.theendoffirstyear.

Assalamualaikum.

Today is exactly a week after I have finished my BTN course and 14 days after I have finished my first year studies in UniKL BMI. I have completely cleared my things there - APT 603 to be exact.

To start off this post, I would like to share a bit on my BTN course experience. The course was held at Kem Bina Negara Meru, from the 21st till 25th of May. All of the 21 of the TDP UK Batch 5 students participated, as well as 36 MARA sponsored students studying Australian Matriculation at INTEC, UiTM. Clearly, I have made new friends apart from TDP UK group. All of the participants gave full support and commitment during the 5-day course. Alhamdulillah the food was great and the activities conducted were okay, I guess.hoho.

On the 18th of May, UniKL International Office (UIO) held the 'TDP UK Batch 5 Appreciation Nite', with the IPROM students as the host campus. This event is the climax and officially marks the end of our first year studies in our respective campuses. First of all, the event went absolutely well (no interruption or what so ever) and the food was excellent (and A LOT) . That was the first time all of us gathered for this year. Oh yes, congratulation to all of the award recipients, as well as the others. All of us are winners as we are excellent in our own ways and fields. Secondly, thank you to all lecturers who have taught us  for the first year studies, both first semester and second semester. Your countless effort and wisdom have gave us strength and knowledge to go through this first year studies with success (and of course to answer the final examinations.hee).

Hotel Putra KL

The officers and distinguished guests for the nite

The guys, while listening to speeches

Food!

BMI Lecturers

okay...

Collaboration of MICETians and IPROMians performing songs from One Direction

BMIans performing Seasons in the Sun

Future Sheffield students. (FL: Jihad, Farid, Diana, Luqman, Mudzaffar)

Future Strathclyde students. (FL: Khairy, Muiz, Sarina)

Future Leeds students. (FL: Amirah Suhaimi, Syahin, Asyraf)

Future Cardiff students. (FL: Amirah Razak, Syed Hilmi, Afifa)

Future Brunel students. (FL: Hisham, Syed Harith, Amirul)

Future Queen's students. (FL: Fikri, Harith, Anis, Arif)

Awards

These photos were taken from various sources; Anise, Syed Harith and Amirah Razak. A huge thank you and credits for the photographers for nice pictures.hehe.

Last but not least, thank you to all who have made this first year in UniKL a huge  success, either in academics and even non-academics. Eventhough we are separated to three different campuses and also we have our differences, but we managed to tighten our ukhuwah to what it is now. Let us pray to Allah so our bond will be stronger and stronger. Aminn. Ukhuwah fillah abadan abada.

Also, I would like to convey my apologies to all. I am still in the process of improving myself and constructive comments towards improvement are very much needed. I believe as a human being, it is hard for us to avoid from doing mistakes. We will tend to make mistakes. I can't deny that sometimes I will burst my anger and say inappropriate things. But, here what makes Islam wonderful. We have brothers (and sisters) in Islam to advise and support whenever things like this happen. We will also have the responsibility to talk, to educate whenever there is a need for that, but not just sitting around and develop a huge hatred to our brothers and sisters whom are doing wrong.

"Jauhilah kamu daripada sangkaan kerana ia sedusta-dusta bisikan hati, janganlah kamu mencari-cari kesalahan dan keaiban orang, janganlah kamu mendengar-dengar cerita orang, jangan kamu berlumba-lumba untuk menunjukkan kekuatan di antara satu sama lain, jangan kamu dengki-mendengki, benci-membenci, bermusuh-musuhan dan jadilah kamu semua hamba Allah yang bersaudara." (HR: Imam Malik, Bukhari, Muslim dan Abu Daud)

InsyaAllah, the world will be a better place to live if we play our role. Amin.

I'm sorry if there are any inappropriate use of words in my writing, as well as bad word construction and grammar. InsyaAllah I will improve by time. Whatever that is good comes from Allah, and all of the adequacy and weaknesses are of my doings.

Wailalliqa' maassalamah.

.MARA2012.

Assalamualaikum.

Yesterday, MARA has announced their sponsorship scheme for the year of 2012. The scheme includes overseas programs (PILN), local programs (PIDN) and also programs in MARA Education Institutes (IPMa). The applications for the scheme starts this Monday (16th of April 2012). What makes this year's scheme more interesting is that students can apply specifically on what program that they are really interested in. What I meant specific is they can actually choose the place and program of study as listed by MARA, not like the previous years, in which students can only choose the course of studies. It is a long list by the way. The link is as follows:

http://www.mara.gov.my/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=20943f6f-1c06-479b-a85c-12669c2633ef&groupId=30564

The next interesting thing of this year's scheme is regarding my current program of study. They are still offering my program which is the UniKL Transfer Degree Program United Kingdom (TDP UK), a (1+1+3) program conducted by UniKL with the collaboration of some universities in the UK.

