Studying in the university giving me a lot of experiences as well as lessons on how things work. Study, studio task, assignments and presentations make me realize that there is a lot of things that we can learn in our life. I met a lot of people with various personalities and sincerely I’m enjoying this.

One of the lessons that I got is the importance of making ourselves flexible. Flexible here means responsive to change and adaptable. So making yourself flexible means being a person that is responsive and adaptive to the situation and environment in order to accomplish certain goals and objectives (This is my understanding. Please correct me if I’m wrong).

I make myself busy lately although I’m already busy with the tasks and assignments by updating blogs and taking Mandarin class. I met a lot of interesting and weird people in classes and while doing works. Different people have different personalities and yes, different approach is needed when you deal with different people.

Sometimes we have to adapt ourselves to the particular environment and people. I prefer to make myself adaptable when dealing with other people especially for the person I don’t really know. Some people choose to deal in their way but sometimes it doesn’t work. People get the general idea or perception about yourself from the first time he/she meet you. This is normal and that is why it is important to make ourselves flexible to different people.

Making yourself flexible is an advantage for yourselves in dealing with others. There is a huge potential that the person you deal with will make him/herself adaptable to you. As a result, you will enjoy a better conversation and it is easier to accomplish the objectives of your deal. For example, some people might being impatient in getting something done due to certain reasons so you have to find a suitable way and approach to communicate with the person.

Yes, making ourselves flexible is a good thing that we have to keep in mind that every flexibility has its limitation so you must know what is your limits. A flexible thing might break if you bend it too hard and the same thing goes to ourselves. Make sure you know your limits so you will make things work according to your capability.

Make yourself flexible. And I hope you will success to make all the things work!

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Yes, time always moves and never going back. That’s a fact. Most of us know about it but somehow we sometimes never realize that time could go faster if we never think about chasing and keep catching it.

The sort of works and tasks is increasing from time to time as well as the responsibilities and needs. There is a lot of jobs to do and in fact we got task for every seconds that we have. Sometimes we might keep saying “I have no enough time” or “I have no time for this” when doing certain tasks. So what should we do?

My answer is – make one.

The most important thing that we must keep in mind is time is really a precious thing in our life. We ignore it, we lose a point in our life. We move slower, it will left us behind. Some quotes referring to time as a sword. If we don’t fast enough, it will cut us off.

I remember scenes in some films that include the boss and his/her staff talking about time and jobs.

Staff: Sir, we have no enough time for this!
Boss: Make time.

In business, time is about money. You might lose 5 million dollars if you waste 5 minutes and etc. As business is something that grows faster that you can expect, doing business needs you to work very fast and effective. Of course, you have to avoid wasting your time if you’re really want to success. And if not, get ready to see your competitors left you behind.

The same thing goes to study. If you’re keep wasting your time, you will regret at the of the day because you have to suffer yourself for studying at the last minute – when the exam or test is jut around the corner.

Time is precious. Time is gold. Time is sword. And what more? We don’t need any wisdom words or quotes if we are really appreciate our time. That’s it.

No enough time? Make one.

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I love to watch the ads promoting milk for kids showing how the milk could help the kids to give more focus & attention while learning in class. Some kids are sleeping, eating and some of them try harder to focus but cannot give attention at all. I forgot which company sponsors the ads but I love to see the light bulb “ATTENTION” on the kids’ heads. And every time I watch this ads, I laughed myself. Hey, is it the fact that older person also have the same problem? That question brings me to write about this post – giving focus & attention.

There are a lot of things in our mind everyday and all these things are mixed up in our daily life. Daily activities, study, assignment, class, coursework and etc. sometimes give us headache. Sometimes I have to ask myself – which one should I do first? It is a normal thing as we human got a lot of responsibilities as we are growing older. And as the solution, I try to suggest an answer, at least for myself that is – giving focus & attention.

