ramadhan..
it comes again, time has passed so fast ...
only few months left before i am going to finish my course ausmat.
it means that left only few months more to spend time together with friends, may be after this if we are able to fly, we'll go to different university..so sad although im really can't wait to finish this course, so stress..
can you imagine we got three tests a week and even two assignments, i slept almost at three am everyday this week...huh, i cant believe it...

thanks god finally this week end, and i am quite satisfy after answering all the three tests though i dont know my marks yet....but its ok, as long as i can improve my result.perhaps...

i like ramadhan month really much.. why??
firstly because i can save my money as i only eat once a day, only for breaking fast..
secondly i can control my diet, ramadhan is the best time to diet,hehe...
thirdly, ramadhan can strenghten relationship with friends, we can break fast together, going to bazar ramadhan, and sometimes going to mosque together..

hopefully this ramadhan will be better than before........

what is it that makes it so hard to talk to each other....

communication is the exchange of thoughts, messages, information, feelings and ideas with others. It is vital for us to have good communication skills in other to adapt in whatever situations we are for instance in school, the way we communicate with our friends is certainly different with teachers.
However there are several factors that cause difficulties for some people to talk to each others.

First of all, different ages or generations make people feel so hard to share something. Why is it so???? This is because the young will think differently and experience different stories with the older generations. From the story of THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS, we can see that the father, the main character is able to talk with madam which is almost the same age with him. Although sometime they communicate in different languages they can understand each other very well, if we compared with the interaction between the father and yilan, his own daughter. I myself can see the awkward situation between them whenever they start to talk to each other. This also happen In the real world, In my view young people nowadays prefer to have conversation with their friends rather than to tell the problems with their own parents as they may think that parents will not understand them well.

It is undeniable that distance can causes people not to close to each other. Yilan and her father live separately for a long time. She is in America while Mr shi is in china. Thus, when they meet and stay together they are unable to interact with each other like a father and a daughter used to be. I have also seen this happen to one of my friends. Her family used to live far away since she was in form 3 and it is long time for her not to see her parents even she celebrated Hari Raya with her aunt's family. she has told me that whenever her dad called her , she will feel the gap between them , the conversation between them has changed, not the same as when they live together long time ago. I would say that she is really a strong girl. Well done my friend!!!.

The reluctance to share and to talk is also one of the reasons. for instance, in the story, Yilan refuse to tell her father what was going on with her marriage, what are the reasons of the divorce in spite of mr shi has tried so hard to persuade her daughter to open her mouth, yet to tell him why she is unhappy. however, in my opinion the refusal of yilan to give out her problems is because of Mr shi himself." you didn’t talk much about anything "Yilan told this when her father asked her about her unhappiness and this clearly showed that yilan did the same thing as her father did when they used to live together in china. This is like a revenge of Yilan to her father.

In order to break the emotional war, both individuals should understand each other well, to feel comfortable with people we talk; we should know other's backgrounds more and are willing to express our feeling. I believe that when we share something with others, sense of relief will emerge in our hearts and thus make us feel that we are not alone in this world. If we are unsatisfying with something, we should say it and not to keep it in our heart, however it would be better to say it in a proper way without killing others feeling. Sometimes people may say that it would be better for us to keep silent than talking but actually it depends on the circumstances. The most significant thing is THINK FIRST BEFORE TALKING....,by doing this people will respect you more.....

poem

this is just a poem that has been written from a person who never had any experience in writing a poem before....

i remember
once in a year
when you appear
bring together all happiness
as if the world is free from darkness
but sometimes can cause melancholy
as you remind us of our love ones
and of those miles away from us
everyone put themselves like a shining star
new clothes, new shoes, even new spirits
you bolster the bonds between us
hands in hands query for forgiveness

but today
everything has changed
you come and go
but the joy we feel
decline as time passes
everyone busy to achieve their goals
until they sometimes forget
it is you.......
the one who bring our hearts together

after learning how to write a poem....
i realize that it is quite interesting to express our feelings into words besides can enhance my vocabulary...
hopefully, one day i can create a good poem ........

i miss my home!!!!!!! ..

but what can i do??? even if i shout for several times.
I'm still in the same place, bandar utama and certainly not in my home.


