Share your story of learning something Challenging. by Raihanah Mohd Mydin

MY STORY OF LEARNING SOMETHING CHALLENGING

a179385 — 2020-11-04 05:25:25 UTC

"The greater the obstacles, the more glory in overcoming it" this quote means that the obstacles make ourselves become more stronger. Everyone has their own struggle in their lives. I,ve been learning something challenging during my stpm life and the process was not easy. I've been failed in so many times in my trial examinations and that was not easy to handle. I've to answer to my parents and my siblings why the result was so bad. But then, I took their words as a passion and spirit for me to score in the real examination. I did feel lose hope and give up during my stpm life. I always think that I cannot even manage to get the best pointer.But then, I did asked tips from senior on how to perform in studies, and asked a lot of question to my teacher and do a lot of assignments. I kept telling myself that I will get the best pointer if I kept work hard and study smart. And yaa Alhamdulillah every sem I got 3.5 and above and one of the best student in my school. In my opinion, as long as we work hard to achieve our target, then the obstacles are only a piece of cake. Always believe in yourself and never give up.

Learning Something Challenging

a182053 — 2020-11-04 05:38:47 UTC

When I was in secondary school, I was very weak in mathematics. Every time I took an exam, I always get bad marks. I feel ashamed of my friends because they got good results. During SPM trial I got an E for mathematics subject. At this point I felt so sad that I felt like giving up. I was admitted to an intensive math class. This time I really want to give up but at the same time I want to get excellent results in SPM. So, to overcome this problem, I watched a tutorial on answering math questions on youtube. I also started practicing at least 5 questions a day. I always ask my friends and teachers about questions I do not understand. I also did past year question questions to strengthen my understanding. Finally when the SPM exam results were announced, I got an A for the math subject. I am very happy and proud of myself. All the hard work I have done has paid off.

Learning something Challenging

a175540 — 2020-11-04 06:53:59 UTC

I would say rather then learning something challenging, I was facing a challenging environment or situations.
It was during after SPM years, where I wanted to pursue my study in Psychology. The process was not easy because I receive a different program for my diploma. Of course I ever get discouraged. Even few of my aunties would disagree if I take psychology perhaps because my personality (which they only know from the outside) isn't suitable for the program.
So during taking Diploma in Applied Science, I do enjoy my journey as I meet new close friends who accept the way I am. I was far away from my family in Kuching, it was challenging because everything was so new to me. The environment especially. Well, I didn't give up and will proof my aunties wrong.
After 3 years, my sweats and tears paid off. I got the chance to prove them wrong. I was beyond happy when I got to enroll psychology in UKM.
How I overcome the fear?? Take every words of the negativity and challenge myself to do better and prove to myself I can do it. It's for my own good, not anyone. Not even my aunties.
Alhamdulillah. Everything is okay just the way I like it.

Thank you,
Nurnadhirah binti Norazman A175540

Journey of Mine: Learning something Challenging.

a181904 — 2020-11-04 06:54:28 UTC

"I want to be a famous novel writer like Stephen King and Haruki Murakami." I said with confident when my teacher asked about my dreams. Back then when I was in secondary school, I'm always read books and I'm felt in love towards creative writing and planned to write my own story. I look upon the sky and asked myself, " Can I do it?". A. Samad Said once said, "If you want to do better in writing, you have to do these three thing: first is read, second is read and the last one is read.". I'd followed his advised and I'd gained knowledge on how to do better in creative writing. I managed to write my first story, Dear Kafka, and another stories came on and on.
After writing many short stories, I planned to write a novel. For me, it was hard as I need to make the story long and sometimes my brain surrounded with writer's block (which is a state that happen when a writer does not have any idea to continue its own story.). I've got depressed and wanted to stop writing. Luckily, I have my family, friends and fans to help me. They encourage me to finish up my story. At last, I was able to write my first novel on 2018 (I did not publish it...sorry.) titled, Resentment.
I'm hoping that one day I can publish my own novel. Wish me luck!

At first I thought it will be a quick, express learning. I was wrong.

a177565 — 2020-11-04 06:58:35 UTC

Most of us who were born in the 90's and in the last decade have adequate internet knowledge. From setting up a personal social media account to registering multiple e-wallets for our family business, we, millennials and zoomers can do them in no time. These tasks are considered trivial to us such that we either eager to help someone with it or shake our head in dismay.

My story happened back when I was in secondary school. I was an avid video gamer back then. When the company opened an interview to be a game moderator, I instantly applied. For those who do not know, a game moderator is the middle-man between the game players and the game developers. We exist because, if a game has over ten thousand players, and all of them have a suggestion, the devopers have to read ten thousand of suggestions. So, we, moderators would filter the suggestions, collect the good ones, and send it in a proper report to the developers.

That part of the job is the easy part of the job. The harder part is managing the video game community. There is a social media sites that is commonly used by game developers as the game's community called Discord. Discord is tailored to suit gaming and socializing at the same time. The community's discussion tab is the equivalent of Facebook Groups, called Discord Servers. Unlike Facebook Groups, Discord Servers are highly customizable and rich in features, such as 24/7 voice channel, interactive online events and infinite discussion channels for different topics, all in one single community.

My first task is setting up a Discord Server for the game. My thought was "okay, just like Facebook Pages and Groups. I can do this,". Lo and behold the long journey of setting up a single discussion channel for the server. And I have to do dozens more. This task took me over a week. We have a team in setting up the server, all with different errands. From 8 people, we were down to just three when the server is officially opened for the game players.

During the period, it was hellish. The game marketing and service officers will do a Skype call almost one to two times daily. Regardless where we live and our timezone, we must be there when a call is issued. We already know this, but the catch is so good we signed the agreement. Back then in 2015, Discord is not as simple as now. I Googled many guides, watched many videos just to set up a server. I had to do a completely new settings for each channel in the server if something is not right which usually took me two to four hours given I was just a school boy. When the second member of the team left us, I began to question myself. Does it worth it? Will I be staying with the game for years to come? The thought of failing this task and stabilizing my mental kept telling me to quit.

Then, the day arrived when the server is officially launched. It was not the end because we have to be online every day as admins to the server. But the hardest hurdle had passed. We may not celebrate together as a team of three due to the long distance between us, but the sound of the officers clapping their hands as we finalized the final settings gave us a huge relief. We were paid, of course, with both in-game currency and real money. And, we only need to spend two hours daily as game moderators.

Since then, I actively assist others in any Discord Server building for other communities. The social media evolved from a game-focused social media site to a more flexible-for-all site. Now, it took me mere minutes to set up one. Now and then I will look back on the harsh experience of learning and mastering something in a really short amount of time. What a memory.

Luqman Hakim Bin Murad
A177565

Learning something challenging

a158237 — 2020-11-04 07:22:28 UTC

I would say that learning Additional Mathematics in Form 4 was one of the most challenging subjects that I have learned. It was the first time that I became extremely afraid of failing academically. I remembered struggling like never before to understand what I’m actually being taught. I somehow could not process and digest how to solve any of those equations or mathematical problems. I could remember all the formulas but I did not know how to apply those. It frustrated me a lot, not knowing and understand what it is I’m learning. I started to give up gradually because I did not see the purpose of solving any equations as it did not seem important – not something that would be essential in life. I decided to take a break for a year, as I wanted to clear my mind too. So I did not practice much which also meant that my grades for this subject were bad throughout Form 4. But in Form 5 I found the motivation again to start learning it, and I was less afraid of failing again. I just took it as a learning process and did not focus too much on getting an A. I attended tuition to get extra help. Thankfully all of it paid off. I started to make progress, slowly but surely I did. I realised that all I needed to do was practice more even though it meant more than other students.

