بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم
Currently I’m in the
mid of semester 1 session 2016/2017 IIUM, and am struggling to finish my
assignments and presentations that dues are just around the corner. Not to
mention I have to prepare for incoming midterms this week.
I have a lot to say.
Let’s try to sort it one by one.
Firstly, I am SO BAD
at time management. This is not new. I knew this since I was 12 years old,
while remembering how my sister would finish exercise books bought by my mom, I
would struggle on finishing a topic. Could be I’m just an easily distracted
person, or I’m just lacking self-trained sessions to be focus on a task.
This semester I
aimed to get 4 flat. So I’m gonna try my best, get rid of my bad habits (movies,
dramas, kpop and blabla), be active, and most importantly stop procrastinating.
And I learnt my lesson from last semester’s final exam, I’m determined on
making notes for every subjects before study week come. To make it short, every
time I made my study session, be it a 30 minutes or 60 minutes session, I could
only write notes for a page. A PAGE! THAT IS SO FRUSTRATING O’ ALLAH!!!!
Then I have a
halaqah session every Tuesday that I actually promised to come to the leader,
there this one where we discussed on how the ulama’ before managed to finish
Quran, 4 TIMES A DAY! That is.. Beyond my capability! Beyond everyone’s
capability! So after discussing for a time, we accepted that maybe Allah has
given them the chance to do so, has given them the barakah, the blessing they
got in their time. –AND THAT'S WHAT GOT ME!
I haven’t really
thought on why I never get enough time to finish my work, to complete at least
2 tasks in one time. What I thought was: oh maybe the world are really going to
be over, the time is getting short and 24 hrs are probably 12 hrs. HAH! Funny
me. So I told myself to ask from Allah to give my sufficient time, to bless me
and the time given, and to ease my works incoming. Ameen.
Second, actually I
was just taking a break from doing my assignment; a report on my Introduction
to Fiqh class, which is in arabic. And for those who doesn’t know me, arabic is
my supreme weakness.
If anything is
stopping me from being more and more diligent and a straight A’s student, its
the arabic subjects. Why I say so? Because all my arabic subjects in foundation
I got Bs. The rest I successfully got As. Back to my assignment, so as I was
doing this assignment (I thought its going to be easy.. Like, who else got this
kind of assignment from generous lecturers???), THIS IS SO FREAKING HARD!
Almost all, I repeat ALL arab vocabs are gone from my thick-skull head. I had
to search/ google for every words translation, then structure and restructure
my sentence, getting confused over my grammar and my sentences are, I swear it’s
the most confusing sentences ever. So, I just had to stop. (I only did a
paragraph and 2 lines btw).
There are no other
reasons why this is happening; me, lacking reading, writing, and talking in
arabic. In other word, I just lack practise.
Options I have to
improve:
1) Keep on reading (and open dictionary! *my bad habit is read, and
assume the meaning of difficult words because I’m just too lazy to open another
thick book)
2) Search for arabic
news, articles and such. Like al-Jazeera. And read. And dictionary.
3) Look for arabic
songs, I did this once, but me being me, I still like english and kpop songs
better. (REALLY?!)
4) Practise on
writing. Ok I think this one will be my choice. I’m just gonna have to find a
topic, a very simple topic and write about it. And to prove so, maybe I should
post my articles/writings in my blog? (at least I can practise typing in arabic
letters, because I don’t put stickers like everyone else).
Ok. It is decided. I’ll
push myself to write in arabic, post it on this blog, at least twice a week!.
YEAY! ?? *for those who know me in IIUM and read this, please ask and question
me about my articles so I won’t avoid this and procrastinate.
There. 2 issues of
my current student life. I still have lots more, but this is already too long.
I’m afraid you guys’d be super bored reading my miserable life. Ha.Ha.
When I get the time,
I’ll write more. Hope I’ll be more productive, as productive as ever!
Buhbye, may Allah
bless you guys!
