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salam rakan-rakan...
cuti semester kembali lagi. kebiasaannya waktu cuti adalah waktu yang paling dinantikan oleh kebanyakan pelajar universiti, khususnya pelajar HRD UPM. pelbagai rancangan yang telah direncanakan bakal dilakukan semasa cuti semester yang bakal tiba.

kepada rakan2 HRD yang bakal ke UK, saya ucapkan selamat pergi & kembali. semoga trip ini bukan sahaja untuk berseronok dua ronok, tetapi dimanfaatkan sepenuhnya. kalo boleh balik nanti buat satu seminar atau pembentangan kertas kerja untuk melaporkan apa yang telah anda semua lalui di sana. anda patut berbangga kerana daripada lebih 20 ribu pelajar UPM, anda adalah insan terpilih. jangan sia-siakan peluang yang ada. tahniah diucapkan...

kepada mereka yang bakal praktikal, selamat berpraktikal. jaga nama baik upm, nama jabatan, dan juga nama diri sendiri. buat yang terbaik dalam meletakkan diri di posisi yang dikenali dalam organisasi sebagai pelajar yang terbaik, bukan pelajar yang tidak baik. manfaatkan sepenuhnya peluang untuk belajar di organisasi. tonjolkan bakat anda sebagai pelajar HRD yang versatile. semoga anda semua berjaya.

juga tidak lupa kepada 1st year yang bercuti, selamat bercuti diucapkan. manfaatkan masa cuti yang ada untuk aktiviti yang berfaedah.

kepada mereka yang bakal bergraduat, saya ucapkan selamat menempuh alam pekerjaan yang penuh cabaran di luar sana. kepada mereka yang bakal melanjutkan pelajaran, selamat datang sebagai pelajar Master di JPPPL.

maafkan atas segala kekurangan, semoga kita berjumpa lagi di semester akan datang..

ABDUL RAHMAN ADDAKHILI BIN MAD YASIN
TIMB YANG DIPERTUA, MAJLIS PERWAKILAN PELAJAR UPM
sesi 2007/2008

Assalamualaikum and hello again,

To the mystery responder to my first post, thank you for your response, although it is always nice if you know who you are writing to in a blog. Please be professional - thank you Hafidz for reminding us - and be accountable for your comments by indicating who you are.

There is nothing wrong with disagreeing with one's point of view. That is what higher education is all about - critical thought and scholarly discussion about important issues and ideas. At the end of the day, we can disagree with each other's ideas and still respect one another all the same. This is, in fact, an important aspect of being a professional. I certainly don't take it personally if you don't understand or agree with what I wrote. All the better, it is a sign that I have not been clear in my writing and in communicating my ideas.

I can see that some disagree with what I wrote about credentials the first time. The last critique of what I wrote was:

"Do you means that the PhD students that just graduated don't have knowledge? Do you means that some of the student including lecturer that chasing the credentials don't have a knowledge? If they all don't have a knowledge, so how come they passes all their exam and graduated? At the same time, do you mean that the C student have more knowledge than A student?"

Excellent questions! Actually, the issue I was referring to was not about GRADES per se. Grades are a necessary evil that we must employ to test whether or not students have understood and learned what was covered in the course - to determine whether the learning objectives were achieved. As such, if you graduate with straight A's, it implies that you did learn something - insha-Allah - and we entrust our system at least to the extent that we believe you really did acquire some level of knowledge based on those high grades. So, please, by all means, DO NOT take what I wrote to mean that I don't think grades are important! [They'll probably fire me :-)]

That is not the issue I am talking about. We will have to save debate about the validity of our grading system to another blog...

What I am referring to is something a bit differnt. For example, when graduate students come to us and say that they want to get their Phd quickly so that they can stick it on their name card what does that mean? That means that they are not really concerned with learning, but rather that they want to portray the image of someone who has Phd-level knowledge. There are some people that make a career out of acquiring credentials so that they can show the world how smart and accomplished they are. Whether they actually learned anything or not, only God knows, but the point is that they are not sincere, and that lack of sincerity will show later when they are asked to prove what they know.

