I need to learn how to love...

Assalamualaikum and hello to all.
I'm at home right now, 'enjoying' my one week mid break. Yeaah, right. With stuffs to do.
So far, life has been great, Alhamdulillah.
Oh yeah, I was one of the editorial team members of the Pharmacy Students magazine- i-Mag. And guess what, I was selected as the Assistant Editor 2. Erkkk.. That is by chance, of course, as no one except me put 'Editorial' as the first preference. Oh well.

Also, as one of the content developers, I did
1) An interview with one of the best final year Pharmacy student. Of which I need to translate it to English( interview was conducted in Malay) and thus write out the whole interview session by listening to the recording stuffs of which we had recorded earlier. Gee,, my English and vocabs sucks. >__<

I also need to
1) Do a research about the current issues happening in the Pharmacy field.
2) Compile a series of quotes

Deadline: As soon as this one week holiday is over.

I was also in the iPhA's (IIUM Pharmacy Students' Association) Publication and Information Bureau. And also involved in the newsletter. Required to write a one full page article on backpack traveling. WHOA!

Dateline: Ditto

I'm thinking of changing my profession from a Drug Dealer to a Journalist. HAHAHA. Okay, kidding.

What else? Oh yeah. THREE lab reports that need to be completed. Medical Biochemistry, Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Fundamentals of Pharmacology.

Okay, back to the topic. I need to learn how to love. By that, I mean;

• I need to learn how to love what I'm studying. What I'm LEARNING. I need to be sincere. And by that, I need to come early to the class (LOL).  I need to study for the purpose of GAINING KNOWLEDGE, not for the purpose of acing quizzes and exams. I know that I have a mission in life. That Allah has given me this brain (fine, some levels of intellect) in order for me to change the world to a better place! And to change the world, we need someone who is dedicated and sincere. Someone who LOVES knowledge, and have a firm grasp about what there is to know about his or her field. Not someone with HIGH CGPAs but failed to recall nor understand clearly on what she had learned and memorized, blurting them out word by word without even understanding the real mechanisms of what happened when the drug is introduced in the body (in my case).

And to be sincere, I need a lot of help. From Allah, particularly. Dear Allah, please let me become sincere in learning your knowledge, for the sake of developing my ummah and changing the world into a better place. Amin.

That is my number one problem. I need to be sincere! I need to love the knowledge that I'm learning right now!

Alamak, dah melodramatic la pulak.

Don't get me wrong. I love Pharmacy. It is the most ever (redundancy) interesting field ever! I love doing experiments. I wanted to do research. I'm just having a hard time to study sincerely.

I mean, it's hard to become as sincere as Rancho in '3 Idiots'. But I'll try.

You people can't blame us for being too exam-oriented. We couldn't help it. The academic system in Malaysia made us become exam-oriented. Dah membesar bersama-sama dengannya sejak darjah satu hingga tingkatan 5 lagi.

And I'm glad that I finally realised the importance of becoming knowledge-oriented when I stepped into the university, thanks to some of the inspiring lecturers I have here.

With that, thank you for reading.

I'm in the Auditorium

Assalamualaikum and hello to all :)

I'm currently blogging using Amiirah's laptop. :P

The most important lesson that I have learned throughout this week

'JANGAN TAMAK, NANTI KENA MINUS-MARKED':P

In case you don't know what 'Minus Mark' is, allow me to enlighten you. 

In IIUM, the Kulliyyahs of the 3 critical courses in Malaysia (Pharmacy, Dentistry, Medical) are using the Minus Marking System for the MCQ questions in quizzes and examinations. 

It drives us NUTS! We couldn't apply our 'Kemahiran Menghentam' here. Kalau hentam, ambik! Minus one mark!

Tak faham eh?

Okay, let's say, there are 20 questions. You answered all of them. 15 out of 20 are correct. The other 5 are wrong. The total marks? JENG JENG JENG! 10! Yeah! TEN!

It's better if you just leave the 5 questions that you're unsure of the most true, correct answer and get 15 marks instead of just trying your luck (DON'T!) and just darken them out anyway.

I tell you, UIA won't tolerate this kind of irresponsible behaviour that might pose a great impact to our future careers. 

Like, imagine if you're a pharmacist. And the doctor prescribed the patient with Propanolol( Beta blocker, betul ke? See see see!) What if you failed to decipher the doctor's oh-so-horrible handwritings and went on giving them errr.. Econazole (anti-fungal) instead (tak boleh blah punya example). What happened? And what's more, you just gave in! Ok fine la, econazole pun econazole la. Bunyi nak sama. Cuma tambah e je kat belakang. 

