My "Study" Planner

Hi hello assalamualaikum, it's been quite some time since I last uploaded an entry here so this time I decided to write a bit regarding my planner, academic planner to be precise cs it's not really a study planner pun hihi. Few weeks back when I uploaded a picture on my whatsapp status, my junior replied to it (yes that's you Amirah) complimenting my writing haha adoi malu noks and asked about tips berkenaan study planner. 

Yess tengok tu dia puji kita, maluuuu hahaha gedik je

Honestly my planner, previously memang buat ala2 bullet journal (aka bujo) tapi sometimes rasa malas gila nak update bujo everyday tau so lama2 it became specifically for class' schedule and deadlines only, which I find quite useful to create awareness abt yr schedule and academic. 

Since dah janji, and I rasa terlebih rajin nak write, so here we go, some pictures of my planner and how I arrange them so they would somewhat provide benefits for me. Gitewww. And of course I hope for those yang rasa nak buat planner, will find this helpful in some ways for you to start planning your own journal :)

So before start pape, kena lah ada buku ye. Haha. I stitched up this book myself sebab honestly I couldn't find any suitable ready-made journal that is up to my liking thus I made this myself (learnt from YouTube). Since it's made from thick paper (sketching pad), kita boleh tampal2 on the page so I always start my new academic year with this, as you can see in the picture above, the academic calendar. Might seem like unimportant but I love to know when is the mid-semester break, study break and also exam period. Crucial for you to prep up your mind actually.

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Then I akan search for online blank calendars and print them out, susun ikut month so you'll have your monthly and roughly your weekly spread. Suka buat macam ni sebab you akan dapat your weekly overall view. And honestly memudahkan.

Firstly sebab jadual class (at least for my course) tak sama for each week. So I definitely akan copy each class and write them on each day, as you can see in above picture. I tulis eeeeverything; class, test, presentation, cuti, ospe, and pape je lah yang relevan. This was from my third semester. Kiranya bila dah dapat jadual tu, basically salin je yg mana dah tertulis dalam jadual. I pasted all the printed calendar in the middle, sebab left column I nak label week berapa berapa. 

And paling penting kat sini is the right column, sebab I akan isi all the deadlines utk assignment submission, test and presentation day. Since kita dah tulis, kita akan jadi alert about these dates thus kita akan sedar, "oh assignment ni nak kena submit lagi 2 weeks la" "oh, presentation tu same day with test la, kena prepare slide awal2 ni sebab nanti nak kena study for the test lagi" macam tu lah lebih kurang. 

Nampak simple kan, tapi, rather than you beratkan your brain nak ingat all the deadlines, ada baiknya you jot down all of them. So kalau you boleh zoom in dekat right column tu, you boleh nampak, benda yg dah settle or dah submit, I akan tick. Benda yg tak jadi, or postponed, I'll just cross them out. Simple.

Ni another example untuk my fifth semester, same layout, ada left column for week labelling, middle untuk calendar, and right column for deadlines & important dates. Macam biasa, tulis classes from what time to what time, subjek apa and even cuti pun I tulis dekat calendar tu. Penting ok. Haha. Peteh ganu peteh tu cuti sempena menang bola ke apa tah lupa dah hahaha

Here comes the daily spread. Tapi daily spread ni bertahan sampai sem berapa je entah sebab tak mampu nak tulis semua so lately kalau ada benda/task yg important and takut lupa, I'll just set a reminder in my Google calendar sebab that's what smartphones are for. Meh. Hahaha. So previously, awal2 dulu, my daily spread looked like this, before I changed them into the below picture. Basically, untuk daily spread, you tulis task apa you nak achieve on that particular day, tapi tulis a day before. Kalau the next day ada submission, then tulis "submit assignment TITAS"or ada meeting dengan lecturer, tulis "jumpa Dr A", or ada test in few days more so tulis "study chapter 1 dan 2, test dah dekat oi" or even macam simple task like "beli bawang dan shampoo" or even "kemas bilik", seriously anything yang kita nak buat, tulis. 

So at the end of the day, before you tidur or after dah settle task tu, cross out je yang mana dah settle. Yang mana belum settle, just copy balik task tersebut utk kita buat the next day (sebab we prepare task utk next day kan the night before.) Ha camtula.

So ni, I tambah timeline above each day, sebab tu nampak ada border and kemas sedikit, so I macam colour la, 01-06/07 tu waktu tidur, then kalau yg lain, class I colour kuning so nampak la oh ni ada class masa ni. Then, macam Thursday 21 tu, in pink, was OSPE time, colour a day before so nanti tau la oh esok ada OSPE habis pukul sekian lepastu baru boleh enjoy ok. Ha gitu. Indicator tu sesaja la nak kasi nampak sistematik gitew. Sleep and water tracker tu just for fun je la sebenarnya. Back then takde mi band apa jadah tu so sekarang teknologi yang buat semua haha. 

But it's fun actually if you consistent and commit to your bujo everyday. Sebab nanti in the end boleh nampak your lifestyle pattern, you productive ke tak week tu, so nanti boleh muhasabah diri and be better for the next week or month. And bila kita jot down task apa yang kita nak buat the next day, most probably we'll do it sebab kita eager nak cross out apa yang kita tulis. The satisfaction of being able to get the task done and crossing them out of your to-do-list gives you further motivation to do better the following day :)

Another example :)

So I think tu je for this entry, basically that's what I do since semester 3 until now semester 7 (dah semester 8 sebenarnya kalau ikut sistem) tapi takpelah. Basically sentiasa buat yg monthly tu sebab it helps me to see the semester in overview, macam boleh nampak overall, "oh sabtu first bulan oktober ada this this this" so senang la kita nak plan ahead, nak plan bila nak buat group assignment dan sebagainya. I hope you'll find this entry helpful and will be able to make a planner that's beneficial for yourself ok. So good luck guys and take care. Assalamualaikum :D

UniSZA ISM Pengimejan Perubatan | Semester 1

Assalamualaikum! Feel like doing another post related to UniSZA Medical Imaging Course.

