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 Final semester is finally approaching, in a few weeks time. Probably less than a week, i think! I'm starting to sweat again, panicking! I still have not gain courage to apply for a placement anywhere because anxiety kicks in everytime I think about it. Tell me what is the best way for me to reduce this anxiety feeling? Because its tiring, and its pulling me backwards. I can list all the consequences if I do not apply for a placement ASAP, but its not strong enough to force me doing what I'm supposed to do :( I'd really appreciate if anyone could teach me and share tips to overcome this anxiety without forcing myself to face it hahahaha! (is that EVEN possible tho???😆). If there's no other way, then fine. I'll just have to force myself until I make it!                                                          ...

 Assalamualaikum, hi there. It's been quite some time since I last wrote here. It has been such a challenging year for me with many, many, many unexpected experiences that I've been through. Last April, I managed to get an internship placement at a school nearby my home. Unfortunately, after 4 days being there, the school closed. PKP nationwide. Weeks after weeks, months after months and its suddenly July. It has been 3 months since the school was closed.  So here's the sad story. My supervisor contacted me to ask for my internship status at the school. So, I told her, according to my understanding from the letter that my university gave the school, I was allowed to do my internship there UNTIL I finished collecting my hours. Because there's a statement in the letter that was written like that, or at least that has made me understand it that way. But, no! That statement was farrrrrrr different from what I understood. So, on 25th July, my internship ended. JUST.LIKE.THAT...

 Assalamualaikum and happy Eid! Today, I'll be sharing with everyone my very first practicum experience as a trainee counsellor. As been mentioned in my previous post, half of my practicum journey was spent in Darul Quran, Kuala Kubu Bharu. I reported for duty on 4th January 2021 and I spent almost 3 months there. I did my practicum there with my classmate, Kak Nonie and there was another fella with us from another university. Anyway, we were told that the students will only come back on the 20th, so until then we will have to do other things. After less than a week being there, the govt decided to have PKP. So during that 2 weeks, Kak Nonie and I went back to KL and only 2 weeks later we came back to DQ. I still remember, I had my first ever ever client on 26th January, and oh boy was I the happiest person on Earth upon receiving a message from that particular client😆 I am forever grateful to her! Anyways, all in all my journey there was a valuable one. Not just it was my first e...

 Assalamualaikum and salam Ramadhan everyone~ So as some of you might already know, I am currently pursuing my masters degree in Guidance and Counselling. Also, currently I am in my 4th semester out of 5 semesters in total. 1 semester to go!!! Ganbatte dear self!! o(*≧□≦)o  Man, it was a loooonggg journey, at a short period of time. It doesn't feel THAT long, but it somewhat was full with a dozen of challenges that made it felt like its been yearsssss!  Last semester (3rd semester) I was required to do my practicum. Okay, so here's the deal with counselling, we have sort of 3 internship:   1. Practicum  - Practicum is basically a pre-internship thingy whereby initially students are required to practice conducting face-to-face counselling sessions with clients WITHIN their campus. So, supposedly I only needed to find clients among UPM staff/students and collect around 252 hours  whereby we are OBLIGATED to collect 96 hours of ftf session which includes indi...

Assalamualaikum and hello peeps! Its been sooooo long since my last post right😅 My life has been on a roller coaster this year. I wasn't in a good state due to online classes, study from home...it sucks! Who's here with me? Put up your hands!!! What's your opinion about working from home and online classes? Do you enjoy it or do you hate it? Let me know in the comment box!  Though I admit, there are a lot of advantages wfh and studying from home. But let's be real, adapting to the new norm is not easy right. As for me, the reason why I prefer to have a face-to-face class and staying in campus is because I enjoy going to class. I enjoy meeting friends, having discussions and eating with friends... is such a blessing! And its like a therapy for me. Now that half of our freedom 'nikmat' is taken away, basically everyone is struggling. Some people adapted to the new norm really well, but some others are having a really hard time adapting.  As we all know, mental il...

