Showing posts with label Yayasan Ilmuwan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yayasan Ilmuwan. Show all posts

Friday, March 25, 2011

Jernih Jangan Disangka Air - Artikel dalam Utusan Malaysia


Sebelum ini, sudah ada beberapa artikel yang saya tulis diterbitkan dalam Utusan Malaysia dan beberapa penerbit lain seperti majalah Visi dan iluvislam.com.

Artikel-artikel tersebut tidaklah sepanjang mana. Khususnya bagi artikel di dalam Utusan Malaysia, hanya ruangan yang kecil diambil pada seksyen Rencana.

Namun kali ini, artikel terbaharu yang saya hantar kepada Utusan Malaysia mendapat paparan khas dalam bahagian Sains pada sisipan Mega.

Artikel tersebut diterbitkan pada 21 Mac 2011. Ia bertajuk Jernih jangan disangka air yang membincangkan kelecuran - tahap-tahap dan sumber-sumber kelecuran.

Di hujung artikel tersebut, saya mengaitkan kelecuran dengan perspektif Islam.

Penulis ialah Eksekutif Penyelidikan, Yayasan Ilmuwan

Dengan terbitnya satu lagi artikel saya dalam akhbar utama tempatan, ia menambahkan lagi senarai panjang di dalam resume saya. Ini menandakan satu lagi pencapaian kerjaya dan peribadi sepanjang berkhidmat di Yayasan Ilmuwan sejak Ogos 2009.

Artikel yang sama telah disalin dan diletakkan di beberapa forum seperti di ehoza.com dan cari.com.my. Namun saya agak terkilan kerana di ehoza.com, nama penulis tidak pula disalin. Saya yakin mereka mendapatkan artikel tersebut di laman sesawang Utusan Online. Ini kerana artikel dalam talian tidak memaparkan sepenuhnya artikel asal.

Saya berharap pembaca beroleh manfaat daripada artikel tersebut tidak kira di mana-mana pun mereka membacanya.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Sirih Pulang ke Gagang - Second Malaysian Symposium on Biomedical Science

Mungkin ramai yang sudah tahu, ketika di UIA aku rapat dengan juniorku.

Setiap tahun, jika ada junior-junior yang baru masuk, aku akan cuba berkenal-kenalan dengan mereka. Empat tahun aku di UIA. Jadi, aku cuma berpeluang merasa berkongsi hidup, bersilang simpang dengan tiga tahun yang di bawahku. Sekejap di Gombak, dan lebih lama di Kuantan.

Setiap batch, ada sahaja ragamnya. Yang pasti, seingat-ingat aku, setiap tahun aku tak pernah melepaskan peluang menjamu selera mereka dengan sedikit hidangan yang aku dan rakan sebilik sediakan. Tidaklah semua dapat merasa, tetapi yang pernah berkongsi kegembiraan, berkongsi cerita tatkala menjamah makanan, pasti tidak akan melupakan.

Makanan memang boleh menyatukan. Makanan boleh mengingatkan.

Tertarik pula, malah terharu apabila ada yang masih ingat dengan saat kami duduk bersama, menjamah makanan yang aku masakkan. Bukan berniat ingin mengungkit amal yang pernah dilakukan, namun apa yang ingin dinyatakan ialah, sekecil mana pun usaha amal yang dilakukan, jika ia memberi kesan kepada yang merasa, pasti sampai ke mati memori dibawa.

Oh, sebenarnya baru-baru ini aku ke Kuantan lagi. Memenuhi jemputan menjadi penceramah dalam Ceramah Kerjaya. Hampir dua tahun aku meninggalkan kampus Kuantan, banyak yang sebelumnya tiada, tiba-tiba sahaja sudah ada. Sengaja aku alihkan pemanduanku melalui jalan belakang yang tidak ramai melaluinya. Entah bila, entah bagaimana, sudah tersergam indah malah gah bangunan-bangunan baharu. Itu belum cerita lagi seawal sebelum memasuki kampus dari arah pekan Kuantan, mata sudah terpana dengan kubah masjid yang tegak di atas tapak yang sebelumnya sebahagian daripada tebing sungai. Sejurus pintu gerbang diterjah, ada pula bangunan yang selayaknya setanding dengan bangunan Pentadbiran di UIA Gombak. Namun, aku terlanggar lubang besar tidak lama selepas itu dek mata sibuk terpana-pana. Spoil.