This one will specifically focus on the subjects of the very first semester. So shall we?

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University's Subjects

Kokurikulum

TITAS (Tamadun Islam & Tamadun Asia)

English for Communication I

Ilmu Wahyu dan Sains/Moral dan Etika

Oh okay uni subject ni wajib score ok because kalau tak score uni subject, sayanglah sebab honestly benda boleh belajar & score, ok? Generally je lah pasal uni subject ni like koku, make sure attendance cantik, and join aktiviti sebab kokurikulum nanti kena buat final project, like previously kitorang in Iqra' 3 kitorang gabung dengan Iqra' 1, 2 & 4 bukak booth masa pesta konvokesyen UniSZA, ada 4 hari so satu hari 1 class jaga booth tu so aktiviti adalah bergantung kepada AJK setiap kumpulan lah. Be sure to take part, jangan sign attendance and angkat kaki, have resposibilities, tak elok tau buat perangai irresponsible nak markah je kerja taknak buat. Kitorang juga ada test in Iqra' tu so baca lah sikit2 ilmu tajwid yang diajar tu ye. During my time notes tu were made available so yes boleh study. Untuk kokurikulum lain tak sure macam mana pemarkahannya tapi insyaAllah fasi korang akan bagi briefing just like our fasi did masa first session co-curricular class tu. Every subject akan ada cara pemarkahannya yang tersendiri. Koku tak sama macam TITAS, TITAS tak sama macam English. TITAS, during my time it was 60% carrymarks (continuous assessment & assignments) and 40% final exam (objective Qs only as of last year), same goes with Ilmu Wahyu dan Sains. Sorry untuk subjek Moral dan Etika I'm not sure. And untuk English pulak, be sure to score every tiny assessment sebab English takde paper final. During my time, English ni fully continuous assessment so score progress test, pay attention dalam class ok, be aware dengan tarikh2 test subjek english (:

Core/Course's Subjects

Human Anatomy & Physiology I

Patient Care in Radiography I

Imaging Technique I

Fundamental of Physics

We go one by one okay untuk core subjects.

Human Anatomy & Physiology I

Subjek anatomy & physiology ni best, I mean, one of my fav. Basically belajar pasal badan, cell and organelles (matriculation/foundation pun dah belajar), the systems, the organs, the muscles, the bones, all the weird names, anatomical planes, and physiology ni pulak, kita belajar macam mana each system tu function. Like positive and negative feedback mechanism e.g. when your blood glucose level rises, how will your body respond, and what happens, macam tu. As for me, anatomy ni memang kena hafal while physio, kena faham. Of course it depends on the individual, tapi macam tu lah. Untuk FSK, or maybe Medical Imaging je, biasanya pemarkahan is 40% continuous assessment and 60% is final exam. So CA penting, final p=un penting. Penting untuk score conass (test), tapi jangan pulak amik mudah dengan quiz sebab mana tau lecturer nak juga amik markah quiz tu? During my time, tutorials pun contribute untuk the 40% continuous assessment so yes, everything is important. Untuk taknak sakit kepala hujung semester, anatphysio ni silalah revise every week kalau taknak revise everyday pun. You know your own brain capability kan, so kalau yang genius takpelah nak study last minute pun tapi if all the anatomical and physiological terms sound so alien to your ears, better study awal (: Use the tutorials given untuk revise & enhance understanding and kalau tak faham, be sure to ask your friends or better, meet your lecturer and ask him/her.

Source | I legitly found the image above while writing this post and it comes from a set of questions yang I think kinda represents contoh soalan anatomy and physiology bab skeletal system o.O (checkout the link that I attached) 

PS: Anatomy and Physio during my time material dia agak banyak sebab Dr Anuar (my lecturer) ajar sangat detailed (he specialises in anatomy, that's why) so yes if you guys dapat him, study from early semester tau. He's a good lecturer, dia ajar memang faham provided you tak tidur in class lah eh haha (perli diri sendiri)

Patient Care in Radiography I

Patient care ni subjek yang agak ringan tetapi tidak boleh dipandang mudah. Walaupun ringan, akan banyak guna ilmu subjek ni di hospital kelak. Sama juga rasanya final marks are contributed by 40% continuous assessment and 60% from final exam. TAPI weightage ni mungkin bertukar tau depending on your lecturer (: What I wrote is based on during my time (Academic Year 2016/17). Sem 1 subjek ni okay ada belajar briefly pasal medicolegal, pasal wound dressing. Last year, subjek ni selalunya akan diajar oleh lecturers from medical imaging/FSK and also from nursing/FP and kalau yang under nursing, we belajar teori je takde praktikal sangat.

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Fundamental Physics

Kalau tak silap dan salah ingatan, Physics during first semester kita belajar benda yang makes up an x-ray machine, maybe bukan semua but mostly. So it was about rectifiers, capacitors, pasal energy, unit of radiation, pasal alternating & direct current, magnetism etc. Tak banyak kira2 sangat from what I can recall as of now but to understand the concept is very crucial. Masa sem 1, antara subjek paling aku rajin study is Physics kot, sebab suka and honestly lama dah tinggal Physics so rasa otak bengap semacam. Because of this, I also went to the library and pinjam buku Physics pasal electric/electronic yang bukan dekat rak radiography pun haha the book helped me honestly tapi sayang I can't recall what's the title, kena pergi usha kat library nanti bukak sem.

