work challenge

Half year end of 2009 had been challenging but I managed fairly well. Despite being new in student affairs department I have a reasonably well understanding of what student affairs management is all about. With a resourceful boss, a very supportive all-student leader and motivation from colleague-friends my spirit and enthusiasm were sky high. The 3 papers we worked on student centre, student sports centre and students transports (bus and van) were through and approved. God gave me a son..much more than what I asked for..alhamdulillah. Few student leaders with the right frame-of-mind appeared and helped the new student orientation program. Very encouraging.

I thought I started well in 2010. The training model on student leadership and teamwork which the trainer, student leader and me worked on works. A new horizon of positive and exemplary bunch of students emerged. Thanks to almighty Allah. Next the MTS was so near to success but I had spoiled it..I had broken my own all-these-while DTA principle.. As a result I paid a high price for it.. a substantial amount of my cash, dignity and I crushed the FMTS leader's faith in me..huhu.. The pain is too much to bear alone..

Then stinks caused by some skunks appeared one after another. Those unblessed souls were searching for white souls as slaves for their own selfish agenda. I pity those skunks and the 'naives' but decided those we not my problems since those skunks were there long before me. My sifu had taught me well 'once a skunk always a skunk'.

I am glad that I was holding tight to the Quran in those challenging moments. Surah 16:119-128. Allah has shown me his love and blessings in kinds..subhanallah. I still hold to the principle "If thing can go right, it should" but with some changes to suit my 'new path'..(smile)

me on marg-cann team mgmt wheel

I practice what I prefer and hope become more proficient at it which in turn gives me pleasure from my work.

aslam on mbti

Without introverted intuitives, it is said that Israel would have had no prophets. Under deceptively conventional appearances lie perceptive minds that travel the breadth and depth of universal mysteries, contemplating its multilayered complexity, seeking the trends that will define the future. With time, clarity of vision comes. When it comes, they are propelled towards the vision and all their actions lead to it. They are perseverant behind a quiet exterior and will often come back with their vision long after everyone believes they have let it go.

What they see is so clear and obvious to them they are often surprised to find that others cannot see it as well. They may find it difficult to articulate the necessary steps towards implementation or to explain how each goal fits into the larger picture.

Their mind usually travels from the past to the future, seeking to fit a particular situation in a large context. It picks up patterns, symbols and images from different seemingly unrelated fields, identifies similarities and provides meaning. This can help solve problems by juxtaposing ideas, finding analogies or simply by rooting out the quintessential reality, discovering the origin in universal stories and human experiences, culling wisdom from the infinitely small to the infinitely large. Their mind naturally travels from the microcosm to the macrocosm.

They regularly have to face the difficulties of bringing dreams into reality. The time and effort it takes is always more than what their intuition initially suggested. They are determined, perseverant, inspired and often see things just around the corner, into the near or far future.

sighed..

perseverance

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all uphill.

When the funds are low and the debts are high,

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh.

When care is pressing you down a bit,

Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As everyone of us sometimes learns.

And many a fellow turns about,

When he might have won had he stuck it out.

Don't give up though the pace seems slow,

You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than

It seems to a faint and faltering man.

Often the struggler has given up,

When he might have captured the victor's cup.

And he learned too late when the night came down,

How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out,

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt.

And you never can tell how close you are,

It may be near when it seems afar.

So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit,

It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit.

Anonymous

doaku mengiring...

a mute wife and a deaf husband

 

 

 

It had passed midnight and i am still with the laptop working on the international conference to be held at the end of this month. On dh's invitation, I gladly answered yes, grabbed my scarf and followed him heading for  dataran shah alam for a char kuey tiau, otak2 and hot plain tea. The last time we came here was like more than 1 year ago before me amor leaving for canada. While eating and watching manchester u vs sunderland (dh is a fan of chelsea while I am of man u's) on the screen, we discussed about young men in general, their behavioral and needs, likes and dislikes. My cellphone buzzed at 1.35am, my, with a message from an src - he was still awake at this wee hours? We then had a good laugh mimicking a mute wife and a deaf husband. He still can insult me 'crazy' with his sign language - but I was just not in the mood to 'pay' him for that! Initially I was just mooting up the idea of a happy marriage - that is between a mute wife and a deaf husband. But then we thought it would be very deadly boring - its the whispers, sweet talks and quarrels that add salt and pepper to a husband/wife relationship! Really?

