First of all, I want to thank Allah S.W.T for everything that I have got in my life. I feel so blessed that I am still living with a good health at this moment and am still practicing Islam as the way of life. It has been a long time since I updated my blog. I had no time to write in this blog because I was busy with my homework and my class projects in this semester. Now I have a plenty of time to post this entry since I am done with the fall semester. Yeah, it is the time for a winter break!!!
I just finished my last final exam yesterday and I am glad that this semester went well as I hoped. Even though I did not get A for all the classes I took, yet I feel satisfied that I have learnt a lot of new information in geosciences, geography and Spanish.
I am thankful that I have joined a Toastmaster club at the university and met a few friends from different countries with different background. By joining this club, I hope to improve my public speaking skills in English as well as my confidence in speaking proper English in front of other people.
The objectives of this club are to enhance our speaking ability, to teach us how to deliver speech in public as well as to boost our listening, leadership and thinking skills. Alhamdulillah that I already attended the club meeting four times and have been familiar to how this club works. Each club member is assigned a role that includes grammarian, ah counter, timer, evaluator, general evaluator, speaker and toastmaster before the meeting that is held on Thursday every week. .
I was chosen to become a timer for the last meeting this year which was held yesterday. I felt a bit awkward as it was my first time being the timer. A timer needs to record the time of speech for each speaker, and signals the speaker with three different color cards to show how many time has elapsed and gives the report at the end of the on how much time they spent in delivering their speech.
I think I did a good job but still there is a room to improve before I become an expert timer in this club. I look forward to giving my first ice breaking presentation next year and practicing other roles for each meeting.
I have not had any plan to do for this winter break. For now, I am still planning a list of beneficial activities that I should do so that I would not waste my free time without doing anything.
Friday, December 14, 2012
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Do people agree when I say that procrastination is an enemy? Hopefully they do. One more day left before school starts next week. I feel like time went by very fast as if the spring break just began yesterday. My plan to finish up physics report during the break did not go well as I hoped. Still, there are many parts to be done. However, alhamdullillah, I already finished the open ended section this morning.
Well, it wasn't that I did not put 'a lot of effort' to write the report ( or maybe it was :P), it just happened that the homework given was so hard to complete- I mean I have to spend most of the time thinking how to solve a question that I have to search information on internet and open the textbook to find the answer needed. I understand that this is the challenge that I must face as a student but somehow I am bogged down by this situation.
However, my mother has kept telling me that other people may have the same problems as mine or even worse, yet they could finish their work and accomplish their missions as they wished. Therefore, I cannot give up and lose my motivation because of this 'petty' difficulty.
Ya Allah, please bestow strengths and bless upon me so that I would not easily surrender to have my homework done before the dateline. Amin.
Yo creo que yo puedo hacerla!! Insya ALLAH, si se puede!!:) Que esperas? Vamos a hacer la tarea!
Well, it wasn't that I did not put 'a lot of effort' to write the report ( or maybe it was :P), it just happened that the homework given was so hard to complete- I mean I have to spend most of the time thinking how to solve a question that I have to search information on internet and open the textbook to find the answer needed. I understand that this is the challenge that I must face as a student but somehow I am bogged down by this situation.
However, my mother has kept telling me that other people may have the same problems as mine or even worse, yet they could finish their work and accomplish their missions as they wished. Therefore, I cannot give up and lose my motivation because of this 'petty' difficulty.
Ya Allah, please bestow strengths and bless upon me so that I would not easily surrender to have my homework done before the dateline. Amin.
Yo creo que yo puedo hacerla!! Insya ALLAH, si se puede!!:) Que esperas? Vamos a hacer la tarea!
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
It has been a long time since I posted my blog update in 2009. Now, it is already year 2011. Wow, it is unbelievable that I am almost 22 years old!! There are 2 more years to finish my studies in Arizona. Hopefully, I could get my geosciences bachelor with flying colors, Insya ALLAH and manage to get a job with Petronas.
Alhamdulillah, I woke up early this morning at 6.30 a.m. However, it is quite weird because I slept late last night at 2.oo a.m but still I could manage to get up early for subuh. Yesterday, even though I went to bed early at 11.45 p.m., I realized that I woke up late at 8.15 a.m. So, does this mean that I have to sleep late every night in order to wake up early in the morning?
What have I done during the Spring break 2011? On last Saturday, I went to Tucson Book Festival which is held annually in order to encourage Tucson community especially children and teenagers to have interest in reading books. To me, the festival was quite boring because most of the attractions were set up to appeal children and their parents to get involved in the activities provided.
