Me and Campus Elections Part 1

Once upon a time...

S : Azie, ko nak jadi EXCO MPM tak? Abang Ariff tengah cari orang ni..
Z : Ape? 
Tengah blur sebab semua benda masih baru walaupun dah masok 2nd semester. And during my first year, I didn't had a clue of what the hell is MPM and from what I knew, Zaki was the president. There. That's all I knew!
S : Alaa. Macam Rakan MPM camtuh.
Z : Ohhh, kirenya macam Rakan JKM ea?
Sebab time tu, kat kolej ada Rakan JKM. Tak sempat nak join sebab I had a busy life as a fighter and Suksis. Tapi maseh dilema nak amek ke tak. Tapi disebabkan first year dulu semua benda nak dicuba. I agreed to join this. And plus, kesian gak tengok S macam kena paksa je cari orang lepas tu tak reti lak nak explain amenda MPM tu. No offense to Ariff. 
Z : Hmmm. Okay. Boleh kot.
S : Tulis nama ko, IC dan nombor tepon..
Z : K.

It was a week before the Chinese New Year's holiday, Shahrul approached everyone in the class. I think he just need one name to be sent to Ariff. FYI, Ariff was the ex-MPM 2009/2010 session for Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (currently known as Faculty of Computing). After I wrote down my name and gave it to Shahrul, I almost forgot about it. Well, duhh, it was mid-semester exam week. I focused entirely on my exam and upcoming camp. I was the deputy director for the camp, of coursela my heart and soul for the camp.

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During the CNY holidays, someone called me. Unknown number. I picked up my phone and answered it.

A : Assalamualaikum Aziemah. Awak ada bagi number awak kat seorang daripada kawan saya.
Z : Waalaikumussalam. Ye. Saye Aziemah. Kenapa ye?
A : Saya ni jentera Evolusi. Awak telah dipilih menjadi calon MPM. Awak bersetuju tak?
Z : HUHH o.O 
Amenda Evolusi ni?
Z : Ohh. Saye tak tahu pulak. Saya ingatkan jadi Rakan je. Hmm.. Boleh laa kot..
Well, perasaan ingin mencuba membuak-buak.
A : Okay. Ade kursus kat Melaka ni. Boleh join tak?
Z : Tak boleh la. You lambat sangat bagi tahu. 
A : Okay. Takpe-takpe. Nanti ada kursus minggu depan. Tempat akan diberitahu kemudian. Yang ni awak kena join..
Z : Alamak! Tak boleh la. Ada program. I kena handle program ni.
A : OKOK. Kalau macam tu, nanti saya bagitahu lagi. Pape, saye contact awak balek.
Z : Ohh. Okay. 

Annnndddd, right after the conversation ended, I googled up Evolusi and Pro-Mahasiswa. Seriously, I know nothing about 'em. And I was not a fan of politics.

Then, kursus tu semakin mendekat. And so did the camp. They insisted Shahrul and I to go for the course. We discussed and only one of us will go to the course. I went there and Shahrul stayed as he was the director for the camp. I went to the so-call tempat kursus tu ikot rombongan yang pergi waktu malam. There were a few of us in the bus. Tak kenal sorang pun. Time ni la I knew Frany and the gangs dan Ain. Frany and Ain were the candidates too.

Sesampai je di tempat kursus, we went to the dorm and sleep. I was very tired.
The next day, ada so-call simulasi Pilihan Raya Kampus (PRK). And I was like, amenda PRK ni? Selepas join simulasi, baru faham amenda PRK ni. Good thing they did this simulation. Kalau tak, memang blur habis la time hari kejadian nanti. Seharian bersimulasi memang best. I made new friends. Dari tak kenal semua orang, terus kenal a few of them. Malam tu ada talk from mantan MPM. Too bad I couldn't stayed til the end sebab tanggungjawab timbalan pengarah kem tu kena pikul.