on whether to have another winning team workshop

 

A little while ago I was doing a bit of clearing of what my mak said my 'sepah' belongings. But these (especially the above twos) had delayed my 'berkemas' and put me into a deep thinking....

berbuka with friends 3 days in a row

I had my berbuka at Tesco JM Briyani today with the one and only sweet lady whom I knew sharing the same birth date with me (but of course we're of different years). I am a dragon who wished to be a leopard and a lion at enthusiam ?! while she is a replica of perempuan melayu terakhir! Both of us are truly piscean - ultra sensitive creatures which she called as having the extra extra sense. Actually we didn't plan to berbuka together. I drove the sweet lady back to Shah Alam after we both attended a meeting in the BJ Campus. All the way in the car we had lively and lovely chats about work and people minus the gossips?! The rain poured heavily and the traffic jam was real bad. We reached near Kelab Shah Alam past the berbuka time. So we drove to Tesco, had a mug of orange each while walking in search of a decent restaurant. We had to queue until about 8.15 to be seated at JM Briyani.(The last time I drove alone back home to Shah Alam from BJ, I had almost fallen asleep while on the moving wheels. I had a short nap at Elmina only to be awaken at half past 7 - past the berbuka time)

Yesterday I had my berbuka with Dr Nasser and the gang from Marketing, Corp Comm and International at Grand Bluewave Hotel hosted by Dr Nasser. He will be leaving the university to join another one in Bangi. I guess he views the grass over there is greener than here. Good luck Dr Nasser, I hope to see you there one day - a step higher on the ladder (you know what I mean!). After the good berbuka I joined a bunch of dedicated students in a meeting on organizing an Eid Fitr celebration at the university which ended at 12.05am. I think if I am a wakil rakyat, at the rate I am going now, I might secure the next election seat!


Kesian DH, mak and aina for those 3 days I've been away for berbuka...

dione warwich & friends - that's what friends are for 

a good song the amisoens sang together in genting highlands last year

remembering old friends during a 'sahur'

Its good to make new friends, but the feeling is nicer when meeting the old ones. During break fasting in Intekma yesterday, I happened to meet Hazrul Anuar and Zaki Kadir with wife Juliana and children, Zahid and Kasih. We were colleagues in the Intekma's marketing and pr department which I once headed. Now Hazrul is a successful General Manager of Intekma (with a wife and 2 children) and I am so proud and happy for him while Zaki is doing well in a firm (I can't remember whether it is a construction or property one). Both of them had been serious marketers and workaholic during our old times in Intekma. Everywhere I've been after that, no one could match their hard work and dedication. I could still remember those challenging times when we were to present the business plan to the General Manager - few days before the Day, we worked round the clock and only left the office after midnight and on the last preparation day we went home at 6 am, had shower and appeared at the office again at 9am. Pheww... But we were younger and our spirits were very high then. Hazrul even told the students (oh, forgot to mention that I went there with the mpps and Ama) that I used to be very 'garang' during those days. I think I have mellowed much especially since I left the marketing line to be with the student affairs now.

I hope we could meet again, this time with other ex-colleagues. We had been like one big family before, reciting surahs every day (during En Azmi Kassim's days as GM), having briefing sessions every day (the length of each briefing is like a meeting) and having breakfast lunch and sometimes dinner together. And those memories linger on.... We drove one round of Intekma to have the sight seeing of its night ambiance before we left heading for our onward destinations. Thanks Syafizal, Fauzi, Amal, Zeela and Ama....

 

....considered to be my serious sahur after being on milk-mode since 3 sept 2009. Maybe I have lost few pounds due to this but Zaki, Juliana and others in Intekma found me 'obese' now. Syafizal even asked me how thin I was before and I answered slim enough to wear shirts and blouses tucked into skirts and pants. Those were the days .....

