My classmate 2

The one with the red scarf

Bunbun. She is the most excellent student in our batch with 3.91 CGPA. Well, it seems that she is the only one who could consistently obtained Dean's lists for every semester throughout the programme. She married with one of our batch mates as well in 2014. 

She is an avid kpop moviegoers. If not studying, she will be watching Korean dramas endlessly until she falls asleep in the thesis room at the department. She was active in PGCE or AAPG stuffs. Well, responsibilities come along with wit I guess. 

Currently she is preparing for her study at Bristol Uni under SLAB scheme for her PHD progamme in paleontology. Fast track student, no need to take master. I bet over the time, she will be the next head of department of geology at UM. I wonder if I could get in at that time, well at least in a more friendly way and yet having the qualifications at the same time.

p/s: I wonder if there are other batchmates who would end up in UM as lectures one fine day. There must be, because there are several students who had already started their Master research.

Miley is back

Needless to say, I still like to listen to her songs ever since Hannah Montana back in 2006. But, it seems that this girl proved that she can't be tamed up until now. With this song release, the Hands of Love music definitely proves that she is still a talent though tainted with numerous controversies.

p/s: 2006 to 2016. What a short 10 years time.

My classmate 1

As of 2016, I had decided to make a tribute or rather a snippet of all of my classmate, one person for a post. So, I'm gonna start with the first one as of today. Pehe, as everyone would call him.

The one on the right side

He is one of the "creme-de-le-creme" students of the batch. Academically gifted (second place in the batch, with CGPA 3.66), he is also pretty excellent and active in sports(Futsal primarily) and leadership activities. He is also a "Maahad" product, thus signifies his strong adherence to religious duties and responsibility for the "ummah". He preaches in a rather indirect way of relating time with death despite his humorous personality. Yet, he remains humble and acts as if he does not a clue about what he had studied in the class when he decided to ask something to someone. Being a Kelantanese, he insists in using his dialect whenever conversing in English and Malay.

Frankly speaking, he is a gamer of DOTA. Even with his gaming habit, it still does not deter him from having an excellent record in each semester, and emerging as 2nd best student of the program. Going back to academics, he got into Dean's list multiple times and he was good in any subject that he had taken in each semester. As of now, he is working with a Geotechnical and SI company (Geosolution, I believe) and he started his job right after his final examination. 

p/s: Done with first one.

Recap of 2015 and Hello 2016

2015 has ended and still I have not made any recaps of the year so far. As such I would describe 2015 in a very concise manner. 

1. Graduated with top 4 of the Class of 2015
2. Studying for a postgraduate program at UM,but ended up withdrawing from the program
3. Working as a Kumon assistant, which I strongly felt that the education philosophy should change as it is not suitable for Malaysian students
4. Going for multiple interviews and managed to land a job offer.
5. Meeting a lot of excellent and superb people with diverse skills and professional acumen

However, 2015 was not that "all joy and fun" as there were setbacks due to mass slump in oil prices and the decline of Malaysian ringgit value against the greenback(US dolllars). Nevertheless, I would remain steadfast along the way and must hold true to reality as life is always harder than it seems. I would expect 2016 to be even tougher as the global conditions are always unstable and full of uncertainties.

I hope that 2016 will be better than previous year despite all the challenges that remain ahead which I must face inevitably. With all the PTD exams, interviews and UKM thingy, I do hope that I can make my future to be a better one.

p/s: 2016 is supposed to be the start of the so called "renaissance era" of myself.