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Nasyid.

MohdZaki b MohdZainal, 4th year, Material Engineering


Who could guess that a competition per se could changes a person’s life? This is a story of the person that had gone through the changed.
For any Nasyid enthusiast, songs like ‘BuatmuIbu’, ‘Guruku’ and ‘SentuhanKejayaan’is not anymore strange for them. These are among the popular songs by the Madani, a band gathered by one of the IIUM student since year 2000. It was formed initially for a competition but they decide to stay in-group until today. Thanks to that, they are today one of the famous Nasyidband in the country.
One member of the band is MohdZaki b MohdZainal. Looking from his appearance I never expected that he is actually a nasyid singer. He is very active in basketball and his appearance suit a basketball player really well. He is even won third place in the recent basketball tournament of Non-Chinese Basketball League Malaysia 2009. However, like the old saying ‘ Don’t judge a book by its cover’.
Despite his persona, he is actually very talented in art. He could compose songs, sing, plays guitar as well as keyboard. Other than that, he is also good in mechanical. Registered as IIUM students in 2004, he takes Material Engineering as his major.
Asking about his time management, he said that his work and activity do not bother his study at all. In fact, it helps him gaining more confident during study and also assist him in managing his time efficiently.
The other members of the band are also University student, 2 of them are from IIUM, another 2 are from Uitm and 1 is from UTM. Even though all of them are Engineering student, surprisingly, they are really good in music. 2 persons responsible for their music career nowadays are Pn. Bariah and his husband En. Sumiyami. They are the one that guide them since the initial form of the group.
After graduation in 1 more year and he is aiming to expand their band’s reach outside Malaysia. Other than that, he is also planning to collaborate with International artist and making their band’s name heard throughout Malaysia.
For the time being, his band is still independent and does not fall under any mainstream label. They opened their own company in 2007 to manage their band and funding for their performance and album production. By using the same name as their band, Madani Creativeexpands the band creativity into teaching nasyid classes and producing songs and lyrics.
Ending the interview session, I suddenly thought of one phrase from a movie, ‘There is always a first time for everything’.

IIUM,25 July 2009 - A Going Green Campaign organized by EMS (Economic and Management Sciences) in conjunction with E-Fest ’09 was held at Econs LT 1 building. The purpose of this campaign was to create awareness among IIUM student in environment conservation especially water pollution. The campaign started at 9.30 a.m. and was launched by the Dean of EMS, Assoc.Prof. Khaliq Ahmad.

The slogan of this campaign was “Our Planet, Our Responsibility” and it begun with speech given by Ahmad Budaya bin Ismail, Executive of Communication Department of IWK (Indah Water Konsortium). He highlighted the importance of giving attention to water pollution as a dangerous threat to the ecosystem chiefly to the human. He added, government spends billion ringgit on buying machines just to neutralize the contaminated water.

For the past one week, a recycle campaign had been held in IIUM campus. The committees distributed flyers on recycling campaign to the IIUM students at CAC (Cultural Activities Centre). There were many games on environment preservation along with lucky draw. Around 50 students and lecturers of Economics and Management Kulliyyah participated to support this campaign.

The ceremony ended at 1 p.m. and souvenirs were given to the speaker and other lecturers as a symbol of appreciation.

Gombak, Fri- Over than 200 students of International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) attend the International Career Carnival 2009 (ICC 09) that started today in Midvalley Megamall.

All students from various courses had gathered in front of IIUM Grand Stairs as early as 7.30 am, where the university has provided buses for their transportation.

IIUM Alumni and Career Services Division (ALUMNI) has provided four buses for this purpose in order to give convenience and comfort for the students.

ICC 09 is open to all Malaysian universities and colleges, alumni, and graduates with the purpose of exposing them to the international job market as well as access to the knowledge of expertise in Malaysia for internationally employing organizations.

The carnival was held at Hall 1, Mid Valley Exhibition Centre (MVEC) starting from 31 July until 2 August 2009.

Source: Nur Elina

IIUM,7 August 2009- The opening ceremony of Islamic Festival ’09 (i-fest) organized by Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Heritage Students’ Society was launched by the Deputy Dean of Islamic Revealed Knowledge, Asst. Prof. Dr. Mohd Farid Mohd Shahran today at IIUM Experimental Hall.

Beginning from 7-16 August, the festival choose the theme of “Towards Creating an Exemplary Muslim Ummah” as their motivation this year. Among the interesting programs offered are IRK Sport Day, Workshop on Entrepreneurship, Islamic Mega Business, IT Workshop on Web Making and many more.

The ceremony begins at 8 p.m. until 11 p.m. with the crowd of 60 students on the theme talk of “Deviant Thought and its Challenges to the Muslim Community” by Dr. Syamsuddin Arif from the Department of General Studies.

There are also a multimedia presentation and nasyeed performance by Indonesian nasyeed group, Al-Amin Voice. Other than that, there is also question and answer session on the theme talk from the students to the speaker.

These 10 days festival was sponsored by Kementerian Penerangan, Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor (PKNS), Bank Rakyat and (YAPEIM) as the official sponsors.

Forty-four students of International Islamic University Malaysia were involved in the facilitating training, held recently at Cermas Agro Park Resort, Bentong, Pahang. The three days event was organized by Titian Asli club (TA) which is under Community Service Unit (CENSERVE), Students Development Division (S-DEV).

Two experiences trainers from Tip Consultants were responsible to run the facilitating training and the participants are exposed with the basic content of the leader, the characteristics as a good leader and in the same time, to build a team that would help in improving soft skills.

Throughout the programme, various activities were carried out such as jungle traking, games, explore race, aerobic and cultural night. In addition, they received invaluable experience which they could share with others in similar voluntary activities specifically to the aborigine community which is target group for this club.

The closing and certificate presentation ceremony was carried out by the Assistant director of Students Development Division, Zainuddin.