Reflection

The decision to become a lawyer came up to me when I was still in primary school. Surprisingly, I’m now at The National University of Malaysia.  Studying law in the UKM is one of the main ways leading to the accomplishment of my academic and career goals. Wow!!!Sounds very extravagant, right? Haha.. I used to study law at Universiti Teknologi Mara before. There were only Malays, people who are communicating in bahasa, joking with matters which can easily be understood, sharing the same culture and tradition. But now, there are majority of Chinese in my class, with just a drop in the ocean of Indian, and a few of them are Malays. But that is not the ultimate problem, and mingle with people from other races is also not a problem actually. I have set that as a priority for me. Understanding my own culture makes me more open to other cultures.  I have communicated with people of different backgrounds in secondary school and my capacity to respect the ways that are different from mine has always helped me. I am totally sure that there would have been less ethnic conflicts if people really did respect and try to understand other cultures and their ways. It is my pleasures to know Chuah, Apple, Stephanie, Suren and other non-Malay students. I know that I should not only fit the educational community of UKM but also give my classmates an example of cultural flexibility and respect to different points of view. But, to be honest, I’m getting more and more drown into the wave of missing my old friends, all the law foundation students of Uitm 2009/2010 session. Their smiles, their laugh, their love, that usually motivate me to study have gone from my grasp. Mustafa, why don’t you here, to crap and talk nonsense all the time? Ijad, why don’t you here, to make foolish jokes and eating my ‘keropok’? Argh, guys, I miss all of you. Yet, I should not take it in the negative way. We are still law students, our goal are still the same, to be a good technical liars. Aren’t we? Hahaha.. Stop talking crap Muhammad Amirull Afiqq, you have to submit a reflection to your English For Law’s lecturer, the gorgeous Mdm Maryam. hehe.. Okay, let us focus on the reflection.

 As I said before, I’m here to study law, and I hope I will manage to pass this course with flying colours in this honourable university. I know that the lecturers at this university, have a lot to share with the students and I am looking forward dedicating myself to the process of getting knowledge that I have been dreaming about for so long. Yeah, our 1^st class, the law of contract class with Dr Sakina who is an expert in this sort of law. Before entering her class, I’ve read a quarter of the first chapter of her book, entitled “Mengenali Undang-Undang Kontrak di Malaysia”. It was a truly amazing book which refresh my memory pertaining to the seven element of contract that have been taught by Puan Che Audah, my beloved lecturer when I was in law foundation programme. There is still green in my mind, the moment when Dr Sakina asked the class to vote for their class representative. It is just The Mighty Allah who knows my feeling when they nominated me for the post. ”Oh,no! I don’t want to be the servant of the class for the entire of my first year”. It was the beginning of the end of my relaxing life; I WON the ‘general election’. Actually, I was predicting the result, since there was a lot of coincidence that happened along the ‘Minggu Pengenalan Pelajar’. ‘Minggu Pengenalan Pelajar’ is our 1^st week in UKM. In that week, I joined my residential college team for Vice Chancellor’s Cup of Malay Debate Competition. Accidentally, our team went through the grand final. Accidentally, again, my picture appeared as the wallpaper of UKM’s portal. I was wondering why my picture was there since we were just the 1^st runner up. And because of that picture, my lecturers and classmates know me as ‘pendebat’, who they had chosen as the class representative. And know, I am who I am, a law student, a class representative, a debater, an emcee, and etc.

No matter how busy and exhausted I am, I have to strive diligently to grasp my ultimate goal as a student, and the most important one, as the elder brother of my younger brothers and sisters. I should say that studying here is a magnificent opportunity for me to excel in my academic and therefore career goals and I would take it for an honour to study here getting the knowledge from the best professionals in the sphere of legal study such as Dr Sakina, Dr Che Norlia, Datin Noor Aziah, Dr Suzanna and others. I am not a fast learner, but it will never curtail my spirit and ability to be a good law student.