Kursus Asas Pengajaran (KAP) NOV'08

On the 24th of November 2008, I went to Shah Alam to attend 'Kursus Asas Pengajaran' (KAP) which is organized by ILQAM. I went there with Mr Azmi which is a Science Computer lecturer from Senawang. We stayed at Presscot hotel in Klang. The course took us for 5 days to finish. There, we learnt about objectives of education, integrity, Outcome Based Education (OBE), Teaching with NLP, e-Learning, Learning styles, Micro teaching, Harnessing Creativity in Teaching and Learning and many more. Among the facilitators who taught us and gave the lecture were Dr. Mohd Mustafa, Assct Prof Dr Faizah, Ms Funny Frances Penafort, Ms Ismie Roha, Ms Norlela Samsudin, Datin Dr. Siti Rahayah, Dr Berhanuddin, Dr. Ruksana, Prof Dr. Alam, Prof Sr. Ir Dr. Suhaimi (MU,VC) and Mr. Marzuki Mohamed. The lecture was very interesting and we gain much knowledge / valuable information from it. The best thing by attending this coure was, we met a lot of friends from other UiTM's branches. I managed to get know a few ustads from Kedah, Pinang and Melaka. There, we also watched movies (Quarantine and Quantum of Solace) at night at Jaya Jusco Bukit Raja in Klang! We also had minum2 at midnight and discussed about our teaching experienced at our own places. Hehee.. Mr Azmi and I checked out from hotel on the 29th of November 2008 and went back to Melaka after we had done our mock teaching. (I think everyone did well for his/her presentation). Unfortunately, they also gave us 2 assignments to do and we need to submit it at the end of December. No more cuti2 for us!

p/s: After this, I need to attend Translations Course from 30/11 - 5/12/2008.

*(Al-Fatihah kepada Timbalan Dekan Fakulti Komunikasi dan Pengajian Media Tuan Hj Shafie kerana terlibat dalam suatu kemalangan jiwa pada 3/12/2008 di New Zealand.... Al Fatihah.. )


(Taken from apple)

Salam Eidulfitri 2008!

Hi there!
Just wanna wish u all, especially my friends and my students......

"Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Maaf Zahir dan Batin"

Forgive me for all my wrong doings... Hopefully all of us are happy with our love one. Do take care k!
- mr. rauf (29.9.2008/2.20a.m/Monday)
(^_^)v

p/s: I have just finished marking the midterm paper for 4 classes. Alhamdulillah, most of my students did well. So now, I have another 3 classes to mark. Hopefully can finish it before raya. I am going to celebrate raya this year in Gombak, Kuala Lumpur. Need to depart from melaka early this morning. Tak sabar rasanya nak celebrate raya although I still have another 3 phd assignments (academic writing and research) to do!







Dear students,

Good Luck for your Final Exam!

Happy Fasting (2008)

Hadith Abu Hurairah RA, beliau berkata: Rasulullah SAW bersabda: “Telah datang kepada kamu Ramadhan, bulan yang berkah, Allah telah mewajibkan ke atas kamu puasanya, di buka padanya pintu-pintu langit, dan ditutup pada pintu-pintu neraka, dan dibelenggu padanya syaitan, demi Allah padanya terdapat satu malam yang lebih baik daripada seribu bulan, sesiapa yang diharamkan kebaikannnya, maka diharamkan”, dan pada lafaz yang direkodkan oleh Imam Ahmad: “Dibuka padanya pintu-pintu syurga” sebagai ganti kepada “pintu-pintu langit”. (an-Nasai, Ahmad, dan al-Albani mensahihkannya di dalam Sahih Ibn Majah, beliau menyatakan ia “Hasan Sahih”).