Assalamualaikum dear readers! Ohoyy! I hope everyone who is reading this is in a good health, despite the crazy outbreak we are currently facing (the deadly virus, i must not mention it's name, but oh you know what). So in today's entry, I feel like would it be fun if I share my class project videos? So that's just what I am going to do now, and I really hope you guys enjoy watching them as much as I enjoyed doing it! So here goes nothing Ｏ(≧▽≦)Ｏ... #1 Intercultural Communication - Beauty is You This video was inspired from one of Dove's video projects :) Through this video, we hope that we can help more women out there to realize how beautiful they are inside out! #2 Computer Mediated Communication - JOM Ride Share App The second video is a project whereby we were required to make our own mobile application. Therefore, we came out with the idea to make an application called Jom Ride Share. This application aims to help students in Pagoh Ed...

Assalamualaikum & hello everyone! I.AM.BACK!!!! Harini nak sambung share pasal Jepun lah. So haritu aku dah cerita pasal hotel kitorang kat Asahikawa kan? Jadi harini nak cerita sikit pasal makanan yang hmmm takdelah status halal 100% macam kat Malaysia ni, tapi makanan yang Muslim-friendly lah. Sebab Jepun tu bukan negara Islam kan. Islam kat sana pun minoriti je, so kalau nak cari yang ada logo halal macam kita kat sini memang susah la hahaha. Ok jom kita mulakan! Before aku pergi Jepun, aku dah consult dulu dengan member2 aku yang pernah study kat Jepun, macam mana nak tahu makanan tu halal/ Muslim-friendly ke tak? Kedai mana je yang boleh makan? So member aku berbaik hati share Muslim-friendly food map untuk Asahikawa. Malangnya phone aku rosak, map tu semua ada kat phone lama tu huwarghhh! So aku akan share apa yang ada jelah ek uhuks! 1. Asahikawa Ramen Ichikura This was our first ever meal upon arriving in Hokkaido. We were randomly looking for halal restauran...

Assalamualaikum and good evening all! It's been so long since my last post right? Well, A LOT has happened. Anyway, a little bit of update of my life, last September I started my first semester as a masters student in a local university, and it was...not so awesome btw. I suffered countless moments of giving up and drop out of school for the first 6 weeks of my study there.  The reason is because I was horrified and shocked with the new place and situation. I mean, okay my friends are 80% I'd say are working people, anddd they are obviously older than me. But I don't really mind that. What drove me crazy was that okay, I pursued my masters study in a different field from my first degree. Last time my degree was in English for International Communication, and this time around I took Masters in Education Guidance & Counselling.  Okay...many people asked me why I didn't pursue my masters in TESL (majority of my seniors and juniors took this). Well, it's beca...

Hi peeps! Tonight I feel like talking about Asahikawa!!! So excited!!!! The first city we stopped by in Hokkaido and its my second favourite city in Hokkaido (there're only 3 cities in total haha). So after we touched down, we went straight to the hotel, Hotel Route Inn Asahikawa. The hotel was superb I tell you! It was my first time experiencing a Japanese hotel, and this one, totally nailed it! This was how our room looked like What I love about Japanese hotels is that they took care of your necessities really well. When I say they take care of you, I'm serious. No joke. You just need to come and bring your daily clothes and that's all. They provide you other necessities such as toiletries; toothbrush, toothpaste, razor, facial wash, shampoo, conditioner, you name it! They even provide pajama can you imagine that! The pajama is the robe one but who cares! It's a freakin Japanese sleeping robe!  They will also give you a card to enter the ons...

Assalamualaikum peeps! Today's entry is gonna be about Kulliyyah of Languages and Management a.k.a KLM. I won't go into details though, just a brief one, more like showing you around KLM using pictures hahaha...Oh here's a reminder, this is just a short post since I only have like what..2 or 3 pictures of the kulliyyah ahahaha! What a bummer! But I managed to kidnap some relevant pics from Google, so yeah. Sorry in advance.. 1. KLM entrance As you go in, you'll see the parking area On the left side is where most offices are and right side is OSEM (security office) & Office of Student Affairs You are free to park at any of the parking spots here, EXCEPT the roofed parking space. Those are for Deputy Deans and KLM official cars. No, don't park here! 2. Class Blocks There are 4 blocks in total with 2 levels. There are 2 types of classrooms. One is the normal one, a bit sempit I would say and the other one is TPHM workshop classroom ...

