Official Beginning. Please Do Not Sigh. (:

بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم

Salam sejahtera everyone ! It has been a week since school reopens and how's school so far?. Great? Oh well I hope so. To those who are in the first semester, familiarize yourself with the system here in uni...its not like your secondary school life, neither you matriculation time or diploma moments. Degree is completely a different phase, that will surely test you throughout your journey, and yes eventually will determine what and how your future will be.

So be serious everyone. We aint getting any younger. Please have an objective in your life. Yes we live not to go after dunya. But all we must do is to seek knowledge and use it wisely. Guna untuk ke jalan Allah (to those Muslims). 

I dont really have the idea why I am a little bit eager to start studying this semester though all my modules are super heavy. 7 subjects, 21 credit hours with 3 each. 4 core subjects, 2 fac subjects, and an external elective, as an alternative to have a different surroundings of learning.

Timetable is so packed. I even have class on Saturday, that shows that I really cant go anywhere during weekends. Worst, tak dapat lah selalu balik kampung halaman kan? Huhuh. have a look here.

Looking at this timetable of mine, some might say "are you crazy?!", "please, drop any one of the subjects, these will kill you." and so on so forth. But its no harm if I would want to have a try right?. Well.. Most of my modules are pre-requisites ones and I would not want to procrastinate any modules or I wont graduate on time. InsyaAllah deep down I believe that I can do this. So do you.

Please dont easily get irritated if your modules are getting harder each sem and your timetable is so packed that you are not able to have any leisure time on your own. Nothing is getting easier in life in order to succeed. and achieve your goals. You can treat this as your leisure time afterall. Well thats what we call students' life. Yes? No?

Only if your goals have nothing to do with learning, then I have no more say. ;)

Alhamdulillah. this positive thinking still remain in me and I just want to share with you guys, that whatever people might say to you, take it as a weapon to you to struggle harder and strive better. 

So yeah. Although add-and-drop week still left with a week, I still treat this as the official beginning of my semester 3 as lectures and classes are ongoing and we have learned a chapter from each module during this one week.

Happy Learning everyone. Smile when you first enter the class or lecture hall.. Dont let yourself too stressed out. Believe in yourself. And focus on your goals ! (:

والله أعلم بالصّواب

Good Luck !

بسم الله الرحمن الرّحيم

Alhamdulillah. This is the 3rd day of school but it is actually my first day since school reopens. I had an appointment with traffic police in Singapore yesterday (Tuesday), therefore I was not able to reach KL on time due to some matters needed to be settled. 

Timetable is okay. But yeah as usual, the same thing will happen. Classes full, and we really have to decide on what to add, and what to drop in order to balance our modules. It is kinda hard. Whereby we really need to plan on whether we can cope taking the subjects we had decided on. 

This semester is a brand new one as I'm now staying alone with no roommates at 12th College. Its kinda challenge to me but I know I'm able to stand on my own feet. 

I am not sure if I'm totally ready for my first lectures and classes tomorrow. The modules are heavy as majority of them are core courses and are pre requisites for certain modules in the next semesters. I just hope everything will go smoothly and everything will be just fine.

Yeah. Every semester's gonna be hard. It can never be easy and afterall, there arent things so simple in this life. Bear with in, and all the best for this new semester.

I'm so gonna struggle hard and strive to the best insya Allah ! (:

1st Experience as Sahabat SERU

بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم

Thursday. 6th September 2012 was such a priceless experience when my 7 selected SERU friends and I was given the chance to speak in front of 3331 freshmen during the Minggu Haluan Siswa (Orientation Week) of Session 1 2012/2013, at Dewan Tunku Canselor, University of Malaya.

SERU was programmed in the morning from 9 plus and the sharing session was around 11 plus. Went through a great adrenaline rush when Abang Mirul and Kak Elin requested us to share the experience throughout our journey in SERU for the last semester.

Cracked our head to construct great sentences in order to attract the attention of the new students to join us in SERU. We would really want them to feel inspired by us, to sense the power of SERU in upgrading ourselves, to be motivated in their first semester in UM, which can never be easy for any single student when they first step into this tertiary level of education.