Fauzi posted a Kenny G's Breathless in the FB while I was listening to Kitaro's Caravansary. Its real nice to hear them in the wee hours of the morning. DH was listening to them too, since he tidur-tidur ayam on the couch in this study room.

Kenny G's Breathless 

Kitaro's Caravansary

Just a while ago, me amor video-called me. Its 6.12pm in Hamilton and they (he and his house mates) were about to prepare dishes for berbuka - 'Abang Ayi nak masak ayam masak kurma'. I've got to e mail him recipes on chicken and tomyam soup.

student posing and creative expression

 

From Amalina's album

 

Sesampainya jer kat rumah setelah berbuka puasa di Intekma Resort, upload pics and terus bommm... mata tak larat nak tongkat dah.

'makan students, tidur students' syndrome

 

aina zzzzzz

 

 Will the the whole stretch of the green house block have a grand new look of student centre?

  

Will this vacant land be ready to house sports event early next year?

 

I am staying up late again to review a paperwork to be discussed by the management tomorrow. The presentation of tomorrow's paper is very important to me and also in particular to the students of this campus. I have been even busier since my transfer to the new office. I owe apologies to DH, me amor (who has left for Hamilton), my daughter and my mak. Sorry that I had promised to allocate more time to the family since there is no more out station and overseas trips with my new appointment, but the fact is that I had been busier locking myself in this study room doing thinking and some studies pertaining to student affairs. Especially mak, sorry I had not been a good daughter - especially when mak needed someone to talk to - when her health was deteriorating..Thank you DH for reminding me to solat every time I seemed to forget about 'time'. Thank you Aina for keeping mama company in this chilled room tonight. I'll find more time....I'll try...when there's a will, there's a way...

I hope and pray that the student and sports centres will materialize in 3 months time with tomorrow's management approval. Hopefully by January next year I am able to see again the 'many happy faces' of students (as in Adib's facebook album - iftar jama'e) and this time in a larger scale during the launching of the said centres. I hope then I am able to make the SRC finally understand all my 'pressuring' gestures that some of them find hard to 'endure'.

It's ramadhan, I pray the Almighty God will grant the above wishes as they were derived from a good and an honest intention. Amen.

ad veritatem per caritatem

How to inspire people (including students) to be charitable in their day-to-day living and in their interaction with others?

The story of Dr Jemilah Mahmood (now a Tan Sri), once the president of Mercy has recognized the influential imprints of alma maters significance in her life. She closed a chapter of her humanitarian career with Mercy and will be starting another on foreign soil impacting more lives all over the world with UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund as a Humanitation Response Branch chief.

The infamous story of Dr Jemilah in Iraq in 2003 has touched many hearts :  On a relief mission, two of her team lost their lives and Dr Jemilah was out there with a bullet imbedded in her hip and was brought to the hospital. Still, this angel of mercy gave up her painkillers for the lady having a baby in the next room and delivered the baby herself.

Her words that I always matched with Dato' Adnan's (UNISEL's ex-VC) quote on 'be different, make the difference' were :

"Whether it is in the field of sciences of technology, the arts of humanity, in business or engineering, it is up to you to leave your footprint, something that says you were here and that you've made a difference".

Masya Allah.

the student's 'gemuruh' during mts 

mahasiswa meraikan anak-anak yatim

Masihkah ada rasa belas kasihan di kalangan mahasiswa dewasa ini? Kelmarin hampir setiap raut wajah mahasiswa/i yang sempat, diimbas cuba untuk mencari riak wajah yang merenung memikirkan nasib masa lalu dan juga masa depan anak-anak yang yatim, susah dan duka. Apakah anak-anak ini dijemput oleh mahasiswa untuk bersama-sama berkongsi kasih dan penghayatan ramadhan atau semata-mata kerana melaksanakan sebuah lagi program CSR yang telah direncana oleh seorang aktivis PR? Sebahagian jawapannya terurai melalui raut-raut wajah yang sempat diimbas itu.

Menyaksikan kesungguhan mahasiswa/i yang pagi-pagi lagi (malah ada yang sejak dari sabtu lagi) sudah berada di kampus bagi menyediakan persiapan Majlis Berbuka Puasa Bersama Anak-anak Yatim dari Rumah Amal Limpahan Kasih di Puchong membangkitkan semangat dan rasa bangga. Siswa adam dan hawa berpadu tenaga mengerjakan persiapan yang seharusnya ...dan usik-mengusik di antara mereka pun manis kedengarannya...

