Journal Reflection 14:: Nasi Ayam Hainan::

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Assalamualaikum. How are you? We hope that all of you are in pink health.

Today, i (Farah) want to share with you about eating Nasi Ayam Hainan.

This is very interesting because before this I only eat Nasi Ayam Hainan cooked by Malay and serve with Malay ways.

For your information on 30th April i have my lunch with my friends at Ampang. My roommate Sis Safiah introduced me a place that serve Nasi Ayam Hainan originally Chinese recipe. Firstly, i asks her is the shop got its Halal Certificate. She said yes. Alhamdulillah. Besides, the workers are Muslim.

What is Nasi Ayam Hainan look like here?

There are two types of chicken that you can order

1. Steam chicken

2. Roasted chicken

Therefore, the 4 of us chose Steam chicken. Seriously, it is different that the roasted.

In addition, the Nasi Ayam Hainan is served with Soup, Cucumber, Bean Sprout, Ginger (blended), Soy Sauce, Chili. See the bean sprout make it different. However, i don't really like bean sprout. Hee.

Then, i ordered Air tebu Cina (Chinese Sugar Cane) for drink.

Hmmm....well the drink taste like Air Mata Kucing or Air Kundur. Hehe.

Maybe it is something that is not really a Chinese Sugar Cane...may a combination of Air Mata Kucing and Air Kundur perhaps.

Maybe i can search for the recipe and do it myself at home.

So my ladies and he-man friends can try it.

Hehe

^_^

That's all from me

Adios!

Taken from Mr Google (not the same with my experience)

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Journal Reflection 13 ::Treasure Hunt::

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Today, 6th May 2012 I went to Bukit Cerakah,Shah Alam. I am the participant of Treasure Hunt.This program was conducted by Personal Growth Group (PGG) which is one of the club under Counseling Services Centre. In this program there are 3 international students which are 2 brothers from Yemen and a Somalian brother.It is very interesting when dealing with them. From my observation during the program,I can see that the two brothers are very cool and energetic.They were very friendly with Malaysian students and never give up in this programs.

One brother from Yemen called Ayad, like to ask my group members about Malay culture and language.He told us that he have learned 400 Malay words and sometimes he cannot remembered all the words that he have learned. However, he ask us to correct his spelling when speak Malay.

The other brother named Mansur also from Yemen and he likes to mix with Malaysian people and learned about our culture. Since he became the member of PGG's club, he took this opportunity to know Malaysian very well and he also tried to the get as much he can tor build networking with Malaysian students. He also respect Malaysian culture and he wish to visit our house during Eidul Fitri.

However,I did not have many chance to talk with Somalian brother because of time consuming. The Somalian brother looks steady and cool with his group members. He is enjoying today's activity.

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Immersion Project 4 : Visiting Batu Caves Temple::

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Goals:

To know about Batu Caves temple
To know the activities held in the temple

Activities :

Observation
Interview

On, 2^nd May 2012 our group have visited Batu Caves Temple. Firstly, Farah, Farihah, Ina and Saidah gather at Hafsa’s bus stop waiting for Nik to pick us. After that we go to the temple. All this while we just past the temple but today we are visiting it.

All of us are very curious about the temple. This is because when we past the road we just see the big statue of Lord Murugan. Today we have discovered there are a lot of statues located at the Batu Caves Temple.

Farihah, Ina and I (Farah) take the challenge to climb up 272 steps high to the cave. While we are climbing, the monkeys also climb. Hehe. Although it is 10 o’clock we saw a lot of tourists there. We climb up until we reach the cave. We actually try to communicate with the Sami; however he refuses to give the cooperation (he seems did not fluent in Malay or English). He asks us to go in the cave to see the officer. While we were there, the officer thinks that we want to give donation to the temple. Actually we ask for information about the temple. Now we understand that, although we live in the same country but still there a lot of people that cannot speak Malay. After that we climb down.

While we are climbing, actually Saidah and Nik not just waiting for us but they are interviewing the tourist and also some of the visitors. They have interview one couple. From the conversation we identify the purpose of them coming to the temple.

Firstly, they said that this is the first step for them before opening their business. Therefore they pray to be blessed from their Lord (main purpose). In addition, they go to the sacred place because they felt strong vibration between them and the temple. Besides, it is also located near to their house.

Form our observation (before we interview them), we saw that they burn candles. So, we ask the purpose of burning the candles. The interviewee said that as they are requesting blessing and etc. from their God, so they burn the candles as symbol of giving something to their God.

