Hadijah binti Jaffri

My Touch n Go card was blacklisted even though the status is still active

I took a break on 24 and 26 December so I had a quite long break. So, today on my way to work using the highway, I was surprised when I cannot use my Touch n Go card which I recently topped up. I had to buy a new card. With a little bit hassle to make a complaint to the PLUS office, I asked why my card was blacklisted. Since the person-in-charge cannot do anything about it because it relates to Touch n Go, not PLUS, I just topped up the new card with RM50. The old one has more than RM150 worth of credit. I googled Touch n Go office which is in Wisma Nufri at Jln Yahya Al Datar. I am not sure how to go there since there are lots of one-way street and I have to detour a bit to get there.

Here, I have three options.

Option 1: Just let the matter rest without doing anything. I know that I would waste that RM150 worth of credit.

Option 2: Make a report by calling the centre. I am not sure how they will solve this problem.

Option 3: I will go to the JB centre myself after the examination.

Which is the best option?

I have been thinking about this for few hours since this little incident. I notice that after I topped up my card on 9 December 2019, the credit is not accurate. At first, I was thinking perhaps, I got a bonus or something so, I got extra credit more than what I had topped up. So, I don’t do anything about it. When this happened to me this morning, I realise that I am not being honest by not doing anything. This thing happened as a way of Allah showing His Mercy upon me. SubhanAllah.

I think I will choose option 1. After all, I can always use the new card that I had topped up. The extra credit of the old card? After a quick calculation, I realise that it is not mine to claim on a first place even.

Prophet Muhammad warned us of the dangers of dishonesty, and the benefits of living in an honest way. He said:

“Truthfulness leads to righteousness, and righteousness leads to Paradise. In addition, a man keeps on telling the truth until he becomes a truthful person. Falsehood leads to wickedness and evil-doing, and wickedness leads to the (Hell) Fire, and a man may keep on telling lies till he is written before God, as a liar”. (Saheeh Al-Bukhari)

It is really tempting to claim the extra credit (which I don’t know the source) in my Touch n Go card, though the extra credit is not what I had paid when I topped up the credit. But, I realise that it is challenging to stay honest and be truthful especially in this case. Alhamdulillah and SubhanAllah for the chance given by Allah for me to look at this incident from different perspective.

Using Collaborative Tools and Gamification in my class (2019): MPPE 1353 Personality Psychology

I admit that I am a bit “slow” to catch up with technology and whatsnot. But, I challenge myself to improve my teaching to incorporate online assessment and also more interactive class notes in my class. After all, the quiz in Kahoot! or Quizziz has this interactive features that I could not provide if I use paper-and-pencil test. For my class notes, I find that Prezi has this unique features. It is almost like a game in itself as students can choose to pick which bubble that they want to uncover first.

Here are some of the class notes that I have using Prezi

https://prezi.com/view/YpvoIHiBmDh53F5Rsaji/

https://prezi.com/view/vhv1L3PWMOL5sMRyFRiQ/

https://prezi.com/view/HOUC5Hg7PiiCTS1PRmNz/

I don’t give quiz as part of the course requirement for my MPPE 1353 Personality Psychology class, but I give students options to self-assess their understanding. Since they are adult learners, they use this as an opportunity to improve their learning and enhance their learning experiences. Some of them are teachers so when they have experiential learning using Kahoot! or Quizziz, they have an idea about how to incorporate online assessment in their class as well.

Here are some of the quizzes that I give to my students

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5d22e6a8374e5e001a11ff31

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5e004cf00c5fa8001befa110

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5e004de80c5fa8001befa3fc

Using Collaborative Tools and Gamification in my class (2019): SPPP 1012 Educational Psychology

I learned about Gamification back in 2016. But, I was really struggling back then to learn using online assessment such as Kahoot!, Quizziz and others. For my class note, I struggle to use Padlet and Prezi.

But, I challenge myself to improve my teaching to incorporate online assessment and also more interactive class notes in my class. After all, the quiz in Kahoot! or Quizziz has this interactive features that I could not provide if I use paper-and-pencil test. For my class notes, I find that Prezi has this unique features. It is almost like a game in itself as students can choose to pick which bubble that they want to uncover first.

https://prezi.com/view/DnN5TNlmRX7BT6bf6hDl/

https://prezi.com/view/px8Vii6KJfpFqKU9xWz9/

https://prezi.com/view/gdcKv7COwW8jkqzPS6aW/

I first came across Kahoot! in my Educational Psychology class from one of the group presentations by my SPPP 1012 Educational Psychology students back in 2016. Yep. I learned about Kahoot! from them. Not long after that, I attended a workshop about gamification. Only then I learn more about gamification and various types of online assessments.

Since then, I have started to create quizzes using Kahoot! or Quizziz. Here are some of the quizzes that I use in my class.