Shamita A/P Chantherasarathy Naido (A158237)

Learning Something Challeging

a1742081 — 2020-11-04 07:40:15 UTC

When I was little, around 5-6 years old, I spent most of my time at my cousin's house. They share the same interest in drawing and watching geek movies and series, and I, the youngest there, was influenced to start drawing and creating stories through pictures.
I started slow, drawing only puffy stickmen (how is that possible hahaha) and put names and so on. I also drew horribly lots and lots of Powerpuff Girls arts. And I am still learning to improve my artworks, but now I am more to digital illustrations and creating life-like arts. The process was never easy, I spent lots of my time and money, just to improve myself on this area of interest. Plus, I am a fan of those sorts so all the fan merchandises are extremely pricey. Honestly speaking, I rarely feel discouraged to make more art since it is my passion and I love to train myself more. But I do face challenges such as lack of time and money, and worst case scenario would be an artblock (a period of time when an artist cannot access their creativity and/or they cannot bring themselves to create a new piece of work) like now. I am having an artblock now hahaha. My longest artblock would be around 3 years. I always feel like i couldn't succeed in this area since art isn't really looked up in our society. It does bring me joy and some commissions but it's just that. But I will find alternatives to turn this into a successful path. I overcame this fear is that I know that different people have different pace, and I shouldn't worry much if I am slow in making more art. I know well that I am able to create more. I'm hoping that one day, I'll be able to become my own illustrator (and make my own art supplies!)

Good luck everyone <3

Sabrina Adia binti Mohd Sharizal
A174208

Learning something challenging.

2020-11-04 08:00:22 UTC

My ambition since I was a little kid was to be a teacher. I study hard to get flying colour results to get enroll into education courses. I got a good result in SPM and I apply to study at Institut Pengajian Guru(IPG). I failed on the second interview. But, I'm not give up. I pursued my studies to pre university level after rejected a diploma offer. I study hard to get a really good result and I got 4.00 for my STPM. I apply for education course at UPSI, but I failed on the second interview. I got enrolled into UKM. Now, I got 2 ambitions to choose whether on pursuing my education diploma and apply to be a teacher or pursuing my studies to a higher level which is master or Phd and apply to become a lecturer. I loves teaching others and I want our young generation become someone who will represent Malaysia in international level and makes us proud to be a Malaysian. I will not give up on my dream.

NUR SABRINA BINTI MOHAMAD
A179406

My journey.

A170763 — 2020-11-04 08:49:24 UTC

Life is just like playing a game of chess. It was always easier in the start but as we move forward, challenges and obstacles come to us one by one. In my life, there's a lot of challenges came as I grow older. But as far as I can remember, there's a things that brought me to where I am right now. I am a martial art player in silat. It was never an easy journey for me. Well, eventhough it was my choice at first but as time flies, the feel of quitting is quite strong. At that time, I was haunting by the wild thought especially when I got a lot of bruises in my body. There is one time that I can even move my leg because my knee was injured. Besides, I need to divide my time between practice and academics. As practice silat will take until late night and it was tiring for me. I think that I have a strong reason to quit but there is that, my coaches and friends are the one that help changing my mind. I spend my time thinking on how to overcome this and finally I made a decision. Bruises are temporary and time can be planned. I will take this as a challenge and I believe in myself that I can do this. I change my mindset that this small things will never bring me down. Thanks to the people who courage me to try again. So, here I am now. I managed to finish my practice in 2 years and need to go through a big test soon. Pray for me! WARDA BINTI FAISAL (A170763)

Learning Something Challenging - A Balanced Lifestyle

a172264 — 2020-11-04 10:14:07 UTC

As someone who is privileged to not only be a university student, but also genuinely enjoy what I am studying, I take pride in learning and understanding the materials being taught in the various subjects of my course. However, what I find to be challenging particularly as a student, is learning to live a fulfilling balanced life while being able to achieve my academic goals. The challenge presents itself when having to balance my time between the different subjects, health, and social life, while satisfying my desire for learning and producing quality work.

Throughout the past semesters, the process of trying to balance everything was and is still definitely not easy. There were times when I had to sacrifice my health in order to meet due dates. It is often easy to let academics take precedence, while we neglect to make time for other aspects of our lives. This might seem common or normal as students, but it is something I personally aimed to work against in my quest for achieving a balanced lifestyle. This would also mean that I would have to finish my work as planned and that there was no room for procrastination, which was something I had to learn to overcome as well.

Inevitably, there were times when I felt discouraged especially when I did not perform as well I thought I would or should have during a test, or when I ended up procrastinating and had to sacrifice my sleep or time for other activities. Throughout the semesters, there were also many times when I definitely felt I would not be able to achieve what I wanted to, that there was just no way I could. I often wondered if it is possible at all to achieve the balanced life I was hoping for. At the same time, I had no choice but to push through since I couldn’t just neglect the due dates despite what I felt.

My fear of failure in not being able to achieve what I deemed as a balanced life was represented in my failure of achieving my academic goals and my overall well-being. As a reflective person, I have found that reminding myself to be humble in accepting whatever results as indicative of my progress has helped me put these failures into perspective as it reminds me that learning is a progress, and that I’ll always have much more to learn. This gave me the hope and comfort I needed to carry on. While I wouldn’t say that I have mastered the art of living a balanced lifestyle, I can say with confidence that I have made satisfactory amount of progress from when I first started and will hopefully continue to do so.

Ho Su Mei
(A172264)

Learning Something Challenging

2020-11-04 10:45:03 UTC

Nurhazirah Dzulkarnain
(A177602)

When I was in my secondary school, I have challenges in understanding subject for science stream. I try hard to make sure that I am not going to fail in my SPM by trying really hard in understanding all those subject especially additional mathematic. Even though I pay full of attention when my teacher teach in class, I still cannot understand fully what had been taught in previous class session. I will spend my leisure time with my friends to study together, so that they can help me with any topic that I cannot understand by my own. I also attend additional class on the weekend with all subjects in science stream. Since I am really struggling with all those subjects, my only hope at that time is I am not going to fail in my SPM. Luckily, my SPM result is acceptance even though it is not so good but it achieve my hope that I do not want to fail with subjects in science stream.

It make me realize that I should change my course and strengthen what I am good in. I decided to pursue my studies in TESL for my Diploma and my Bachelor Degree. I am always believe that every hardship will to be a happiness at the end of the day.

Learning Something Challenging Through My Up and Down

a180043 — 2020-11-04 10:54:00 UTC

To be honest, there is a lot going on inside my life right now. So many up and down that I had to handle myself. Actually I am a Introvert person. I really don’t have any confident meet someone new or talking to a stranger. I will become quite ,shy and always be on my phone so that I can pretended to be busy. Even though with my friends and I will do the same with my family because I really don’t like to talk and don't have any topic to discuss.

But, I read some articles in Instagram, if I always be like this, not have any confidence and don’t socialize ,it can bring negativity into my life style like have a depression, lonely, don’t have many friends and mostly about your mental health. So I decided that I don’t want to be like that. I want to have a healthy lifestyle and don’t want bring any trouble around me. So, my first step to overcome my Introvert life style is joining school camping when I was high school doing STPM.

There is a lot of activities that must use communication to each other. From that, I can talk to someone that never know casually. It’s kind of awkward moment because I don’t have any ideas what to talk about. At the night of that camping, we are sitting around of camp fire. The instructor told us to share your weakness.

Surprisingly, I volunteer myself to share my own weakness and some secrets to everyone .For a moment I was stutter because there is a lot of people staring at me. So I shared my weakness and they all clapping for my confidence even though it’s a not long talk. From that experience until now, I can speak well with stranger.

From my story, what I learned is that if you want to change your life is all depends on your efforts. Everyone has a wish to become a better person but if you not take it seriously or not doing any action, you will never change and your wishes will become dream that you will never reach in your life.

Muhammad Razwan Fadli Bin Rosdi
(A180043)

MY JOURNEY OF LEARNING SOMETHING CHALLENGING.

a180322 — 2020-11-04 13:32:34 UTC

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” - Michael Jordan

If we failed so many times it doesn't mean we can't be succesful. Of course it is not an easy process. We can be sad about it but we can't forever be sad about it. Learning to accept the failure and started to stand up strong again is quite challenging so, we need to physically and mentally prepared in order to be succesful.

Back then, on the day I got my SPM result. I was dissapointed in myself because I could't give my best so I made people around me dissapointed. Someone said to me "You could at least get this A but why can't you?". I was sad and thinking I could't do anything for myself and for my family. So I will just follow the flow by taking STPM since it was the best for myself and my family due to some financial problem at that time and my mom was sick.

