Canoes

7th November 2008....
it was a sunny and beautiful day...
so, the 49 of us, Marjon Cohort 1 and Cohort 2 students of IPKB decided to take part on a canoe course in Sungai Sabak, Kelantan...
Well, we didn't actually 'decided' but Marjon Cohort 2 was ought to do it for their CCCA syllabus and for us, it was just a golden shining opportunity to join them and get more knowledge out of the classroom.
The canoe course which is 'Kursus Kenu Tahap 1 Star Awards 1' required us to canoe 7.5 km from Pusat Aktiviti Canoe Kelantan (PACK) until we reach the shores of Sabak Beach.
It was a two day course hence we did paddle from PACK to Sabak Beach and from Sabak Beach to PACK.
We were of course accompanied by our lecturers and experienced facilitators who helped us through out this mind blowing journey.
We did feel the pain and aches in our muscles but we put it aside and focused to finish this course successfully.
It was definitely a memorable moment in our lives and it also teaches us to be strong and do not give up.
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Public Speaking

• We are getting nearer to the end of third semester in IPKB.
• So, for Language Development we were overjoyed as Mr. Muhaimi our LDEV lecturer suggested that we did a public speaking competition among us.
• Hence, 6 people were chosen to be the committee members while others became the participants. The committee also function as the judges of the competition. They did a fantastic job organizing this competition.

• The competition was divided into 2 parts. The first part was freestyle. We could chose any topic and speak for 5 minutes on the stage while the second part of this competition was impromptu. It requires us to pick a topic from a jar. For this part, we were given 3 minutes to speak.
• The competition was held on 1st November and10th November 2008.
• We learned a lot from this competition. Among them are preparation, determination and being confident to speak in front of people.
• Anyway, Jaryn won first place, Hidzer on the second place while Isna won the third place.

Congratulations to all...

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Raya Fever!

That's right... We fasted for a month so we celebrated raya for a month also...
We were very lucky and blessed to be invited to many open houses held by Mdm Nori, Mr Zul, Ms Yus and also our very own Marjonian, Fadhilah and family..

Mdm's cooking were delicious

Thank you...

Welcome to Ilah's open house

Ms. Yus cooked Nasi Beriyani that day

From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you all...

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

According to Wikipedia, badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs (doubles), who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net.

So, what does it have to do with Marjon 1? Well...

On 21st October 2008, student council of IPKB organised an open competition to all of IPKB students who wanted to participate in badminton. So, we sent our best player for this competition. They are Jaryn, 'Atikah, Syue, Haziq, Nizam, and Vikram. We also imported specially from Marjon Cohort 2 students which were Tong and Kanimoli to join the group.

The others were so excited for them, so they made pom-poms, banner, you name it.. they got it...

The first round, we only won one for women's singles and it was a great achievement for us. We had a great time that night. Furthermore, we were very thrilled and excited to cheer them again for the second time in the second round of the game. Then, on the second round (29 October 2008), Amirul also played in the competition. This time we won women's singles again and also women's doubles. We gave the opponents a tough time to beat us.

Anyhow, it was very refreshing and gave us a whole new spirit.

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Hari Raya Celebration in IPKB on the October 9th, 2008.




the making of our special edition Raya card.

we do not leave learning to 'chance'
we seek it through life experience
... with ardour and dilligence
(B. Ed TESL IPKB-MARJON 1)

Blood Donation

One of the interesting activities that we had joined during last Ramadhan Month was Blood Donation Programme which was held on the 22nd September 2008. This programme was organized at Hospital Raja Perempuan Zainab 2 by our juniors, Marjon 2 students with the cooperation of Rakan Masjid Club.

medical check-up session

At the Blood Donation Centre, as first-time donors, ten of us (Aiman, Haziq, Nizam, Timie, Hafizah, Wani, Isna, Jaryn, Syue and Shari) undergone a medical check-up session to ensure that we were qualified to donate blood. After that, as the dusk had approached, we broke our fast together at the centre before the blood donation programme started.