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Imaging Technique I

Okay honestly subjek ni direct je, tapi material dia BANYAK. Imaging Technique ni, as the name suggests, kita akan belajar how to position the patient tau, and banyak juga guna imagination, sebab kita kena bayangkan kalau, contoh, letak patient baring mengiring tapi lean towards ke hadapan, nanti dapat gambar tulang macam mana dan sebagainya dan projections yang akan dipelajari pun bukanlah sedikit. Like patella je ada a few. Patella tu tulang lutut, layman's term: kneecap, the biggest sesamoid bone in the body, yang terbonjol dekat kepala lutut tu ha, ha bende kecik je tapi nak x-ray dia tu, bukan ada 1 cara je, ha gitulah bayangan dia. Tapi best subjek ni once you dapat grab the concept, tapi cuak sikit la time OSPE (exam praktikal), haha. But practice makes perfect so during lab/praktikal, seize the chance untuk belajar and perform projection tu okay? Partner dengan member and learn from each other. Sumpah I actually bodoh subjek ni my friends helped me a lot especially Puteri. Study dengan member pun sangat membantu untuk subjek ni. Sebab most of the time kita akan ingat apa kawan kita duk membebel (again, from my experience).

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Untuk exam pulak, kena ingat la projection A apa kelebihan dia, tulang/structure apa paling senang nampak @ is more focused at, projection B kita boleh nampak apa. Contoh la eh, kena tau nak tengok acetabulum of femur, projection mana paling sesuai? Ha gitu. I rasa, kalau rajin, untuk this subject, you guys buat table, so that boleh differentiate each components untuk each projection and see everything clearly. I ada niat nak buat table, tapi niat tinggal niat je lah. Overall, I banyak study guna mindmaps including this subject tapi do what's best for you according your study style and what works best for you guys, okay? (:

Additional: Untuk buku pula, usually lecturers akan bagi book's suggestion (all subjects pun) so what I did was, search for the books at the library and borrow them. Yeah I'm a bit nerdy (I love reading), that's why haha.

Tu je kot. Other advices might be pay attention to the pecahan markah untuk all the test and final exams, jaga hati lecturer and buat assignment biarlah bersungguh haha okay till then, wassalam!

Archery @ Y-Centre KBS, UTC Terengganu

Assalamualaikum! So few days ago my friend and I finally went out after planning for sooooo long, our plans kept getting postponed due to unforeseen circumstances, her; working 6 days a week & anything else will of course comes on her one and only off-day lah kan, me; resting 7 days per week but still restless haha -- but then we finally made it to go out and that was thanks to my dad for giving me the green light to actually stay out until night, it was totally unplanned but it turned out so. Love you daddy 💗

Since Huda is working, we planned to go out after her working hours which would be at 6pm the earliest (after she changed and prayed at home). I thought we could still play, reaching the place at 6.30pm sharp but they didn't wanna accept us anymore because it was 30 minutes left to 7pm. They are closed between 7-8pm by the way. The original plan was just to play and pray Maghrib there before going home. Since we couldn't carry out what we planned, I asked my dad what did he think I should do haha so he kinda gave his permission to wait till 8pm omo siapa tahu and kenal my dad tahulah how bersyukur and happy I felt hahaha (he's lovely no worries he's just strict that's how dads should be 😜 // keluar pun pesan okay jaga diri jaga agama)

So this girl took the opportunity to actually treat me, celebrating my upcoming 24th birthday :') I am just so blessed, dah la memang tengah craving sushi :') me didn't expect this girl to be this sweet though I have actually regarded her as my kaklong since primary school (sebab birthday dia in January haha). Yong, you deserve all the good things in this world 🌸

I actually didn't know there was an archery hall or place in Terengganu lol so funny and the last time I did archery was November 2016 when UniSZA held Pesta Konvo, so team archery did some business acewah bukak booth for people to actually try out basic archery. I never attended class ke apa pun (don't know ada ke tak kat UniSZA for non-athletes haha) so bila Huda ajak I was like YEAH OK I WANT sebab dah lama tak main. Nak test juga biceps triceps ni power ke tak duk angkat dumbbell walaupun on-off je work out dekat rumah (whoa it's hard okay to actually commit to working out, I just re-started my training plan after a month of relapse ok tu cerita lain bye).

Back then I once tweeted asking if anyone from my followers know about this place, got 2 replies; one of them was just like me - surprised to actually find out this place exists, and another one actually told me it's technically located inside another building despite being a facilities managed under UTC (rectify me if I'm wrong).

Dan Huda sebenarnya dah pergi research dulu! Haha minah ni lagi advanced kay and I actually pernah tersesat dulu at the same place lol for those who don't know, it's inside PB Plaza. So PB Plaza ni yang mana 1?

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Rupa sekarang | Source

Ha ni PB Plaza haha korang tau ke senanya kat situ dia ada bangunan tiga serangkai (ni nama sesedap hati je I bagi) - PB Square, PB Plaza & PB Sentral.

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Nak pergi to UTC KBS - Y-Centre tu via PB Square pun boleh go straight to level 4 and jalan pergi bangunan sebelah via skybridge uuu ajet2 KLCC jap hahaha keluar lif dalam PB Sqaure to turn right, follow je path sampai T-junction (ha kau), turn left sampai jumpa skybridge [insyaAllah betul direction yang diberi ni HAHAHA]

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Nak main kena tulis nama dulu maybe untuk documentation purpose & bayar before main. Picture below shows the rate per game/hour untuk each activity/kemudahan. Bukan setakat archery je, gymnasium, futsal court pun ada lol ignorant nya diriku selama ni ya Tuhan

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Tu je kot, niat tulis entry ni untuk bantu golongan katak bawah tempurung macam aku juga haha semoga korang dapat jumpa this place if teringin nak try memanah ke apa (:

Okay la kan selepas berkali2 mencuba hahahaha

Till then, wassalam!

