AH QIANG'S BLOG: 2017

再见，北方大学

忙完了工作和毕业典礼后，终于有时间更新我的部落格了。这是一年前我与同科系的同学最后的相片集了。我在北方大学读了三年，生活除了赶课业，还是赶课业，最后总算顺利地在大学毕业和过了这个人生的旅程碑。很多人从中学就说，读到了大学就轻松了，其实一点都不会，每天都要赶功课给讲师。不过，到了工作，回想回去的话，其实活在当下，才是最好的。

Finally, this moment has come! The third convocation of my learning journey! Rushing for assignment, quiz, presentation and final examination, eventually, I have completed my study at the Northern University of Malaysia (UUM). Although facing a lot of pressures in struggling for academic achievement, but it is worth that when you strive for something by investing time and energy and you earn it in return. When the day comes, I realize that time flies so fast, when I back to here again, it seems like I step into UUM first day. This day, there is no more class and examination to wait for, my mind is empty by the convocation atmosphere without any assignment burden. Meanwhile, it is also a sign of step into the real world to chase our dream. It has been 3 years I stayed in UUM, so there are a lot of great memories around here and keep repeating in my mind even though the environment over there is still in improving stage.

This has been my second convocation in my learning journey. Although the ceremony has been passed one year ago, I think this is one of my great moment in my life. Meanwhile, I would also share my memory here as well. What is CILT about? Based on my understanding, it stands The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), it is an organization for developing students in logistics and supply chain career by providing relevant skills and courses for them as well. Therefore, in my university, every student is compulsory taking 10 subjects fixed by the organization and pass with minimum B grade. If students cannot achieve the grade, they have to retake an examination in order to get the certificate. Frankly, I have to say, the benefits of this certificate are still in uncertainty because it is still a new syllabus in my university life. Anyway, it can be considered as an added value in our skills and knowledge in the future by taking all of the courses fixed by the association.

Tanzini Restaurant is a European- based concept restaurant which is located at G-tower, Kuala Lumpur. Special thanks for my company, I have the opportunity to enjoy dinner in this restaurant.

Tampopo Delicieux is a Japanese restaurant which is located at Level 1, Sky Avenue, Genting Highlands. While traveling to Genting Highlands, it is one of the recommended restaurants to visit if you like to serve Japanese foods and drinks.

The revonation of Sky Avenue Shopping Mall, Genting Highlands, Malaysia brings new experiences for visitors shopping around the area with its large LED screen walls. Meanwhile, the decoration inside is nice and the environment is spacious after renovation.

Internal Design of Sky Avenue Shopping Mall

Cabinz Ecottage is the best resort to travel especially for nature lovers. It is located at Seremban, Negeri Sembilan. With the beautiful natural view of forest, Cabinz Ecottage has good accommodation with wooden architecture design to stay and outdoor barbecue area for people hanging around and enjoying the view of nature. It can be said that, this place is totally calm, comfortable, relax, and free because it is stay far away from city.

Black Market is a western-style concept restaurant that serving western foods (meat, seafood, pasta, rice, burger, and buns), coffee, desserts, wine, beers, and so on.

Petronas Twins Tower are skyscrapers located at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Meanwhile, it is one of the well-known landmark of the Malaysia. While travelling to Malaysia, tourists will not miss out the opportunity to visit one of the highest tower in the world. Suria KLCC shopping mall and KLCC garden park is located nearby the tower.

The Curve is a shopping mall which is located at Mutiara Damansara, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. Meanwhile, it is one of the largest shopping mall in Malaysia. Why am I going to mention this shopping mall? This is because I like the night view of the shopping mall especially The Street. In night, there got live band, cafe, restaurant and pub. It is full crowded of people during weekend to enjoy the KL night life.

Putrajaya: Great Place for Photo Shooting

Frankly to say, Putrajaya have a lot of destination that best for photoshooting and travel during weekends. With the building structure and green natural around park, it attracts a lot of visitors or photographers travel this area for spending their time in relaxing and photoshooting.