during blood donation

All in all, we really had a memorable experience donating blood although we were a bit scared at the first time. Full supports given by our tutors, Madam Noor Akbari and Mr. Zulkefli, not forgetting our beloved classmates had made us undergone the process as easy as ABC. This activity was very enjoyable indeed and we are looking forward to participate in such programme in future.

a drop of blood could save thousands of lives

Happy Ramadhan Al- Mubarak

On 15th of September, B.Ed TESL IPKB-MARJON COHORT 1 students had organized a “Breaking fast activity with Marjon 2 students” at Tarbush Restaurant which situated in Kota Bharu.


The lecturers from Language Department, our Director as a special guest and Deputy Director had turned up to the occasion. It was really our pleasure to have them there. At 7.00 p.m,, almost everybody was in the room and the MC took over the ceremony. After hearing a few speeches, we broke of the fast together with some prayers.



The cuisines for that day were Arabian style Briyani (special dish in Tarbush), some desserts and drinks. Undoubtedly, the foods were really very delicious and still fresh in our tongues. To add grander to our occasion, the activity also coincided with our Miss Yusmiza’s birthday. All of us went to the stadium to complete our Tarawih Prayer before returning to the college.

We thanked the lecturers and students for attending our occasion despite the bad weather. This kind of activity should be done yearly in order to create a good bond between two different cohort students. It serves like a platform for us to get to know each other better.

Social Studies Exhibition

This Social Studies Exhibition was the first exhibition that we conducted in our institute. Normally, we organized activities outside our institute. We started off collecting articles on various types of topic which include the main topic ‘Conflict and Resolution’. All the hard work designing the best work had paid off well during the day of exhibition.




Each group brought their best product that they had been working hard on the previous week. After all the preparation, we officially started our exhibition by given the first hand job to our SS lecturers, evaluating our work as this was part of our assignment.
The lecturers of course provide us with a lot of critical thinking questions and we found that interesting and more importantly beneficial. All the relevant questions asked were answered and to be further analysed. We also took this opportunity to learn from our mistake and attentively obeyed the lecturer’s comment.




This exhibition was later open to public and we really received a warm respond from the institute. In addition, our presentation comprised of many types of innovative media helped to bring the event to success. The video, music, real life object, and poems were the main attractions of the day. We manage to explained how conflict started and how to resolve it with fact-based true stories.
Lastly, the exhibition were officially closed when our Director, Mr. Hashim Bin Deraman came over to visit our station. He was pleased and amazed with our job and hope that we can produced more quality exhibition in the institute the near future.

Happy Independence Day!!!

On the eve of Independence Day (30 August 2008), Marjon 1 was excited to be in Wawasan Hall and we were ready to countdown so that we could shout 'Merdeka!" together. We were very proud of our class because our class is multiracial and we never compared anything between ourselves.





Furthermore, we also participate in the 'best costume' competition for that night and guess what?? We won!.. well, we won as the first runner up.. But, it was fun and shocking! We never thought that we could win at all. So, Happy Independence Day you guys!! Malaysia Boleh!! Perpaduan Teras Kejayaan!

3,2,1 ACTION!!!

Our class had been assigned to do a theatre performance as our assignment for English Studies. This theatre performance is based on William Shakespeare’s novel entitled The Merchant of Venice. This story was about Antonio, a rich merchant who had risks his life for his close friend, Bassanio. In order to help his friend, Antonio had to borrow money from Shylock, a person who was hated him so much. This had led to many conflicts and ended with a tragic ending.


This theatre had been performed in front of 250 people on 27 August 2008 at Bakti Hall. Our theatre started at 8 pm; however, in order to make sure everything was under control, all of us had gathered at the hall since morning and settled down all the unfinished work. On that night, the audience seemed to be very satisfied and impressed with our performance. All of them had enjoyed and felt happy with our performance. Apart from that, we also gave them a lucky draw too.