Berjumpa dengan mereka, khususnya yang menguruskan program itu, membuatkan aku bangga. Pernah terbit kerisauan, mampukah mereka meneruskan legasi yang pernah dibawa oleh senior mereka? Bukan mahu merendah-rendahkan, malah kerisauan itu jelas tidak berasas kerana segalanya nyata di depan mata. Mereka mampu melakukannya, malah jauh lebih baik daripada yang disangka. Kesungguhan mereka untuk meletakkan tanda aras yang tinggi dalam mutu penganjuran majlis itu, tidak boleh dipandang sebelah mata.

Bayangkan, hanya dengan kudrat daripada satu jabatan sahaja, mampu menguruskan program bertaraf kebangsaan. Itu belum lagi jika kudrat ketiga-tiga jabatan yang ada, disatukan. Apakah pula yang mampu mereka laksanakan. . . Melihat senarai penaja program itu, membuatkan aku tersenyum bangga.

Peluang untuk menganjurkan Second Malaysian Symposium on Biomedical Science itu hanya sekali itu sahaja dapat mereka laksanakan sepanjang pengajian mereka. Maklumlah, penganjurannya mengikut giliran. Dan banyak universiti lain yang menanti-nanti giliran mereka, kerana yang pasti jika berpeluang menganjurkan, banyak perkara yang dapat diperoleh daripadanya - pengalaman, kawan, malah mungkin bakal majikan.

Tulisan ini bukan menggula-gulakan mereka kerana menjemput aku untuk turut serta dalam program mereka. Malah aku tidak sangka pada usia begini, pada pengalaman secetek air di kali dan bukan sedalam di Lautan Hindi, mereka meminta aku membentangkan mengenai Bioethics. Aku baru dalam bidang bioetika. Tidak banyak yang mampu aku bentangkan melainkan berkongsi cerita bagaimana aku akhirnya beralih haluan ke dalam bidang itu. Harap-harapnya, mereka dapat sedikit sebanyak manfaat daripada apa yang aku celotehkan.

Berdiri di atas pentas itu, pentas yang sama aku dilantik menjadi Setiausaha Agung SCIENCESS, pentas yang sama aku menyampaikan ucapan ketika majlis penyampaikan hadiah Amazing Explorace, pentas yang sama aku berlakon dengan rakan-rakan WacKOS, pentas yang sama aku mengacarakan majlis, aku bangga. Bangga dalam erti kata aku bersyukur. Kerana masih diterima, kerana masih ada yang sudi menjemput, kerana masih ada yang sudi melayan.

Terima kasih para junior. Syabas aku ucapkan.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Article in Bernama and On Air Again

Career wise, currently, I'm not so busy although I thought I'll be busy this month with so much things. That's why I can allocate my time and energy for other things including my Szakif's Pie business, tuition class, and the freelance editing and translating services.

I have got my second translation job with the Institut Terjemahan Negara Malaysia (ITNM) and this time it's a creative writing. So, the challenge to translate the material is different from the first job I did, which was a physics book. Anyway, I'm done with the translation. It just needs a little more time on editing then I'll submit it to ITNM hoping that the book will be published for Malaysians' benefit.

Back to the topic, last week I did a translation job for a campaign and it was submitted to and published by Bernama. The original article was written by my officemate and it was about the Organ Donation Awareness Campaign. Yayasan Ilmuwan is one of the organisations involved in the campaign.

Other than that, for the sixth time (I think. Lost the counting already) I was on air in IKIM.fm and again it's about Organ Donation Awareness Campaign. It was the first time I went on air live!

