Thanks to both of you, Farid and Bakri, for responding to my entry. I will miss you too, i enjoyed reading your entries, especially YOu, Bakri. As you were relatively quiet in class, your entries gave me an insight into your character. YOu have a lot of talent inside you and i think you need to project yourslf more, so that others can see what you have to offer. Farid, you too were quiet, but i know that you have a lot of good things inside you, just waiting to get out, so i hope in the course of your lives in the uni, you will discover yourselves too. All the best in this quest!!
Cheers!!

Dear students,

I don't know if anyone of you will actually read this, as i suppose it does come a little late. Also, some of you may be thinking that since the sem is over and no more eng fof law, then why do i have to open this blog. But that's the thing - if you looked upon this as more than just a 10% mark, then perhaps, you would return to it from time to time and post your thoughts. But if this blog was for you only something that you were forced to do, then you wouldn't. But the truth is that i've only just finished reading all your entries!! Surprised? Shocked?? Well, i do have lots of entries to read and 2 classes too. So in total i have 40 x 4 = 160 entries to read, and that IS a TALL order. So, i suppose i cant be blamed. Also, i have to read all your first 2 entries again, to refresh myself, although i made my notes when i first read them.

I must say that most of you seem to have grown from the time you entered UKM to the time you sat for your exams. I would like to thank those of you who mentioned how much Eng for Law helped you improve in some way. Most of you seem to like the blogging experience, although i must say some of you still haven't quite grasped what reflection is. But i am hoping that your experience with reflecting thru' the blog has somewhat taught you something about yourself, in particular more about what you have learnt, since the entries were to specifically focus on your learning experiences, in relation to your law courses and other activities related to what you do as a law student.

Thank to those who have expressed their appreciation to me and to those who have aplogised thru the blog, i accept your apology and that whatever i said and did was for your benefit , and as some of your parents may say: 'for you own good only what!'

Have a really good, relaxing holiday and take care!! Do feel free to come see me or keep in touch, even though i may not teach or perhaps cross your path again. You guys still have one more eng course to take, that is, Workplace Com 2, which may be offered to you either in your 2nd or 3rd year.

Take care and all the best alwayz...!!:))

Pn sitha

Last Post..

Hello everyone..this two cakes was dedicated to my madam and friend..due to my birthday on 10th Oct..last month..the cake of course was not ermm available rite now..but still i keep the picture of the tasty cake for you guys..hehe..(^^,)

Wah..Its the end of semester now..i could not believe that time has past so quickly..as fast as wind and cloud..its time for holiday..i have been thinking back what have i been trough for the past few day , week and month..wow..when i think back theres a lot of thing that has been said and done..lots of good and bad memories ..many things have change in me and around me... but then it was always a positive and a negative things that have had open my eyes..(wider)..(^^,)..as we reach our last week before holidays i suddenly remember something ; my uncle once said to me "In real life we can see a different between people who knows how to manage their life and have a good life and between people who what we called a loser"..
I remembered asking him.."how".."what do you mean by having a good life and a losers , we all deserve a good life"..he answered me "naa..some people could not bare with challange in the end to solve problems they end their life with suicide and doing bad thing and choosing the wrong path..while a wise person is a person who already been in universities and had face many kind of challenge and this kind of people can survive in the world out there compared to a person who never know how to face challenging life..so if you ever gone to universities..try to bare with it..because life aint easy ok dear?!"......that what he told me before i went here in ukm..thingking back ..what he said is true..whatever assignment , pbl , group work , examination , clases ,cocuriculum activities , college activities..i need to face it and bare with it..DONT GIVE UP..keep BEING STRONG..because all this was just a preparation for us to face our real life out there..the end of this semester was not the end of everything..i know i did not doing well in my examination because lack of concentration..but i do promise my self i will do better and better for the next sem..in other word..i will and i want to go further and further as far as i could reach..yess..(^^,)