The day after the play, we had received so many compliments from our lecturers and friends. However, the nice feeling of receiving compliments cannot beat the feeling of being able to do something which required great effort and determination. This is because during a month of preparation, we had faced so many problems as we did not have experience of producing a theatre. However, all of us managed to handle it as we were so united, helped each other and worked days and nights just to produce a perfect theatre which will be one of our sweet memories.

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Sabah Bah

• Finally on the 11th until 14th August 2008, our IPKB-IPGAYA Colloquium 2008 has come to reality. The main aim is to build a closer relationship between the Marjon 1 students from IPKB and IPGAYA was definitely achieved through this project. Arriving at 1 o’clock in the morning, we were nicely welcomed by the students and some lectures at IPGAYA.
• Besides the formal teaching & learning in class, we also used the opportunity to play Ping Pong together as it is in the Co-Curricular Activities (CCCA) syllabus and also watched their ‘The Merchant of Venice’ play rehearsal.The experience going to class and study with them for almost a week actually help us to enhance not only our relationship but also our study and learning skills as we mingle and share lots of new things together.

• Moreover, our program there became more meaningful with the presence of our Deputy Director and also an officer from the HEP department of the TED to support our programme and also shared experience and gave motivation talks to us.
• On the 14th which was our last day with our counterpart, we had our closing ceremony after finishing our Language Description quiz. Later we took photographs together and started to move to Sabah International Airport. We arrived at Low Cost Carrier Terminal(LCCT) at 8.00pm. Even though we didn't climb Mount Kinabalu, all of us were delighted with this trip and went home happily to celebrate our mid semester holiday.
  
  
  
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Welcome to the Marjon Family

• Marjon emperor has become bigger starting this new semester with the registration of the Marjon Cohort 2 students.
• In sense of reducing the senior and junior’s gap and also enhance the relationship of this two cohort, Marjon 1 students initiated a welcoming party to welcome our brothers and sisters.
  
• Special thanks to the committee members in charge of this party for making this ceremony a memorable one.
• We hope through this welcoming party, Marjon family will become even closer and stronger.
  
• Hopefully, it will become a tradition of Marjon family and continued by the rest of the cohorts.

Friendship is being created.

Shall We Poco-Poco?

Don't get us wrong..
We were helping IPKB's student council to do the aerobic session on the orientation week for the new intake 2008.

Bussiness Time!!!

Right after the paper work of Sabah Colloquium had been approved, we move to our next activity which was collecting money. We were collecting money for our expenses in Sabah and buying flight tickets. Actually, this was the toughest part among all yet it was the most exciting part to be remembered. We were doing business in IPKB to raise fund such as selling breads, open a stall during the registration day of new intake July 2008 and also selling ‘Nasi Lemak’ for breakfast during weekend.We went to every room thrice a week to sell various types of breads such as ‘Spider web’, ‘Mexican bun’, ‘Cheese bun’, and also ‘Pizza’.Even though it was really tiring to go to every room but we enjoyed every time we see all the breads were finished.



On the registration day of new intake (14th July 2008), we sold food that we cooked such as ‘pisang goreng’, nugget, chicken balls, keropok lekor, fries and also bread at the stall. Some of us also sold drinks and we were really proud because we opened the stall at about 8 a.m and around 12 p.m all of the food and drinks had been sold out!! Woohaa...



Mdm. Nori supported us all the way.



We sold greeting cards and also mineral water.

Goodbye Second Semester

Before we even realizing it, second semester was about to end. Time flew so fast. So, as the closure of the second semester in our two year foundation in IPKB, we had a small party. We had invited a few lecturers to come. After being nearly a year together, we have become good friends and known each other much more better.


oh, ya. We also held a get together with two of the IPKB-UiTM Cohort 2 students. They shared their wonderful experience climbing the highest mount in Malaysia, Mount Kinabalu when they were in their foundation year. The both of them told us on how they raised money for achieving their aim. They really had inspired us to do the same. So, we quickly form a committee and prepared the working paper. Sabah! Here we come!