we do nothing but change.....
im still adapting to the current situation where there is a tremendous need for me to organise my time, my work...bla..bla..bla....i need to get away...perhaps to Langkawi, or any other beautiful places....
9 months ago, in another country...i had only 10-20 students in my classes, but now im having almost 150 students, nearing 200, sooo many of them...they are talented...different...full of determination... noisy...that's what i love about them.... being a lecturer and to be able to give lecture to those students really teaches me in a way to appreciate life.... with so many of them and attending to their queries......again im still adapting.
im experiencing a short-term memory loss due to overloaded with so many things to do. my students mumbling about im being so forgetful , things that ive said in classses, things ive promised, mid-term dates...etc..etc..tests..etc..etc...now i know that it's not easy to be a student myself when im lecturing at the same time. but actually it's not difficult either...it's all in the state of mind.....
chow!
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
my old guitar
actually im waiting for a friend to chat online and to discuss about our assignment, and im still waiting.
well there's nothing much to talk about today, aside from the fact that i was totally busy today,
i realised one thing...if we say we are busy and dont have the time, we will have no time..but if we really really say that we have the time...we will find a time for us to do whatever that we need to do. as a friend of mine ( the guy whom i had a crush on in campus, and a cute one too) once said 'kalau kata takde masa, memang takdelah' ...heheheh.
so my point is that i want to talk about my old guitar... i bought it in 1991, that was 18 years ago, i learned how to play guitar from my father when i was 12 years old. i can still recall the beautiful memories dancing and singing to my father's songs while he played the guitar.... i can still remember the way my father smiled looking at myself and my sisters jumping around, enjoying to the tunes... how i long for those days...how i miss my father's smile, the way he talked...the way he walked... it feels just like yesterday he left us....
then when i was in form 2, i went to yamaha music school and completed the fundamental stage within 3 months. completed another 2 stages..then..puff! i quit due to spm examinations. i consider myself as an amateur player, still learning. just the other day i went to yamaha music centre in IOI mall with my students. they were very helpful and i appreciate their effort. i didnt know that yamaha music centre has been there all the while.. im thinking to buy another guitar, it's just that i dont know when..
when i play the guitar and sing to my favorite tunes, all of my problems seem so far away, i sing with all my heart. i believe that i can sing...not a professional singer though, but just for my ears , singing just to entertain myself. to me auditions are too scary... i dont care about what others think about the way i paly my guitar, the way i sing, whatever they say have no effect on me... insignificant. but one thing's for sure, i make myself and my family entertained with my songs. if im bored, i would sing from the top of my lungs with my mum and my cute sis.
playing musical instument also teaches you to feel with your heart or to nurture your subconscious mind. it amazes me the way professional musicians work with their instruments. i wish i could play guitar like a pro, unfortunately i dont have the time to indulge into music as i have trillions of other important things to do.
ok til the next writings...
well there's nothing much to talk about today, aside from the fact that i was totally busy today,
i realised one thing...if we say we are busy and dont have the time, we will have no time..but if we really really say that we have the time...we will find a time for us to do whatever that we need to do. as a friend of mine ( the guy whom i had a crush on in campus, and a cute one too) once said 'kalau kata takde masa, memang takdelah' ...heheheh.
so my point is that i want to talk about my old guitar... i bought it in 1991, that was 18 years ago, i learned how to play guitar from my father when i was 12 years old. i can still recall the beautiful memories dancing and singing to my father's songs while he played the guitar.... i can still remember the way my father smiled looking at myself and my sisters jumping around, enjoying to the tunes... how i long for those days...how i miss my father's smile, the way he talked...the way he walked... it feels just like yesterday he left us....
then when i was in form 2, i went to yamaha music school and completed the fundamental stage within 3 months. completed another 2 stages..then..puff! i quit due to spm examinations. i consider myself as an amateur player, still learning. just the other day i went to yamaha music centre in IOI mall with my students. they were very helpful and i appreciate their effort. i didnt know that yamaha music centre has been there all the while.. im thinking to buy another guitar, it's just that i dont know when..
when i play the guitar and sing to my favorite tunes, all of my problems seem so far away, i sing with all my heart. i believe that i can sing...not a professional singer though, but just for my ears , singing just to entertain myself. to me auditions are too scary... i dont care about what others think about the way i paly my guitar, the way i sing, whatever they say have no effect on me... insignificant. but one thing's for sure, i make myself and my family entertained with my songs. if im bored, i would sing from the top of my lungs with my mum and my cute sis.
playing musical instument also teaches you to feel with your heart or to nurture your subconscious mind. it amazes me the way professional musicians work with their instruments. i wish i could play guitar like a pro, unfortunately i dont have the time to indulge into music as i have trillions of other important things to do.
ok til the next writings...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
toastmasters club
i thank my employer for giving me the opportunity to be a part of the in-house toastmasters team. when i first joined the session, i got the best table topic speaker. it was wonderful! then i realised toastmasters is about capturing the audience's attention just in a matter or minutes! how do you capture people's attention just within 3-5 minutes? i didnt know that i am able to do the toastmasters thing.... then the second session, although i didnt get the title for the best speech, i did manage to get full attention and full support from the floor. my topic was 'love has no colour'. it was a story about my family retrospectively from my great grandfather days up till now, where we embraced and still embracing the philosophy of 'love has no colour'. My great grandfather came to malaya all the way from Mysore India, got married to my great grandmother a beautiful ceylonese lady, and my grandfather married to a lovely chinese lady, the tradition went on as my late father married my mum, a beautiful malay girl. but most of all my father discovered the beauty of being a Muslim first, then he got married to my mum, Alhamdullillah......