In addition, they also bring flowers to the father (sami) so that the father will pray on their behalf. After that they also will get different flower from the father. The flower they get will be place in their prayer room (at their house). Significant of choosing flowers because flower is something that is soft, have good smell and also beautiful.

Besides that, we also have interviewed a woman. We ask her about the occasion that usually held in Batu Caves Temple. She said The Thaipusam Festival is celebrated at this temple. Thaipusam Festival is a Hindu’s Festival which is celebrated every January /February. This festival is celebrated when the Hindus commemorate Parvati, a Hindu Goddess who gave Murugan a spear to conquer Soorapadam, the evil spirit.

Our feelings during the visit:

At first, we feel awkward because just the five of us who wear hijab. In addition, other tourists also give a long glance to us. Maybe they are wondering why are we at the temple. However, we take this as a challenge. This is because our purpose of going there is to learn and get to know other religion house of worship and their activities.

For your information this is our first experience of visiting Batu Caves Temple after 4 years of studying in Kuala Lumpur. This assignment makes us go there.hehe. We feel glad to have the opportunity o visit this sacred place for Hindu. In addition, we are happy because we are able to climb up the stairs and also get some information from the people there.

In conclusion, as a counselor –to-be we should prepare ourselves with knowledge about other religion, races, ethnic and etc. This is to help us well-prepared whenever we have client from different background then ours. We recommended to all of you out there to grab this kind of opportunity. It is great to know more about others.

Lets enjoy the pictures !!

p/s: This slide show is best view when the internet is 'running fastly'. please be patience. ^_^

A Visit to Batu Cave Temple - Online Slideshow Creator

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Journal reflection 12 : Nasi Kerabu

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On 2nd May, we have get our lunch near Batu Caves.Then,my groupmates suggested to take our lunch at Kedai Nasi Kerabu Nara.'Nasi kerabu' was most the famous food in Kelantan.Suddenly I'm shocked when it have different kind of Nasi Kerabu which were 'nasi kerabu ayam Nara','nasi kerabu sambal tumis' and nasi kerabu merah'..I'm from Perak and before this,I did not like these 'nasi kerabu'..However,after lunch today I felt these foods was delicious..Malay culture is majority in Malaysia however,it differ in terms of dialect,food traditional,event and so on.

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Immersion Project 3 :: Journey to Herbal Shop ::

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Good evening to everyone. Today I want to share with you about our immersion project entitled Journey to Herbal Shop. That place is located at Batu Caves as we want to get the nearest place to our Mahalah. Moreover we noticed that Batu Caves in most suitable place to conduct this project because of its diversity and different races that we know it is crucial and will make easy our project.

The objectives that we want to achieve in this project is

To gain knowledge about chinese herbs in detail
To know the importance of the herbs that they used in traditional medical setting
To get information about the culture of Chinese at that place

At first we searched for the suitable place, we got some difficulties in getting the parking lot because of it is the centre of food stall, bank and supermarket. After half an hour, finally we found the vacant car parking (in front of a supermarket) and we need to walk away for 5 minutes to reach at the herbal shop.

Our first destination is Kedai Ubat Fu Sing. Firstly, we greet the worker. The worker is a lady. We tell her the purpose of our visit. But the lady said that she not really fluent in Malay. Furthermore, she said that we should get the information of Chinese Herb from her boss. Then we tries to convince her but she still give the same answer to us.She also did not look so friendly stances. Besides, she said that her employers was having lunch at that time and she did not know when her boss will come back. We feel very disappointed because we saw her boss at the back of the shop. However, we can't force others to cooperate if they refuse right? Maybe they have their own reason.

After waiting for several time, we decided to find another place.We move to the next shop with a new hope that they will cooperate with us.

Since Chinese population is the majority race in this place, we did not get so much difficulties in finding another shop that offering the traditional chinese herbs. When move to the next place, after introducing ourselves as IIUM students, the taukeh refused to share with us about this information. He gave excuses that he cannot speak Malay fluently and if among us can speak Mandarin, he will deal with us. We tried to persuade him and told him that this is our important project that we need to finish but he still reluctant. Again, we could not get this information.

Cooperation is not there, so it's hard for us to continue with our purpose. We can understand that it is difficult for us if we interrupt their business. Even though there is no customers at that time, yet nobody wants to entertain us...pity us!

We might feel dissapointed, but we're can still smile :)

What experiences that we got today?