I planned not to make it too ordinary where the speaker talks about the benefits of donating organ and so on so forth. But what I planned was to share with the listeners about the anatomy and physiology of the organs that can be donated so that they would appreciate their organs and would like to donate once they pass away.

However, there were some problems that caused me to be on air for about 12 minutes only rather than the scheduled 30 minutes. I thus had to talk fast and cut the points short than what I had in my script. That's the problem when it's a live show. Never mind. I hope to get a chance again to talk about it since I have prepared the materials properly.

A bit of my personal married life, after 5 months being a husband, I think I appreciate the weekends more since life is no more the same like when I was single where I basically didn't really appreciate the weekends as I do now. During the weekends I can spend the time with my family including my parents and my wife and do some other personal stuffs. During the weekdays, only Allah knows how tired I'll be when I reached home until I feel like I have sinned for not sparing a quality time with my wife. When it's weekend, it's time for my parents and that's why I say weekends are more meaningful for more now.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Third Article in Utusan Malaysia


For the third time, the article that I wrote was published in Utusan Malaysia. Go to Utusan Online and search Muhammad Zaki Ramli. All of my articles are available there.

This time, I wrote about Ramadhan. The article that was initially entitled "Puasa Bukan kerana Kesihatan" was published with the title "Betulkan Niat Sebenar Puasa".

The idea of putting such title was to attract readers to read more on the article rather than just a cliché one like (I'm sorry to say) the one published. This is because, to my observation, people would skip such articles thinking that it contains thoughts like in any other articles.

I think the approach that I used to write the article was simple and easy to be understood and thus it needed a catchy title to put readers' eyes till the end of the article and eventually made them think.

As expected, the article was edited to suit the available space in the page. However I found that the main idea was still there anyway.

The idea to write that article was inspired after a weekly talk session during Ramadhan held in Yayasan Ilmuwan by Prof. Dr. Mohd Yusof Haji Othman of Institut Islam Hadhari. In his talk, he explained something more or less about what I shared in the article and I put some of my thoughts regarding the matter.

I hope many have benefited from the article and may Allah bless Prof. Yusof.

Tuesday, August 03, 2010

One Year with Yayasan Ilmuwan



I started working with Yayasan Ilmuwan on the 3rd of August 2009 after about 2 months working as part timer in the organization. Today it's already the 4th of August of this year and that means I am already a year ahead after stepping my feet in Yayasan Ilmuwan as a Research Executive.

Frankly, I have never thought I can work this long in an organization, but in the same time along the past one year, I had never thought of leaving Yayasan Ilmuwan and seeking jobs at other companies. It's not an easy thing to be able to do so considering I put myself into a field that I did not familiar with namely consultancy, publication and training, while maybe the research field was close to me but not in the type of research Yayasan Ilmuwan is doing. However, I managed to cope with the environment rather fast and I took not long to learn to get myself comfortable with career life.

One year working with Yayasan Ilmuwan had exposed me with a lot of experience ranging from writing articles for the newspaper until public speaking through the radio. I didn't and still don't find a reason why I must hate what I am doing with the organization given everything I have there was nothing but blessings from Allah - nice bosses, crazy officemates, and most importantly, the opportunities to contribute to the society through the career.

Last week, I ended my last day of the first year of my career life with a program held in Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences (CUCMS) by delivering a speech in a workshop for the foundation students. The topic given to me was "An Approach in Mastering Biology". Since it wasn't only me to give the speech but two others were scheduled after my slot, I took the opportunity to share with the students on what the basis of life (bio in Greek literally means life) is, based on my understanding. In the end of the workshop, I shared a video with them and let them think about who is behind all the great creations in ourselves and around us. It's none other than Maher Zain's Open Your Eyes.