Okay, what a lame and stupid example. Another one.

The IV drip counts is 10 drops per minute. And let's say that the doctor asked you to prepare 0.9% NaCl (normal saline) Which equals to 0.9 g per 100 ml. Then when you calculated bla bla, eh, terlebih pulak letak NaCl. 1 g je lebih. Takpela. Mana ada banyak perbezaan pun. Malas nak buat sekali lagi.

And then padan muka you if the doctor diagnosed the patient with extreme (melampau pulak) rise in blood pressure. 

Eh, so far, betul ke examples ni? 

Businessmen are risk takers. But the same could not be said to pharmacists, doctors, dentists, nurses, allied health science practitioners who are involved with the life of humans!

Also, minus marks teach you not to be tempted with the ideas of gaining fame and fortunes. 

In this case, okay, you have darken all 30 questions. All of them might be true! I'm going to get the highest marks in class, yaay! As if! 

In the real working world. I think this dose might bring significant improvement on the Prime Minister's Health! I'm gonna be famous when he is cured! He might gave me a job at the cabinet as the Minister of Health! Yaay! Haha, right. What if the PM died? You went straight to jail instead. HOHO).

You get me, right? I hope so! If you still don't understand, ask! Don't just assume! :P

Okay, that's all. Bye! 

How to Stop Worrying and START LIVING!!

Salam and hello to all :)

YAAY!!! I had successfully went through taking three different quizzes for three different subjects (Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Medical Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry).

 I think I did OK la for all those three. The results? Apa-apa la asal jangan fail :P. I don't want to spend my time worrying about things of the past. Just keep moving forward! Stop worrying about unnecessary things and START LIVING happily!


Oh yes, that is a title of a famous motivational book of which I couldn't remember the name of the author. I think that motivational books are irrelevant and overrated. I used to read lots of those during my school years, with hopes and desires that I could boost up my morale, determination blah blah blah. But as I stepped my feet into college/university life, I realised that the one most trusted person that could motivate me is my OWN MOTHER. :')


And of course, myself. It's hard to motivate yourself but really, a motivation from your own self is the best motivation for you (what's with this sentence ? >___<)

So, don't care la about the marks of the quizzes. Let's just concentrate on future quizzes and seeking, concentrating on great possibilities out there.

I've been sleeping at 2.00 a.m throughout this whole week (due to those three quizzes) so just now in class, I kept nodding my head up and down because I was SOOOO sleepy! I even slapped myself (lightly) LOL, but to no avail. Erkkk.. What's more, I was sitting in the front most row of the auditorium, where the lecturers could definitely detect and see my sleepy expressions. GAHHH...


Last night had been busy too. As I told you before, I'm going to become the MC for Ladies' Cultural Night. I decided that I could not do it myself and asked Amiirah, the Band 6 girl, the greatest MC in UIA to help me out, by inviting her (kinda) to become my partner.
I was feeling a bit inferior because she's such a perfectionist. HAHAHA. She insisted on using beautiful, bombastic words in her sentences. Yeah, she's great! But never mind, I should learn from the experts. Now I know how did she manage to organize all those agendas in the master plan, her tone, etc. Learn from the experts without feeling shy or inferior! :D So last night we had a rehearsal and we're going to complete the MC text and have another rehearsal this afternoon.Her English is powerful (duh!) while mine is... >___<


At night I'm planning on studying Pharmacology (Quiz next week! O__o) and carefully ironing my clothes for Ladies' Night. Teehee..
Tomorrow morning till afternoon, go to Pantai Balok for Pharmily Day! (Kulliyyah of Pharmacy Family Day) and went back, then get ready for Ladies' Cultural Night on the same day/night. Errkk...Tomorrow's going to be a really BUSSSYYYY day!


Then Sunday, read Pharmacology, rest (sleep! main agenda) and complete the Pharmaceutical Analysis report.


And next week's gonna be busy busy busy with THREE lab practicals.



That's all from me. This is the reality of the Life of a Pharmacy Student of IIUM.


This is Sarah reporting from duty. Cheerio! 

P.S. I recently discovered that I enjoyed reading e-Books (the ones I've downloaded at home) on my laptop while eating. Multitasking! :P 
P.S.S. (betul ke?) I kind of misss....ARASHI. +___+

Killing TIME!!!!

Of course, time couldn't be killed. It's time who killed us.

Oh, before I forgot.
Assalamualaikum and hello to all.


