Education humming

Assalamualaikum wbt,

Hi there

I think it has been a month living in Australia. A lot of things happened and went by. A new environment will always promise a new culture and of course a new experience. 

In my university, I do realize something interest in the people over here.

They are the people of interest, I mean they are really determine what they are doing and they do it because of their interest. They know major technical terms and processes. They are not screen-people who facing the screen device all all the time.

During my schooldays, I just knew only 3 things about education; classes, exam papers, answers. Then I will succeed in the education. However, if I continue this attitude, I won't be at the top of my field. It will be wasting time though. 

For example, I'm doing Chemical engineering right now, supposedly I should know the process related to the subject. Unfortunately, I know only few. Of course, it shouldn't be like that. 

Maybe I need to re-check and re-shape my education philosophy. 

'Allah loves people doing their job at the best'

'Reflection'

New World

Assalamualaikum wbt, 

peace be upon you my reader

I'm not sure how long I have been on the new country, Australia. It is a pleasure for me to be exposed to the new surrounding. New village as well, St Lucia, Brisbane. It nears to Brisbane river. You will never meet a swimming cat till you arrive hear because we have Citycat. Actually it is a ferry that carries people along the Brisbane river. 

Of course in a new place we will be having a new society. A society that love jogging and cycling. No more Nasi Lemak and all those fatty ingredients food. Cereal will certainly becomes my breakfast company. 

Eventually, I would like to share you this. In those happily 'Salam Perantauan' pics, there are actually turbulence and hardships that they are facing all over the time. The oversea students are not in vacation when they are over the sea. The language barriers would be the most essential thing to be handled. Plus, there are a lot of things that have to be done independently like renting house, finding housemates, managing finance, cooking, paying the bills, cooping with the locals and etc. There are a lot of things done here that are not seen in the our country. So, don't expect studying oversea will be a bed of roses. Life is ain't getting easier. Only your prayer to Allah will make them better.

Pray for the best.

Market day during O-week, UQ, 2014

(un)covered sheep, 2014

Carpeted bear, 2014

The loyal, 2014 

Pair, 2014

Brisbane at night

Brisbane at night, 2014

'Why use BW?'

'BW enhances the emotion by ignoring the colour. The colour distracts the emotion'

New city, it just like home

Zoo-ing time!

In every breath, there is reason why Allah makes us alive

The previous visit to Long Pine Koala Sanctuary peels my ego layer by layer. I'm not that perfect neither cute because there will always something more cute and adorable than you. hahaha. 

Australia thingy....#1

Assalamualaikum wbt

Hey fellas, a few days coming will be very meaningful and quite hectic because I’m preparing and starting to pack up my goods as I will further my study in Australia, specifically in University of Queensland.

So I’m going to share the processes of enquiring for Visa, accepting offer letter and so on.

The first thing that you should wait is offer letter. The offer letter will be in tour hand depends on the university, certain universities are very quick on sending those letters. The letters will be sent probably in January.  The offer letter is not going to be in your mailbox in front of your house but it would be sent via email, so check your email frequent after done with your application.

In the offer letter usually will guide you the ways to accept the offer, so here it is, accept your offer asap. Then, the sponsor will able to send you financial statement that would state that you are under their sponsor and every detail about your finance in Australia.

After a few days, you should receive certificate of enrolment (CoE) from particular university. Every CoE would have its own serial number and that serial number would be important for your visa application soon.

The next step is applying visa. Australia visa application is easier compare to New Zealand’s because the applicant can do it online. The website for visa application is www.immi.gov.aus (if I’m not mistaken). The student visa is under subclass 573 or you can search higher education student visa. One important thing, you can’t apply visa unless you have registered with the website, so do register in the website. Once you’ve reached all the blank forms, fill with the correct informations and do recheck for any corrections. After finish filling the forms, it is time for payment. Australia visa would cost 535AUD, and it has several ways to pay like credit card and debit card. However my friend insists that credit card would be better.

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Blogging of bloggers

Assalamualaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh

Peace be upon you

In the several days ago, I got realized that I loved to blog-visit. Yeah, one of the reasons I did that was for searching ideas and one more thing, I did it for finding the missing of myself especially when I felt down. 

There are two types of blogs that I loved. 

The first one is motivational and islamic blog. Of course in this world, life is not a bed of roses ( actually I think roses on a bed might harmful because of the thorns ). We have our own cycle of life, sometime we feel happy, excited, sad and even hlovate ( hate and love ). We laugh, cry, jaw drop and sometime we do nothing in life. To put the life into happier situation, advices are needed from our surrounding. It might come from our family, friends or even strangers. Insyallah it helps curing a bit our heart. Okay, the reason I love reading blog because people tend to write a blog with their heart. They don't have editor, manager, producer, business and etc to take care of their writings. So, whatsoever written in the blog is basically from the people's mind and heart. No filter. Furthermore, the contents are sometime very interesting and very rare to be found from ordinary magazines or articles eg. angelwearsgucci.blogspot.com, fadhilahwahidah.com and I believe there are plenty other blogs with the same genre. 

The second type is design blog.

When people talk about art, design, or something related to those things, they believe that there is no chance at all to get job when involving in this sector. But eventually, I'm not sure they know or not that almost everything they see in daily life like banners besides the highway, flyover banners at the middle of KL, buntings under the road lamps, ads at on buses body and etc are designed with very detail. I also believe that humans love to see beautiful things and in term to make beautiful things, designing process is compulsory. Therefore, what I can say here is that humans and design cant be separated. Huhuhu. So, what I search in these design blogs are ideas in order to make more beautiful things. 

One other thing that attracts me to these design stuffs is the lack competency of islamic designers and maybe some of the islamic activists do not feel that beautiful poster or well-organized banners are very important in attracting people to do good deeds. Please dont make such beautiful and important messages looks dull. Lets beautify for the sake of Allah. Insyallah, Allah will give you the rewards. 

 

Southern Gathering

Assalamualaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh

Peace be upon you o readers

Before I start posting the new post, there's something that I would like to share. In my religion, Islam, we are taught to convey islam as our wish for our brothers and sisters. As a what? As a wish that spreads peace and calmness on the earth so that the world will have the same peace and calmness.

Maybe this post will not relate to all people outside there, but I will try my best to relate what happened in the gathering with our life although the gathering is only for the pre-australia students. In Quran itself, the stories were specific but the lessons are general, thus the future generation can obtain the lessons although Quran was revealed thousand years ago.

The gathering purposely was to gather all the pre-australia students in a place. The participants were shared infos and stories by the seniors from australia especially about financial management, house rental, 'compulsory' places to go, internship, winter, summer and kangaroos, eh!

Basically, what I could say here, the gathering was very helpful. But frankly speaking, it was getting boring when the questions from participants had the same patterns. 

Ok, done with the event. Lets talk about the people, I mean the organizer, seniors and org yang lebih tua.

I guess I can summarize all the long points inside my head into one word, friendly. 

Yup, when I say friendly, they are truly friendly. Indeed, they love to see the later generations could make up to have a seat in Australia university. I don't know the reason, but maybe because when we are not in our beloved country, we tend to feel happy to see people of our own race and religion. 

Anyway, the gathering was amazing! Thank you so much guys!

See you in Australia

*insyallah I will update this post with photos afterwards. Stay tune coz insyallah I will start to write my journey around Malaysia in short while from now.