Ermm, actually even though they are not give full cooperation with us, here we understand that people have different values and belief that they may hold since long time ago. We know that perhaps there are concrete reasons why they are reluctant to share with us about the information.
In our opinion, language barrier is the primary factor of this issue.Maybe the owner of Chinese Herb refuse to give the cooperation because the language barrier. They may feel difficult if they have to translate the Chinese term to Malay or English. In addition, people from different place might have different perception of each other.

But never mind. Our journey will not stop here. It is still long that we must walk until the end.

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Journal Reflection 11::Multiculturalism?::

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Do you think that Malaysian people are engaged in different festival that are contradicting with their belief and religion?

For example, a Malay people visit Indian family during Deepavali.
Or a Chinese came to Malay family during Hari Raya.
Are this situation common in our society?

Some of us, Malay people for example, when they went to some ceremony that involving different races, they will feel weird and awkward. Why? Because they might think,

'Oh, that food must be cooked by non-muslim. They must put pork at that food'
'I feel awkward with the food that I ate just now. Is it halal or not?'
'Rather than I go to this ceremony, better I stay at home. At least I did not waste my time at there'
'Oh my God. What happen? Why they must worship that thing during open house? Annoying!'

Look. Some of us still have our own stigma about this. For us, it is better to befriend with the same race because we share the same value and norms rather than knowing people with different race and religion even though they live beside our house. Don't you think that it is shameful for us as Muslim?

Is there any surah that our God told us not to approach them or befriend with them?

Of course the answer is NO.

If we look at our surrounding outside, open up our mind regarding this, we will realize that actually we are too selfish and not practing 'weness' in our life. Can you imagine that in this world that there is people who will not help one person from his badly injured because of different races? Do you think that it is impossible to happen nowadays?

I can see that currently whenever I go to everywhere; shopping complex, lake or garden, I wills see the same situation; Malay only with Malay, Chinese is only with their Chinese friends, Indians with their friends as well. So, where is the cultural diversity here?

You got the answer. I am sure of that.

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Immersion Project 2- Ummatic week festival

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On 12th March 2012, IUM Rector Prof. Dato' Sri Dr. Zaleha Kamaruddin launched the Ummatic Week 2012 at Cultural Activity Centre, IIUM. A week long programme displayed the diversity and uniqueness of cultures at the University. The programme highlighted the cultures of various countries represented in IIUM such as those from Africa .such as Morocco , the Middle East and Asia including Malaysia.

Our mission to visit this festival is

To get know each others by acknowledging various Islamic culture throughout the world.
To go deeper the history of each country and understand their norms and values.
To gain experiences through the interaction with the students representatives for each country (booth)

Here, we took some photos with them.

We went from one booth to another booth just to gather as many info as we can. Each representative that we met proudly told us about their country including their cultures and norms as well. They did not hesitate to give us their traditional clothes to be wore as to capture it as personal memory.

You know, if there is no such event like this, until now we will never get this useful info that is vital for us as a future counselor. Sometimes when we listened to their explanation regarding their views and perception towards their own country, our mind would be comprehend further about this opinion. For instances, when we visit Maldives booth, we discover that all people from that country are 100 percent muslim. And the representative from the country told us that their capital city is as big as UIA only. What a surprise! It is such as a interesting fact that we knew about this!

After visiting almost all the booth, finally we discover that in this world, actually there are so so so many races that have their own unique values like Malaysia, and perhaps more than that. Exciting, happy and thankful are our recent feeling that we got on that day. We knew that through this experience we will get many information that we think are useful for our career as counselors as we will deal with so many races instead of Malay.

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Journal Reflection 10: What is LGBT?::

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What is LGBT?

Here, we took this definition from wikipedia.

''LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the community in question felt did not accurately represent all those to whom it referred. The initialism has become mainstream as a self-designation and has been adopted by the majority "sexuality and gender identity-based" community centers and media in the United States and some other English-speaking countries.

The term LGBT is intended to emphasize a diversity of "sexuality and gender identity-based cultures" and is sometimes used to refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or cisgender instead of exclusively to people who are homosexual, bisexual, or transgender. To recognize this inclusion, a popular variant adds the letter Q for those who identify as queer and are questioning their sexual identity as "LGBTQ", recorded since 1996.''

