Time flies, time flies quickly.
After my last exam paper yesterday(13th Nov), it finally signifies the end of my first semester in UM. And yeah, i have completed one semester out of my six semester at UM.
Without really realising it, time flies very quickly and swiftly, i still remember the time when i firstly stepped into 4th Residential College,University Malaya. The registration day and the long,tough weeks of Haluansiswa still vividly portrayed on my mind. And yet now, it is already the end of one semester.
Alright ,i am summing up the life during my first semester in UM.
Well, lecturers in UM are all nice..I like the way my inorganic chemistry professor , Dr Zainuddin explains things in detail . i admired the way he carry himself and with his good commandment in English, he speaks a very fluent english and that makes us understand the context of chemistry very well. He taught us a lots of life philosophy besides the periodic table , the Group one ,two etc elements . He makes a good lecturer and i see the passion while he is teaching.I hope i will one day become like him, very fluent in english and delivers my lesson in a clear and concise way.=) thus, from nowonwards, i have to constantly improve my english , elevate from intermediate level to higher intermediate.
I took a total of 15 credits for this semester:
History of science and philosophy---3 credits
(well, theis lecturer is very young, Mr SMS,as he is commonly known as. He is well known for his visit to Egypt=p..do you know why? this is because the famous piture of him being printed out on the slides of our notes. haha.
through this course, it is not a bad course after all, some may think it is like a history where we have to kepp on memorising ecery little facts and cramp it into our mind to face the hardcore exam.
actually it is not only that, try to think : if we wanna learn something, we got to memorise things and get our concept and theory well before we could explain to other people right? so the facts like the Father of Biology which is Aristotle, Father of Modern Astronomy- Nicolaus Copernicus, Father of surgery- Sushruta etc...the list go on and on.If ever somebody ask us this kind of question to test our history knowledge, isn't it comes in handy?=p
Seriously, i not only learn all the philosophical and the history of ancient civilisation like China, India, Islam, Greek, Mesapotamia, Egypt and Europe, but i learn about the contribution of famous figures in every cicilisation like Hammurabi in Mesapotamia,Esagil-kin-Apli who wrote the Diagmostic Handbook, Ibn Sina who is regarded as the father of medicine. Zhang zhong Jing who is regarded as the 'Hippocrates of China' and so on...i learn to appreciate their efforts in making many contributions in order to glorify and to make their civilisation prosper.
2.Asas Pembudayaan Keusahawanan(APK)
This course structure is designed to train us as a future entrepreneur. sound fun right? and yes, we learn about the many tactics and skills of setting and doing business. We are given a task to form a group of 25 people and staring out a bussiness, selling food and drinks and we are just given a mere of a set-up empty space and thus, all the model, products and all types of preparations like banners, the strategics of marketing and production, finance have to be done barehand by us. I was given a task of being the head of marketing and what i can say is i learn quite a lots of things through this bussiness activity.perhaps this is the first time i set up a bussiness and being the marketing head, i have to think of the proper startegics to sell out our bussiness ,that is to market our products by preparing banners, poster and some ideas to attract customers. I was rather suprised and at the same time tingling with the idea of one of members to suggest us for`wearing mask to attract more customers to come to patronise our products . people are always intriguing with the special make-up and appearances, thus we rather make a good strategic to market our products.
Besides, the Rubic cube competition is rather interesting too. We have come out with idea of organising a rubic cube competition to make more customers to patronise our stall. that is a very good idea , isn't it?=)
3.BioPopulation and Biocell
well, these are the 2 compulsary subjects that need to be taken by all ISB students.
I can't believe that the questions are pretty easy and straight forward. For biopop, like what Dr Pozi Millow had said before, this subject designed to let all of us grab an additional A. well, true enough, the questions though there are 100 of them all together, but once you got read through the whole chapters , it is quite basci actually. HAIH!, All in ALL i still hope for an A la..HAHA
Biocell, well,50 questions all together, i can say it is a bit harder than biopop, i pray for the A to come the way seeing that i have striked rather hard for this subject! LOL..I like Dr Hashimah, she is regarded as the best teacher in delivering lessons in a effective ways ! her english is excellent, clear and more importantly concise and straight to the point!=) I like genetics ever since she taught us!
PS: i think Dr Pozi , lecturer of biopop should have learned from her, the way to effective teaching!
4.basic chemistry(4credit hours)
This is the most compulsary subjects for all of us---biochemistry student! Every students have a minimum of 10 credits hours to take extra courses outside their department. But we biochem student are made compulsary to take basic chem 1 and 2 which made up of 8 credits hours in total, thus left 2 credits hours available for us to take courses out of our department.
IMO, basic chem expose us to the 3 main branch of chem which are Inorg chem taught by Dr Zainuddin, org chem taught by Dr Hairul Tajuddin, physical chem taught by Dr Sim. well, personally, i like Dr zainudiin, the way he teach is very impressive.
during the bacis chem exam, it is the worst exam that i have sat for of all the 15 credit hours that i have taken. probably due to the lack of time while doing the questions which stands for 10 marks! All in all, i will pray that i could get a good result, at least A-...please! HAHA....
well,next semester course registration will start soon, and i have to register for another 18 cerdits hours , if not mistaken! =D
conclusion: what i learn during first semester is really fun! CHEERS!
