School in Hosital Programme

Assalamualaikum..

Last 14th March, I went to Hospital Sultanah Nuz Zahirah. Was I sick ?? No, not at all. I was there for Sekolah Kita Programme or also known as School in Hospital Programme. This is a charity programme which is under the Faculty of Languages and Communication (FALCOM) UniSZA which gives us the opportunity to go to HSNZ and meet unfortunate kids who fell ill and unable to attend class. So we will go there and teach them English and other things to help them cope with the classes that they missed and we should also entertain and cheer them so that when they are being happy and in a positive state of mind, they will be able to heal faster.

 My group consisted of 6 members which includes me. The other members who went was Jemba, Payeh, Farhan, Yana and Dayah. Yes, the members for the drama last time. Yes, the same old face. But with these people I feel comfortable and easy to work with and so I choose them to team up with me. (Since I was the one Madam Mahani trusted to find the people interested to join this programme, I had the power choosing who I want in my group and I also had the power to arrange the people in the groups that I feel suitable..hehe) And since our group was the first to go, we must be able to really work with each other regardless of any situation that might come our way.

Last week was one busy week and quite packed and so, we haven't had that much time to meet up with the lecturer that will be accompanying us. At first I thought that the lecturer would be Madam Mahani and then on Wednesday she gave me a list of every student joining this programme along with their groupings and their respective lecturers in charge. I went to FBK's office in the evening at four after my Talaqi class.  After seeing the list, I learn that the lecturer who will accompany is Madam Alia whom I barely know, since she doesn't teach me and so I asked Madam Alia's phone number from Madam Mahani and called Madam Alia to brief her about what we are going to do for this programme. Unluckily for us, Madam Alia was on her way home when we called and so she asked us to meet her on the day after that (Thursday). That night, we prepared a little bit of things that we wanted to do for the kids.

On the next day, we had UBI class at Umar Lab which is just two blocks away from Ali, (Madam Alia's office is at Ali). After the class, I checked my phone and Madam Alia texted me to ask me to meet Madam Sally to brief about the activities that we planned for the kids. I walked to Ali with Farhan and Yana as Dayah, Payeh and Jemba had to meet their Academic Advisers. We briefed the activities we wanted to do and showed to Madam Sally some of our materials. She was surprised that we actually prepared. Madam Sally was actually expecting us to not yet prepared anything since we haven't met the lecturer who will accompany us. We told Madam Sally that we asked Madam Mahani's opinion and guidance in planning what to do with the kids. Madam Sally said that we did a great job and although we were the juniors, we actually prepared more than the seniors before us. After that, we had a little bit of a talk with Madam Sally and she shared with us about our seniors. (which is secret and I am not going to reveal it here ! :D )

At 1.40 we're supposed to ride in the van provided by the university but I was quite late and we only departed at 1.45. In the van, I briefed Madam Alia about our activities and she seemed satisfied and looking forward to seeing how we communicate,educate and entertain the kids. We arrived at the hospital at exactly 2.30pm but we lost our way since none of us including Madam Alia had ever went to Sekolah Kita Clinic before. It is a special room for this program, fully sponsored by Exxon-Mobil and located quite far from the Children's Ward. After we arrived at Sekolah Kita Clinic, we were brought to the cute and colourful classroom. Here are some pictures at the classroom and after this, I will continue sharing about the activities. Do relax your eyes first and enjoy all the pictures taken by Jemba.

