Last week remarked the awkwardness and high level of confidence when I stepped into a strange environment that I had never experienced it before. Yeah, strange because I met so many new students from Psychology Department and they were friendly to me, in a sense that it creates a sense of belonging from myself to them.
What could I say about DC? It is a full swing program determined participants' personality and career that suits them. It is interesting because, from my little observation, I saw a lot of reactions, active and passive people from various departments existed at IIUM. Surprisingly, these people reacted good and followed the rules and regulations without questioning or demanding anything.
For your information, there are several stations in charged by a different person in charge. For instance, interview, psychological testing, written analysis, in-tray technique, group discussion, presentation as well as the last pit stop, role-play which is where I was assigned to.
andd....... taraaaaa.... Day 1: The above picture was my teammates (right: Anis, Mahfuzah, Asma and Norana) at the role-play station. Recently, I have been in a touch with them greatly and it is what awkward me the most. But some of them, I have been knowing and recognized them since CFS Nilai, so it was not much difficult for me to just blend in with them.
During this moment, Norana, Asma and I were struggling with our Experimental report 1 although we have like more than 2 weeks to complete the report before that time. But who cares? Haha. The principle of better late than never was what we held and picked.
Day 1 of the DV was a bit chaos because everything just turned partially wrong. Started from the event flow, the committee, the assessor, the runner as well as participants. Alhamdulillah we had short post-mortem at the end of the Day 1. We tired, we exhausted but then for the sake of smoothness of DC on the 2nd day, we discussed and prioritized the most important thing to make some improvement for all part of the DC.
Day 2 of Development Centre taught me a different perspective of looking at the situation given for the role-play. If me, the assessor have the negative thought about the situation given, what more the participants themselves. I don't know who was incharge in creating the situation but deeply in my heart and from psychological thought, I know that there was a reason behind all these created situations. Therefore, I just need to accept though it was hard.
Lastly, yeah. I still cannot move on. All the hardship and tiresome simply shown by our smiley and happy faces because at last, the event finished. We had the moment and we own it. Thank you to everyone for contributing your 'small part' to complete the 'bigger part' of the Development Centre.
I learnt a lot from these 2 days event. Got to handle people from various department from IRKHS Kuliyyah was not an easy task. Moreover, when I had to experience being the 'assessor', handling participants at the Role-play station. Yeah, it was an interesting moment because several participants just reflected the old part of me who was very shy to speak infront of people especially when using English language as a medium of conversation.
But now Im no longer the old man. Im about to move to the next stage of my life which is the working world. I dunno where will I be but one thing that I know now is I have to prepare everything that I need before entering the next stage, stage where my life will be completely different from now. Insyaallah.
Wasalam. Hope all of you get something from what I just wrote.
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