Pengalaman Membentang Kertas Kajian di CFSE IIUM

Baru-baru ini, telah berlangsung persidangan, ‘Conference on Future & Sustainable Education‘ selama dua hari, bermula daripada 29 hingga 30 November di Pusat Asasi Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia.

Persidangan kajian yang bertemakan pendidikan ini disertai ahli-ahli akademik dari seluruh negara, termasuk juga beberapa peserta daripada luar negara dan berlangsung .

Saya telah membentangkan kertas kajian saya bertajuk, “Generation Gap Between the 21/22 and 22/23 Batch in CFS IIUM” (Jurang Generasi Antara Kumpulan Kemasukan 21/22 dan 22/23 di Pusat Asasi UIAM).

Mendapat tahu tentang persidangan ini pada saat-saat akhir sebelum tarikh penyertaan di tutup, saya terus menyiapkan ….. untuk dihantar dengan harapan saya diterima menyertai persidangan ini.

Oleh kerana persidangan ini penting kerana saya berpeluang menimba ilmu daripada ahli-ahli akademik yang sama-sama mengambil bahagian, maka, saya bertekad menyertainya walaupun ketika itu saya sibuk dengan peperiksaan semester serta tugasan yang perlu disiapkan.

Menariknya, persidangan tersebut dilakukan serentak dengan pertandingan bagi kajian dan e-poster serta pembentangannya.

Saya tidak menyasarkan untuk memenangi pertandingan ini memandangkan daripada lebih 60 peserta, kesemua peserta lain ialah daripada kalangan ahli akademik kecuali saya dan dua lagi kumpulan yang terdiri daripada pelajar.

Matlamat utama saya adalah untuk mendapat pengalaman dalam bidang membuat kajian bersama kalangan profesional yang mahir dalam bidang ini..

Kerana kekangan masa sepanjang musim peperiksaan, faktor kos dan kekecohan Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15, saya terpaksa menstruktur semula beberapa perkara dalam kajian saya termasuk menukar tajuknya bagi mengecilkan skala kajian.

Saya amat bersyukur akhirnya saya berjaya menyiapkan segala yang diperlukan termasuk e-poster bagi tujuan pembentangan.

Alhamdulillah, pada hari penutup, saya diumumkan sebagai pemenang pembentang terbaik – satu kemenangan yang tidak saya jangkakan memandangkan saya bersaing dengan para ilmuan profesional.

Ini ialah satu kejayaan yang amat besar dan amat manis bagi saya.

Lebih manis lagi saya turut memenangi anugerah pingat emas secara keseluruhan bagi kajian saya.

Bukan mudah untuk menjalankan kajian tanpa pengalaman yang luas dan dalam ruang dan masa yang terhad. Apatah lagi ketika itu saya sedang menduduki peperiksaan semesta; namun berbekalkan semangat serta doa dan sokongan keluarga dan para pensyarah, akhirnya saya berjaya melakukannya.

Selepas persidangan tersebut, saya, bagi pihak universiti telah mengiringi Dr. Rahmatullah dan Dr. Ananda daripada Universitas Lambung Mangkurat, Indonesia melawat beberapa tempat di kampus utama UIAM di Gombak.

Di antara tempat yang kami lawati ialah Perpustakaan Darul Hikmah, Masjid Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah serta beberapa tempat menarik yang lain di sekitar kampus.

Persidangan tersebut menjadi satu pengalaman dan kenangan yang sungguh bermakna bagi diri saya.

Saya amat berterima kasih kepada para pensyarah dan pihak universiti yang berusaha memupuk semangat serta membuka peluang kepada pelajar untuk mengasah bakat di pentas yang lebih besar di luar bilik kuliah.

Photos – 2022 IIUM Rector’s Cup Final & Closing Ceremony

Life as a foundation student at the Centre of Foundation Studies International Islamic University of Malaysia (CFS IIUM) never ceases to amaze me.

