What is the best study styles for the beginner ?

Assalamualaikum and Hi guys ! 

So, today, I will share some study tips especially for students who just begin their new journey as university students. 
I dont know if I am qualifie to write this post but nah, i'm trying my best to share some my know-how that maybe can help some of you who still finding their best study styles. I hope this helps !
When I started my diploma back then, I dont have any clue where to start and how to begin. Its just at that time, I was determined to change my lifestyles including my study styles. 
First, I begin with JOURNALING.
Since the end of 2017, I started to keep a journal. At that time, I'm not sure if I can be consistent so I just do some research about how start keeping a journal. Many article helps me in decorating my journal. Its quite fun actually and you can see yor life progress and your goals. So, I started to keep track of my study journey. I wrote my class schedule, what happened in my daily life, my work schedule. It makes my life more efficient. It is good to keep a journal as you can see your progress in work and life all in one place. If you want it to be more professional, you can separate it ! You can look up to several fantastic articles about how to start keeping a journal and start now ! 
Next, learn your STUDY STYLES.
Back then, I have one subject that focus on study skills. It taught us about which study styles is suitable for us. I think some of you might heard this already before. Are you the listening type? Or the one who explain about everything yo learn to your friends? Are you the one who loves to walk around and hates to just sit and study ? Or are you the one who is genius and can only learn everything in one glance ?
I am the type who need to something a few times to memorize it. I'm not the listening type, but i'm good at taking notes and making my own study notes. But, my notes are not pretty like the one you look up on Internet. Its just for my own references so I tend to makes my notes as easier as I can understand. It depends on your subjects actually. I dont know about other course, but for Business, I believe that our subjects containing almost 80-90% subjects that require you to read, analyze and memorize. The key is MEMORIZE! All of the things your learn will be ask in your quizzes, tests and also your final exam. So, you dont have any choice, you need to study and memorize. For me, it is hard to memorize without notes. Some of my friends depend on our lecturer study notes or slides, you can do it that way if it makes your learning process easier. But, I cant do it so I need to makes my own notes so I know where and why I put that info in my notes. 
Tips : When you makes your notes, you does not simply just start taking notes and write it. You need to read first what the topic tells you. 
1. ReadYou need to grasp what the topic wants to tell you. For example, in Marketing, the chapter will tells you about the 4Ps. So, you need to read first. What is 4Ps? Why it is 4Ps? What is the history? The technique and all the big, small or important points in that chapter. This is the first time you read. So, you already know what the chapter tells you and what is the point you want to put in your study notes. 
2. Dont put anything you read in your study notesOrganize all important points before you start writing your notes. It is very good if you start to analyze your past year papers first so that you know what kind of question and points that you can focus on. Put only important and will likely to be ask in your notes so that it wont burden you to read and memorize so much. This will be the second time you read the chapter so you can recap what you already read from your first time. 
3. Highlight your notesAfter organizing your notes, you can start writing it on paper. This depends on you. You can made one book for each subject or if you dont want, you can write it on paper and make your own flashcard notes. There are so many types of study notes you can make. Short notes, flashcard, keywords notes, formula notes, the most formula mindmap (i dont like it, i dont know why?). You can be as creative as you want. You can use colourful pens, or if you like it black and white, you can highlight all the important points with different highlight colours. One of my friend is very particular about her notes. Her notes are so pretty like the one you see in pinterest. But, besides the pretty-ness of her notes, she make it colourful because she can be reminded of her notes using the colour. 
For example: You can use Purple for the Title. So, each time you want to memorize, you already know that purple is the title. Next, the sub title. You can use different colour. It all depends on you. For me, I'm more to where I put the points. For example, If i want to look for the topic, I will be reminded for the page of the topic. Its actually different for each person. You need to explore it yourself to know which one better for you. 
Until you finish writing your notes, you actually will read the topic a few times. So, it will be easier for you to memorize it! To make it more easy, you can discuss what you already memorize with your friends. Explain to them what you already learn and memorize, so you will be more understand about the topic. Some of us are listener type, so this method will help them to learn adn easier for them tp understand rather than looking at the notes. It is a win-win situation for both you and your friends !
Your first semester is important 
So, it is important to know your study styles first! For this first semester, you need to explore more about your study styles and which one suits better for you. How do you know that it suits you? Take a look at your quiz or test result! If you score higher and you can easily answer all the question, it means that study method suits you! Dont be afraid to try many method as we are in study journey. We can always learn from mistakes and we are not too late to try them. Dont wait for you final exam for you to be anxious on how to study. 
My last tips! 
Dont procastinate
Please refrain from procastinate! Dont do last minute work either in study or your life. Do you have to wait for the day before the test that you want to start writing your notes ? It is better for you if you make earlier preparation atleast 2 weeks before your quiz or test so that you can prepare better. Always do your work as soon as possible, dont delay any of it until last minute! You can get more stress from this and you will get low quality of works and of course, low marks! 