“Dari Abu Hurairah Radhiallahu ‘anhu, Rasulullah saw bersabda “Semua amalan anak Adam adalah untunya kecuali puasa, kerana puasa itu untukKu dan Aku akan membalasnya, puasa adalah perisai, jika salah seorang sedang berpuasa, janganlah berkata keji dan meninggikan suara, jika ada yang mencercanya atau memeranginya maka ucapkanlah “Aku sedang berpuasa”. Demi Dzat yang jiwa Muhammad berada di tanganNya, sesungguhnya bau mulut orang yang sedang berpuasa adalah lebih wangi di sisi Allah Azzawajalla daripada bau misk. Orang yang berpuasa mempunyai dua kegembiraan, jika berbuka mereka gembira, jika bertemu Rabbnya mereka gembira kerana puasa mereka” Muttafaq Alaih

Kursus Penterjemahan Am

June 26, 2008

On the 23rd of June 2008, 25 lecturers attended the translation course organized by Institut Terjemahan Negara Malaysia (ITNM) in liaison with ILQAM UiTM Melaka. The course actually takes 2 weeks to finish. By attending this course, the participants will get the certificate to become a certified translator. But, we have to take a test to get the certificate to qualify as one. Thanks to our facilitator Dr. Wan Amizah (br je disahkan dpt doktor td dr UKM, congrats doctor!) who has helped a lot during the sessions. We will continue the course in August for another one week during semester break.

Friday: 13 June 2008

I just got an offer letter from Universiti Putra Malaysia to further my study in Doctorate Program with thesis (Mass Communication). The program takes 2 to 5 years time to finish it... For this program, I need to attend the class. For this coming semester in July 2008, I am planning to take Trend and Challenges in Mass Communication class by Prof. Musa and Advanced Communication Theory by Dr. Narimah. The class is on tuesday, which I need to travel to UPM once a week. I might be getting busy starting from next semester as I need to attend the class, do assignment, do presentation and the most crucial part is to teach my beloved students. Luckily, for this semester, I will be teaching the same subjects. Wish me luck to take this challenge which I must go to work and study at the same time, the same thing what I did during my master...

Samsung SGH-E840

June 12, 2008

Today, my sister and i went to Dial @ Fone shop at Terminal Melaka Sentral. There, i bought a new hand phone. The actual price was rm769. After negotiating, i managed to get the price rm699.. Actually, i didnt want to buy a new hand phone. But, as the previous handphone dah selalu rosak dan 2 biji nombor dah hilang, finally, my sister pun dpt meracuni fikiran abangnya to buy a new hand phone. "Thank u so much sis as u have succeeded in persuading me to withdraw my money from the ATM machine and bought a new handphone at that moment"... If not, until now, your brother will still be using that orthodox handphone... hahahaaa...

p/s: next week nak action kat kekawan...
http://my.samsungmobile.com/mobile/SGH-E840/spec

Induction in Kampung Gajah, Perak (113/08)

Hello there. It has been a long time i didnt write my blog. This is my first blog for year 2008...

On the 14th of May 2008 until 29th of May, I attended the induction for new lecturers for my batch 2006. There were 108 new lecturers attended the induction and 7 of them were from Melaka. There were a lot of activities that the lecturers needed to do such as LDK, organizing dinner, sports and a few seminar from morning until night! I was the only lecturer from faculty of communication and media studies. The good thing is, i can get to know many other lecturers from other faculties and from other branches. We learnt a lot during the induction. There, we discussed about general order, budget, income, allowance, rules and regulations as government servant and etc.

We need to pass the exam to become the government servant. Although we were pressured as they gave us only one day to study, we managed to do it well. Thanks to the organizer mr Huzaifah (pengurus pusat latihan) who always supported us during the induction program. Ok, got to go to work now!