Final Look

As i was looking at the calendar, gosh i hadn't realize that time did fly away.How i spent the time will just appear on my results paper for this semester. Don't know what am i going to face for the next semester.However, i did manage to pick up what is left for me during the whole reflection in my studying in law in this prestigious faculty ever in the University. I am going to reflect on the whole process of the English course that i had registered to for my first semester.Thanks to Puan Sitha who deliberately conducted the class. I wish to thanks her for her effort to just letting us use our own creative thinking to form in into the legal thinking as we were in the law course. She let us speak by giving us the chance to share any information that can change our view in certain things. Puan Sitha just give us the little guidance for us to act in our own feet as she observing us throughout the whole process of studying.
Frankly, i will miss the class from now on as i will not wake up in the morning to just going to attend Puan Sitha's class.To Puan Sitha, thank you for your dedication and thanks to all the info and the knowledge and the hidden values that you had thought me and the whole class.Thanks because I started to love this course from your class.

MALAYSIAN LEGAL SYSTEMS

This subject is all about the knowledge on how the law is form in Malaysia. I really enjoy the whole class and the tutorial that we had gone through. Every assignment that we had, had taught us the importance of the knowledge in the sources of law and how the law is form in Malaysia.Not to mention the PBL that we had assigned to. We made a video on a case Re An Advocate the case about an advocate that runs a womens laundaratte during his practice. This video making involving the tutorial teams that team up together and work as a teamwork which is taught us the values of cooperation and thus the sweet friendship were bond here. I love Damnum Sine Injuria. Thanks guys and Puan Roshida that had taught us. See all of you in the next semester.

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Puan Norlia and Puan Faridah had taught us the view on The Federal Constitution of Malaysia. Never in my life I am feeling really aware and secured with all of the law provided in this constitution. The course really open up my eyes about the direction and the status of the law itself in controlling the citizen of Malaysia and the government that govern itself. I also learnt more about the limitation power of the Parliament which is so cool that I can share it with my friends when we just hang out and who knows it might be useful for them.

CONTRACT LAW

Everything that we deal in this world is got to do with the contract. Interesting right, contract binds us in everything that we do. For example a promise to your parents, that you will study hard and excel in the exams and your parents promised to give you a gift as a consolation, there you are already entering the contract, even with your parents. Fascinating right……
I had learnt so many interesting terms of contract in latin term such as non es factum which means not my deeds and various terms that come across during the whole process of studying contract law. To be honest, contract law is a technical subject that requires a high speed level of understanding it and I was in the phase of increasing my level of understanding. Thanks to the core subject, now I am more alert in every action that I took in order to protect myself from being involved with any illegal promise or contract.

However, other subject like Information Technology and Law also in this semester course. It had help me and those of my friends in improving the skill that needed in finding or using the internet or other on line sources for the law information, cases or law education. Surely it help us a lot in to becoming more familiar with the Lexis Nexis application, CLJ, Westlaw and many more. Never thought that there is so much application on line that are very friendly to use. Thanks to Puan Norlia Sukarno, Puan Suzana, Pn Nazura and Encik Azraai.

Moreover the Hubungan Etnik class that take place once a week really lighten up my hours of studies. En Nazri Muslim who conducted the class surely know what he is up to every time the law student came to his class. Not to mention the late attendance that we gave him due to the overlapping of the schedule. During his class, we were exposed to the real current issues that we had to face in the future in maintaining the peaceful environment of the country within the whole relationship with every ethnic in this country.

Truly, I started to love every second of my life here as a Law student and perhaps I will do more in the next semester especially in my studying process but truly, thanks to Puan Sitha that had give us space to express ourselves independently in this blog. Thanks to all my friends too, for giving me the support in my past time. Thanks guys. May we will be the next excellent batch of law student in the future. Trust yourself and never give up.

Hello, Goodbye and somewhere between.

Take a deep breath and be happy, because I am not going to spill on the same old mundane issue of "how my life has eventually changed after one semester being in a law school" today. Well, not anymore.(Knowing, I'm still a late comer and a procrastinator. Proven due to the lagged post) But I will raise an issue to be thought over. An ordinary issue but if we begin to contemplate why, it gets your mind to function properly. Like it has never functioned before. Alright. Exaggeration spotted.

Let's talk about thing that we're all doing now. The existence of this blog to be precise.

