AKIRA SHOCK !!

maybe this is my real face when  i got a 'surprise' this morning

is it a good or a bad new?? even until now, i still can't figure it out yet. i don't even know why. everything in my head are just spinning together. speechless. that is also the best word to describe myself at this moment. i can't even sleep now.. hahaha..  acah2 burn midnight oil even though i still have a lot of things to do tomorrow. 

actually, everything has been revealed 4 days ago. i thought that is the only surprise that i will get  for now. but everything is beyond my expectation and my control. ohh beside of having that kind of face (even just in my head) i also have this kind of face.. 

feeling wonderful and grateful.. ^_^

see, i even confuse with what i actually felt. the reason why i feel so wonderful and grateful is because my dream has become a reality. at this moment, it not just my imagination anymore even i still can't believe it. huhu.. so, i hope that i'll use this golden or maybe this platinum opportunity to become a better person in the future not just in academic but in everything. but......

hahaha... i just want to leave that space blank. i don't want to continue that sentence anymore. if you're so curios about it then try to figure it out. if you are not interested then leave it blank forever...

counting the days...

INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE..

for last week's class, we were discussing about one of the important thing when you go aboard. "intercultural competence" means that we can communicate with other people with different culture effectively.

so, for our homework we need to find some of the information that will be very useful for us in the future. as an international student, we are not only going to deal with all Americans. but, bear in mind that we will need to communicated with the people that come for all over the world. for instance from Saudi Arabia, Japan, Thailand etc. so in order to make everything goes smoothly we need to at least know a little a bit about their culture.

thus, my group had decided to come up with the topic "things that will make Koreans feel offended". so basically, we  were presenting about the Korean culture to all our friend. don't worry it is not about K-pop at all. hhaha..actually we got all of this from Mr, Google :P

1. Sticking the chopstick in the rice bowl

as the picture shown above, for korean sticking the chopstick like that is something that can be consider as rude. it is because they usually put something that look kinda like the chopstick during funeral. so, it just like you are eating with dead person when you are sticking you chopstick like that at dining table. oh, actually Japanese all feel the same way when they see people sticking their chopstick in the rice bowl.

2. Writing a name with red ink

i still remember when i was a primary school student, there are some of my friend said that 'if you wrote a name by using a red pen, he/she will die' as i grow older, i come up with the conclusion that statement is just like one of the pranks made by those children. unfortunately, it is a fact! even though it not usually happen, but it is one of the things believed by the people that lived under the same sky with us. so, we still need to respect their culture.

3. Touch their shoulder 

in our culture, we usually touch our friends or family member's shoulder to comfort them. but it doesn't apply in the same way to Korean. it is because they consider that we are treating them like a child when we touch their shoulder. so, we really need to be careful especially when we are interacting with the Koreans that are older than us.

last but not least, what i can conclude is there are still a lot of culture that we need to explore in order for us to become someone with intercultural competence. in my point of view, i think it is really helpful for us to understand all these cultures by directly interact with the people that practice those culture. and one of the best way is to study aboard. for me, it is just like to kill two birds with one stone. it is because you will have the opportunity of gain knowledge and experience a lot of new things at the same time.

culture is just like the rainbow that make our world colourful :)

QUOTE OF THE DAY :)

it might look like a joke right when it tells you to go left when something that you wish does not goes well. but, if you try to think for a moment i believe you will realized something importance behind this quote.

this is what in my mind. "when nothing goes right..go left" means when you do something by using a certain way but it does not go well, you do not need to worry. it is because there are still other ways that can absolutely solve your problem ( go left ). left and right are like two kind of ways that you will choose. but the chances for you to choose the correct way is only 50% which is the same with the chance you choose the wrong path.

so, if you end up choosing the wrong path, keep moving since there is still way for you to make everything goes well again.

fightingg..!!

IT'S JENGA TIME..

For today, we are given chance to choose what we want to play.  there are Articulate, Murderer and Jenga. since I am not really good in describing and guessing, so i decide not to play Articulate. hahaha.. in the end i go and play Jenga since it just only need  my concentration.

we just start the game

yeah..it still look stable ^-^

i gonna collapse in a few second O_o

when it come to my turn, i always feel nervous because i might be the one who make this tower collapse.. i really hope that i can take out the block smoothly. it is really difficult especially when i choose the block that will move the entire tower at the moment i want to take it out. but, i still need to continue take it out slowly and patiently since i can only take out the first block that i touch. ohh it really stressful. 

my friend and i managed to play it for a few rounds before the time is up. even though it is just a game, there is still a lesson that i can learn. heee... :) the thing that i learn is, we must never hesitance in our decision. you know why, when i throw the dice, it will determine the block with what number i should pull out. yes, when we are in the earlier stage of game, i have a lot of choice of numbered block. but, as the time passed, the choice become lesser and the tower become more unstable. what i meant never hesitate in our decision is even our choice will make us failed, believe in our choice because there are possibilities that it will make us a successful person. 

when we make a decision, the possibilities of success and failed is equal. so, in my opinion when we don't hesitate and have faith in our decision it will bring a good luck for us. 

thankyou for reading.. ^_^

IN 10 SECONDS WHAT IS....

another relaxing and enjoying english class. :) so for today we play a game ( i don't really know its name ) that has been conducted by our english lecturer. it is a simple game but really exciting! it is because we need to list the related things as much as we could  based on the category stated by miss jo. 

every correct word, we will be awarded 10 marks. other than that, there is also 'challenge' session. it is where each group must send one representative and do the challenge. some challenges need a brave person, need a creative person and even a person who really good at singing.