Delegates from Brunei Darussalam

Monday, on the 24th of December 2007, the delegates from Brunei visited UiTM Malacca campus for relationship purpose. It was also due to the respond from them as the International Business students have visited them in their country before. I was chosen by Corporate Relations and International department once again to entertain the guests here. Most of the delegates were people from Persatuan Kampung Melayu Islam (PESAKA) in Kampung Tuntung. They had also brought their family members here to look around Malacca. In UiTM, I brought them to look along our new building, showed them our dining hall, mosque, library and finally to the lake. We took a few pictures there as a token for their memories. They were very excited and was overwhelmed. Hehehe... I briefed them about the history of Malacca and told them a little bit about the varieties of culture in Malacca . I also explained to them about the students and faculties here in UiTM Lendu. At mosque, after zohor prayer, I met a few new students. They asked me "Abang dari fakulti mana?" And then I said, "Saya pensyarah dr Fakulti Masscomm", U amek course ape? They said, masscomm. I told them, nanti kita jumpa ek. (nak kena tu panggil sy abg. mwahahahahahhaaa...siap korang!)

At the end of the tour, we exchanged our email, phone number and address as they were very interested to come again here in Melaka. They had also promoted their country and invited me to come there one day. I just simply said, Insyaallah...You'll never know when you'll have the opportunity to travel around.. As our Chief Minister have said, "Visit Melaka means visit Malaysia". I think it is true as everything in Malaysia started from Malacca. This is a very good experience for me to entertain guest from abroad. Luckily, they can speak Malay language and made it easier for me to explain to them clearly. Their language sounded like Sarawakian. I only speak in English if they cannot understand the Malay words that I used to communicate with them..

p/s: tomorrow i need to handle new masscomm students around 120 of them. Then, I have workshop until Friday. It means, no more cuti for me! Next week I am going to start teaching once again until this April 2008.

These 3 days.....

On the 11th of December 2007,my friends
and I had a meeting with Associate Professor Sabariah at Dewan Kuliah 1. It was about collecting data of poor people in Malacca area. Dr. Hanim (the URDC coordinator) briefed us on how to collect data and how to fill in the form. The total number of poor people that the state government has is about 3250 people. The lecturers need to meet all these poor people and verify the data in a week! My team and I needed to cover in Serkam area which has more than 230 poor people there. The next day, Mr Fazlul (our new masscomm lecturer) and I started to do the interview with these people. We managed to cover 10 houses in Pantai Tedung area. Most of these poor people are very old and some of them are handicapped. They receive money between rm190 - rm300 only from welfare department every month. It made me realize there are still a lot of unfortunate people outside there who need help and attention from others. I feel sympathize towards them on what they have been through in order to survive. In doing this research, we needed to stop regularly to ask local people how to get to the places. We also tried to get help from Tok Sidang and JKKK to find out their residency area. It was really challenging as we needed to pass through the forest and it was raining heavily at that time! At night, I brought my younger brother and sister to Jaya Jusco to had dinner at Sushi King. After having dinner I hangout with Mr Razif, Mr Ridzuan and Mr Diza at mamak stall until 130pm.

The next day, Mr Fazlul and I only managed to cover 6 houses. We got lost for a few times. I also took this opportunity to see the forest, paddy field, river and so on which I cannot see it in my resident area. It made me feel very relax and excited too! Actually, we started doing this research at 9am and finished at 6pm. After maghrib, I went to Tesco as I had to go to a friend’s farewell party at Shakey’s Pizza. My friend (Sha) will resign from UiTM tomorrow as she is going to do her master next year. After the celebration, my friends and I went to Pulau Gadong to play futsal. We played futsal for an hour and stopped at 1130pm. Then, my friends and I went to mamak stall and hangout until 1pm.