it was so unpredictable when i had cried in the class, so embarrassing..huhu..
i don't know why, suddenly tears rolled down my cheek when mr.derick talked about parents. i can't remember what he was saying actually. the only thing that i can remember was he said ' parents will never hate us'. Do all of you think that they will be glad if you go to Australia??' i think my homesickness had made me cry when he said so...thankfully my classmates didn't realize it, only few of them knew and they were really shocked. they asked for the reason of my sadness....... 'pija, whats wrong with you?? why are you crying???'. but,.. their sympathy make me cried more and more ..sorry my friends..

i suppose to bear in mind that there are others who suffer more .. like Nicholas.. his hometown is far far away compared to me and nasuha also hasn't see her parents for a long time as they are in UK. i should be grateful of my life. i don't want to cry anymore..

God, please help me to face all of this and give a peace in my heart... show me the right way, away from the bad things.....

What should I write this time.. huh…really out of ideas.. I think I just want to tell anything that come cross my mind….

Firstly I want to share with all of you about one of the happiest days that I have ever had in my life. It happened last two week, where I attended a reunion that had been held at Mid Valley mega mall. Why did I say it is my happiest day???.... The main reason is I got an opportunity to meet my best friends. I miss them much more than words can say, that day was the first time I met them since we ended up our secondary school.

Its really surprise to see that there were quiet a number of my ex-schoolmate went there as at first I thought most of them were busy with examinations, assignments and all that kind of stuffs. Furthermore this reunion actually was not well organized. We merely invited whoever studying in Kuala Lumpur and most of them might think that this kind of reunion was insignificant but it’s seemed that everyone appreciates the chance they got to meet their old friends.

There, we gathered at burger king, talked to each other and took photographs. Everyone has changed, the way they dressed, hair style and so on. All of them seemed more mature, their appearance totally different in proportion to last time we have seen each other. Glad to see all of my friends had got good offers after getting SPM examination results, some are doing preparation to study abroad, some are studying in universities and even some of them are already flied to Russia and Japan.

Time seemed to envy with us. About 3.00 pm most of my friends decided to return to their colleges as they have worked to do, same to me and athira , we could not stay longer as we have to make revision for the next test. Furthermore I am actually out of money. I did not know how much money left in the bank; hopefully it is enough to survive while waiting for the next allowance from JPA. If not nothing else to do except to ask my lovely father to bank in some money for me.. but I am trying not to burden him..perhaps…

I miss my mom and dad, my sisters and brothers and my close friends. How beautiful my life if I can be with them….so envy with my friends, they can go back home while I just stayed at the hostel alone… I want to cry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you should read more

You should read more… the sentence that always came out from my English lecture. Surprisingly, it was not only Mr. derick who said this during the class lecture, even my last year’s English lecture Mr. kok. I still remember when Mr. kok asked the students about an issue, the whole class will keep silent as we were unable to answer, of course not for all of his questions but almost the things he asked particularly associated with the global issues. It might be some of my classmate knew but they refused to answer, for me the truth was I really did not know about that such things.

Frankly speaking, since in primary school, I could not develop a love of reading though I have tried. Whether to read magazines, newspapers or any books accept for the novels even to watch the news channel, to be honest it was the last program that I would prefer to watch. This is because I easily get bored when reading. Being a primary school-student certainly did not make me realize the significant of reading, the priority at that time were just to read the textbooks for the purpose of getting high marks in examination.

Now, as I continue my study I realize that reading is vital for both academic and professional success. For instance, as a student having adequate knowledge totally beneficial whether in writing essays or for the oral examination that required us to know lots of things. Nowadays World give us variety of reading materials to be chosen for examples we can read the local paper by checking out the news online and books also available for download online. In spite of technology advancements, there is no doubt that the significant of reading has not decreased.

What can we get from reading?? Firstly I would say that by reading we think more and become smarter. For example if we read a novel our brain will try to imagine and interpret the story inside unlike watching television. People often argue reading can improve vocabulary and this is undoubtedly true. While reading books, particularly challenging ones, we will be exposed to lots of new words. Reading books on the other hand, provide information that goes deeper than just classroom discussion. There are many other advantages of reading and I believe everyone knows well about that.

