you..Memang I kena pergi juga majlis Naemah ni, coz both of us are best friends from secondary school at Convent till la masa we did Master at USM but under different programme..dan yg paling best, our parents memang kenal baik antara satu sama lain sejak we all belum dilahirkan lagi..Memang my mom jadi reminder for Naemah's wedding, siap sibuk bertanya nak belikan present apa untuk Naemah..hehehe..Teringat yg masa we all habis Master dulu, both of our ayah sibuk hantar kami pergi isi borang nak mohon kerja, hehehe..then my mom kawan baik to Naemah's aunty, Mak Nab...siap timbul cerita how my mom got married with my dad..first time la I dengar cerita dari Mak Nab masa Naemah's solemnization day...kelakarkan, then baru la both of us tahu, yg my mom jadi designer hantaran untuk wedding Naemah's parents dulu..terkejut muka kami dengar cerita Mak Nab on that day..

Tahniah Naemah dan Bahagia hingga akhir hayat...( Actually, kenduri Naemah ini dah lama,tapi biasa la tak menyempat nak tulis dan letak gambar di sini.)

Demam....

2009-05-26T19:55:00.000-07:00

Just recovered from demam panas..Ya Allah memang mendekatkan diri dengan Allah S.W.T..Bila sakit mula teringat soal mati dan amalan2..Thank God..moga keinsafan ini kekal selama-lamanya, InsyaAllah.. Tanda diduga demam panas ini datang secara tiba-tiba..at first memang takut nak p Pusat Kesihatan Universiti coz concurrently virus Chinkunya dan H1N1 pun ada..Ya Allah, Tuhan aja yg tahu macam perasaan saya masa tu..Tapi since tak boleh tahan panas sangat, mata dah start berair pergi juga ke PKU..After the medical check, Dr. kata "balik makan ubat dan rehat, memang panas awak tinggi"..dah makan ubat tetap sama aja keadaannya..On the next day, the condition became worst lagi, till myself dah tak boleh nak berjalan (tak larat)..then terasa seram sejuk dan menggeletar..masa tu mmg ingat yang pelik-pelik aja..at 12 noon, ada Sis kat office ni dtg bawa nasi dan said, if tak baik petang nanti dia nak bawa ke KMC..mmg tak pulih pun, sampai I nak solat mmg kena duduk dah tak daya nak berdiri dan makan pun no appetite langsung..at 4pm went to KMC, tanpa rasa malu, myself terbaring atas waiting chair kat bilik 24hrs..masuk aja that Doctor, check the tempature and said wow your tempature very high 40.4..kenapa jadi mcm ni..then he said tak nak admitt ke ward since I masih ada energy sikit..he said balik makan ubat wait till 4days, jika suhu masih pada tahap yg sama baru dtg semula dan buat blood test for the denggi, chinkunya dan sebagainya..walhal myself mmg rasa nak surrender admitt coz tak larat langsung nak berjalan..Memang I rasa demam kali ni la yg paling panjang and requested me to have a long break..sampai susut berat badan, dah semua org pula tegur till now, my appetite masih kurang lagi..dugaan Allah...moga setiap dugaan Allah ni ada hikmah yg banyak....InsyaAllah.

Selamat Hari Guru..

2009-05-16T20:08:00.000-07:00

Selamat Hari Guru..Banyak jasa dan pengorbanan seorang Guru terhadap anak didiknya..Teringat masa zaman primary school dulu2, saya la org yg paling sibuk bagitau mak nak belikan hadiah untuk cikgu sempena hari guru (compare dengan my sis)..since masih kecil rasa pelik dan bersalah kalau kita takda hadiah nak bagi kat cikgu.memang satu kemestian saya nak bawa hadiah untuk cikgu dulu. Siap kumpul duit sekolah yang lebihan setiap hari tu..tapi hadiah yang dapat tu pun kecil aja la, tapi bagi diri saya memang kira berharga dah, even saya pernah bagi bedak taklum safi botol kecil dan pen-pencil holder yang kecil wrapped kan pada cikgu..itu la kisah zaman budak kecil dulu..tapi sekarang bila my nephew and niece bising nak sediakan hadiah pada cikgu for teacher day, teringat la zaman sekolah dulu, macam tu la diri aku ni rupanya, excited, But my eldest nephew Along, dia selalu cakap tak payah beli hadiah kat cikgu, sebab hari guru, cikgu la kena belanja anak murid dia..memang bertuah betul budak ni..

To all my previous teachers, Happy Teacher Day (Cikgu Rahmah, Cikgu Roslina, Cikgu Haryani,Cikgu Salasiah, Ustazah Asiah, Sir Pandcanadhan, Ustazah Najihah, Cikgu Rohani, Cikgu Norhayati, Ustazah Balqis,Miss Loo, Mr.Cheng, Pn.Beh, Mr Low,Pn.Yen, Cikgu Rahim, Pn.Bala dan semua yang pernah mendidik saya dulu)..dan all lecturers kat Uni dulu.. jasamu dikenang..

