Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Mistaken Identity

People's Assumption Versus True Identity

Assumed Name: Ariff
True Name: Firdaus
-> This is pretty much due to my own mistake by using the name Ibnu Ariff without writing my real name anywhere on this page. Ibnu Ariff means Son of Ariff, which Ariff is of course the name of my father. This mistake usually happen with internet contacts, but it didn't affect me much anyway

Assumed Age: Either less or more than a matriculation student
True Age: 18
-> People who met me for the first time out of college and offline will usually assume that I'm not yet a college student. This is due to the youthful look I inherit from both of my parents. ;-) But the bummer is when people say that my younger sister is my elder sister when I don't have any other elder sibling. And most people usually do think I have at least one elder sibling.

->And those who think I'm older than what I'm is usually net contacts, where they guess my age by my style of writing. This usually happen at those tech online forums I participate where usually only older people participate. But this kind of misassumption also happen out of cyber world, mostly due to my choice of clothing at times which potray me as a working force.

Assumed Exempted Language: Arabic
True Exempted Language: English
-> Somehow, I got the religous school student look. Thus, people expect me to be exempted from taking Arabic but instead I cleared all the four level of English at MCIIUM by passing the test. And I'm still stuck at Level 1 Arabic.

Assumed Hosmestate: KL or Johor
True Homestate: Pahang
-> Most of us usually predict someone's state of origin by their dialect, but because I can't speak in Pahang dialect so they usually fail to identify my state of origin. I'm equally at home in KL too as I've spent equal nuumber of years staying in Kuantan and KL, so they are not totally wrong. As those who guessed Johor that's because for the past two months I'm here at MCIIUM I've only mentioned going straight to Johor on weekends or during the break.

Assumed Former School: Religous School
True Former School: Standard Daily School
-> This is because of two things. First, I wear that kopiah anywhere I go and secondly is because of the confusing abbreviation of my former school. SMART should stand for Sekolah Menengah Abdul Rahman Talib but they interpret it as Sekolah Menengah Agama R.... T...

Assumed Course: Medic or IT
True Course: Engineering
-> Both of my parents is doctors so naturally they expect to become one too but I can't ever take this course because I didn't take up Biology for SPM. As for IT, that's because I'm very keen on the subject and master it but I deliberately didn't choose IT only course because I wanted to be able to create physically, and not just stuck to virtual content creation. Besides, there's a lot of IT component in Engineering nowadays so I can still learn a lot on IT.

Well, that's my mistaken identity assumed by people around me. How about you?

Tuesday, August 17, 2004

My Latest Article

Here's my latest article titled Nokia 3650 In A Student's Life. 1200 words in two hours and the last essay I wrote is a 300 words piece for the English Placement Test. This torment really unblock my writer's block. Anyway, thanks a lot Bro. Asri - for making me writing again. Now, I have to crack my head for another writing project...

Today's Fun Pix

Monday, August 16, 2004

Fun Photos


Zaki - Brandishing a Nokia 3200

This particular photo reminds me of the James Bond, The World Is Not Enough campaign for the Sony Ericsson T68i.

Friday, August 13, 2004

Where I've Been?

This Mid-Semester break proved to be quite hectic for me, dashing around here and there. Here's my itineary for the whole break so far.

Saturday
- Noon - Off to Pagoh by bus
- Evening - Kenduri Doa Selamat for two of my cousins. One who graduated from KUiTTHO and another one secured a place for study in University of Manchester.