Paling membanggakan apabila melihat pemimpin-pemimpin Persatuan Insan dan MPP turun ke padang melihat dan bersama-sama dengan anak-anak buah mereka mengerjakan persiapan. Pada sebahagian ahli-ahli pimpinan lain tergambar jelas keamanahan, kesetiaan dan kebertanggungjawaban. Tidak dinafi masih ada juga yang terkeliru dan harus dipandu. Selesai bicara dengan Prof Hj Zainal TNC HEP tentang 10% mahasiswa... kupohon tuhan melindungiku dari terburu-buru...

Meriah kelihatan mahasiswa/i di kampus shah alam hari ini - yang senyum dan riang meladeni anak-anak yatim, yang mundar mandir dengan  tugasan masing-masing, yang lelaki segak bak laksamana hang tuah (yang bagaikan pengantin tunggu diarak pun ada!) dan yang siswi berwarna-warni dan manis-manis semuanya. Laungan azan oleh Wan Amal Firdaus kedengaran amat syahdu menandakan tiba waktu berbuka. Selesai solat maghrib semua tetamu - mahasiswa, anak-anak yatim, jemputan dan warga kampus yang hadir menjamu hidangan yang tersedia. Benarlah apabila makan bersama-sama seperti dalam sebuah keluarga yang sangat besar amat terasa bahagianya.

Kepada semua pihak yang telah berusaha dan menyumbang dalam apa jua cara untuk kejayaan program tersebut, firman Allah swt yang bermaksud :

"Mereka beriman kepada Allah dan hari akhirat, dan menyuruh berbuat segala perkara yang baik, dan melarang daripada segala perkara yang salah (buruk dan keji), dan mereka pula segera segera pada mengerjakan berbagai-bagai kebajikan. Mereka (yang demikian sifatnya), adalah dari orang-orang yang soleh."

"Dan apa sahaja kebajikan yang mereka kerjakan, maka mereka tidak sekali-kali akan diingkari (atau disekat dari mendapat pahalanya). Dan (ingatlah), Allah sentiasa mengetahui akan keadaan orang-orang yang bertakwa."

of unisel shah alam's 'gerakan pelajar'

On calling for all students and community of unisel shah alam's support to the leader and members of the Students Representative Council (MPP) Shah Alam 2009/2010 ;

 

Syafizal Bin Omar (FBSH)

Mohammad Fauzi Fahmi Bin Kamarolzaman (FBSH)

Umi Kalsom Binti Disun (FTSSI)

Wan Amal Firdaus Bin Wan Muhamad (FBSH)

Surenthdren A/L Supramaniam (FBSK)

Yeo Wee Kiat (FBSH)

Abdul Alif Bin Saibeh (FBSH)

Nur Azeela Binti Mohd Zaki (FTSSI)

 

http://mppunisel.blogspot.com/

a malaysian pride - prof datuk dr ismail md salleh (1948-2009)

FIRST disabled senator, Prof Datuk Dr Ismail Md Salleh died on a flight from China to Singapore early today. He was 61.

An officer at the Malaysian High Commission in Singapore said Ismail was pronounced dead on arrival at the Singapore General Hospital at about 8am.

The hospital will conduct a post-mortem to determine the cause of his death, he told Bernama.

A father of six children, the visually challenged Ismail became the first person from the disabled community to be appointed as senator in December 2007.

Born in Pasir Mas, Kelantan, he was totally blind since he was 13, but the limitation did not stop him from getting his degree, masters and PhD, all in the United States.

For his achievements, Ismail was named as the first blind person to receive a doctorate by the Guinness Book of World Records.

