Programming contest is coming again in FTMk this year.

seperti biasa, pihak penganjur meminta saya tolong carikan salah seorang penceramah untuk event hari itu. Penceramah perlu bercakap tentang programming dan audience pula ialah pelajar-pelajar tahun satu FTMK. maka penceramah perlu menyuntik semangat dan minat pengatucaraan terhapad para pendengarnya.

Biasanya saya suka panggil salah seorang kawan baik saya kerana dia memang seorang penceramah yang baik. Tapi kali ni tidak jadi sebab bukan dia saje taknak datang, malah pihak fakulti pon sudah "bosan" menjemput dia. (dia dah 3 kali bagi ceramah kat FTMK, haha).

Well, setelah tanya sana cini, akhirnya salah seorang kawan saya setuju untuk datang bagi ceramah pada 2 Ogos nanti. Dia berjanji akan cuba memberi keyakinan serta cuba mengatasi "fobia" pelajar terhadap programming melalui pengalaman dia. ok set! everything is done, resume dia pon dah dihantar ke pihak penganjur.

Then minggu lepas saya terima panggilan dari pihak penganjur, katanya mereka terpaksa menolak kawan saya yang ingin datang bagi ceramah itu kerana sudah ada calon yang lebih sesuai. Meraka telah memberi alasan yang sangat tidak rasional dan alasan itu sangat tidak matang bagi saya.

"dia bukan dari BITS." -- alasan yang mereka bagi kepada saya. Memang benar kawan saya itu bukan bekas pelajar BITS FTMK. Kenapa saya kata alasan ini sangat tidak matang? pertama, saya sendiri tahu topik ceramah adalah berkaitan dengan programming, maka saya memang akan memastikan siapa-siapa yang saya panggil boleh bercakap mengenainya. Resume kawan saya ada dengan pihak penganjur, kenapa mereka tidak mengambil kira pengalaman kerja dia sebagai Programmer/Developer? Adakah dia tidak layak memberi ceramah kerana dia bukan dari BITS walaupon pengalaman kerja dia sebagai Progrmmer/Developer? Kawan saya itu dah banyak handle projek serta mempunyai pengalaman membangunkan projek di luar negara.

mungkin bagi mereka itu alasan yang paling senang untuk diberi. tapi ia jelas menunjukkan mereka langsung tidak profesional dan rasional. Kalau mereka memberi tahu saya bahawa mereka telah mempunyai calon yang lebih sesuai, saya tidak akan sedih. Kenapa perlu cakap kawan saya itu bukan dari BITS? ini seolah-olah mereka tidak mengiktiraf keupayaan kawan saya itu sebagai seorang programmer ataupon meragui keupayaannya berceramah tentang topic itu!

mungkin mereka ada alasan sendiri untuk mencari penceramah lain. tapi walau macam mana pon, tak perlulah bagi alasan dia bukan dari bits. Alasan yang mudah. Alasan yang diberi tanpa berfikir dulu. haha...

ini adalah pandangan peribadi saya tak tidak bermaksud untuk mempertikai mana-mana pihak. Saya memohon maaf sekiranya ada pihak yang tersinggung.

baru-baru ni ada ura-ura yang mengatakan FTMK diarahkan berpindah ke kampus bandar.
Asalnya ingat khabar angin je, tetapi perkara ini telah disahkan oleh timbalan dekan dan dekan fakulti sendiri. Huh?! Kenapa kita kene pindah kampus bandar?! kan bangunan FTMK kat kampus tetap dah nak siap?!!! Saya tidak boleh terima langsung keputusan pengurusan tertinggi universiti.
Setelah bertemu dengan penolong pendaftar FTMK, saya mendapat tahu bahawa ini adalah arahan NC.
Alasannya suruh FTMK pindah ialah:
1. Universiti telah menyewa bangunan itu dengan nilai yang sangat tinggi tetapi tidak diguna pakai sepenuhnya.
2. FKEKK dan FKE sudah pon berada di kampus tetap, jadi tinggal 3 fakulti sahaja yang boleh dipertimbangkan untuk berpindah ke kampus bandar. Since FKM dan FKP mempunyai mesin-mesin yang agak besar dan menggunakan ruang yang sangat luas, maka tidak boleh pindah ke sana. Jadi tinggal FTMK yang menjadi mangsa. huhu...
3. Sejak pusat pentadbiran kerajaan negeri berpindah ke Ayer Keroh, kawasan itu (kampus bandar) telah tidak aktif seperti dulu. Thats why UiTM pon disuruh pindah ke kawasan Hang Tuah itu. Maka sekiranya FTMK berpindah ke kampus bandar, kawasan itu akan "live" semula dengan student yang ramai di sana.

berapa ramai yang setuju dengan tindakan ini?