Now, I am in the first week of the second year as a Research Executive in Yayasan Ilmuwan and I've been assigned to present a paper entitled "Etika Penyelidikan ke atas Haiwan" (which later I changed to "terhadap" instead of "ke atas" to make it more grammatical) in a seminar held in Akademi Pengajian Islam, University of Malaya named Seminar Islam, Sains dan Teknologi: Kupasan Beberapa Isu Semasa. I am looking forward to presenting the paper as it'll be a first step stone for other seminars that I hope I'll be given the chance to write and share the knowledge.

Ya Allah, I am grateful.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Translation and Editing Services


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Since working with Yayasan Ilmuwan, I've been exposed with how publication of books is done. One of the stages in publication is editing.

So far, with the help by my officemate, I have edited 2 theses to be transformed into academic book. The first one was not so much related to my biomedical science background, while the second one was much more related to the field. The great thing is, when I have manuscript to be edited that is not related to my academic background, I learnt new things, while when I have to edit manuscript that is more or less related to science, that is exactly the time to refresh everything.

Not only that, my academic exposure was in English language whereas my career now deals a lot with Bahasa Melayu. But thanks to Intensive Translation Course that I attended last December (a week before I flew to UK) from which I learnt a lot of new things in translation. Alhamdulillah, I scored 82% in the examination of the course, which boosted me to do translation more seriously.

Currently, I am attending Editing Workshop subsequent to the earlier course. Out of 4 days of the workshop, I have attended 2 days, and yet another 2 days to go on this coming Friday and Saturday. For your information, both courses/workshops are conducted at Institut Terjemahan Negara Malaysia (ITNM) of Wangsa Maju, not far from Yayasan Ilmuwan.

To quote from the speaker in the workshop, she said that,
"You come here (to the workshop) is not just to learn to be a good editor, but (also) to learn what it takes to be an editor!"

After completing the workshop, I am looking forward to promoting my services. In fact, I have already started the promotion through Facebook and I've got few replies saying that they are interested to use my services.

For readers who are interested to use my services, you may contact me through Facebook or my email az_zakingompol@yahoo.com. Insya Allah I will provide the best translation and editing with affordable prices.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Another Article in Newspaper


My second article entitled Menyokong kempen perlu ikut cara Islam was out in Utusan Malaysia on 5 February 2010. That makes the third time my articles were selected to be posted in local mainstream newspaper since I started working and it was another achievement in my career with Yayasan Ilmuwan.

Basically, the article was all about my concern on the matter related to Facebook and the Bra Color. You can say it's the translated version of the blog entry with some additional points.

May it be beneficial for the readers.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

3 Achievements in a Week


My second week of the year was not very much enjoyable. I fought with some psychological disturbances which degraded and limited my career performance.

However, the third week was a blast. I got 3 personal achievements in a week. Thanks Allah!

#1 Third time on IKIM.fm

At first I was thinking of discussing topic concerning sugar and diseases related to it. With the increment of price of the high demand product in the market announced by the Government, I thought it would be great to share some knowledge on taking the development in a positive way i.e. by controlling (with that I mean by reducing) the amount of sugar intake in our foods.

However, with the more recent development on Facebook and Bra Color, I changed my mind and discussed the matter with the listeners. In the slot, I discussed the need to be careful and wise when it comes to promoting and involving in any types of campaign. In the slot also, I suggested a better way of promoting breast cancer awareness campaign which is through radio and telling directly to the public the danger of the disease.

#2 Being a Speaker

It was nice to come to the Center for Foundation Studies (CFS, formerly known as Matriculation Center) of IIUM, Petaling Jaya after about 4 years leaving the center. But this time I came as a speaker for a programme. The programme was held by the alumni of ex-students from Kulliyyah of Science and the Pre-Sciences Students' Society, PRESSS.

In the session, I was with other graduates from the faculty to explain to the students who take Biomedical Science about possible careers they may be interested to jump into when they have graduated from the degree course. In my session, I discussed a topic entitled "Finding the Bridge" and explained to them their roles to be the communicator between the Ulama and the scientists in the future.