So, all the best for your first semester in college ! Do remember, hard work sure will pay off ! Work hard for your studies so you can get the best result to satisfy yourself ! 

Good luck ! 

 

A New Journey for Degree Life !

Assalamualaikum and Hi everyone ! 

Alhamdulillah. I already finished my diploma journey in Lendu after 2.5 years. Actually, my batch is the first one who has the interim session means the freshman will started their study a little bit early than others. We had 7 weeks interim session then 1 or 2 months break before started our first semester of diploma. Its quite good actually as we can get use to our new environment a bit early and get to spend more time with new friends. As we learn some subjects from our first semester during the interim session, so our first semester is really relax and laidback. I had so much fun try to figured out my study styles while trying to know my new friends.

I will miss Lendu.

But, today, I will share my new experience for my degree journey. Yeayy! Currently, I just finished my first semester of degree on 2nd week of July. I’m currently working part time before my new semester starts this October.

I applied for degree during my last semester during diploma. At that time, I still don’t make a decision whether I want to continue in UiTM or apply for UPU. But, I was so busy for my last semester, so I don’t want to overthink about my decision. I just applied the ‘Penerapan Khas’ UiTM. They will give us 3 choices for the courses we want.

Since my first semester, I already targeted to make International Business as my major for degree. But, I hold it first as I want to see if there are any other subject that makes me attracted as International Business is a subject that I learnt during my last semester. During the last 4 semesters, I loved all Management subjects  and dislike calculation subjects. It doesn’t mean that I didn’t do well for calculation subjects, its just boring and makes me sleepy all the time eventho I excelled it.

So yeah, I end up choosing International Business as my first choice for degree. My tips here, some of my friends consider about their career and job opportunity in the future while choosing their major. For me, I also consider what I want to do in the future, but it is important to learn something that you really want and interested with. It will be hard journey if you lost interest in the middle of study. I really love International Business as I find it very attractive as I learn more about business in the global perspectives.

During my last semester, there are rumours that said you need to score really well if you want your first choice and to be selected as student in UiTM Puncak Alam. When I applied for my diploma in 2017, I put some laboratory courses as I really interested in it and I really hoped that I get accepted to UiTM Puncak Alam. Its my dream university to begin with. So I tried really hard for my last semester in hope that I will get accepted there.

Alhamdulillah, currently a first year student in UiTM Puncak Alam yeayyyy. Actually, I didn’t expect anything for my degree. I do not know what to prepare. Maybe, because I’m still in my student mode. I got accepted for degree in end February and just finished my diploma in late January so the break is quite short. I don’t even unpack some of luggage because of of the short break LOL

The documents that I need to prepared was quite a lot. Its like my first time again. It makes me nervous as I don’t know if I can adapt or not with the new environment, new place, new friends and new expectation. But, it will be only short journey as I got to cut some of credit hours so I only stay there for 4 semesters of study and 1 semester of internship. The total of 5 semesters. I am expected to graduate on July 2022. 