I just bought a Spanish-English bilingual book because I wanted to improve my Spanish and to be able to write in Spanish better than before. Actually, I love books. I would have bought all the books sold at the festival if I had a lot of money. Nevertheless, I don't think I would have time to read all these books since I have more geology textbooks to read. Thank Allah at least I have interest in books.
Also, I have been to Student Recreation Center for three days since last Sunday for swimming. Swimming is one of my favorite sports. It is proven that this sport can help maintain our body in shape and increase our stamina and strength. Swimming is a sport that is encouraged by Islam besides archery and riding horse. I became in love with this sport since the first day I learned swimming basic techniques. Breast stroke is the most stroke I like because I don't easily feel tired when I swim using this technique.
Despite having been a student at the UA for 2 years, I have to admit that I've never finished exploring the rec center due to the fact that I just go there to play badminton. I knew where the swimming pool was, but the funny part was I could not find the way to get there. After I entered the rec center, I started searching for the way to get to the pool. I found a paper attached to the wall that stated: 'enter the swimming pool through men's locker room'. Finally, I could swim in the pool!! The water in the pool was perfect, clear and clean. The pool is designed with different depths ranging from shallow (3 ft) from one side to deep (9 ft I guess) in the other side. I hope to do more exercise at the pool more often since I already paid for it in the tuition fee.
I wish I could finish my physic report before the school starts. Alhamdulillah, I already started doing some of my homework. I will try my best to finish them! Amin..
Alhamdulillah, I woke up early this morning at 6.30 a.m. However, it is quite weird because I slept late last night at 2.oo a.m but still I could manage to get up early for subuh. Yesterday, even though I went to bed early at 11.45 p.m., I realized that I woke up late at 8.15 a.m. So, does this mean that I have to sleep late every night in order to wake up early in the morning?
What have I done during the Spring break 2011? On last Saturday, I went to Tucson Book Festival which is held annually in order to encourage Tucson community especially children and teenagers to have interest in reading books. To me, the festival was quite boring because most of the attractions were set up to appeal children and their parents to get involved in the activities provided.
I just bought a Spanish-English bilingual book because I wanted to improve my Spanish and to be able to write in Spanish better than before. Actually, I love books. I would have bought all the books sold at the festival if I had a lot of money. Nevertheless, I don't think I would have time to read all these books since I have more geology textbooks to read. Thank Allah at least I have interest in books.
Also, I have been to Student Recreation Center for three days since last Sunday for swimming. Swimming is one of my favorite sports. It is proven that this sport can help maintain our body in shape and increase our stamina and strength. Swimming is a sport that is encouraged by Islam besides archery and riding horse. I became in love with this sport since the first day I learned swimming basic techniques. Breast stroke is the most stroke I like because I don't easily feel tired when I swim using this technique.
Despite having been a student at the UA for 2 years, I have to admit that I've never finished exploring the rec center due to the fact that I just go there to play badminton. I knew where the swimming pool was, but the funny part was I could not find the way to get there. After I entered the rec center, I started searching for the way to get to the pool. I found a paper attached to the wall that stated: 'enter the swimming pool through men's locker room'. Finally, I could swim in the pool!! The water in the pool was perfect, clear and clean. The pool is designed with different depths ranging from shallow (3 ft) from one side to deep (9 ft I guess) in the other side. I hope to do more exercise at the pool more often since I already paid for it in the tuition fee.
I wish I could finish my physic report before the school starts. Alhamdulillah, I already started doing some of my homework. I will try my best to finish them! Amin..
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Last friday night, all of us, gathered for the first time in this year at Abg Hazrul's house to attend halaqah (usrah). Alhamdulillah, I felt very thankful because it was like I was coming back to my hometown in Malaysia. As usual, we prayed solat isyak together and discussed some controversial issues regarding Islam.
The main topic of our disscussion was about dogs and swine (pork). According to mazhab syafiee, if we touch a dog or a pig or other things that have to do with them, we need to clean the part of our body that we used to touch them with water mixed with soil and clean water. However, for other mazhabs, their scholars opined that the touched part just needs to be cleaned with clean water and soap. Only if the dog licked at place, let say a plate, then the plate must be washed using the soil water and clean water.
