Great Leaders are not born, they are made!

No matter how many times I read the phrase, it doesn’t change my mind to agree about it. I’m not going to talk about this topic so detail, so it would become a ‘compact mode’ here.

When the phrase says bout ‘they are made’, I believe that the leader is definitely not being manufactured from any factories. It refers to how they become a great leader.

It may be easily to understand if I give examples. Let us take a look on Tun Mahathir, Adolf Hitler; they are both not born as a great leader. What I’m going to say here, a person will have to put a lot of effort to become a great leader. Through lots of experiences, learned so many soft skills, being trained to have such a good personality or aura, then he or she would become a great leader. I’m not saying that the leader in our country is not a good leader-I’m referring to royal family of coz. Okay, they’re definitely being born as a leader. However, a child who possesses royal blood in his or her veins would also going to learn and gain lots of experiences, so that he or she could become a great leader!

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Posted by F a r a h @ I z w a n at 7:05 PM

Love is in the air..

Valentine’s Day, a day that always being waited for every couple in this world. No matter how young, how old, that day has no boundary so that anyone can celebrate it. Give roses to the partner, hang out for the whole day, and give chocolate, say ‘I Love You’ and so many other things.

So it comes to my mind actually, thinking bout this special day. Definitely people will do all these things, no matter where. So my question is, are they doing all those things because of that Valentine’s Day or because they do really2 love each other??

It’s not like I’m condemning all those people. Here’s what I think bout Valentine’s Day. Valentine's Day is a day to remember a priest, who was fall in love for many2 years ago. It concludes that Valentine’s Day is a day of remembrance of a priest, not a day that you are being granted to express your love. So, if you love someone, you do not need this day to show or express your love to your partner. Anytime or anywhere, you still can do it. 

As to my conclusion, ‘Love’ doesn’t need a day so that it can be expressed by anyone, ‘Love’ is always in the air. 

Anyways, Life is just so beautiful! J

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Posted by F a r a h @ I z w a n at 6:59 PM

What do you think: is it true that we're all purportedly born with traits/character that matches our birth order, or is it simply a made-up condition?

Ok, 1^st of all, this topic is VERY INTRESTING! J I love it!

Anyways, in my opinion, it is so not true that we are all purportedly born with traits/character that matches our birth order.

This is because, not all of the eldest child is more responsible, mature, often a perfectionist, a good leader, higher IQ, and have low self-esteem.   Same goes to middle child, not all of them are an over achiever, creative, artistically inclined, often felt neglected, and lack of direction. As for the last child, not all often get away with anything, not independent, often not taken seriously.

We should understand that children’s characters are the way their parents brought them up and influence them. Their characters develop slowly on how their parents treated them. For example, if a mother is not working, staying at home taking care of her children while her husband is the one who worked and support the family, the mother of course have enough time to give and spread her love in the house to all her children.

The problem now days are that, both parents are working. When the children came back home from school, both of the parents are not home to give attention to them. And when the parents did come back home from work, they only gives attention to the youngest one present at that time because they THINK that child is the one who need their attention. They don’t even have a 2^nd thought that the OTHER children need attention too. The OTHER children have problems too. Children no matter what age still need their parents. Parents are the one that only accept them truly for who they are.

Another problem that I personally think is so unfair is when a child gets to be the-so-called “favourite” child. Why this happens at the 1^st place? Siblings were born from the same womb from a particular woman. Why do you have to love this one more than the other? Just because this one is more intelligent, more beautiful, responsible, help you a lot, does not give you the permission to love them more. You are a mother. You give birth. You should love your children equally. Accept their weakness. The one that has problems, treat them with gentle, with love, try to make them understand; make them feel that you will always be there for them. You’ll see how they can transform into someone you can be proud of.

Children now days just need attention. Give them the attention (which sometimes children take as love), EQUALLY among siblings, and all of them will be happy. This may sound bad, BUT if you think you can’t do that (treat your children equally), then don’t give birth to a lot of child. Have 2 maybe. And please don’t give reasons such as “rezeki dari Allah” because they are A LOT of ways to prevent pregnancy. We are in the era where science and technology is a huge thing now. Humans are creating machine that we can control with only brain thinking. And you are saying you can’t stop pregnancy?? Yeah right!

We should always treat everybody well. When everybody is happy, we will automatically be happy too.

Life is so beautiful. Live to your fullest J



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Posted by F a r a h @ I z w a n at 6:50 PM

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