The new environment is great. Actually, there are many familiar faces from Lendu so it still makes me feel like home. But, the new place and the new friends makes me awkward. I had a hard time adjusting myself for the first week. We are quite busy to settle all the process before starting our class. Only the second week, we got our class schedule and meet our new classmates. My new roommate is actually my previous housemate from Lendu. I’m so relax as I don’t need to adapt to a new roommate. Its not that I cant meet new people, its just it takes a lot of time. But with familiar face, atleast I just need to face my new classmates and housemates HAHA

All the colleges there are like apartment, so each apartment have 4 rooms and each has 2 students occupied it. It’s a comfortable room and spacious for students. I love it. Even the café have many choice of foods that I don’t have time to explore. The price is affordable and the taste is good.

Sadly, I only got to stay there for only 3 weeks. During my week 4, the government already announced that all the university will be halt immediately and students must be send back home. So, we started our online class on April. So, it is a really short time for me to adapt to the environment. I guess, if we need to go back this October, it will takes time again to adjust as the first time.

I love it nevertheless. You can really feel the city vibe university. It also has a little bit of private university and I love it.

But still, I miss Lendu environment. I loved everything about that place. It is a perfect environment for student to study and enjoy their student life. 

 I want to go there again...

I'm glad to be in my dream university. May my new dream comes true and I can graduate with First Class Honours in BBA International Business (Hons.) in 2 years.

Amin.  

 

Staycation of Triple T in The Robertson, Bukit Bintang !

Assalamualaikum and Hi !

Finally, after almost 6 months, I have time to write this post. Its been a long time since I keep it as a draft. Its take time to sort out all the pictures because of course when it is Ting Ting Ting, the amount of pictures are ridiculous as usual. Hope all of this pictures can be keep as our memories forever. 

After school days ended back then, we already targeted to go vacation together when we atleast 21. So, we tried to plan it to make sure that we still can go anywhere we want. But, the initial plan got cancel due to circumstances. Nevertheless, we still went to our first vacation together, or should I say, our first Girls Party(?!) because it is too short and too loud ? but it still ended successfully !

At first, we planned to went to Langkawi, but then due to circumstance, we chose to stay in KL as it will be easier for us especially for our transportation so we settled for it and stayed in The Robertson, Bukit Bintang ! Actually, there are many attractive accomodations you can look up in all travel apps, but we actually planned it for last min so we decided to booked at Agoda after we checked the place and the facilities nearby. 

The Robertson, Bukit Bintang. Totally in the middle of Kuala Lumpur and you can totally feel the city vibes. Our accomodations view totally in front of KLCC and KL Tower and the view is magnificent especially at night ! Unfortunately, we cant see the sunset because it raining during the evening, but the view is still wow ! 

After I booked it in Agoda, they sent confirmation booking through email. The host asked us to give our phone number so they can contact us directly and gives details about the stay. I was actually very scared because it is my first time booked accomodations especially in KL, so I just pray that I wont get scam or whatsoever lol. After that, they contact us through Whatsapp and send the details about our accomodations, our room number, the facilities, rules and who we can contact if we have problems. The information is so details, because the host wont meet us during our stay. They only left the room key in the locker, and they sent us the password for the locker. It is the same during check out too. You just need to put back the key in the locker. Simple. 

I only contacted the host to asked them to give us towels as they didnt provided towel during our arrival. By the way, I booked a condo with one room. They can fit the total of 5 adults but actually more. maybe 6/7 ? Because it is quite big and they are fully furnished with all facilties such as refrigerator, TV, kitchen tools, washing machine, dinner table, coffee table, 2 queen size bed and 1 sofa bed, with 1 huge sofa with fluffy pillow. I think its enough for our 2 Days 1 Night staycation. Its worth it as it is so spacious and comfortable. The facilities nearby are quite a lot, such as swimming pool, jacuzzi, lobby, rooftop, 7-11 mart, restaurants and guarded with security.  So, it is a safe and secure staycation !

So let's check it out my 2 Days 1 Night First Staycation with Ting Ting Ting ! 

We bought our groceries as we cooked our dinner and breakfast tgt.

The view from our house ! 

Our hall. It is quite big and spacious. We played games together that night, and dont ask we almost jump everywhere at that time ! 