#3 Article in Weekend Newspaper

It was awesome to see my article in the newspaper. I wrote and sent the article few days after I landed from UK. Alhamdulillah, it was chosen to be posted in the Kembara section of Berita Minggu of 24 January 2010.

Thanks to Berita Minggu for choosing my article. It is also available online.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Second Time On Air


For the second time, my voice was on air in IKIM.fm today after the first time during last Ramadhan.

This time, the talk was entitled "Pendermaan Organ: Ketakutan Masyarakat". Basically, in the talk, I discussed few common things shared in the community that hesitated them to pledge to be organ donors.

However this time, I didn't manage to listen to it as I got a conference (BioMalaysia 2009) to pay attention on. But, based in the feedbacks that I got from the listeners, they were satisfied with my talk although I frankly thought I could do better.

Just a short post for my record. Yup, I've been busy with life and career currently which explains why it has been long since my last post.

Friday, October 30, 2009

Achievement in Career


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Most people know that I'm working as a Research Executive in Yayasan Ilmuwan and one of my job scopes is writing articles.

Recently, I wrote an article entitled "Bijak Menggunakan Teknologi Maklumat Seiring dengan Tuntutan Islam" and it was approved by the higher authority in my company and then submitted to Utusan Malaysia. About a week after that i.e. today the article was posted in a column named Wacana Islam with a slightly altered title "Bijak guna ITC seiring tuntutan Islam". Click here for the article.

Yup, you might question the ITC abbreviation. Why not ICT? I also don't have answer for that as it's what the editor (if that's a right term) from the newspaper did. However, it shouldn't be a big issue anyway as it didn't change the meaning of the title and the content of my article. Thanks to Utusan Malaysia for choosing the article to be posted in your newspaper. :)

Achievement

Apart from that, I take this as a first step towards more developments in my career. As I love writing, having the article posted in a prominent yet leading newspaper in Malaysia is something, I have to admit, I'm very proud of.

However, that again shouldn't be a big issue as, one it's just my personal achievement, and two there is bigger issue to be discussed: the content of the article itself.

Have you read the article? Do you have any additional points? Maybe you want to comment or criticize the article. I'm open for the betterment of my writing skills.

Behind the story

You may also question, of all topics, why write about that?

Initially, I was planning to write something about H1N1 from which I can relate to my biomedical science background. However, my time was taken after I was assigned for the talk on organ donation last weekend. I had to make proper and full preparation as it was, again, my first experience of delivering speech in front of public after I started my career.

Insha Allah, given enough time, I will still write about the H1N1.

But, another question is: how did I find the time to write the above article? Simple: I wrote it earlier than last week. :)

Zaki boleh!

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Video: Talk on Organ Donation from the Islamic Perspective @ HUKM



The video above is the last part of my speech during the talk. Pardon the low quality of the audio.

Basically in the video I explained some quotes from the Ulama' regarding organ donation namely Sheikh Yusuf al-Qardawi, Sheikh Zaki Badawi and Ustaz Hasrizal. All of them encourage organ donation and in his blog post, Ustaz Hasrizal declared that he has put his signature to be an organ donor.

I found some minor mistakes in the speech and that's exactly the point for recording the video as I wanted to see how I delivered the speech so that I'll improve what needed to be improved.

May Allah bless my effort. Amin.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Organ Donation Talk: Another Step in My Career


I delivered a speech in Kidney Transplant Workshop organized by the Nephrology Unit of UKM Medical Center of Cheras last Saturday. The speech was regarding The Organ Donation from Islamic Perspective.

Held in Bahasa Melayu, I actually replaced the initial speaker i.e. The CEO of Yayasan Ilmuwan, Tuan Shaikh Mohd Saifuddeen who had other commitments to give more attention on. Thanks to him for providing me the notes and other sources before I actually went to the workshop and delivered the speech.

It was my first time to deliver speech in front of people whom mostly I did not know of. Not only that, other speakers in the slot were all doctors and other professionals who had far more experience in their respective fields. However, having the chance to share same rostrum with them was a great experience.