Why else would law students of the past, present, and future take so fiercely to blogging? Is it a passion for putting figurative pen to figurative paper? Is it because we subconsciously or not so subconsciously exalt ourselves and think people care about what we have to say? Or is it merely because law students have a passion for words (b-law-g) that contain a law phoneme?

Why these other students from other fields such as Dentistry, Medicine, and Engineering do not have the immense interest like we do? Maybe they're not too happy to start up their entry by saying eerie and disgusting things like "Last morning I filled in a cavity..." and "I had a good time, playing and squishing the arteries of my patient. I've never seen anything as redder as her blood"

But is Law School interesting enough to be bragged about in a blog? The fact that controversial issues like homosexuality and abortion appeal more to them than other topics would. I reckon, it is because, if we blog, we know that what we've been talking about are almost universal stuff that can be fathomed by the ordinary people. Things and global issues that occurred around us that welcome these readers to give feedbacks on our entries.

Hang on. Did I just make us sound like attention-seekers?
Let's hope not because we might as well do not plan to be attention grabber through our online journals. What I really can relate to this is, perhaps it has to do with relevance. The law is everywhere, after all. Look at politics and its blog-wielding cadre. Political bloggers are pervasive, although that tends to be more for professional purposes than in pursuit of a hobby. How often do you read a political blog that discusses what the blogger ate for breakfast?

Do law students simply have too much time on their hands? HA HA HA [Insert fake laughs here]. I’m sure if I looked closely enough I would find other disciplines of study with a strong blogging community, but could it possibly be as expansive as the law blogging community? Everyone blogs. You tell me. Those who love the law (if any) or objecting the law (absolutely). Those aspiring lawyers. The ones who dream about being attorneys due to the massive influence from Law and Order or Legally Blonde that conveyed the message on fashion and law are related regardless bimbos will not be taken seriously in a law field.

Which once again raises the question, why do you and I blawg?


I don't want to hear any answers saying;

"because Puan Sitha told me to do so"

No. Not even near to that. Give me legally convincing answers please :)

Good luck for the finals!
Show them the parents that Law School is more to life than producing a whole lot more Karpal Singh wannabes in our legal system.

End Of The 1st Semester Countdown

As time passed by..there are so many things that I have learned through my studies at here. From zero to the now i am..different from the old petty now im more mature and ready enough to handling the incoming problems. Troubles truly a friend to us, every stepped that we've took there surely a trouble and from there we learned to be a better person. Well, here im not going do talk about all the trouble that i've been trough but to reflect on that.

Since i've finished my last paper for this final exam, i feel like my burden lighten than before. Now i can really take a long rest without worried about the upcoming paper. While im lying on my bed and starring at the wall, suddenly the past of valuable memories arise. There are so many up and down stories in my life at here, studies and life at here a totally different from 'the one' i had before.

Life at here, like others, im trying to be more independent and not too depends on others help but sometimes when difficulties comes it is hard to avoid such principle. Advantageously, it open my eyes on how the true face of a friend is. It make me realize that my bunch of friends will disappear when it come to getting help from them. And since that i told myself to be more careful in making friends. Moreover, i also know how to manage my finance wisely than before. Living here use a lot of money, RM100 seems like a RM10, every little things need money to walk with. There was a day when i completely had no money left to use and i had to fasting for a day until my parent can put in some money into my account. From that day, i told myself to spend the money wisely and never blow it for something that unnecessary. Anyway, i truly enjoy my new life at here and grateful for all the sweet time i had with all the new faces in my life.

Meanwhile, the experiences of study in this new environment totally freak to me. The learning seems like 'fast and furious', it is a nonstop learning centre where everyday we have to catch as fast as we can so that we won't miss a thing. Moreover, the tutorials and PBL like a never ending test and now another big test(final examination) i have to face on. Anyway, it is the best learning experience i ever had because there are so many things i gain in a short time of period and there are no more teacher feeding notes, all are depends on our own effort. As a varsity student, we cant walk alone because most of the assignments and works need to be done in a group. It can be say almost 60% grouping assignment than individual. When i first hear about it, it seems easier to score but later on there are so much of problems that occurred to gather commitment from all the members. But, at the end when it comes the time to summit the assignment, unbelievable the commitment up to 100% of desperation. Overall, i start to adapt with such kind of learning process and hope that i can do better in the next semester.

