BICARA ALUMNI : DARI UTM KE EVEREST
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Date: 9th July 2020
Venue: Facebook
Organizer: UTM Alumni
Position: Participant
Mini report
Program Bicara Alumni organised by UTM Alumni Unit, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. They invited Encik Azim Afif Ishak shared about his experience during the activity of hiking Everest in his life. He shared that the difficulty of the hiking progress, he listed down the mountain name that he has hiked before and talked about the difference between them. He also shared how he did he does the exercises during free time, he practiced always before he begins to hike or trekking. Other than that, he talked about how to act when facing any emergency during the hiking activity. An audience asked him to share the preparation and the tools that needs to be prepared before started to hike, he said that the most importantly is to save our energy and keep mentally healthy. He said that he finally concurred every difficulty, physical and mental challenge, but he managed get to the peak.
Self-reflection
From the sharing session, I learned the knowledge about the Everest elevation is 8,849m, the proper way to get ready before we start to hike. We have to rest well before we begin the journey, it is very important for us to save our energy to secure our safety on the next day. I also learned how to protect and how to act when facing an emergency situation during the activity. I felt the motivation, inspiration, and the passion from him, I thought the hiking progress would not be that difficult before, but now I think I am wrong. It is not only we have to have a strong physical body and healthy condition, but the more important is the mental, we would give up if our mental is not strong enough, this sharing section has a good sharing knowledge as the Everest hiking sounds a impossible mission but Encik Azim Afif Ishak did it successfully.
Konvensyen Muzik Orkestra Tradisional Cina 2020
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Date: 29th Feb 2020
Venue: Dewan Sultan Iskandar
Organizer: UTM Chinese Orchestra (UTMCO)
Position: Participant
Mini report
This event is organized by UTM Chinese Orchestra, they are a club that registered under UTM cultural unit. This Chinese Konvensyen Muzik Orkestra Tradisional Cina 2020 is their third show on the stage since the club was developed in 29th Feb 2016, the performance night was its “Birthday”. The goal and objective of the event were to introduce and share the Chinese traditional musical instrument, music culture and the performance to all UTM student among all different races and religions in UTM. The event was held in Dewan Sultan Iskandar at night, so everyone could have free time to participant, the fee is RM12 for each person. In the event, it is not only open for Chinese student to participant, but also some of the Malay friend and international student were there, they were all enjoying the convention, and kept communicating with their friend to discuss about it. Last, their committee members were struggling to look for the sponsorship from outside support, and last they got so much grant to organized with successfully.
Self-reflection
Throughout this even I understood more about Chinese traditional and culture, I watched before, but that was my new experience as a university student, and that was the third week I was in UTM. My friends and I, total 4 people went to DSI from College 10 on foot, regarding to Google Map, there is 2.3km far away, and we spent more than half an hour to get to there, and one of my friends is disabled, we push him by a wheelchair. When we got to there, there is not so many people because the performance still a long way to start, we reached there earlier. That was my first time being at DSI, I has never been there before that, since I was still new student as mentioned earlier. We all were waiting at the outside of the hall, waiting for the performance to begin, such a new experience!
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CERAMAH KAUNSELING - NAK STRESS KE TIDAK ?
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Date: 26th Oct 2020
Venue: Facebook
Organizer: UTM Library
Position: Participant
Mini report
In Oct 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak, and the time during MCO, certain UTM student had choose to stay in college. For those who staying outside UTM were not allowed to go back to UTM for breaking the transmission chain. Students and staffs are suffering and facing stress especially student and work from home. At the same time, in conjunction with the National Counseling Month celebration, UTM Library has organized a knowledge sharing program entitled Nak Stress Ke Tidak? on October 26, 2020 (Monday). The program took place online through the Facebook of the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Library by inviting Dr. Zulfikar Bin Ahmad, Director of Counseling Center, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Dr Zulfikar emphasized that mental health problems should not be taken lightly as they can affect the health of individuals who suffer from them. Clearly, each individual needs to be sensitive to the symptoms of emotional disorders such as stress, anxiety, and depression. These emotional disturbances can lead to worse conditions if not treated and helped by people around them such as family, friends, or coworkers. Individuals facing emotional disturbances need to wake up and be advised to maintain good relationships with God, parents & family, colleagues, and the surrounding community to control stress and are not encouraged to be alone when faced with this difficult situation. In addition, stay away from practices that contradict religious teachings as they are among the factors that contribute to emotional disturbances and in turn lead to emotional stress. At the end of the program, Dr. Zulfikar welcomes UTM students and staff to contact the UTM Counseling Center for advice if needed.
Self-reflection
From the sharing session, I felt better than before, and I found a way where I could give vent to, released the stress. When studying and learning at home, I felt there was no motivation at all, we could not see friend, lecturer, we cannot enjoy the campus life well, just sitting in from the laptop all day, doing the same thing and lack of exercise. Doing all of these in a long term brought me into stress, anxiety, helpless, boring, and tired situation. The countless assignment, quiz, test, project was coming non-stop I believed I was not the only one who facing this issue. This sharing session had helped me a lot in term of releasing my stress and feeling of helpless, I felt more comfortable and much nicer than before, such a good program, I hope there will be more program to let student and staff to release their stress especially during this movement control period and pandemic situation.