Selepas kem tu setel, SCV lak busy pasal CGMA CNY celebrations. Sehari sebelom tu, I went to meet our beloved lecturer, Miss Ajune to seek advice about my choice joining the MPM. She said, it's ok as long as I took care of my pointer and terus aktif. I guess, it was a green light for me.

A few days before Hari Penamaan Calon, I asked my parents' blessing and permission untuk bertanding.

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Campaigning days were awesome. I had my classmate to help me to gantung all the poster. I was one of the faculty candidates. Tiga hari berkempen memang letih bak ang! But worth it.

I won first place in my faculty. hihihi
Masa menang tu memang takde rasa pape. I only felt the burden upon my both shoulders. Nak kena faham kerenah HEMA, UTM and students lagi. Pastu nak kena faham organisasi MPM and tak lupe jugak nak mendalami politik kampus konon.
Hmmm...
Tak fikir lak pasal benda ni masa nak bertanding. Yang tahu and faham masa before nak bertanding adalah jaga kebajikan mahasiswa. Tu je.

Wuuuu....





Z : The convo up there lebih kurang je dengan real life. Ingat-ingat lupa bahhh.

MPM UTM 2010/2012 Reunion Trip to Sabah

Last mid-semester break, the Student Representative Council session 2010/2012 were heading to Sabah for our reunion trip. I never had time to blog about this. MAYBE during the holiday I'll allocate some of my time for this. 

This is a video by Frany, the General Secretary during my batch. This trip was joined by half of the organization which was more or less 25 pax. 

Anyway, I missed this trip very much. It brought back a lot of memories when all of us were a family, and still is.Anyway, enjoy this video. 

Checkout this hashtag too. #mpmkesabah. I keeked some videos and tweeted some of the live events during the trip. That's why I was always with my phone in this video. :D 

Z : I shed some tears when watching this video for the first time :')

My First Performance

Whoaa. 

It's been a while since I write a post in here. Anyway, this is just a quickie about a dinner that I joined last month. 

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On 7th March, one person has approached and asked me whether I wanted to perform or not on 31st of March aka Hornbill Night. I was quite doubtful during that time whether to accept or not. He tried to coax me for about a week. He said that the band wanted to perform one of the Zee Avi's song. I think and think and think. (Well, I was one of the crew for that dinner, remember.)

After I did some thinking, I agreed and on 14th, I started my jamming session with them. Without Rawiey's knowledge, I sneaked out every Friday and Saturday to jam with them. It's my first time to perform with a band and I'm not used to it. Often I went to karaoke center just to sing my lungs out. :D

Lemme introduce to you to the person who succeeded in persuading me to join the band. His name is Syah. He said that my appearance during the performance will be a surprise to all. Indeed. Well, of course I told my boyfie that I was performing with a band. Heeeee..

At first, we were practicing Kantoi and they were too focusing on the KTHO dinner performance. They said I hit the key correctly. I assumed that's a good start for me, as a newbies. A week after that, we practice Kantoi and Mi Kolok Sigek. Nevertheless, it was quite hard for Fakh to arrange both songs. 

A week before the event started, there were a change in songs and music arrangement. They wanted to combine Mi Kolok Sigek and A Thousand Years. 

Homaii..
A Thousand Years!
They knew I can't hit the high note.
But I tried my best.
And I did it (maybe) .

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The performance went smoothly even though there were one part I got in wrongly. After the event, we performed another round of Kantoi. 
Thanks to them for inviting me to sing a song from my favourite artist, Zee Avi. 
A dream came true. 

L-R : Aten, Ariff, me, Al, Pjol, Fakh and Syah

It was fun!
Oh yea. I almost forgot. The band was called Inseneur.



Z : I'd been long to sing Zee Avi's song though. 

Another Few Weeks Left

Whoa.

*fuhhh fuhhh berdebunyaaa!*

It's been a looooong time since I wrote one. My previous post in this 5th semester was about Windows 8. Only that one post in this whole semester. Well, 2 exactly. Including this one.