On the 13^th of December 2007,Mr Rushdi, Mr Shahril, Miss Mayu and I went to Faculty Communication and Media Studies in Shah Alam to get the course file, notes and books for next semester. I also met Dr Maria Muda to check my phD proposal as I need to submit to UPM next month. After meeting Dr Maria, I met Assc. Prof Dr Kiranjit Kaur who was my ex-lecturer during my degree and master at UiTM. I chose her as my referee as she had taught me 3 times and we have known each other for 8 years. She encouraged me to do my phD but at the same time she advised me to do phD at UiTM also but I rejected it. (sory Dr. Kiran, I cannot accept it as I had studied in uitm for 7 years since my matrix, degree and master) I want to change my study environment. We went to kopitiam section 7 for lunch. Then we went to Shah Alam Mall to buy unnecessary things. Hehe… Sharp at 5.00 pm, we went back to Malacca and arrived around 6.30pm as we need to continue doing our research tomorrow morning……….

mr rauf
13.12.2007 / 11.30pm

Mr. December's activities

30 November - 2 December 2007:
- going to hotel uitm dungun in terengganu with mr sharil and senior lecturers from shah alam.
- having a few workshops from morning until night which they have divided into few sections.
- creating new modules for "outcome base education (obe)
- presenting the new modules
- jogging at beach. (very nice place)
- going to kemaman to buy kopok lekor ^_^


Tuesday, 4 December 2007:
- going to work! (at uitm alor gajah as usual)
- doing timetable...
- jogging at stadium fatima with my father
- entertaining my friends who were my ex-classmate from kl at night. (anis and her husband visited me at my home, 'how sweet')

Wedenesday, 5 December 2007:
- celebrating miss farah's birthday with officamates at our coordinator program's room.
- doing timetable! aaaarrrrggg!!!
- doing my proposal (still in progress)
- Yasin citation ceremony for my brother (who is doing degree research in japan) at my house after maghrib. insyaallah will finish his degree another few months
- playing futsal in klebang at 10.30pm with mr rushdi, mr hakimi and other uitm staff.

Thursday, 6 December 2007:
- going to work!
- doing timetable (a lot to adjust!)
- discussing my research with my friends
- visiting my friend and his wife at general hospital with mr razif. (he got baby girl this evening)
- yasin citation

Friday, 7 December 2007:
- editing my research proposal.
- updating timetable ( i got 3 night classes!)
- going to friday prayer at uitm mosque
- going to pc fair at mahkota parade with mr hakimi
- watching dvd 'day watch' and 'otai' with family
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Permanent Head Damage!

On the 22nd of November 2007, my friends and I went to Tanjung Bidara for picnic. Then, we had lunch in Pengkalan Balak near the beach. After eating, we prayed zohor at the nearest mosque there.. At 2.30 pm, my friend called me as I had meeting with my boss around 3pm. After finished the meeting, my workmates and I departed from UiTM to go to MBO in Ayer Keroh to watch a movie. After watching the movie, we had windows shopping at Jaya Jusco. I went back home after praying maghrib at JJ. Finally I had something to do to release my tension and to feel my free time.

I am planning to do my 'permanent head damage' (pHd) next year. During this semester break, i am preparing my proposal which I tried to combine media and sociology as my research. I am also preparing to present the paper in Bandung, Indonesia at international conference next year. Another research that i am going to do is to study about Nurin's case which I want to look the people point of view through blogs. I dont know either I can do and finish all these research or not. But, I will try my best to make it done. Insyaallah...

mr rauf
Saturday - 24/11/2007 - 5.50pm

Pesta Sungai Melaka 2007

On the 7th of November 2007, Wednesday : My friends, my parents and I went to Pesta Sungai Melaka which is near bandar melaka at night. I departed from Alor Gajah to take my friends after breakingfast at Hanib Restaurant. Then, we gathered in bachang (my home). We moved to town together with my parents and arrived there around 9.30 pm. Unfortunately only one of my friends and I had a chance to ride the kapal after waiting for 2 hours. But it was really worthless as both of us were really excited riding that kapal. After taking some pictures, we went back home. I sent my friend in Taman Dimensi and I arrived at my home almost at 2.oo am. It was a really tiring and exciting day till I forgot that I needed to mark so many my students' exam paper which i have to submit just another few days.
hahahaaa ^_^v

p/s: Actually, I had finished marking all the exam paper when wrote this journal. Most of them did well for their final...

Selamat Hari Raya

To all my friends and my students......

