Just Go With The Flow

Assalamualaikum and Hi everybody. My name is Nawal Shahidah Binti Yusri. My matric number is 66923. All of you can call me Nawal. I am from Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang.

            What is counselling? In my mind before what I learn about counselling is to give advice to the person whose having problem but when I started learn counselling it is totally wrong. Honestly, I never dream or think to take this course and to be a counsellor. This is because since I was in kindergarten I have a dream and I want to be a teacher but did not happen. My destiny does not allow me to be a teacher maybe in this course I can do the best.

            Actually, when the result of UPU come out on the day I got this counselling course, I feel a little bit frustrated because I did not get the course that I want. So, I tell to myself everything is going to be okay and I can do it. At the same time, I feel so sad because I need to stay far away from my family. Before this I never get separated from my family and home. This is the first time I need to more independently without depending on my parents. For example, I need to manage my money and time on my own. So, I learnt something when I stay far away from my family.

            When the first class started I felt very nervous because I did not know much about this course. I started feel comfortable to learn about this course. At the same time, I am so excited because I get know friends from different ethnicity and places. But I cannot run from assignments. When the class started I enjoyed learning because this course is interesting. In addition, I can meet a lot of people from other background with different ages.

            In conclusion, sometimes we need to go with the flow but at the same time we need to accept the decision. I learnt that we cannot judge people based on their appearance. That all from me. Thank you.  

JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME; SALWA SHAHMINAN

Hello everyone! This is my first ever blog and I am really excited to share with you guys about myself and of course you guys want to know about me. So, I am a pure Sarawakian and I came from a small village namely Maludam. It is located at Betong division which take only two hours journey from UNIMAS. It is a peaceful place and has a lot of beautiful scenery when you come here for sight-seeing. My village is rich with source of protein because a lot of people here earn their living as a fisherman. But when it comes to monsoon season, they can't go to the sea because it is dangerous. I miss my hometown so much and I want to go back there soon.

This is what my village look like

Okay, let just get started to the main point. My name is Nur Salwa binti Shahminan and I am 20 years old young lady. I was born on 14 January 1998, please keep the date guys so you won't miss it. I have six siblings and I'm the fourth child of the family. To be honest, I always act like I am the youngest child because I am an indulgent person and a little bit clingy sometimes but I know they still love me for who I am. My mother died because of blood cancer which is Leukimia. She left me almost three years and now I still longing for her. Without her presence and existence, I still try to live my life without her and doing my daily routine as usual. I just have only one picture with her and it helps me to reduce my sadness. It is a blessings in disguise for me because it taught me that, not everything that we love will last forever and I admit that. I try to be a strong person and never let anyone knows what I feel inside my heart.

Our last photo back on 2014

Actually, I am not good at making new friends and adapt with the new environment. But if we can be friends, I am pretty sure that we will be good and I won’t promise that we don’t have arguments. I am a cheerful person and tends to laugh a lot because it makes me happy. So, it will be nice if we can have good things to be done together because I want to make myself comfortable with you guys. The reason why I chose counselling because I want to help other people. I want to be a good counsellor because I want to learn about human better and I want get to know myself. I know I am not good handling problems with another people but I challenge myself to do a thing that opposite to my character. I know it will be fun if we can do the things that we really want to and give our all efforts just to make sure that everything is in order. Human definitely a unique creature and they have various character and each one of it is their strength. That's all I want to share about me and thank you for your times reading this Have a good day ahead!

This is me! You can call me Wawa or Sal

Best Damn Things

Hello guys. First of all I want to introduce myself once again even everyone knows me. My name is Jerald Ashley Ak James@ Ash (66263) and I come from Sibu, Sarawak. Let me tell you guys about my hobbies. I love to play Football, Futsal, singing, and hang out with my friends. I am friendly so don't worry guys, I am not gonna eat you if you have something to ask or want to make friend with me.

Ok guys, now I want to share my experience when I come to UNIMAS. It took 7 hours from Sibu to Kota Samarahan. When I reached at UNIMAS, I can feel that there will be a lot of struggles and hardworks because this is not a school anymore. Even UNIMAS is not my first choice of University and same goes to my programme, I speak to myself that I have to continue this journey even it is not my choice. Actually my ambittion is become a teacher and also I want to be a radio presenter. However, I have failed my Medsi and I got an offered from UNIMAS. Even I'm dissappointed and sad because I can't get what I want,  but I have to forget all of it for a while and think positively"Maybe I should explore about counselling field". Moreover, when I look at my parents' face, it  makes me more spirited because I have a promise to them, Im gonna be their first son to be graduated from University. Now, I try to adapt with University life and I feel more better because I have met new friends from different states of Malaysia, and I love to have more friends with different races and religions.