PS: I've stated the sources for pictures taken on the net which obviously aren't mine. Others are mine malas nak edit letak watermark lol and thank you Huda 🌷 looking forward to start our evening riadah session next month insyaAllah 

My Tale: Dropping Out of MedSchool

Hey hello assalamualaikum! Phew the title eheh, I feel like venting about this,

well, maybe because I wanna let it out for real and be transparent about what I feel.

And no, I am neither writing this because I am sad at the moment nor I want to whine or say that I regret, it's just, I feel like writing the whole story out. I am gonna write this just because. 

It's been a year and 7 months. I still remember studying for my last supplementary paper, which if I had passed, I would have been able to proceed to the rest of IC3 - Year 3.

My experience at Perdana wasn't that good, but I lived every moment. I had that phase of happiness, that phase of sadness, that phase filled with anxiety, that phase of studying endlessly (because last minute right, of course la endlessly haha), that phase of "wanna give up but..", you name it. I can't list them all, it would take forever.

I started out really bad, I was in a bad shape, mentally, physically, but I really appreciate the friendships that I have made along the way I've paved in PU. They are angels. The close ones, especially. Then my first ever medschool examination, I failed 3 out of 5 papers. They were biochemistry, physiology and anatomy related. 

So I entered the second semester with 3 failed papers and I still failed another 2 papers out of 5 in semester 2. Which made them altogether 5 papers to be repeated in July-August, before second year started. I think I passed 2 and failed 3 out of those 5; which made me ineligible to proceed to second year and I had to repeat the whole first year including the papers that I had passed. By the way I was the second batch so repeating first year pushed me into the third cohort, which is to graduate in 2018 (next year woohoo chaiyok guysss!).

Starting again from the bottom, with a new batch, new set of friends, it was hard at first but I wasn't alone so these awesome people really helped a lot, we helped each other, comforted each other, we even held weekly study session - where each of us prepared our own sets of questions for us to drill before a coming examination. It somehow worked, along with my friends, we made it to pass our second-time-first-year smoothly; passing all papers in the first sitting.

Then I made it to my second year. Third semester was the best, academically, again my friends actually helped a lot, and at least in this sem la I got one first class honour (it was the easiest module lol) haha but I think third semester's subjects were, for me, enjoyable. Neuroscience was the hardest but it was fun, my card signing's grades escalated from C to A, it felt really good. EBH-PIH was sakit kepala jugak sikit but I liked it. Clinical Competencies la paling best senanya haha. 

Fourth semester was DISASTROUS. Proceeding from junior cycle to intermediate cycle was like going through a tsunami wave, the syllabus slapped us so hard, the contents were harder, the materials were even more massive. Plus the exam questions hit puberty from hard to impossible. Ha gitu. (Senior cycle, Idk if I were to face SC's exams I think I'd be dead at the first question). So even though there were 3 modules je untuk sem 4, I failed all of them.

So here came the beginning of my ending. As usual, repeat examination will be held in July-August, before the new semester commences (usually in September). So I went to PU, repeated all 3 papers, but like, em, 2-3 days before new semester commenced, meaning it was the fifth semester for me (third year), a shocking, bomb-dropping news hit us (the repeaters).

The supplementary papers (questions/answers/not sure) were suspected to have leaked out so they decided to not reveal the results and told us to sit for another session of supplementary examination. A FREAKING THIRD SITTING. As if the first two sessions weren't depressing enough. (Serious talk, stress gila repeat paper ok). And this was where my anger started. I mean, why la ada people yang selfish sampai menyusahkan students of 3 branches of RCSI weh omo ya Allah ya rabbi sabarkan aku ha gitu dong.

Masa tu we all like ada 10 days kot to our third sitting, memang terkejut yang teramat sangat, dahla dah enjoy en sebab dah exam, tunggu result je, redha je masa tu kalau fail (memang dah kena drop out la jawab dia), tapi ye lah, takdir Tuhan kan. And resit tu pulak, kan tadi I mentioned I failed 3 modules kan, they arranged 2 papers first and if you pass the 2 papers, you can proceed to semester 5, and these people yang ada lagi one paper (like me), akan sit for the last one early January 2016. Masa tu it was September 2015. Okay takpelah kucar kacir gila study study study dah pasrah habis semua miraculously I passed both paper. Serious weh masa nak bukak result nangis macam mati laki do. Sumpah. Like I cried so hard sebab ye lah, takut juga fail walaupun sedar diri tak up to medical student punya level haha, lepas bukak result lompat2 weh ya Tuhan FEELING TU STILL BOLEH INGAT SAMPAI SEKARANG. Indescribable.

And yes, I changed a bit during semester 5 ni, I studied better, walaupun taklah start earlier like from the early semester tapi I did make some changes, and I did feel like I answered my 5th semester's papers the second best after JC3's, if not the best, among all exam in PU :') tapi maybe that was only my feeling...

Long story short, 5th semester ended and I started revising for my supplementary paper. It was FMIP - Foundation in Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology. I think Immuno alone ada 10 chapters, microbe Idk, banyak gila, patho maybe ada 8-9 chapters kot, phew. My fault la I focused at the bigger microbes, yang more common so soalan keluar yg less common so memang I couldn't answer, I couldn't recall the slide at all. Slide dia dalam banyak2 slide in one lecture microbe tu, ada 1 slide je :') penyesalan masa tu, haha, dah tiada guna. So takpelah, I teruskan hidup. Masuk IC3. IC3 ni dah start pergi hospital tau. But the first week was like clinical skill enhancement punya classes so second week baru start pergi hospital. It was HKL at that time. Masa tu la baru start rasa best belajar medic, sebab dapat feel the real deal. Sumpah lenguh kaki berdiri dekat ward 8-5 but I wad kinda thankful first rotation I dapat ward cardio, best sesangat, lepak la sikit tapi best (biased ni sebab I like cardio).

