Mrs. Rina Azlin

Written by: Syazril Izwan bin Ahmad

Sometimes having someone old and wise to teach students is a great and acceptable idea, but sometimes you need someone just a little younger to understand how young students feel and act. Well, I'm going to talk about one of my favorite lecturers in Uniten, Mrs Rina Azlin.

She has taught me and my friends during our Foundation studies, both as a in-class lecturer and lab instructor. At first glance, you might think of her as a run-off-the-mill young lecturer - a bossy know-it-all. But she isn't like that at all. She's sweet, friendly, funny and willing to give students help and advice. But of course this doesn't mean you could simply slack off on your work and expect an A. She expects cooperation from her students and commitment to their work. Only when you truly listen to her teaching then you can have an enjoyable time with her as your lecturer. She manages her class well and gives her students their marks fairly and what they deserve. She indeed (well, to me) is an inspiring lecturer to all those who want to pursue in the field of education. 

This is Syazril, signing off (Pictures may or may not come soon. Stay tuned!)

Small touch big difference

Lecturers are the people who made the students becomes a true successful person after getting their graduation certificates no matter in diploma, bachelor, master or ph.D. Every lecturer have different approach in teaching the students some are strict and some are not. Most lecturers in UNITEN are in between, which sometimes they are so good to the students and sometimes they are strict to students and only for some reasons.

Well, there is a lecturer who really made me wanted to learn while being in the class. The lecturer is Norziana Binti Jamil. Norziana Binti Jamil or I always titled as Puan Ziana, is the one who I really enjoyed learning in her class. With the touch of kindness and soft spoken lecture classes, me myself and I believe most of my friends are captivated by the nature of teaching by her. Work and assignments given to us are well organized and explained.

A small bit of change can really make a big difference. To Puan Ziana, the way she conducted the class is well prepared and managed. These things really gave the students opportunity to have a good time learning in class.

Puan Ziana is also my advisor in UNITEN, once I had a quite bad result and it really made me feel insecure of my studies. So, one day Puan Ziana emailed and sent me a text messages and set a meeting with me. In the meeting, Puan Ziana gave me some advices for my future and upcoming semesters. After a while, I managed to take control of my problems and I really did quite well in future.

Puan Ziana is the type who can kill people with kindness. People who disobey her are still treated equally but will resulted in their marks. In her class, it is very simple where we must concentrate and do things what we supposed to do which is learning. Well, it is proven I did get a good result in her class.

Good things comes to life when people around us are good. Always keep ourself for being good.

MR AZLAN YUSOF

Hello readers ! Have you ever wondered who teaches us in UNITEN ? Well they say lecturers are heart of an University. Same goes to school. Teachers are the one who educate us in many different areas. Such as my mum who teaches mathematics at a school nearby. So this time around, i will talk about someone who i think really good at teaching. His name is Mr Azlan Yusof. He teaches me Web Programming for this semester. Just like my mum, what i like about him is he make sure his students understand with the subject that are being taught. His strategy of giving us exercises to me really helps the students to memorize better and constantly. From the start of the semester, when i was given a choice to choose this subject with different lecturers, i stood by and think whether i want to learn or just have fun. So i've decided to take the class with him because i've heard some good comments about him from another students. I'm not saying fun is bad and other lecturers are bad in teaching the students, but his method is the one i like the most. It suits me and thinking for the future, this subject will help me a lot in achieving my ambition which have something to do with internet. I might venture to websites or most likely to application developer. One tip for me to you readers out there, if you are taking any class which Mr Azlan is teaching. Ask this to yourself, "do i want to succeed?". If the answer is yes, i encourage you to take Mr Azlan's class. Not to forget he is funny too. So its going to be fun as well. Thank you for reading this is Dzahir signing off. =)

An Applause Is Deserved For Educators

We meet again readers :)

I guess everyone has their own favorite teacher/lecturer. Well, I have too. His name is Mr. Alan Cheah Kah Hoe. He is the lecturer of UNITEN.

This great man was my lecturer for the subject Basic Skills for Knowledge Worker (CMPF124) during my foundation year and also for the subject Statistics for Computing (CGNB293) in my last semester.

What I like about him is his teaching style. He's not the type of lecturer that comes into the class and then talk, talk and talk until the class end. He's not the boring type. He usually crack a joke during his lecture time. It is always fun to be in his class.

