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Aku selalu rasa macam nak buat something yang aku nak. Tapi tak terlaksana juga. Mungkin sebab kekangan 'bahan' untuk laksanakan 'projek' yang aku plan dalam kepala ni, jadi secara praktikalnya.... tergendala lah jawabnya.

Lepas tu aku terjumpa satu gambar, dekat ...mana entah. Heh.It sounds like this:

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to TRY"

I repeat, TRY.

Just try to do it!

Like nike's tagline: Just-do-it.

Pernah satu hari, mak aku tengah kelim karipap. Sebab ada tetamu nak mai rumah.

"Taknak tolong buatkan ke...?"

"Takpelah ma. Nanti tak lawa"

"Tak terai buat macamana nak pandai..."

Aku tak tahu itu statement ataupun... umph. *Dush!Malu~*

Lagipun, sebelum ni kalau buat karipap untuk minum petang, aku jadi tukang kelim. Habis majoriti karipap jadi senget benget, beraneka saiz pulak tu!

"Em, okay..."

Lepas solat, aku sambung aktiviti 'mengelim' karipap. Buat sebijik... 

"Aih, lawa jugak aku buat! Lebih kurang macam yang mama buat je.Hehe..." 

Aku sengih sorang-sorang, semangat nak uli & kelim semua karipap.

The same goes with other things in our life... Kalau tak cuba nak buat satu benda tu, memang takkan pernah pandai & jadi pakar dalam satu bidang yang kita nak tu- sampai bila-bila
.
So... jangan lupa- 'terai' ye! :)

Khalass~

Utilizing the internet in lesson

Today's lesson

•  podcast-need to install itunes.
• PollEv.com

• Ustream- live broadcasting-storytelling
• Glogster
• pixlr o matic

-expose students to story telling, sentence structure-so that students have ideas & interest in that language. By incorporating technology for it.

-Find ted.com, vinay venkatraman, "technology crafts" for the digitally undeserved.

Sifoo.com's class

Creating a website the easy way...
Using webpress.com.

open source, donwloadable
user friendly
can be managed by group

Applications:
blog
gallery
shopping store
cms

Website.com-free-posting website

worpress.org- for developers (own website)-downloadable system

1. Download (the system) xampp as well
2. install (buy ur own domain name - .com: rm30-50 per year
3. customize & publish!

server:

-Run:

•  apache-server OS (lynux)
•  mysql (database system)contains: 

1. Database name
2. Database username
3. Database password
4. Database host
5. Table prefix (if you want to run more than one WordPress in a single database)

Next?

1. drive c-xampp folder-htdocs
2. wordpress.org-dload zip file-extract-get a folder-(wordpress 3.5.1)-open folder-copy folder-put in htdocs (in xampp folder)

-to develop the folder, just focus on the 'content' folder

Name your database> create

A day with An-Nasuha's children.

This program was organized by BEDSA (Bachelor of Education Students' Society).

At first, I thought it wasn't going to be a great day. There's just some minor problems- the program started a bit late, we had to patiently waited for the participants, etc... But it ended up well, after we had a 'counseling session' with kak Zue. Well, it supposed to be called as LDK (Latihan dalam kumpulan), but having a counseling module isn't a bad start. Kak Zue deserves to be a counselor, I think. She applied all her knowledge & shared them with us! :D

There's a famous saying: 'A picture speaks a thousand words'.

So let these picture 'speak', I guess more than a thousand words- but millions? *Hah!*



Our miss MC, Sabrina the teenage girl! She ain't a witch. :p



Kak Zue, our counselor-to-be...

This was my emotion at the beginning. Blur memanjang. 

Tia, the artistic girl. She's one of the most creative person I've met in my life. I love paintings in her room~ Hah!

Next, this was what I wanted to feel this morning-  be cheerful! And Kak Zue added with a quotation; "Life is about adjustment", it's about how we try to manage ourselves into the situation. *positive thinking mode~*

Hope I can always stay energetic!

"Please draw a tree"

"I'm done Kak Zue...! What's next?"