Teachers

Paint their minds
And guide their thoughts
Share their achievements and advise their faults

Inspire a Love
Of knowledge and truth
As you light the path
Which leads our youth

For our future brightens
With each lesson you teach
Each smile you lengthen
Each goal you help reach

For the dawn of each poet
Each philosopher and king
Begins with a
Teacher
And the wisdom they bring.

By Kevin William Huff.

Five Skills You Need to Becoma a Lecturer in Higher Education

2009-05-12T19:36:00.000-07:00

Just to share with all my friends that working as a lecturer or anybody currently interested to be as a lecturer should trying to develop these skills..as suggested reading article by my Dean of Research and Post Graduate, College of Business, available at http://www.jobs.ac.uk/careers/articles/1198/Five_Skills_You_to_Become_a_Lecturer_in_Higher_Education
These skills develop by Dr Catherine Armstrong from Manchester Metropolitan University.

1. Public Speaking
It sounds obvious but much of a lecturer's work involves public speaking in front of audiences ranging from two or three people in Oxbridge tutorials through to hundreds of people in large lecture theatres.
Anyone who has been through the university system as a student has a story to tell about a lecturer who was extremely intelligent but simply could not convey ideas and information to his or her students because of poor public speaking skills. If you can perfect this skill early on then your lecturing technique will improve and it will also help you to do well in interviews.
The most important factor to master is controlling your nerves and adrenalin levels, pitch, tone and pace while speaking. The vast majority of people speak too fast and too quietly with not enough eye contact with the audience. If you listen to great orators such as Martin Luther King, it actually takes them a long time to say each sentence, but nerves mean that most of us speak too quickly.

2. Time Management
Because there are many different strands involved in a lecturing job you have to be able to be a good time manager, juggling classroom time, preparation time, administration work and research. Unless you have a particularly heavy-handed head of department, or you are on probation, you will be able to decide when and how you distribute these tasks during your week.
The advantage of this is that you can find out your strengths and play to them: if you are a ‘morning person' you can start work early and finish before you get too tired, vice versa if you prefer evening working. However, the downside of being so independent is that you have to be good at prioritising tasks and allocating them to spaces of time in your schedule. You might be juggling the requirements of several different ‘bosses', including answering queries from numerous students, so you have to remain cool and focussed under pressure.
There are many ways of handling this. You could, for example, have an A4 page-per-day diary into which everything you have to do is written. Planning and constantly assessing and reassessing progress are key here. It may have worked as a student to leave assignments to the very last minute, but in the world of work this will leave you looking unprofessional and out of control.

3. Self-motivation
Linked with point two above is the skill of self-motivation. It is one of the joys of being in charge of your own working day that you can make it varied and tailor it to your own best working pattern. However this relies on being able to motivate yourself without the formality of having your boss standing over you.
Many people find this especially challenging when working from home. Not all lecturers work from home, but many do spend several days or parts of days per week out of their office. It is important to have a routine in which you are able to prioritise your work above more menial matters such as cleaning the house or looking after family.
This requires a good deal of discipline and time management. The advantage is that both of these skills will have been honed during your PhD, as they are integral to success in that degree. A secret to achieving self-motivation is to constantly define and assess the goals you are hoping to achieve. In the world of work this will have the added bonus of allowing you to develop your career too; if you know that you lack a particular skill or knowledge base than you can pursue it.

4. Inter-personal communication
The cliché of an academic stuck in his or her ivory tower is now a distant myth; in order to get on in higher education in the twenty-first century it is important to be able to discuss your ideas on a one-to-one basis with students and your peers. Disseminating your work at a high level is an important skill to develop for interviews and conferences, but this involves not just being familiar with your topic and field (this will probably come automatically as you delve deeper into it).
Communicating ideas to other individuals also requires skills similar to public speaking including being able to maintain eye contact or reacting quickly to signals given off by your audience.
You will also find that the lecturer's job requires you to communicate with students on a one-to-one basis. Despite their familiarity with technology, many students still prefer to meet with the lecturers face to face, especially if they need to discuss problems with their work or their personal life. While not being a trained counsellor, you need to be able to put the students at their ease and encourage them to discuss personal issues with you. Your mannerisms need to convey an ‘open door' policy, encouraging them to trust you as a mentor and in loco parentis. This is very important if you are given the role of personal tutor. If you feel you lack confidence or skill in this area, many departments will be keen to provide training for you so that you can provide support to your students.

