Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Pantai Teluk Bayu

salam,

it was my second time experience but there's something missing this time. the laughter of my former naqibah. huhu. how could i just forget her when she was the one who patiently influenced me to join usrah. to walk along the most beautiful path. =) i was blessed to have such chance though it was quite late actually. i was once a naqibah during my secondary years back in SBPIKP but the feeling was totally different. well, back then, it was rather compulsory for us to join the group of usrah and we didn't really know and understand the real meaning behind the word 'usrah'. it means more than 'a family'. i was lucky to get a chance to meet it again here. usrah is for everyone. usrah is a place to draw us closer to our actual aims in life.

Umar Al- Faruq berkata:
"Duduklah bersama orang-orang yang selalu bertaubat, sesungguhnya mereka adalah yang paling lembut hatinya."


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It was last year when I first stepped at such beautiful and peaceful beach. No amount of words come even close to describing the peaceful of the beach. The environment is still as peaceful and beautiful as last year. May the peaceful and beauty of the beach stay forever. Sayangnya, no pictures taken due to penat beriadah.  best!

Lots of love,
Syahira Ismail

Sunday, 24 June 2012

pop up engineering

salam,

my first attempt
attended to  a workshop on saturday morning. well, the routine starts over again.. they love our weekends so much to a certain extend that they always want us to always spend our time with them doing something fruitful and beneficial. huhu. do you feel appreciated? yes, I am. I would love to spend my weekend working on something even it is actually the right time for us (students and even lecturers) to have a good rest before the hectic days start over and over again. I don't know where their spirit come. I rarely bump to a group of community who really loves working even it is during the holiday. the free holiday. It is, sometimes, good to have them to inspire even I bet I can never ever be like them. haha. no part time allowance given, yet you will still can see them in the departments even during the holidays esp weekends. 

so, we have a workshop on pop up engineering this morning and it is very exciting and interesting indeed. We, women, love arts to bits and pieces as compared to the minority group of man who attend this workshop this morning. really? entahla because there's a group of male english teachers who produces a very gorgeous work but they are not purely men la pulak. jahat!pang!dush! but, that's a reality, creative man is often associated with feminine quality. whatever it is, they are still men in reality.

The workshop goes for three hours which is from 9 am to 12 pm. straight with no rest period due to a short time allocated. the charge is acceptable and still appropriate for the longing for allowance peeps. five ringgit is charged per hour and breakfast is prepared free for all the participants. The organisation that is involved in organising this workshop is Pellta ( Penang English Language Learning and Teaching Association). 

Basically, they teach us about the basic steps of the engineering process. i'm the engineer this morning. i just create my own cards and i'm now officially an engineer. The process involved is undeniably easy wheezy to understand. We were introduced to a few basic lines, folds and types of designs. Most of the time is spend for hands on activities. Finally, after going through all the design and practice it on our own, we finally has been given a chance to create either a card or a story book on our own. We are free to choose whatever designs as long as it is still under the umbrella of pop up engineering. 

To make things easy, i decide to create a  birthday card by applying the parallel fold. simple and fast. mine is ready for display 15 minutes before the workshop end. 

when it comes to hands on activity, three hour is not enough. i need more hours for a bombastic one. balik bilik semangat nak sambung tapi game is more sexy  than the colour paper. mulalah operasi buat burger dalam 'burger rush'.  =)

till then. toodles! salam

the creative and lovely! teacher,
Syahira Ismail





Saturday, 23 June 2012

itu cinta

salam,

Sengaja nak berkongsi intipati bulatan satu cinta (onelurve) kami baru-baru ni. =)
Terangkan apa yang anda rasa selama berada di dalam dakwah&tarbiah dalam satu perkataan. Tangan diangkat sepantas mungkin sebab takut jadi yang terkemudian. risau sebenarnya, takut ada yang sama dengan perkataan saya. Maklumkan, yang termuka dari kalangan yang dewasa di situ. huhu. kebudak budakan sikit sebab semua orang panggil adik kecik kan. hihihi. Seorng demi seorang mengemukakan pilihan. Maka, lahirlah

cinta
pengorbanan
ketabahan
kekuatan (kalau tak silap)

Kenapa saya memilih cinta untuk menggambarkan perasaan selama berada di bawah payungan D&T. Adik kecik kata kerana 'cinta' saya di sini, tiada cinta maka tiadalah saya di sini. CINTA. dari mata turun ke hati. dari hati datangnya cinta. Umpana, si suami mencintai isterinya. si ibu mencintai anaknya. tak perlu diungkap dengan kata-kata, cukuplah zahirnya sebagai penyampai rasa. huhu.

puitis tak?hahahihihuhu

Pesan nakhoda kapal,
di kala dihambat rasa kecewa, putus asa, malas, takut ,sakit dan sebagainya, ingatlah kembali bahawa dakwah dan tarbiah itu ialah cinta, pengorbanan, ketabahan dan kekuatan secara zahirnya.