Depressingly, I bodoh bukak result dalam kereta on the way balik from HKL to rumah sewa in 16 Sierra, Puchong. That's the dumbest shit I've done, ever. Free drama air mata dalam kereta omo I gotta apologise to Hana, Iffah, Nurul and Yargdesh. Sorry guys, for making you feel uncomfortable in that car, that evening. I regret doing that, so much. Feeling dia sekali lagi indescribable, rasa jadi anak tak guna and so on which I choose not to write here because it would be depressing nak mati. Haha.

Update: Oh ya I definitely couldn't continue my medical degree anymore because if I'm not mistaken I have to complete year 1-3 in 4 years time (boleh repeat year once only). Since I have repeated my first year, failing in supplementary paper means I'm done.

So, I actually sempat clerked a patient masa dekat cardio ward, that was my first and last patient that I clerked. Taktau nak rasa apa. Aku sempat masuk ward 3 days rasanya. Because result was out on Thursday, I remember meeting Dr Karen on Friday dekat GSH, I remember lepaking at Izzy's (truly my life savior that day), I remember crying in front of Gogi when he approached me to actually comfort me, he said, "when one door closed, another door will open", I remember crying at the monorail station tepi kaunter tiket sebab suddenly sedih gila, I remember I went to Teefah at MAHSA, pastu nak balik rumah jalan jammed gila, tak dapat grabcar, hopped onto a bus which I never boarded on tapi belasah je la, lalu entah kat mana2 yang I tak kenal langsung area tu, alhamdulillah selamat sampai rumah walaupun sardin dalam bas kena kepit pintu masa dia nak bukak dengan ada bangla staring and smiling, creepy gila nak nangis by the way I chose to be alone and I traveled here and there alone masa tu, crying in the train lagi, haha. Rasa malu kot dengan my friends, I guess...

5th semester tu rasa macam hantu. I was there, but I don't get to see my results. Semester tu yang hantu, not me. Haha. I paid (basically JPA la) my fees (but I hafta pay back la obviously), tapi I tak dapat apa (ye la dapat ilmu ok ok I know but you know what I mean). Almost like bayar for nothing tau and because of partially, other's fault. Sebab I failed third sitting which is not my fault actually exam tu was being held after 5th semester. I taknak la cakap salah siapa2, tapi you know, rasa terkilan. Sebab I always kinda terfikir, if (okay tak baik but lemme vent first), if memang takdir I failed repeat paper, yang bulan Ogos tu, I didn't get to proceed to 5th sem pun kan, I would have been able to save my time by enrolling right away in another uni in September 2015, not a year after. Plus, kenapa mesti ada makhluk selfish yang dishonest bocorkan paper sampai semua orang kena tanggung akibat, sedih tau. Very depressing. Very. I can't portray how killing it was, and I know I wasn't alone, and I know ada lagi yang felt the same thing. Tu je I rasa yang I still takleh move on. 

Speaking right here from the future (wow), I am proud of myself. I am proud I survived the day yang I dapat result tu. I nangis so much, I have changed so much. Masa pergi jumpa staff PU buat clearance sebab nak drop out pun rasa down gila tapi I held it in, I wanted to show that I was strong enough to bear the consequences of being stupid and I have learnt. Met the Dean, I met the counselor, I met the Idk who she was (tak ingat haha), entah siapa je lagi tah aku jumpa. Maybe some people wonder, why weren't my parents there, biasanya budak drop out parents mesti pergi jumpa faculty members, tapi masa tu I didn't allow my parents to be there, it was my choice, I chose so (: I am weird in that way. Hari anugerah zaman sekolah pun selalunya I cakap kat parents takyah datang, even masa dapat straight A's SPM. Ni bila dah failed, lagi la I tanak parents datang tunjuk muka, rasa macam taknak diorang feel humiliated ada anak macam ni (masa tu la, ok, masa tu I fikir camtu).

So selalunya these days if I'm down, I kinda almost always tell myself, if I can survive all that shit, especially result day tu, I won't bother to feel and be defeated by small challenges. I may pause or hesitate, or like termenung when hard phases come, but I'll survive. I'll put a higher trust in my own self, I believe in myself even more.

Rentetan from failing at PU, I had real anxiety especially masa first sem kat UniSZA, masa nak exam mesti anxious teruk, nak OSPE aku berdebar gila macam nak mati tak senang duduk, but alhamdulillah kawan memahami, Allah banyak membantu, syukur sangat.

And no, I wasn't giving up. I thought, a change of direction was necessary, for a greater good.
It may be hard at first, but as years pass, everything will fall into its place, and things will eventually get even better, insyaAllah.

I now, love myself even more. I feel stronger, and (insyaAllah) a lot wiser. Still immature, but I'm learning to be wise. Like I said, I am proud of myself, despite all the setbacks, a greater future will greet me, and I'm closer to it, insyaAllah. Lain tau, when you've been through shit, somehow you yourself akan rasa teguh. Benda kecil yang before this matters, is now nothing. And all these strengths I've gained, alhamdulillah, all praises be to Him.

"Happiness does not come from excellence, it comes from excelling at living."