- challenge session -

i also have the opportunity to participate in this session. the task that has been given to me is "please draw a dinosaur". i'm not a creative person so it quite difficult for me to draw it. since i don't have choice, i still draw it even it does not even look like dinosaur. but, there is one drawing that has a huge impact to the whole class. the whole class are laughing happily every time we saw this picture.

the most innocent and cute dinosaur forever :)

after spending almost one hour, we had been asked to total up our mark. i thought we will end the game at that point. but, no, there is still a new game for us to play. we need to by certain raw material like A4 paper and sellotape at certain price using the mark that we have collected. the more mark you collect, the more advantageous you are,

by using those 2 things, we need to build a structure that can withstand a 1kg book. at first we think it quite impossible for a mere A4 paper to do that. but still we try to do it. we brought up all the idea that we have in mind and we choose the best one. finally this is the result..

i admit that even our group member does not have faith that this fragile structure can withstand the weight of 1kg book. when come to our turn to test it, i think it will crumple after we put the book above it and this what happen...

unbelievable! it can withstand the weight..

we might become the winner if we made the structure a little bit tall. other than its height, everything is perfect! hahaha... it is such a miracle... :P

so, what i can conclude from this activity is we need to do everything passionately since it might be very useful in the future. Just like how we answer all the questions, if we do it with extra effort and passion we can collect more mark. so we can buy more raw material thus we can build a higher structure.

second, i learn that i can't judge anything based on its appearance only. it doesn't matter whether it is a people or a thing. it is because we don't know the strength that it has. 

that's all for this time.. thankyou.. ;)

LANGKAWI BOTTOM

Can you imagine what will happen when character from Malaysian film encounter with the American superhero?? It absolutely absurd when you think it for the first time. But, if you take around 5 minute it can be something imaginable. Seriously.. my friend and i had successfully create a fusion between the legend of Mahsuri with the Bikini Bottom. So, it become 'Langkawi Bottom'

actually, it is a task given by our lecturer to make a sketch as creative as we can by using the character that we had choose beforehand. So in my group we had all the character that has been listed below:-

LANGKAWI BOTTOM_CHARACTERS

Spongebob Squarepant

Patrick

Mahsuri

Nujum Pak Belalang

Mat Jenin

even when looking at the characters, it feel kinda weird right.. ^_^  So, let me summarized what actually this Langkawi Bottom is about... Here we go..

Since Mahsuri has been killed cruelly even she does not do anything wrong. Due to that unfairness, she decided to put a cursed on Langkawi for seven generation. After she died, Langkawi has sink under the water and has been polluted by radioactive substances.

Mat Jenin, the one who really love to day-dream even when he is doing works. One fine day, after he has finished cleaning, he rest for a while. Suddenly, he fall asleep and Nujum Pak Belalang came to him. Pak Belalang tells Mat Jenin that he will become the savior of Langkawi. But he need to travel to the end of the world to meet Mahsuri's spirit that is still wandering.

Then, he decided to become the who one who can reverse back the cursed made by Mahsuri. After a long journey, he finally met with Mahsuri's spirit. Without wasting time, he asked Mahsuri what he need to do in order to reversed back the cursed. Mahsuri said that he need to solve a riddle. The riddle is...

ohh...

who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

absorbant and yellow and porous is he!

# this is the lyric of spongebob opening song, but please read it in a poem version :P 

After he had received the riddle, he start his journey again to find that weird yellow thing. He needs to face so many difficulties before he can meet with that thing. Luckily, while he is resting that yellow things together with his pinkish friend pass through him. They are actually trying to catch jelly fish.

Then, Mat Jenin approaches them. He tells them the whole story of his journey and lastly he already get the answer for the Mahsuri's riddle. The answer is Spongebob Squarepant!! So, he rushed back to meet Mahsuri and tells her the answer. Yes, he got the right answer. As has been promised, Mahsuri reversed back the curse and everything goes back to normal except for one thing. Langkawi is not floating back! As a result, all the creature there are drowned together and Mat Jenin wakes up again.