In my speech, I explained the Islamic perspective regarding organ donation which basically has no problem with it as long as the rules and regulations related are carefully followed. Given only 15 minutes, it was actually not enough to describe all things related to it thus I had to choose some important points such as the Quranic verses, hadith from Prophet Muhammad SAW and other quotes from distinctive Ulama', and not to mention the fatwas in Malaysia regarding organ donation.

Taking it as a gear 1 of my career, I am looking forward to doing more things like this in the future as they are not only beneficial for the public to be given the awareness about many contemporary issues, but for my self development also as I love to be challenged with new things and experience.

And yes, if I had to relate this to my academic background, it was useful to learn about Organ Transplantation as one of the syllabuses in Pathology subject when I was in the third year of my biomedical science degree. When the doctors in the slot explained about, for examples, cadaveric donors, anatomy of the kidney and rejection symptoms, I could only smile for those only refreshed the memory when I was sitting in the front row listening to the lecturers.

Some other interesting stories during the workshop:
  1. One of the doctors told me it was good to know that actually Islam promoted organ donation because all these while he thought the religion was the reason for the sadly low number of donors among Muslim Malays. He was a Chinese and thus I believe a non-Muslim.
  2. One of the committees said to me: Muda lagi rupanya yang bagi speech ni. Biasanya kalau nak cakap hal-hal agama ni, orangnya tua-tua. I smiled, the most that I would do. No further comment. :)
  3. After the speech, one of speakers addressed me as an "Ustaz". During Q&A session, one of the audience also did the same thing. Huhu... (Aku dah pakai tak macam Ustaz pun masih dipanggil Ustaz. Redha je la~ :P)

Thursday, September 10, 2009

First time to IKIM


For those who don't know IKIM, it's abbreviation for Institut Kefahaman Islam Malaysia. Click here to go the website and to know the FM frequencies in different locations.

Yesterday I went to IKIM to do recording for a slot entitled Sains dan Peradaban (Science and Civilization) and the topic that I chose for the slot was Merokok dan Ramadhan (Smoking and Ramadhan).

In the discussion, I explained why it's hard for smokers to quit smoking and then I tried to relate the topic with Ramadhan - how Ramadhan can be the best trainer for quitting smoking. In the first half of the discussion I shared a bit of my knowledge in Pharmacology that I learned during undergraduate study. Then in the second half of the slot I gave some advice regarding the topic.

The recording will be aired next week, Tuesday 15 September 2009, 10.30 am. I am looking forward to listening my own voice in the radio and judge my performance because I am expected to do the same thing more in the future.

I love my job!

Thursday, September 03, 2009

Official 'Eid Fitri Wish Card from Yayasan Ilmuwan


I never think that Yayasan Ilmuwan gives a lot of priviledges to the staffs, at least up to this point!

Yayasan Ilmuwan prepares for all staffs wish card for the coming 'Eid Fitri. So here I got 10 copies of the card to be given to you!

Yes you!

Only earliest 10 people who give their home address will be given this special card from me. The address must be given in the comment room in my blog (in case you're reading this entry in Facebook).

First come first serve basis yo! :D

Monday, August 24, 2009

How did I Get My Job?


One of the commonest question asked by people about my current job is: How did I get the job?

This is my schematic answer:

  1. I have a junior in IIUM Kuantan campus. I knew her from her Friendster and blog. It was my habit and hobby to initiate a relationship, so... Hehe...
  2. She has a brother who also wrote blog that was linked from his sister's. Then I started reading his blog and gave comments few times while in the same time did the same in his sister's blog. That time, I didn't know who actually the sister's brother was. Hehe...
  3. Amazed with the style and contents of his writing, I sent him an email asking how he started writing. That time, I called him Saudara Kelana. Hehe...
  4. He replied my email and he asked me to send my resume. I still didn't really know who he was actually that time. Then I sent my resume in my reply to him. He asked me to call him Abang Shaikh instead of Saudara Kelana. Hehe...
  5. Then, no significant development after that till I finished degree study. In the meantime, Abang Shaikh and I chatted few times through Yahoo! Messenger and Facebook but I never actually asked him what he did as his full time job. We only discussed things related posts in our blogs.
  6. I didn't do anything at home after I finished degree till that I posted a line in my Facebook saying "Szakif Ramli melalui hari-hari yang tidak produktif". Abang Shaikh commented on it saying "Kalau nak kerja, call abang". And I called him. Hehe...
  7. Abang Shaikh offered me a part time job. That time, I didn't know much yet about the institution he worked with. I just came to the office after he treated me a lunch at Cheng Ho. Only after that I know about Yayasan Ilmuwan and who Abang Shaikh was actually in the institution. Hehe...
  8. Then I started working as a part-time worker at Yayasan Ilmuwan for about 6 weeks.
  9. During that time, Yayasan Ilmuwan posted job advertisement and I was informed about that matter but I didn't pay much attention to it since my focus was just to do part time and that's it.
  10. However, due to problem with my application to pursue study, I decided to send application for a job at Yayasan Ilmuwan as Research Executive.
  11. I was called to the interview and I came. Although technically I was known to the panelists during the interview, I still did my best.
  12. On the very same day of the interview, I was informed that I got the job.

Alhamdulillah~ :)

My point is: Berkawan biar seribu, lebih lagi lah bagus. You have all the internet social networking portals. You can name it, Facebook, Yahoo Messenger, Friendster, Hi-5 etc. Make use of them. Don't only use it to connect with people within your physical range, but open up.

Friday, August 07, 2009

I am Now a Research Executive


On 3rd August 2009, I stepped my feet into Yayasan Ilmuwan, not as a part timer anymore but as a permanent worker - a Research Executive.

And today I've completed the first week of the job with calm. It's calm because there's not much to do yet since the other 2 Research Executives are still on their ways.

I've never expected I would work in this field since my focus initially was to be an academician, spreading knowledge through lectures and classes to the students. But now, I think I can share and spread knowledge also but not through classes but through reading and writing to a wider spectrum of readers.

It had been my passion to write since I was a child and that explains a lot why I write blogs. During primary school, I wrote stories. During lower secondary school, I joined Sidang Redaksi Sekolah which prepared magazine for the school. I even won a place in a writing competition organized by Selangor state government. During upper secondary school, I didn't write very much and it longed until I entered Degree level back when I was in first year in Gombak at which I started blogging. It was there and then that I continued writing until today. Not to mention, during studying in Kuantan campus I got involve in societies and activities that required me to write proposals, reports and such.

And now I'm working with something that needs me to read and write and I am so grateful with it.

I pray this job to be the best for myself and for my future.

Note: You might want to know what I do actually as a Research Executive, aren't you? Yes, I write, but what do I write about? I save that for later. Hehe...

Appreciation: It's very rude of me if I don't thank my boss. Thanks Abang Shaikh! :)

Monday, July 27, 2009

I Came with a Decision


Today I went to see the Dean of Kulliyyah of Science and the Head of Department of Biomedical Science to tell them my decision:

I want to withdraw from the Academic Fellowship offer by IIUM

because I have decided that I'm taking the road not taken;

working as a Research Executive in Yayasan Ilmuwan.

It was a hard decision. It was even harder to leave IIUM. But the hardest of all is to break people's heart.

I am very sorry for everyone who has been supportive all these years with me. Thanks for the trust and faith you all have put on me but decision has been made and no turning back.

However, it doesn't mean this is the end of my relationship with IIUM. In fact, working with Yayasan Ilmuwan would encourage me to build up networks with other companies and sectors. And of course IIUM could be one them. Hey, should you need any assistance in services like research, consultancy, training, publication and event management, contact me. Maybe I can help in any possible ways? :)

Wish me all the best with my new life and career.
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