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Let's continue with my November diary =)

In the first November entry I talked about me and my friends preparing for our English Final Exam. On Friday the 14th we finally sat for the exam, and I found it quite hard coz I was also struggling with my headache at the same time. For the essay paper, it was very exciting for me as the question was very personal to me and I spent most of the time writing for the second part. I'd like to share the essay here soon insya Allah. I managed to get a copy of my unmarked essay from my facilitator, Mr George Chong. During our last English class, he also gave me a new English thesaurus as a gift!

That weekend I went back home to be with my family.



17 November - 23 November 2008

This week is one of the busiest weeks in November for me! On Monday, we had a revision on Islamic banking coz it was the end of that rotation. It also marked the day that I will no longer be the class president for Topaz.. yihhuuu!! But I still have to attend the class presidents' meeting that day, which was the last meeting of ours.

Over the next day, we have our Industrial Visit session. There were 3 groups in our rotation for Islamic banking, namely Topaz, Zircon and Opal but unfortunately our class Topaz have to be separated for the visit. 11 of us were to be at Kuwait Finance House at Jalan Pinang near KLCC and the rest (10) was asked to be at Eon Islamic Bank Jalan Raja Laut. I belonged to the second group and was supposed to go to Eon Islamic but I swaped my place with Lee Ming Chuan, who had willingly agreed to go to Eon Islamic instead of KFH. I owe him one on that! Coz only God knows just how much I really wanted to go to KFH.

So on Tuesday, we went to KFH Jalan Pinang via LRT, and reached the building after walking for about 10 minutes from LRT KLCC. The event started around 9.30am and we were immediately brought into the trading room at Level 18. That was my first experience being into a trading room of a bank. There were so many technological gadgets around; I was really impressed!



This was taken inside the trading room while one of the bank officers was giving a briefing on their operations. Seems like we were not really concentrating there.. haha. Well, treasury department of a bank is not of my liking.. that's why.

From there we were taken to a conference room where we had two speakers to talk about KFH and its operation here in Malaysia. One of the speakers was talking about Shariah Department and the other talk was on the products that they offer.

Refreshment was prepared for us when we finished around 12.30. We took some time sitting around and just talk about how the programme was handled by KFH and took some pictures. Here are our pictures inside the conference room.


The ladies - Jaz, Azila, Azie, Jaja, Sha, Vee



The gentlemen - Fayad, Yunos, Hanif, Syukor


We then made our way downstairs to the lobby, while at the same time discussing on where to go since there were like a few hours to kill before we head back to FSTEP. While busy talking, I noticed one very familiar face at the lobby, who was talking to someone at that time. It was not long before I recognised that it was the Managing Director of KFH Malaysia, Dato' Khawaja Salman Younis! I just couldn't believe it at first and was very eager to go and talk to him. When he has finished talking to the person he was talking to, I immediately went up to him and introduce ourselves. It was such an honour to be able to meet him personally there since he was not in the agenda for the visit.

We chatted for a while and of course, not letting this golden opportunity go, we took a picture together with the MD of KFH..


This is us with Dato' Khawaja Salman Younis!

I can't describe with words just how excited I was at that time! It just feels like Allah was listening to my prayer, for good opportunity to arise on that particular day. Allah answered my prayer that morning.. alhamdulillah!

We then decided to go straight back to FSTEP after that. I had a meeting outside FSTEP that late afternoon and got back home around almost 12am. It was a very tiring day for me but I was just glad with how things turned out that day, and also what I have achieved from my meeting.

On Wednesday, the same three groups had a day outside FSTEP for CSR. We went to Zoo Negara to be the volunteers! It was extra fun though my body was aching all over the next day as a result of the work we did there. Don't have much to say, but it was really a memorable day definitely!

Some pictures here will do some justice to my lack of detail on this..hehe.


In front of Zoo Negara - before all the hard work started =)


Azila, Lee, Jaz, Vee, Jaja and Dila - This was our 'working place'. It is the Savannah.


We were startled to see Majalah Tiga and its host doing their filming there that we took a shot in front of them while they were filming with Nurul Syuhada Nurul Ain.

From left - Lee, Azie, Dila, Solha, Azila, Jaz, Salmi.



Us; Ida, Solha, Azila, inside the kandang rusa with our Facilitator from Zoo Negara, Pakcik Musa.

This, my friends, is best picture of the day! There was one section in Zoo Negara where we can take pictures with a snake and a pony. As volunteers, we only have to pay RM5 per photo instead of the normal RM15. So we decided to give it a go though I was actually quite scared with the snake. But at last, the picture turned out well! And everyone bought a copy of the photo..

Then on Thursday it was class as usual...and everyone was like feeling all lazy and was not focussing in class as most of us were drained out from our CSR at the Zoo. Some even got an MC for that...it was seriously a dreading day..we just can't wait for the class to finish. As for me, I had to attend another meeting outside FSTEP and managed to be at home only around 12.30am. I was dead tired but I was feeling very glad to be able to spend my time wisely.

Last working day, we had a full day for Speakers Club. I don't really like the fact that we have to have a whole day session for Speakers Club but since we have finished our English lessons we were only left with our series of Speakers Club sessions. We did a role play on Customer Service where we took turns to be the customer of a bank and also the Customer Service Officer of a bank. Since we finished our parts quite early, we then had to do an impromptu speech based on a topic that we have chosen. Our facilitator, Mr Mohamad will give us a specific topic based on the one we have chosen earlier.

I wrote "Friendship" for my topic and was asked to talk about "My Best Friend". And that's when I talked about my best friends when I was in the UK and what I've experience now and just made a point that I won't be able to let myself to have another girl best friend anymore for fear of getting myself hurt when the time comes for us to go on our own separate ways. And the rest were almost the same like what I've written in the last two entries. One thing I did not mention was the name of my 3 brothers as my best friends now.

That night, I went back to Subang coz the next day we are going to go to Lumut! The rest of the weekend was spent with my family, attending a wedding ceremony at a place called Changkat Keriung. A weird name I can say, but we enjoyed our weekend there. On Sunday, around noon we left Lumut for Kuala Lumpur and went to visit my aunt at Wangsa Maju. My family then sent me back to Pantai Dalam at around 11.

It was a really long week for me for so much was being done throughout the week but I enjoyed myself most of the time, alhamdulillah.. alhamdulillah.. =)

I guess I'll continue writing about the last week of November some time soon insya Allah.

That will then conclude my November diary! And December will bring out something new for me I hope. A lot more to be achieved, and that'll be one of things that I'll share in the upcoming entries.

Signing off,

Azila.


(This post was written half of it on Sunday night and was completed and published on Monday morning on the bus I'm taking now to go to FSTEP. 2 hours to kill on the bus, writing my blog would be one of the things I'd like to do apart from catching up with my sleep..hehe)