Right now, I'm trying me best to devour and swallow the whole lots of Medical Biochemistry notes in preparation for the quiz this Thursday. Before you went off thinking what a big procrastinator I am, allow me to correct you. I've finished studying the subject before, during the weekend. Last week, my lecturer said that the quiz will cover from Amino Acids to Bioenergetics. She had just finished the 'Vitamins' chapter this noon. Then I asked for her confirmation 'The quiz will include up till Bioenergetics, right?' then she said 'The quiz will include Vitamins' GAHHHHHHHHHH


Again, I will be burning the midnight oil, just like what I did for the past few days. :/


My laptop wire stuffs/cable had gone all haywire, hanky panky, ipsy dipsy, tinky winky dipsi lala po. adavra kedavra, finite incantatum, hocus pocus, sectusempra, alohomora,  wingardium leviosa, lumos, expectum patronum (pergghhh, berapa banyak spells from Harry Potter nak include daaa- I know more than those that were mentioned :P) In other words, ROSAK! AGAIN!!! And so I'm blogging using my roommate's computer cable and then I'll have to sacrifice my afternoon nap (perangai buruk) because I need to jot down the Biochem notes from the powerpoint slides and study them all by tonight! 

Merely expressing my dissatisfaction, just in case you thought I was complaining.

Sorry to those who are reading this. Sorry to my blog followers and readers. I couldn't really write something worth reading at the moment. xD

Study Plan. 

Today: Biochemistry MUST COMPLETE!
Tomorrow: Pharmaceutical Microbiology (In case lecturer gonna give us POP quiz this week)
Wednesday: Biochem and Microbs again.
Thursday: Pharmaceutical Analysis or Microbs (MAIN PRIORITY!)

Expected quizzes next week: Pharmaceutical Analysis, Organic Chemistry, Pharmacology (not sure coz we might have tutorial first), Microbiology (see first whether we have Microbs quiz this week).

HURRAY!!!!


It's been almost 5 weeks that I haven't been home, haven't seen my parents nor my siblings' faces.


Perasan duduk oversea. :P

I saw a cat with green glowing eyes at 12.00 a.m

 Assalamualaikum and hello to all :)


So, yesterday had been a rather productive day. Class at 8 till 1, had Organic Chemistry quiz, went back to room, had lunch + watching Princess and the Frog, hand washed clothes, then washing machine-d the clothes, hung the clothes dry, bought dinner then get ready for meeting at night.


When I was in class, I received a message from the PIC of Muslim Scholar programme of CAMPRO (Campus Dakwah Programme). He invited me to become the MC for the programme this Sunday. Then I said, okay, why not? It is rather fulfilling to do that rather than curling on my bed until 10 a.m (biasalah, orang bujang :P). And thus, I was required to go for the meeting at 8.00 p.m. Then postponed to 9.30 a.m.  And then I received a message from Kak Nisah, requiring me to go for the Ladies Night meeting at KOM (I'm going to be the MC for Ladies Night too). Arghh.. KOM JAUHH!!!  I slept for about 15 minutes only (after Isyak) then I woke up, got ready and the PIC sent a message (Meeting dibuat selepas Kuliah di KOM habis). Grrr.

Then I decided to go to KOM for the Ladies' Night meeting first. I thought the Kuliah Maghrib would end up at 10 or something. And so I walked ALONE from Mahallah Maimunah to Kulliyyah of Medicine, passing through the Principal's 'reputedly haunted' bungalow surrounded by the trees and dense, monkeys-infested jungle. I was a bit scared (No, actually I told myself to be scared. I was a drama queen so I would express anything dramatically). It was quite dark. Then I recited 'Ayat Qursi' out loud. I'm sure if there were any human beings present nearby, they would have laughed at me.

I had my umbrella as a weapon and I clutched it tight. And so I walked for hundreds of kilometers to KOM and whaddaheck, so many guys there! The kuliah is over! Then I walked into the IIUM Mosque and began the meeting with Kak Nisah and the rest of the Ladies' Night committees. 


And walla! The PIC for Muslim Scholar called me after 5 minutes reaching in KOM, asking me to go to their meeting NOW in CF Brother. And so I have to walked again by myself for hundreds of kilometres back from KOM to the Mahallah. And as I reached there, panting, the PM introduced me 'This is our MC' and everyone nodded and smiled.


I studied the Master Plan of the event and thus I have to make my own MC text. Then,it was over. And so, I have to return back to KOM, walking again for hundreds of kilometres there and went on with the meeting for Ladies' Cultural Night. I'm required to make my own text too. But it's more like an impromptu. Rather than to boringly follow the text just like a normal MC in a formal event would do, my job is more like a host, so I must present a jovial disposition instead of being stiff. Oh yeah.


