UTAR Kampar

I was sent to Kampar to work for UTAR in soft skills competency unit. What would student say about the new built UTAR campus in kampar if you ask the student in PJ campus?

Some would say that it is "ulu" ( kampungish ).

Some would say that it is a waste of money moving from a city to a small town of no where.

Some would say, wtf, I paid my RM500 for development fees and I get nothing from it.

Some would say that it is a place without entertainment and night life.

Well what would I say about UTAR Kampar?

A nice place with mountains and lake, good feng shui I would say :D.

A place to study without disturbance.

A place to practice your cycling skills.

A place to move slowly in pace and learn to enjoy nature.

A beautiful place indeed and it is near to Ipoh and Penang.

It feels like the experience that I had during my studies in MMU, Cyberjaya.

If you're finding a beautiful place to study, I would recommend you Kampar. Big and nice.

Just look at the pictures taken by some of the people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampar,_Perak

http://unclechoy.blogs.friendster.com/photos/utar_kampar/index.html

Well, will UTAR be your choice? It might be :D.

Expenses of student in Petaling Jaya

My dad send me an email with a title of "Can a family man with Salary RM3,000 survive in Malaysia?"

MALAYSIA BOLEH KE TAK BOLEH ??

Can a family man with Salary RM3,000 survive in Malaysia Let's do some simple calculations here.
In Malaysia , the average family income is RM3,000 /month (where father works, mother doesn't).
I understand there are many families whose monthly income does not reach RM3,000, but, to make things simple, let's take RM3,000 as the figure. Ok lah, right?

Okay, let's start rolling with a family which has Papa, Mama, 1 daughter and 1 son. Ngam-ngam ....

Calculation starts...

Electricity and water bill: RM100 (No air-con, No home theatre, No water heater ... ok?)
Phone bill ( Telekom): RM100
Meals for a happy family: RM775 (3 meals on RM25/day, RM25 for 4 persons...?)
Papa makan / teh-tarik during working hrs: RM155 (RM5/day, RM5 ... can eat what?)
Car repayment: RM400 (A proton saga aeroback, 7 yrs repayment)
Petrol (living in city, traffic-jam): RM300 (go to work, bring son to school, only can afford one car running)
Insurance: RM650 (kids, wife and myself)
House repayment: RM750 (low cost housing repayment for 30 yrs, retired still have to work to pay!)
Tuition: RM80 (got that cheap meh? i don't think so)
Older children pocket money @ school: RM20 (RM1/day, eat bread?)
School fees: RM30 (enough ah?)
School books and etc: RM100 (always got extra to pay in school)
Younger children milk powder: RM50 (cannot have the DHA, BHA, PHA one, expensive) Miscellaneous: RM100 ( sham poo, rice, sauce, toilet paper)

Oh wait!!! I have to stop here, so...
No Astro, no movie @ cinema, no DVD, no CD, no online, cannot KFC, cannot McDonald, cannot go Park walk during weekend (petrol expensive), no chit chat on phone with grandparents, and etc...
Let's use a calculator to total up...
WALAO EH! Shit! RM3,610 already...
EPF belum potong, income tax lagi.........
oledi RM3,610 ....
How to survive lah tuan-tuan dan puan-puan sekalian ???
Our Deputy Prime Minister asked us to change lifestyle?
How to change? Don't eat? Don't work? Don't send children to school and study?
Besides that, I believe in Malaysia population, there are millions of rakyat Malaysia which still don't earn RM3,000/month!!!
What is this? Inilah Malaysia Boleh...
Sorry ... it should be Malaysians Boleh , because we're still alive and kicking!!
Our politicians must be mad!!!! Please forward and comment boleh or tak boleh. No wonder so many Ah Loong around lah....

THIS IS BEFORE FUEL HIKES.
haahh well, now it is time to show off the expenses from a student like me staying in PJ every month.
Cheapest known food around PJ is RM3.00 for lunch and dinner.
Food = RM3.00x2x30 + RM1.00 (breakfast) x 30= RM210

Rental + Electric and Water Bill(including Housefund) + Internet(sharing)
RM200+RM40+RM10 = span >RM250

Transportation(Motorbike, every week RM5 from school to house) = RM 20

Mobile Phone expenses(average) = RM50

Entertainment (movies, yamcha, lepak, gaming...) = RM30

This have not include with Birthday parties, books, daily accessories and some others miscellaneous.