Kata hati,
Syahira Ismail

Tuesday, 19 June 2012

rancang lapar

salam,

dua hari macam dua tahun. letih! fikir result yang belum keluar lagi. xtau bila nak keluar. letih fikir perbelanjaan semester ni yang rasanya letih nak fikir sebab mungkin banyak aktiviti luar termasuk yang wajib dan tidak wajib tapi tiada pilihan demi menjaga perasaan. kadang terpaksa kita menahan rasa ingin menolak disebabkan persahabatan.bila fikir macam ni, kurang rasa letih. maklumla duit yang dapat tak akan bertambah tetapi berkurang sebab masih belum bekerjaya dan tak terfikir nak buat kerja sampingan seperti jualan lansung dan sebagainya. disebabkan oleh itu, hanya satu yang boleh dilakukan untuk mengelakkan inflasi yang teruk di hujung semester iaitu menguruskan perbelanjaan. nak menambah kekayaan belum sampai lagi, hanya menstabilkan diri sahaja yang mampu. memang macam ni setiap semester. agenda pertama, pelan pengurusan kewangan.pelan kedua, jadual belajar yang jarang ikut. pelan ketiga, 'assignments'

Pelan menguruskan kewangan

Makin bertambah usia, makin bertambah semester dan semakin sedikit masa yang tinggal untuk menghabiskan ijazah, semakin laju aliran wang pada setiap bulan. masakan tidak, fail makin bertimbun, sebulan boleh habis dua rim kertas, buku mahal sebab kebanyakannya dikeluarkan dari luar negara (tapi kadang-kadang xguna pun. stress!) dan impian serta kehendak yang makin bertambah. kehendak terbahagi kepada dua, kehendak diri dan masyarakat sekeliling. haha. simpanan harus ada walaupun masih belajar sebab itu cara nak mendisiplinkan kita. mulakan dari sekarang supaya nanti bila dah bekerjaya, makin terbiasa. berdikit-dikit dahulan. jangan pandang 50 ringgit sebulan sebagai sedikit sebab lama-lama jadi bukit. kalau yang targetnya sebuah perkahwinan dalam masa terdekat kena banyak sikit menyimpan. =P. huhuhu. tersasar pulak.bukan apa, ramai sangat yang memperkatakan bab ini di sini. maklumkan semuanya dah mencecah angka puluhan. saya belum mampu tapi siapa tahu. =P. Duit buku jangan dikesamping, duit untuk berhibur libur sikit, belanja makan minum, pakaian dan infak harus dicatatkan. walaupun saya xambil akaun dan xpernah belajar akaun dan xpernah ada siapa pun yang mengajar untuk melakukan semua ni, saya masih mampu lakukan. alhamdulillah. untuk kemaslahatan diri. Ini semua untuk disiplin di masa akan datang. Jangan takut untuk mencuba walau kadang kita takut xberjaya ikut perancangan. saya pun xpernah lagi ikut bulat2 pelan saya. memang perancangan manusia penuh kelemahan sebab sebaik baik perancang ialah Allah s.w.t. tapi xsalah untuk merancang. jangan xmerancang lansung sudah. main guna ja. habis xsedar. pastu mula la guna talian hayat pama. sesetangah rasa mungkin xmengapa tapi bagi saya, saya malu sebab tak berjaya kurangkan beban mereka. kalau bagi tanpa dipinta tu lain 'case' la kan.=).kalau terdesak sangat pun lain'case' la kan.

perancangan jadual belajar

buat tapi jarang ikut.hahaha. sebelum mula semester baru, saya buat sedikit kajian teknik belajar. tapi bila sampai di pertengahan semuanya jadi harapan dan khayalan. haha.main hentam ikut rasa. tapi penting sangat sebenarnya. lain orang lain gaya dan cara. belajar bahasa ni lain. kadang memang xde kerja lansung. boleh lepaking dengan hati yang senang. bila nak exam, belajar xpandang kiri kanan. ada yang belajar biasa2 ja tapi boleh score. belajar bahasa ni lain. once, you have the language, everything will be easy for you. hafal important points and leave the rest to the power of your language. lagi satu, kreatif. tapi saya memang lain jenisnya. otak bukan bahasa sangat, tapi xtahu la otak apa. tak tahu mana datang ilham untuk pilih jadi cikgu bahasa inggeris ni. ini perancangan Allah.I should have no doubt. ada hikmahnya, iA. kalau xblaja memang ibaratnya masuk lubang kambus sendiri. =) that's why perancangan jadual belajar amat penting bagi saya.