Even though he is a funny person, he is serious about the studies. It can be seen by the punishment he invented in his class called 'Sin Bin'. Okay, the Sin Bin works like this. He will put a chair in front of the class. Then, if he caught someone talking or playing with their mobile phone, he will call that someone to sit on that chair. Lol! It is always fun to see someone being called to be on that chair, but you can see clearly the objective of the punishment there. He wants his students to focus in his class!

The other thing that I like in his class is the challenge he always give to the students. I still remember the challenge he offered to my class for the subject CMPF124. It was on our midterm exam. He offered us the 'Double Dare' which means each question you got right, 2 marks. If you got it wrong, -2 marks but if you don't answer the question, 0 mark. So, students who are interested can take the challenge. In my opinion, he makes learning much more interesting.

I will never forget about him even when I have graduated from UNITEN. He is going to be a legendary in UNITEN.

UNITEN - Lecturer

UNITEN has a lot of academic staffs. Each of the lecturers is divided into different departments. If you need to know the profiles of the lecturers in that department, simply click any of the links below.

College of Engineering: 

• Department of Civil Engineering
• Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
• Department of Electrical Power Engineering
• Department of Mechanical Engineering

College of Information Technology: 

• Department of Graphics and Multimedia
• Department of Information Systems
• Department of Software Engineering
• Department of Systems and Networking

College of Business Management and Accounting: 

• Department of Accounting
• Department of Finance and Economics
• Department of Management and Human Resource
• Department of Marketing and Entrepreneur Development

College of Foundation and General Studies: 

• Department of Languages and Communication
• Department of Business Management and Accounting
• Department of Sciences, Mathematics and Computing
• Department of Social Sciences

College of Graduate Studies: 

• College of Graduate Studies
  

New Semester, New Apartment

Hola readers!

This is your author, Amir and I have another interesting story to tell you guys about my life in UNITEN.

Since I was doing my foundation year until I finished it then continue doing my degree I have always stayed in AMANAH apartment. I really like it there but the arrival of the first semester of the year 2012/13 ruined everything.

I applied for an apartment room in AMANAH but I couldn't get one because it is already full. Because of that, I have to apply for an apartment room at CENDIKIAWAN (CENDI for short). Noooo!!! The main reason why I don't want to stay there is because most of my friends got a room at AMANAH. That means, I will be left alone at CENDI. Haih!

Say hello to my new block, C1

Therefore, for this new semester I must stay at CENDI. At first I was like, "This place must be so boring". But then, after a few days staying there, I'm like, "Hmm, this place is not that bad.".

There great thing that I like at CENDI is the grocery store. The store sells a lot of items (especially snacks & drinks) and the most important thing is all the items are sold at a very reasonable price.

Some of the items sold at the grocery store

It is OPEN 24/7! Yeah! Whenever I feel like eating snacks I can just go down there at any time I want and buy it. Even if it is late at night :)

That's me buying a drink late at night

So i guess there's no need to worry much about which apartment you will be staying at UNITEN. For me, both AMANAH and CENDIKIAWAN are a great place to stay. 

Great Accommodation, Clean Clothes

Everyone needs a place to stay. It is better if stay inside the college. Well, there are four accommodation offered by UNITEN for the students. For ladies, there is Ilmu, which they share a room for two and Murni which they have their own room. For gentles, there is Amanah, which they share a room for two and Cendikiawan where they have their own room.



For me, I got myself a place in Cendikiawan. Cendikiawan is a very convenient place to stay. There are quite a number of students staying here in Cendikiawan.

Cendikiawan

For the students who stayed in Cendikiawan for a long time, it is undeniably that they have to wash their clothes everyday or every couple of days. Well, Cendikiawan provide laundry, it is a washer machine operated laundry and it needed to be paid before using it. It is convenient, because it is located in the ground floor of Cendikiawan, C1. Students can do their laundry faster with the laundry located inside Cendikiawan.

Time to do laundry!

Just a few steps to the laundry.

Cendikawan Laundry

Cendikiawan laundry cost only RM3.00 for washing and RM2.00/3.00/4.00 for drying the clothes. A very convenient service I can say. Well what are we waiting for? If you have used or dirty clothes, head down to Cendikiawan laundry. Let us have clean and tidy clothing in UNITEN!

For just RM3.00 my clothes are cleaned and ready to go to the dryer.

After RM2.00 and 30minutes my clothes are dried and ready.

Well, that is it from me for Accommodations. Cendikiawan's laundry is a place where you can look good in the next day in clean and tidy clothes. Well, do not forget to bring your own detergent or your dirty clothes will still be dirty clothes.