Alasan saya tidak setuju termasuklah:
1. distance, jarak kampus bandar yang terlalu jauh dengan kampus industri dan kampus tetap akan menyusahkan pelajar.
2. bayangkan pelajar yang ingin berurusan dengan bendahari, bahagian pengurusan akademik dan sebagainya, mereka terpaksa berulang alik antara fakulti dan kampus tetap nanti untuk menguruskan perkara-perkara tersebut. perkara ini menyusahkan pelajar!
3. FTMK di kampus tetap akan mempunyai 52 lab, bukan satu dua, tapi 52, muat ke kampus bandar untuk menempatkan 52 makmal? ini baru makmal, belum lagi bilik kuliah.
4. Apa akan terjadi kepada bangunan FTMK di kampus tetap yang hampir siap itu? bangunan itu direka dan dibuat khas untuk FTMK dimana ia akan mempunyai kemudahan-kemudahan yang sesuai dengan FTMK sebagai fakulti teknologi maklumat.
5. adakah perpindahan FTMK ke kampus bandar the only solution yang boleh diambil untuk mengguna pakai sepenuhnya kampus bandar itu?

walau bagaimana pon, dekan kata perkara ini belum tetap selagi arahan bertulis belum dikeluarkan. dekan tentu akan berusaha untuk memastikan FTMK berpindah ke kampus tetap, bukannya kampus bandar! Well, sebagai warga FTMK yang setia, saya akan menjadi org pertama yang berdiri dibelakang dekan untuk sokongan!

apa yang pasti ialah jika perkara ini (FTMK di kampus bandar) benar-benar menjadi, sudah tentunya semua pelajar FTMK akan berbuat sesuatu, dan alumni FTMK juga tidak akan berdiam diri!

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at last, after more than 2 months, i went back home in Sungai Buloh last Friday.
well, i am the type of person who rarely goes back home.
i reached home Friday night, and my aunt's family was there. (in fact they are the one who fetched me from the Komuter Station). My cousin had a good news, she is pregnant! My mom was very happy too. and she looked at me and my brother with "mata bersinar-sinar". Haha. well, we knew the meaning of that look... huhu... with my cousin pregnant, this means all my mom's siblings are having grandchild except her. and that's why she looked at us like that. Haha. then she said there are some of her friends offering their daughter for us, and asked us whether we are interested or not. huhu... but she said its ok after my brother and me showed 10cent face at her. haha. i said let me finish my studies first and let me establish myself first. hehe.

Saturday was a peaceful day where i got up late with lunch prepared for me. haha... (Bahagianya takyah fikir pasal makan minum). after my lunch (or breakfast actually, haha), i went to the hospital area where our nursery was once located, our old house was there too. but, it's too sad to see all those place are gone by now. The UiTM Medical campus building is reaching it's fifth floor construction where my house was once stood. The stream i used to catch fishes and small prawns are no more there...The beautiful place where i grow up is now under massive development of the University campus. All left are just memories of the place i grew up...

i ate a lot that day since my mom cooked one of my favorite -- Kari Ikan Masin. Haha, i don't know how many times i ate actually. well, mom's cooking is the best!

Since i went back loaded with 2 months salary of my RA, mom suggested we all go out on Sunday. huhu... there gone my $$$... hahaha. we went to Kuala Selangor with our aunt's family for sea foods. Then we stop by Bukit Melawati; and old fort of Selangor which was built in the 18 century. there was nothing much at the hill, but with a lot of tame monkeys! i would rather say those monkeys are too tame and "friendly" with all the tourists there. Those monkeys just sat there waiting for food! Haha... Some of then even come to the tourists and show them "muka kesian" to get food. My mom ended up feeding one of them with a pack of groundnuts. "These monkeys are quite good,not like those at Batu Cave temple which will rompak what ever u bring", she said.
we went home exhausted. and there comes the pasar malam at our place, my mom brought not a few but a lot of durians for us, huhu... makan sampai takleh nak jalan...