Next, I want to share about my experience when I attend to Basic Helping Skill class for the first time. . When I enter the class, I'm a little bit shy because I'm gonna meet with new friends. However, everything changes when Dr Fa is asking us to introduce ourself and I got new friends. When Dr Fa starts to lecture about helping skill, I'm a very excited because I want to learn the skills to help people with different problems. I think that, this class is quite interesting because I gain more knowledge and skills to help people. Even we are often to help people, I think that this subject help me to sharpen my helping skills especially to be a listener and give an advice. Because it was the first class, I can't understand and catch up some of skill that had been said by Dr Fa. However, I keep on focusing to the lecture because for me, it is a process of learning. Luckily, after the explaination I can get some of the information. Lastly, what am I interesting about this class is when Dr Fa always tell us her stories, experiences to give us motivation. 

Last but not least, I want to share a little bit about my title even it is not important. I choose best damn things because I think that, sometimes the things that we hate and we keep on doing it or get through from it gonna be a best think, moment or experience in our life. For me, it is suitable to tell my situation because  what am i taking right now, even it is not my first choice, I still want to learn about it because  there will be something good and worthy when I keep on learning this programme. The most special about this title is, Best Damn Thing is a song title from my favourite female singer Avril Lavigne.  That's all from me guys and thank you for spending your time to read my post.

   
"Use the smile to change the world, don't let the world change your smile"

MAKING FRIENDS

Hello! My name is Novenna Amanda Binti Lorensius Amabajo with matric number 67044. People used to call me Nov, but right now I prefer Amanda because I find that it is hard for some people to remember ‘Novenna’. Actually, I am from Sabah but my family and I moved to Kuching during 2010. I used to stay apart from my parents since I was in form 1. And to be very honest, I did not expect to get UNIMAS as it was not my first five choices in UPU. UNIMAS was located at the 7^th place. I was so shocked because, if possible I want a university that is not in Sarawak, especially UNIMAS. However, my parents were happy that I got UNIMAS because they really wanted me to be near to them.  

This picture was taken when I was hanging out with my new friends in UNIMAS.

At first, it was hard for me to accept that I will be going to UNIMAS. I thought that I have no friends. Because when I was in matriculation, I did not have many friends. And most of my best friends enter UMS. I was very happy to find out that one of my classmate’s enters UNIMAS and both of us will be in the same course. However, I am not that close with this classmate because I did not really like to talk much and I am a bit worried about it.

I realised that both of us can be a good friends after being together for almost every time after MAP. During MAP, it was hard for us to meet each other because I was joining choir for MRB. Talking about choir, I met more new friends and I can say that almost all of them were from Sabah. And by joining choir, I really hope that I will talk more with people and not going to seclude myself from people anymore. Because I realise that in counselling I need to talk more. And, I did it!

                Moving on for the first week of class, before entering Dr Fa class, we had a few lectures and I almost gave up on counselling. To me, it was hard to accept because this is not my first choice and I also decided that this course was not fun from the start. However, on 20^th September 2018, I felt very happy to enter Dr Fa class. This is because she was able to make me felt comfortable. She is a very caring person towards her students. She even try to make everyone participates in class by asking them to tell our own strength. At first, the class was very quiet but she managed to make us talk by asking us more questions and keep smiling.

   I hope that this change on me could stay as I will be learning counselling for 4 years.

EVERYTHING IS FINE

Hi there! My name is Nuraini Hafizah Binti Wedhuru@Mohd Zahir with a matric number 67260. You all can call me Aini or Aiyai. I was born on 2nd May 1999 at Hospital Melaka, but now I lived at Kota Belud Sabah. My family and I moved to Sabah since I was 8 years old because both of my parents are original Sabahan. This is my first time being in Sarawak. Actually, UNIMAS is my 5th choice. I don't really expect that I will go here. At first, I reluctant to accept it but my mum gives me some advices and motivations then I decided to go. Furthermore, I am curious how does Sarawak look like because I never been here before. I think if I'm not get Unimas, I'll not get a change to go Sarawak. 

At KKIA to send me off

   Now, I want to share my feelings about my first time I came to Sarawak. I am a bit worry and nervous because it was my first time go to some new place alone without any my family members come with me. It will be a lie if I say that I am not feeling disappointed and sad to go alone without anyone accompanied me, but I can understand the issue. My mother just had surgery, so she not feeling well. But, I'm still grateful because my friends from KML are waiting for me at Sarawak's airport. Even I came late evening, they still want to welcome my arrival. So, I 'm not elt that awkward alone. 

   Well, counselling is my sixth choice. I felt a bit down when I saw my UPU's result because I don't get my first's choice to fifth choice. I'll try my best to do better in this course. I believe that there are reasons why I've been choose to this course. So, I've to just follow the flow.