LGBT in the U.K. Military

Homosexuals in the armed forces have had a tough time for centuries, regardless of the country they have pledged to defend, whether it is the United States, China, or somewhere else. The same holds true in the United Kingdom (UK), where lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual (LGBT) persons were prohibited from joining or serving in any branch of the armed forces until 2000. Until that time, the UK policy was pretty direct: Allowing gays in the military would be bad for morale, making them vulnerable to blackmail or subterfuge from foreign intelligence agencies. Thus, they were banned from serving – which ignored one wee fact: that about 70 percent of the public who were polled around that time said a soldier’s sexual orientation was a non-issue. Still, the UK Ministry of Defense enforced the policy with great vigour, sacking about 60 armed services members every year. In UK military circles, transgender equality maintained the same traction it had for generations – little or none at all. But that was about to change.

SOURCES:LGBT UK

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Journal Reflection 9::Malay culture and Bumiputera::

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The Malay are Malaysia's largest ethnic group, which is over half the population and the national language. With the oldest indigenous peoples they form a group called bumiputera, which translates as "sons" or "princes of the soil." Almost all Malays are Muslims, and they practice the same values although the tradition and norms are different due to their family banckground. Traditional Malay culture centers around the kampung, or village, though today one is just as likely to find Malays in the cities. Apart from Malay, we also has bumiputera that we already mentioned above. Especially in Sabah and Sarawak, they have their own native people who live there long time ago.

Here we provide to you our Malaysia culture that is very unique and attractive.. Check this out!

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Journal Reflection 8 ::Culture Shock::

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There’s a lot of issues regarding culture..how about culture shock? Is it OK to be discussed here? =)

Let us look on the definition first..

-CuLtUrE ShOcK-

Culture shock exactly means the impact you may feel when you enter a culture very different from one to which you are accustomed. OR

The presence of seemingly irrational, inscrutable, offensive, or even hostile aspects of the target culture.

If one has been living in another country for a long time - noted the obvious differences, felt comfortable, then begun to realize there are other more fundamental, but subtle differences - finally they will learn that folks have different ways of solving the same challenges. The problem is then that one may suffer even more severe cultural shock upon returning home. In some places the cars are too large, the people too hurried, and many unusual things perhaps.

Culture shock can be in terms of:

Body Language
Names Behaviors
Law
Other

What are the causes that lead a person to face culture shock???

It may happen when you take a culture for granted
Can also occur when changing jobs, even if you don't move. That is, corporate-culture shock.

Culture shock can be in terms of:

Body Language
Names
Behaviors
Law
Other

Next......

Symptoms of culture shock are:

· excessive concern over cleanliness and the feeling that what is new and strange is "dirty." This could be in relation to drinking water, food, dishes, and bedding.
· fear of physical contact with attendants or servants
· a feeling of helplessness and a desire for dependence on long-term residents of one's own nationality
· irritation over delays and other minor frustrations out of proportion to their causes
· delay and outright refusal to learn the language of the host country
· excessive fear of being cheated, robbed, or injured; great concern over minor pains and irruptions of the skin
· terrible longing to be back home, to be in familiar surroundings, to visit one's relatives, and, in general, to talk to people who really "make sense."

To make it in simple way, once we feel like very awkward with the new situation, yes, we may have culture shock..agree or not???

Let me give some examples....

· A girl who comes from a ‘girl school’ since her primary school up till secondary school for example untill Form 6 and lives with her family and never experience being in a hostel might have cultural shock when she step into university to further her study. Of course, she will meet variety kinds of people out there. Without a proper adjustment, many problems can occur.

Below is another example of culture shock..

Extracted from The Star

· In Greece, for example, smiling when you meet someone for the first time appears as a weakness. Many Greeks think that Americans smile too much and therefore are weak, and many Americans think that the Greeks are too stoic!!

So, people....think, think and think...MULTICULTURALLY... =)

By Noor Fazalina

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Immersion Project 1- Friend from Thailand

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In this project, we interviewed one of our friend, Sofiyah Tayongpakor from Thailand and we would like to know further about her regarding her culture and belief in her own country. Through this we can acknowledge every culture in Thailand as mentioned by her. Even though we may not explore it deeper, but at least we are sure through this we can get so many information about our neighbour country, Thailand, which is strongly influenced by traditional beliefs regarding ancestral and natural spirits.

The goals that we want to achieve in this activity is:

to understand deeper the culture of Thailand, a country of Buddhism
to make comparison between the uniqueness of the culture in Thailand and our own country, Malaysia
to apply our knowledge and understanding when we deal with Thailand people

Here, our exploration begin here.

Our roomate, Sofiyah Tayongpakor is from Thailand and she is solely our roomate that is international student. According to her who is from Narathuwat, her culture is not totally different with ours but since her official religion in her country is Buddhism, she told us that sometimes her culture will a little bit influenced by Buddhism culture.