Just wanna wish you all

"Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri
Maaf Zahir dan Batin"

Forgive me for all my wrong doings...
Hopefully all of us are happy with our love one.
- mr. rauf ^_^

p/s: To my beloved students, dont forget to read your books. Get ready for your final exam after this raya break. Do see me if you have problems with your subjects especially sociology, mass media and public relations. Good Luck!

16 August 2007

27 years old, 2007
To all my friends and my beloved students,
thanks for the wishes,thanks for the nice cards,thanks for the celebration parties,

thanks for the cakes and presents,thanks for everything.
I really appreciate it... May Allah bless all of u.

July.... hmmm...

On the 9th of July 2007, my friends and I celebrated my mum's birthday at my house. Before the celebration, my friends and I went to Tesco to buy some food and drinks (KFC and cake). I also bought tudung bawal to give to my mum for her present. Actually, I didnt plan the party. My parents were so happy and surprised on what I did that night. Wish u all the best mum! May Allah bless u with good iman, happiness, good health, prosperity and longevity.

On the same day, it was the first day i started teaching my students after a long final semester break. For this semester, I teach Sociology, Intro to Mass Media and Principle of Public Relations for part 1, 2 and 3 students. For new part one students, welcome to UiTM. ^_^v

On the 25th of July, I watched a movie "Love is Cinta" with my officemate... emm.. not bad. But I dont like the storyline, there was an angel which is not logic and a person who had died, alive!... Just like to see the way they made the film look very touching and a nice environment in Indonesia. As a Malaysian, I don't think people can accept that kind of story. But if it was made in western, I do think people can accept the story. I also had watched "transformer" with my bro this month. But I was sleeping when I was watching the movie as I was so tired... I need to watch it once again next time!

p/s: Last month, I bought a new laptop. I really want to have my own laptop since when i was a student. Finally I have it and I am going to use it for my teaching tool in class. I also bought a very cute house at Rembia Perkasa. I need to deduct my monthly salary a lot for that house. huhuhuuu...

-mr rauf saturday_4.30pm_21/7/2007

Surah Yasin

Surah Ya-Sin is Known as the Heart of the Qur'an. Listed below are the benefits and virtues of learning and reading this beautiful Surah.

1. The Prophet (SalAllahu alayhi wasalam) said, 'Surely everything has a heart, and the heart of the Qur’an is Yasin. I would love that it be in the heart of every person of my people' [Bazzar]. (S.Muhammad Ali Sabuni, Tafsir-al-Sabuni Vol.2)

2. The Prophet (SalAllahu alayhi wasalam) said, 'Whoever recites Yasin once Allah will record the reward of reciting the Qur'an ten times.'[Maqal, Tirmidhi 2812/A & Dhahabi]

3. It has been reported by Aisha (radiAllahu anha) that the Prophet (SalAllahu alayhi wasalam) said that there is a surah in the Qur'an that intercedes for its reciter and forgive its listener. Know! It is Surah Yasin. It is called 'Mu'amma' in the Torah. It was enquired, what is Mu'amma? The Prophet (SalAllahu alayhi wasalam) said, 'it embraces the person with the goodness of this world and removes the dismay of the Hereafter’ [Hashiya of Tafsir Jalalalayn , pg 368].

4. On the authority of Ma'qil ibn Yasar from the Prophet (SalAllahu alayhi wasalam) said, 'Recite Yasin on your deceased'[Abu Dawud, Nasa’I,Ibn Maja][Imam Nawawi, Al-Tibyan li-Hamalati’l-Qur’an pg 168].

5. The Prophet said, 'Whoever recited Surah Yasin in the night seeking Allah's pleasure, Allah would forgive him'[Ibn Hibban, Darimi 3283/A, Abu Yala, Tabarani, Baihaqi & Ibn Mardawaih]

May 25, 2007

Happy Teacher's Day!

