Tuesday, July 25, 2006
It's Coming Your Way!!
Latest news has it that it’s heading north…
It’s coming your way,
2nd - 3rd September 2006
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Pulau Pinang
Have you read the TEKAD Blog (http://projektekad.blogspot.com/) about the TEKAD Magic? Heard your friends or colleagues talking about Projek TEKAD with excitement and glow in their eyes? Are you wondering why they were willing to sacrifice their weekend to be with form 4/5 students – whom by the way are strangers to them?
Well, why don’t YOU check it out then?!
ABOUT PROJEK TEKAD
PROJEK TEKAD is a 2 day fun-filled programme, which focuses on goal setting, interpersonal skills, career guidance, the importance of English & Science for Form 4/5 Students.
In PROJEK TEKAD, you are known as a "Coach" and your role is to act as a "brother or sister" to support, guide and be role models to the students, whom we call "Champions". Coaches and Champions share personal triumphs, challenges, lessons learnt and dreams with each other. Together, we learn from each other’s life journey. This bond of friendship continues beyond PROJEK TEKAD. Coaches and Champions become each other’s support, inspiration, guide and friend.
POWER COACHES NEEDED FOR PROJEK TEKAD PENANG
Come experience Projek TEKAD and the “V” Virus for yourselves!
Take action and follow these simple steps:
- Download the Application Form by double clicking on this link (APPLICATION IS CLOSED : this link has been disabled). Fill in the form and submit it to remove.this.first.hr.tekad.penang@gmail.com latest by
Note: Due to overwhelming responses in the past, all applications will be carefully screened to search for the truly committed and dedicated individuals.
- Attend our special "TEKAD for COACHES" (T4C) session on
- You are now ready to be a Coach. Come to PROJEK TEKAD Penang and share YOUR secret and unique super powers that can be used to make a difference towards a champ’s life! (Amazingly, you too benefit personally in ways you would never expect….)
If you have further inquiries about Projek TEKAD, please email to our HR Team at remove.this.first.hr.tekad.penang@gmail.com
'TEKAD DIPAHAT, WAWASAN DIJULANG, KEJAYAAN DIGENGGAM'
On behalf of Projek TEKAD Penang Core Team,
Aizan Azrina Rosli
Ijlal Nadzir
Shahril Nizam Abdollah
Mohamed Imran Ariff
Asma Hanim Ahmad Marikan
Anang Hudaya M Amin
Azamil Izzat Nazlan Ozizi
Zulhisham Kahar
Muhamad Zulkiflee Osman
Affendi Rashdi
Hani Widyawani Fauzi
Rajinder Singh
Azizi Ahmad
Nazreen Irwanny Khalid
Redhalina Abdullah
Noreen Izza Arshad
Aidah Nazirah Ahmad Fadzil
Labels: TEKAD Events and Happenings
TekadMon at 1:35 am
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
READ, READ and READ!
We want you to READ, READ and READ!! Not necessarily school books but any reading material you can find. Reading expands your knowledge and your thought process. Try to read as much books, magazines, newspapers, articles or even comics. It increases your knowledge, vocabulary and creativity!! READ, READ and READ while you can :)
Abang Azlan a.k.a Abang Lang (TEKAD Kelantan) would like to share with adik-adik a book that changed his life. The book is called:
Abang Lang said: "The book has impacted me so much and it is one of the "change of life book". It is a once a year must read book. It contain example of people who came from adversity and manage to become very successful. The teachings in the book will help you not only in school but also the life at work and family life as well. If I hadn't read the book, I know that I will not have the confidence, the self image, and the believe I have of my capability".
Abang Fauzi a.k.a Abang Poji (TEKAD KL, Selangor, Perak, Kelantan, Pahang) also has a book to share with you. It is a book which you will find useful as a guide for PMR/SPM. It is called:
Abang Poji said: "The book title may sound a bit 'poyo' but I find this book really colourful, interactive and interesting. It's a good handbook for PMR/SPM students. In this book, it covers on effective techniques in learning and remembering things (teknik mengingat dan menghafal), the do's and don'ts as a student, strategy before and during examination, and even how to handle panic attack during exams! Great! This book also includes useful daily doa' for the students. The price may be a bit expensive, but I guarantee you its worth an investment. This is exactly the book a student needs!".
We're not expecting you to buy the books but please do look out for them if you have the chance. You never know, it may change YOUR LIFE :) You can try looking for it at your school library or your teachers may have them.