This was where my challenging story began. I was a science stream students but my result was not qualified for me to take science during form 6 so I need to change my course to social science. I took economy, business, malay language, general studies and muet subjects. I never learned about economy and business before so it was quite challenging for me to catch up. It was hard because I need to do some extra study and work since I don't have any basic. Somehow during our final om first semester, it went well even though i'm not fully prepared but I really did my best. On the day our first semester result came out, I got result higher than my expectation since i'm not confident enough before. I even got an award at school being one of the top 10 students in our batch. I felt like i'm dreaming but it was the reality.

Semester 2 was the toughest for me because we had the shortest period which was four months to cover all the chapters. It was very hectic since we need to balance our co-curiculum and academic. Sometimes I feel like giving up because I was exhausted but I remember this one saying by William Shakespeare "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt." Self-doubt can be a troubling and persuasive voice that holds us back. It holds us back from seizing our opportunities.

I think third semester which was my final semester was the peak of my life because my final result was beyond expectation. I got 4 flat and my overall result is also qualified for me to be here, in UKM. Please remember that YOU are not a failure, that everyone have setbacks, to be constructive in the face of adversity and so on. By doing these things over and over and making them habits your self-esteem improves.

I can't forget those moments who make me to become this kind of person right now. I believe if we work harder and overcome our failures we will get through it. Just because we failed today or yesterday doesn’t mean that we will fail the next time. We will reach our own success in the near future.

Thank you.

Nur Ashikin Binti Nor Azli
A180322

No Pain No Gain

2020-11-04 13:58:12 UTC

Muhammad Farid Amirul bin Mohd Miswan (A178400)

When we are discussing about learning, I remembered that someone had told me that everything in this world is not easy. I could not agree more with that statement as I feel it myself. The transition that I have been through from primary school to my degree life, made me realised the struggles and challenges that will always be chasing you. I just cannot run away from it, like Thanos said “ I am inevitable” - where at this point the challenges is the Thanos.

To be honest, there will be some points where I just want to give up and do nothing especially when I struggle to comprehend with the lesson. I started to think like maybe I can just put away this subject and focus on the others. I started to lose hope. But deep in my heart, I know that I should not act like this. There is a voice saying that I should keep going and focus on the present.

So, I decided to take some break and do something to unwind and relight the “fire” in me. I found that it is okay to take a break and release all the burden and haywire stuffs out from the head. But that does not mean that I have passed the challenges that await me. I need to face it and when I succeed, surprisingly the challenges have transformed into some sort of strength or booster for me.

Challenges make you stronger. Do not run away from it but take them as a driving force to improve yourself. The only thing that I want to share is when you find yourself stuck and tired with everything around you, just take a break. Do not push yourself too hard. Do whatever you want to cherish yourself, take a walk somewhere or enjoy the breeze at the seaside. And by the time you feel recharged, come back and walk your path.

The process of learning something challenging

a182967 — 2020-11-04 15:07:57 UTC

I have always detested mathematics because I have been terrible at it. I hated the feeling when I already passionate at the beginning of doing math's exercises but at the end, I still get the wrong answers. For me, doing maths are very mentally exhausted especially when the answers have long solutions. Moreover, the thing about maths is, there's no room for error. If you make mistake at the beginning of the solutions, you will mess up the final answer. Even if only one number is wrong, you will never get the right answers. That's why I always frustrated when doing maths. Also, I was always wondering why I should solve the maths problems even though I have my own problems that yet need to be solved. It also does not help that I hate seeing numbers. However, the mathematics syllables during lower form are quite bearable but not until during upper form. Even more worse, I have to face the 'infamous' additional mathematics. It's like the trouble become double. During the early year of form 4, I was not motivated to study those subjects. I ignored the homeworks that I was supposed to do because I don't want to feel mentally exhausted. I also slept during class because even though I focus, I will never understood. So I was thinking, 'what's the point of that?' and sleep was way more better option during that moment. I was behaved that way until there is an additional mathematics test where I only got 13 marks out of 100. That was the lowest mark that I have ever got in my life. That event was an eye opener for me to change because I was so ashamed with myself. Honestly, I felt very bad towards my family more than myself, especially my parents. They were very dissapointed with me. Starting from that, I started forcing myself to understand the questions and solve the problems. I will ask help from my friends, joined study group and do many exercises. Then, I realised that maths and additional mathematics are not that bad and they are actually quite fascinating because even there are more than one way to solve the problems but at the end, we will still get the same answers. Moreover, the best feeling ever is when you got the right final answers after a long way of solutions. However, there were so many times that i felt so hopeless and blamed myself for not realising earlier. Sometimes when I didn't get the final answers of the problems, I will give up and cried myself to sleep. I also thought that I was too late to change and improve myself but Alhamdulillah during SPM, I managed to got A+ for mathematics and A- for additional mathematics.

SITI NURSYASYA AINA BINTI MOHAMED YUSOF
A182967

Challenging yourself can lead to a lot of personal growth

nurulnajwayusri — 2020-11-04 15:48:28 UTC

As a start, I want to describe myself as a very shy person and I have this one feeling which is afraid to speak in front of many people. For example, I’ve always struggled with interviewing, participating in giving ideas, oral presentations and many more. I have this one mindset which is I’m always scared of making mistakes, and I also think that people will talk bad about me.

I once attended an interview, which was an interview for the admission of new intake IPG. This was my first interview and I took a very long time practicing to face this interview. Unfortunately, it did not go well. I failed in this interview. I believe my failure was due to my lack of confidence. In 2016, I further my study in diploma at Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris. The course that I took was quite challenging which is most of the assignment given, there must be a presentation as well. So, from that, I learnt to be brave talking in front of people.

One day, I challenge myself to try for an emcee interview. Alhamdulillah, I did very well. I got many positive comments from the jury and my friends. I feel more confident with myself. At that moment, I got many offers to become an emcee for several events. From that, I managed to challenge myself to be confident and not afraid to face many people. Besides that, before I continued my studies at UKM, I used to hold the position of marketing admin in 3 companies. As a marketing admin, I have to be creative in giving ideas and most importantly dare to speak to convince people. I admit that my confidence level is still low and I do make mistakes but I tried my best to be a great marketing person. Over the past few years, I’ve grown a lot as a person. I’ve challenged myself to try new experiences and meet new people, putting myself in situations that previously I probably would have avoided.

It turns out, challenging yourself can lead to a lot of personal growth!

Nurul Najwa Binti Yusri
A175528

Pushing My Brain To The Limit

a174631 — 2020-11-05 03:55:11 UTC

The most challenging thing I have learned was additional mathematics subject. Everyone needs to learn mathematics. Some can catch the lesson fast and some might not but for all I know, I had a hard time learning it. I used to almost fail every exam. The subject was not easy for me to process at all. It took a long time, almost 2 years indeed. It was during my trial exam that I failed and got a very low mark. I remember thinking that I might not pass and extremely important exam just because my brain cannot process the learning.

However, to overcome the problem, I forced myself and my brain to revise and understand all the concept and luckily my result got better and I remember feeling very happy. One thing I learned from that experience is that sometimes I need to push my brain to the limit to understand and learn something that is hard for me to grasp.

Nurain Shavika Binti Ahmad Shauffi (A174631)

Learning Something Challenging

2020-11-05 06:01:48 UTC

The most challenging thing I have learned was chemistry. Back in my SPM days, I hated Chemistry a lot. I am the kind of person that when I don't understand a thing, I really have the urge to give up. I got through SPM and got a C in Chemistry. well go figure right? Then I went to matriculation and took module 1, and there it was.... Chemistry. The first few months of the second semester, I was struggling because I can't seem to understand the concept. My grades went down, then the teacher asked me to come in for a consult. Another thing about me is, I really really hate being seen as incompetent. So, after the consult, I promised myself to never go in for a consult again and I worked hard, soon my hard work paid off, I got an A and Chemistry has been my favourite subject ever since :)

Nurul Izzah Binti Jalal
(A164878)

My Story Of Learning Something Challenging

FATIN_FARHAH_A181886 — 2020-11-05 07:55:52 UTC

I would like to share one of my stories of learning something challenging. The story is about how challenging I was to be a school prefect at my secondary school. To be a school prefect was not my dream, and it never crossed my mind. Why? Because I was an introverted person. I don't like to speak up in front of people or provide ideas.