This morning i went back Melaka. Actually i planned to go the campus af 2pm since i budgeted i'll arrive here by 1pm. But..... a lorry terbalik in front of our bus before the Ayer Keroh Toll, which blocked the road for almost 1 hour. huhu, i reached my house at almost 3pm... Still going to campus? No way! And i got some sms from students asking whether the Infosys Foundation Program Ceremony is on tomorrow as stated in the faculty website. TOMORROW??!! OMG!, i was in big shock! I am the MC for the ceremony and i had prepared nothing! I don't even know the full name of the deputy minister coming! After i called the faculty, they said it was typo error and the ceremony is actually on next week. Huh... what a tiring day, so i went out to buy my lunch, after that......

sleeeeeeeeep until 7pm, then woke up and wrote this entry.

Exactly what is 'Thinking Outside the Box'?
when we say some one is thinking 'outside the box'? why do we need this 'think out of box thing?'

lets consider this scenario:
There was a company hiring new staff and 200 candidates were short listed and called for interview.
They were given a situation where they have to make a choice and justify why they made that choice.
It goes like this:

One day, you are driving home and passed a bus stop where 3 persons were waiting for bus. The first person is a very sick old lady who need to go to the hospital a.s.a.p. The second person is a friend of you who once saved you life, you owe him 1 and now he/she need your help desperately. And the third person happened to be the dream person of yours, she/he can be your ideal partner! But unfortunately, your car can only accommodate one single person. You wanted to help them, yet there is only 1 person can be helped. Who will you choose? and why?

All the candidates tried hard to answer this question and they had given their justification who will they choose. It was a very hard situation, if you decided to help the old lady, what might your life saver think about you? He/she needs your help too! And if you help the old lady or your friend, you might loose the once in a life time chance to get you dream partner!
While all the candidates made their choice and justified about their choice, there was one person who answered differently from the rest, and he was hired to the position offered.
His answer was like this:

"I will give my car to my life saver and request him/her to send the sick old lady to the hospital on the way, and i'll stay at the bus stop with my dream person so i can spend some time with her"

While everyone was thinking how to make the choice, this guy had the most innovative idea on how to solve the problem. While everyone's mind was restricted with the rule "i can only help one person and i need to choose one", this guy had thought out of that restriction and context. Well, we can say he was the person who "think out of box".

Inside The Box
Thinking inside the box means accepting the status quo.
The in-the-box thinkers also believe that every problem needs only one solution; therefore, finding more than one possible solution is a waste of time. They often say, "There is no time for creative solutions. We just need THE solution." But, they never realize that there are other different ways of solving the problem.

Outside the Box
Thinking outside the box requires different attributes that include:

• Willingness to take new perspectives to day-to-day work.
• Openness to do different things and to do things differently.
• Focusing on the value of finding new ideas and acting on them.
• Striving to create value in new ways.
• Listening to others.
• Supporting and respecting others when they come up with new ideas.

Out-of-the box thinking requires an openness to new ways of seeing the world and a willingness to explore. Out-of-the box thinkers know that new ideas need nurturing and support. They also know that having an idea is good but acting on it is more important. Results are what count. ^[1]

"Thinking out of box" means think out of the context of the situation we are facing. Don't be restricted by the situation when searching for a solution. Normally when it comes to decision making and making choices, instead of thinking which one to pick, why don't we think another way so that we will not be bonded by the choices we have?

There's once my friends and i were discussing about fairy tales, and someone asked:
"If a fairy appear in front of you and agree to grant you 3 wishes, what will you wish for?"
Everyone told what they will wish for. Well, its hard to think only 3 wishes that are most important for us! When it was my turn, I said:" I doesn't need 3 wishes from the fairy, but just one will be enough. I wish i will have endless wishes!....."

References:
[1] - Exactly what is 'Thinking Outside the Box'? By Ed Bernacki