There are so many things happened in this one whole semester but I don't have time to write. Or as I can put it, I don't have any mood to post up any in my blog as I am now active in Twitter and G+. The sem is almost over in another 2 weeks and all the assignment and project deadlines are killing me. Mentioning about subjects, there will be one special post for my 5th sem review. Coming soon. :D

Goshh. Almost forgot that starting this coming Monday is subject pre-registration week. And guest what guys, I'm gonna take my first step in Final Year Project (FYP) and I'm still in Year 3. Times do fly fast.

Anyway, I'm gonna dedicate my semester break to write down whatever happened during this sem. Starting from MTM til the end. And, this sem is quite interesting for me.  

That's all from me. See you guys in my next post. 

Challo.

Z : Le Familia gonna come here on 21st December. Christmas do come early this year. HEHE

Hornbill Night 2012

On 24th of March, Perwakilan Mahasiswa Sarawak (MASSA) had organize a dinner called Hornbill Night. Last year, this dinner was combined with Perwakilan Mahasiswa Sabah (PERMAS) and called Borneo Night. This year, the Borneo has separated. Don't get me wrong, seperated in term of Sabah (PERMAS) and Sarawak (MASSA) clubs in UTM. I bought a dress just for this event though. I don't want to make a comparison between these 2 dinners but if I make one, last year was more happening because of the combinations.


Last year, Mapius was the director. And this year, Fira was the director.

Entering DSI

Me & Chen

The MPMs.

Anyway, I like the effort on this year dinner because they manage to change the event from Banquet Hall to DSI ad-hocly. And 3 ministers from Sarawak were coming for this event. Even though Sarawak's CM and Datuk Fadhillah were sending their representatives, but the MYR10k cheque was a surprised to all.

Speech from our beloved Deputy Vice Chancellor Datuk T.

The YB.

The gimmick.

I wore my dress that night but that didn't stop me to take lotsa photos in front of the guests. Besides, a few days before the event started, one of the protocol unit asked me to be one of the informal emcee. I refused to be one of the emcee because I came to eat and I can't left my friends by themselves at the table.
:D

From UTM to YB

From YB to YDP Massa, Mapius. A surprised MYR 10k checque.

SaturdayNSunday without Rawiey.

The formal event ended at 11PM but the show still went on. The informal event held after that. Lucky draws and king and queen of the night were some of the activities held after the formal event has ended. 

Before Hornbill Night ended, we poco-poco til almost midnight. I danced. Damn. It's been a long time since I danced. Poco-poco is the only dance that I know how to dance. Too bad I don't have dancing in my blood.

And of course, cam-whore was a must in this event.

The Sabahans.

Azie with SaturdayNSunday

Chen, Rawiey and Azie were in the same tutorial during matriculation
period. And as for me, Chen was my roomate and Azie was my teamate
during ICT4Me. I didn't even knew Rawiey during KML time. XD

rawwrr...

F2T16 reunited!

Ilham, retis UTM.

Sabah's dance.

more here!

Z : I hope next year will be better than this year.

Malam Akustika

Yesterday, I had no class. YAY!

Unfortunately, I got a wake up call from my secretary that he wanted me to sign a letter. So, need to get up and did my job as a director. Gosh. I missed those NGANDO memento in KL during holidays.

Then, just before afternoon, Hazem called me and said that I need to be at the MPM office before he went to riday prayer. Well, he was the director for Malam Akustika. I walked to the office and found myself talking to some stranger. The best part was, he's a foreigner. It's not like I'm racist or something, but I had experience like this before. Being professional and friendly, I just gave him my card and not gonna answer his calls. Scary la...

Anyway, arrived at office safe and sound and practicing my MC speech. YUP. For the first time in my life, I became an MC. There's always a first time for everything, right?