But one day, my teacher told me that I was selected to be one of the candidates for school prefects and need to perform a manifesto. At that time, I felt horrible. Manifesto? Not even a speech I dare to do. But one of my teachers told me that I could do that. So I accepted it and challenged myself to do it. On the next day, there was an announcement of students that have been selected to be school prefects, and my name was on it. I was selected to be an exco academic prefect.

Throughout my tenure as a school prefect, I faced many challenges. For example, I was scolded and directed by my teacher for more courage to speak in public. I used to feel like to resign from the post. But one of my partners encouraged me to stay and challenged me to push myself like another school prefect.

Since then, I have changed myself to be more active. I confront those students that made mistake by myself, give a speech in front of the students, provided some ideas, and reformed my team.
As a result, at the end of the year, my team was awarded to be the best Exco among the school prefects.

So, the conclusion, sometimes we need to be brave to challenge ourselves to do something beyond our comfort zone and the most important thing is to trust yourself.

Fatin Farhah Binti Akhmal
A181886

Something Challenging, Something Changed

a1734931 — 2020-11-05 10:30:24 UTC

"If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you"

Three years ago, after receiving my SPM results, I was pretty disappointed with myself. For me, I thought I could’ve done it better. I did not expect flying colours but at least something satisfying. I cried for days and I belittled all my effort, saying that it wasn’t enough.

Until one day I realized I couldn’t hold on to the past forever. Yes, my result was a prime part of my life and I wasn’t happy with it however, it is not the end of the world. After days and weeks of feeling pathetic, I decided that it was time for a change. Let bygones be bygones they said.

My dearest aunty suggested me to take Foundation in TESL. At first, I was hesitant because I thought I won’t be getting anywhere with it, also I believe that I was just a mediocre person when it comes to language.

When I was studying there, I wouldn’t say it was easy, it was tough. Learning English from bits to pieces was actually challenging. Grammar was like Mathematics. Countless essays every week and of course tons of journals to read. Sometimes, I would cry because it was hard and I thought I wouldn’t be able to cope but I was lucky to have an amazing support system.

But in that challenging process, I learnt a lot, some of the classes that I took were literature and drama. Truth to be told, I dislike getting out of my shell. Nonetheless, I had to present and act in front of many people. Through it, I brushed a lot of social skills.

In a nutshell, going into my foundation year was a challenge. It was a major transition which help me grow into a better and stronger person. I believe if we truly put our heart in something we do, we will eventually succeed.

Dayang Nur Anissa bt Abang Feizal
(A173493)

Learning Something Challenging - Ukulele and Guitar

2020-11-06 04:53:47 UTC

When I was 15, I always wanted to learn how to play musical instruments. I told myself that I have to learn at least one musical instrument of my lifetime. Maybe other than my interest in music, my passion to learn musical instruments was driven by my jealousy of seeing my cousins were taught to play guitar by their father. In my family, no one plays music. So I had a tough beginning of my journey. I started to save money to buy a ukulele, a small guitar with 4 strings. When I was 16, I managed to buy it with my own money. I were so happy, so I started my ukulele class of my own, I self-taught. Firstly, I learned how to strum the ukulele on youtube. Then, I used google to search for chords and drew them on an A4 paper. Then I tape them on my wall so it would be easier for me to learn. I started to practicing the chords every day. Soon after, my fingers getting faster on changing from a chord to another, I learned to play from minor chords to major chords. After a year, I managed to play a lot of songs. Then, when I was 18 I felt like learning how to play actual guitar, bigger guitar with 6 strings. It began when a special friend of mine bought it for me as a gift. I started to learn new chords for 6 strings guitar. It was a bit confusing and harder because both of ukulele and guitar chord names were the same. Both of them used Am, Dm, Bm, A, G and so on but they’re not the same. The Am for guitar, is a different Am for ukulele. I experienced this mixed up chords for awhile. It took me some time to memorize them. I almost gave up because I felt tired. I thought it was so difficult and I wanted to quit. I did quit for weeks. But a friend of mine knowing I was giving up, he shared a youtube video of guitar learning session, the teacher said “it is totally normal to feel like you will never play the guitar”. I watched the video and told myself that I have reached this far to give up. So I picked up my guitar again and restart all over again. I keep playing and watch videos on youtube for motivation. I practiced harder this time. In a year or so I managed to play both guitar and ukulele without chords confusion. Practice makes perfect! So, that’s my story of learning something challenging and I am so elated to share this with everyone!

2020-11-06 12:28:23 UTC

LEARNING SOMETHING CHALLENGING - MY STORY

Ahmad Asraf Bin Nasaruddin (A176772)

During my days in secondary school, from Form 1 to Form 6, i never stayed in hostel. I never felt this in my life before.

The feeling of homesickness.

My first days in UKM, i still remember it. Far from home, far from my family, i am so sad. The feeling homesick is so strong. I am just pretending to be okay, but not in the inside. "I am alone, surrounded by strangers". That is what i thought to myself.

The feeling of homesickness start to fade slowly as i started making new friends. I was awkward at first, but finally i managed to get along with them. And i am also started participating myself in several programs, something i never done before in my school days.

Finally, i managed to overcome it. It wasn't easy, but i must fight it. In fact, i just learn something challenging in my life.

I learn how to overcome my homesickness.

learning something challenging-my story

2020-11-06 17:49:35 UTC

MUHAMMAD WAFIQ A181670

in my opinion the most challenging thing in my life and ended with joy was I started going to a religious school where the school required all students to take arabic language subjects.when i was form 1 and form 2 I really did not like arabic untill I felt hopeless with arabic because every time the school did an exam from form1 untill the middle of the form 2 exam I failed in arabic.After that, my school made conditions which for anyone who want to enter the hostel next year which is form 3 must pass in arabic so I have no choice because I must have to sit in a dormitory because my house is far from school so I have no choice when start the year end exams i try to finish by memorizing words then try to understand the grammar of sorof and many more finally the end of the year result came out and I was very suprised because im passed in arabic and at the time I came to feel interested in arabic untill i took the pt3 exam I managed to get an honors grade. I am very interested in trying more in arabic untill finally in the spm exam I got an excellent grade in spm
in conclusion,nothing is impossible for all of us if we word hard inshallah our efforts do not oppress us and god also does not oppress us and if we have tried and do not get what we want maybe the reward will be another day.

Learning Something Challenging - My Story

hazimnazmi135 — 2020-11-07 02:25:44 UTC

From my perspective, one of the most challenging things to learn is to learn music.

During my secondary school, I joined my school's wind orchestra team as I took interest in them during the orientation days. At first, I thought that learning music was not hard as the seniors says and the wind orchestra team was always travelling for competitions and shows. So I thought, why not learn something for the sake of travelling ? Then, the night when I registered myself to be called as a musician revealed the harsh reality.

I first had to choose an instrument to play in which I choose the most important instrument of the group; trumpet section. Then I was lead to an area where most of the trumpet members were usually trained. Most of its players are seniors and I was the only junior at that time. After a brief introduction, I was told to be able to both read the music sheets while playing the trumpet. I had to remember every placing of the notes in the music sheets for the trumpet section while remembering the trumpet's key. It was that moment my brain started to multitask. Then, I was taught how to play the trumpet in which adds to the headache. When playing the trumpet, I need to "buzz" through the mouthpiece while using the right air pressure. The process of taking air was completely different. Instead of using lungs, air was taken directly from the stomach. Then, the placing of mouth while buzzing into the mouthpiece was also important. Wrong placement and the trumpet will not make a sound. At first, it was really difficult as the mouthpiece is considered small for my lips to fit in while buzzing. That was the moment where my brain started to complicate stuffs as multiple actions needed to be done for playing a single music which is about 7 minutes long. In most competitions, 2 kind of songs were needed to be played to be qualified.