my point is that dont be afraid to venture into things that you're unsure of, go for it and you will discover the impossible....just like the slogan of adidas...impossible is nothing!
my point is that dont be afraid to venture into things that you're unsure of, go for it and you will discover the impossible....just like the slogan of adidas...impossible is nothing!
crazy week
have you ever feel like you're drowning in a pool of tasks until you dont know what to think and dont know what to do? even with a planner and timetable and everything, it seems like you're doing nothing?
last week was the craziest week ever, carried out 2 major presentations....prepared 3 assignments.... tina and marina kept chasing me for the Decision Making final exam papers....arghhhhhh.......kak zaharah kept chasing me for the lesson plans of all of the subjects that im lecturing in.....i have one more module to prepare and it's commercial law subject! waaaaaaaaa.......................i know...i know... it's my responsibility to prepare all of those modules and exam questions....the academic girls were just doing their job and they are all lovely people............Thank Allah...i managed to complete everything as planned although there were some hicups....fuhhhh...
sometimes i wonder....what if im married and im studying and working at the same time, how would i react to all these things? most of the time im grateful for not being a married person and having kids at the moment....fuhhh.... but definitely i will get married, once i complete my studies, Insyaallah.......
i have a wonderful team for my Human Resource Management class, they really help each other a lot and i believe that all of us in the team are winners, with regards to attitude and personality. personally, i dont really love the subject but because of my team, they have taught me to love it.
so now im embracing the philosophy of love whatever i do and i will be loved in return.
what else? at the moment im contemplating on whether or not to complete the mid term exam questions tonight. perhaps im exhausted....too tired to think.
ok then, till the next post
last week was the craziest week ever, carried out 2 major presentations....prepared 3 assignments.... tina and marina kept chasing me for the Decision Making final exam papers....arghhhhhh.......kak zaharah kept chasing me for the lesson plans of all of the subjects that im lecturing in.....i have one more module to prepare and it's commercial law subject! waaaaaaaaa.......................i know...i know... it's my responsibility to prepare all of those modules and exam questions....the academic girls were just doing their job and they are all lovely people............Thank Allah...i managed to complete everything as planned although there were some hicups....fuhhhh...
sometimes i wonder....what if im married and im studying and working at the same time, how would i react to all these things? most of the time im grateful for not being a married person and having kids at the moment....fuhhh.... but definitely i will get married, once i complete my studies, Insyaallah.......
i have a wonderful team for my Human Resource Management class, they really help each other a lot and i believe that all of us in the team are winners, with regards to attitude and personality. personally, i dont really love the subject but because of my team, they have taught me to love it.
so now im embracing the philosophy of love whatever i do and i will be loved in return.
what else? at the moment im contemplating on whether or not to complete the mid term exam questions tonight. perhaps im exhausted....too tired to think.
ok then, till the next post
Sunday, February 15, 2009
it has been 3 months since i wrote in my blog....
life has been wonderful, full of activities, 18 hours of lectures a week, attend lectures every week.......waaaaaa...... but that's the price i have to pay in order to improve myself and my future. well dats life... no pain ..no gain...
after my graduation 10 years ago, going back to school brings back memories... I wanted to explore the other horizon of learning, everybody knows Masters degree requires lots of group work....dealing with people from various backgrounds.....different nationalities... i guess in life the most important thing is to possess the ability to adapt. without it... we will go no where....
there's a saying by Mr. Joe Calloway.... the author of 'work like you're showing off'... mistakes won't kill us, complacency will! my point is that we have to embrace change regardless whether we like it or not.
it's all in the state of mind, you attract what you think. you know what? it's true.
i started out my career as a Property Valuation Evecutive for 6 years, then one day ive decided to change my career path and wanted to be a lecturer. Teaching has always been a passion, i never wanted to pursue a career in real estate. Before i went to Brunei, i actually told myself that all i wanted is to be a Lecturer, then I became a lecturer there. just before i came back to USJ, i told myself again that i will only want to be a lecturer, and i got it. coz my ambition is to get myself a Phd someday in the near future. which i truly believe i will get it, ALLAH's willing.
I'm very grateful for living my life the way i live now, despite the fact that i miss my twin sister and my nephew so much.....
actually there's nothing much to talk about in today's post, aside from the fact that im having a slight fever, sore throat and toothache.
ok till then chow!
life has been wonderful, full of activities, 18 hours of lectures a week, attend lectures every week.......waaaaaa...... but that's the price i have to pay in order to improve myself and my future. well dats life... no pain ..no gain...
after my graduation 10 years ago, going back to school brings back memories... I wanted to explore the other horizon of learning, everybody knows Masters degree requires lots of group work....dealing with people from various backgrounds.....different nationalities... i guess in life the most important thing is to possess the ability to adapt. without it... we will go no where....
there's a saying by Mr. Joe Calloway.... the author of 'work like you're showing off'... mistakes won't kill us, complacency will! my point is that we have to embrace change regardless whether we like it or not.
it's all in the state of mind, you attract what you think. you know what? it's true.
i started out my career as a Property Valuation Evecutive for 6 years, then one day ive decided to change my career path and wanted to be a lecturer. Teaching has always been a passion, i never wanted to pursue a career in real estate. Before i went to Brunei, i actually told myself that all i wanted is to be a Lecturer, then I became a lecturer there. just before i came back to USJ, i told myself again that i will only want to be a lecturer, and i got it. coz my ambition is to get myself a Phd someday in the near future. which i truly believe i will get it, ALLAH's willing.
I'm very grateful for living my life the way i live now, despite the fact that i miss my twin sister and my nephew so much.....
actually there's nothing much to talk about in today's post, aside from the fact that im having a slight fever, sore throat and toothache.
ok till then chow!
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