Disclaimer: I don't hold pride in dropping out from medschool, don't get the wrong idea. Things happen and I didn't think, at all, it would turn out the way it did. All I'm saying is what's done is done, there's no use in looking back and get dragged into the past. Instead, I look back to see how much I've stepped and grew. I'm thankful at how far and much I've learnt, this specific experience was indeed a great teacher.

وَمَنْ يَتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَجْعَلْ لَهُ مَخْرَجًا (2) وَيَرْزُقْهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَحْتَسِبُ
And whosoever stays conscious of Allah, He will create for him a way out, and He will provide for him from where he does not expect. (65:2-3)

Bachelor of Medical Imaging / ISM Pengimejan Perubatan | Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA)

NOTE: Everything in this entry was written according to what I went through during my first year in UniSZA, as years pass by, expect few changes in course syllabus (especially), university rules and facilities ya :D

Assalamualaikum, as promised, here it is. I guess this post will be in two parts,

one me telling you guys about Medical Imaging & what to expect in this course,
esp for the very first year since I pun am just done with only first year,

and another part is briefly about UniSZA, everyday life and maybe suggestions here and there.

I've done this once for Asasi Sains and that was 6 years ago so let's see what can I do for this one.

Ijazah Sarjana Muda (ISM) Pengimejan Perubatan (Kepujian) / Bachelor of Medical Imaging (Hons)

Brief introduction - it's about producing radiographic image for medical diagnostic purpose.

Anyone who's registering in UniSZA in this course this coming September will be the second batch of the course so guys, expect less.

You will only have the 20 of us as your seniors and our faculty has quite small number of members,

sebab Fakulti Sains Kesihatan UniSZA as I have mentioned before only ada 4 degree course (3 of them are new courses; which their second batches will come in this Sept) and each class/course tak akan ada more than 30 students so 4x30 = 120 students je (degree) per year at most.

Medical Imaging ni belajar apa? That was my first question too.

Jawapan famous, of course la, X RAY.

Haha. Firstly sebab there's no need for further explanation once dah mention xray lol tapi tahukah anda what lies behind the word xray tu?

Ni Radiography Lab at Kampus Kota - yes kita akan once or twice a week, sometimes once in 2 weeks akan ada class at kampus kota to use this x-ray machine as part of our practical session untuk subjek Imaging Technique.
Tips! Read & fahamkan every positioning/projection BEFORE lab session so that semasa lab you boleh praktis positioning patient and be good at it, boost your confidence, it will come in handy masa OSCE later (: 

You should expect to learn some biology or more precisely, anatomy and physiology of human during the first year. Some knowledge about how to deal with patient. And also we have Imaging Technique subject which we will be taking from semester 1 until semester 4, to prepare us with proper and correct techniques and ways to position patient during the process of imaging/image taking of particular part of the body. Ha gitew pehey dok? And Physics. First semester basic Physics je, yang related dengan Medical Imaging so insyaAllah boleh faham punya.

Close up sikit hehe

 Should I list all subjects that we are going to learn in this course?

Nah ni basically subjek first year and first sem untuk second year. First year hectic sikit sebab 20 credit hours per sem and especially sem 1 la kot yang rasa penat sikit sebab every Saturday ada kokurikulum. Penat weh, mentally tortured haha but yang best nya ada koku ni is, subjek/course ni senang nak score A maka cantiklah sikit GPA sem tu muehehe oh btw kokurikulum ni kita akan register masa minggu orientasi and I hate to admit that during my time, it was all based on your luck. Masa orientasi nanti korang akan dapat name tag tau and ada number dekat tag korang tu (okay ni during my time la), I was a bit unlucky my number was 5 or 6 kot so group aku antara group yang last dipanggil untuk register koku masa tu so I was left with very few options (yang best2 confirmed la orang yang register awal dah amik kan) so pray a lot ok guys. Aku koku Iqra' btw, macam kelas belajar pasal Al-Quran, dapat Encik Salman, best dan sangat lepak so it wasn't bad after all. Awal2 aku frust sebab aku nak yang ajet2 best sikit macam khidmat masyarakat tak pun memanah ha gitu berangan haha

Kalau ada pape nak tanya boleh search group ni kat FB and try join, okay? Or you can also approach me via FB (Sarah Sylph) but I'm more active at Twitter (@sarahsylph) just mention me if you have any queries.

Macam blur la pulak nak cerita pasal apa lagi hahaha let's move on from this, 

kita cerita pasal UniSZA la pulak eh?

Ni masa orientation week | Di Dewan Almuktakhfi Billah Shah (DABS)

UniSZA Kampus Gong Badak

Basically the largest functional campus of UniSZA (Kampus Besut besar juga but it consists of less building bcs at time of writing ada 2 fakulti je kat sana). Main campus of UniSZA besides Kampus Besut, Kampus Kota, and Kampus KL (International Campus). So if korang student Fakulti Informatik & Komputer (FIK) and Fakulti Biosumber dan Industri Makanan (FBIM), dan juga student Fakulti Perubatan (FP), post ni tak beneficial untuk korang, sorry :/

Kolej Kediaman - Blok F

Kolej Kediaman
Available untuk student first year, bila dah nak habis first year kena apply and placement is based on availability. Sadly untuk kitorang last time we had some problems with merit so walaupun markah merit ribu riban, none of us dapat hostel melainkan yang join kokurikulum pakaian seragam jap apa tah dia panggil tapi ni koku yang kaw2 tough punya macam palapes, suksis, kesatria dan yang sewaktu dengannya ha korang memang akan, insyaAllah la dapat stay hostel untuk next academic year.

So dapat hostel ni best sebab boleh solat zohor kat bilik (biasalah perempuan kan) and sape jenis jalan laju kau gerak 8.40 pun sempat je sampai 9am class kat Bangunan Akademik on time haha blok Bangunan Akademik tu kiranya paling jauh la dengan kolej kediaman especially kolej kediaman baru. Yang lama dia nearer to academic buildings.