According to her, during Ramadhan, Muslim people will normally break their fast at mosques. They will collect money from the villagers for the iftar. After celebrating Eid Fitri, they will do fasting for six days and at 8th day, they will celebrate 6th Raya. It seems like this kind of culture is not quite different with our Malay culture.So do with Raya hajj at her place where at that time the parents will do circumcision to their sons and the daughters will wear earring and be given the beautiful dress.

Thai earring that mostly woman wear in their occasion

When there are people who die at that place, the neighbor will make some festivity to the family's person who die and normally the festivity will occur on 7th day, 20th day and 100th day.

Generally, people in Thailand will worship the idols that they made to show their humbleness to their God. Buddhists believe that life does not begin with birth and end with death, but rather that every person has several lives based upon the lessons of life not yet learned and acts committed (karma) in previous lives. On 13-15th April, there will be Buddha Festival and they will celebrate together happily with their neighborhood. One of their norms that they have is when they meet with other people, they will greet them, 'sawadee khab/sawadee krab''. Every November 11th there will be a festival where people will release 'krathong' in the air as a symbolic to cleanse their sin to God.

*“Krathong” is a lotus-shaped vessel made of banana leaves. The Krathong usually contains a candle, three joss-sticks, some flowers and coins.

Every 12th August, according to Sofiyah, people in her country will celebrate Mother day, based on their princess birthday and on 5th December, Father day will be celebrated by them as a symbolic of prince birthday.

The main language in Thailand is Thai language. Other languages spoken in Thailand are Chinese, Lao, Malay and Mon-Khmer, while English use is becoming more prevalent in government and commerce. The wai is the traditional form of greeting, given by the person of lower status to the person of higher status. Raising both hands, palms joined with the fingers pointing upwards as if in prayer, lightly touching the body somewhere between the chest and the forehead, is the standard form.

After interviewing her, we finally got several information that we think are useful for us to understand Thailand people. Although it is just a brief explanation that Sofiyah told us, we found that all of the information are quite enough for us to comprehend their culture. At first when she talked about her culture, we are quite shock because it looks similar with ours but after going deeper, we realize that her culture is mostly influenced by Buddhism .

Our feeling regarding this? Of course we feel glad and excited. Previously we only have little information about this but after this interview, we know that as counselors we need to know everything about culture around us. This is because not all our clients are from same country and religion with us. So we need to prepare ourselves about this and learn better to provide better solution in resolving some issues that occur currently.

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Journal Reflection 7:: Cross Cultural - Unity in Diversity::

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On 4^th and 5^th April,Counseling Services Centre (CSC) of IIUM have conducted the workshop on self empowerment which are the special program for IIUM International Student. I have attended one of the session of these workshops and it was session 1 and the topic was Act Locally,Think Globally.There were three speakers have been invited by this CSC and they were Assistant Prof.Dr.Pute Rahimah Makol,Sociology & Anthropology Department,Kulliyah of Institute Revealed Knowledge,IIUM,Madam Kaossar Banu Ropun from Alumni & Career Services Division and Brother Mohdlyuddin Mohd Sulaiman,Lecturer of UITM,Shah Alam.Please enjoy this video above.I’m so sorry because of low quality of the video because it’s from handphone video.InsyaAllah,u will get more information after watching and listening this video.From this,you may know other culture and how foreigners in Malaysia either students or workers survived.

By : Saidah Hanisah

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::About Us::

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Assalamualaikum. and Hye.

Hope all of u are in pink of health. This entry specially to introduce ourselves to the world.

'Selamat Berkenalan', 'Kaifahalukh', Hello, Namaste,

Name: Saidah Hanisah bt. Kamal Batcha

Matric no: 0919288

Hometown: Perak

Course : B.Ed. Guidance and Counseling

Name: Noor Fazalina bt Mustopha

Matric no: 0916546

From: Kedah (currently staying in Kuala Lumpur)

Course : B.Ed. Guidance and Counseling

Name: Farihah bt Mohamad

Matric no: 0912212

From: Terengganu

Course : B.Ed. Guidance and Counseling

Name: Farah Hana bt Shihabudin

From: Kedah

Course : B.Ed. Guidance and Counseling

Status: Single

Name : Nil Nurulfatihah bt Mohamad Noor

Matric no: 0919362

From: Tumpat, Kelantan

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Journal Reflection 6: CELPAD and my perception towards it ::

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When I was small, I was not really aware about my surrounding. My culture as well. Since I grew up at a small village which all of them are Malays, I was not really acknowledge about other cultures like Chinese and Indians. And when I grew up bigger up to secondary school, my friends and colleague, all of them are also Malays. I did not have time to think about other races and always keep in my mind that my race, Malay is the best. For me, compared to other races and cultures, Malay culture is solely give us an expressive of our thinking and perceptions about life because Malay is Islam. And apart from Malay, non-malay who are Muslim are not my choice to be my friends.

