Taaruf Week in Facebook

Social networking has become part of our life. Few years ago, Friendster is the fastest growing social networking website. Slowly, the trend changed to the Facebook website. It uses more interactive and interesting feature for all user. The most powerful function in Facebook is the ability to view status updates and comment on it, with automatically reply subscription.

So, I've decided to create a brand new page for Taaruf Week. People can become a fan and subscribe to the wall post. Just after 24 hours after I've designed it, we already have more than 22 fans. Most of them are the ex-committee of Taaruf Week.

I hope that this page can create awareness and hype among the old and new committees. Click here to go to Taaruf Week IIUM Page in Facebook.

April New Intake Students

Taaruf Week April Intake Session 2008/2009 starts today. It started with the Mahallah registration. For the first time, all new students are being placed in one area. Female students is staying in Ameenah, Asiah, Maryam, Halimah, Hafsa and Asma. While the male students is staying in Ruqayyah.

According to Sis. Nadia from Registration bureau, up to 12:30am on Wednesday, the total number of the new students are 607 students. 524 students from CFS and 83 direct intake students. There are 281 male students and 326 female students.

Campus Tour Evening Walk

11 person in charge together with Special Task committee was having an evening walk yesterday. They also having good time with walking in the rain while group binding among different bureaus.

"I guess its quite tiring, walking with 11 takes about 1 hour. I wonder how its gonna take to walk with 100 students", Adlan, assistant head comm. catering said.

The picture above is taken on the bridge between AIKOL and ECONS building.

Campus tour session will be conducted on Friday, with the objective to familiarize the new students with all Kulliyah buildings as well as related offices in the campus.

Extra:
IIUM Gombak Campus map in PDF format

Programme Tentative Taaruf April Intake

This is the official program tentative for Taaruf Week April Intake 2008/2009 Session.

28th April 2009 - Tuesday

8.30am - New Students Enrollment, Mahallah Registration
12.30pm - Lunch & Zuhr Prayer
2.30pm - Smart Card & Collection of Ta'aruf Kits
4.30pm - 'Asr Prayer
5.30pm - Ta'aruf Week Programme Briefing
7.00pm - Dinner, Maghrib prayer & Tazkirah
8.45pm - Co-curricular Activitiy Centre Briefing
11.30pm - Lights Off

29th April 2009 - Wednesday

5.30am - Fajr Prayer & Tazkirah
7.00am - Breakfast
8.00am - Admission & Record Briefing
9.00am - Finance Briefing
10.00am - Student Affairs Briefing
11.30am - Session with Legal Unit, Student Discipline Enforcement Committee and Security Unit
1.00pm - Lunch & Zuhr Prayer
2.30pm - Know Your Kulliyah
4.30pm - Fundamental Knowledge Test
5.30pm - 'Asr Prayer
6.30pm - Dinner
7.00pm - Maghrib Prayer & Tazkirah
8.45pm - Bai'ah Rehearsal
11.30pm - Lights Off

30th April 2009 - Thursday

5.30am - Fajr Prayer & Tazkirah
7.00am - Breakfast
8.00am - Academic Integrity
9.00am - Library Briefing
10.00am - Information Technolgy Division (ITD) Briefing
11.00am - Course Registration
1.00pm - Lunch & Zuhr Prayer
2.30pm - Bai'ah Preparation
3.30pm - Bai'ah ceremony
5.00pm - Session for Tilawah Placement Test Briefing, Student Learning Enhancement Unite (SLEU) and Students' Representative Council (SRC)
6.00pm - 'Asr Prayer
6.30pm - Dinner
7.00pm - Maghrib Prayer & Tazkirah
8.45pm - Student Development Briefing
11.30pm - Lights Off

1st May 2009 - Friday

4.30am - Qiyamullail & Fajr Prayer
7.00am - Breakfast
8.00am - Self Management
9.00am - Campus Tour
12.00pm - Lunch & Juma'at Prayer
2.30pm - Preparation for New Student's Cultural Night Show
5.30pm - Self Management
7.00pm - Maghrib Prayer
8.45pm - Cultural Night Show

Eco-Pack and Menu Selection for New Students

Salam. I've been appointed as the assistant head comm. for catering bureau. Just want to share few things about what happen today.

Eco-Pack for Students Meal
This Taaruf Week is going to be the first in using eco-pack for the meals rather than using polystyrene food packaging. It will cost S-DEV additional 20 cents for each meals.

Menu Selection for Students
Its not that easy in deciding the right menu for students. Basically, there are 3x breakfast, 3x lunch and 3x dinner for students. Few things should be considered such as the 'hot and spicy' level of each food because some students don't eat 'hot' meals. Besides that, some students are having allergies on some food such as chicken, beef and fish.

I hope that new students will enjoy the meals provided to them.

April 2008/2009 Intake

Salam. Its been a while since the last update. Here some information about Taaruf Week this April.

Program: Taaruf Week April Intake 2008/2009
Venue : Cultural Activitiy Centre (CAC) and Main Auditorium, IIUM
Date: 28th April 2009 - 1st May 2009

Number of Committee: 68 students
Number of New students: About 700 students

Till then, we will update for more information.

Who wants to be Taaruf Week committee for April 08/09 intake?

Salam. Its a good news to all students. S-DEV has released the announcement notice regarding Taaruf Week. Here it goes.