Pullman Putrajaya Lakeside

Merdeka Square (Dataran Merdeka) historical place located at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.With the Malay-culture design architecture which is the Sultan Abdul Samad Building, it has attracted a lot of foreign visitors traveling and hanging around the area. Normally, this area will be used as political rallies or filming because it is one of the landmark of Malaysia. Meanwhile, while walking around the area, you can see landscape of Sultan Abdul Samad Buidling, picture of Malaysia Prime Ministers and other historical items. Simply to say, this is one of the place that represent Malaysia in the world. For people that like to visit historical places around Malaysia, this will be the suggested place for you to travel as well.

Trust Issue Cafe is a cafe serves coffees, teas, western foods, cakes, and other hot and cold drinks. This cafe is located at Bandar Sri Permaisuri, Cheras. Most of the customers visit this cafe are Malay. Anyway, it is a good place for people hang around and serve coffee as well.

Japanese Village is located at the Berjaya Hills, Pahang with Japanese architecture and culture as background. It attracts a lot of visitors travel to the place especially couple, family, or friends.

Colmar Tropicale is a France- theme village which can be considered as one of the favorite destination that attract visitors traveling for. It is located at Berjaya Hills Resorts, Pahang, Malaysia. With its unique French- theme landscape and the windy atmosphere around, visitors can feel refresh, free, and comfortable while walking around the environment.

Summer at 17°C Cafe

Summer at 17°C Cafe is a summer theme design cafe which is located at Cheras, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. The range of foods and drinks in the cafe are pastas, desserts, croissant, cakes, coffee, western foods, juices and so on.

Environment

Around the environment, it is great for people serving food and dessert with its calm and comfortable environment. Meanwhile, this cafe also great for studying by serving coffee as well!

Sungai Gabai Waterfall, Hulu Langat Selangor

Looking for traveling with low-cost expenses with family and friends? Sungai Gabai Waterfall will be the nice place to visit and explore on weekends.

After leaving university, every undergraduate will seek to find ideal job to gain a high salary. Undergraduate will expose to the real competitive world to survive, taking extra courses or further study to intensify them for a high job offer and improving living standard. Work for money always the main purposes for living. Although undergraduate has their own knowledge and skills in their own related field, certain of them will review back whether this job can add value to their living or not. Meanwhile, be an owner of business or employee of a company is better in improving living quality? To me, I have my own perception between becoming a business owner or employee of a company. By the way, working for a company or creating a business is depending on the vision of the person in his life.

出版者： 中信出版社（北京）
出版日期：2012年1月
格式和版本：平装
页数：254页
类型：个人成长，心理励志，心灵成长

书本介绍

心灵突破六十问是一本关于现代社会人士面对的心理问题和解决方法的书籍。作者是张德芬和罗伊马丁纳，都是著名的心灵大师。关于这本书，作者将会分析婚姻，个人，事业，爱情，和其他的社会问题让读者明白心灵成长的过程和重要性。

Publisher: HarperCollins
Year:2010
Format: Paperback
Pages: 260
Genres: Self-enrichment, leadership, motivation, business

Book Review

Leadership Wisdom from the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: The 8 Rituals of the Best Leaders is a book written by Robin Sharma, who is the founder of Sharma Leadership International Inc, and one of the International Bestselling Author in the world. About this book, Sir Robin Sharma uses the story telling methods to describe the 8 rituals of the best leaders in managing people and works. This book not only explains the importance of leading people, but it also reflects a visionary leader can lead thyself become successful because of the willingness to take a risk in leading people.

Publisher: Virgin Books
Year: 2012
Format: Paperback
Pages: 343
Genres: Academic and professionals

Book Review

Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won't Teach You at Business School is a book written by Richard Branson, who is the entrepreneur, business magnate, philanthropist, and investor. Meanwhile, Richard Branson is the founder of Virgin Group. In this book, Richard will share his business philosophy, wisdom, lessons, and value in developing business and personal leading in managing his organization.