All of the negative perception has changed when I step into this university. During my first semester in UIAM, I have to stay at CELPAD for one semester. In that class, I have to mingle with various people from the world with different cultures, races, traditions, norms and also skins. But of course they are muslims. Getting involved with them in one group for discussion and presentation really made me feel enthusiastic and excited to know them more about themselves.

During Hari Raya Gathering. We shared lots of Kuih Raya and soto
sponsored by our lecturer, Mdm Radziah

Here, I've got lots of friends from Yemen, Afghanistan, Guinea, Somalia, Indonesia, Singapore, Palestin, Vietnam and many mores. My perceptions towards them changed to 360 degree. I learn on how to make conversation in English with them although we were same in using broken English, asking them about their families and traditions, exploring their point of views about our cultures and join their cultural activities at hall. What an excitement and unforgettable moment in my life!

My best friends, Ezra and Eshrak which are from
Turkey and Yemen

At CELPAD also, I remembered one thing. It's quite funny I think. One of my friends from Afghanistan asked me about my opinion regarding interracial marriage. He just want to know whether I agree or not with that. I just answered it depends on people on how they arrange and adapt to it. If they assure that they can get many benefits through it, why not. Then he scolded me and told me that by hook or by crook I must agree with that. No depends he said. Erkk, I think that he already fall in love with some malay girls at here perhaps. And that's why he asked for my opinion, as a Malay.

In reality also, I am not a pure Malay. Yes, I was brought up as Malay people with full traditions and norms, but the truth is, my accent is mix with chinese. My grandfather was from Hong Kong and he came here on early 90s to do his business. I am not sure what kind of business that he had but my father said that he got married with my grandmother, which is Malay after converted to Islam. Then the couple stayed at here till their death. My father believed that we may have many relatives which stay at Hong Kong untill now, but since I did not get ample information regarding this truth, I did not find that evidence to prove this. But I'm sure that one day if we are meant to be, surely we will meet and shake our hands as blood relatives.

by Farihah Mohamad

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Journal Reflection 5: Walk for Children::

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Assalamualaikum…

26^th February 2012

This event occurred at Padang Merbok, Kuala Lumpur as my friends and I has agreed upon to participate this meaningful event. In this event I can see almost 90 percent of participants are foreign people, and mostly they are from Europe and United States. Also Chinese and Malay also take part but they are minority. Nevertheless

I noticed that no Indians were at there, and after that I found that most of that participants actually are from international school, including the parents of that participants. Handicapped contestant also took part in this walkathon. Here also the committee told us that this event can be joined by everyone, which is from toddler to old folks. What a pleasant thing indeed.

So, we decided to take part in 1.8km walk for children as we decided to finish it early plus we noticed that this part has conjoined by kids and adolescents. Here we took a few moment to get know to each others and introduce ourselves to the, asked them from where they are from and the most awesome is they greeted us nicely and told us that they love to be at this country because of its serenity and tranquility that is rarely found at other countries. As Malaysian, of course we are truly honored and be proud when heard that compliment.

Hence, our goals that we already accomplished that are to acknowledge other cultures around us and creating friendship bonding have done successfully. We felt very happy and hope that may we will find this event on next year. Insyaallah.

p/s: Although this event i'm the only person in this group join it, but my group and i decided to share it with you guys. May it give u benefit.

by Farihah Mohamad

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Journal Reflection 14:: Nasi Ayam Hainan::

Journal Reflection 13 ::Treasure Hunt::

Immersion Project 4 : Visiting Batu Caves Temple::

Journal reflection 12 : Nasi Kerabu

Immersion Project 3 :: Journey to Herbal Shop ::

Journal Reflection 11::Multiculturalism?::

Immersion Project 2- Ummatic week festival

Journal Reflection 10: What is LGBT?::

LGBT in the U.K. Military

Journal Reflection 9::Malay culture and Bumiputera::

Journal Reflection 8 ::Culture Shock::

Immersion Project 1- Friend from Thailand

Journal Reflection 7:: Cross Cultural - Unity in Diversity::

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Journal Reflection 6: CELPAD and my perception towards it ::