Alhamdulillah responses were great and these new students are great students I shall say. Despite of being tired participating in various kinds of activities in the orientation week, they were still able to co-operate with us and gave such an awesome feedback.

And alhamdulillah. Out of 3331 new students, 1039 students decided to join SERU based on the statistics we counted from the forms that they filled ! That was wayyyyy too much from what we have expected in the first place. 500 students expected, and its doubled ! Nothing much to say out our gratitude other than Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. (:

I guess the 8 of us managed to give good speeches. ;) Thank you all for your support and co-operation. Appreciate it much. 

Here how my speech was. It was in Malay. Ouh. Tak jugak. Rojak ah. I was the 7th speaker. I could still remember even though I was spontaneous at that moment without much preparations on the scripts. But I could still remember every lines as I thought this must be a great advice.....sampai diri sendiri, terus sematkan kata-kata sendiri ke dalam otak dan kotak hati.

Let me share with you, just one more time. Or perhaps more, if you feel like reading it more than once :p as an inspiration to you, perhaps. Hehe  ;) It wasnt exactly like this, but the contents are in. Itu saya pasti.

"Nama saya Nur Atiqah Bte Abdul Malik.. Berasal dari Singapura, tapi kini menetap di Johor Bahru. Pelajar tahun 2, Faculty of Business and Accountancy, majoring in Accounting.

Anda dah banyak dengar pengalaman tentan perubahan positif dari kawan-kawan saya dari segi pengurusan kewangan, matlamat hidup, communication skills, dan soft skills yg lain. Sekarang, saya ingin kongsikan pengalaman saya sendiri dari segi attitude.

Sebelum saya join SERU, I never care much about my weaknesses, strengths, dan saya ada satu sifat normal seorang pelajar, yakin suka tangguh kerja, dan punyai satu prinsip "lulus sudah cukup" dan "I'm happy with what I have right now." 

Tapi secara peribadi, lepas joined SERU, saya belajar banyak tentang my own strengths and weaknesses, as well as my own personality yang orang lain nampak pada diri saya. Adalah satu cabaran besar, bila kita disuruh buat survey tentang diri kita sendiri. Dan satu-satu orang yang baru kenal kita, dan yang tak kenal kita, list down all the weaknesses that the see in you. SO dari situ, saya mula buang prinsip "I'm contented with what I have right now". BUKAN SAYA KATA SERU AJAR TAK BERSYUKUR, cuma kita tak boleh selalu ada di dalam comfort zone. Kita perlu sentiasa improve diri kita, not to maintain our weaknesses dan terus-terusan mencari kekuatan yang ada pada diri kita. Alhamdulillah lepas tu saya tak tangguh kerja lagi, dan takde langsung masalah tak cukup waktu utk revision utk exam. Dan hasilnya, result sem 2 meningkat banyak dari sem 1. Bila kita rasa motivated, baru ada confident nak buat kerja. Betul tak?

Apa yang saya nak kata kat sini, SERU bukan sahaja satu club utk buat kawan baru, tapi utk sama2 upgrade diri kita. Macam mane?.....Apa rahsianya?

AMBILLAH PELUANG INI untuk sama2 ramai2 sertai SERU, satu platform yang dapat membantu kita sepanjang pengajian kita di campus Universiti Malaya ini, insyaAllah.. "

Hope these simple words can inspire you not to give up on yourself and help you to overcome your inferiority. SERU helps. ALL those soft skills really put you in a great level confidence of yourself and you can feel the positive change then. Seriously. 

Till we meet again huh.

Jumpa kita, tegur k? (:

والله أعلم بالصواب

The Official One?

بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم

Alhamdulillah. Thanks SERU for this email. Thanks Abang Mirul and Kak Elin, for selecting me as the REAL Sahabat SERU. Thanks for still acknowledging me as part of SERU member even though I did not update my blog according to the specific period as what and how it has been requested.