Then, the meeting ended at about 12.00 a.m Went back to Mahallah (walking hundreds of kilometers again) and I saw an orange cat (GARFIELD) with green glowing eyes. It was not visible at first. I thought I was hallucinating or something. HAHA. But then, it glowed TWICE. GREEN! I reached into my room, switched on the laptop(LOL) and then sleep at about 1.00 a.m 


In summary, I will become the MC for two events
-Muslim Scholar Programme
-Ladies' Night


I had a bad experience last semester where I literally screwed up a national event, in front of hundreds of audiences. Why is that so? I couldn't focus due to the high fever I suddenly contracted. I couldn't even stand on the stage (due to fever). Never mind, Allah is great. I believe everything that happened has its own blessings and benefits. The guy from CAMPRO said that someone from Kulliyyah of Pharmacy gave him a list of names of those who are qualified to become MC and he had chosen me to become one. I never thought that I was included in the 'List of MC names' before. 


I will pray for Allah's guidance and I hope that everything will go smoothly (My emcee-ing, especially) and I would want to show my truest capability and to banish the defeat I encountered last semester forever! (I'm such a drama queen, I know). The best thing of becoming an MC is, you're gonna get certificates! I wish they would write 'Master/Mistress of Ceremony or M.C' instead of committee of bla bla bla. Never mind, I'm going to tell Anith to do that! It will be great for my portfolio. LOL.


Seriously, you're still reading this? I'm amazed! Then you are truly one great and attentive reader! :)


I'm hungry. I need to buy lunch now. Bye!

Alkisah

Okay, semalam tetiba rajin nak kemas bilik. Meja pun dialihkan sebab nak sapu kat belakang meja. Meja tu atas dia ada rak buku yang tinggi dia paras kepala. Jadi waktu dah alihkan meja, bahagian bawah rak buku tu terdedah. Waktu tengah khusyuk menyapu habuk-habuk di tempat original meja tu (sebelum dialihkan), kepala pun diangkat dan 

 'BAMM!!!!' dahi terhantuk kat rak buku dengan sangat kuat dan kesannya sangat menyakitkan.


Maka tangan pun meraba-raba dahi, takut berdarah. Okay fine. Tak berdarah. 


Lepas 1 minit macam tu, tengok cermin pulak. Whoa, benjol besar giler kat dahi. Wakakakaka.


First time tengok benjol tu. Reaksi pertama adalah 'HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA' Yes, saya ketawa.


Sebab seronok kembali ke zaman kanak-kanak yang penuh dengan benjol dan luka akibat jatuh. -_____-


Benjol semakin besar. Lepas tu roommate saya yang sangat best dan baik offer nak belikan ais. Maka dia dengan rela hati berjalan dari Mahallah ke kafe yang jaraknya berapa ratus meter semata-mata untuk membeli ais untuk roommatenya yang cemerkap ini. :')


Maka dia pun menuam ais itu ke dahi saya yang berbenjol. Maka kesan benjol pun kurang tapi masih sakit. Esok pergi kelas takde orang perasan sebab pakai tudung. HAHAHAHA. 


Thank you, my dear roommate, Nurul Hazimah Abdul Aziz :)

Direct/Indirect Translation Episode 1: Jenny

 Jenny, lagu yang ditulis oleh Klik 5 Itu kepada awek mereka nya (salah sorang) yang tiba-tiba emo semacam. 

Jenny oleh Klik 5 Itu

Dia panggil aku bayi

Lepas tu tak nak kol aku

Ckp dia sayang aku

Pastu tak pedulikan aku plak

(Oh Jenny, apa masalah ko?)

Dia dok jauh-jauh

Duduk atas pagar plak tu

Bina ketahanan

Dan pertahanan

(Jenny, apa masalah ko?)

Ko tinggalkan aku tergantung kat tali

Setiap kali ko emo

Korus:

Mula-mula ko ckp tak nak

Lepas tu nak pulak

Asyik tinggalkan aku kat tali tu 

Macam mana aku nk bergerak

atau berdiri tegak

Jenny, lutut aku sakit

Ia membunuh aku, membunuh aku

Perlukan ruang sendiri konon

Tetiba nak main game cabaran minda pulak

Lepas tu last2 ada kat tempat aku

Dia ckp dia dh berubah

(Jenny, apa masalah ko?)

Aku cuba nak baca di antara garisan

sampai minda aku terkeluar dari otak (aku lemah bab2 IQ ni)

(korus)

(oh, oh,oh)

Ia memmbunuh aku

(oh,oh,oh)

Ia membunuh aku

Jenny

Ia membunuh aku

APA MASALAH KAU JENNY!!!

Lama-kelamaan, si pakwe pun break-up dengan Jenny. THE END.