25, September, 2012
Volume I, Issue 4
Inter- Game Show Attracted Many New Comers
By Sukraj
Alor Setar: Albukhary International University, AiU Foundation Studies Programme (FSP) students enjoyed different interesting game shows on 13 September which was conducted in Male Multipurpose Hall on the second last day of orientation week.
The activities were organized to relax the student mind after long period of lecture and build different skills in them such as team work, patient, creativity, critical thinking and many more.
All the activities were based on group. The very first activity for the day was marble run. Enthusiastic students took a part actively in the activity. The competition among group was pretty tough as they worked as team. That was difficult for organizer as well because there were twenty groups and the hall was really crowded.
Another fantasy was the “Mummy in Sweet” where students were provided two rolls tissue papers per group. They need to role on the tissues paper on the body of one of their team mate to make “Mummy” In addition, after that, the “Mummy” need to run and take a sweet using her/his mouth from the plate which was full of flour.
One of the participants, Md. Mahfuz Alam 19 from Nepal said that the activities taught him many important lessons about daily life where so many things have to be solved by techniques and group work. Moreover, he added, that was a very good experience of his life where he learnt on working effectively.
“While enjoying the activities, I discovered that those games are not only fun but build healthy relationship among student”, said another active participant Hazira Binti Zabudin 19 from Malaysia. She explained especially the “Mummy” task exposed me to be tolerant and hardworking in a group.
Sakinatu Mustapha, 20 from Ghana said that some of the activities were too childish and due to tiredness she could not enjoy much. But, those activities helped to release from stress of all the day. She added in future Peer Buddy could come out more interesting activities which is mind challenging.
My Story
Football Tournament to Pulau Langkawi
By Jouma Makame Junior
September 13, 2012 was the day when I started my journey from AIU to the beautiful tourist Island known as Pulau Langkawi, as a chosen football player among fifteen chosen players to represent AIU in local football tournament which was held in Pulau Langkawi.It was kind of new experience as it was my first time to participate in this kind of tournament, especially away from my country with different people from different countries. As a normal football player the only thing that would fill up in his mind, is to participate and come out with champion but things were different from my side, because the only thing that I was thinking was how I was going to cope up for the few days that we were expected to stay together with new family (not AIU).Reaching the place, things were different from the way I expected they were. Apart from taking part in football tournament, there were few things I experienced as follows;
Interaction, as a foreigner in a certain place, he or she needs to interact with local residents of that particular place in order to know the rules as well as life style of the residents. To get to know all these details I had to get close to the local people so that they could give me more details concerning the place. This behaviour led me to the interaction with different local people and shares a lot of information about the place as well as giving them information about my country.
Teamwork, in order to achieve certain as a team, members of that particular team must work as one family. They must have the same plan to achieve a certain goal. In order to win and come back with championship, we as football players worked together as brothers from one family. Not only in the pitch but also outside, sharing ideas as well as helping each other in different aspects were our habits. Although we lost the championship but no one was sad about it because what we had learnt from the tournament and other local people was more than the championship.
Life is all about exploring and experience new things. It is not bad for people to try and experience life with new people in different environment. By doing this people may be aware about the current issues as well as exploring information about other societies around the world.
My Story
International Student Sports Carnival at University Tenaga National (UNITEN)
by: Ngene Carljenta
A popular saying in English goes thus, “Learning without playing makes Jack a dull boy”. In this respect, AIU as a whole and the sports department in particular under the general supervision of Mr. Azman and the rest of the crew gave us the support physically, spiritually, mentally, morally to participate in the International Student Sports Carnival at University Tenaga National (UNITEN).
Being a ‘baby’ university, AIU still managed to immerge victorious over many renounce and famous university in Malaysia. This was not an astonishment due to the tremendous efforts shown by many of the staff; the students to are not left out as most of them burn the mid night candles to ensure the enormous victory they achieved.