NO extra clothes, NO bus ticket back home, NO gal friend and NO maintenance.
Well, looking at the expenses I have, I can actually cut down on a few things la. Phone RM30 for monthly usage, walk to school, cook by myself( but sometimes it is even more expensive than eating outside, my housemate said), don't go for entertainment and no extra curriculum. Oh ya, no gal friend. Being single definitely will save a lot of money hahahahahaha.

Internship

Day 9
Wake up quite early today for the first time, was punctual. 2-Kelvin, 1-Habit.
In the previous few days of internship, I was sent to Sg Long and Setapak to work. Well, every time when I was send to a place to work, I gain new experience that I never expect I should.

In Sg Long, I totally salute to my collegue for her way of controlling the crowd. Totally in control. I should learn from her more often. I also met my old friends whom I haven't meet for like freaking 6-8 years. I was so happy that day that I almost get high. haha.

Speak well in English doesn't mean that you can perform well in public. The confidence and the bravery needed to speak in public(strangers) is actually more than what I expected. Things might even go chaos when you're not prepare mentally.

In Setapak, I realise that my uncompleted engineering background actully helps me to educate people about soft skills. I didn't wasted my dad's money in engineering! Good! Hope he have cold down after he sees my result.

Never did I expected to work in UTAR, and never did I expected that there's people that I admire in Softskills Unit.

Having a family and some background that he is not kinda proud of, he is indeed a person with a lot of experiences. You can learn a lot of things from him, from politics to anything that you can relate. He jokes when you never notice. So beware of him when he is around, he might make you dizzy :D.

Being in a place where's chinese is the main population, she is definitely someone I look up to. A friendly person that I hope to be friend with.

I can speak personally with a few people but not in the crowd. It was my weakness. I was never prepared when I'm in big crowd. But if it is just a small group of people, I would be able to take control of the situation. This is also what I am good at. Mood itself, will also affect my performance, whether in presentation or attitude. This, I think I need to learn to be consistence with my lifestyle and Take Charge.

Working in here doesn't seem to be same as working in Celcom. It is a different environment and atmosphere. Working here has been an experience even if it was only been 9 days.

Suprisingly, soft skills unit was visited by a lot of student. I do hope UTAR gonna make this unit as independent as possible. As a University that focus on soft skills, improvement on management will definitely help her to grow.

Conscience guide us in making right decisions and let us aware of our sins, but JC allow us to correct the sin that we have done and be congruence with our conscience.

Oh ya, petrol price increase doesn't help the nation to aware of the traffic jam in KL. Totally ignorance.

Internship

Day 2
Punctual today. 1-Kelvin 1-Habit. Well, today was totally out of expectation when they said they gonna bring me to Setapak campus to promote their programme in FES, Faculty of Engineering and Science. This trip allows me to explore not only the student of FES but also the officer of SSCU that bring me along.

Both officer are graduates from TAR, one from KTAR another from UTAR. KTAR graduate gave me the feeling that she is still searching for a right job. On the other side, UTAR graduate gave me the euthasiam of being an officer in SSCU. A person who likes her work.

From observing both person's working attitude, I found out that both is at a different level of maturity within themselves. Although I won't say that I'm mature enough to talk about it, I just couldn't not notice the differences.

At the end of day, I was sent to finish my power point slides in ICT lab.

Trying my best to adapt to my migraine during these 2 days. I was having a heavy migraine that makes me couldn't sleep well at all. It continues to be like this for 2 days.

Met a few guys from Setapak campus, nice guy indeed.

I think I gonna cut my hair. If not, I will look like barbarians from jungle. I had to cut my Janggut for this job. Damn. haha.

A Road Map to FES, UTAR Setapak Campus:

Internship

Day 1
First day of work, I was late. 0-Kelvin 1-Habit. I didn't check the working hours for my office. That was totally screw up. Besides that, my alarm and clock is set an hour late. Damn... Well, mistake noted and points taken.

I met a guy who is working together as an interns as me. Well, he didn't make it the second day. To me, he just need to put down his ego as what simon said, and everything can be done easily without any challenge. Just put down all the thoughts that he have in his mind, he might be someone who is excellent. Still, I had some nice chat with him.

