The Arrival of My First Grandchild

My 2nd daughter who is doing her Phd in Nottingham University, England delivered her first baby, and my first grandchild on 13th September 2009. Alhamdulillah, thanks God for bestowing us cute little angel. Born 4.12 kg in the early hour of 13th September 2009, and named Nur Rayyann, may she grow up as good muslimah.












Photographed with her mom and grandmom

Members Trying to access Blog

Sdra Azlan and Sdra Lutfi looking at Sdra Mazli trying to access to the blog.




Sdra Mazli has successfully logged and making comments, while Sdra Azlan looking with envy as he has yet to successfully log in.



Members of the group.

Mind Your Language TV Series

Salam,
I will never forget this tv series, shown in early 80's. Its about foreign students learning English language. I really enjoy the show, and hope you like it too. Enjoy yourselves.

Members Made Co-Authors

All members, including our lecturer Puan Rozmel, are now co-authors to this blog. It means that you not only can make comments but also you can make new postings to this blog.

Now you are real bloggers without having to create your own blog. Isn't that beautiful. So start posting and writing anything that you like. But please, no offensive materials, or I will be shoot down

Have a nice day and selamat berpuasa and berbuka.

We Can Start Work

Alhamdulillah. Now all members can access to the blog. Welcome aboard. I hope everyone has read the comments by Puan Rozmel. Can somebody starts the ball rolling. Some of the issues raised: a) Title to the project; b) To get 5 objectives and c) 5 research questions, one to be assigned to each member. We can start putting our thinking cap and get it rolling immediately after Hari Raya, if there is no objection by all members.

Topic for Discussion

We had our initial discussion for the topic of our project paper. We have tentatively agreed to the topic and here I present to all member of the group for your comments and further discussion before we go to the next step.

Introduction:

The purpose of this paper is to discuss ways on how to encourage Malay youths to be active in social work.

Research Objectives:

a. To find out why there is less involvement of Malay youth in social work such as Red Crescent society, Pemadam, Natural Disaster Relief organization such as Mercy Relief, Consumer Association, etc.

b. To find ways to encourage the Malay Youths to get involve in doing social work in their free time instead of involving themselves with undesirable activities such as mat rempit, loitering ('lepak'ing), gangsterism and drug abuse.

Research Questions:

1. Why do Malay youths like or prone to involve themselves in undesirable activities.

2. Why are their involvements in these activities are very high in term of percentage as compared to other ethnic groups in the country.

3. Why are these youths not interested in doing social or community work during their leisure time.

4. Why the government or the school education system fail to encourage our youth to get involved in social work.

These are the four questions that we have discussed. Probably other members may have some other ideas how to improve further. Lets all of us hear your comments and suggestions.

Selamat berpuasa.

Sunday the 6th of September was our first meeting with our SKPD 1033's lecturer, Puan Rozmel Abdul Latif. The session started a little bit late because students had difficulty locating the classroom. The session started with Puan Rozmel explained to us the course requirements and the allocation of marks which are as follows:

1. Integrated Project - 45 %

a. Written Discussion ( in blog ) - 10 %

b. Written Project (7-10 pages) - 20 %

c. Oral Presentation - 15 %

2. Quiz - Summary Writing - 15 %

3. Final Examination - 40 %

For the integrated project, we were divided into groups. We are in Group 3. We are given a task to create a blog where all the group members are to participate in discussing our proposed project.

Puan Rozmel guided us as to how our project paper should appear:

1. Introduction - It should state the aim of the paper. Also, state briefly what will be discussed.

1.1. Research objectives - must be similar to the aim.

1.2 Research questions - must be related to the objectives. The number of questions to be the same with the number of people in the group, with each member to attend to resolve the questions.

2 - 4 or 5 Main points.

6. Conclusions - Summarized the points and conclude.

Bismillahhirahmaanirrahim.

Alhamdulillah.

At last, we managed to create this blog. The creation of this blog is to fulfill the requirement of the Semester 5 paper SKPD 1033 (English for Sosial Science student). The group members - there are 5 of us- are suppossed to interact in the blog. This is one way to put into practice the language. At the end of the course, we are expected not only proficient in conversation, but also in writing. So, lets start blogging.