Look at how colourful this class is

Some kids and their mother who are waiting for us

Introducing ourselves and asking the kids to introduce themselves

Teaching the kids about animals,their names and sounds

Yeah ! that's my drawings.. hehe

The kids were asked to match the names of the animals to the pictures

Singing and dancing to Old MacDonald Had A Farm

Yana is drawing one mask for herself

Helping Amirul to draw his animal mask

Dayah and Daniel with his animal mask

Helping Yana to wear her 'Mighty Tiger Mask'

Daniel is trying his luck

Zul managed to pull the block without ruining the whole arrangement

Yana wanted to try too

me, Dayah and Farhan with Daniel who had problems with his kidneys

Dayah,Yana & Farhan with Aiman, he had Thalasemia

Jemba with Daniel, Zul Irfan and Zul Aiman

All the group members with the kids

 The activities we did was first, asking the kids to match the animal names to their respective pictures. After that, we asked the kids to make the animal's sounds and ask them which animals had furs, which animal had beaks and so on. We awarded the kids with a friendship bracelet which we made on our own. After that, we proceeded to animal mask making. We helped the kids to make their masks according to the animal of their choice.Next, we sang and dance to the nursery rhymes, Old MacDonald Had a Farm with the kids. Since the kids were sick, we asked them to just sit while joining us with the singing and the dancing. After we were done with the singing and dancing, we talked to them of what they had learned. We danced 'Chicken Dance' with them and played the blocks. Who ever ruined the blocks will sing a song. I was the one who ruined the block and thus I sang 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' along with the dance. After playing a few games, we danced to 'Chicken Dance' again and asked the kids to write on a piece of paper, their name,age and what they have learned today. After that we took a brief moment to thank the kids for cooperating with us and spending time to learn and have fun with us. We also thanked the mothers who allowed their children to join us in the programme and we had some photos taken with the kids.

And before going home, I also had a chance to pose 'cute-ly' on one of the cute chairs in the room and with one of the bears. :)

HAHA ! This is all for now ~ Till I write again in the next post ~ Thank You for reading !! :) Assalamualaikum..

Foundation Days..

Assalamualaikum..

Today I feel this sudden reminiscence of my Foundation Days at UiTM Kuantan.. My life there was probably one of the best phase in my life. It was the joy of my youth, the first time I went away from my family and it was the time I met the friends that I never knew before but the friendship that blooms was the best of all. It was like I have known them for ages. We could have spent years together but fate had bigger plans for us, after we were done with foundation, we were separated to carve and walk down our own paths of fate. Some of us continue with TeSL, some continue with communication, some continue with management and some continue with language studies. Like I did. 

It is perhaps bold to say that 1 year of foundation served more fond memories to me than that of 5 years I spent at school but I was to some extant is true. When I was at school, I didn't stay at the hostel. And so, memories were majorly made in class and during some school activities. I don't really have much memories with my dorm-mates because I have only stayed at the hostel during my SPM examination. A period which was proven very brief to give me sufficient memories of living in a hostel. This is definitely very different from my foundation days because I had experienced a semester (about four months) living in a dorm with about other 15 girls or so. Each day we had was a different one from a day before and the semester after that, I lived in a room consist of 2 person per room but we visited each other and enjoy 'lepak-ing' in each other rooms, typing a new status on Facebook and having a 'comment and like war' after that.

There are so much memories. Some were not recorded & captured in videos or pictures but they were remembered and deeply etched to both my heart and brain. The time we spent walking to 'Arked Padang Lalang' together, being careful so that the dogs won't chase us. The moments we spent eating together while sharing latest and hottest gossips.The tiredness and fun we shared while walking back and forth to the mall every weekend and the pleasure we had while learning in class with our lecturers. Every subjects had suddenly became my favourite subject, unlike at school where I totally despised maths and science subjects. But when I was at foundation, all there was to learn were about language. The love of my life. For the first time in my life, I enjoyed learning and studying. I enjoyed living in a hostel and I enjoyed staying away from my family because when I was there, I made new family members : My friends!