Though I write about this topic, I still want to ask myself, can I make reading as one of my hobbies?? This means that if I have free time I merely have desire to look at reading materials regardless to sleep even to online. I am wondering whether I can do so and is it possible??? Of course as a normal human being, forcing ourselves to do the things that we are reluctant to be is the worse thing but I do realize that I should read more and more. Perhaps books will become one of my attractions. You should read more……………….

Last weekend was the final week to finish up the documentary for the English assignment. My group members and I struggled a lot to complete the 10 minutes-documentary. Poh hui who stayed outside came to the hostel at night just to do the editing process, really thankful as she was able to drive, thus it would be easier for her to come without asking her father or anyone from her family members.

People may think that it was easy to do a ten minutes- documentary compared to the documentaries on the discovery channel or national geography, which were usually an hour or 30 minutes documentaries. But, when they were required to produce it by themselves, I doubt they would be glad to face the great experiences from it. Indeed it needs a lot of efforts and considerations. Teamwork and responsibilities from each of the group members are vital elements to finish the documentary with the satisfaction.

we have faced lots of challenges in the process of making this documentary from the beginning till the end, lost the important footages, being followed by the security guard at the centrepoint as a result of interviewing the publics without the authority’s permission, in this case , I would say that it was not our fault as we did not know that we were required to do so, and we also burn the midnight oil together in my room to put the background song as well as the subtitles.

Finally, after finishing the group presentation, it was a relief to hear that Mr. Derick was satisfied with the project. He even has no question to ask us but I still worried because he had given no comment or opinion about the documentary. Hopefully we can get good marks for that. In spite of facing a lot of plights, I realize that I have learned a lot from it.


Now, it is about 9 months left to finish my course, ausmat. For me, it is a long time to wait; time management as well as being consistent is the key to get an excellent result in the final examination. I admit that I always have no enough time as a result of delaying my assignments. That kind of behavior should be avoided if I really want to follow my seniors’ step who had succeed in their journey, instead of facing a lot of difficulties, finally their sacrifices have been paid after receiving an offer letter from Australia’s university.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

It is raining cats and dogs outside when i open my eyes.

The sky is crying loudly without asking for persuasiveness, the glimmer of the sunshine has been

taken away by the dark clouds.

The water flow on earth giving a life to the plants.

The wind blow roughly like a predator chasing its victim, causing people's heart to burn like a

fire, keep blaming on the sadness of the earth.

Looking through the window, i can feel the cheerfulness of the trees and flowers, dancing joyfully, emerging a feeling of envy in my heart, how beautiful my lives if i can be like them.

people who i love

It is undeniable that everyone has a feeling of love, to families, friends or anyone that appear around us. I believe that everyone in this world has a desire to love others even to be loved; this feeling is inevitable, coming into our heart without realizing it.

Love my Family
People often argue that family come first, in everything we do, family should be the priority. Same goes to me, I love my family very much, my parents and 7 of my siblings, quite a big number right?? Indeed, for me having a big family can make my life more meaningful. During the school holiday, everyone will return home, gathering, talking, eating and go for some vacation together, even though we often argue even fight to each other, that’s are the moments that I remember the most, the time that I have spent with my family. They are the most important people in my life, how can I survive without them??? I can’t imagine how my life is going on without their cares and supports.

Love my Friends
Of course I love all my friends. They are the one that creates happiness to me, willing to lend their hands if I need help and even give their shoulders to cry on. I have a lot of friends, since in my primary school until now, continuing my study in the college, it can’t be counted how many people that I have known; in spite of we had separated into different ways I still contact with some of them. Now, in the college I close to those who are staying at the hostel, everywhere we go, we will be together, facing all the difficulties in our journey towards success. They are really good friends. Thank to God as I got to know such good friends.

And someone
It was the first time; I have a serious relationship with someone, after several months at kbu. I guess you know what I mean by that….. He is a kind boy, one year older than me. At first, I can’t believe on the decision that I have done, but I admit, there is something special about him that make my heart say ….. he is the right person for me. I really hope, the relationship will stay forever, but life is not always the way we want, we end of our relationship, though, I will never forget him…….

