LeSSon FrOm An ExpeRience!

I saw some of the appeal students entering UMK few days ago. This make me recall back my experience in failing to get any place in any public universities. During that time, I was feeling very sad and disappointed because public university is my aim after Form 6. I felt guilty and ashamed towards my family. My friends’ pointers which are lower than mine are also able to further their studies. I thought I would be lucky enough where I still have a chance in appealing but it turned me down. I told myself not to give up and find solutions rather than keep weeping. I wrote many appeal letters along with my certified certs to some of the public uni included UMK. I’m very grateful but also ashamed because I make a hard time for my family especially my parents to fetch me to the post office that located far from my house to send those appeal letters with “pos laju”. Besides family, I’m also being supported and helped by my “close” friend where he is in UMK and he tried to introduce me into this uni by sending my certificates to the vice chancellor, Prof. Ir. Dr. Zainai B. Mohamed. Vice chancellor willing to accept me into UMK with my specified qualification and I was the last girl to be accepted into here. I received a call from the UMK’s academic staff the next day to inform my intake and asked me to report in few days time. I was surprised and delighted like I had won a million ringgit. Soon, I started to prepare and pack my stuffs to progress my pathway to UMK. I was accompanied by my parents, brother and sister to Kelantan. Although I felt awkward at the beginning but I really felt grateful and love to be here. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my family and “him” for supporting me and finally the vice chancellor of UMK for giving me the chance to study here. I’m proud to be here and I promised myself will work hard and won’t give up easily no matter I meet up with any problem. I learnt a lesson from this experience. We don’t wait the possibility or chance to come to us but we should find and grab it by working on it. Don’t ever judge those who try and fail but judge those who fail to try..

LEARNING EnGlIsH Is FuN~!

My English lecturer questioned my class if there is any idea to be done to improve our students’ English language. I suddenly thought of working out on debating session. I felt it would be quite interesting to debate on a topic and between different sections. This can help us to stimulate our brains to think on points for debating and let the student speak out their minds. English camp is fun also but most of the students had done it during the 1st semester. Learning language should be fun, not stressful. But to make it a habit for us to speak in English is hard because we don’t choose it to communicate with our friends. But if there are foreigner students or friends that do not how to speak other languages other than English, then we will have no choice but to interact with them in English. I still remember there was once a student named Jonathan who studied in UMK but left on the 1st semester to further his study to US. He has a good command in English and he doesn’t know how to speak in mandarin. So, this indirectly forces me to communicate with him in English. He is a kind guy where he doesn’t look down or laugh at me during that time. Then, day after day I felt that I improved more by communicating in English and learnt many words from him. But, unfortunately he had to leave here. Anyway, everyone has a choice and own pathway to go.