CHOIR DAY COMPETITION AT MASTERSKILL KB

Very happy to organize the Choir Competition Amongst Programmes for the first time at Masterskill Kota Bharu.

The event was held on 21st April 2010 which involved the participation from all Diploma Programmes of Masterskill Kota Bharu.

At first I don't have high confidence on these students. But after continuous practices and consistent effort they could make it. Congrats !!!

THE MEANING OF 'MERDEKA'

Yesterday 31st of August,2010, the whole Malaysians celebrated the 53rd Merdeka Celebration. Ya... Malaysia has been free from being ruled by others for 53 years!!! Such a long years.....

On early yesterday morning too, my 10 years old son cheerfully came to me and eagerly asking " Ummi, today is Merdeka right?" I replied " yes dear, why?" With sparkling smiles and shining eyes he yelled at me " Hooray Ummi, now we can shout Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!"

I was smiling looking at his action. After he finished shouting Merdeka for 3 times, I hold his shoulder and asked him " Ihsan, do you know the meaning of Merdeka?" Instantly he answered "Of course, I know. Merdeka means our ountry is free from Japan, from .........em....em...em. I don't know others but I know only today everybody can shout Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka."

He is just a little boy who wants to share the excitement of Merdeka without fully understand the meaning of Merdeka. At least I'm a bit relieve when he knows that Merdeka means free from other rulers. If not as a mother, I feel ultimate guilty for not imposing sufficient knowledge to my son.

As Malaysian, I'm truly proud for the 53rd celebration yesterday with full hope that our country will remain harmony and grow more developed and more prosperous with the spirit of 1 Malaysia.

'HAPPY MERDEKA TO ALL'

Air Asia Flight To KL

Me and my kids on Air Asia flight . Exciting! Amusing ! Fantastic and Fun....

Oh.... what a pity my eldest son Ashraff could not join us this time! Don't be sad my dear, you must be with us on next vacation.......

Cuti Cuti Malaysia

My twin girls, Alya and Ilya really enjoyed themselves during family vacation in KL.

They were so clever in giving nice pose in every snap we took!

Ahhhh.... energetic girls !!!

Family Vacation

My youngest son, Isqhandar Sany was very excited on his first flight to Kl.

From the photo, he looked so calm on his pose at SOGO Food Court, KL.

SOME LANGUAGE TIPS .....

Sometimes the usage of preposition "in' and 'at' is very confusing and may cause errors when they are used in sentence. Here are tips on using these two preposition which I quoted from The Star, 19 August 2010, written by Fadzilah Amin.

'At' is used when the school is named. For example, 'I am studying at Sekolah ABC'.However, either 'at' or 'in' can be used when saying a child is still attending school, e.g. "My daughter is only 16 and still in/at school".We can also use either when talking about certain school activities or phenomena, like 'sports in/at school' or "bullying in/at school'.

Other language tips.....

The word 'to' belongs to two different word classes or parts of speech. When used in 'to sing','to play', etc, it is an infinitive marker and is used with the base form of the verb (without the -ing) in sentences like 'I like to sing/play'. But 'to' can also function as a preposition before nouns, pronouns, noun phrases and gerunds, which are -ing forms of verbs functioning as nouns.

In 'I'm looking forward to meeting you', 'meeting' is a gerund. The 'to' before it is a preposition , not an infinitive marker. So it can be used before a gerund.

Common Errors...

Urinate is not allowed in the bathroom ------ Wrong
Urinating is not allowed in the bathroom ------ Correct

Please flush water after used ---------- Wrong
Please flush the toilet after use ----------- Correct

Do you remember when you feel it? -------- Wrong
Do you remember when you felt it ? --------- Correct

Do you know why you choose it ? ----------- Wrong
Do you know why you chose it ? ------------ Correct

Be Grateful

I'm deeply touched with what I watch on TV and read from newspaper. It was a lifestory of 82 years old single mother who has been struggling for a living and at the same time has to take care of 4 mentally retarded growned up sons who totally rely on her for not afford to work on their own. How strong and courageous she is for bearing the hardship alone and for mother's love she dares to sacrifice for her sons even up to her old age.

The story of this old mother makes me realize that there are thousands or millions or maybe billions and trillion of people are not as lucky as me. Even I'm not a billionnaire, but I obtain almost everything I want in life: happy families,healthy and cheerful children, sufficient food and drinks, a comfortable house for shelter and other necessities as human being.

I do believe that there are too many of other people who are as lucky as I or even much much luckier for being billionnaire or may be having too many extra things more than their basic needs.

So, let us be really thankful and grateful with what we possess and always willing to give our helping hands to those needies.

To the 82 years old single mother, I do pray and wish she and her sons will be helped and able to lead to a better and greener life.

MEMORABLE MOMENTS WITH COLLEAGUES

Having colleagues and building up good relationship with them is immensely important in working life, particularly as lecturer we have to share ideas and views about many aspects especially matters revolving teaching and students.

I believe we are still in the mood of New Year and still highly motivated and fully energised to carry out our daily routine and duties. I do hope that this year we are able to accomplish whatever wish that we've dreamt for and will remain strong and able to endure no matter bad or bitter obstacles that will confront us throughout the year.Remember this, 'Life is a promise, fulfill it '.

For me this quote really meaningful to us. Undeniably once we start living on this earth, from the day we were born, we did tie up a promise with our dear Creator. We were not sent to the world meaningless but instead with boundless duties and responsibilities as Caliph of the world.
Hence, we have to perform our duties the best as we could to ensure we do fulfill our promise to the Almighty.

"Good Luck To Me & All of You"

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010

The new year is coming again and this time is 2010. As usual, everyone of us with full hope that the new year will bring us more blessings and gratitude. We do pray that everything belongs to us : our family,our career, our friends, our money, our asset and lots of ours will be in good condition and even much better and prosperous to ensure our happiness and laughter remains.

However it's not at all wrong for all of us to recite prayer that the new year will also be a good year for many others especially those people in Palestine, people in Somalia ,Sudan and other parts of the world who are not as lucky as us. They have been suffering a lot in surviving their own lifes and family.

To all readers of this blog, let us pray for the new year 2010 will count all of us mountains of blessings and our beautiful world is in peace and harmony.