Last but not least, i want to thank Pn. Sitha for everything that she had taught us and make us be a better person than before and also teach us how to think critically in this life. The English For Law lesson totally helpful on how to understand and read 'law' effectively.

MY WORKING EXPERIENCE

hi everyone this is my last entry.... so fast gona finish 1st sem...
as my last post i would like to tell bout my working experience after finishing my STPM... i worked in 3places, but this give me much experince...so nice at the same time too much of pressure

After my STPM examination, I decided to work in a call-centre. I applied for a customer service officer job through CIMB Bank. I was offered a job on 31st December 2008. I started by 4 month working stint the 5th of January 2009.

My higher-ranked officers assigned me to the auto-loan deparment. The role of my job is basically to answer calls from customers pertaining to their car or hire-purchase loans from the bank. I was given the full trust to access information which cure deemed secret and confidential by the bank.

Throughout my experience, I reguraly received calls from rude and irate customers. They, made my job difficult. Quite often, they would scold me although it was their mistake for not keeping their car loan monthly installment payment payment on time. That helped me to learn and understand that all of us have to go through a significant amount of pressure all the time.

Last but not least I had a wonderful time working in a bank environment.

tatz all.....tc evi1 all d best 4 ur xm

sayonara..,but i'm not leaving

assalamualaikum and a very pleasant wish to all of you Madame and Monsieur,

This is the last one for this semester.Sincerely,i don't think that this blog posting thing ( sorry for my language :p )are burdening me.In fact, i think it help me to learn something ,i mean SOMETHING about reflection , the skills that i think is very helpful and useful in our studying time and even in our life.Furthermore,i also use the same skills and experiences in this english for law blog project for my own blog that is WACANAKURIT.BLOGSPOT.COM. , do visit my blog when you have free time...ngee~

i think that during the posting of my previous three blog posting,i had grown and learn new things and experiences something . I think that this experiences will be very useful skill that will be very useful later in my life.In fact, i already feel the usefulness of that skill by reflecting what i had done everyday.I can recognize my weakness and wrongful done . For example,the PBL , it seems like when we talk about PBL , we talk about something that was very hard and designed just to make us fail . If you don't believe me , you can ask randomly any first year Law UKM students about PBL , and get their answer and you will agree with me . But , i don't think so because i think that PBL help us to learn , it is not just about co-operation , about time management , about your learning ethics . But it is all about yourself ,what i mean is that it is you that decide how hard , whether you can do it or not . It is all about you , for me thinking positively is the best way to overcome this kind of problem.

i love learning process , we can deny that we need to learn if we want to continue to live . But if we learn something without having fun . It is very shameful and unhappy situation because we need to enjoy it if we want to get something from it . I always believe , that in the process of learning we fall sometimes , then we raise again , then fall again.Rather than feeling shame and embarassed , i feel very proud if i fall , it is because it is normal in the learning process..

that's all about the blog , oops i mean english for law blog.But , i will still the use the konowledge that i had learned here to post in my own blogspot.So , thanks all of you for sharing your view and thanks to everybody who help me.....Astalavista Babeh

I Need Plenty of Luck!

The fact that im busy with assignments,discussion,preparing for final exam and other personal stuff does not give me good excuse for the late post.Im sorry Puan Sitha.Final is unfortunately tomorrow and here am i rushing posting my reflection but to be honest i rather blog than read the oh-so many cases.seriously.People,i just realized that if you are force to do something no matter how hard it is for you to do it at first,eventually you will be able to do it and if you're lucky you might also be good at it too.Take me for example,i thought that there is no way i could finish reading 'mengenali undang-undang kontrak malaysia' within three days but hey,i did it!not to say that i've mastered it completely but the fact that i did finish make me realized that you can do something that you think was impossible.You just need the extra kick or push.For me its the limitation of time that i have before final starts.Well,i think its time for me to drain my brain with loads of cases,act and statutes again.Please wish me luck!i need plenty of if!