5. Record keeping
One of the most important skills for an academic to develop right from the start of his or her career is that of being a good record keeper. Vast amounts of time can be wasted trying to retrieve misplaced information. It is important to be well-organised in both your physical office and in your email and electronic filing systems.
The sorts of information you are likely to have to deal with at the start of your career are things like student marks for essays and exams. You may have several hundred students in your care every year across several different courses so it's vital that you keep clear records as to their progress. These marks will be gathered gradually across the year. At the end of the academic year you may have to submit these to a course leader or to a faculty administrator, so it is important that you keep those records accurately and securely.
Not every department operates in this way; sometimes support staff do all of this sort of record keeping, sometimes it is done centrally at faculty level or even higher. But it is an example of the sort of level of organisation you need to maintain in order to function as an academic. You will cause great difficulty to your colleagues and administrative staff if you are negligent in this area. Again the cliché of an academic living in an office surrounded by piles of paper does not ring true for the vast majority of us: we need to be able to lay our hands on information very quickly and if we cannot do so, it reflects badly on us and may even hinder our career progress.

For me, article ini, memang bagus dan berguna untuk career development as a lecturer..Boleh dijadikan panduan sebagai job descriptions.

Cendol..

2009-05-11T01:02:00.000-07:00

Teringat cendol, ingat pada Cendol Leman Dawi di Rembau, Negeri Sembilan..emmm mmg mouth watering cendol Leman Dawi ini..yang paling best siap offering package tambahan cendol ini semuanya for free..mmg best..Pernah sekali Cendol Leman Dawi ni, masuk dalamMajalah Tiga, TV3...We stop there on the way to Kem Bina Negara Ulu Sepri, luckily masa we all sampai masih ada lagi, after that dah nak tutup..memang kagum dengan Pakcik Leman Dawi ni, yg siap memberikan info pasal Sintok, Kedah, dengan bagitahu maklumat berkaitan dengan keluasan Kedah,bilangan penduduk Kedah dan daerah-daerah di Kedah..terpinga-pinga juga kami mendengar, sambil mendengar celotehnya berkaitan dengan negeri asal kami...as conclusion yang kami buat memang Pakcik Leman Dawi ni, "google-out" semua fakta geografi kot..hehehe.. Ini la Pakcik Leman Dawi tuan empunya Cendol ni ( yang berbaju merah)...

Tree Top Walk, Sg Sedim

2009-05-10T23:17:00.000-07:00

Previously, we went to Tree Top Walk, Sg. Sedim at Mahang, Kedah..sebelum ni, just dengar dari orang2 aja, kata tempat ni memang best, dan tengok dari TV untuk Cuti-Cuti Malaysia..Bila searching info pasal Tree Top Walk ini, excited nak pergi, memang best dan teruja betul dengan keindahan hutan yg masih dijaga dan sepanjang jalan, melalui kawasan kampung yg penuh dengan flora dan fauna..kat Sg. Sedim ni, boleh bermalam sekali, ada disediakan homestay untuk bermalam..Air terjun mmg deras..Titi gantung ni, at first naik mmg rasa gayat coz bila sampai pada ketinggian 18,000 kaki dari aras tanah, tapi mmg best, coz dapat menikmati kehijauan dan deruan air terjun, part yg takut, bila nak turun titi ni, akan bergoyang, but for me really enjoyable n adventure juga la..As a Malaysian rasa kagum dan bertuah Malaysia memiliki titian terpanjang didunia, untuk naik titi gantung ni, kena bayar tiket RM10 for adult dan Rm6 for kid..

Here I attached the info about Tree Top Walk, Sg. Sedim..."Tree Top Walk sepanjang 950 meter di Taman Rekreasi Sungai Sedim ini merupakan titian terpanjang di dunia. Pelancong dari dalam dan luar negara datang ke destinasi semulajadi yang sunyi dari hiruk pikuk kota untuk menikmati pemandangan flora dan fauna yang terdapat di sepanjang titian kanopi ini. Pelancong berpeluang melihat pemandangan hutan hujan yang tua ini dari perspektif yang amat berlainan ketika menyusuri Tree Top Walk ini. Pelancong boleh melihat pemandangan sungai yang mengalir deras dan jenis-jenis tumbuhan dan hidupan liar yang sungguh menawan - kesemuanya dari ketinggian 50 m dari tanah ", from http://www.tourism.gov.my/my/destinations

Menulis atau tidak menulis di Blog

2009-04-18T18:35:00.000-07:00

Terima kasih kepada my best friend, Maya aka as MayaEnd, yang selalu menggalakkan untuk membuat Blog untuk berkongsi idea...Sebelum ini, saya hanya mengikuti blog yang lain sahaja, kerana tiada keyakinan untuk menulis di blog..Terlintas dalam kepala, jika nak buat Blog ni, mesti ada sesuatu yang ingin dikongsi dan disampaikan segala mesej..Hopefully, Maya I'll able to express and share something...InsyaAllah.