Athirah didnt arrive yet at that time. We just arrived and took our first selfie. 

Our first tea time ! Cekodok with nuggets with a hot tea. Cons : there is no jug provided lol

We ate before we jump into swimming pool that evening

The jacuzzi view ! Totally magnificent and look at our beautiful bare face ! This is what we call 'Kecantikan semula jadi di waktu muda' Gituwwwww

Guess who is the chef for our dinner ? Its me (IU// BBIBBI)

Spaghetti Bolognese with sausage and nuggets with our orange juice. Not to forget the jazz background music ! 

Indahnya hidup di waktu muda ! 

After dinner and Isya', its our girls night activity. We do not take any pictures as its totally inappropriate. We laughed too much and a total mess ! 

Nescafe to makes sure we always high ! HAHA

We celebrated everyone birthday that night and we got inspired with SNSD Tiffany birthday celebration with her members. So we tried to recreate it. 

But still, we are Ting Ting Ting. Not Girls Generation. We are still pretty in our own ways. I assumed we will be more pretty in the future. Bareface pun cantik kalau matured and makeup, sis taktau nak cakap ! 

At midnight, i think at 12 a.m, we went to the rooftop to enjoyed the city view at night ! Its totally beautiful. Its just we are not professional photographer eventho all of us a re school photographers before. LOL

Silhoutte of 5 of us ! 

Its my artwork. 

Our late night supper. Guess what, we watched movie after we came back from our sightseeing.

Azra recommended us to watch this movie ! It is reallyy gooood ! We totally recommend it as it keeps us awake that night and we totally enjoyed this ! 

Our bedroom view.

The girls take turns to cook. So its Yasmin and Azra turns to cook breakfast. 

Our check out picture !

On the way home, we planned to try the escape room in KL Sentral. So, we booked it earlier in their website, Breakout ! Its totally good !  They are several escape room you can choose based on the themes there. The host will guide you and explain the details of the situation of the escape room before you went in. Each of people will have their own respective roles during the escape process. So, you will solves the problems in the rooms using what you have such as maps, and the benefits from each roles. They are several stages until the last door to escape. Unfortunately, the time ended in our second last stage. We nearly escape the room ! We spend too much time to get the keys for our last door and ended up lost :( 

But still, we totally enjoyed it and would like to try another themes after this. Students can get discount if you show your student card ! Its totally affordable and recommended to go if you want to spend some time with your friends ! 

P/s: If you cant bear with confined or dark spaces, it might be difficult for you to enjoy it :((

Our last lunch together ! 

Our 2 Days 1 Night journey ended ! 

This staycation is too short but memorable. I wish we can spend more time together. Fortunately, we got to went staycation before the Covid-19 being announced as a pandemic. We went on 5th and 6th of February, and the MCO started a month later. Pheww

We will plan for another vacation next year. Let's go much further, girls ! Let's spend more time together ! 

XOXO Skye

The Best K-Dramas for 2019 !

Assalamualaikum and Hi again ! 

Finally, its The best K-Drama for 2019. I thought I only watched several dramas but it leads to this. The difference for my kdrama post is I don’t include ost anymore. It is because this year, I only watch drama when I have sometimes so sometimes I don’t even enjoy it.

So lets start ! 

When The Camellia Blooms 

Why I even watch this drama? For your information, this drama is the comeback drama for kang haneul from military and he was paired with gong hyojin my fav actress. This drama revolves around the life of dongbaek, with her son as they don’t have any family. Dongbaek raise her son alone in a small countryside village and open a bar name Camellia. Kang Haneul as Yongshik is a policeman that becomes the hero in Dongbaek heart. This drama is a romcom with a slice of life genre. It includes the story of her son real father, their real relationship, the relationship with the villagers, and all supporting casts. I think this drama had done well last year and rose to fame since their first eps. They received a highest rating for their drama until the last eps and it is a successful comeback for Kang Haneul. They received many awards for this drama and even Gong Hyojin received Daesang for her character. It is seriously recommended! 