As stated in the figure above, the program of study is Engineering. Students who are undergoing this program will first go to Kolej MARA Kuala Nerang for 1 year, to study UniKL Foundation in Science. The main subjects for this foundation are Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and English, and the syllabus is more or less similar to Malaysian Matriculation. During the second semester of the foundation studies, students are required to choose any one of the three engineering branches offered for this program, particularly Electrical, Mechanical and Chemical. Besides that, students can also suggest their preferred university from the list given by UniKL. Students are needed to achieve at least a CGPA of 3.50 before they can be offered to proceed to any one of the three branches.

For the second part of the program, which is 1 year in any one of the three UniKL campuses, namely British Malaysian Institute (BMI) for Electrical; Institute of Product Design and Manufacturing (IPROM) for Mechanical; Malaysian Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering Technology (MICET) for Chemical. The 1 year in UniKL is actually the first year of the bachelor's degree studies. Meaning that, students have already entered to the degree level or no longer in the 'preparation' phase. Therefore, the modules or subjects being taught in these campuses are towards the field of engineering the students are in. Meanwhile, the syllabus of the programs in these campuses mostly follows the syllabus of a university in the UK, which is The University of Sheffield (TUoS). This is because the program itself start off with the agreement of TUoS and UniKL to conduct this program.

As for the placement in the UK, UniKL and MARA will decide which university the students will go. This decision will be made basically based on the students achievements and the rest is confidential. However, the students preferences during foundation studies will also being taken into account. Currently, UK universities which have done MoA with UniKL are TUoS, Brunel University, Cardiff University, Queen's University of Belfast, University of Strathclyde and University of Leeds. These are the universities where the students will continue their bachelor's degree, which are Second Year, Third Year and Fourth Year (M.Eng Year). As MARA sponsored students, completion up till M.Eng Year is compulsory and as stated in the offer letter.

However, in order to proceed to the Second Year and above, students are required to pass a minimum CGPA of 3.00 or 70% during their study in the UniKL campuses. In addition, students also need to meet up the IELTS requirement provided by MARA and the universities they were offered. For MARA, the minimum overall band is 6.5.

I think that's about it regarding the program. I hope it will give a little preview to the SPM 2011 leavers who are going to apply for MARA this coming Monday. Thank you.

Wailalliqa' maasalamah.

.afterafterawhile.

Assalamualaikum and good day to all.

It is exactly 3.25am, April 6th. To be exactly, it has been 3 months and 3 days without any post in my blog. But surely it won't make any different as this blog itself has approximately no visitors.haha. Anyway, since the sense of writing returned to my brain cells, therefore I would like post something (just to keep blog going.hee).

To start off, I would like to recap some events that happen while I was far far away (from my blog):

January 2012:

-Joined the MSR S1'12 Committee. Lots of experiences I obtained, not forgetting a new bunch of friends I made along the way. Honestly, I really enjoyed the whole two weeks with them. Very supportive! Here are some pictures

Fasilitator Lelaki

Fasilitator Lelaki lagi @ parking lot

Mizi,man

Ema,Uzair,Dhiya,Azmy

Seeing what ?

Lunch time!

Blank face.

Asif as the Sports Bureau

Taufiq caught sleeping, shot by Uzair

Madam Dina briefing the TDP Aus students.

Special appearance of Amir and Daman during the Academic Advisory session!

Telling explosive stories xD

Yo D!

-Went to Genting with Amir, Daman, Mud,Muiz, Syimi and Luqman.

-My second semester started. New lecturers and of course new subjects. The subjects are:

~Analogue Circuits

~Power Network

~Multimedia System

~System Engineering

~Mathematics AII

~Coursework Year 1

~Professional Communication

~Fiqh Contemporary

~Co-curriculum

The CE Amplifier circuit.urghh

-Got new housemates and neighbors - TDP Australia Batch 3. Undeniable that they are very very good people.hoho :D

February 2012

-Met my some of my squad,CS0809 as organized by OP Syahmi. Long time no see them.

Irman, Faiz

The famous blogger, hakim.zailan :p

-Amir, Daman, Acap and the rest of the TDP Australia Batch 2 went off to their respective universities. Plus, I managed to sent off all three of them.mwahahaha.

March 2012

-Sent off some of my friends who were going to Japan. Since the total students was a lot during that night, therefore their family members who came were numerous! It was rather happening (and tacing) compared to the TDP Aus group.haha.no offence.

-Met some old friends from SMAKK, Sxon Lijangun and Afiq Agoes. It has been more than 5 years since the last time I meet them. A lot of things have change among us all. But I hope the ukhuwah will remain as it is :)

Afiq, Sxon

April 2012

-OP Ben went off to Gifu University. Sorry I couldn't make it to the airport. I wish all the best. がんばって！

I think that's about it. I couldn't think of anything else.haha.

Oh yes. Not forgetting the tons of assignment, datelines in just a week or two.haih. Hope I can finished it all.

till we meet again.

Wailalliqa' maassalamah.