Assalamualaikum. Ok post kali ni nak share subjects yang you guys will need to take during your degree years. First Year : Introduction to International Communication (Inter Comm) Introduction to World Literature (World Lit) Introduction to Linguistics English for Academic Writing (EAW) Persuasion & Speech Communication English at Workplace Introduction to Entrepreneurship Second Year: Interpersonal Communication (IPC) Sociolinguistics International Relations (IR) Phonetics and Phonology Intercultural Communication (Intercul) Morphology Syntax Research Methodology (RM) Third Year: Semantics Public Relations (PR) Communication Law and Ethics (Comm Law) International Business Communication (IBC) Applied Linguistics Digital Media & Communication (Digimed) Data Analysis & Interpretation Discourse Analysis Corporate Communication  Fourth Year: Muslims & the New Media (MNM) Computer Mediated Commun...

Assalamualaikum.  So I just found some pictures from my first visit to IIUM Pagoh, Johor before we all moved there for real in September. The pictures are not that many though, but enjoy nevertheless! 1. Before entering Edu Hub Pagoh The sign as you pass Pagoh toll (turn right after the traffic light) As you enter Edu Hub Pagoh! 2. Mahallah Zaid bin Harithah Mahallah Zaid bin Harithah entrance       Post guard as you enter the mahallah area Block 1 (Sisters' block) Block 3 (Sisters' block) Panorama view of block 1, 2, 3 ft. scary sky A glimpse of the way to the back area of the cafe & Mahallah office 3. Room Tour One of the compartments (diff comp. diff furniture arrangement & size unfortunately) Toiletten 4. Facilities  Magnificent sky ft. Zaid bin Harithah Musolla I don't have a picture of the cafe though, so so...

Here goes, the long awaited, and the most requested post ever! In this post, I will share about what I did throughout my 4 years of degree taking ENCOM (2014-2018). However, the comments and review regarding the subjects may differ from what other people thought because my comments are made based on my understanding and judgment.  Without further ado, here goes! As you guys might know already by now, ENCOM is an English course that consists of 2  ½  elements; Communication, Linguistics and a half of Management. If you think ENCOM is the same as TESL or BENL (Bachelor in English Language and Literature), hmmmm think again haha! Our subjects are mixtures of communication and linguistics . Later in my next post I'll list down the subjects yeah. Another thing about this course is that, we are focused at mainly 2 things:  1) Being able to communicate well (presentation in class or outside class) and   2) Ability to write academically (write ...

Moving on, what captured my attention the most was the view. The view of Hokkaido from above was superb, and I could not stop myself from recording and capturing the view until we landed!  The view was mostly white because the land was covered with snow, but there were some drying trees still available. We could see mountains from up there (which I bet it was Mt. Fuji) because the mountain was quite far from where we flew at that time. In conclusion, I was completely stunned by the spectacular different views! (((o(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)o))) Our flight from Malaysia was at 11.30pm and we arrived New Chitose Airport at around 6.50am the next day. When we arrived, the weather was shocking -16 ° c! Luckily we brought our jacket inside our hand carry bag and wore our long johns from Malaysia, or else we would be freezing.  After claiming our luggages, we went to JR Hokkaido counter to validate our JR Hokkaido Rail pass. One thing in Japan, you will be in a rush ...

If you're planning to go to Hokkaido during winter, then make sure you have the suitable clothing for the season. Don't take this lightly because the weather in Japan can be very extreme. I've read a lot of people saying that winter in Japan is way colder than winter in Europe (not sure about other countries though). Like I've mentioned in my previous post, when we arrived there, the temperature was below freezing! So in this post, I'll be sharing the suitable clothing and things that can warm you up well in winter. 1. Long johns / heattech This will be your first layer therefore they are super duper important. Without em you're likely to freeze and suffer hahaha! Long johns are like leggings and inner, but the materials used are warm materials such as wool or some other materials that I can't remember. You can buy them from Uniqlo, Winter Time or any other shops that sells winter clothing. They are quite pricey but it's worth the money. ...