Also, the other isues disccused were the rulings of coloring hair and wedding in Islamic perspective. After that, together we read surah al fath verse 1-9 and its meaning. Before that, Kak Ezfa had cooked for us some food. We were served mee sup, cake and grape fruits. Wani Khaliza brought a dish they had prepared at Sahara Apartment. All of the food was yummy, mouthful and absolutely delicious. I was pretty full last night. Alhamdulillah.
Besides, they were planning to have a trip to California this summer. Most probably to LA, Universal Studion and Hollywood. I attentively listened to their conversation for I was not really familiar with those places. They seemed zealous and positive about the trip. I surmised that it would be done after all of us have finished with final exams. Nonetheless, perhaps I would not join this trip if I did not have sufficient budget. Furthermore, I am still thinking whether to go back to Malaysia at the end of the semester.
I miss my family very much. I am craving to eat malaysian food especially cooked by my grand mother. Yeah.. but many things must be taken into consideration such as money, flight ticket, my accomodation for fall term and problems that might appear due to my 'unresolved visa'.
Insya Allah, I will try my best to resolve all of these matters wisely, step bu step. There's a will, there's a way.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
I woke up early this morning at about 6.15 am and as usual I took a long shower in the bathroom- that is my habit everday for I dont know how to stop this.
My first class was comparative religion held at PAS building. I dont really like this class. The profesor, to me, talks very fast he is like mumbilng in front of other. Most of the time, I didn't get his jokes. It's kind of strange to me as the other students could undestand what he was saying. Furthermore, since this class is about religions, the profesor tends to interpret the knowledge based on his views. I still remember that he said that King Solomon was a killer. Absolutely, I oppose this opinion. I wish I had a chance to take another more interesting class.
My second class for the beginning of spring semester was indiv, which is about latin america. I felt lonely in this class though all the professors seemed attractive and eloquent in giving their lecture. Alhamdulillah, I suppose I will get to know more about south america by attending this class. Besides, this class does not requiere any textbook. That is one thing. However, it seems that I have to print out every lecture note posted on D2l, the same thing I did last year for Trad 101 eastern languages. I dont really like this part as Iwill be using lots of A4 papers printer inks. Insya ALLAH, I will try to find hispanic friends who are willing to speak spanish with me and the important thing is thatnb they are willing to be my friends.
Then, I went back to sahara Apartment and I took a nap for half an hour. Later on, I did solat zohor and I went to school again to buy notebooks. Since the price of western world religions is quite expensive, I borrowed a book from the library entitled world regions western traditions. Hopefully, this book would be helpful for me to acquire more information about world religions at the same time I would have more idea to write in my assignment. I regret that I had bought the textbook from amazon before knowing that Jenifer put the lowest-evr price for it which was 8 dollars!!!!!!! After thinking deeply, I decided to just wait the book from amazon even though the delivery would take about 8 days long!!!
Alhamdulillah as Allah had granted my prayers. Unexpectedly, I could chat with mi mujer amigo mexicano, Edgar rivera por la noche. I sent him the essay that I wrote about el viaje inovidable with him. And I suppose he's happy with it. At the same time, I had a chat with Nada. Lots of fun chatting with these two friends. Thank you Allah!
My first class was comparative religion held at PAS building. I dont really like this class. The profesor, to me, talks very fast he is like mumbilng in front of other. Most of the time, I didn't get his jokes. It's kind of strange to me as the other students could undestand what he was saying. Furthermore, since this class is about religions, the profesor tends to interpret the knowledge based on his views. I still remember that he said that King Solomon was a killer. Absolutely, I oppose this opinion. I wish I had a chance to take another more interesting class.
My second class for the beginning of spring semester was indiv, which is about latin america. I felt lonely in this class though all the professors seemed attractive and eloquent in giving their lecture. Alhamdulillah, I suppose I will get to know more about south america by attending this class. Besides, this class does not requiere any textbook. That is one thing. However, it seems that I have to print out every lecture note posted on D2l, the same thing I did last year for Trad 101 eastern languages. I dont really like this part as Iwill be using lots of A4 papers printer inks. Insya ALLAH, I will try to find hispanic friends who are willing to speak spanish with me and the important thing is thatnb they are willing to be my friends.
Then, I went back to sahara Apartment and I took a nap for half an hour. Later on, I did solat zohor and I went to school again to buy notebooks. Since the price of western world religions is quite expensive, I borrowed a book from the library entitled world regions western traditions. Hopefully, this book would be helpful for me to acquire more information about world religions at the same time I would have more idea to write in my assignment. I regret that I had bought the textbook from amazon before knowing that Jenifer put the lowest-evr price for it which was 8 dollars!!!!!!! After thinking deeply, I decided to just wait the book from amazon even though the delivery would take about 8 days long!!!