Happy teacher's day to all educators (teachers and lecturers) in the world!
"A lecturer's achievements is not how many 'A's or 'B's she/he produces but how many lives she/he changes and how many hearts she/he touches". - Siti Aishah

p/s: I have finished marking all my students exam paper. Most of them did well. I feel so glad to them. Yippiee!!! ^o^

May 16, 2007

Currently listening to...

Ruang Rindu - Letto

Di daun yang ikut mengalir lembut

terbawa sungai ke ujung mata

dan aku mulai takut terbawa cinta

menghirup rindu yang sesakkan dada

jalanku hampa dan kusentuh dia

terasa hangat oh didalam hati

kupegang erat dan kuhalangi waktu

tak urung jua kulihatnya pergi

tak pernah kuragu dan slalu kuingat

kerlingan matamu dan sentuhan hangat

ku saat itu mencari makna

tumbuhkan rasa yg sesakkan dada

reff :kau datang dan pergi oh begitu saja

smua kutrima apa adanya

mata terpejam dan hati menggumam

di ruang rindu kita bertemu

-rauf fkpm uitm/ 14.6.2007 / Thursday / 5.00p.m

Visiting Oldfolks (Rumah Kenangan)

Thursday, on 10th of May 2007 (23 Rabiulakhir 1428), I went to Rumah Kenangan in Cheng with mr Antashah and few of students from uitm. There, we had a heart to heart conversation with them. I felt so pity to them as most of them have family (children, brothers and sisters) who were not willing to take care of them. Some of them volunteered to come here just to make sure their children (husband and wife) didn't get trouble with them. If they are lucky, their family members will visit them once in a month. But most of them are still waiting for their family members to visit them although they know that they will never ever come here to visit them.

My questions are, what is happening to our society now? Do they realized that they are doing something that can hurt them so much! Always make them feel so lonely, sad, useless and feel so pressure with the situation they are facing now! Do their children know that these elder people had sacrificed a lot to make sure that their children will be somebody or at least have a life? Did they forget that who are they now is because of them?

These people who are ignoring their parents (elder people) should not live in this world. They don't even feel that they have responsibilities towards them. I really hope one day, their children will make the same thing towards them. Actually, i really like the petronas advertisement during last time raya 2006. It has a good moral value. I still remember the phrase, "abah jgn lupa pakai lampin tau". What u did to your parents, one day, your children will do the same thing to you.

As a sociology lecturer, I always discus about this issue. I always remind them to remember their responsibility as children towards their parents. Some of my students has done this research to study in details about the problems. They have done their observation, interviewed them and given questionnaires to the public.

I also always think what will happen to our society for another 10 years from now? I am really sure they are becoming more advance, liberal, open minded and more success. But, how about in term of their attitudes and ethics? Are they becoming better? You think about it...

p/s: after that, we went to Pengkalan Balak beach for breakingfast and celebrated mr antashah and his student birthday. Thank you for inviting me. I am really appreciate it.

What did I do today?

-helping my mother cooked before going to university.
-taking my friend from his home for breakfast (just accompanying him for drink) early in the morning at Water Lily, Medan Selera.
-marking my students final exam paper at my office.
-monitoring (*skodeng) my friend who was invigilating at LL. hehe..
-meeting with masscomm dean and program coordinator from Shah Alam at director's meeting room. (a few of them!!!)
-entertaining the guests from Shah Alam by showing them all UiTM Melaka area such as new building and new facilities here.
-visiting one of my friends' child at Melaka General Hospital in the evening. Pity him...
-bringing a few of my officemates to Mamak stall near to my house for high tea.
-jogging with my parents and doing aerobic at Stadium Tun Fatimah
-writing a blog now!
-calling/chatting with my bestfriend.
-once again, marking my students exam paper at home.

p/s: need to continue marking after this (after isyak)... so far, my students did well for Mass Media subject. Alhamdulillah.

*Today is a very tiring day! huhuhuhu -_-; fiuuhhh..

my father started rest (pension) today.... 8/5/2007