As for myself aku rasa ni the best room pernah aku dapat dalam sejarah tinggal di hostel - very spacious & almari gedabak ok, meja seluas alam syok sepahkan barang ajet2 study HAHA but yes, very comfortable weh alhamdulillah.

2 washing machines at every block, terima duit syiling lama je kalau tak silap, RM2 kot
(Kantoi tak pernah basuh baju kat asrama hahahaha)

Beza old and new ones is, old dia berkonsepkan asrama - 2 students per room and toilet is outside - while new ones - berkonsepkan rumah, satu rumah 6 bilik, 2 students per room, bila dah sebut rumah, toilet is inside the house, 3 toilets and 3 washrooms. Ada small pantry room (no cooking ok) and one small area to hang your laundry. Bilik luas sikit yang asrama baru but I consider asrama lama punya is still comfortable (pernah sleepover 5 people dekat bilik kawan after lepak tengok movie haha)

Okay I hate to break it to you guys tapi asrama kan, tak sama tau bilik dia. Macam gambar kat atas bilik aku katil aku almari aku camtu, ni aku screenshot instastory classmate aku (dah mintak izin nak publish kat sini okay), bilik dia katil dia study table dia lain so please berlapang dada ok if you guys tak dapat apa yang you expect. Supplier kehabisan stok kot itu yang lain blok lain perabot dia haha by the way ni kat blok H KOT. Lupa la pulak.

Pro tips untuk survive kat hostel especially musim tengkujuh, standby kasut pua chu kang okay? Hahaha. Sebab kalau masa hujan lebat confirmed air bertakung kat ground level tu so jangan korbankan kasut anda & hidup di UniSZA pda musim tengkujuh silalah prepare payung untu berjalan ke kelas/nak ke mana2 (:

Electrical Appliances

Yang extreme takleh la kan standard hostel rule eg. rice cooker, microwave but yang lain such as printers, electric kettle etc tu boleh je, no limit as of last year, and we do not have to register the appliances.

Cafe (Asrama & academic buildings area)

Cafe di asrama dekat je dengan blok asrama especially blok E haha harga affordable, range of food hmm I'd say normal la kot, dekat situ ada kedai runcit (KShoppe) jual basic stuffs for your daily needs.

Kalau cafe di academic buildings pulak ada 4 spots - 2 berdekatan blok D and blok F kot. And one is cafe library and the other is Laman Selera. Laman Selera ni macam a place yang houses few small cafes, memang spot aku makan lunch if class before lunch tu dekat Blok Akademik and takde class at 2pm. Choices are of nasi arab, nasi ayam, nasi tomato, western food (chicken chop, spaghetti), nasi campur, and minuman normal yang pelbagai hmm air buah je takde hehe Ada juga yang jual cake slices and coffee tapi dia a bit pricy la untuk student tapi takdelah harga level starbucks.

ATM

ATM Bank Islam ada dua dekat foyer asrama, berhadapan dengan cafe.

If further away ada ATM & CDM Bank Islam dekat Pusat Kesihatan Pelajar. Jauh sikit la tbh maybe boleh sampai naik basikal haha oh kalau nak beriadah di petang hari nan indah, basikal boleh sewa kat Gymnasium UniSZA or Dewan Gemilang (different names but same building) make sure bawak student card ok (:

Gymnasium

Gymnasium ada gym equipments (honestly tak pernah pergi but have seen pictures from friends that went there), indoor badminton court. Berdekatan dengan gym ada outdoor basketball court, netball court, bola baling punya court bantai main futsal pun boleh, and tennis court. Futsal court ada but a bit further away ke arah pagar belakang, near to boys punya hostel. Ada court bola tampar juga, padang memanah dan sebagainya haha.

Pusat Kesihatan Pelajar

Pusat Kesihatan Pelajar pulak open office hour, jauh nak walk so get help ok if you are not feeling well. Kalau rasa nak attend private clinic also boleh depan main gate pun ada clinic, dental clinic pun ada rasanya hehe.

Transport - rasanya no problem boleh bawak kenderaan sendiri (:

Internet access

As of last year internet/wifi is available for free almost everywhere with quite good connection especially awal2 semester haha nearing towards end of semester dah makin perlahan pulak speed dia ramai sangat stream movie kot haha but convenient la sebab no need to buy yourself your own internet bundle/pack kalau cheapskate macam aku ni haha tapiiiiiii kalau kat asrama macam atas nasib juga actually if bilik you kind of further away from source of wifi so maybe connectivity adalah pada tahap yang kurang memuaskan.

Library building (:

Library

Subtopik library wajib ada sebab aku pengguna library tegar hahahahaha library UniSZA sangatlah selesa, sejuk nak mati especially musim tengkujuh so prepare la sweater ke apa, sumpah sejuk. 3 tingkat, ada computer lab yang almost always full mungkin sebab wujud juga manusia macam aku bawak laptop ke hulu ke hilir tapi guna PC library sebab monitor dia besar gedabak hahaha ok janji next year tak buat kerja sia2 macam ni haha but yeah, library UniSZA ni memang aku rasa tempat kedua the best after kolej (sebab aku dapat bilik besar & dekat modem wifi lol). Ada discussion room kalau nak buat group discussion or meeting tapi kena 4 ppl and above and reserve la esp musim2 banyak assignment and group works. Ada surau and toilet. Small surau so peak hours you beratur la nak guna surau especially girls sebab nak tunggu telekung etc.