- THE END -

everything that has been done, surely has its own purpose. So, in my opinion the purpose of this activity is to test our ability to complete the task within a short time. even the time given is absolutely limited, but I feel so proud with all my group-mates since we can come up with this interesting idea. I admit that the story line is quite typical but we managed to combine the historical and fictional element together harmonically. :)

next, like usual when we are given a task and it should be complete together with the other group-mates, i believe it must be related to the teamwork. The thing that i realized today is even when we are not in the same group with the people that we are comfortable, it does not mean we can't cooperate at all. In fact, when I am in this group where not all of them are closed to me, I have a feeling that I need to do my best. 

every person in a group is just like a piece of puzzle that will complement each other

see you soon :D

CRIMINAL MINDS ( X_X )

you have been caught..

'Murderer' is a game that has been played by a large group of people. every player has their own role in this game. there are 4 role in this game which are:-

• murderer - kill the people
• policemen - catch the murderer
• town people - waiting to be kill
• angle/doctor - save the people

so, each of my class member has pick one of the small paper to determine the role that they will play. for this time i got the role as a town people. actually the town people are not just to wait to be kill. at the end of each round they need to discuss and point out one name to be the murderer. i think it is a little bit bored to be a town people. i really wish i get the role of murderer... hehehe...

waiting for someone to be killed

the thing that i can get from this activity is we need to have a good communication skill with our accomplice if we want to win the game. for example, the murderers need to choose the person that they will killed without talking to each other. it will be hard if there no chemistry between the accomplice.

next, as the policemen or the town people, they need to pay attention to all kind of movement of sound around them. it is because the there are suspicious movement or sound, we can conclude the people around us are trying to communicate to other people. so, he or she might be the murderer.

lastly, the most important but difficult role, the angle/doctor. in every round they need to make a good judgement to guess who have the highest possibilities to be killed so that they can save that unlucky person. if they have made a wrong judgement, it is a waste since they try to save a healthy person while the true victim is dying cruelly...

the end~

RELAXING JULY ^_^

finally... i have reached in a month where i can be a little bit relax.. it is because i have done both my SAT and TOEFL examination. now, it is the time where i need to wait for toefl result to come up. i admit that i'm really nervous. but, my family always said to me, " you have done the best you can do, so just wait for it patiently ". what ever it is for this entry i just i to share my happiness with other people.. hehehe...

this is my current state - really happy

besides, there are only 10-days to go before i go back for Hari Raya celebration. everyday i'll count how many days left before 14th july... :D i'm really excited since this is my first time going back for Hari Raya with bus. i kinda a new experience for me.. 

bye.. i'm going back...

HECTIC JUNE_PART 2

once again, this month is not going to be as leisure as the sun above (~_~) hahaha.. it is all because the SAT examination is around the corner. a few days after that i gonna take mock-toefl and week after the real toefl is coming. that is how i will live in this month.. it's okay since after this is just like 'merdeka' !! but i still need to brace myself in order to get a good result for my final exam.

maybe i'll be like this soon..

stay focus yaa.. =)

HECTIC MAY_PART 1

the may that i will be faced is not as simple and free just like that butterflies. it actually one of the busiest month for me as maddp students. you know why? this month i'm going to sit for several important examination. so, i really need to do a lot of revision in order to achieve what i want. but sometime, i failed to managed my time wisely because i don't know what do first. there are so many things that i want and must do. T_T

but, being stress all day and regret what has passed will not make anything better in the future. hence, i decided to face all the things with a big smile... :D i think that will help to motivate myself to keep move forward..

just keep smiling my friend..

APRIL IS COMING ~

Unbelievable! It almost three months already I had stayed at KKTM Ledang. My SAT and TOEFL examination are just around the corner. It make me feel nervous everytime I think of it. It already being scheduled that I will take both of the examinations on June.

I need to pass both of the examination with flying colour result in order for me to have the opportunity to fly to United State next year. For me this is a golden opportunity that I need to grab without fail. Thus, I believe that I need to increase my effort in order to make my dream a reality. I maybe need to sacrifice my time to study instead of doing something that I used to love.

As the time pass by, I had realize that I am starting to face a lot of difficulties in my daily life. For instance, the subject that I need to learn started to get more harder. Well, sometime I feel agitated but I will try not to use all those silly excuses to cover my own weakness. In contrast, I will make those difficulties  as an inspiration for me to keep going with all my might.

Before I end, I would like to share a quote....

That is all from me :)

MARCH WAIT FOR ME YA~

There is nothing special that I want to share, just a quote that always inspire me :)

~ success is depend on our effort ~

FEBRUARY FEBRUARY FEBRUARY ~

Without I realizing i has been almost one month i stay in KKTM Ledang, struggling as madpp's student. for the past one month, i has successfully overcome my homesickness a little bit. even the effect is not so significant but still it really help me to endure everything. 

i also try my best to get along with all my new classmates. sometimes, it's quite awkward to talk or work with the person that i never meet before. but i really hope i can solve this matter as soon as possible :) it is because i think when i can get along with all my new friends, it is so comfortable and a very conducive environment for me to study.

fighting... !!

quote for this special month :)