PETRONAS!

Last Tuesday, 8 of February 2011, there was a talk about PETRONAS. The talk was held in DK2 MICET, Unikl. The talk was given by En. Wan Hassan. The reason I went to the talk was because I wanted to get an idea of what would the working life of an engineer be like.  

The talk started with an introduction of PETRONAS. PETRONAS is a billionaire company. Only last year until July 2010, they manage to get 11.6 billion USD profits. However, we were told that 40% from the profit will be used as a starter for 2010/2011 business.  PETRONAS is 1 of the 7 sisters. PETRONAS was started only in 1970’s but already manage to be on ranked 7 as 1 of the top 10 highest profitable company between August 2009 - July 2010. This is a huge fact right? I mean compare to Shell (ranked 5) and ExxonMobil (ranked 2) which already have names in the oil n gas company for more than 60 years. I was very impressed. Plus, my desire to work for PETRONAS has increased tremendously.

From the talk, I came to know that being a process engineer was not that easy. You have a lot of responsibilities. And you really need to master in certain subjects to at least being able to be a part of the design team. I have to be honest, I am so scared. I don’t know what makes me think that working is much easier than study at the 1^st place, because it is definitely not the case for being an engineer. Subjects like Chemical Process Principle, Graphic Engineering, Process Instrumentation, as well as Plant Design are critical subject that I need to understand really well. The talk motivated me even more than before. I was happy J

However, when the talk finished, I should have gone to meet En. Wan Hassan and asked what he is looking for in a students during the interview since he is one of the interviewer for PETRONAS. At least I could prepare myself starting from now. But I did learn from the talk that confident is very important during your interview. He did touch on this for a little bit. Because even if you have all A’s in your transcript, you are lack of confident, they won’t believe in you and trust you with the huge responsibility that they are going to assign you once you get the job.

I think that’s all I want to share with you guys! Thanks for reading J

As usual, life is beautiful guys! Achieve as much as you can!

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Posted by F a r a h @ I z w a n at 1:15 PM

Do you think we should give monetary incentive to KP2 students to motivate them to get better grades?

                I don’t want to sound mean, but I think we should not give monetary incentive to the KP2 students. It’s not that I don’t want them to get motivated, but the 1^st KP is already bad enough. They should take serious action during the 1^st time. Some actions that the KP students should take: read notes before they enter the lecture, do a lot of exercise and not involve too much in MICET activity.

                The 1^st action, they should make sure they read the notes 1^st before they enter a lecture to get at least an idea of what is going to be taught by the lecturer. It is ok if they don’t understand the notes. It is just important that their mind were already exposed to the topic that is going to be taught. This is how the human brain works. If we keep exposing it to the same thing over and over again, we tend to remember.

                The 2^nd action, do a lot of exercise on the topic that they are weak at. If they think they still can’t do the tutorial, meet the lecturer. Most importantly, if they do not understand what the lecturer is teaching during the lecture itself, meet the lecturer afterwards. Spend some quality time with them. Use them wisely. I am completely sure, that every lecturer in MICET would help their students. No lecturer in this world would want their students to fail. Unless of course if you did something bad to them. Because lecturer are still human being. They have feelings too you know?

                Anyways, back to the topic. As for the 3^rd action, they should also not participate in most of the MICET events. It is good to be active, but not until it disturbs your study. You can still join the sports in the evening because that would keep you fit and healthy. Besides that, just concentrate on your study.

                As a conclusion, if the KP students did the action that I mention above, InsyaAllah, they will improve their grades. Again, I don’t think that we should give monetary incentive to KP2 students to motivate them to get better grades.

 Alright, I think that’s all from me. Good luck to all of you. Thank you! J

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Posted by F a r a h @ I z w a n at 4:33 PM

1 good reminder to all..

Hello guys!!! Okay, I am so tired right now. I just finished doing my Organic Chemistry lab report. Yeah, it is kind of like a last minute job done, but I can’t help it. When I need to write a report, I will have to make sure I truly understand the experiment, how to interpret the data obtained and master the theory behind the experiment done. It would take me a while since usually the experiment that we did, was not teach in the lecture yet. So yeah, you need a lot of effort. I mean it, like a LOT of effort. Unless of course if you do not care whether you understand or not and just copy everything from the internet websites.

Anyways, I should talk of something right? Hmmm… Let me see….

Okay, tomorrow is Chinese New Year celebration. This means, 2 days of public holiday. Plus Saturday and Sunday, that would be 4 days of HOLIDAYS!!!! Whoa!!!! Nice.. J

But.. But.. Guys.. A small reminder for all. Next Tuesday, we have CPP quiz. CPP test is also around the corner. Not to mention. Organic chemistry quiz is also next week. Math test is coming soon. Oh oh! Tech com quiz as well. Sorry Madame Syerina, it took me a while to remember.  Hehe. So yeah, you could go back home on Wednesday and sleep the whole day. As for Thursdays, okay fine, have another day off, eat a lot, and watch TV as much as you can, go out have fun. But hopefully by Friday, you should already hold your books and starts studying for your quizzes and tests. Always remember guys, you can have fun and rest as much as you like, but never ever forget your responsibility as a student.