I have heard of at least 3 cases (actually 2; 1 of them I only have a strong suspicion) of politicians using credentials like PhD and MBA, who have not yet received such degrees. Why might these individuals feel the desire to be seen as Phd's and MBA's if they never actually completed such programs? The answer is simple - image. They want people to think that they have these credentials in order to appear as people with expertise/knowledge. They want people to take what they say seriously, to have influence and power even though they didn't actually earn those degrees. Perhaps they do not feel that what they actually know is enough to earn people's respect and admiration, so they have to fake it by claiming to have something they do not.

That is the issue that I am referring to - desiring the credential rather than the actual knowledge merely to appear to be something that you are not. I am not implying that someone with credentials has no knowledge. It's a personal thing - some people seek credentials for dishonest and insincere reasons, like I just explained, while others who seek knowledge really earn their credentials. There's a very big difference. I hope and pray that we can all be the latter and not the former!

- Dr. Lateef

in order to create a harmony relationship between each components of the JPPPL family (students, lectures and staffs) the PESUMA board had successfully organized a BBQ on the 3rd of April at the Jabatan.

even though there are many constraints and difficulties such as the time, venue,weather,final exam, submission of assignments factors, we managed to make it happened.

thank you to all members of PESUMA who have given an astonishing commitments and contributions in making this program a success.

trivia:

1. pengarah program ini ialah Aainaa and Adek. setiausaha kepada board PESUMA 2008/2009.
2. penasihat PESUMA dr. Ismi dan dr.lateef telah banyak memberi sokongan dan nasihat dalam menjayakan program ini.
3. Dr.Sham dan Dr.khidin juga sangat membantu memberi galakkan, cadangan dan juga sokongan dari segi moral dan kewangan.
4. staff2 jabatan juga sangat teruja untuk sama2 menjayakan BBQ ini. terima kaseh diucapkan kepada Kak Long (chief of all chiefs), kak Aisyah and Pak cik Yunos.
5. Dr. Zoharah yang tidak lokek menyumbangkan kepakarannya membuat puding untuk jamuan semua orang.
6. semua pensyarah, staff dan pelajar yang sama2 menyediakan dan menjamu selera. kita makan ramai2 dalam suasana yang ceria dan harmoni. satu saat dan pemandangan yang indah buat keluarga JPPPL.
7. kombinasi terbaik daripada pelajar 1st year, 2nd year and final year.
8. sambutan hari jadi Pija, Chen, Kim Wai, Aisyah n siape lagi saye tak ingat. penangan Indulgences dari secret recipe memang tak leh blah. (sedap wo!) walaupon satu je kek tapi dapat kongsi ramai2, itu yang buat kek tu sedap tu.
   
9. makan besar bermula pada jam 6 ptg dan habis pada pukul 7.30 malam.
10. terima kasih kepada anda semua, tidak ada masalah untuk kita adakan sekali lagi. betol tak?

in conclusion, with determinations and good intention, nothing is impossible. if we think we can, we really can. people talk, you can't let them not to.

yang penting kite tahu ape yang kite buat, dan ape yang kite buat itu adalah untuk kebaikan. dan setiap kebaikan seharusnya dikongsi dan dinikmati bersama.

takziah kepada mereka yang tidak dapat hadir.

p/s: gambar2 akan saye masukkan kemudian hari.

Mohamad Hafidz b. Arifin
Presiden PESUMA 2008/2009

Assalamualaikum and hello to all Pesuma students,

This is my first posting on the Pesuma blog. The blog is a very useful tool for sharing our thoughts, ideas, opinions, current events and other matters relevant to our society. I encourage all Pesuma members to contribute to it....

As one of your advisors, I wanted to share my thoughts with you about a matter that I find very relevant to our current times and context. As budding HRD professionals and university students, it is important that we discuss the difference between knowledge and credentials.

Being a Lecturer in University, it is often difficult to determine people's motives for pursuing education. Do people seek knowledge to make themselves and the world better or are they merely chasing the credentials that go along with a university education so that they can appear to be an expert? The reason I raise this issue is because as Lecturers we come across all types of students. On the one hand, without a doubt we have many sincere students that try hard to acquire knowledge for noble reasons; yet, at the other extreme, we have those who openly tell us that they are pursuing a certain degree (e.g., PhD) so that they can put it on their namecard!