Alhamdulillah as Allah had granted my prayers. Unexpectedly, I could chat with mi mujer amigo mexicano, Edgar rivera por la noche. I sent him the essay that I wrote about el viaje inovidable with him. And I suppose he's happy with it. At the same time, I had a chat with Nada. Lots of fun chatting with these two friends. Thank you Allah!
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Spanish 201 winter session- I just finished it!!
Alhamdulillah finalmente yo termine mi clase de espanol hoy!! Y mi profesora me dijo que saque una A para esta asignatura. Muchas gracias Allah!! Ojala que despues vaya a practicar espanol con otras personas. Quiero escribir los nombres de mis amigos que tomaron espanol 201 para semestre invierno 2009. Ellos son:
1) Jenifer- su casa se encuentra dentras de la oficina del consutados de Mexico
2) Elena- le gusta boxear. Tal vez quiesera ser una boxeadora. Tiene un grande novio.
3)Rachel- se caso con un hombre mexicoamericano. Parece joven aunque tiene dos hijos. Su espanol es bastante bueno.
4) Isabel- Hermana menor de Lorry
5) Lorry- Hermana de Isabel. Ella es buena y guapa. Siempre sentaba al lado de Danny, un puertoriqueno (puerto rican)
6)Danny- es de puerto Rico. Pienso que su lengua madre es espanol. Por supuesto el habla espanol muy rapido con nosotros. Me fascina porque para mi, es verdaduro bilingue. Habla ingles muy claro como un americano.
7) Sarah- sentaba al lado de mi en clase. Es buena y le ancanta espanol y quiere haberlo como su segunda lengua.
8)Brice James- una persona de Phoenix. El es vegetariano. Ironicamente, el fuma todos los dias. Que extrano! Es comico tambien y siempre hablaba conmigo en clase. El esta estudiando filosofia. Sabe muchas informaciones de historia del mundo.
Que fue mi profesora? Se llama Morbila fernandez. Es cubana. Se translado a EE. UU para ganar una vida mas buena que en Cuba. Vive en Tucson con su espose quien es un investigador de ciencias en la Universidad de Arizona. Ella es cantarina- le gusta cantar y tiene buen voz tambien. A ella, no le gusta deportes. Tiene un hijo que vive en Cuba. Para mi, ella es buena, simpatica, amigable y trabajadora. Ahora ella esta ocupada con su disertacion por PHD.
Sobre todo, yo echo de menos esta clase. no se porque' . Cualquier, deseo practicar y hablar este idioma. Insya ALLAH si se puede!!
1) Jenifer- su casa se encuentra dentras de la oficina del consutados de Mexico
2) Elena- le gusta boxear. Tal vez quiesera ser una boxeadora. Tiene un grande novio.
3)Rachel- se caso con un hombre mexicoamericano. Parece joven aunque tiene dos hijos. Su espanol es bastante bueno.
4) Isabel- Hermana menor de Lorry
5) Lorry- Hermana de Isabel. Ella es buena y guapa. Siempre sentaba al lado de Danny, un puertoriqueno (puerto rican)
6)Danny- es de puerto Rico. Pienso que su lengua madre es espanol. Por supuesto el habla espanol muy rapido con nosotros. Me fascina porque para mi, es verdaduro bilingue. Habla ingles muy claro como un americano.
7) Sarah- sentaba al lado de mi en clase. Es buena y le ancanta espanol y quiere haberlo como su segunda lengua.
8)Brice James- una persona de Phoenix. El es vegetariano. Ironicamente, el fuma todos los dias. Que extrano! Es comico tambien y siempre hablaba conmigo en clase. El esta estudiando filosofia. Sabe muchas informaciones de historia del mundo.
Que fue mi profesora? Se llama Morbila fernandez. Es cubana. Se translado a EE. UU para ganar una vida mas buena que en Cuba. Vive en Tucson con su espose quien es un investigador de ciencias en la Universidad de Arizona. Ella es cantarina- le gusta cantar y tiene buen voz tambien. A ella, no le gusta deportes. Tiene un hijo que vive en Cuba. Para mi, ella es buena, simpatica, amigable y trabajadora. Ahora ella esta ocupada con su disertacion por PHD.