出版者：大众国际书局股份有限公司
出版日期：2013 年8月
格式和版本：平装
页数：253
类型： 心理励志，个人增长，心灵成长

书本介绍

遇见未知的自己是一本关于心灵成长的书籍，作者是张德芬。张德芬是一名被誉为华语世界首席身心灵畅销书的作家。关于此作品，张德芬作家是以故事的方式来讲解如何克服人生中的问题，烦恼和忧虑。同时，书籍里也有不同的图案用来让读者更加了解心灵的成长和更加认识内心的自己。

Publisher: WaterBrook Press
Year: 2012
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Genres: Religion and spirituality, motivation

Book Review

Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith in Action is a book written by Nick Vujicic who is the motivational speaker, evangelist, author, and the director of the nonprofit organization Life Without Limbs. This book is the second book of Nick Vujicic which encourages people to keep moving forward and face the challenges in hard times. This is because God always is on our side to support and protect us in our life if we keep believing in Him.

Publisher: FaithWords

Year: 2013
Format: Paperback
Pages: 244

Genres: Inspirational, Spirituality, Christian, and Motivation

Book Review

Break Out: 5 Keys to Go Beyond Your Barriers and Live an Extraordinary Life is a book written by Joel Osteen in explaining the ways of breakthrough obstacles to achieve extraordinary results in life. It consists of 5 key rules and the writer has explained in chapter the ways of God help and guide us to live exceedingly, extraordinary, and abundantly.

The 5 keys to success are as follow:

1. Believe Bigger

2. Consider God, Not Circumstances

3. Pray God-Sized Prayers

4. Keep the right perspectives

5. Don't Settle for Good Enough

台湾实习之旅

台湾是一个我最想要去的国家。因为中学时期都爱听台湾的流行歌曲和观看偶像剧，觉得可以在那里旅游一定会是很不错的体验，如果有机会去那里，一定会去。我非常感谢我的朋友，我得到了可以到台湾四个月实习的机会，去体验那里的生活和工作的环境。同时，对我来说，实习期间也可以出去旅游是非常好的体验。

My Performance Experiences

Performing on the stage is not an easy task for every dancer and singer. Behind all performances, it needs to put a lot of effort to keep the stamina, vocal, correcting movement, practicing regularly, and self-evaluating whether audiences will interest about our performance or not. It has been 13 years performing on stage and I feel that become performer is great and need a lot of hard works to produce a great performance on the stage.

The Travel Intern in Taiwan

Taiwan is one of the countries that I wish to travel since I was in secondary school because of their great music and drama culture. Thanks to my course mate, I have gained the opportunity to travel Taiwan for four months internship. The company that I joined as an industrial trainee is a logistics company which is located at Taoyuan. Owing to I am a fresh graduate and foreigner, the staff around the company are very sharing and caring about me while living in Taiwan. Long story short, I very appreciate every moment in Taiwan no matter is in working or traveling around their city.

I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life by Joel Osteen

Publisher: FaithWords

Year: 2012

Format: Paperback

Pages: 171

Genres: Religion and spirituality, motivation

Book Review:

I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your life is a book written by Joel Osteen, who is the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. This book contains 31 God blessings, experiences and advice from Joel Osteen in relationship, works, life, health, and spiritual growing. With this 31 declarations, it can bring inspiration and motivation to readers through the ways of speaking.

Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank

Publisher: Popular UK Pte Ltd

Year: 2014

Format: Hardcover

Pages: 285

Genres: Autobiography

Who is Anne Frank?