Tho I'm still not confirmed if I can attend the event on 6th Sept due to some family problems here at home, but here, this is the latest update. (:

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Now let me share my particulars.

Name:

Name given by my mum was Nur Atiqah Bte Abdul Malik. People call me Tiq, or Ika, or Tiqah. I'm all okay with all the nicknames, as long as it links to my name (:

Age:

Born in 1991, December 23rd. Haha. Thus, I'm now 20 years and 8 months old. ;) Not that old.

Hometown:

I'm a Singaporean, now residing in Taman Pulai Indah, Johor Bahru. Used to live in Singapore for 15 years and 2 months. Shifted to JB on 15th March 2007.

Parents are staying in JB. Dad works in Singapore and go in and out Singapore-JB every single day. Mum is a fulltime housewife, a tailor, sews Baju Kurung, Jubah, Dress, Blouse and Baju Melayu.

Eldest sister settled down in Bangi after getting married with a Malaysian.

Second sister works as an Admin Staff in a medical centre in Singapore, and stays at Granny's place in Singapore.

And me, the third one.

And finally, my youngest brother, 16 years old, now studying in Maahad Diini, Qurtubah, Kuwait.

Primary and Secondary Education:

Obtained my primary and secondary school education at Al-Maarif Islamic Institution, Geylang Road, Singapore. Yep. Primary and secondary level at the same school. 

Took PSLE (Primary School Leaving Examination) in 2003, which is equivalent to UPSR in Malaysia and scored an A, and the rest were B. Hmm yep. It was bad.

Took O-Level Examination, which is equivalent to SPM in 2007 during secondary 4, and also Peperiksaan Shahadah Thanawi Empat, an exam specifically for religious subjects. Dont ask for the grades for the academic subjects. I only scored my ukhrawi subjects. C's to all science subjects ):

Tertiary Education:

Pursued studies for Diploma level at Selangor International Islamic University College (KUIS), in Bangi. Majoring in Accounting, for 3 years, from 2008 to 2011.

I'm now in year 2, University of Malaya, majoring in the same field, Bachelor in Accounting (: InsyaAllah will be graduating in 3 years time.

I did not do well during my primary and secondary school time. But guess what? Alhamdulillah even though I did not have any basics in Accounting in the very first place, but look at the picture below. It was taken during the Event of KUIS 14th Convocation on 27th November 2011.

See something there?. Imma give you a guess. Spot a name there, please ! ;)

That was my biggest achievement ever in my education. 

Working Experience:

Working is fun. Indeed. Especially when you get the job that you like and you really enjoy doing your work, with all your heart.

I started to earn my own pocket money as early as 14 years old, where I started to teach reading Muqaddam and Al-Quran at my own house in Singapore at that time. The class was initiated first by my eldest sister. The moment when she pursued her studies in Malaysia, my second sister took over it. And when she too pursued her diploma in Malaysia, the class was passed down to me :p

In early 2008 when I was on vacation waiting for my O-Level result, I worked for an accounting firm, Shared Financial Services, in Singapore, which handles all accounts of all mosques in Singapore. That was the very first time I get involved in Accounting before deciding to pursue my tertiary education in Accounting Field. I worked as an Accounts Clerk. Get the basic ideas of debit credit, journal entries and bank reconciliation. It was fun (: Working colleagues are all malays. Way too older than me (17 years old at that time), the youngest before me was 23. But nevertheless, I learned alot.

I continued to work at SFS during every semester break when I was in KUIS. At the moment, I also did a part-time teaching at Andalus Private Institute, an institution for part time religious studies. I used to teach all levels. From kindergarten to secondary 4. It was awkward. As I was still young, as young as the students itself.

At the end of semester 6 in KUIS, I did my internship in Unit Audit Dalam, UKM, Bangi, for two months. Learned alot about internal auditing. The best-est experience ever. 