Perancangan 'assignments'

Kalau ingin memilih untuk masuk IPG, bersedialah untuk berhadapan dengan 'the never ending' assignments. memang lain dari universiti. sangat banyak untuk satu subjek. pensyarah sangat skema kalau untuk bahasa la. boleh jadi draft ketiga pun xtentu betul lagi. sabar dan jangan buat di akhir waktu. saya dah merasa buat kerja akhir waktu. keputusannya pun hujung-hujung la. study last minute mungkin ok dan efektif bagi sesetengah orang, tapi buat esaimen di hjung-hujung waktu bukanlah satu pilihan yang baik. silap haribulan, dapat balik, kena 're-do'. bukan sekali, tapi mungkin berkali-kali. saya dah rasa. memang stress dan geram tapi apa nak dikata, salah sendiri. pensyarah maktab ni lain sikit, mereka ialah dahulunya guru. sangat pentingkan kualiti kerja. sangat-sangat inginkan kualiti. baca setiap patah (this goes to lecterurs in language department). jagalah! sangat mengambil berat. hafal nama pelajar lagi. kenal pelajar lagi. xlokek untuk perbetulkan. kadang-kadang, pembetulan yang dibuat xmempengaruhi markah pun. hanya untuk kita jadikan pengajaran. tapi kebanyakan pelajar termasuk saya mestilah buat sesuatu untuk sesuatu. maksudnya buat pembaikan dengan harapan dapat markah tambahan. huhuhu. =P


. rasa nak menulis sangat-sangat sebab 'stress'.lapar setiap masa. baru je makan, lapar balik. nak makan orang! biasala, cuti 3 minggu. boleh makan nasi bila-bila rasa lapar. tak berkaitan dengan stress kan. till then, salam.

Monday, 18 June 2012

semester 4

salam,

three weeks has finally comes to its end. a familiar sentence ever since this blog was created.  a new semester is soon to begin. it feels like yesterday when i started packing my stuffs and excitedly waiting for my sister.huhu.  Mr doraemon!!! I really need your help now. can i have an 'ice shroom' just like in the 'plants vs zombees' game so that I can use the power to immobilize the time whenever I think I have to. Time is human. It moves and keep moving yet it has only one way direction. moving ahead.

Three weeks is too short.huhu.

Too many things happen in this three weeks. I finally drive a car on my own. what a wonderful moment though the nervous is still haunting me each time I have to step on the pedals. huhu. i'm still the old me. luar berani dalam takut . please go away the over nervous virus! go away completely from me.

 let's put it all aside and start a new game. no more restart or pause choices. A new semester shall be begin with a new set of visions and missions. Reminiscing the previous semester, there's nothing I can proud of except for the unexpected dekan last semester. rezeki. alhamdulillah. the third semester was done real bad. everything was done last minute. time is moving. shall i stop and reflect or just go with the flow and start a new term with a new spirit. entahla.

so, by now, i should have structured my aims for the nest semester. Sadly, I have not listed any nor thinking of any. huhu. where to start. where should i begin. let's do the warm up tomorrow. let's start the day tomorrow. let's start thinking of a brand new plan tomorrow. with that, I welcome you semester 4!

The future cikgu:
Syahira Ismail







Saturday, 16 June 2012

high tea

salam,


too many things happened in these three weeks. i'll go one by one but not following the correct order.

Venue: Tower Regency Hotel & Apartments

it was last Friday event and it was free of charge. Actually, the event was conducted special for the 'soon-to-be-graduated' students aka 'pre-graduatioon high tea'. huhu. we were not in the list of the 'soon to be graduated' peeps yet having a sister who really loved angkut her sisters to her event, we got a chance to enjoy the 'free of charge' high tea. i feel good to have a lecturer in the house. sungguh tak baik. take advantage pulak.=)

tomorrow is Saturday. one day left for me and my fourth sister to enjoy our long holidays.

(tebalikkan laptop, xreti nak pusingkan) pemandangan ibu negeri Perak dari tingkat 11. 














Tuesday, 12 June 2012

cheeky Adam!!

salam,

 these are what i've been doing during the three weeks holidays. fighting yeehaa, words war is worst, fighting to get him to the toilet and take a bath (i wonder why kids hate bathing time tapi love playing water bomb n etc related to 'play', 'in-house' football match (huhu),  fighting to get him eat (picky boy) and sometimes buat xtau but we often fail to neglect him due to his good communication skills.huhu. he can be cute at times, naughty all the time, and he can be whatever he wants. he is good at story telling. he is always up to something new. new ideas. new games. new activities. new topics to talk about. i wonder where the ideas come. pandai sangat kecek.

a picture tells a thousand words. enjoy reading the six thousand words. 

=P

Peek A Boo

focus!

camwhore

paksu buat rambut pacak kat adam.huhu