Anne Frank is a diarist that born in Frankfurt, Germany. Because of the German Occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, Anne Frank and her family need to hide in the Secret Annex from 1942 to 1944. During her hiding life, she was writing her diary regularly to express her feeling, thoughts, anticipation, relationship, belief, and ambition in life. Unfortunately, Anne Frank and her family had been arrested by German Uniformed Police as hard labor and Anne Frank died in March 1945 due to shock-filled starvation. Because of her inspiration in life and writing, her diary published as books widely and made into films.

Smart Thinking: How to Think Big, Innovate and Outperform Your Rivals by Art Markman

Publisher: Piatkus Books
Year: 2012
Format: Paperback
Pages: 259
Genres: Business, self-help, education, and teaching

Books Review:

Smart thinking: How to think big, innovate and outperform your rival is a book written by Art Markman who is the Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Texas, Austin. This is a book about improving thinking skills in solving problems smartly by forming good habits.

Introducing Emotional Intelligence: A Practical Guide by Dr. David Walton

Publisher: Icon Books Ltd

Year: 2012

Format: Paperback

Pages: 218

Genres: Mental health

Book Review:

Introducing Emotional Intelligence: A Practical Guide is a book written by Dr. David Walton who is a formerly clinical psychologist in the UK's National Health Service and then as an occupational psychologist in government and public service.This is a book about the framework of emotional intelligence and the ways of managing of emotion while dealing with people and matters in proper ways. This book consists of two sections which are the emotional intelligence framework and emotional intelligence in practice.

工艺学院的生活

在2010年，我被政府入取进了莎阿南（Shah Alam) 工艺学院（Politeknik Premier Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah)就读三年国际贸易管理（文凭）（Diploma in International Business)。这是一家被政府承认有与大学同等的学院（Premier）。由于高中的制度和环境因素，我放弃了读高中六而去了这家学院继续我的升学方向。对我来说，工艺学院不会是华裔学生最想去就读的地方，因为大多数都是马来学生和印度同胞，很难适应。所以当我融入回去华裔学生的人群里，我需要时间去适应和沟通。在这里我想分享我在里面的学业和生活环境。

Life in Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Polytechnics

In the year 2010, I had been offered by the local government to pursue my study at Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Polytechnic. The course that I was taken is diploma in International Business for three years. It can be said that lucky because I can study the course that I want in Polytechnic as compared to form 6 in school. Nevertheless, due to environmental factors, it requires time to me to adapt the environment for completing the courses.

An Hour to Live, An Hour to Love by Richard Carlson & Kristine Carlson

Publisher: Carlson LLC.

Year: 2008

Format: Hardcover

Pages: 61

Genres: Inspirational, love, and relationship

Book Review:

An hour to live, and hour to love is a book written by Richard Carlson and Kristine Carlson. Unfortunately, Richard Carlson died on December 2006 due to pulmonary embolism. This book is about appreciating the people around us and use the time wisely in managing your life between love, works, healthy, and yourself.

The Happy Student: 5 Steps to Academic Fulfillment and Success by Daniel Wong

Publisher: Write Editions

Year: 2014

Format: Hardcover

Pages: 192

Genres: Motivation, schools, and teaching

Book Review:

The Happy Student is a book written by Daniel Wong who is graduated summa cum laude from Duke University in 2011 with a double major in Mechanical Engineering and Economics. This book is about providing advice for students struggle for academic achievement with clear goal setting. Meanwhile, this book contains the ways of setting goal, quotes from influential people, the journey of the writer in study life, balancing life, and smart ways to study.

Illuminate: Ignite change through speeches, stories, ceremonies, and symbols by Nancy Duarte & Pantti Sanchez

Publisher: Portfolio Penguin

Year: 2016
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 323

Genres: Business Communication

Book Review

“Illuminate” is a book written by Nancy Duarte and Panti Sanchez. This is a book about the ways of leaders going to achieve their dreams through leading people with persuasive speeches. This book contains case study about influential person and organization in achieving a goal, process of delivering powerful speeches, and summary of the chapter in process form.