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5d1410c8b0e823001a71f757

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5e0047cdd15070001c5c1633

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5e00485b340856001b4aaaa4

Using Collaborative Tools and Gamification in my class (2019): MPPU1024 Research Methodology in Education

Here are some of the class notes that I have used several semesters but I only recently converted it into Prezi notes (pssstt… I paid USD60 for Prezi annual fees) to have more choices of interactive settings.

https://prezi.com/view/MewCUO1zkaTuOAC4Vj8e/

https://prezi.com/view/ZRE8sg3UjKGTqmCapW8K/

https://prezi.com/view/Sjku3yezs7TD0vDPjWYq/

Here are some of the quizzes that I have used over several semesters. There are other quizzes that I set as private because it might relate to certain articles that I use in class. The ones that I list here are generic version.

For MPPU1024 Research Methodology in Education, here are some of the quizzes that students can take

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5d9d3359160757001dfaea83

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5df090f7efd50d001ce8038a

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5d4a3633d1dd07001b268565

Birthday bash… really?

My plan was to take a leave to celebrate my birthday with my family today. But I had few things that I had to settle today so I ended up of not taking a leave. But I had this terrible stomachache because I drank fresh milk before I slept yesterday. It “cleansed” my bowel alright.

After the MPPU1070 evaluation ended around 10am, I went to the office to submit the evaluation form. On my way, I met Yan. I told her that today is my birthday and she decided to give me a treat. Since it was still early, our plan to eat at the newly renovated Arked Meranti was shifted to SDS.

I had an embarrassing moment today when one of the waitresses at SDS brought a cake with candles and singing Happy Birthday to me. What!!!! At this age, I feel cringed rather than elated about it. Come on! I am already passed 40 and the last thing I want is to blow candles on my birthday. But I appreciate my colleague who wants to give me a surprise because she knows very well that I am not into that kind of festivities. Thanks for the thought and kind act. She squealed in delight when she saw my cringed face listening to the birthday song sang by the waitress.

I aim to take a leave next year on my birthday. I need to make a day to unwind from works and whatsnot.

The last round robin activity for this semester

It is never my intention to torture my students with Round Robin activity this semester which I conducted more than twice. But, the thing is they are future teachers. I hope through experiential learning, they would remember how they go through the process of this activity. Hope they would store the information in procedural memory and episodic memory (there are steps involved that they have to go through i.e. relate to procedural memory as well as event where they go through i.e. related to the activity itself).

Please ignore the way they dress. After all, they are TEASLIAN. As you can see, they might have resemblance with LA lecturers too who teach them. An example of modelling (social learning) by Bandura in action. Indeed

Last day of my class….. errrr

I had a blast with this group of students. Few of them took my Personality Psychology class before. When I asked them why they took my Human Development class, they said that they want to learn from me. They enjoy taking my class. What a bluff! That is my first impression. I know that I should trust my students but due to previous experiences, I still have some reservation when they give me sugar-coated compliment.

One of them suggested that we took a class picture. This is not what I normally do in class. I feel cringed (you can see it from my face). But for the sake of group dynamics, I played along with their request.

Have self-compassion towards yourself…..

Each of us have professional or personal goals that we want to achieve. Some might resort to underhand means to achieve their goals. Well, what is wrong or right is clear if you use religion as your benchmark. Yet again, whatever benchmark is a personal choice.

Most of us equate achievement with self-esteem. You evaluate yourself positively or favorably when you achieve something. This notion would means that you are relying on evidences of your achievement to evaluate yourself. If you think about the hereafter, whereas you don’t know what you will get (gladtiding or not), you will reevaluate again your professional and personal goals and think carefully how to act in achieving the goals.

Again, all will come back to how compassionate you are towards yourself. To know more, read more HERE.

FSSSH Free Meal and Free Market programme 2019

9 December 2019 (Monday). It was the final day for our Free Meal and Free Market programme for this semester. It has been 48 weeks since it was launched back in 2016 (errr, not officially launched though :D) and around 5000 students were benefited with the free meal. How time flies!

But this time around, we ended it with a bang. Yup. The newly elected Dean, Prof Zaidatun Tasir invited the press to come and you can know more about our programme HERE.

School holidays activities

Two of the grandkids were in town last week. Since their Embah was busy with other things, I took a leave to entertain them. So, I sent them for horse back riding session at Equine Park, UTM.

She went first. She asked me if I want to ride the horse too. Nope. No, thank you

He went second. He looked anxious but looking at his sister who rode the horse safely, he was less hesitant to ride the horse.

Other than horse riding session, I want them to have a hands-on activity. Mind you. These two kids know how to play online games (I don’t even know how to play online games and I am older than them). Their Embah was not around. So, to keep them occupied, we baked brownie cookies. The recipe is HERE. But I improvised a bit by adding dark chocolate and left-over Whittard hot chocolate. I used some nearly expired stuff. Alhamdulillah it turned out ok