A month after internship, I worked part time at First Lady Outlet in Geylang, Singapore as sales assistant. Working for 10 hrs a day with a day off in a week. Right after a week, I received an offer to work at OCBC Bank as a Banking Clerk in the Payment Operation Department. And I accepted it. That was the first time I worked with all races. Indian and Chinese, and they were all fun, non-racist. And I had a real great time working in a Bank, a work I've never thought I could get involved with. (: Alhamdulillah.

Little Bit About Myself:

I'm indescribable by myself. Hahah. I just love simplicity. I'm simple. I'm not fussy. I love to make friends. I love to listen to problems, as I believe, I can learn alot from others too. 

But I did write something about myself in the first few posts in this blog. U can click on this link: Little Things About Myself

NUR ATIQAH BEFORE JOINING SERU

I'm someone who thinks that I'm all alone by myself ever since I enrolled into UM. I've always thought those locals who get into UM are all genius people and yes, I feel so much inferior. Thought that they were much better than me. Thought that they wouldnt want to befriend me, especially when my grades for last semester was bad. In short, I've had that negative attitude towards people. I was being pessimist.

I tend to look down on myself. Thinking that I could not go far on this. And talking about entering SERU in the very first place, thought that I might just quit this SERU one fine day, as I have never committed to any club before. And thought that I couldnt make any friends here in SERU.

I thought I can never make it in my exams. I thought I can never score 3.0 and above. It feels so hard. I dont care much of how I appear to be. I love simplicity and I love being myself. I hate to be pretentious. And one more thing you need to know about me, I talk too fast till most of the time people cant understand what exactly I'm saying, or what I have to say.

NUR ATIQAH AFTER JOINING SERU

It was amazing, gratitude to Allah s.w.t that the opposites to all of the above things, do happen. I know I can do it. Especially the moment when I managed to score 3.22 for my 2nd semester exams. Classmates do accept me for who I am. They dont mind befriending a foreigner. They treat me equally. They listen to what I have to say. The same goes to all my SERU members. They accept my opinions, and they never look down on, be it on my appearance, my style, nor my grades in exams. Its like no boundaries between us (:

I tend to be more confident of myself. I know I can do it.

Talking about 'talking too fast', hmmm. Something that still needs to be improvised. Oh well, I managed to do some presentation before my 2nd semester ends, and it all went smoothly. It was my Marketing Presentation on the marketing strategies of Nestle Sdn Bhd. It was an awesome feeling when everyone smiled during my presentation, and at the end of the presentation, lecturer said:

"You spoke very well. Very fluent. Very good."

Oh my goodness. What a remark?. Does that mean I managed not to talk too fast?. Hehe. I hoped so. Nevertheless, Alhamdulillah. (:

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Honestly, I'm happy to be part of this. But I'm just a normal human being and I'm just scared I just could not give my full commitment in the next coming sessions. But I know, how we do anything is how we do everything. InsyaAllah I will try my very best, if I could attend the event on 6th of September and recognized as REAL Sahabat SERU.

والله أعلم بالصّواب

Wajah Bercahaya Berkat Berselawat

بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم

Telah diriwayatkan bahawa pada suatu hari Abul Laits AsSamarqandi sedang dalam perjalanan bermusafir bersama ayahnya.Dengan takdir Allah, ayahnya telah jatuh sakit. Dari hari ke sehari, sakit ayahnya semakin tenat dan akhirnya meninggal dunia.

Tinggalkan Abul Laits sendirian untuk meneruskan perjalanannya. Dia menunggu-nunggu kalak ada rombngan kafilah yang lalu untuk dia meminta tolong untuk menguruskan jenazah ayahnya. Dalam masa menunggu, dia terlihat wajah ayahnya bertukar menjadi hitam pekat. Dia tertanya-tanya mengapakah dengan tibat-tiba sahaja wajah ayahnya berubah.

Oleh kerana dia telah bermusafir jauh, badannya terasa letih. Lalu tertidur. Semasa dia tertidur, dia termimpi berjumpa dengan seorang pemuda yang bercahaya wajahnya. tanpa berlngah-lengah lagi dia bertanya "Siapakah saudara?" 