During the first year, it was hellish as every single day I have to train after school until late night as during that time, the wind orchestra team was given privilege to train until late night. Over the time, some of my batchmates come and join the trumpet section, but dropped halfway as it was really harsh for them to handle. Every single day, I kept thinking, why am I doing this? Is this really will give benefits for me? Will I quit in the future? These were my thoughts until the end of the year, every team member had to join the last event of the year which was held at Genting Highlands.

Two months before the event, all members trained like there is no tomorrow as everyone wanted to get the best award for the competition. The juniors especially were pushed very hard by the seniors to be at least being able to play the music scores. I was ready to give up by then but the seniors say the best moments was yet to come, so I toughen it up and continue.

During the competition days, I felt something in which I never experienced before. The feeling of nervous yet confident while playing on stage is on another whole level. It felt good after playing and give my best for the team. Then come the day where the awards were announced for every team participated. The nervousness was also on another level as I kept praying that we got the best award. Then the announcement came and everyone in the team shouted happily as we got the highest award of that time. It was a moment in which joy is not enough. It was more than joy. It was that moment in which changed my mind where I should continue until the last days of my secondary school days.
The hellish training that I endured during the first year helped me very much for the upcoming years as I keep a mindset of keep training hard as it will give a reward which no other people can experience this. Until this date, I am grateful for the past me for not giving up even if I on the brink of falling.

That is story in which I think the most challenging days for me. It was rewarding and somehow, I missed those days as nowadays, I have less and less time to even play a trumpet.

Hazim Nazmi bin Hishamuddin
A182098

Learning Something Challenging - My Story

2020-11-08 08:09:37 UTC

Muhammad Huzaifah bin Shamsul Bahrain (A169973)

Growing up, I was a very shy kid. I remember being scolded for being shy as I made things very difficult for a lot of people. But as I venture further in life, it came to me that it is unacceptable for me to continue being 'shy' as it will only disadvantage me in the long run. Secondary school rolls around, and there I was. Just a kid who was determined to be more outspoken and confident in myself. So I tried. The process wasn't easy, but it wasn't difficult either. I started small, conversing with the students sitting near me, then to other classmates, then to teachers, to students in the class next door and so on and so forth. By the time I'm 15, I got more and more confident. The teachers got to know who I am, giving me more responsibility in the process due to my 'outgoing personality' and 'speaking ability'.

However, there are days where I feel like a fraud, days that I feel like everything I've done or achieved were all fake. Who am I? Am I really the outspoken and outgoing student everyone says I am? I went to several competitions where communication skills are key. Some went well, others not so. These events sometimes added to my doubt but in the end of the day, I always think to myself that I should be happy and proud of what I've done. Even if it was all just a mask I put on, it helped me to improve myself directly and indirectly. I became more confident and a lot more calm when speaking in front of people.

At the end of the day, I just think to myself that it's okay if I fail or make a fool out of myself when speaking in public. At least I tried and that is all that matters when it comes to improving myself. After all, what I'm doing is for my own good.

Learning something challenging

2020-11-08 08:37:37 UTC

If one thing that I could say as very challenging is numbers. I hate numbers to the point of I can't see the importance of it. I was a bright student in primary school, I remember all the timetables, excel in every quizzes and I am a top students. However, everything changed since highschool. I am not bad, my results are always around grade B also same with additional maths I always pass with mediocre results. But I am really bad at physics. I don't know how and I don't know why, I just can't fathom it and couldn't grasp any theories or calculation. I am so bad, I failed my physics subject to the point my teacher put me in a class where all students that failed physics are gathered. Funny, I am a top students to begin with but everything came to a downfall since highschool.
My parents are not fazed by it, they say that it was a process of learning, where a stage that I must search for what good and what bad for me. Here is the phase where I acknowledged my love for English language, and I am sure I want to pursue it. However, without a good grade on my spm I can't go anywhere even though I have a clear goal. From that moments, I always push myself to study physics. I went everywhere with my physics book, to the dorm, to the class, to the canteen, to the dewan makan, to the court and to the assembly. My friends said that its funny that I love English but it seems physics book is my best friend. I also always go to the teachers room to ask physics questions that I can't understand to my teacher. She said that she's proud of me as I try my hardest to get an A to the subject but my hard work seems not enough as I didn't get what I aim for. I do feel dejected, as I try my hardest, everyone else also can see it but why I still can't get it right, but I do improve!
and then I realized, it's just a simple way of Allah swt to remind me to not give up and keep on trying. To make the story short I do received an A to my physics subject! You see, effort never lies. Even if you didn't get what you want at least you could see yourself improving. Trust you journey, embrace your shortcomings and keep going. Everything will be alright at the end :-))

Farah Nursyairah Binti Syaiful Azmil
(A173468)

Learning Something Challenging - My Story

2020-11-08 08:52:36 UTC

The most challenging learning part in my life is when I realized that I was too late to be in the school team in football back in my secondary school. I need to learn about football from the basic as I started to enter my school with the juniors. Everything starts since I was 4 years old. I really love to play football and keep a dream to become a footballer. However, since kindergarten, I always scored highest in my class. My parents aware of this situation, stop me from playing football and get a tuition classes to make me become more focus on my studies. But, nothing can changed my mind when I already set it to love football. Unfortunately, I do not protested my parent and only follow the situation because it is also my choice to success in education as I want to be a doctor. At that time, I really jealous of my brother who can play as much as he want. My parents also send him to an academy when he was 7. 6 years passed, I almost forgot about my dream but one day I got a call that I was accepted in a boarding school which triggered me again to play football as I can be free from being controlled by my parents. However, it is not easy as I expected because I really having a hard time to adapt in hostel life. I took at least two years to live freely from my seniors and I only can officially started to play football again at age 16. Can you imagine how many years that I left football, then I want to start play again and chasing my dream. First of all, I start to join the training in the field but my presence was not welcomed by my friends because I was too far missed. I already give up in the first day that I came. After a week, I continue to play with my friends in different places in not serious feeling until next year. In the next year, again, I brace up to come again and practice with coach but the same thing happens. But, I am not going to give up this year as I want to try as much as I can. Then, seeing the determination from myself, the coach ask me to train with the juniors as I need to learn from the basics. I really feel embarrassed at that moment because sometimes the juniors are much better than me. Therefore, I decided to only play football with my friends. After spm, I started to practice at my own. I jog everyday to maintain my stamina. Every weekend, I went to field to practice of shooting football at my own. It is really hard as no one else can help me but myself. Even though, it takes time to becomes a good footballer from my perspective, I keep working on my dream. To end my story, when I continue my studies in matriculation college, my team and I success in the first places during MiniKakom competition. Now, I really want to work hard in order to achieve something during m time here in UKM. Thank you.

Muhammad Syazwan Syazwie Bin Shamsuddin (A183912)

My Journey of Learning Something Challenging

a177632 — 2020-11-08 11:50:08 UTC

Athirah Hanin binti Misbahudin
(A1775632)

There are so many challenging stuff that we learn throughout our entire life. Something that is maybe out of our comfort zone, or something that we are struggling with.

As for me, I find Mathematics challenging. God knows how much I hated Maths and I still do. I would say it was the hardest subject when I was in high school. I struggled a lot just to pass that subject and I never hoped to get an A. I failed my Maths during PT3. I was devastated and I lost a little bit of hope thinking how am I supposed to get through Form 4 if I could not even passed my Maths in Form 3. But then when I got into Form 4, I moved to other school in Selangor from Penang as I followed my dad who got transferred there. So I kind of get my spirit back to do better than I was back then.

Lucky for me, in this new school, my Maths' teacher was so patient and kind. She taught every syllabus very slowly and making sure everybody can understand each topic. This new school is also not an elite school where I used to be before I moved in. So everyone else is struggling just as much as me. So I took it slow. I tried to understand everything by listening very carefully in class, I did tons of exercise and I would ignore all of these voices in my head telling me that I should pretend like I understand everything even when I am not by just asking the teacher each and every question that I got confused. By doing all of these, I managed to pull it through.