   Lastly, I want to share about my experience for the first time attend class Dr Fa which is Basic Helping Skills(KMC1083). It was on 20 September 2018. I really curious how do the lecturer look like. When Dr Fa entered the class, the first things I see is her smile. It look like she is a loving and caring person. I like to see her smile because when she smile I can see her dimples. It remain me of my mother. It is because my mother also has a deep dimple on her both cheek like Dr Fa. During the lecture, I learned about helpee, helper and the basic skills of helping. I was really enjoyed Dr Fa classes. 

   I hope I can be a successful woman in the future and help other people. I am really grateful to have a family members and friends that always support me to be a better person. 

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND WHAT YOU PRAY FOR

Hello everyone! My name is Rolynxia Anak Robert. I was born on 17 August 1998 in W.P Labuan. I left my hometown and moved to Miri, Sarawak. I lived in Miri almost 12 years and the half. There were so much sweet and sour memories that couldn't describe by words. I'm the eldest daughter out of three siblings which is I've younger sister and younger brother. Some people doesn't know how to pronounce my name. Just called me "Xia" or "Rolyn". It's easy to remember. I'm half Chinese and half Iban. I admit that I've blurred facial expression but I'm very talkative and happy go lucky person which is I'm easily approach myself to make friends with others. At first, it isn't easier for me to adapt and communicate with strange people because I've low confidently in order to be better understand but manage to do it. After I was finishing my studies in STPM level, I was working at supermarket in Miri as a cashier.  I've a lot of experiences in my daily life facing with rude customers. Since that day, my life completely change as a student became a employee. I never thought that I'll survive those 7 months working as a cashier with all the dramas and problems around me testing my patience to the limit.

On 29th August 2018, I was received an offer letter from Unimas in counselling program. I was very excited because counselling program was my fourth choices out of twelve. In the same time, I was very disappointed that I wouldn't be able to become a teacher as I dream for. So basically,I managed to apply for UPU and finally got these opportunity walked in interview. The sad things is I failed my interview but it wouldn't stop me to continue my further study. One thing that i always believe, "God plans will always be greater and more beautiful than all ours disappointment."

On 31st 2018, I decided to resign and had to move forward for looking something new. I had conflicted with my previous employers company because i didn't give any early notice before i quit my job. On the next day I went to Kuching with my mom which is on 1st September 2018. I really nervous and worry about how could i'll survive without my parents. I've bad expectation how I supposed to adapt in new environment and meet my new roommate. Otherwise, it's just my expectation , I've managed to adapt to the new surroundings and meet new friends and very kind lectures.

- ROLYNXIA ANAK ROBERT (68419) -

Who Am I?

Hi everyone, my name is Wendy Ting Siew Khin with matric no 68049. You all can call me Wendy. I come from Sibu Sarawak. The reason I choose Unimas as a university to pursue my studies is that Unimas is located in Sarawak which is near to my hometown.

This is my photo with Sally, the first friend I met in Unimas

Now I want to share with you all about my feelings when the first day I come to Unimas. I still remember that when the first day I come to Unimas, I feel very unhappy and I cry after my father goes back to Sibu. I have this feeling because this is the first time I live far away from my family. During that time, I really miss my family and friends in Sibu so much. Besides that, I also cannot adapt myself with the life in university because I have to be independent. After a few weeks in Unimas, I started to adapt myself with the life in university because I understand that everyone is facing the same situation as me.

After STPM results were released in March 2017, I apply for UPU because I want to continue my studies in university and get a degree certificate. During that time, some of my friends keep going ask me what is my interested course. I did not answer their questions because even myself also don't have the answer in my heart. Actually, I ever think about who I want to be in the future but there is no answer in my heart. I apply for UPU and fill in the course selected at the last minute, which is a few days before the due date. I choose counselling course because I think that this course will give me a good job after graduation. After a few weeks I attended the class, I started to regret with my choice. I must admit that I am not interested in this course and I feel very stressful. I think that this course is not suitable for me because it is not fit with my personality. I also not interested to become a counsellor in the future. Now, I have think of my dream course and I wish to change my course. I have think it wisely because I do not want to regret for the second time.

When the first day of Basic Helping Skills class, Dr Fah asked us to think about one of our strengths. From this activity, I get to know the strengths of myself and my friends. My first impression of Dr Fah is I think that she is a good lecturer and she always has a smile on her face. She does not scold the students who sleep in class but instead ask them to wash their face or go out for a walk. In the first class, Dr Fah taught us about helping, helper and helpee. Besides that, Dr Fah also asked us to give feedback about Basic Helping Skills subject after attending the class. For me, I am not sure whether this subject is easy or difficult.

Thank you for taking the time to read. Wish you all the best and have a nice day.