Having various tasks means that we have to deal with time management. Yes, we have to finish our tasks but in the same time we also need time to check our email, Facebook, Friendster, MySpace and etc. It’s a must for us, right? And today we cannot let ourselves left behind so it’s not wrong to socialize yourself and surfing on the web. But the problem is sometimes we let ourselves on the web too long and as the result, we do procrastinate and fail to finish our jobs that is more important. So what must we do? My suggestion is you give priority to all of your daily activities. List the activities including tasks and all the online things and put them in order based on the priority. Shut down your PC and focus on the thing that is important and when you have finish your tasks, you can online and socialize without any worry!

Studying is one of the activity that needs focus and attention. You have to give focus to maximum level while studying something. I consider learning in class and studying is two different things, so let’s talk about study as we absolutely need to give focus in class. Well, let’s see. Different people have different ability and limitation. Some people can study longer than the others while some people can only focus for a short period of time. Some friends ask me how much a person can afford to study per day and my answer is – depends on you. I cannot give the exact answer for that but I have a few tips:

• Separate between play and study. When it’s time to play, enjoy yourselves and forget about study. When it’s time to study, forget about playing and always keep this separation in mind so you can give focus on what you do.
• Make study time as habit. Set a specific time for study for everyday. For example 9-11pm everyday. Maybe you need to force yourselves for the first time but after it becomes your habit, it will become a part of your daily life.

Yes, giving focus & attention is something hard to do but when you adapt to it, it will becomes an easy thing for you and even becomes a part of your life. So the first thing is to force yourself for it. I had tried this for myself and most of the time it works! Good luck guys!

ps: I found a site that provides Time Management Tips. Maybe the tips could help you.

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Well, we’re now more than half of Ramadhan and let’s think backward- what’d we done?

Seems I missed a lot of time for blogging. Dush3x.

Maybe it’s because of the pulsing days.

The pulsing days? Oh my.

Pulsing~ WTH is that?

Actually the word came into my mind from Anas’s idea for our town centre proposal – a pulsatic downtown. Note: Pulsatic = Pulsing + Energetic. Personally, I love this concept but if the other members decide to work on 1Banting concept, it’s OK for me =)

..so why I’m talking about this pulsing?

From my understanding, pulsing is like something that give energy and impact to the surrounding – like our pulsing hearts that move our body circulation. (make me remembered of the Biology days. ouch)

Jumble of projects and assignments forcing me to work everyday. Yeah, because even a simple assignment will affect your mark in IIUM. In other word, just do what you need to do. And that’s the thing that keep forcing me to work. Oh yeah! (T_T)

- Town Centre Proposal
- Urban Design Report
- Infrastructure Report
- Quran, Sunnah & Built Environment Presentation & Review
- Leadership Essay & Final Project

Seems simple but a lot of critical thinking and analysis to be made. Well tasks and assignments, you’d made my pulsing days!

p.s: Some people might keep mumbling about the assignments, but I really believe that there’s a strong reason why lecturers give us assignments. So do love the lecturers =p

p.s: We understand that ‘Pulsatic’ term is not in the dictionary, but we feel excited to hear that our lecturer could mention the word! Yosh!

Ramadhan Kareem to all Muslim readers!

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Hi fellas!

I just got back from Banting. A tiring weekend and some of us are half-dead. Gosh. I’ll write about it later.

What I wanna say today is..

“I’m sorry, my dear.”

Am I busy? Yes, I am. And I hope it’ll not mess my life.

Being a planning student is interesting but sometimes we have to sacrifice our time. I start to love this field and I’m gonna put my effort and strength to grab every piece of understanding and knowledge about this field.

I’m not a good student and I wanna be one. I feel envy with my friends. A sincere envy so I gonna study hard.

As the result, I have to put less attention at my mobile phone. It means less attention for her.

Well, I guess most of girls need attention.

I understand your words. I know sometimes you’re feel disappointed with me. I realized sometimes I didn’t notice your message. I know sometimes you’re waiting for me to reply your message.

I have my own principles. I have a bunch of tasks to be completed. I start to realize the meaning of responsibility (I hope so).

I never mean to have a less time with you. You’re always in my mind!

I know you understand what I mean. I hope we’ll make it.

I love you =)

p.s: Gosh.

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