What I Heard

Today is the day that i have my first class in the School of Housing, Building and Planning in University Science Malaysia(USM).

At the beginning of the class, our lecturer, Mr. Wan Burhanuddin Wan Abidin, start with asking us ‘What is APEX?’. A few student answer the question, but is like not accurate enough. then Mr. Wan Burhanuddin show us the graph below. Then he ask us who is the Naib Canselor of USM. This is important because at the bottom-left of the graph, the DAR is the name of our Naib Canselor, that is Profesor Tan Sri Dato' Dzulkifli Abd Razak.

Transformation in this graph mean change and Status-Quo is the existing state or condition. So it mean that we need to change to have a better tomorrow, better future. APEX is actually stand for Accelerated Program for Excellent. The student under this program need to be fast, quick, rapid and excellent. If you think that you are not this kind of student, you just need to transform to be like that.

Then, Mr. Wan Burhanuddin share with us about what is production. From the diagram at the left, we can know that every production start with an intention that carry out by an actor (People), follow by an action that are restricted by some rule(Principal) then only can produce the product that we want. This product must can occupied a space (Place).

As a APEX student, we need to have APEX intention, APEX action, APEX product, APEX rule and APEX place.

So there got 3 important element that is needed to have a production, that is People, Principal and Place. In short, we call it 3P. Without one of this element, no production can be produce. Mr. Wan Burhanuddin give us an example about world cup, the 3P in world cup is player(People), FIFA rule(Principal) and a world class stadium(Place).

Who is the actor that involve in RUS 101?

Student

Studio masters

USM Community

Penangites

Et al.

For this part, when lecturer talk about student, he call up some student name to know more about them. Then for studio masters, he let the studio master that will help or teach us in this RUS 101 to introduce themselves. We have a total of 15 studio master but today just got 8 studio master that join in our class. They are

• · Wan Burhanuddin Wan Abidin(Ar)
• · Mohd Najib Mohd Salleh (Ar)
• · Mohd Zailan Sulieman(BT)
• · Abdelnaser Omran Asli(CM)
• · Ilias Said (CM)
• · Mohd. Hanizun Hanafi (CM)
• · Azlan Raofuddin Hj. Nuruddin(QS)
• · Azizan Mazuki (Planning)

All the studio master welcome us to study in USM, they hope that we can be more hardworking, come earlier to the class, pass up assignment on time and enjoy our life in USM.

Before the end of the class, lecturer give us our first assignment that is design our virtual home(blog) and log what we heard in our first class.