Dijawab oleh pemuda itu:"Saya adalah Muhammad bin Abdullah."

Tahulah Abul Laits bahwa yang datang itu adlah Rasulullah s.a.w. Betapa gembiranya hatinya. Maka ditanya lagi: "Wahai Rasulullah, apakah maksud tujuanmu datang ke sini?"

Jawab Rasulullah "Aku datang kerana hendak menziarahi jenazah ayahmu."

Setelah diizinkan, lalu Rasulullah s.aw. pun membuka kian yang menutupi mayat ayah Abul Laits lalu terus berdoa. Tatkala itu juga Abul Laits nampak wajah ayahnya yang tadi hitam menjadi bercahaya. Dia bertambah hairan akan perubahan itu lalu bertanya pada Rasulullah: "Apakah yang menyebabkan wajah ayahku menjadi hitam?"

Jawab Baginda: "Ayah kamu semasa hidupnya telah berbuat dosa dalam keadaan orang lain tidak mengetahuinya. Tetapi pada waktu malam ketika orang lain sedang nyenyak tidur, dia bangun dan merintih kepada Allah, mengadu bahawa dia sedar apa yang dilakukannya adalah dosa dan Allah murka padanya, tetapi dia tidak mampu untuk melawan hawa nafsunya yang selalu mendorongnya untuk berbuat dosa. di samping itu, ayahmu juga tidak kering bibirnya dari berselawat untukku. Sebab itulah oada hari kematiannya Allah memerintahkan aku untuk menziarahi mayatnya."

Maka fahamlah Abul Laits akan hal yang telah terjadi ke atas ayahnya.

Begitulah kisah ayah Abul Laits yang tidak mampu untuk melawan nafsunya tetapi ia sedar yang ia telah melakukan dosa lalu tetap mengadu kepada Allah supaya diampunkan dosa-dosanya. Dia sedar akan luasnya rahmat Allah. Maka sebab itulah tiap kali dia melakukan dosa, dia akan bertaubat.

Sabda Rasulullah: "Orang yang sentiasa bertaubat dari dosa itu, sama seperti orang yang tiada dosa."

Tetapi hendaklah kita berinagt bahawa hanya taubat yang sebenar-benar dari hati yang tidak ingin mengulanginya sahaja yang akan diterima Allah.

Kita dianjurkan supaya selalu bertaubat dari dosa-dosa sama ada dalam keadaan sedar atau pun tidak. Hendaklah kita ingat bahwa taubat yag tidak cukup syaratnya tidak diterima Allah. Di antara syarat-syarat bertaubat ialah seseorang itu sedar dia melakukan dosa dan meminta ampun atas dosa itu kemudain menyesali akan perbuatannya yang telah lalu and akhirnya berazam tidak mahu mengulanginya  lagi. Tetapi kalau manusia itu telah berbuat dosa sesama manusia, syaratnya ditambah lagi dengan meminta ampun dari orang yang terlibat. Cukup dengan sayart itu, barulah seseorang itu dikira telah bertaubat dengan sebenar-benar taubat.

Dari cerita tadi.

Sabda Rasulullah s.a.w: "Barangsiapa yang membaca selawat untukku kerana mengingatiku, maka Allah mencipta kan dari selawat itu malaikat yang mempunyai dua sayap, satu sayapnya di timur  dan satu sayapnya lagi di barat. Sedang dua kakinya di bawah bumi ketujuh dan lehernya sampai hingga ke Arasy.."

Sabda baginda lagi: "Barangsiapa yang selawat 100 kali untukku pada hari Jumaat, maka kelak pada hari kiamat, dia datang dengan bersinar-sinar wajahnya, sekiranya sinar itu dibahagikan kepda semu makhluk nescaya mencukupi."

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Itulah kisahnya dari sebuah buku yang kecil aje. Tapi cukup bermakna. Cara untuk wajah nampak berseri, senang sahaja, berselawatlah selalu kepada Rasulullah s.a.w (:

والله أعلم بالصّواب