Search WWW

I really loved this drama. From the plot, to the cinematography and to the cast and ost, it is perfect. This drama also receives good ratings. I think the plot is a fresh idea that not too heavy and but still gives so much information. This drama tells us about how powerful Internet is and how they control it behind the scene. The drama this time give woman as their centre character and the best thing about this drama is, all of them have their own partner so they won’t be anyone who would be left. All characters have their own story and how they solve their own problem. All 3 of the main characters are so powerful and not that kind of mainstream weak and poor woman character. I really love this drama! 

Hotel Del Luna

Hotel Del Luna receives a huge rating from domestic to international fans. It is a comeback drama from IU and Yeo Jingoo. The thing that you should take a look from this drama is the fashion. I repeat. The fashion. IU character as Jang Manwol has bring a chaebol character with a good fashion sense. All her outfits in this drama is so pretty and beautiful and she even made an IG to commemorate the drama and post all her outfits she wore for the drama. The chemistry between IU and Yeo Jingoo is so cute. That’s why all noona wants him as their main lead character. You guys should check it out why. The story tells us about Jang Manwol character that has live for a long time and waiting to go to the afterlife. In the meantime, she opens the Hotel Del Luna for all ghosts to have some time to complete their wishes in the world before they are being sent to the afterlife. Yeo Jingoo act as the manager of the hotel and her own assistant. It is a great drama afterall. It has a little bit Goblin feels, I think. This drama is so successful and all casts and staff got vacation reward to Thailand! 

Doctor John

After a while, finally there is a medical drama. I crave for a medical drama for a long time until this drama airs. The casts, Jisung and Lee Seyoung has good chemistry even tho they have a huge age gap I think. This drama unveils a lot of new cases and diseases that makes it a lot more interesting. The characters story is also interesting as they faced a lot of things in the beginning of the story. But, their background story never overshadow their profession as a doctor and how they portrayed their character. One of the most interesting disease that I still remember is Nipah Virus. It is a good medical dramaa after awhile and I totally recommend it !

Catch The Ghost

I watched this drama because I really crave for some police drama at that time. I don’t have any expectation and I don’t even do research for that drama. I don’t know who is the lead until I started it. Its Moon Geunyoung comeback drama and the hero is Kim Seonho. I don’t know him at first until I started with 2 Days 1 Night s4! Gosh, 2D1N s3 had gives me painful memory but this new season is great. I will tell more about this in another post. So, this drama is a police drama under department Subway Police. They are the one who protects the subway of Korea and they determined to solve a mysterious case that happens to the heroin before she became a police. It’s a really good drama and plot. I really love it as I got to discover another unique career. Totally recommended it!

Investigation Couple 2

It’s a sequel for Investigation Couple that airs last year. They comeback with the same casts and additional characters, Dr. K. The drama keep its good tempo from previous season and the cases is really good with a tough main case. The ratings are also high and they also nominated for the drama of the year in Drama Awards. I really hope there will be season 3 as their chemistry is really good and it seems like there is cliff hanging in the last eps. I still anticipate for it !

SKY Castle

This drama create a huge buzz last year as it receives a very high rating while airs. The casts even got invited to some variety shows and they receive vacation to Thai together at that time. I remembered I don’t have any desire to watch this as I thought this will be boring but I started because a lot of artists keeps posting about this drama in their SNS. The drama tells about the life of chaebol family that lives in luxury neighbourhood and their children education life. It’s a heavy drama at first as it involves family and emotions. But, each episodes has cliff hanging that makes more viewers curious about what will happen in next eps. It’s a good and thrilling drama. Many people loves it as it reflects the reality of South Korean education system and how tough it is for the university admission

Her Private Life

This drama tells us about what is the real life of idols fangirl ? How actually they live their life while following their fav idols everywhere ? It’s a good romantic comedy drama and I really love Park Minyoung acting in this. It’s a very light drama with romance that will makes you cringe but absolutely love it. The chemistry between the leads is really good and I really love how they depicts the life of fangirl and how the art gallery being manage. Its recommended for people who wants to find some romance and sweetness in their life. 

