Asasi TESL Journey #1

Bismillah.. Assalamualaikum

how to start? i dont even know actually. nak bagi lagi jelas dan nyata, i wanna talk bout my #1 journey in UiTM Lendu, Melaka. i studied there as a Asasi TESL student, under KPM. i was there for 2 semesters ONLY, tak sampai setahun pun! daftar on 1st June 2014, and i ended on 5th April 2015. just for 10 months and i admit that, sekejap je. macam lama, tapi tak pun.

during the 4th week of studying = sebulan, memang penat sangat (ke?) and memang rasa "aduhh cepatlah habis asasi ni" sambil nangis sbb culture shock. belajar memang laju, and masa tu tak rapat sangat lagi dgn classmates, so susah sikit laa nak adapt. lagipun dulu bukannya study dekat SBP ke MRSM ke, sekolah kampung biasa je. so tak biasa sangat laa belajar laju ni. ohh yaa, TESL programme ada 7 classes, and i was in E for the 1st sem, and A for the 2nd sem. at first, we dont have a streaming method but during our 2nd sem, they decided to stream us according to our GPA. kuciwa jugaklah kena tukar kelas kan sbb kena berpisah sobs. 

--- hm jangan ingat 2nd sem masuk kelas A sbb pointer tinggi hokkey, actually kelas A tu untuk repeaters and GPA under 2.85 something *mohon jangan gelak sbb aku tak pandai but i'm not a repeater, Alhamdulillah*

okay, those are the subjects that you will learn for the first semester:

• CTU; which is Agama
• Malaysian Studies; which is History
• College Writing I
• Listening & Speaking I
• College Reading I
• Grammar I
• College Study Skills
• Computer Literacy
• Total credit hours; 24

THESE ARE MY CLASSMATES; MPI0201E

MPI0201E; start rapat dgn semua after raya sbb masa tu, kitorang ada laa buat #1Erayaselfiecontest, saja buat suka suka and sape yg menang dapat duit, sponsored by our Kak Long aka Afiqah aka Mummy hehe. terlalu banyak kenangan suka duka nak diingat. since from the beginning sampailah habis asasi (bukan habis 1st sem), macam macam benda jadi sampai dah taktau nak describe macam mana. but, despites all those things, we're still together and still support each other. 1E lah kelas yg paling aku sayang, yg paling aku ngam. makan sama sama tak pernah miss even kekadang tak cukup korum (girls only). susah nak lupakan dorang sbb dorang 1st family kat Lendu. masa 1st sem, memang takde campur dgn kelas lain, and kitorang memang tak kenal budak kelas lain (ada lah a few, but that was a very small amount kalau nak dibanding dgn 2nd sem muahahaha).

class rep 1E; Farhan, terkenal dgn #neverprocrastinate. sape pernah 1 group dgn dia tau lah stress dia macam mana, tapi best sbb dia ni laju buat kerja. kita baru nak terhegeh hegeh cari point utk assignment, dia dah siap! aku pernah ada group presentation dgn si Paan ni, presentation CTU, orang lain a few days before baru start, group aku a week before dah start. bapak stress, dah lah masa tu bulan puasa, and presentation kitorang end up nya lama gila present sampai habis masa 1h30min hah! tu jelah slack sikit, yg lain okay je si Paan ni. takde masalah pun.

(paling kanan: Paan #neverprocrastinate)

ass. class rep; Yemma aka Emma. hm ni sep Ganu ni haha. Emma... hm okay je, best kawan dgn dia sbb dia ni spontaneous. cakap main lepas je. buat lawak pun muka memang selamba gila! 

my very first close friend is Qibah. Qibah ni orang Kuantan, but from the way she talks, the dialect that she used is just the same like how we, Ganu people talk in our everyday life. confused jugak laa mula mula kann, pastu masa ice breaking baru tau yg dia ni orang Kuantan instead of Ganu kehkeh. rapat dgn Qibah sbb start dari first day kelas duduk meja sebelah aka tablemate. and sbb Qibah jugak lah aku rapat dgn orang lain. well, im not that type of person yg senang nak rapat, yg akan jadi first nak approach orang lain, thats exactly not me. sbb apa? sbb aku ni jenis yg cepat insecure and awkward, dan awkward tu akan ambik masa yg saaaaaaaaangat lama nak hilang, unless aku rasa aku boleh ngam, then okay. tbh laa ek, Qibah ni jenis yg suka sangat perli aku especially bila aku cakap pasal gosip or talked bout any celebrities mcm aku kenal dorang lama, but... aku okay je. Alhamdulillah. manusia semua tak sama kan, tak semua boleh terima kita, boleh masuk dgn perangai kita, but at least we do have some than nothing, right?

(muka zaman part 1 *uhuks*)

the most loving person; Kak Long! ni lah kesayangan aku. apa masalah aku, dia lah yg first aku cari. dia jugak lah yg settle kan masalah aku, tolong aku apa yg patut. paling pemurah! and the most important thing is, dia orang last yg stay dgn aku kat Lendu lepas habis asasi. tak plan, but our parents decided to fetch us home on the same day on the weekend instead of weekdays. so, mereput lah kejap kat Lendu tu seminggu. 

(Kak Long si flawless, cukup omega 3 haha)

during my 1st sem, i was a lil bit lost. macam apa yg aku cakap tadi, aku macam culture shock sikit masa awal awal. duduk kolej pun tak dapat roommates TESL. sampai masa nak final exam, aku study sensorang sbb roommate lain start final lambat. dorang rilek, aku pun rilek, assignment ke mana test ke mana, berjalan je tiap minggu. tapi aku tak salahkan dorang pun sbb ni aku sendiri yg pilih, bukan dorang yg pengaruh (aku memang senang terpengaruh dgn benda melalaikan pun actually). bongok betul bila ingat balik haha. no wonder lah GPA teruk hahaha. actually, TESL ni belajar benda yg sama je dgn apa yg kita dah belajar before this, cuma ada penambahan sikit yg lebih details, yg buat kita jadi pening kepala. kalau orang yg slow learner macam aku ni, lambat tangkap habis lah jawabnya. sebab tu GPA masa 1st sem teruk, sampai terperuk masuk kelas paling depan kah!

so, to the juniors yg bakal bergelar pelajar asasi TESL, please jangan main main berangan ke apa. korang lost sikit je, nahas lah korang. bukan nak takutkan, just ingatan mesra. oh before that, TESL family ni family paling kecik dekat Lendu. batch 14/15 ada 160 orang je kot, if i'm not mistaken. so, jangan terasa kecik hati ke apa lah kalau ada yg tak sedar akan kewujudan korang kat sana, or maybe kalau korang buat event, ada yg tak datang sbb dorang tak aware dgn event fakulti TESL. one thing to brag about, once orang tahu kita budak TESL, they will feel insecure sbb orang akan fikir English kita hebat even though some of us are not that good, but... it will be really good if you have one small group among TESLians yg speak in English fluently even depan orang ramai. pedulikan apa orang nak cakap, but frankly speaking, dorang actually proud sbb kita boleh speaking without any doubt di khalayak ramai. that's all.

XOXO,
Anis.

P/S; korang punya elaun rm1960/sem tau?