"Cut down the papers, put 2 different colors at each side. And then, write your qualities at the right side of the tree, and your negative characteristics on the left."

"U-hum. Done!"

Eh, semek perasan la kita ambik gambar dia :P

I wanted to capture these girls' picture. Yang jelir lidah tu cakap, "Satu je".

Pian. The most extrovert among the an-nasuha's children

I can't remember his name, but he's good in arts, just like my little brother. Boys are creative, aren't they? 

'Dondang sayang...' :p

Hafiz (or we called him pisang, because we've got a topic on local fruits- and he's wearing yellow shirt, so...PISANG! Btw, he made this 'gun'. Cool isn't it? He's more creative than me. -,-'

'Cikgu' tengah berlatih~

Sofy with a ten year old girl.

I'm such a bad actor. I'm  a policewoman, yet I was smiling! Topi pulak jatuh. *malu*

Data in the clouds

We no longer need a thumb drive, because everything can be stored in the clouds! :)

And I've started to like it.

But not my personal stuffs, of course... -,-

My favorites of the month

"What you love is what you obey, and what you obey is the indication of what you truly love."

Perhaps that's why we need to learn about the prophet,& know his characters, so that we will follow his actions. 

I started to know Yasmin Mogahed through Aiman Azlan's blog. I just love the way she delivers the idea or messages about Islam, & people easily get inspired by listening to her lectures or reading her writings. Do visit her website here for more inspiring articles.

Let's watch this video. You'll get inspired, inshaAllah~ :)

Programming (week 4)

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim~

We started the class with several questions to refresh the previous lesson on last week (which was about DATABASE)

"Relationship"

*related to each other

Why?

• To combine/relate the tables after we normalize it

How we relate one to another tables?

• Conditions (primary key, foreign key & type of relationship)

1. Primary key- a field (column) that uniquely identifies each record in the table [eg: matric numbers]
2. Foreign key- a field added to a table in order to relate record to another table [when a primary key goes to another table, it becomes a foreign key]-just like a foreign student, we call them foreign when they study at another country
3. Types of relationship:

• One-to-one relationship-only have one related record [for confidential & general information]
• One to many
• Many to many

Human & tennis

As we played tennis this morning, Zaleha came out with an idea, and I found out that it sounds cool...~! :)

Understanding semantics

Semantics= the study of meaning.

In semantics, I'll be learning about pragmatics which is about how context affects meaning, and also lexical which involves in the relationship among words...

Guess I need to read a lot in this course. *sigh*

Flowers from abah

Abah went to Cameron Highlands and brought home a few pots of flowers & vegetables-a box of cabbage. This is one of my favorite- it looks so feminine, isn't it. 

Subhanallah, beautiful stuff. :D

But I can't remember it's name.

One thing that I adore about my father- he's good in taking care of plants, flowers and such an organized man.

Usrah yang best

Assalamualaikum...

Kalau dekat UIA ni perkataan usrah agak famous dalam kalangan student nye. Tapi aku tak pasti la macam mana kat universiti lain. Tapi dekat sini, memang boleh tengok lambakan 'bulatan gembira' aka usrah. Pergilah dekat mana-mana pon, masjid, rectory building, cafe, ataupun sports complex, akan ada yang buat usrah. 

So, persoalannya... 
Apasal diorang ni sibuk-sibuk sangat dengan usrah nih...?

Tak cukup lagi ke dengan classmates, BFF, atau room mates yang ada?
Ilmu yang ceramah belambak tu tak cukup lagi ke?

Hmm...

Sepanjang aku sekolah menengah, aku tak pernah tahu menahu pasal usrah segala bagai ni.
Bila ada broadband dekat rumah & abah beli komputer, aku pun mula lah explore macam-macam benda yang ada kat alam maya tu... Aku ingat lagi, masa zaman aku suka online tu, adanya Friendster. Dari situ macam-macam lah yang member aku share, termasuk yang ex-sekolah agama. Dari situ aku tahu website iluvislam.com yang memperkenalkan aku dengan term2  Islamik nih macam 'tabarruj', 'mujahadah' dan sebagainya... Masa tu aku sedarlah betapa jahilnya aku sebagai seorang Muslim. Sadis sungguh rasanya.

