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1) Future Academic Planning

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What can be more exciting as a Malaysian other than being able to promote and showcase our own culture to people of the continent of the world?

On November 11th, I was directly involved with holding the first ever Malaysian Games Festival at Rutgers University, New Brunswick campus along with my fellow Malaysian family from the Rutgers Malaysian Students Association.

Basically, we revived many exciting traditional and contemporary Malaysian games back from our childhood times such as gasing, congkak, ceper, teng teng, lastik, batu seremban, eraser war and else! We started discussing and preparing ourselves for the events almost a month before the event and I must say that it was quite a success as we received a higher number of attendees than expected!

I was in charge of the Ceper booth!

This is Chan trying out to make an angle shot by using his left hand to bounce off the bottle cap to the target!

This is me demonstrating the catching part to Steven, who happened to be our magician. The funny thing is, I dropped the bottle caps and yea that explains why we were laughing x)

Did I mentioned that we also had Pepsi Cola? It was one of the most participated games because it seemed that people actually love stepping on other's shoes! In the picture, we were among the last survivors. Who won the round? Well, make a guess!

This is Andrew! One of the highlight of our guests on the night as he was seen trying out all sort of games! Including Ceper! He almost beat me back then, and I didn't even make it easy or such!

Me, Ashwin and Syukri. People said that we are triplets! Well, it can't be helped! I guess we do resemble one another a little bit.........................Or not!

Here is our famous Congkak booth!

Aiming like a pro? Well, he is! This is our lastik booth! It might seem easy at first but believe me, it's not!

Look at that joyous face! He was able to spin the big Gasing, something that even I sometimes find it hard to do. He deserved the pleasure of it!

Check out our Guli booth! You actually need to knock your opponent's guli by throwing one from a distance! It's not gonna be as easy as you might expect!

The RUMysa family plus several loyal people who are always there with us that we consider them to be part of our Malaysian Family. Haha. I personally love everyone here. We are like a family, who will be there for one another through thick and thin.

*Picture courtesy of Google Images*

Feeling busy and hectic?

Spend some time for yourself once in a while.

Sit down somewhere under the shade of a tree and reflect on your past, present and future.

Take your time to think and plan of what you're going for in life and how far have you been progressing until that very moment.

Remember all the small details that you might not notice all this while.

You know how often you just always blaze through something without reaping the maximum benefits from the journey.

It's not always about the end of the line.

The journey matters too.

It's your life.

Don't easily submit to peer pressure.

Make your own decision and consult the wiser.

You're not racing with people to prove who is quicker.

Take the time to notice the details that lie in your path.

They are there for reasons.

I'm sharing this out of experience, with a hope so that we will all notice what we have and small details of life that we often forget.

See, stop, and think.

  The flight was great. I thought of not sleeping at all throughout the 13 hours long flight, but, yea I failed miserably. I've read somewhere in the Internet that in order to avoid jet lag if you're traveling from the east to the west, you must try to stay awake as long as possible during the flight. But again I've failed, haha. I watched a movie for an hour, paused it, and went to sleep. I woke up after 7 hours of sleeping, had my sahoor, fajr prayer and continued watching Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Man of Steel. Inder was feeling nauseus and I told her to puke in the toilet and it did help! *feeling a lil bit proud*

  We arrived at Heathrow Airport somewhere around 5.30 a.m (London Time). I took my luggages and rode Mr Tarmizi's car(He is one of the staff at the Education Malaysia UK and Ireland) to the London Malaysia Hall. In the room, I spent some time replying to text messages and took a short nap while waiting for Inder(well, jt turned outvshe was the one who was actually waiting xD) We took a walk at the roads nearby, went into some shops and as expected, almost everything was expensive to our standard.

  We reached Imperial College London at around 10.30 a.m. Had to walk quite a distance because we stopped at the wrong place. We're supposed to register at the SouthSide Hall but we stopped at the Beith Hall. So we checked-in and were brief about the welcome pack that we got by John, one of the student staffs. Later, I've made a new friend named Anne from Norway. We went to the cafe nearby. Inder and Anne were having their lunch while I was just watching as I was fasting. From our conversation, I discovered that Anne is actually brilliant as she passed the IB(International Baccalaureate) with an amazing score of 44 out of 45! Now that is something really amazing! She is really nice, friendly and also funny.

  Later on, I got to know another 2 people from Norway - Ole and Tonje. We went for a stroll around the streets in search of food. Fortunately, we got into a souvenir shop and managed to grab a sandwich. After that, we headed to the Hyde Park. Along the way, I talked a lot with Ole about his country, education system, bugs and much more. Sometimes I didn't really got certain words due to the unfamiliar accent(my bad) so I just nodded and said, "Oh, cool!" while smiling at the same time xD

  We had an 'usrah' at the park. It was really nice to relax and get to know one another better. At this point, I really missed my usrah in Malaysia. Those amazing people, I just missed them. However, it was also fascinating to be talking and exchanging views with people from many different background. At 2.00 p.m, I got my room card and purchased thr wifi service for £5. And of course, the receipt is something compulsory for the spending report later on :3

  I went into my room - 315 Falmouth Hall. I just put my luggage at a corner and straight away took out my laptop and tablet. I tried accessing the Internet for several times but I can't seem to get connected. Well, maybe there was a problem with the key and password. That night, I was supposed to attend a briefing session but hey, I still had a lot of time! Out of exhaustion, I fell into a deep sleep....

*Pictures will be added later on*

Dr John Ingram, University of Oxford

Assalamualaikum warahmatullah :)
Hi!

During the English class today, my classmates and I were discussing about our roles for our English Debate Assignment.

Then, at a drop of a hat our teacher said something about enhancing our repertoire of vocabularies:

Every time you enter the English class, take 3 vocabularies from the list posted on the board and memorize them. Try to clearly understand the meaning and the sample usage in a sentence. Back then, that was how we learnt English and improved our vocabularies. We were not as lucky and as fortunate as you back then. We don't have access to the Internet and those handful gadgets. Only some of us were able to afford the big, thick dictionary while the rest of us just did the same routine that I mentioned before for everyday.

So, she told us to be consistent in learning. Even a small amount of things and lessons learnt everyday will accumulate to an even greater height if being continuously done everyday.

Learning is a life-long process. What we have learnt are not just meant to be vomited right during the examination. Instead, they are to be put into practice in our life and that, would make our life to be much more meaningful :)

In Islam, we are taught about being 'istiqamah'. 
Therefore, it is a thing already in our nature. So, we shall put it into practice!

"Wahai manusia lakukanlah amalan mengikut keupayaan kamu. Sesungguhnya Allah tidak jemu sehinggalah kamu jemu. Amalan yang paling Allah sukai ialah amalan yang berterusan walaupun sedikit."
(Riwayat al-Bukhari dan Muslim)

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