Labels: TEKAD Books and Movies
TekadMon at 1:22 pm
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Projek TEKAD Penang - Power!!
There's only one way to do TEKAD:
"Do it with heart, like your life depends on it!"
Projek TEKAD Penang: 2nd - 3rd September 2006
Labels: TEKAD Events and Happenings
TekadMon at 3:44 am
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Insights into Telecommunication Engineering
My advise to you:
"Mulakanlah langkah pertama adik-adik sekarang untuk mencapai cita-cita"
Labels: TEKAD Careers
TekadMon at 3:50 pm
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Tekad News :: T4C at MMU...
This article was published on Saturday, 24 June 2006 in NST's
Learning Curve supplement.
Projects: Raising champions
24 June, 2006
COMMUNITY service has become a way of life for Hani Widyawani Fauzi and Noreen Izza Arshad. After all, they have been doing it since their schooldays. So when the opportunity to help a group of students to prepare for campus life and adulthood came, there were no second thoughts. Both of them immediately signed up and are now on the way to their third Tekad Project.
Tekad is a community service project which aims to inculcate qualities that will help mould a young person's character and prepare him for college and university and eventually working life.
The project started in January last year. Five Tekad Projects have been planned, two of which have already been implemented. All five are sponsored by the RHB Group.
Hani Widyawani, 28, says: "I was also a director of programmes for an Islamic training course for Forms Three and Five students." She was among a group of volunteers at the Multimedia University Malaysia campus in Putrajaya recently to undergo a Training for Trainers session to prepare them for the next Tekad Project at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Kubang Kerian, Kelantan.
At the session, young volunteers, comprising doctors, engineers and lecturers, among others, were trained to conduct various modules under the programme for students. Tekad programme director Aizan Azrina Rosli says: "When volunteers, whom we refer to as coaches, conduct the programmes, their objective is to fulfil five key components, namely goal setting, interpersonal skills, career guidance, importance of English and science and financial planning."
Hani Widyawani, who believes in sharing her life's experience and giving back to society, says that under the project, students learn to be responsible, work as a team and be sensitive to others.
Noreen Izza, 27, who is actively involved in community programmes, such as counselling for students and fund-raising efforts for orphanages and old folks homes, finds satisfaction in helping others.
The Universiti Teknologi Petronas lecturer is happy with one of her charges, Aznie Syafariz Jamaludin, from the last Tekad Project in Tronoh, Perak. "I have kept in touch with his progress after the project and he has been doing well," she says.
Aznie Syafariz, a 17-year-old science stream student of SMK Bukit Jana, Kemunting, Perak, says guidance from Tekad coaches has helped him build up his confidence and self-esteem. "I have never got an A before, but in my last exams, I obtained three A's in English, Bahasa Melayu and mathematics," he says. "I have also become more active in sports and social programmes. I have even volunteered as a student counsellor."
Aznie Syafariz's schoolmate and fellow Tekad champion (as students who have graduated from a Tekad Project are called) Mohd Khairul Rahhim Yamin, also 17, is so happy with what he has learned that he aspires to be a Tekad coach.
Mohd Khairul Rahhim, who says he did not have any goals before, has done much better in his last exams compared with previous years.
Another volunteer for the Tekad Project, marketing analyst Afifah Kassim, 26, says her friend introduced her to the project last year. "I tried it out and got hooked," she says. Afifah, who has experienced life's many difficulties, likes the sharing and learning part of the project.
Aizan explains that 120 to 150 students, from Forms Four and Five, are selected for each project. Coaches act as role models and share experiences, inculcate positive values in students while helping to instil strong will and confidence to ensure that they strive harder to succeed in life. "Tekad emphasises setting goals as well as instilling values such as respect, gratitude, responsibility, trust and risk-taking," Aizan says. "It is also our objective to stimulate students' interest in English and science, inspire and motivate them by sharing life experiences and encourage them to be involved in community service."
Apart from being the sponsor, RHB also conducts a financial module for students to inculcate in them the importance of financial planning and teach them how best to manage money. The first Tekad Project was held at Kem Tekali in Hulu Langat, Selangor, in January last year, and this was followed by the second outing at Universiti Teknologi Petronas in Tronoh, Perak. The fourth Tekad Project will be held at Politeknik Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah in Pahang on July 8, and the last one at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang on Sept 2.