Assalamualaikum wrt. wbt.

We are pleased to inform you that the Student Development Division (S-DEV) will be organising Ta'aruf Week for April 2008/2009 Intake.

Students who are interested to be the committee members please collect the application form from S-Dev Officer (Sr. Siti Nora or Sr. Azlina) or at your respective Mahallah office.

All completed form must be submitted latest by 31 March 2009.

Thank you, Wassalam.

Extra information
Please come to the office to get the application form and write your name on the list.
Some of the requirement in applying for Taaruf minimum of 2.5 CGPA. So if you are a first year first semester student, you don't have any CGPA yet. Most likely you are not qualified to become a committee.

Till then, hope to see you and let's work together for the success of the event.

Taaruf Week Multimedia Collection DVD for sale

Salam. Good news for all Taaruf Week committees. Multimedia bureau will be producing DVD which is consists of all the pictures that was taken from the induction course until the last day of Taaruf Week. Besides that, we will also include all the multimedia video montage such as the Launching Gimmick, Knowing You Knowing Me for all bureaus in good DVD quality.

All these thing come with a small price. Its only RM5. If you are interested, please contact the head comm of Multimedia, Bro. Fakhrul. You can refer his contact number from the program book.

Place your order as soon as possible. While stock last!

Taaruf Week is over

Finally, after months of preparation, Taaruf Week December 2008/2009 intake is finally over. There are lots of issues, problems, good and bad memories will be remembered for both students and committee throughout the program. I can consider it is quite blessful because everything runs smoothly. It supposed to be a rainy season but its not raining during the lunch and dinner time right?

Well, I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of other committees to welcome all of the new students to the Garden of Knowledge and Virtue. If you have any problem, don't hesitate to contact us. Our phone number is there inside the Program Book.

I also would like to hear any comments and testimonials about the program from you guys. You can make it public by leaving a comment to this entry. You also can direct the message to us using the feedback form.

If you have any request to the multimedia committee, just leave a comment in any entries or through the shoutbox. There are thousands of pictures taken. Only few are selected and uploaded into the web. You can check the picture gallery here.

Till then, don't forget to bookmark and subscribe to this blog. Thank you.

New Students performing Chicken Dance for Cultural Night

Its one of the exhilarating performance by the brothers. They have performed the chicken dance on the stage and they also had invited some committee to dance with them. I found it very funny. Well done guys!

Course Registration

At the end of the day, all the new students went for a course registration. First semester is very important when registering for subjects. It is so important because it will affect your first semester study life in the campus, whether you can adapt to it or not. Besides that, the first semester CGPA also will be determine by the first course registration during Taaruf. Don't worry. You still can change your subjects during the adjustment period. (Dec 16 - Dec 26) For more information, you can check A&R website and also the important dates for Sem 2, 08/09.

New Students taking oath during Bai'ah Ceremony

Bai'ah Ceremony is the most highlighted event during Ta'aruf Week because students will be taking oath in front of the Senate Members of the IIUM.

 

 

Bai'ah Rehearsal is shorter than before

Bai'ah is an oath or pledge that students will have to declare during the orientation. In other university, its like Akujanji. Its the tradition of Taaruf Week in IIUM, both in branch and main campus. This time, students don't have to do rehearsal many times. Its enough just to make it on the day before. Besides that, the Bai'ah script also was shortened. I knew it because I'm the one who doing the multimedia backdrop for the Bai'ah too!

IIUM Campus Tour

Most of the multimedia committee were quite busy in preparing the KYKM videos. Since they have the campus tour slots, I've suggested to screen my old IIUM Virtual Tour video. It was created two years ago for Taaruf July 2006/2007 Intake but it still reliable isn't it? If I have the time, I want to make a better video that shows the Mahallah and other facilities such as stadium etc.

Rules are meant to be broken?

I was the emcee for the Legal SDEC and Security Session. For me, this is the best session because students can know and understand what misbehave that they should have known when studying in IIUM. I also enjoy the pictures in the slides. But I think its better if Legal Unit can include about disciplinary actions that was taken for cases like clubbing.

IIUM Campus Wireless System

During ITD Briefing, the officer main talk about the function of ITD in IIUM and also the implementation of wireless network in the campus. I'm quite agree with one of the sister who asked them about those who don't use laptops. However, I think in the near future, students will be carrying laptop or nettop just like we carry our handphones. Who needs PC anyway.

Sleeping Beauties during Taaruf

After doing Qiyamullail, most of the students are quite sleepy on the morning session. Here are some of the shots that was taken both in Main Auditorium and Experimental Hall.

Qiyamullail at SHAS Mosque IIUM

Qiyamullail activity was conducted at SHAS Mosque. After the last night session, all students sleep at the mosque. About 4am, DnI and other committees wake up the students.

Students learning to sing IIUM Students song

Students were learning to sing IIUM Students Song because they will have to sing the song during the Bai'ah Ceremony on Friday. I hope that they can sing it passionately with high spirit. I pretty like the up-beat version of this song which was re-composed back in 2007.

Taaruf Gimmick was a blast!

If you've missed the gimmick video, now you can watch it online at Youtube. The video took about 10 minutes. The opening ceremony was launched by Dato' Hamidon Abdul Hamid during the Session with Deputy Rector and Opening Ceremony.