End of semester
After 14 week in ukm, now our lecture was end. After break for ‘hari raya’ we have to settle our presentation. we begin with our pbl for contract and consti. For the first time, i spend my time with my group member at library for 2 weeks. We have to find our fact to use in our argument for pbl. I feel enjoy with them because we have good co-operate between us. We started our pbl for Malaysian legal system and followed by consti and contract.
I think, this presentation help us to learn more about law in Malaysia and how to be a lawyer in the future. Besides, it give us more information about the law. We have to find the facts, cases and more for our own self. It is very interesting because we got the experience to depend our client in court..
Now , i have to do my revision for my final exam. I hope the information that i get from pbl can be use for my final. I hope i can do well for my final..good luck for all.
Thanks madam..

the nemesis returns

I cannot run and I cannot hide. After a while since the last final examination, now I will be seeing them again. The worst about it is the nemesis that was hiding all this time has returned. Whoa...sounds like a science-fiction movie. But what I refer as the 'nemesis' is actually my stressful state of mind because the final examination is just around the corner. The stress consumed my life and as the result, I can no longer see colours of university life because in my mind, all I have been thinking is the final examination.

The stress gives me headache. I kept on worrying and wondering that accompanies me during my revision. Questions like "can I get a desirable achievement for the exam? can I maintain my pointer during the whole 4 years so that my scholarship will always be provided for me each semester? Can my parents get what they had hoped for?" mingles around my mind and caused severe stress for me. There is something strange about me. I tend to bottle up the stress and my problems. It is often said that we better share our problems with the others. But I just refused to do so even though I know, it would affect my studies and my health as well. I think the main problem is I did not trust my heart. My heart says I can cope up with the studies. But my mind keeps on doubting my heart. In the end, my mind conquered my heart and eventually, my soul.


A couple of days ago, I went back home to get blessings from my parents. When i was going back to UKM, my mother told me, " I cannot help you. But I wanted to. All I can do is pray for you." At that moment, the sparkle of tears from her eyes catches my attention, destroying the wall of hesitation that I have in my heart. I can see how she expect so much from me. I cannot let her down. I made an oath to myself. I will try my best during the final exam. And for this stress, I will slice it to pieces at all costs even if I only have a blunt sword in my arm.

INTROSPECTION...

this is my last post for this semester!!! I'm feeling awesome because i am going to finish this first semester very soon by doing the finals. i do really hope that i will do my best in the finals and get a good pointer.

first of all, i want to reflect on the so called "pbl", problem based learning. as it is a group work which have to do collectively....i guess that i myself had failed to give full co-operation to my team members. at first i thought that pbl is a small job which can be done very easily...but at last.. it turn up doing misserable in the court room.

this is my first experience as a law student, being a lawyer to my client and being the judge. both of them give me a good experiences where from there i can know how to bring the case to the court and on how to argue our points, till the point on how to give the judgement.

being as a lawyer i guess i had done my job better than anything else. i do really proud of myself because i had become a lawyer and will be the future lawyer...if i am still interested... i hope so.

being a one day lawyer in the appeal court make me feel in the cloud nine. it was a good court room where we, the appellant had bring out our points on the ground that is needed. me and my co-council had delivered our arguments in a way that should be. the same also goes to the respondents site. at last it is the time to give the judgement. we, lawyers from the appellant side was waiting for the judgement and hoping that the judge will give the judgement in favour to us. we was even waiting with all the thoughts running here and there.. whether we can win this case or not, what will happen if we failed and all sorts of things. finally, the judge had given judgement in favour to my client. huh.. we was very happy and thankful to hear about it. from there i had a feel on how a real lawyers feel when they win any cases.

furthermore, being a judge doesn't meant that one have not to prepare the cases very well. this really suits to me where i only rely to the bundles of authorities that given by both appellant and the respondent. being a judge in other hand is really a hard job. this is because we cannot simply give the judgements. as a judge, i think i did not perform well in it, both for asking the question and delivering the judgement. but at last, i manage to give the judgement even though it is really a hard work to do.

from this pbl, i had learned that one should always be prepared in any thing that we are doing no matter it is a small or a big matter. in future, i do hope that i will not make the same mistakes again and will correct myself in it. as experiences is the good teacher in our life, i also do believe that every person will become perfect if they had done or at least make mistakes. from here it shows that the person had tried their best in perfoming well in their work. i also notice that one should always give full commitment in doing things, which really lacking in me right now.

in next semester i hope that i will become somebody who will be more daring in doing things and will build up my confidence in performing my pbl. thats all for now and i would like to thank all my friends and the lecturers for guiding me all this while and hope that i will pay that by perfoming well in my law subject...

thank you everybody!!!.....