Why? Because your future depends on it. Life is beautiful. Live to your fullest!

Good luck guys!

Song for the week, I just can't get enough of it! ENJOY! J

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Posted by F a r a h @ I z w a n at 3:24 PM

Rule this world !

“If I have the power to rule the world, I would......” the truth is, there are soooO many things that I would like to do if I have the power to rule the world. But definitely, there is only 1 thing that I really2 would do, which is to turn our mother earth into a clean and green world! 

No more tobacco plantation, focus more on recycling, compulsory to all people to use only hybrid transportation, and etc. Well it sounds like cruel to people, worse than Adolf Hitler maybe, but I do think about the future. Besides, I RULE the world! =P 

Just look at our world nowadays, there are so many save-our-world campaigns. Our world had started to decay since very long time ago. But why now we do realize to preserve our world? So, in order to save our world, I as the ruler of the world would do anything. 

For the sake of our world !

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Posted by F a r a h @ I z w a n at 11:56 AM

Dys-Oh-Alexia !

            Well my story started around 3 years ago, when I learned mathematics. I found so many things weird-rare-symbols that always confused me. The upside-down of letter ‘A’, reversed of letter ‘E’, so I was thinking, where did all these things came from?

So 3 years later, during my mathematical class with Mdm.Ehem2, she said something about a syndrome which is being called ‘Dyslexia Syndrome’. So I started to think again, what is the relationship between mathematics and that-so-called syndrome? It’s so funny to ask Mdm.Ehem2 directly during class. So, with my effort, with my own intelligence, I made research about that-so-called syndrome.

Hence, the results are as follows:

“Dyslexia is a broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or accuracy in being able to read, writes, and spells, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, and/or rapid naming. Dyslexia is separate and distinct from reading difficulties resulting from other causes, such as a non-neurological deficiency with vision or hearing, or from poor or inadequate reading instruction. It is believed that dyslexia can affect between 5 to 10 percent of a given population although there have been no studies to indicate an accurate percentage.

 

There are three proposed cognitive subtypes of dyslexia: auditory, visual and attention. Although dyslexia is not an intellectual disability, it is considered both a learning disability and a reading disability. Dyslexia and IQ are not interrelated, since reading and cognition develop independently in individuals who have dyslexia.

Accomplished adult dyslexics may be able to read with good comprehension, but they tend to read more slowly than non-dyslexics, and may perform more poorly at nonsense word reading (a measure of phonological awareness), and spelling.”  - From Wikipedia

Now I understand where all these symbols came from. Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, they all have this syndrome. Instead of ‘A’, they wrote the upside-down of ‘A’, just to say ‘ALL’. However, based on this, I would like to conclude 1 beautiful fact in our life. It doesn’t matter if you are a disabled person, not smart, not clever, because it does not mean that you are a useless person. You just have to discover and unleash your potentials, and then you will become special.

You know what guys, life is just so beautiful J

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Posted by F a r a h @ I z w a n at 11:48 AM

My Educational Aspiration 2011

Hello, Farah here. To be honest, I really don’t know what to talk about ‘educational aspiration’. Because it would be the same old said. Consider my previous results, I would say that because of it, I feel inspired to study more and maintain it. Of course I will need to arrange my time well between study and activities that I joined in MICET.  I also want to add here that my loving mom was very happy with my July 2010 results, so.. Deep down inside my heart, I want to see her happy like that again. I will try my very best just to be able to have the chance to watch her glowing face smiling while looking at the ecitie page J I love you ma, so much!

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Posted by F a r a h @ I z w a n at 9:12 AM

Kal Ho Na Ho

I used to think, life is like a fairy tale. When you wish for something, and try to get what you wish for, you will succeed.

However, as I grew up, I found out that, no matter how much effort you put in to achieve something, you won’t always get it. Why? Because God have other plans for you. Simple example, I want to be a doctor. In fact, I want to be a loving, caring, successful doctor specialist in Gynecology. Yes, I even dreamt of specialist in a field. But now, I am studying in University of Kuala Lumpur, MICET taking Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (Hons) in Process. I always asks myself, am I happy? You know what guys, I am truly happy. Do I achieve my ambition?  No!

But somehow.. What God had planned for me all this while still makes me so happy, still makes me feel grateful. I like the environment here in MICET.  I love studying chemistry and physics. I also love my English class with Madame Syerina  J I am being honest ok? Not to mention, my own dear cousin is studying here with me in MICET! How great is that right? And.. Well, let’s just say that I found the happiness that I have been looking for. Even my mom is happy because I am happy. That means the world to me.

I just hope that I will be strong enough to accept God’s test in the future. For now, I am going to study smart in order to get good grades. Of course, I am still going to have fun in between and always make sure that my happiness stays with me.

Life is just too beautiful to be wasted.

Live like there is no tomorrow – “Kal Ho Na Ho”

Good luck guys! J

Lastly, song for the week, enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIqzxU6mG8M

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Posted by F a r a h @ I z w a n at 3:21 AM