Love is a wonderful feeling. It is good for us to love each other, never try to hate anyone. Once we hate someone, we would not know how much that person will hate us. Think about people you love; it assured will make you smile…

The Documentary

Last weekend, my friends and I went to Gombak to go to the natives or Orang Asli village. We went there certainly for an important purpose, to finish up our English assignment, the documentary. I actually didn’t know the existence of Orang Asli village at Gombak as I am not from here. My friend, Aain told us that Gombak is a popular place that consists of the native houses, she know this because her previous school was in Gombak, quite lots of information that she know about Gombak and it is really beneficial for our group.

We went there on Sunday by Poh hui’s father’s car. At 8.30 a.m Poh Hui and her father arrived at the student house, two of my group member’s najihah, aain and I have finished our breakfast and then we moved to our destiny. Poh hui’s father is a talkative person, he told us some information about the natives and gave us some tips to make our documentary to be more interesting. My friends and I just heard what he was saying about without argued anything but Poh Hui did; we actually did not knew what to say so, that’s why it was better to hear than to argue.

Gombak was quite near, not really far as what I have thought before. In spite of we did not know the exact location of the Orang Asli village, we fully followed the signboards and finally we found the hospital, it was built for the natives’ uses without any payment.
At the hospital, we saw some of the Orang Asli sitting on the bench outside the hospital. Based on their physical appearance, curly hair and dark face, we can recognize them easily.

We decided to interview some of them, as we moved towards the two females, they smiled to us. Thankfully as they did not refuse to talk with us, they even talked too much, contradict with our expectation. They told us how they lived and survived in this modernization century, pity to them as their children couldn’t go to school as a result of their poverty. The income was only enough for then to buy food for their daily life. However there was a man that I remember the most, he was really determine, he said that all of his children got education in school as the expenditure have been supported by the government. He eager to see all of his children succeeds in the future. We were totally impressed of his spirit.

After an hour of interview session at the hospital, we went to the village, only ten minutes from the hospital. We took some footage of their houses and also the environment of the place. The housing area obviously different from the typical people who lived in the town even in the villages, the place was nearby the river, thus it was easier for the villagers to get water supply and the houses were small, just enough for them to sleep, dogs were everywhere, that made us scared to explore more, so, we continued our journey to the Museum Orang Asli. There, we took some photos and then returned to the hostel with satisfaction instead of tiredness.

Japanese Story...

I had watched Japanese Story directed by sue brooks after the Chinese new year break. It is part of my course including the three novels which are boy, Tales of childhood, Desert flower and Falling leaves. I watched it in the tutorial room with my classmate and also with the other class, architecture 2. Mr. derrick was also there, sat in front of the class, prepared to cut some scenes that were certainly not suitable for us although some of us were quite disappointed of his action, hahaha……

My first impression about this movie, it is boring and totally not my cup of tea, but I realize that I could not expect more than that as it was for the study purpose instead of for entertainment. At first, by looking at the title I thought it was a story about Japanese culture or something that were related with Japan and it was. But to be more precise, it was about the two cultures, Australia and Japan which the the main characters were, Toni Colette act as Sandy Edwards and Gotaro Tsunashima as Tachibana Hiromitsu, as a result of different culture both of them are visibly repulsed by each other.

From this film I learned about Japanese as well as Australian cultures. When Tachibana met Sandy at the airport, she thought Sandy was his hired driver thus; he treated her as such, waiting her to carry his luggage and also sat at the back of the car. From the action, of course people will judge him badly. But we could not blame him as it was his culture. Same goes to Tachibana, Sandy’s attitudes certainly contradict with the woman in his custom, very rough, out-spoken and smokes a lot. This contributed to an awkward situation between them.

What the surprise was their relationship have changed after the car had being stuck in the sand at Pilbara Desert, far from help, only both of them there, they became to know each other better, finding the hidden beauty in themselves and fell in love. The suspend began when Tachibana suddenly died, I could not forget about the scene, I laugh when Sandy tried to call Tachibana after he jumped into the river as I thought he just wanted to make a joke. For me it was really ridiculous if he died just like that and then I realize that the death was not a fake, I am really shocked. So disappointed as I could not feel sad, my concentration has lose on that part. I started to think the reason of his death, why was he died actually, was it drowned?? I only knew the real reason at the end of the story. It was because he dived in the shallow water, so unbelievable and unexpected.

