Dah Grad

Maka dengan ini, diisytiharkan bahawa pelajar-pelajar tajaan Mara dan JPA sudah menamatkan pengajian di Institut Tarian dan Seni Kebudayaan  Rochester. Mereka telah menamatkan pengajian dengan thesis yang amat memberangsangkan. Berikut adalah sedikit cuit-cuit tentang thesis mereka.

Tajuk Thesis: Malaysian Night 2011

Thesis dimulakan dengan dikir barat!

Puteri Hang Lipo datang melawat

Sultan mencari damai di kampung...

Berjumpa pula dengan penunggu gunung...

Akhirnya berjumpa Si Puteri...

7 dulang enggan dipenuhi, sultan berundur membawa diri...

Ke borneo sultan pergi, puteri berbunuh kerana dengki...

Tun diculik lanun hantu

Sultan menolong tiada berbantu

Pantang menyerah sebelum darah

Demi untuk Tun Fatimah!

Rakyat gembira berdansa berdansi

Siaplah thesis kali ini!

For those who missed that night, this might add some values to your lost!

Dear Malaysian students, After being personally invited by my students, I had the wonderful pleasure of attending the Malaysian Night yesterday evening. Thank you so much for taking the time and exerting the energy to put this on for your fellow students and faculty at R.I.T.  It was truly an enriching experience.

The musical play based on the search for love by Sultan Azuraddin Shah was delightful and fascinating.  The tale was mystical and spellbinding...how the Sultan is lonely, but gives his first love, a Chinese Princess away to the one she loves in an act of kindness, then how he rises to the challenge of a Fairy Princess (a goddess in other cultures I think) with the amazing feats of strength and cunning to win her, only to adhere to his principles, allowing only unconditional love.  Then the sad tale of meeting two lovely mystical princesses who kill each other as a result human nature, and then coming to the incredible story of how the Sultan slays a gang of pirates to free a simple village woman who helps him, and how they fall in love.  I think it is an amazing tale and am still spellbound by the acting and the amazing dancing and music.

The acting was fabulous, the dancers were talented and energetic, the choreography was stunning, the costumes and props  amazing !  It combined a great mixture of acting, music and delightful humor!   The amount of time and work you must have all put into this and your standing ovation at the end was very well deserved.
Congratulations on a truly remarkable performance and - thanks for the treats after the show too ! 

Dr. Hans Schmitthenner, adjunct prof in Chemistry

After a while...

It's been quite a while since the last post. I had almost no time to update and published something here, but I always think about doing it. It all because of two things, one is and so called "Ups" and one is "Down" moment!

Let's talk about what the Ups was
So here is it, RITMySA was the champion of Global Union Unification Night that took place last night. Good job, after 3 month of practice,despite all of the conflict raised, regardless how big the prob were, we had do it! To all of the participant, I just want to say thank you again that make this thing as a memorable things in my life. Really looking forward to work with you guys again.

This was the performance's video, really like it.

So here it is the so called Down

I'm back to basic, a jobless student in RIT. Yeah, I been terminated from the Custodian position as I took too much holiday to go to events in DC and NJ. I guess it worth it, InsyaAllah. Did I tell you that I had 2 jobs before, and I'll quit that job too in another 2 weeks.It is just because of religious concern.

No more...

So here is it. Later I'll update about the FreezeFest in RIT.

Muktamar 2010

So here was the updated that I already stated before,about Muktamar 2010.

Muktamar 2010 was held in St Louis, Missouri last week. It was an annual event of MISG with collaboration with IMSA. The theme for this year was

In The Spirit of Humility, Reaching Out for All Humanity

For me, this event was a success. Over time we had to have something to feed our soul and strengthen our Iman.  I found it here! Yes, I did not go to all programs, but somehow it makes me think how good am I as a Muslim. The speaker choose by the committee was superb. Some of them were Sheikh Umar Baloch, Imam Abdul Malik, Ustaz Hasanuddin, Dr Hafizi and others. Thank you to all the speakers.

Being in this event made me realize how much I have to improve my faith. I also realized to not take for granted the fact that I was born as a Muslim as it actually means nothing except you were born and raised in Islamic environment. Yeah, I should be glad to be born as a Muslim, if not, I don't know what my fate are, either I found Islam as the true way of  life or not.

And this Muktamar also showed me the ukhwah build between Malaysian and Indonesian in the US. We did watched the final AFF Suzuki Cup together. And those laser issue was not been said even once, and the program run smoothly after that. Those was only a small issue which were useless to think of.

