lecturers

A second semester of weird lecturers...a wider dynamic and characters.

Dr Selina Khoo Phaik Lin

subject taught: Sports Sociology

She's the deputy director of the Sports Centre (Academic department)

She was stressed up by handling our batch's inability to register for english, extra credit hours and finding alternatives when we faced academic struggles...In class, she appreciates us coming early (she told us thank you for coming early). Her voice is soft that we have to sit in front or not we cant hear anything, her attitude is standing up for the minority ( a few times in class, she defended the minors). Another characteristic of her is she would always be surprised due to her innocence...it's like she's so so innocent la. She asked the class to not sit in the same place during each class...She's the type of lecturer that will never ever give full marks...So if the question is like over 10, the best will get 8. Oh ya, suddenly only got 2 bonus marks for an event which not many of use went...That's unfair, she didn't announce that 2 extra mark would be given if we went for it (the event was not compulsory)..Geez!

The first person/lecturer to call me kiasu! (btw kiasu direct translation is Scared to Lose. Commonly Referring to people who always want to win win win)

Pn Rohaini Amin

Subject taught: Tamadun Islam dan Tamadun Asia

A lecturer that always had something to say about anything and everything. She loved asking students to help other students understand more about a subject. For example she asked Chinese students explain more about the Chinese culture and meaning (Smart lady, students do explaining, she understand better, other students pay more attention and understand more, she teach less). <--More of a 2 or 3 way dimension of teaching method. Teach smart not teach hard ;P This lecturer really inspire us to think, she taught us how to THINK, she inspired, provoke and encouraged us to THINK...very interesting way of giving us a soft skill.

Pn Fatimi

Subject taught: Hubungan Etnik

She said I'm very narrow minded...arh, a statement that really slap me on the face. Welcome to reality, please think outside the box Hilda! Don't take things too literal.

My carry mark was a bit low, that caused me a B+ while my classmates with a better carry mark got an A-, that means a 5 marks away...haiz...

80 - 100     A   (4.0)

75 - 79     A-   (3.7)

70 - 74     B+   (3.3)

Pn Wirdati Radzi

Subject taught: Sport Management

Very relaxed and calm personality. You have to ask question in order to learn. Very American type of teaching style, accept any answers as long as it's rational. Truthful and far thinker...

Dr Abdul Halim Mokhtar

Subject taught: 1st Aid and CPR

First 4-5 classes he didn't attend, we were skeptical whether there was even a lecturer for this subject, we didn't even know if the lecturer was a male or female, there was no information on the lecturer, not even the name. SO anyway, the few classmates that were faithful went to "classes" and suddenly we find out that our lecturer is the sports director of the sports centre. He taught fast and didn't wait or care if people understood. Like American lecturers. His slides were always full of pictures (not that pleasant-1st aid ma, so gruesome pictures loh). He taught us to focus on the main subject despite the topic given (fractures and snake bite, focus on 1st aid since our subject is about 1st Aid, and focus lesser on the topic). His notes is mix of english and malay...so many combined language sentence that made it difficult for us to do own notes...The notes were also repeating so we have to arrange it our self.

Mr Fajar

Subject taught: health and fitness and nutrition

He has a very bad command of english, "Sports is not health" then when he explain in Malay, he meant people who do sports is not necessarily healthy...OMG, no wonder la the foreign student failed...This lecturer doesn't teach properly, and for the 2nd test, SUDDENLY his english was so high class (means sure la the paper sentences were not done by him) but despite that, some questions were incomplete and didn't make sense (maybe he edited or ask someone to translate word by word to good english...direct translation but high class words). The 2nd test was really frustrating because he ask many questions that he didn't teach nor was it in our notes. Our assignments instructions were not clear and when we asked, he would say do it any way you want...at last our carry mark was so low due to the test and the assignment (many got less than half like 27/60)...meaning if by some miracle he/she get's full mark for the final exam, the person will have no chance of an A. Just to pass the subject is a pain in the S. I feel he's not a good lecturer...btw, he's only a part time lecturer (it explains the lousy teaching, instruction, questions, explanation, marking and grading). The exam paper was a killer! So many questions on things he didn't teach and the bilingual made things worse...the malay sentence asked for something while the english sentence asked for something else...Oh My, what to answer? Just answer both la...meaning many questions with 2 sets of answers. SUCKS la..why no one check the paper la? I think he simply put the marks (a question which has 5 answers, he gave 6 marks...where does the extra one mark go to? Give example for all 5 answers? meaning 0.2 mark for each example arh? the question didn't ask for example also). Damn frustrating paper. Don't know or understand what is the kehendak soalan. English and Malay asking for 2 different answers...Grrr