Labels: Inspire
TekadMon at 8:47 pm
Monday, July 10, 2006
Tekad News :: Projek TEKAD Selangor - Kem Tekali...
HULU LANGAT 29 Jan. 2005 – Malaysia memerlukan para pelajar yang mempunyai sikap kendiri dan nilai jati diri selain mampu menguasai ilmu sains dan teknologi bagi menghadapi masa depan yang lebih mencabar dan berdaya saing.
Nilai-nilai positif seperti kebolehan beinteraksi dan berkomunikasi, berfikiran positif, bersemangat sepasukan dan bekerjasama akan membolehkan mereka turut bersaing di peringkat antarabangsa.
Menteri Pelajaran, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein berkata, sikap dan nilai tersebut hanya boleh dipupuk menerusi latihan dan pendedahan berterusan terutama menerusi aktiviti-aktiviti luar bilik darjah.
“Langkah ini seiring dengan hasrat Perdana Menteri yang mahu pendidikan bersepadu di peringkat awal diberi tumpuan dalam memastikan para pelajar mempunyai persediaan asas yang kukuh untuk menjalani kehidupan,” katanya.
Beliau berkata demikian dalam ucapan perasmian Projek TEKAD peringkat negeri Selangor di Pusat Kokurikulum Jabatan Pelajaran Negeri, Kem Tekali, di sini hari ini. Teks ucapannya dibacakan oleh Setiausaha Parlimen kementeriannya, P. Komala Devi.
Sebanyak 176 pelajar tingkatan lima dari 10 sekolah di seluruh Selangor menyertai projek tiga hari itu yang ditaja oleh RHB Capital Berhad.
Projek ini dikendalikan oleh tenaga professional muda secara sukarela yang bertindak sebagai abang atau kakak dan tokoh teladan para pelajar, bertujuan merangsang mereka menerusi perkongsian pengalaman hidup.
Menurut Hishammuddin, pendidikan adalah asas paling utama dalam pembentukan sesebuah negara dan kemajuannya banyak diukur oleh kemampuan system pendidikan yang menyediakan sumber tenaga yang mencukupi dan relevan.
“Tugas ini bagaimanapun tidak seharusnya dipikul oleh kementerian sahaja sebaliknya semua pihak termasuk NGO (pertubuhan bukan kerajaan) dan swasta, diseru untuk membantu melahirkan generasi berilmu, berkemahiran dan berketerampilan,” katanya.
Sehubungan itu katanya, kementerian amat mengalu-alukan sumbangan seperti sukarelawan profesional muda dalam Projek TEKAD yang sanggup turun padang menyumbang masa dan tenaga mencapai wawasan kementerian dan kerajaan.
Labels: Inspire
TekadMon at 1:34 am
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Something to share...
To all our CHAMPIONS, here is an article that we want to share with you... Read through it carefully. If you have any questions about this article or if you have anything to share about this, get in touch with your coaches, ok?!! :)I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
1. The first story is about connecting the dots
I dropped out of
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
2. My second story is about love and loss
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
3. My third story is about death
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish"
Thank you all very much.
Labels: Inspire
TekadMon at 1:39 am
Monday, July 03, 2006
Projek TEKAD Pahang 2006: Another Beginning...
Yesterday, was the graduation day of the Champions from Projek TEKAD (~T_T~). The heat, excitement, fun and warmth are still felt close to our hearts. I can still hear their voices laughing with joy. And I hope you still do too...
Do you realise how much our Champions have grown for the past 2 days they spent with us? They came from different schools, but yet, they became friends and buddies. They were strangers but never a time that they refuse to help each other. Their eyes were glaring with passion to become a better Champion. They have grown and evolved so much, it makes you more than proud to have them as your CHAMPIONS. And it's all because of YOU!!
So, from the deepest parts of our hearts, we'd like to express our greatest THANKS for your passionate participation and contribution towards Projek TEKAD Pahang 2006. The success of TEKAD Pahang is because of YOU!!
I truly hope that the relationship we've built with our Champions doesn't end at POLISAS yesterday instead it is yet another beginning... Keep in touch with them, keep guiding them, and keep helping them in any way you can as YOU are their COACHES in life... :)
Regards,
Core Team, Projek TEKAD Pahang 2006
Labels: TEKAD Events and Happenings
TekadMon at 7:09 pm