Swim To Prosper!!!

I have taken up Swimming as my co-curricular activity. I chose swimming because I love swimming and I think that it is one of the sports that I can perform well in.

The training session starts very early in the morning and I always face the problem of reaching the pool on time. However, our swimming co-curricular is totally and absolutely FUN. I like the trainers and The Boss ( Pn Salmiah). The trainers and Pn Salmiah are very nice person. They are strict during the training but never harsh.

Our simulation activities were superb. We had many competitons and we even had Water Polo. Well, every group got prize because the trainers made sure that everyone at least had prize. The Water Polo was quite a new experience to me because I had never taken part in Water Polo before.
There are some rules for the game.

1. Only one hand can be used when you want to throw the ball.
2. 1 mark will be granted if the keeper managed to get the ball.
3. There are off-lines and the ball cannot pass that line.

The basic rules are like that. Well, our group lost in the end, but still it was a good game and I liked it very much.

The other important activity of the swimming club is organising and coordinate the swimming competition for SUKEM. The members' duty is to become the officers in-charged and make sure the competition run smooth. At that day, I was a participant instead of becoming a officer.

I thought I was good in swimming but I changed my mind after the competition. It's because I have seen some "terrestrial dolphins" during the competition. Well, I admitted that I was lack of training and thus I did not perform well. I felt that I could not breathe well and as if my lung was squeezing out through my mouth in order to get more oxygen.

However, I still managed to get a bronze medal in an event. It's my teammate that performed well. I was just giving an ordinary performance.

I promised that I will perform better next year and will make sure that I have more medals....

towards the end...

well...

this is my last entry...

it's sad to know that it has come to the end...the 1st sem is going to be over soon...I wonder what have I learn throughout this semester???Actually a lot of things...I never though that I will survive at the beginning...but towards the end I know I gain something even though it's not much...I learn how to be a university student,learn how to be a law student...it's hard but I manage to survive for now...

final is just around the corner...I realize that I have miss out a lot of thing...I need to catch up with my study in just a few days...I've been asking myself whether I can do it or not???I cannot answer it,I don't know why...Sometimes I think I'm ready and sometimes I'm not...maybe my preparation is not enough yet...well...whether I like it or not I have to prepare myself harder...I don't want to be sorry later...

I must get ready...no matter how hard it is I know deep down inside me,I know I can do it...I must use all the knowledge and experience that I gain throughout this semester...I must apply them...use them wisely...I hope I can do my best in this final...

to my friends...

thanks a lot,sorry for everything and good luck for this coming exam...

farewell to my EFL blog...

OooOooOoo...
oh my god,is october now and I believe that now is the time where all the students in National University of Malaysia will have not enough sleep or even did not sleep at all just because it is near the end of the semester.

Everybody is busy with their assignment and presentation and of course not to forget final exam is coming.Finally all the lecture finnish include my english for law class.Although I can not said that I have great improvement after this lesson but it is my first time post someting in the blog.Thanks for my lecturer for giving us the chance to have this experiance.I think I will continue doing this if I can manage my time very well in the future.

After finish all the PBL and presentation I feel double R,relief and relax.Now I clear about uni life.You must learn enjoy the process otherwise you will drown in the deep UKM ocean.Talking about my PBL,it is a good experiance to my as I can know what is actually lawyer doing in the court.It is a good exposure for us as we still young in this field.I do not think I did well in PBL but I know I have tried and hope next time I will perform better and give a reason or opportunity to praise myself.

Now I am in the process preparing for the final exam and in this moment only I realise that I have left out a lot of things during last few months in this faculty.It's make me feel I still need more hardwork to survive in this faculty.Eventhough now I still can not clearly see my future but now I know cleary about my main intention in this unniversity is to get the degree and things after that put aside first.Focus,focus and focus.Thanks for reading it.

From an ordinary Kris....