Sunday
- Whole day at JB - visiting the latest member of the family - a baby boy. :)

Monday
- Noon - KUiTTHO - Attending my cousin's graduation
- Night - Dinner at Sg. Sarang Buaya
- Midnight - Head back to KL







Tuesday
- Noon - Shah Alam - Meet up with Kak Sri
- Night - Ampang - Meet Asri al-Baker of Mobile World Magazine

Wednesday
- Morning - Travel to Kuantan
- Noon - Meet Shah & Dr. Nik

Thursday
- Orthodontic Appointment
- Dinner with Mak Lang and Pak Lang

Friday
- Morning - Typing this entry
- Night - Travel to KL by bus


Wednesday, August 11, 2004

eJAD

BERITA BAIK UNTUK PEMBACA eJAD



Salam sejahtera;

Along dah kahwin dan khabarnya akan menimang cahayamata Mac ini.
Angah dah masuk matrikulasi
Abah dah dua kali pindah pejabat & naik pangkat lagi
Mak sibuk giler dengan aktiviti dia
Souraya entah ke mana

dan ...... ada berita baik untuk pembaca semua.
sabar menanti....

penulis mba

Saturday, August 07, 2004

Balik Kampung!


My Friend Adil

I'm off to my maternal hometown at Pagoh, Muar, Johor. Posted aboard KKKL Express Bus just after leaving Puduraya. Happy holidays to all students of MCIIUM, and good luck to MCIIUM contigent for IPTIM Sports Carnival.

Monday, August 02, 2004

Blog Strike?

No, I'm not on a strike like Wawa & Tok Rimau. There's been no update because I'm quite busy with many things such as quizzes, tests, exams, meeting & workshops. Plus I have to empty my room because MCIIUM is the host of IPTIM Sports Carnival starting this weekend. It's quite tedious to haul all of the heavy stuffs back to our house in KL but Alhamdulillah my friend borrowed his dad car so I don't have to bring my two big luggage bag using the LRT. That was on the recent Saturday, and thanks a lot to Farid who drove all the way to my house in Keramat and then head back to Bangi. The car is an old manual Volvo and KL traffic was heavy that day so you can imagine how tedious it is for him to drive that day. Man, buying him lunch and paying for the toll that day is still not enough for his tremendous help. I do have a good time that with the three Bangi boys which is Farid, Adil and Zaki. Adil and Zaki kept us entertained all the way wading through the traffic jam with their superb vocals singing out songs composed by themselves and currently popular songs. (Mostly nasyids, Adil and Zaki is member of their school nasyid group, Al-Madani of SMK Jalan Tiga, Bangi) Plus Afiq (Labu) from Keramat who joined us for lunch at Setiawangsa at a food court in front of my former school, S.K Taman Setiawangsa.

On the recent Saturday and the Saturday before is the Saturday Series Soft Skills Workshop. On the first week is Communication Skills with one of the speaker is Miss Hafidah Samat, Entertainment Journalist from NST. Then the second week is on Personality Assesment, which the speaker is Mr. Ahmad Zaki Zafaai, a consultant. He's an IIUM graduate from the IRK (Islamic Revealed Knowledge) in Tafsir, minor in Psychology. We are quite suprised when he said he's an IRK graduate, since he doesn't look or act like one.

On the recent Saturday is also the first Arabic Test at Al-Malik Faisal Hall. Fairly easy, I got 19.5 over 20. That is mostly because I've learned at school before so here I'm pretty much just re-remember all those stuffs. The next test is on 11 September, which promise to be much more challenging than the recent one. (The date itself signifies something very challenging)

This week will be full of quizzes and test. This morning is the Chemistry Quiz, Wednesday is Maths Quiz, Thursday will be FKM Quiz and Chemistry Mid-Semester Examination. Lastly on Friday night is Computer Mid-Semester Examination. So don't expect any updates until Friday. Then after this hectic week is the Mid-Semester break for a week but surely there's assignments to do. So most probably I'll finish all my tasks here before going back to Kuantan so I can fully relax and enjoy myself. (That's what I think and wish for, but I do feel there's some task waiting back in Kuantan)

Well, that's it for now and also welcome back to college for my friends at KPM Matriculation Collegess, wishing all of you a new, refreshed, high spirit to strive for excellence.

Knowledge, Compassion, Smart