Another thing is, I was told to finish a power point so that I can present in front all of the student and I need to finish it in ONE night? That was tough. Luckily, I already been through an intensive training with Keng Yin as her part-time power point editor aka robot. So I manage to slip through the challenge that the supervisor gave me. What a RELIEF!!!


Oh ya, my company profile:
copied from the SSCU handbook.

Soft Skills Competency Unit (SSCU)

1. Background
With its holistic vision, the University looks beyond developing the students academically to providing them with competitive skills required in the employment market. Steps are taken to enhance students' skills that are relevant for the transition from the classroom to the working world.

Today, employers expect in the potential employees, a combination of intellectual competence and soft skills for example, communication and interpersonal skills, public speaking, self confidence and the right attitude for the job. Thus, graduates must prepare themselves to "hit the ground running".

2. Establishment of Soft Skills Competency Unit (SSCU)
In view of the above background, the University set up a Soft Skills Competency Unit in October 2005 with the following objectives:

• Identify soft skills that are relevant to the workplace.
  
• Work with training providers to develop programmes.
  
• Promote and market the soft skills programmes among UTAR students.
  
• Conduct evaluation on the effectiveness of the programmes and provide feedback to the University.
  

3. Soft Skills Competency Programmes
The programmes offered focus on the five (5) Main Key Skills as stated below:

• Communication skills - this is the one critical skill mentioned most often by employers and is about the ability to listen, write and speak effectively.
  
• Thinking skills - to stretch students' creative potential and Thinking abilities for them to function effectively in the workplace.
  
• Teambuilding and Leadership skills - the need to work with others from different disciplines as a cohesive team.
  
• Emotional intelligence – a person's ability to deal with his or her own emotions and of others in a constructive manner that will promote teamwork and productivity is becoming an important skill in the workplace.
  
• Entrepreneurial & Innovative Skills - this skill is not only for graduates who want to be self employed. Graduates as employees should be entrepreneur-like in performing their jobs and seeking new business opportunities for their employers.
  

4. Duration of the programme
The duration of the above programmes can range from a few hours to a few weeks. These programmes are not exhaustive and more will be added from time to time with feedback from the employers and graduates.

5. Mode of Learning:
The focus will be on experiential learning where participants are encouraged to acquire the competency skills by participating in activities and drawing in their own experience. Trainers are from the corporate world with working knowledge and skills.

UTAR students are well aware of the importance of soft skills. The unit known as the Soft Skills Competency Unit (SSCU) was set up in October 2005. It started with only one programme – the Intensive Immersion Programme - to enable students to acquire important work-related skills such as Communication skills, Leadership and Team-building skills, Emotional Intelligence, Thinking Skills and Entrepreneurial & Innovative skills. UTAR hopes that graduates equipped with these skills will be able to meet the challenges of the business environment. The skills are designed to help students make the transition from the classroom to the working world.

There are about 100 programmes offering training in soft skills to UTAR students.

That's all for the first day of work.

Sai Kap

Today is a big day for Futsal lover in psychology course. Sai Kap is here!!!!

There will be a fight between tutorials, guys and girls. I'm actually the goal keeper for my class but things end totally unexpected. My finger was bengkak like the fattest worm you can found in the world!

Fate bring us apart. I can't be the worst and lousiest keeper for my team. It was a chance for me to show off my lamest trick of being a goal keeper. There is a few trick to be a goal keeper like me or so called, goal picker.

Golden Rules for a Goal "Picker".

Rule #1
Never ever try to catch the ball by your own hands or else you gonna end up with the same fat finger I had.

Rule #2
Avoid as much as possible when the striker try to shoot towards the goal.

Rule #3
Cover your face and your private part when the ball is near.

Rule #4
Always wear protective attire before you go into the field.

Rule #5
Shout at the striker whenever the ball is near you.

Rule #6
Don't look at the ball.

Rule #7
Brag as much as you can during the fights.

Rule #8
Screw anyone that score into your goal.

Rule #9
Always complain

Rule #10
Don't move a single inches when they try to have a penalty kick.

Graduation Book

I created a blog for graduation book. http://py09.blogspot.com/

Counselling Related Organizations

Thanks to mr. sivan, he found this and share it with me.
For those who are searching for counselling related organizations for your Industrial Attachment (IA), this is a link from Monash University which shows you the counselling related organizations in Malaysia.

I won't be pasting everything here. If you want the compile excel format, please message or pm to get it.