When it comes to my university life, I was introduced to the usrah system, starting from my foundation study. Yes. It's fun. They were not only sharing knowledge, but also instilling & spreading love towards the members of the usrah. Diorang pun ada explorace, bukan sekadar ilmiah semata-mata. Well, manusia pun tahu bosan, kan?

Banyak lagi untuk aku discover tentang usrah ni. Tarbiah la, ukhuwah la... It's not a matter of theoretical thingy... 
But for me,usrah is something beyond of what we think of-in fact, we don't even think of it.

Cuma aku sedang mencari lagi, apa yang istimewanya dengan usrah ni...

Assalamualaikum cikgu!

*LAT-it's one of my favourite cartoonist*

Aku teringat dulu-dulu, kalau pegi sekolah, kita semangat bagi salam kat cikgu, tapi bukan semua cikgu reply salam kita tu. Tapi macam mana pon, kite yang anak-anak murid ni tetap bagi salam. 

Moral of the story: 
Buat aja lah benda baik walaupun tak dapat balasan... Even senyum je pon... Tapi sokmo yakin dengan balasan pahala. Woha~

Baru aku perasan, bagus jugak sistem student diajar bagi salam kat cikgu ni ye. Ajar untuk ikut sunnah, walaupun nampak kecik, tapi... Umph!

Internet application's class (week 3)

(21st February,13)


Web browsers

-A Web-processing software---> You have to INSTALL it to your computer!

-a software (application) you use to USE the internet

Examples:

1. Internet Explorer
2. Mozilla Firefox
3. Opera
4. Safari
5. Google Chrome

Search engines

-something that you use to look for information ---> No need to install it to your computer as it's available online! :D

-eg: OPAC--to search for a book

1. Yahoo
2. Google
3. Bing
4. Ask.com
5. Netscape

Checkout this website: Internet tutorials

Advanced search at google--> To find specific results in Google

*I wonder why does it appears in Malay?*

• Internet marketing--> Company advertisers have to pay to search engine's company to be at the top of the list

Too many search engine- Why?

• It's all about capitalism, maybe you can't found things from google, but in other search engine
• This is an answer that I've found online: 

Google has dominated the search space for a while but there are a number of "new" players that approach the problem from a different perspective.
Microsoft has a new search engine called Bing, which is supposed to be more semantics based. With features like:
-Best Match: All the relevant results are showed up with the most relevant link on the top and called out -Instant Answers: One-click access to the information listed in the search results. -Deep Links: Talks more about the resources of the particular site -Bing Maps: These maps for Enterprise are actually Virtual Earth, Microsoft’s mapping platform -Bing Travel Rate Key: comparison of the Hotel’s the location, price and amenities will be represented in color coded manner -Video Search: where you can search for videos by length, screen size, resolution, and source
Wolfram Research has announced a tool called Wolfram|Alpha that will disrupt what people think about search. It computes the answer to your queries, deriving the results from what it finds instead of directing you to other sources of information. You can type in "Mars" and see a summary of mathematical characteristics.

RSS

• People provide you with infomation, instead of you finding them
• Eg: FB pages, twitter, Youtube
• How to do it? - Sign up or Subscribe

Debate time!

"Online classes are the way to go in universities of the future"

Government

1. Time-saving
2. Convenient
3. Save money--> no need to provide a lot of facilities, e-books available (green & cheap)
4. Be independent--> learn on your own, find your own materials
5. Socialize online

Opposition

1. Students can't develop their social ,communication & leadership skills
2. Learn through experience
3. Hidden curriculum are taught --> soft skills/ discipline
4. Students don't know their mistake --> no teacher to correct them online

-online class, distance learning & blended environment.

-space to learn for everyone (online class as a medium due to large population)

Homeworks

• Find an article on 'online class, distance learning & blended environment in education' 
• Reflection based on the debate & the article (provide own opinion too) --> 100+ words