By the way, Congratulation to IMSA and MISG comittee for the event.

A Sweet Escape...

One car

5 people

2 drivers

3 sleepy head

3220 miles

12 stops

6 days

So, as said before, more update about the roadtrip will come. It actually was awesome although some people might says that we were quite rushing and we might miss some must-go place. Actually we did miss some places, but I thinks it's okay because we only got one week to go to Midwest area, the place that I preferably not went to during winter and spring break because of the snow. 

1. MSU, East Lansing, MI
The university is nice!

Spartan!!

2. Chicago, IL
2 must-go placeS in Chicago, Willis tower and The Bean

This is exactly the function of the bean,
 reflect all of the tall building in chicago...

Willis tower!

3. UW, Madison, WI
Big university, old building, modern technology and beautiful scenery.

UW

4. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and St Paul, MN
"Twin cities campus", the name said it all. One word, awesome!

Golden Gopher!

5. ISU, Ames, IA
Didn't go to the campus area.

6. University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Greatly architecture outside, Luxuriously furnished inside.

Nice building...

Luxury furnished

7. The Getaway Arch, St Louis, MO
The arch was fogged, so have to come here again I guess.

Getaway Arch

8. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Receive such a good treat from a total stranger. This somehow proves that "Budi Bahasa Budaya Kita" campaign had an impact. Thanks you Vandy-ers.

Pathenon in Tenesse...
Weird huh?

Vandy, thanks guy!!

9. Mammoth Cave, KY
Longest cave system in the world.

10. Charleston, WV
The Mountainers. The WV highways was just like Karak Higways. Somehow I missed those roads.

11. Morgantown, WV
Moderate mall for Black Friday. Thank you, you save me a lot!

12. Penn State, College Park, PA

State college...

Last but not least, a NEW Malaysian restaurant in Penn, Penang!!

Teh Ais die hoa liao!!

Really looking forward for this type of vacation soon!!

Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Adha!

Terlewat sehari, tpi apapun,
Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Adha!!

Takbir raya dari Dome Arena, East Henrietta....

Islam ade dimana-mana kan.

Even sometimes we do it in different way, different school, but we still believe in the same god, Allah!!

Allahu Akbar!

Eid Mubarak everyone!

first timer...!!

hari ini genap 2 minggu di winter quarter....
2 minggu yg tersangat bes...
bes main salji...haha..
kalo org nk ckp jakun pon mmg jakun....
mmg xpernah tgok kan...so jakun r..haha...
dan snowman pertama berjaya dibuat...haha

snowman pertama kami.....

then semalam senior ajak men ski...
dengan konvoi 5 kereta...bersama 27 org yg lain....
amatlah excited utk main...
walopon xreti....konfem x reti kan sbb salji pon xpenah tgok kan..
tpi agk bes r...dan berjaya turun gunung tuh 3 kali....hehe..
syukur kerana xde major injury sepanjang permainan....
dan ak telah menjadi snowman bile da nak balik..
byk ais beku dalam baju...akibat jatuh bergolek2 kot..
harapan nk pegi lgi la bile ade peluang...
bile pkir balik...taon dpn je ley pegi lg...duit pon da xde kan...haha
layan gmbr....

bristol mountain...
me!!

menjadi snowman....beku baju tuh....

penat bermain....

looking forward to more2 interesting things here!!!

the weekend...

summer is still going on with happiness....
haha....
recently we went to sungai gabai...
about 50 people with 11 cars and 1 motocycle...
thanks guys for the great day...

the calc II test 1 is over...
quite hard but still manage to answer all....
got another quiz on monday and fridays...
so,
jom study....haha....

the end is nigh!!

The spring is over…
thanks to the honolululianz for the great semester…
And also my roommate…

Honolulu:

The first week in the class filled with silence…
i thought that this will be a silent semester to me...!!
The first impression usually not the truth….
after a while, you guys start the joys…haha

Several thing that I still remembered….

Ms Hani asked me to read the Invictus
Hand wrestling with Siva
The Mummy parade

The outing at Italianese

The joy during the class…
N many more..!!
My roommate:
Imagine….

When u were wake up in the morning for the bio test…
Then someone said to you….there is sardine in the rice cooker…. I had cooked it…

Waa…thank you pojan….

When u are studying for the bio test n others for engineering test
Someone make a tumbler of Tea O…
Waa….thank you aman n zul...

When u reached your house,…entered your room
Someone is sweeping…
Waa….thank you Afiq…

When u are working on your essays…
Then there are someone that is willing to read n improves you essay…
Waa…thank you kugarn….



Thanks guys….