Be Melodramatic

This drama is totally an underrated drama. I think this drama is a gem that people should not miss. But, its disappointing that it got low rating while it airs. It tells a story about 3 women who are bestfriends with each other in their 30’s. I really love how the plot each character story and how it is different from the cliché drama we watched before this. The humor is on another level but in the same time it truly touch my heart. I remember crying for the drama as I totally can relate with the plot. Its just gives some healing to me and this drama had stuck in my heart. Its totally recommended if people want to watch some slice of life and light drama ! 

Leverage

I saw in Twitter that some people recommend this drama so I got curious and try to watch it. The first 2 eps is quite boring and I almost drop this drama but I gives another try and continue to watch eps 3. Seriously, I might regret if I drop this gem as it is a very good drama and plot. It tells a story of a group of people who conned people to get the justice for people who deserved it. It consists their leader, the insurance ppl, a real con artist, ex martial art athlete, ex soldier and a hacker. Its really good drama even though is a bit cliché. It is an adaptation from the US drama with the same title. I recommend it as it is a light drama to watch and a good plot with great character. 

Voice 3

As you all know, every year I did review for my fav crime drama, Voice. They had comeback for season 3 this time with the same cast from season 2. However, I dont like the main case this time as they reveal it too early for me and it is not thrilling like the past seasons. And this time, they focus more on the main case instead of solving many cases like past seasons. So, it has lost its charms like what I really loved before. The thrill is not there for this season but you can still watch it. I think there is a cliff hanging in the last eps too but I don’t know if they can comeback for a new season or not because of the lead character ending. You need to watch it to know what happen. Nevertheless, it still my fav crime drama afterall.

The Secret Life Of My Secretary

I don’t even know why I want to watch this drama. Maybe because I saw it on Insta and its seems like a funny drama for me. So, I watched it. Its just a cliché romantic comedy drama with Kim Youngkwang as the hero and how he lost his ability to recognize people suddenly. He can only recognize his secretary because she is always wearing red cardigan while working with them. Because of that, he relied so much on her until they fall in love and heal each other. It’s a light drama that you can watch to release your stress !

Vagabond

I totally remember that at first I don’t want to watch this drama because the lead is Suzy. Its not like I hate her, but I just have sceptical about idol acting. But it changed when I watch her in While You Were Sleeping. I’m so late for that drama but its truly good and I love it! Vagabond is a heavy drama a it involves some politic things with international crime, lobbyist and heavy action scene. The only disappointing thing about this drama is the ending. I cant reveal more but it’s a good drama. Don’t watch it when you stress. It will just add on your stress. But, Lee Seunggi as always, you did great ! 

Melting me softly

It’s a comeback drama for Ji Changwook after he enlist in military. I had high expectation on this drama at first because I also like the heroin, Won JinAh but I got disappointed with the plot of this drama. It is good because of the sci-fi genre that I rarely watch, but this drama have a lot of holes everywhere that makes me it lost its charm. Many fans also drop this drama in the middle. I’m glad that I stayed until the end because of the leads. But, you can give a try to watch it ! Just don’t have high expectation 😉

Abyss

Its been awhile since I watched Park Boyoung in drama. Maybe the last time was in Oh My Ghost ? or Strong Woman Do Bong Soon ? I cant even remember. But, this time her comeback is quite meh as the drama plot is really weak as it involves sci-fi like Melting Me Softly. But, I got to discover the hero, Ahn Hyoseop! He is a really good actor and I love their chemistry in this drama. It tells about the Abyss ball that gives human change to not die when they are supposed to and they can live again after dead but in a new appearance. So, people does not know that they actually did not die and reborn in new appearance. But, they keeps die and reborn that it got mess up in the middle. I don’t know why I didn’t drop this drama in the middle. Afterall, I love the leads so I stayed for them. 

These are the dramas that I watched in 2019. Finally, I had time to finish it and now its 2020. This time i dont puts stars as usual but I ranked it. When The Camellia Blooms is  blooming in my heart and it is the best drama I watched last year. They got huge win during drama awards and received Daesang! 

Lets see each other again in another kdrama post next year ! Annyeong !