In my point of view, this film set up the culture-clash theme, very dull but it is good to watch as it give a lot of moral values to the viewers, what have my lecturer told to the students, judging people by just their ethnicity is shallow and likely to be wrong. The other one is recognizing when we are doing something that will cause hurt others and being able to stop. I also admire Toni Colette action, she has given a good performance, and she successfully played a role as a main character.

Chinese New Year Holiday

After one week at home. i need to go back to Bandar Utama, a crowded city. So sad, but it was the reality that i have to face, to succeed in life and achieve my dreams and hopes as well as to make my parents proud of me i need to sacrifice a lot of things, be a persevere girl...........

During the holiday, i considered it as a short time at home, i didn't do anything. Did some of my homework and also went to the aborigines village to take some footage for my group's documentary. the village is called kg. Sungai Berua, quite near from my village. I went there with my brother by motorcycle and also my neighbour. It was better to go with my father as he knew some people there but he couldn't go, he went to fishing at Tasik Kenyir with his friends. My father likes to fishing very much.

It was the first time i went to an Aborigines village. As we reach there , all orang asli looked at us like we were guilty. We felt awkward about the environment and tried to make it as a normal. May be it was typical aborigines to look at the people who were different from them. I took some videos about their life, the condition of the village and also what were they usually did during their leisure time. What was impressed me, their house were made up from concrete, so we could say that they have already developed compared to the past time.

Although their life have changed, they have difficulty to find water supply, they still washed and bathed at the nearby river. The way their dressing, i think it was still the same , did not change a lot for some of them, the kids just played around naked and the adults wore what Malays called it, 'Kain Sarong'. I looked at them pitifully, they lived in poverty in this modernisation century.

Authorities should take the responsibility to curb this problem. They deserved to live like us, no discrimination at all.

After two or three hours , we returned home. I was not totally satisfy because i did not get an opportunity to interview them , they were shy, ran away went i tried to approach them but it was better as long as a i took some videos and pictures. I got a new experience from this.I think, that was my main purpose to went back home , the rest of the days, i just stayed at home, watching television and spent time with my family members. A boring holiday ......huhu.

I have one week holidays for Chinese New Year, it was quite a long holiday as majority of the students at my college are Chinese, we as a Muslim also got benefit from that.So, We got an opportunity to go back to our hometown. Some of my friends from other colleges or universities were sour grape with me as they merely have two or three days break.



At first, i decided not to return home as i thought it was just wasting my money even my time as it took a long journey to reach at my hometown, about seven or eight hours. It was a boring trip, sitting in the bus without doing anything, just counting the time to arrive at my place. But, when most of my friends who staying at the hostel wanted to go back home, i became confuse with my decision as no one will accompany me at the hostel. besides, if i not returned home on this holiday, my chance to go back just on may or June during the mid term break, i didn't want to regret for the decision that i have made so i bought a ticket.



In spite of my friends going back early , i went back on Sunday as i wanted to finish my homework first. I did not want to bring along my heavy physic book and also i admitted that i didn't do my works at home, a lot of things will reduce my intention to study especially the television. Our lecturers gave us a lot of assignments for Chinese New Year breaks,but we realize that it certainly was for our own good. hopefully i could finish them all on time.





i went back on Saturday night , at 5 p.m. my friend Athira and i departure from the hostel. We went to Kl Sentral together but Athira need to go to LCCT as she went back to her hometown by flight. Meanwhile i went to Putra Bus station by KTM, about 15 minutes from Kl Sentral. I reached there at 6.00 p.m but actually my bus ticket was at 9 p.m. Instead of waiting there without doing anything i decided to go to nearby shopping mall to do some window shopping.In spite of I was quite scared to go there alone , it was better to shopping compared to sit at the bus station and just watching people around me. Besides, as Chinese new year was just around the corner, so of course there were many sales and At last i bought some stuffs for myself.



At 8.30 p.m, the bus station started to become crowded. All people wanted to go back home to spend time with their family , the thing that they could rarely did,particularly a student like me. I took my luggage at the luggage -keeping place, paying for RM 3 for that, i think it was quite an expensive value, but i believe that everyone could accept it as nothing were cheap nowadays, the cost of living is increasing from day to day, all people should adapt themselves with this situation.