The truth is, I still struggled in this subject a lot back then even after I moved to a different school. There were times when I could not care less about this subject and I was focusing more on the subjects that I only like. It was simply because there were some topics that I could not grasp even after so many times I tried doing all of the exercises. I was so close to give up.......again.

But then reality hits me when I started to realize that if I did not pass this subject, I will never be able to pursue my studies in any course. So I was thinking by hook or by crook, I just have to make sure that I pass this subject. If I got an A, then it is a bonus for me. So I pushed myself even harder but this time I focused more on the topics that I was good at. This was to make sure that I got full marks for the questions regarding these topics that I was good at. I still tried to understand the other topics but I did not pushed myself because it only made me feel like a failure when I could not answer some of the questions correctly. I avoid myself from seeing all of the negative side but instead I focused more on the positive side. My teacher was also very helpful as she never gave up on me and always make sure that I was able to grasp any other topics. Alhamdulillah, my hard work paid off. I did not get an A for my Maths but at least I passed and I got C+ which I could not be more proud.

This journey has taught me that we all have our own strength and weakness. I managed to recognize that my weakness was actually number and my strength is language. I was good in English and Malay. This helped me so much in knowing what to pursue for my diploma and degree. So I took TESL for both diploma and degree. Mathematics or anything that has something to do with numbers have always been something that I struggled with and it was something very challenging for me. But without that struggle, I wouldn't be able to know my actual strength and be able to know what to pursue for my studies. I felt like giving up many times already, but I still managed to pull it through with all of the support I got and with dreams to pursue my studies that always keeps me going. Now I am here, pursuing my studies with something that I actually enjoy and I still choose to avoid numbers as much as I could haha. It certainly was not easy, but that is what pushes me to where I am right now :)

Finding My Worth

a169577 — 2020-11-08 13:48:44 UTC

I failed. A lot.

I failed few subjects in high school, which are Mathematics, Add Maths, Physics, Chemistry, History, and Bahasa Melayu.

It took me 2 weeks to finally tell my parents what I chose to pursue for Degree. Why? Because I failed to pursue what they want me to pursue.

If this is a "You Think You Can Hurt Me" challenge, mine would be: You think you can hurt me? One of my parents directly said, "There is nothing left I can do. I've told her many times but she made her choice," to their friend when that friend ask why am I not pursuing a professional course -- and I was standing right there, listening and watching this harsh confession unravel before me.

Like most, this is a difficult process to go through. It's a bitter pill I have to swallow as I am now conscious of my parents' real feelings. From that day onwards, I was, and still am, walking on eggshells around me. I began questioning my worth, and my identity. So many things rush to my mind, then eventually I became numb. Why am I even here? was the question that never fails to leave this chaotic mind.

I was beyond discouraged. Things I LOVE doing became useless to me. I'm talking about my love for gaming, writing and composing new songs, watching anime and reading manga -- all that just...vanished. I was numb to even care about doing all those things anymore. I stop uploading new content on my YouTube channel. I stop reading books. I just wanted out.

Life became monochrome. Life was all about going to classes, fake a smile every now and then, then its off to doing assignments until dawn -- the cycle repeats.
Even if I fail a subject, I didn't mind much because I've been there before. Oh, another fail. Okay sure, let me remind myself to repeat that next semester. No worries. Not even a care in the world on how to improve that whatsoever! I was that broken and dead.

Until recently. Yes, just recently, I decided to jot my feelings down in a journal. From there, I slowly fill my schedule up so that I don't have be "dead" forever. Eventually, I successfully manage to complete one month of livestreaming, as well as completed a few tasks and assignments before its due date.

I am still on my journey of fixing what was broken and knowing my worth. It is tough, but this time, I know I'm not alone. I was never alone.

Vilianty Bulan Jerome (A169577)

Learn and Cope

a170721 — 2020-11-09 00:45:15 UTC

If I have to recall something challenging for me to learn in this lifetime, it would be at this very moment: coming up with something to write about. It could be my experience getting a driving license or boarding a ferry on my own for the sake of meeting a friend. But there is one challenging thing that has been going on for a while now: staying sane in the midst of online learning as well as getting accustomed the whole ‘new normal’ norm.

I couldn’t remember the last time I ever stepped out from the house on my own, especially now that I have moved in into a new place in a different state and has yet to get used to the surroundings. I isolated myself from the outside world by staying inside and it went well for the past few months, until I found myself hardly motivated to do works and instead, I spend my time doing leisure activities. It was hard to cope on my own, and so I sought entertainment from the internet and hooked up with anime series. I thought that has somewhat put the end to my misery but it wasn’t. I realized my responsibility and began to seek help, especially from friends. Luckily, they are supportive and having a mutual understanding that situation is tough for us students to handle. I began to work on my assignments, though there are times I choose to procrastinate and doing something else to relieve stress. Overall, this has been an ongoing challenging thing for me to learn and cope, and for as long as I have supportive people around me, everything should be going well.

Wan Norafifah Alia (A170721)

Learning Something Challenging.

2020-11-09 10:13:30 UTC

FAKHRUR RADZHI BIN MOHAMED DALI (A175248)

Firstly, I am undergraduate from Engineering Diploma. I like engineering in general how their process of work requires precision and much objective. But as I work in engineering field for few years I started to think maybe this field of work not suit my personality, I want to work directly toward humanity and society. So decided to further my study in Social Science.

So during my first lesson in social sciences I find social sciences quite difficult. Its difficult for me because the process almost entirely different from engineering field. Before in engineering class, almost all answer were the same, even when other student use different method of calculating, the answer still the same, the formulae, the process are almost similar maybe because we were studying machines. But, in social sciences, we need to answer subjectively, our answers depending on our understanding in the subject. to make our close to perfection, we are required to read a lot of books and journals. different from engineering that we need to remember formulae and numbers.

To be honest, my first month in social sciences quite hard, i also feels like give up and back to work in engineering field. But after giving a shot, and frequently going to library for completing assignment and task, I find that was quite fun. my view on the world started to change. I started to think maybe its not a mistake I quit my past job and further my study.

Learning Something Challenging.

2020-11-09 12:15:48 UTC

Mohammad Emir Zaqwan Bin Mohammad Iskandar (A177882)

I wasn't always the brightest in my science related subjects such as biology, additional mathematics and chemistry. Physics? Maybe. The point is I was always a person who loved participating in art based projects and producing my best creative work. Before entering form 4 I thought hard of what to pursue. I did have a slight interest in engineering but it wasn't enough to convince me.

Then I remembered that I am the one who determines my own career path and future regardless of what I choose to major in, arts or science. Even if I had little interest in science based subjects, I took them anyway to prove that even an artistic and creative mind like me could handle such subjects. It's a challenge I'm willing to take and endure and nobody could stand in my way. And there began my journey as a science stream student. It was....not easy. I think learning additional mathematics was quite the challenge for me. Till this very day I could remember the basic math formulas that you would use to solve quadratic equations and inverse functions.

The sleepless nights, long hours, thick question papers had me stunned and I just could not believe how hard it was until some point I just felt like quitting. I had never felt so disappointed and mad at myself for not being able to understand this subject. I could remember how I had a clean result slip and I'd look at all the A's and B's until my eyes saw the add math result which was most commonly either a D or an E. I struggled and struggled but just couldn't seem to get hold of this subject.

Failure was the last thing I needed. Fortunately I had a math genius of a brother to help me with this subject. My big brother is what most people would label a "math brainiac". He could solve difficult equations quick as if they were nothing. So what every student would do, I took his advice and study tips and next thing you know, I managed to get a distinction on my 3rd try which was my 2nd mid term exam. From there, things got better and better and I started improving in additional mathematics. I managed top pull my grades up and I maintained that good record all the way till SPM where I scored a solid A. Ive always been quick to judge my capabilities but then at one point I realise that I am more than capable of doing things as long as I put my mind to it and surround myself with people who take an interest in what I need and what I believe is the best for me.

In conclusion, take risks, reduce the doubt about yourself and take every opportunity that comes your way. You'd be surprised with the end product.

Thank you so much for your time and attention.