He also held various key positions including Twintech International University College vice-chancellor, Twintech Holdings Sdn Bhd chief executive officer, National Association of Bumiputera Private Colleges president, a member of the National Implementation Task Force in the Prime Minister’s Department and Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) former deputy director-general.
- Bernama

leaders in the making

It is a usual saying that 'a leader is born'. I believe it is not a total true. Can a leader be 'made'? I chose to believe what I have chosen to believe. For that undivided believe, I hurt myself many times but managed to collect my total self and kept on going. Praise be unto Allah, allow me to prove that my believe is so very right again this time on my MPP-8, like you had always allowed me to for so many times again and again.

  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs1hcg40Eao

                

For now, I shall try to finish reading the Homer's Iliad which I started some months ago. Pak Khalid Jaafar, I shall also look for tumit Achilles.

bicara tentang mahasiswa lagi

Setiap kali  jumpa dekwan mesti lama bercerita berkisar dunia gerakan mahasiswa. Malam  ni topiknye menyelusuri kelesuan kepemimpinan mahasiswa. Perjuangan mahasiswa di UPM sudah agak jauh matangnya dipimpin oleh Shamsul Salleh, YDP MPP merangkap ketua YDP MPP seMalaysia. Baru-baru ni Shamsul dianugerahi pemidato terbaik lambang pemikiran kemahasiswaan yang kritis dan analitikal dan dengarnya beliau menjadi kesayangan Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah.

Saifuddin suatu masa dahulu merupakan aktivis gerakan mahasiswa UM dan pernah mengajar di YAA. Berbunga  hati ingin menjemput beliau untuk menyampaikan idealism beliau sebagai timb menteri di suatu forum yang sesuai sambil bercerita pengalaman beliau menggerakkan PMUM/PMIUM dulu kepada pemimpin mahasiswa di sini. Ya, tentunya  DMN akan tolong.

Perbincangan malam ni banyak menyentuh peranan untuk menggerakkan kepemimpinan mahasiswa. Agar pimpinan mahasiswa tidak terasa dipaksa dalam melaksanakan program-program universiti. Dekwan ada kredibiliti dan pakej untuk berkongsi hingga ke lubuk permasalahan ini kerana beliau mahasiswa psikologi, pemimpin mahasiswa, mengenali peribadi ini dan banyak pengalaman berkaitan. Bicara malam ini diconclude dengan kesungguhan ini harus diteruskan dan dengan kaedah yang lebih memujuk dan bersifat fasilitasi. Semoga Allah memberi kekuatan dan hidayah. Amin.

its been a long-long time....

Dah terlalu lama tak update blog (sejak sarajevo). Hari ini muncul lagi azam baru mahu update blog seberapa kerap yang boleh. Beberapa faktor menyumbang ke arah iltizam itu.

Beberapa hari yang lalu berkesempatan berbicara dengan anak-anak muda yang bergelar pemimpin tertinggi mahasiswa universiti. Kerana menggunung ghairah untuk menggerakkan anak-anak muda ini mempelopori perjuangan gerakan mahasiswa, bicara tersebut lebih bersifat sehala. Barangkali di awal-awal ini, respons mereka lebih kepada melihat dan menilai Timbalan Pendaftar yang baru menerajui HEP ini daripada menghujah kembali. Waktu ini betapa rindunya - kalau waktu bisa berputar menyongsang rasanya ingin duduk bersama-sama dengan anak-anak muda ini berhempas pulas merancang, bergerak dan menggerak menjadikan idealism direalisasi dan dihayati oleh segenap lapisan yang di bawah pimpinan.

Apakah anak-anak muda kini masih punya idealism yang membara sepertimana pemimpin mahasiswa sewaktu era 70-80an dulu? - apakah falsafah dan pegangan mereka jitu dan kukuh hasil cetusan kecintaan kepada nilai-nilai yang muluk? Apakah mereka sanggup berkorban demi memperjuangkan idealism tersebut? Apakah idealism dan intellectualisme mereka cukup kental bagi menzahirkan aktivism yang mencapai matlamat perjuangan mereka? - peristiwa hari ini sayu mengingatkan kembali kepada kata-kata yang sering diucapkan oleh seorang teman dahulu - "may the force be with you"....

a working trip to sarajevo

work in action

sarajevo

exhilarating view - along the way to Mostar

Still in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina. The work schedule is very tight - universities n school visits, meeting with officials fr malaysian embassy of BiH and discussion with potential agents.

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