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? (:

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