Then, i went to the bus to show my ticket but unfortunately the bus driver told me that the number was not in the list, he asked me to move to the other bus as there were two buses that will take the journey to Terengganu. I move there and did the same thing, i was shocked as the bus driver also told that the ticket number was not in the list . Only god knew my feeling at that time, scared, anxious and did not know what to do. Furthermore,i was the only one there, without knowing anyone else. i will cry all night if i could not return home. Some people who sitting there asked me to calm, they said that it was just a technical problem.

After waiting for a while, a person who took the responsibility in the arrangement of the tickets gave me a new ticket number , She apologize to me for the silly mistake that had occurred. I felt relief,thankful as the problem have been solved, finally i could go back safely . that night was a sad memory for me.Hopefully it will not happen again.

I actually do not know what to write this time. So i decided just to answer the questions from the paper that Mr. Derrick had given to us. The first question is....



Where do I read and study??



we can study anywhere or anytime we want . It just depends on us about where are the places that can make us feel comfort or the most important one, the places that can give us a full concentration on our study or reading . If we cannot focus on our lesson, it's merely waste our time, we better go to sleep or do anything else instead of studying or reading. So, we should avoid from studying at this sorts of place. For me, the places that can help me to focus on my study are the library and also in my own room because these places can give me a peace, the most significant aspect for my lesson. Besides, study in the library tend to give me a strong spirit to learn as i can see everyone just focus on the one thing,their books.



What is the best time for me to read??



The best time for me to read, of course the time when i have intention or i really want to read something. If not, it can create a boredom to me as what i had mentioned before, I'm not really interested on reading, so it is better for me to read at the right time so that i can fully understand or satisfied on what i have read. Usually, i like to read at night, particularly before going to sleep. It is easier for me to remember any formula or theories compared to other time and also can help me to feel sleepy when i can't sleep, laying on my bed while reading a book is the best way to sleep.On the other hand, i read novels during my leisure time.





How long i normally study without a break.



actually, I'm not the one who love to study even the one who can use their time wisely, whether to study or to do other things. I admit that i have a problem to manage my time properly, always do not have enough time to complete my works as a result of delaying my homework. That is the worse thing that i really need to throw from myself. what people often argued that time is golden,we cannot denied it, and i believe that by doing so, i cannot go anywhere even to achieve my dream to study abroad.So, i try to be more hardworking and making schedule is one of the good ways to overcome my problem. Based on my schedule, i normally study two or three hours without a break.Then, i chatting with my friends or surfing the Internet before continuing my study again.



What type or distraction bother me the most



Nowadays, there are a lot of entertainments that can influence people especially the students. Same goes to me, as a normal person i can't avoid myself from doing my favourite activities such as chatting and hang out with friends.But i don't think These things can bother me to study as long as we can manage our time well. In my view , it is good for us to go for some entertainments but bear in mind that study must come first. but if any type of distractions come i will try to avoid them.

How many different assignments i work on in one evening and what types of rewards might work for me?

If i have a lot of assignments, i will finish them as fast as possible, perhaps.May be two or three, depends on the time that i have on that evening. But now, I'm just starting my courses so, i don't have many assignments yet and i hope after this when i need to face with that situation i can complete them on time with satisfaction, good quality of works and also getting high mark. Lastly, i don't think i need rewards for my works, but rewards actually good for us to encourage ourself in doing something. It just enough for me if my friends or other people appreciate what i have done.

For the second post i would like to write about my life after i had registered at KBU international college. I was very grateful because my old friend Athira also got the same offer so that i can be with her at the college. i am actually a quiet person, so it is hard for me to know others or be friend with people in a short period. I need a time to adapt with a new environment, whatever or wherever the condition was, particularly when i was alone there, without knowing others.


During the registration day, we had been given speech by the principal of KBU international college and also JPA's representative about what we are going to learn, our duty as a JPA's scholars and also about accommodation.Then, they informed us where we will stay. We were divided into two different place, one was staying at the hostel and the other one was in a luxurious student house even a working people were unaffordable to live there.Unfortunately,Only a few students who need to stay at the hostel including me, while Athira will stay at the student house, it was very lucky for her.


