BROKEN HEARTED!

I can’t describe my feelings at the moment. I am really upset, angry and piss off. All my hard works become useless just in few seconds. Reason? I was appointed to become one of the committee members for Triple-I Medical Symposium 2010. The programme is schedule this Saturday and Sunday. We have been working hard for months to organize it. But last Wednesday evening, we received a directive order by the Rector’s office ordering us to CANCEL our programme. I repeat CANCEL! Not postponed. The approval of the programme had been retracted just only a few days before the programme. The thing that made me even upset and angry is that they never actually gave us the reasons. We are now in the process of getting clarification from them.

I had spent a lot of times and money for this. I was the person in-charge to invite all the speakers. Inviting speakers, I must say is not an easy task. I had to call them many times. Some of the speakers could not make it. So I had to find a replacement. There you see it, it’s not an easy task. The speakers had already agreed to come and some of them had bought tickets to come to Kuantan. We also had booked the accommodation for the speakers. Can you see, a lot of money had been spent. All these are put into waste.

For my part, as I was the person in-charge to invite the speaker, I had been assigned to break the bad news to the speakers. Terpaksa bermuka tebal. All of them ask me the reasons and all I can say is that I don’t know. I am still figuring it out. Some of them express their disappointment and anger at me. I am an innocent bystander!

I’m trying to look it from the positive side. Maybe there’s a hikmah behind all these. But because of all these, I’m not in the mood to organize any programme in the near future and I don’t want to be in-charge of inviting speakers anymore after this! This incident has successfully tarnished my reputation and image. Thank you very much!

Muhammad Amar Bin Amin

I wish to welcome the new member of my family, MUHAMMAD AMMAR BIN AMIN. Alhamdulillah, my sister-in-law had safely delivered a healthy 3.24kg baby boy last Monday night. They are still in Netherlands. I can't wait to see them.

CONGRATS TO ABG MIN AND KAK MUN FOR THEIR NEW BORN BABY.


This is a picture of Ammar's elder sister being curious. :-)

New rules to limit amount of petrol a vehicle owner can buy

I had just finished reading an article in The Star. I found that the government is planning to set a new rules to limit the amount of petrol a vehicle owner can buy. I'm not good in economics so I wont be commenting on the economics angle. I'm just going to comment based on rationality. I have to say that I applauded the move. I believe that all these times, the subsidy for petrol has been distributed to people who are not eligible for it. Meaning here is that those from Thailand and Singapore for example crosses the border to buy the petrol in our country because it is cheaper here. It is cheaper here due to the subsidy from our government. My opinion is that the subsidy is for Malaysians. Only Malaysians entitle to get it. As a result of this, Malaysians lost millions of ringgit. With the move, I hope that the subsidy is given only to Malaysian.

However, I have to say I disagree in one part of the rules that is a person would eligible for subsidised petrol for only one car. Many of Malaysians have more than one car. II believe that it will be proper if the amount of subsidised petrol a person is eligible for is based on the number of cars they have. It will make more sense. I have to say this because I'm worried. The car that I'm using now is under my father's name. I am only the second driver. So, if my father has another car at home, I wont be able to get the subsidised petrol. I will get the subsidised petrol only if my father decides to change ownership of the car to me (Which is actually good for me. It will make Afif jealous. :-))

I think the government should consider this deeply first before they come into implementation this May.

YIPPIEE!!!

Today is the nomination day for IIUM SRC's Election. I'm not sure when is the Election Day but if I'm not mistaken it is sometime next week. I need to check it and I have to check it ASAP because Kulliyyah of Medicine will be seeing a competition. YES! There is 3 students competing for the 2 seats allocated for Kulliyyah of Medicine.

For this reason, I am really happy although I'm not the one competing. I know that I did express my intention to contest in this year election. However, due time constraint, I have to postpone my intention. Since I entered my 2nd year, I have been very busy with society's works. I have been appointed as one of IIUM Volunteer Team's EXCOs. I am in charge for the Fiqh Medicine Interest Group (FMIG). Next week, I'll be in UiTM Shah Alam to fulfill their invitation to become the facilitators for their Fiqh Medicine Programme. The following week, I’ll be busy with Triple-I Symposium that is organized by IIUM Volunteer team with the support from Persatuan Perubatan Islam Malaysia (IMAM). For your information, FMIG actually deals with research mostly. We conduct research about Islamic stand on the latest innovation in medical world as well as educating the current and future health care providers on rukhsah ibadah.

Insyaallah, if everything goes well, I may contest next year but I have another problem actually. I don’t think my mother allows me to contest. She is afraid that I may lose my focus. She has even started worrying now since I’m active with society’s work.

Back to the issue of IIUM SRC’s election, I am really looking forward for the Election Day. But, I have a problem in choosing who to vote. Now, I’m waiting their manifestos. FYI, one of the contestants is a friend of mine. She’s very active in all the extracurricular activities and I’m not surprise that she contested in the election.

HAPPY 2010

First and foremost:

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

I know I'm late but I dont think I'm too late. I just dont feel like celebrating a new year. I had not accomplished any outstanding achievements last year. That's why I don't feel like celebrating a new year. But, I have no power to stop the time. What I can do is SUMO. (Shut Up, Move On)