At the evening, it was raining cat and dog. And I was in a doubtful mode but luckily last night was a blast with a very good weather. We started the rehearsal at 6PM and finished it a few minutes after 7PM.

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At 9PM, I arrived at Tasik Ilmu wearing my green baju kurung and getting ready to become an MC. The funny part was, I got the queue to start but I didn't start it. As instructed, when Datuk TNC arrived, the usher will put on rosette at him then I announced. Nevertheless, I didn't see them put them on so there was it, a little lagging at the first part. The rest went as the flow.

me and Hariz, formal and informal MC

The VIPs

Saturdays&Sundays

Me & Rawiey

Me & Chen

Our beloved  Datuk TNC recited a poem

Trio Ochestra : Rawiey, Neyda & Taleb

Z : Ouh ya. Last Wednesday I went to UiTM Shah Alam for this. And I went there to represent Suksis.

The Epic KP Got Talent ! Parody

As I was viewing MPM Bersama Mahasiswa UTM group, one of the student posted about his residential college dinner gimmick. Definitely not my from my college of course. It's an artwork from Perdana College. My comment about this parody was, it's 

FREAKING AWESOMELY CREATIVE !

Here are some of their videos. Teehee!

Ninja

and this one was from last year dinner.

I can only say one thing.

Epic gimmick is EPIC!

Ponggal !

I slept real late last night as I need to finish the budget on METT'12 and I forgot to set my alarm clock for Suksis.

Just nice, right?

Haha

Anyway, I woke up at 9AM as Chen texted me to accompany her to see her bf played volleyball. So, I tagged along plus my 1100D.

Arrived at padang kawad, I hid myself as I saw the suksis junior had their practice there but I didn't see any of the intermediates and seniors there though. Where did they practiced, I didn't have a slightest clue.

After the first game of the match, Chen and I went to padang kawad and saw for ourselves the Ponggal Festival.

at the main entrance.

THIS is Ponggal!

I tasted it. 

Snapped at the main entrance.

Helped Casse, Franklin and Darren with the 'kolam'.

Le me with Kesaven, one of my MPM friend.

NAISS!

This boys knew how to do this 'kolam'. It's beautiful.

After finished with the Ponggal Festival, we went back to the volleyball match. 

DAMN HOT!

The sun was directly above us. Even though we used the umbrellas, we still get the sunburn. 

Grr...

Z : I'm so TANNED! Need to get back to normal before the dinner next Saturday.

UTM Games Opening Ceremony

Starting from 10th - 24th March, there was held an event for the first time in UTM called UTM Games (formerly known as SUKAM). This event is an annual sport competitions between the residential colleges. 

The opening ceremonies was held on 11th March where all the representatives from each colleges and UTM athletes gathered in the big event. 

Let's the picture do the talking.

:D

Le me with my new silat uniform.

Silat vs Karate.

Le me with the suksis guys.

Us.

Colleges representatives.

Fireworks display.

Farah & Timah

Le me, Mira and Afif. 

The epic statement from Afif that night was,

"Aih. Azie ada. Lama tak nampak. Tak busy ke?"

And I was laughing when he said that. Of course I'm not gonna be there if I was busy.

And again, US!

Us + the futsal team.

Alep, the pembaca ikrar.

Kolej Tun Fatimah won the marching competition.

Some of the mascots.

The dancers. The danced with 3 inch high heels.

This was the night where suksis supposed to do the War Dance but being cancelled at last minute. We were all in our full spirit until they took it away. They thought that our performance will consume more time and the ceremony will ended up late. Pfft...

Our performance just lasted for 6 minutes and the opening ceremony finished before 11PM. 

Memang sempat kalo nak buat.

Them.

There's not much going on except that I can't join this damn event because I am one of the athlete. The rule was simple, any UTM students can participate in any of the games that will be held except for the UTM athletes. Damn.

I just thought of joining the kayak team for my college.

Z : I'm not into sport for this semester. Even silat for this coming MASUM, I'll be their manager.