Truth to be told, there are too many memories I have made there. There are many friends that I wish can stay by my side forever. I have not know them for so long, but the bond was so strong. The friends I have made during school time were precious to me, as the friends that I have made during my foundation time. And now, I am moving towards the second semester of my degree life.The first semester was obviously a packed one, with much controversy and problems hanging around and some serious time management failure which drove us to the crazy and hectic last minute preparation for drama, presentation and completing assignments. All the events and drama performing we have done together, all were fun and memorable. The first semester was totally awesome. I have met new, awesome and havoc friends and I am curious of what second semester will bring. But stick to this : always do more and expect less. Which I intended to apply strictly in my studies in the second semester. The subjects are getting tougher but with my family,friends and beloved along, things will be just fine~ 

All in all, in life, we will meet many people. Some we meet for a while and some stick to us till the very end. But there are always reasons why our paths are crossed together and there are always reasons for things that we are going through. Every tears, every smile and every laughter are always there for a reason. They coloured our life and add tastes to our every memories. Bitter, sweet, sour or whatever it is. Every choices we choose lead us the a path of its own, sometimes it crosses each other and sometimes it doesn't. Don't spare time to cry if you have the time to laugh. Smile to every difficulties and cry to every pain but never forget to live and laugh at every hardships. Appreciate every moment and live every second. All these help us to grow and be a better person. InsyaAllah.. :)

Menjelang Final..

*Special dedication for my course mates..*

Assalamualaikum and hello..

My dear course-mates..sedar tak sedar,dah dekat final sem 1 dah kita ni..Dalam dekat2 dengan final ni,bayak pulak keje kita kan..Sketch untuk Linguistic..Test Linguistic & History..Test UIU lagi..final persuasive speech lagi..nak study untuk final lagi..Medieval Party yang entah jadi entah tidak tu lagi..Dalam masa ni, macam tak cukup 24jam dalam sehari tu kan ?? (exaggeration sikit..hehe)

Apa2 pun, sebelum final yang tak berapa lama lagi akan tiba ni, saya dengan rendah hati nya menyusun sepuluh jari tangan dan sepuluh jari kaki memohon maaf andai tersalah bahasa, tergurau senda yang melebih, tersilap tampar @ sepak..Apa2 jelah..mintak maaf banyak2..halal kan makan minum saya..kalau terambil keropok,gula2 @ biskut lebih sikit tu..mintak halal ye..hihihi..

I wish all of us the best in our first finals..do your very best & have fun nanti cuti sem tu..jangan makan banyak2 sangat..hihihi..Insya-Allah, ada kejayaan untuk kita semua..jangan tension2 dengan final..usaha yang sehabis baik..okey ? Love you all..Assalamualaikum... :)

Petang di Pantai..

Assalamualaikum..

Petang tadi aku, Dayah & Farhan pegi Pantai Teluk Ketapang..hihihi~ Last week kan busy sikit dengan assignment HOE..so,tujuan pegi pantai tadi nye untuk melepaskan tekanan sikit..hehehe..so, here's some photos I've took.. :) 

Sedang merenung nasib..

Sedang meng'usha' family2 sweet yang sedang berpicnic

Nampak macam bentuk burung helang kan awan ni ?? :P

Menikmati petang yang mendamaikan..

Bermain2 dengan ombak

menghayati keindahan matahari terbenam.. :)

Terasa best pulak lepas boleh melepas perasaan kat pantai..tergelak-gelak dan menjerit-jerit macam kanak2 ribena bila dikejar ombak..hahaha...tekanan yang lepas sudah terangkat..bersedia untuk tekanan minggu2 seterusnya pulak..all the best in finals !! :)

p/s : Permata yang indah dan utuh terhasil dari tekanan yang beribu-ribu tahun lama nya.. so,do not fret over just a little pressure, it'll shape you into beautiful diamonds one day :)..Assalamualaikum..

In Torment Bed of Roses..

Love is a bed of roses,

Indulged by its succulence smell,

But tormented by its blade-like thorns,

In dread I am of losing you,

The miles are not the excuses,

In dread I am of missing you,

Perhaps for so much hope I put,

In dread I am of dreaming you,

For months it is I long for you,

In dread I am of loving you,

For this love is not easy,

For this road is not meant,

To be as walking on paved path,

This road is difficult,

For the difficulties bears patience,

And with patience, this love grows,

With patience I will wait,

Even in the gravest dread.