Efforts of the team coach of basketball in the person of Mr. Rosli cannot be over emphasized as he tried had to get through to the semi-finals of the tournament .Also our coach for the net ball grasped the second gold medal for the school at the end of the closing ceremony giving an overwhelming joy and smile to the faces of the entire crew of AIU as this was the last match to crown the end of the ceremony.
The dexterity of the football team too is not left out as the emerged second with specular play from very experienced players like Nchang Sanda Herve’, Jalantum Abdurazak ,just to name a few. Table tennis finished third in the group classification and Ngene Carljenta finished third in the men single 2000m indoor rowing to bring AIU to 6 medals in all. With all this, we emerge d amongst the top 5 best outstanding university for the 2012 ISSC in UNITEN. Special thanks go to Mr. Azman who was the general manager of this event.
Even though we had some setbacks such as amateurism, feeding, medication, we still managed to do all we could to the apex of our abilities to see that the flag of this our prestigious and darling institution (AIU) to fly at high altitudes. We are looking soonest to see AIU one day emerging the overall champion of this tournament ‘inshallah’.
Healthy and Productive Integration amongst International Students
By: Sukraj
Great enthusiasm was shown from the students of Albukhary International University, AiU in the International Students Sports Carnival (ISSC) 2012 which was held in Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Bangi, and Selangor Darul Ehsan from 20-23 September.
The carnival was designed for international students in Malaysia organized by Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia with the objective of healthy and productive integration amongst international students from various ethnic and nationalities. Moreover, that carnival was to encourage interaction, teamwork, friendship, respects and the basic joy of play.
From AiU, total sixty-two students participated in the carnival in eight different games out of ten. It is proud to announce that AiU has successfully managed to get medals in six games including two gold medals. The overall winner is participants from University Teknologi Petronas (UTP) with six gold medals.
AiU Netball and Female Road Relay won the gold medal. In the final match, defeating University Malaya (UM), AiU succeeded to obtain the gold medals and in road relay, AiU runners were able to complete the distance in two minutes before the first runner up which is UTP.
Moreover, AiU Football and Male Road Relay won the silver medals. Table tennis and indoor rowing (male single) also managed to obtain the bronze medals. But, unfortunately, Badminton and Basketball team were not able to go further than quarter final.
Overall, all the players and staff from AiU, are satisfied and very happy with the results and the matches. That was the first experience in such big competition, AiU should be glad because the overall results were impressive.
“Congratulations all the players and thanks for bringing the university’s name up” said one of the the ISSC participant Jeevan Tamang, 23, Nepal after returning from the carnival. He added more, if we continue doing this kind of progress; definitely AIU will be the best university not only in education but also in sports.
He added more, “For us this match was good experience to learn about the strategic, rules of games as well as taught us to be committed as one team to obtain success in future.
Currently, AiU Frisbee team doesn’t have any coach. But enthusiastic players are learning even through online videos and from experienced ones. “We need a coach and a proper training” said the team captain, Raimy Faimy, 25, from Malaysian.
“I don’t say our team is weak but our opponent team possesses more than two years experienced in this game but we have been playing for only four months. We are progressing day by day and for sure we will be one of the best Frisbee Team in Malaysia. I am requesting and inviting more international students to join in our team”, he added.
Experiences the key of success
By: Sukraj Tamang
Albukhary International University, AiU played friendly Frisbee match against Asia Medical Institute of Science and Technology, (AIMST) Sungai Petani, Kedah recently. The match was held in AiU football field around 6 pm.
The main purpose of the match was to expose AiU team to northern area university and develop friendship among them. The match was very interesting, played in three quarters in which AiU defected by the opponent team with by 5-9.
In addition, AiU Frisbee team is going to organize ‘Northern Area Ultimate Frisbee Training Clinic’ in November, and this match was an introduction for the clinic.
Amri, 20 from Tanzania said, “The match was very tough because the opponent were well coordinated and experienced”. Frisbee is all about team work where commitment from team members should be equal which was lacking in our team.