The issue here is image vs. substance. One of the worst injustices (in my opinion) that we as adults have done to our young people is that we feed you a steady diet of image, image, image. How often to you hear about University image, personal image, image of your college, image of your department, image of Pesuma, etc. etc. But what is image? Why are we so concerned about image? What does image even mean? Image, by definition, is illusion. Some define it as "a reproduction of the form of a person or object" or "a mental picture of something not real or present." There are other definitions but in general, image refers to a superficial likeness of something. If image is something that is not real and merely superficial, why do we adults keep telling you how important it is? Should we not, rather, be reminding you of the importance of substance and truth, i.e. knowledge? Why are we more concerned with how things appear than with how they really are? This is the dilemma I am talking about....

When you graduate from UPM, insha-Allah, and you go out into the "real world," you cannot fake it. When you are asked to perform a job where people are counting on you, where there is money, time, and people's lives on the line, you cannot rely on image. You must be real, you must have substance and you must be able to DO that which you are asked. Image will only go so far. It may even get you in the door and hired if you are really good at it. You can only 'look good' for so long though before people catch on that in truth, you don't know what you are talking about because underneath your wonderful image, there is no real knowledge. For example, when we lecturers stand before you in the classroom, that Dr. in front of our names is meaningless for at that moment we either know what we are talking about or we don't. And if we don't, you know it! For you can usually tell when someone is passing on knowledge and when they are pretending, faking it, and just getting by on their lecturer 'image'.

Striving to obtain credentials rather than knowledge means we are overly conscious about image. Credentials obtained in such a manner mean nothing, however, when the time comes to prove what you really know. In the words of the great Imam Shafie (Muslim scholar), "Knowledge is what benefits. Knowledge is not what one has memorized." Knowledge is what results in goodness, has value and what makes people's lives better.

So please, dear students, do not get caught up in the world of chasing credentials, titles, status and the like. All of these 'things' that we waste so much time chasing are only as good as the knowledge and wisdom that they are supposed to represent. Rather, let's focus on seeking knowledge with a pure heart and sincerity, for the purpose of being useful to others and striving to improve the world in some small way. For only then can we truly claim to be successful practitioners of human resource development...

Dr. Lateef

"Speak good words to all men." (Qur'an, 2:83)

"To God do ascend the goodly words, and He exalts the goodly deed." (Qur'an, 35:10)

Dr. Alfred Adler, the great psychologist, had an experience when he was a young boy. He got off to a bad start learning arithmetic, so his teacher became convinced that Adler was stupid when it came to mathematics. The teacher told Adler’s parents that the boy was dumb, and also told them not to expect much from him. His parents were convinced that the teacher's evaluation was correct. Therefore, Adler passively accepted the assessment that they had made of his abilities. And his grades in mathematics proved that they were correct.

However, one day he had a sudden flash of insight and thought he saw how to work a problem the teacher had put on the board that none of the other pupils could solve. He raised his hand and announced that he would like to do the problem. The students, and even the teacher, laughed at this. He became indignant. He strode to the blackboard and solved the problem perfectly, much to everyone's amazement. And at that moment he realised that he could understand mathematics. He had been handed an unreal, negative self-evaluation, and he had believed it and performed on the basis of that assessment.

Many of us have done the very same thing. Someone has told us that our abilities are limited, or that our dreams are unreachable. We have accepted that without question, and we go through life unhappy and unfulfilled. We become estranged from ourselves simply because we believe what others people have told us about ourselves.Every one of us - young and old alike - needs to be encouraged. To encourage someone is to put courage into them. To discourage is to take courage out of them. It costs nothing to put courage into another ... to speak a kind word ... to let them know you appreciate them ... to tell them you believe in them ... that you admire them ...to thank them and so on.

So, today, make a point of putting courage into your family.... your friends... your classmates ... your lecturers ... your employees ... and the clerk at the local store. Go out of your way to do it. And in blessing others you will be blessed yourself, insha-Allah.

- Dick Innes

pihak JPPPL sedang mengadakan pertandingan mencipta logo JPPPL.

• terbuka kepada orang ramai
• tiada limitasi penyertaan
• di dalam bentuk hard copy dan soft copy

tarikh tutup pertandingan ialah pada 8 April 2008

hadiah istimewa akan diberikan kepada pemenang

sila hantarkan penyertaan kepada

mohamad hafidz arifin (ude)
012-2823965
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