At the first time, i was quite disappointed as i need to stay at the hostel instead of leaving in the house that everyone was eager to stay but finally i realize that there were many advantages that i can get by staying there, the hostel is nearer from the college compared to the student house, the students who lived there can go to the college by foot meanwhile those who lived at the students house need to go to the college by the van early in the morning in spite of the class started at 11 or 12 o'clock. Besides it is also easier for us to eat or buy anything at the nearest shop. On the other hand, we got to know students from other country like Korea, Sudan, China and Iran as most of them were staying at the hostel, i can improve my English as well by communicating with them and also learned how to socialize with the foreigners.

Before i entered my room,i really want to know who was my roommate and i thought that i can meet her but when i went there, i saw no one. My family need to go back early as my father need to drive for a long journey again, so they leaved me although they were worried as i stayed alone. I was sad at the time i saw my family's car lost from my vision but i tried not to cry and talk to myself, from this day, I'm promise to be a strong girl and not to give up easily.



The next morning, at the orientation session, all new students gathered at the main hall.The emcee of this session was Mr. Al, our Islamic and Malaysian studies lecturer. After a short briefing, we were divided into several groups based on the place that we sat. Then we were introduced to some of our seniors. Most of them were good students that have been chosen by the lecturer among the seniors.In the group, we got to know each others more, about where we were came from and also our previous school. My group members mostly come from different states , from the best schools and that make me scared to compete and to stand the same level with them. The orientation day was very exciting and it was a memorable memory for me.

myself

First of all, I would like to write a little bit about myself. My full name is Nurhafizah bt Ismail.

My friends call me Pija. It is just a simple name. I was born 0n 28 April 1990 in Terengganu and live there until now with my big family, consist of 7 siblings, a brother and 6 sisters and the most important people in my life of course my parents. I love them very much. I come from a small village called Kg.Felcra Bukit Kapah, situated at kuala Berang,Terengganu. My hometown is totally different compared to the place that I am staying now, which was very crowded. Everyday there are always traffic congestion, the place was filled with people from different races even from various countries. My hometown is very quiet, the fresh air make me feel very calm each time I returned to my village. That are the reasons why I like my hometown very much.


What are my hobbies?, people often said that they like to read books, but for me, I easily get bored when I read a book instead of by reading we can get a lot of information that are very useful for us. Thus, I try my best to make reading as one of my hobbies and now I train myself to fall in love with books particularly English books. During the leisure time I like to watch television especially my favourite TV program, Korean movies, surfing the Internet and also sometimes hang out with my friends to the nearest shopping mall. I usually go to the mall with my friends during the weekend.

Friends are the one who are willing to be with us whether we are in happiness or sadness, the one that can give us their shoulder to cry on, and also help us if we have problems by giving good advices. Nevertheless, I prefer to have many friends rather than to have a best friend as it is not easy to find a person that I can trust at all. I have a lot of friends that come from different states and most of them are the same age with me, all of them are very kind to me. I am lucky to have friends like them, I can share my problems and they always make me laugh. Now, there are three persons who are really close to me, they are Najihah, Aain and Syafiqah.



After getting my SPM examination, I had got two offers, one was from International Islamic University which was foundation of architecture and the other one was I got JPA's scholarship to further my study to overseas, also in architecture course. Although both of them were the same courses, I prefer the second one because going to abroad is my dream since I was young. It is not easy to get a chance to study abroad , furthermore it is a scholarship, so that I can reduce the burden of my parents as I know that many difficulties they have faced to raise up us, willing to sacrifices everything to make sure that my siblings and I get a better education. Their sacrifices are valuable than anything else in the world even jewels or money cannot replace them.

I registered at KBU International college on July 2008. My father did not know where exactly this college , we asked people and most of them did not knew where it was, they just knew about KDU which is quiet nearer from my college. I actually never heard about KBU college until I got the offer from JPA, because of this my father and I lost and came late for registeration. When I reached there, I can see that the college are really different than what I was expected, the environment was totally did not same with my previous school. I started to think whether I can adapt with it or not. Starting from the day I registered at KBU, my life have changed a lot.