Apart from our classes, assingments, presantations, test and exams, there are always activities going on through out our ecademic year.

In the middle of May, as I was preparing myself for the upcoming CFS IIUM Moke Parliment, I was thrilled to receive an invitation from the Orator’s Club to participate in the 2022 International Islamic University of Malaysia Rector’s Cup!

Unlike Dean’s Cup which is an intra-foundation tournament among the CFS students conducted in Bahasa Melayu, English and Arabic; the Rector’s Cup is an inter-campus debate tournament only conducted in English, combining students of all levels of study from all campuses (Gombak, Kuantan, Pagoh, and Gambang) for one grand competition.

And while boths cups are conducted in Asian Parliamentary style, Rector’s Cup is not a yearly enent with the previous tounament was held in 20…..

In his speech, the Rector, Tan Sri Dzulkifli Abdul Razak said that this is the first time where the final participants of Rector’s Cup come from all four campuses; and not only from CFS and the Gombak campus.

Aside of being a grand debate tournament for all IIUM students, Rector’s Cup also aims at training the CFS students to debate with and among seniors debaters from IIUM.

Students are matched at random to form teams, such so that each contestant cannot pick their own team mates.

It is part of the challenge; to make us learn to work together to form a strong team despite not knowing each other before we were ‘thrown’ together as teammates.

I was placed in TeamA together with Muhammad Farid, a first-year medical student from IIUM Kuantan campus who is our senior team mate and another foundation studies student studying Arabic Language, Ain Aliah.

Compared to most of the other teams, we, the Harumanis was an underdog. For both Farid and I, this is our second experience in debating while it was the first for Aliah.

However, Alhamdulillah, we managed to struggle all the way to the final match against one of the strongest teams, B-esties represented by Hanafie Haniki (a CFS student studying Law), Annisa Batrisyia (an English for International Communication degree student from Pagoh campus) and Maruf, a Bangladeshi PhD student from the Gombak campus.

The match was judged by three adjucators, Muhammad Abdul Latif, Elia Al-Hakim, and Sarrah Salihan – both of the latter are degree students from the Gombak campus.

The chief adjucator, Muhammad Abdul Latif is also the Deputy Director of the IIUM World Debate and Oratory Centre (IWON), who has also served as the judge for the Grand Finals of the World Debate Championship.

The motion theme for the final match was Philosophy, and the motion was as follows:

After a virtual coin toss a few hours before the event, my team was announced as the government, whereas B-esties went out as the opposition.

Right after our afternoon classes, we rushed to meet up with all of our team mates for our first physical meeting.

Congratulations to B-esties. And my heartiest congratulations to my team mates for trying doing very best to reach this far.

Thank you

Reciting Yaasin at MUAFAKAT 5th AGM

Yesterday morning I went to IIUM or UIAM in Gombak.

IIUM means International Islamic University of Malaysia.

UIAM  means Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia.

I went there for the MUAFAKAT 5th AGM.

AGM means Annual General Meeting.

I recite Surah Yaasin verse 1 to 10 at the start of the program.

The Surah Yaasin is the 36th surah from the Quran.

In the morning there was a seminar about ‘Umat Islam Sebagai Tulang Belakang Pembangunan Dan Kekuatan Negara Malaysia’.

I ate ‘beriani rice’ and mutton that Pak Cik Amin ordered for lunch.

The mutton was very,very delicious.

The AGM started after lunch.

Over there I met Uncle Emeritus Professor Datuk Osman Bakar, Pak Cik Amin, Ami Ma, Pak Cik Burhan, Uncle Datuk Rameli Musa, Pak Cik Iskandar, Pak Cik Rashidi, Pak Cik Ustaz Ismail Mina Ahmad and Uncle Dr. Aslam.

There are a lot of other ‘uncles’ but I can’t remember their names.

I feel very happy because I can recite the Surah Yaasin to everybody who were there.