Sobre todo, yo echo de menos esta clase. no se porque' . Cualquier, deseo practicar y hablar este idioma. Insya ALLAH si se puede!!
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Oh, my laptop is broken!!
First of All, Alhamdulillah because i just finished my spanish test today and I think it was quite easy for me. However, this does not mean that I will get 100 points for the test. I hope that my mark would be more than 91 points in order to obtain an A for spanish course. Actually, I am having a problem that perhaps other people would think that it is a trivia. My laptop, acer, is broken and I just found out about this last two days when suddenly I could not turn on my laptop. Once I pressed the 'on' button, the computer immediately turned off itself.
Oh, What a weird thing!! Then, the next day, I tried to switch it on again. This time, I managed to have it turned on. The laptop could run as normal as it did before. Nonetheless, as I feared that it would turn off without giving any warning, so I decided to have it switched off, hoping that my laptop would be alright. It is like I was giving some time to my laptop to get a rest...huhuhu... So, I borrowed my friend's netbook (wani) to get my spanish homework done.
Unfortunately, it turned out that my laptop could not be turned on though I had pressed the 'on' button hardly.. and I did this many times. Moon, one of my chinese friends, told me the place at school that I should to get help for fixing my computer. I didn't know that MLK building exists at University of Arizona before. What a shame! Alhamdulillah, at least I already know about it right now. So, after I finished my spanish class, I went back to Sahara to take my laptop and bring it to MLk Building.
There, there was a man who checked my laptop. He said that there were two possibilities: First, my computer had a problem with the ram and the second its motherboard is damaged. At the moment, I was praying that everything would be Ok so that I could just get back home and use my computer as usual. As I already expected, its motherboard was damaged. The man, who wore an earring on his left ear, advised me to go to Acer center or factory or whatever related to Acer to get a replacement for the motherboard. I was like.. huh?? Where can I find the factory?? Do I still have the warranty?? The International warranty??!!! ..Oh, just forget it.. It seems that I have to get a new laptop right now.
The problem is that I don't have enough money to buy a new one. Tomorrow, which is friday, we (my friends and I) are going to Grand Canyon for a three-day trip. This means that I will be using money that probably costs about 200 dollars!!! I just did a survey with Arif's help. He gave me a link , tigerdirect.com, where cheap prices are offered for electronic stuff. Maybe for this time, I can only afford to buy a netbook and not a laptop (due to budget restriction). Let me see first, anyway. See how much money left in my account after coming back from the trip. Ya Allah, please help me to find a wise solution. Amin.
Oh, What a weird thing!! Then, the next day, I tried to switch it on again. This time, I managed to have it turned on. The laptop could run as normal as it did before. Nonetheless, as I feared that it would turn off without giving any warning, so I decided to have it switched off, hoping that my laptop would be alright. It is like I was giving some time to my laptop to get a rest...huhuhu... So, I borrowed my friend's netbook (wani) to get my spanish homework done.
Unfortunately, it turned out that my laptop could not be turned on though I had pressed the 'on' button hardly.. and I did this many times. Moon, one of my chinese friends, told me the place at school that I should to get help for fixing my computer. I didn't know that MLK building exists at University of Arizona before. What a shame! Alhamdulillah, at least I already know about it right now. So, after I finished my spanish class, I went back to Sahara to take my laptop and bring it to MLk Building.
There, there was a man who checked my laptop. He said that there were two possibilities: First, my computer had a problem with the ram and the second its motherboard is damaged. At the moment, I was praying that everything would be Ok so that I could just get back home and use my computer as usual. As I already expected, its motherboard was damaged. The man, who wore an earring on his left ear, advised me to go to Acer center or factory or whatever related to Acer to get a replacement for the motherboard. I was like.. huh?? Where can I find the factory?? Do I still have the warranty?? The International warranty??!!! ..Oh, just forget it.. It seems that I have to get a new laptop right now.
The problem is that I don't have enough money to buy a new one. Tomorrow, which is friday, we (my friends and I) are going to Grand Canyon for a three-day trip. This means that I will be using money that probably costs about 200 dollars!!! I just did a survey with Arif's help. He gave me a link , tigerdirect.com, where cheap prices are offered for electronic stuff. Maybe for this time, I can only afford to buy a netbook and not a laptop (due to budget restriction). Let me see first, anyway. See how much money left in my account after coming back from the trip. Ya Allah, please help me to find a wise solution. Amin.
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