Assignment 1A : My Virtual Home

The first day of the class, a lecturer who named Mr. Wan Burhanuddin Wan Abidin introduce himself to us. He was our RUS 101 lecturer and briefing us something about Apex-Intro Identity. An accelerated chart about APEX University for few years was shown to us. It was a fast accelerated chart around the years until year 2013 prepared by USM vice-chancellor, Dzulkifli Abdul Razak.

(an accelerated apex chart credit from H.B.P. website)

From the briefing, I get to know that APEX stand for Accelerated Program For Excellent. It is all about how we become one of the Apex students and the need of ability for being cope with fast movement toward excellent and change for the future.

(credit from USM website)

In addition, the production of APEX was combination of 3P which stand for people, principle and place. The production take place when there was an intention, then there would be act to produce a product. In summarise, actor will play the role based on rule in a specific place. The actor sconsist of student, studiomasters, usm communities, penangites, et al. (and others)

During the briefing, some question has been ask by the lecturer to a few students. The question was mainly about where the place they come from, school location and even the main factor why we choose USM as the university we want to get in. A few of studiomasters have introduce to us, as I remember was Dr. Mohd. Hanizun Hanafi the studiomaster of construction and also the coordinater of RMT 153, next was Dr. Mohd Zailan Sulieman, Ar. Mohd Najib Mohd Salleh, Sr Dr. Ilias Said, Mr. Rusli Jamaluddin, and Dr. Azizan Marzuki.

Some advice have given by the studiomasters, there were :

• wake up early
• come early to the class
  
• pass up every assignment
• submit the assignment on time
• submit the assignment to the right lecturer
• work very hard
• productive

After that, lecturer request us to open a web log or it known as blog for our 1 st assignment. The title was Virtual Home. We were requested to design and build ourself a blog and the subject was “What I heard”. We need write all what we heard during 9am to 11am on 12nd July 2010. All we need was submit our full name of and the blog address once. The address should be related to our full name because nickname was forbidden to use. Last but not least, we will see our RUS 101 lecturer, Mr. Wan Buhanuddin Wan Abidin again on this coming friday.