Learning something Challenging.

a1752551 — 2020-11-10 15:12:20 UTC

NORAZIZI BIN AHSANI (A175255)

I would like to share my own story of learning something Challenging. This happened when I finished school form six where I took a challenging risk in myself.I choose to work first before continuing the lesson.this happened in 2016 where I had to choose whether to continue studying or continue working.In that year I got an offer to study at UKM as well but I took the risk to reject the offer and continue working. Before I decided to turn down the offer to continue my studies, I had sought the views of colleagues and schoolmates. Various views I received from them, some told me to continue studying and some told me to continue working. After thinking many times I finally decided to continue working because the company I work for has many benefits. Sad also at first rejected the offer to continue studying but it was my decision. I refused to continue studying at that time due to economic factors as well. I do not want to bother my family to support me when I continue to study, so let me work first when the economy is stable I will continue to study. It is not easy to choose something challenging in making decisions because at that time there were three of my school friends who also got an offer to continue studying at the UKM. they all accepted the offer but I made an unexpected decision because I rejected the offer to continue studying even though I got an offer to continue studying at a leading university. The work experience is not as beautiful as I imagined, throughout working there I was always depressed with an unconducive work environment. Despite good wages and benefits but there is confusion of scope of work. Many of the tasks I do exceed what my assignments are supposed to be. Working hours there are also 12 hours and it is mandatory to take overtimes, it is a challenging thing for me but I still survive 'for a bite of rice'. workplace management is also not good, it can be said that employee welfare is not taken seriously. When working for a long time with an unconducive environment and my boss is always angry I feel depressed and feel this life has failed. but I did not give up and faithfully persevered to adjust to the work environment. I draw closer to God so that I can face the trials of life. Finally in 2019, I have achieved my economic life target so I decided to resign from my company and continue my studies at UKM. I resumed my studies because of the importance of knowledge and also hopefully when I continue to study this can give new knowledge in my life.
In conclusion, we do not know what will happen to our destiny in the future, so always try to take something challenging on ourselves.

Learning Something Challenging

a1740481 — 2020-11-13 08:39:08 UTC

SITI FATIMAH BINTI A RAHMAN
(A174048)

If I were to recall every path that I’ve been through to be a mere college student I am now, I would say, the thing that is challenging to me has always been this one feeling that keeps holding me back. It’s the feeling of not being good enough. It wasn’t a fear, as I usually don’t think much of my actions consequences. I have no fear at all. Reckless, I would say. But waking up everyday thinking of what good would you do to people around you, it’s kind of tiring. Sometimes I might just drown in my emotions, thinking the world might be better off without me, yet I don’t dwell. Of course I feel discouraged. I know all of these just don’t make sense. I have a good life. I have a loving family, no financial problems, no peer problems, supportive friends, a mediocre cooking skill, a good music taste. So these just made me realize that, it’s not about what’s around me, it’s about what’s inside me. Of all these times, what’s challenging me, has always been myself. It’s me who I kept fighting with.

I have no idea how to put this together, but what I know is, most of the times, I hardly satisfied with what I am doing. It might be the lack of gratefulness, but I don’t think it is the major problem here. Maybe I went through too much of social medias, to make me wanting more in life, or is it just that I am a naturally optimistic person. Or maybe I’m just lacking of personal approval. Either way, apart from these mixed feelings, it’s kind of surprising how I been keeping things together now. Yes, it is a challenge for me, to be fighting with myself, most of the times. But looking at how I’m handling things whether it’s suffocating or not, I just know that when I finally get to pull myself together, something great is coming out of this mere 20 year old girl. I’m still learning somehow, I know there’s so much more things I need to grip on, to be able to understand what I really want in life. Yes, the process was never easy. Things escalate very quickly. Some days when I just feel like it’s going to be okay again, there’s always going to be things that upset me. Thoughts of overcoming this situation never stopped crossing my mind. I would want to give everything I have, to be able to breath without this heavy feeling on my chest. It’s just a matter of time, because I know I can get somewhere with this, and that I will not rest until I finally gain it.

Learning Something Challenging

nikismailniknorainabalqis — 2020-11-17 07:04:35 UTC

NIK NOR AINA BALQIS BINTI NIK ISMAIL (A178140)
The big challenging in my life is learning something that i never want. Learning the biggest thing i ever did such english language. I learning English is the big impact to me because of my family does not know how to teach english when i am child. So, my mother and my dad sent me tuition tu teach me. Process i learning the English very tough because i don't like to learn about the language. When i'm learning english with my tuition teacher almost of the time i'm was crying back then because of my grammar and spelling words and sometimes i thought i will failed because of my english grammar. To me, learning English is so hard because my family doesn't know about English. So, i learn at school everyday with my teacher and i always improved my English through application on smartphone. Now, i thought that my English is better than i was a child and i can teach my little sister and little brother. I really gratefull because of my family support me on learn English.

Learning something challenging

a176546 — 2020-11-17 16:20:15 UTC

NISA IZZATI BINTI MAT ISA (A176546)
Earning about something is valuable because it is not sold anywhere. The experience will be owned only by learning it. The same goes for me who have not learned something new. One of the most unforgettable challenges I could forget was during the semester holidays for which I boarded a plane for the first time oneself. It's an experience I won't forget. I missed the plane for the first time and it was a challenge for me. The experience of the challenge taught me about to punctual timely in every single thing even though it was considered trivial. even from these challenges I began to learn to be self-reliant without anyone's help.
From the challenge, it didn't even make myself afraid and challenges. However, I took the experience of the challenges I had in the face of in the present adult world.

Learning Something Challenging

a1809811 — 2020-11-17 18:09:04 UTC

The overcoming of challenges are such an important step which are in so many cases overlooked as people are looking for a way around the problem instead of facing it. This is true of small challenges like cleaning the floors and big ones like finding a new job. Putting a challenge off will never make it go away. Rather face it head on. That’s what I think when I decided myself to change my main courses in Matriculation. For your information, I am a pure science student when I’m at secondary school and I applied for Matriculation and got module two which is more to engineering.

The challenging comes a week after I studied there. I am in dilemma whether to change course to Accounting or stay with Science. I asked my senior who doesn’t have a basic in accounting, I search and read a blog about the difficulties even my parent and friends did not approved my decision to take an accounting. It’s not like they not support me but they just worried how I will catch up. Why changing courses now? Why you take pure science when you are in secondary school? But I decided to take an accounting. Here goes the second phase, I asked myself if what I do is right for me or not?

It was exciting learning a new things a new subject but in just a few days it’s getting really difficult. I don’t even know what I learned, what the teachers teaching. So during my first lesson in accounting I find accounting quite difficult. Its difficult for me because the process almost entirely different from science field. I even cried because I cannot take it anymore but luckily my lecturers is so kind they teach me from zero to hero. From I don’t what is journal until I know how make journal myself. I tell myself that I need to study ten more than others. I studied hard and I always asked for help especially to my friend. I’m so lucky to have them as a friend they teach me until I understand that topic.

After giving a shot, and frequently going to library for completing assignment and task, I find that was quite fun. my view on the world started to change. I started to think maybe its not a mistake I change my courses. Hardwork never abandoned us it really paid off I even got 3.75 for semester one and I am really proud of myself. We each have the power to build a mindset that is unstoppable in overcoming challenges. We have the choice of how we will respond to life's struggles, and struggle builds character. You will felt unstoppable when you realize that you are capable of much more than you could ever imagine. See challenges as opportunities to grow.

Learning something challenging.

nurfyfy — 2020-11-17 18:20:08 UTC

NURFY HELWIN PUTRI BINTI HERMAN (A168406)

If I were to talk about something that is challenging to learn in my life, I would say learning subject such as accounting. It was really hard for me.

I used to be in pure science streams, but I only managed to stay for 6 months and after that I changed to social science streams. Besides the compulsory subjects, I need to take subjects such as additional mathematics, economy, business and accounting. As I was 6 months behind, I need to catch up everything on my own with a very little help from my accounting teacher. I couldn’t understand the basics and the formulas. I couldn’t understand what to put in the debit and the credit. I did ask for help from my friends as they were really good in accounting. I keep on believing that I can do it. I did my best but I couldn’t even get a credit for accounting. I was stressed out to the point that I hate this subject so much. I cried because it was so hard for me. I feel like I was drowning. I was always one of the students that will get low marks in my class for accounting. I was always get punished to run 10 rounds every week. I was always the one who get scolded during accounting’s class.

