What I Heard

Today is the first day I start the lecture, Housing, Building and Planning in USM for RUS 101 course code by Mr. Wan Burhanuddin Wan Abidin. The lecture started at 0900-1100 in E48B. Although today is the first day we start our lecture in USM, he also gave us an assignment, write a blog about ‘What I Heard’ that need to be submit on 15 July.

At first, he gave the lecture about the APEX that is an institution to be accelerated for excellence. This is the time for USM to do transformation where status quo is not an option. The Vice-Cancellor, Professor Dato’ Dzulkifli Abdul Razak (DAR), had planned that the APEX journey started in 2007 until 2013 in the future. During this transformational is to change for the future. It is fast, quick, rapid and accelerated.

Next, he talked about the Studio Production. It consist of intension (niat), act (laku), product (hasil), actor (aktor), rule (peraturan) and place (tempat). In order to produce a product, all these concepts must be followed. For example, if we want to build a new building, we must have an intension, after that we must take an action that is act. For this act must have the actors. Then we must plan where is that building be placed. Apart from that, we also must follow the rules and regulations. Lastly, a new product is form.

Besides that, the lecturer also introduced us about 3P that is People, Principle and Place. He gave an example about the FIFA World Cup. He changed the football player to the HBP students, the football rules he changed to the estate rule and the place he changed to the USM field instead of the one in South Africa.

The actors included the students, studiomasters, USM community, Penangites and et, al. Mr. Wan B also introduced the studiomasters to us. The studiomasters that attended are Dr. Abdelnaser Omran Ali, Dr. Sr Ilias Said, Dr. Mohd. Hanizun Hanafi, Dr. Mohd Zailan Sulieman and Dr. Rushizal Roosli. The studiomasters also introduced themselves briefly.

Moreover, the lecturer also told us the extra knowledge that we seldom noticed. For example, there is about 35 thousands English words that can be found in Bahasa Malaysia. Besides that, we speak about 3500 Bahasa Malaysia word daily. He also told us what is the difference between listening and hear seems if translate in Bahasa Malaysia it is the same word and meaning, that is ‘mendengar’. Listening is we hear and think deeply and interpret carefully what people said, whereas hear is just hearing what people said but we did not think and interpret about it.

The lecture ended around 1100. He also gave us a website as reference – http://www.hbp.usm.my/1b/101/