Oh and kat luar library ada small cafe yang keropoknya sangat laku dan saya sebagai anak terengganu mengakui keropok di cafe library itu sebenarnya agak sedap. Haha. Port wajib aku singgah hari2 sebab air arabica dia kaw nak mati everyday aku minum tapi aku tetap tidur ya di dalam kelas haha ya Allah owner cafe ni kena bagi aku upah sebab promote cafe dia hahaha oh kalau nampak aku area library/cafe library tegurlah, aku tak makan orang, aku sangat peramah kecuali time lapar ha nak tegur tu hulur la nasi lemak ke sebungkus eh dua bungkus pun boleh haha jk! Tapi tegur je k (:

Library - lobby area

Library: Second floor

Printing/photocopy service

Dalam library dekat tangga ada one small printing service spot, photocopy service skali.

Luar library ada 2 more shops yang offer such services. And one of them, UniSZA Book Garden ada jual certain books macam buku course aku pun ada rupanya kat situ lepas dah beli kat lain baru tahu haha stationeries pun some they sell there tengok lah apa ada hewhew but my point is if korang takde printer, boleh survive je. Sedikit pesanan khidmat masyarakat sebab aku pernah ada bad experience masa line up tunggu turn nak print, JANGAN EDIT DOCUMENT korang dekat PC yang disediakan khas oleh kedai tu untuk print. Have some sense, orang lain nak print juga and ada banyak lagi kerja lain nak kena buat and especially kalau nak print masa lunch break ke apa, simpati la orang nak solat lagi, makan lagi so be smart. Finalise document siap2 kat PC library or yr laptop, convert file jadi PDF to prevent from altered formatting masa open file nak print tu. College student kan, kenalah bijak (:

Aku pernah terpacak 20 minit tunggu turn sebab orang depan aku edit document dia masa nak print ya Allah terseksa jiwa raga sis tunggu tapi sis tunggu juga hahaha

Nearest Outside "Facilities"

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Dataran Austin ( https://goo.gl/maps/9YPvwb8gkoo )- 15-20 mins by car, ada Bank Islam branch, Mydin (berguna nak borong instant mee lol), boutiques, kedai repair phone dan sebagainya, few restaurants, hotel, optometrist, klinik, farmasi pun. spa, kedai kasut, hmm apa lagi eh, ada banyak la benda kat Dataran Austin ni haha oh Watsons pun ada k. Belakang belakang sikit ada Sabasun Hyperruncit 2 tempat fav aku shopping barang rumah sebab suasana dia yang Islamik & dia support #BoycottIsrael punya campaign ;)

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TGG Airport (Lapangan Terbang Sultan Mahmud Google Map's Link) - yeah orang KL & JB no need naik bas ok sila beli flight ticket sebab very near to UniSZA like 15-20 mins je by car.

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Pantai - one stop center untuk merehatkan minda hahahaha nearest beach would be Pantai Tok Jembal. And click here untuk lokasi Pantai Teluk Ketapang. Sebelah menyebelah je dua pantai ni. Oh pasar minggu pantai teluk ketapang is on Friday evening okay guys (:

Pasar malam - Pasar malam Gong Badak, 10 mins from front gate UniSZA kalau kaki power boleh jalan kaki tapi stok manja takyah berangan sila naik kereta atau basikal, every Tuesday. And pasar malam hari Khamis, near to gate belakang UniSZA yang ni bearable la nak jalan kaki beramai2 dalam 10-15 minutes? Every Thursday kay.

Disclaimer: Gambar ihsan Google Streetview muahaha

Kedai RM2 - Pusat borong barang masa mula2 nak masuk hostel hahaha belakang UniSZA - 5-8 mins kot by car nah ni dropped pin kedai tu ( https://goo.gl/maps/GCAQ8FKTjsT2 )

Macam mana nak pergi kat semua tempat ni? Either you sewa kereta and drive or guna khidmat prebet/servis penghantaran, no worries memang ada a number of students/outsiders yang provide such service and sekarang Uber/Grab pun dah available kat Terengganu so yay haha

Kalau runner pulak ada 2-3 yang aku tau memang friendly, aku pun pernah mintak runner pos barang/belikan makanan/hantar pergi mydin so yang takde lesen macam aku sedia duit je k kalau nak berjalan. Haha. Before this ada bas ke bandar for free tapi sekarang bas tu dah tak lalu unisza so sad.

Masjid UniSZA yang lawa angat hiks

I think tu je kot nak bagitau serba sedikit pasal UniSZA Kampus Gong Badak. Life, normal je, tak hectic tapi bagi aku tak boring. Put aside the fact that aku memang menetap di Terengganu, as a student ni, you pandai2 lah cari stuffs to do untuk isi masa. Aku tau ramai cakap bosan takde mall ke apa but em kita hidup untuk mall ke? Haha. Explore your youth, jangan habiskan masa buat benda tak guna and benda yang takde faedah, prepare early untuk exam, jaga hubungan dengan lecturer, try to love your course, faham betul2 sebab dah dapat peluang nak further study kan, appreciate sikit peluang tu. Build your network, berkawan dengan semua orang, yang buruk jadikan teladan yang baik amik sebagai contoh, you just be you but everyday, be the better version of you. University life ni kind of about friends, so make good memories with them. Kalau rasa pandai manage masa, join la program universiti untuk expand your experience and master extra skill, urus event, rasa jadi slave, berkhidmat untuk komuniti & belajar untuk stay humble walaupun you banyak join events. Lead life with a positive attitude, jangan mudah melatah and please kalau group work silalah put effort jangan lepas tangan hahaha nasihat random ikut suka hati aku je. Last but not least, welcome to UniSZA (:

PS: Guys aku ada buat service doodle buku nota kalau rasa nak order buku customised specially for yourself usha Instagram sukadoodle ok? Sekian.