I decided to drop the subject because I hate it so much, I can’t tolerate it anymore. After I drop it, I feel so much better. I feel like I can finally breathe.

Learning something challenging.

revathysuresh417 — 2020-11-20 05:47:49 UTC

REVATHY SURESH (A166169)

Learning something new itself is a challenge . We have a fear that how we will overcome this new challenge of learning . what if we are unable to learn something new ? Does our mind has that capacity to learn something new ? This builds an anxiety in us.

As a kid I was a 'tortoise' learning in school. I was always pushed to the high scoring benchmarks in exams. I have always had difficulties with calculations or more to say like mathematical subjects. Learning and adapting to the syllabus was my greatest challenge and I would struggle to even get a B ( 60 % t0 70 %) range marks in my mathematical subjects. Learning process for a child is basically a difficult time of their life because they have been introduced to the challenging situations in that small age itself. Hence, my father decided to help me by sending me to tuition classes.

Finally, I have successfully graduated primary school and here comes another bigger difficulty which is learning additional mathematics in my Form 4. I have failed my first additional mathematics test. It was my worst day in school back then because I was in the first class and yet I failed my first ever additional mathematics test. I decided not to give up and put an extra effort to work on that subject. I even took an one on one private tuition classes to learn additional mathematics.

SPM examination results were out and guess what I passed with flying colors this time. I got an A+. The saying practice makes perfect suits well here, all my effort paid off very well.

From my story, I would like to say that facing your fear by taking challenges is the most important step to be a life long learner.

Thank you.

never easy to be clever

SyaiSrikandi — 2020-11-23 07:37:04 UTC

PUTERI NUR AISYAH SHAHLIA BINTI MOHD SHAHLAN (A176530)

I REALLY LOVE LEARNING NEW THINGS. LEARNING PROCESS IS REALLY FUN!

Now Im learning korean language. It is quiet hard actually, sometimes it is easy to understand BUT when I listen to the audio I DON'T KNOW WHAT ARE THEY SAYING. But that is the learning process, I knew the struggle will paid off.

I love to learn language because I hate that I cannot understand what they try to say. To memorize their vocab not that easy. They use so many alphabet and syllables. But they hve some Konglish like O-ren-ji (orange), Ba-se (Bus) that really really save me. Also, they doesnt has a same shape as we always use. And not to forget they have really complicated grammar structure. Not simple as Malay neither English but I still love to mastered it.

Just like the body builder they have to trained every day their muscle, I train myself to memorize the vocabulary and build new korean neuron in my brain everyday hehehe. jk. It is struggle but I know I could make it! So I left you some korean word heheheh

Biochemistry

aimanshukrannajib98 — 2020-11-24 18:03:07 UTC

By: Muhammad Aiman Shukran Bin Mohamad Najib (A162691)

I had always scored high for Chemistry in high school and when I was in my foundation I still found Chemistry understandable and didn't have too much problem learning it.

Then I pursued my degree in Biochemistry. It was and still a huge mountain that I found myself needed to climb. I was shocked to how I was unable to score in this particular subject. So much more, I got discouraged because Biochemistry is not just a subject for me, it is my Bachelor's Degree course.

To say I fear failing in Biochemistry would not justify how I felt. Even now to write this answer for this assignment, I took a long time up until Dr. Raihanah sent me an email to notify about incomplete tasks that I have in this LMSK1632 course.

I gave myself a deep think about how worried I am on my future. Until now, I keep going, leaving behind what I had scored for Biochemistry as lessons while I am reaching the end of my Bachelor's Degree journey.

It hadn't been an easy ride, and Dr. Raihanah, I don't know if I had overcome the fear or not.

However, one thing that I am sure, I like learning science and so learning Biochemistry is never a loss for me. But till now the fact that I can't really score Biochemistry exam weights heavy in my memory.

Till now, I always hope that I walk this journey with much needed sincerity and courage, I hope that Allah grants me his blessing for my Bachelor's Degree of Biochemistry journey.

Learning Korean

a167575 — 2020-12-19 15:50:07 UTC

Amira Zulaikha binti Saidon (A167575)

As someone who got into K-Dramas at 11 years old, I found myself interested to learn more about the culture itself and one of that is language. When one watches too many dramas, there is bound to be certain phrases and words that we naturally pick up and I thought to myself that oh I may actually be able to learn this? I mean I watch so many things in Korean so it cannot be that hard... right?

The first step was easy, the Hangul letters were created to be simple to understand and anyone can pick them up in a day. I started to feel good about my journey. Then comes the hard part, I learned that learning a new language is not simply memorizing phrases that you enjoy saying. You have to learn about the grammar, the sentence structure, the complex spelling and then the disaster when same-sounding words means so many different things. It got really hard for me. I was just doing self-learning, so it was super hard and seems impossible for me.

So I kind of stopped trying too hard, then just simply pick up whatever my brain is able. Then I started doing my undergraduates in UKM and saw that we are allowed to take Korean language as an elective. So I decided to try once again, and this time formally with a teacher who knows how to teach us step by step in a way easiest for us to understand.

Then I understood that when we try to learn something and quickly jump the gun looking at the whole big picture it may seems overwhelming. Then it starts to look scary as the fear of failure looms over us, so we take a step back and turn away. But when we plan our learning journey and find either good teachers or efficient steps to learn, that huge wall will seems less intimidating as we build small steps to slowly climb over it.

Social Anxiety

2021-02-03 11:33:53 UTC

Hijazida Hamdan (A167545)

I wouldn't say I'm smart. But I'm a quick learner. Learning something new for me is fun! I'm naturally good with numbers and computers. Anything to do with my hands I could pick that up fairly easily. Growing up in a multilingual household in addition to attending a Chinese school in Sarawak with the students speaking Malay, English, Chinese and all the ethnics' languages, learning a new language is easy for me too. For me, its whether I have the passion and the effort to do it or not.

But even with all that, for the love of god, I do not do well socially. It's not as bad as not being able to tell the teachers I need to go to the washroom but I struggle in other ways. I don't volunteer in class for anything. I would not join sports. I don't talk much with anyone. I would not able to tell the waiter what I want. I don't know how to ask the shopkeeper for anything. I cry when I have to talk in front of the class. I shake my boots off during presentations. And this kept happening until I was 17.

This is the process of me learning to get my voice out. Learning to gain confidence in speaking. Confidence in trying. To me, this is a skill. And it is just as much the same as learning other skills.

Now knowing that I was a shivering mess until 17, you know this isn't an easy thing for me to learn. Just like any other skill, you need basics. You do what you need to do and google whatever it is you need to google. Face expressions, topics to talk about, how to small talk, where to look when you're having a conversation, body languages. I googled them all. It sounds a bit pathetic now but that's what I did. It helped in some ways. And making friends helped me to grow confidence too. Sometimes, I did something unacceptable but I didn't know, so my friends would tell me and I'll try to improve. So after learning the basics. I started to learn from my surroundings. The steps are small so the improvement was small too. Small but meaningful. I was grateful but I had to do more.

When I was 17 going on 18, instead of the timid steps, I decided to just jump and try something drastic. I became a hotel receptionist. Now I was forced to become confident in my speaking and my body. Forced to smile at the guests. Forced to interact and start a conversation with any random stranger that comes through the doors. This is me straining the muscles. It was hard and painful but that was what I needed after the well appreciated baby steps. This leap, albeit hard, was the one that did it. I got better. I'm doing better.

The whole point of the story was to share my journey. I may be blessed as a quick learner but that doesn't mean I'm perfect. Far from it. I didn't force myself and that's okay. I started out slow and when I finally felt ready I leaped. It's just the same as learning a physical skill. You do best when you don't force yourself from the beginning. You start out slow, and you leap. I am still learning and it is a process.