MAXIS - FELDA ICT TOUR

Next Big Thing : Final Presentation

2007-12-16T02:20:00.000-08:00

Assalamualaikum. It has been a while since this blog is updated. We waited for the result for the final 5 to be announced. And alhamdulillah, our group has made it to the next round.

It is an honour for us to have such opportunity in being the top 5 groups to be qualified in competing for the first place.

Wish us LUCK for tomorrow, as we will certainly try our very best in the final presentation. May the best group win.

ps: We would like to take this opportunity to say THANX to everyone who has voted for us before, or has been involved throughout our project directly and indirectly.

Sincere words from us..

2007-11-05T05:29:00.000-08:00

In this competition, the Wonderers has had opportunities of visiting 2 selected villages, that is Kg Sg Hj Dorani, Sungai Besar and Felda Bukit Cherakah, Meru, Klang.

In these two visits, we had experienced interactions and communications with the villagers, about their normal life and ICT. We had the priceless experience of getting to know them better and share our valuable knowledge with them.

We are really happy to get such opportunity through Maxis Bridging Community, having chosen as the top 10 finalists. We couldn't thank the sponsors enough.

thank you for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

the Wonderers

Trip to Felda Bukit Cherakah

2007-11-04T10:12:00.000-08:00

Origin of our plan..

During our visit to Maxis Academy with Abg Zul on 6th Oct 07, we have came across an idea of going to one of the nearest Felda in Klang, named Felda Bukit Cherakah. We realized this village while we were on the way to Kg Sg Hj Dorani on the previous week. We discussed it with Abg Zul, which encouraged us greatly in doing beneficial activities there . Besides meeting with our objective, we could also interact closely with communities in the chosen Felda .

After searching for the contact number of Felda Bkt Cherakah, we decided to try our best in accomplishing our plan, and get more motivated with the encouragement of our supportive mentor, Abg Zul.

Efforts of making the trip a Reality..

We managed to call the related person a few days after the visit with Abg Zul. We were really glad that the influential person of Felda Bukit Cherakah himself, Encik Hj Alwi gave us his full support towards our activity at the Felda .

Besides informing him the required details through phone, we emailed and fax him our headletter, which contains all the particular details of our trip. Alhamdulillah, our visit proposal has been approved and the date for the trip has been finalized, that is on 3rd November 2007 .

when the final date is confirmed, we discussed about issues such as souvenirs for selected person, reconfirm activities so forth. Later, we had enough rest, for the BIG day .

3rd November 2007 = BIG Day

Finally..

That morning, we woke up really early in the morning, in order to be ready by 7.30 AM at Kolej Delima's car park..

All of us (the Wonderers) brought our own laptop to be used there, while Syida brings her wireless router as a backup. We began our journey at 8.00 AM. The first thing that crossed our mind that morning was BREAKFAST. With empty stomachs and sleepy faces, we searched for kuih and drinks for breakfast .

Full stomach can sometimes make you more energetic and active, which applies to US that morning. We were excitedly eager to arrive at the kampung and meet up with the villagers there .

When we arrived at the entrance of Felda Bukit Cherakah, we called En Rosli Daud, the contact person of the journey, also known as personal assistant for the top person of the kampung, En Hj Alwi.

We waited for him at a futsal court near the entrance. He then lead us to En Muzammil's house, where will be the place for us to do all our activities. En Muzammil's house were selected because of the usage of internet in his house. Availability of internet were very important for us, for the effectiveness of our planned activity .

En Muzammil and his wife welcomed us gratefully . We went into his house and had a few chat with him. It didn't took us long after that to set up our laptops and the wireless connection to gain Internet. We had to finish setting up before we start any of our activity.

Alhamdulillah, we managed to set up Internet connections easily, without much problem. En Muzammil then invited us to have breakfast in his house, with the villagers that came. The increasing number of villagers made us even more excited to start the activity .

After we finished eating, our project manager, Syida, gave a brief introduction and explanation to the villagers that came . Pamphlets were also being distributed while the speech is given out, which helps our listeners to understand more about us and our activities.

We managed to start the activity as soon after the speech finished. People that came were invited to go to the front balcony of En Muzammil's house where our laptops were placed. Each of us then entertained and taught the villagers about Yahoo! Group and details about blog .

Besides explaining the benefit of both applications, we taught them of how to create a blog, elements to be put in a blog, and answer all their curiosity through detailed explanation. The ability of surfing the Internet there really helped us in explaining to them in a smoother way. It has somehow made both parties comfortable enough to teach and learn new things.

Their eagerness to know about things has somehow made us more enthusiast in explaining, for them to understand better, in a simpler way .

It made us carried away, and did not even realize that it was already 12.00 PM, which is supposed to be the time that we finish all activities and head back to Shah Alam . We extended the the activity till 12.30 PM. We packed our things back after we took pictures with our loyal participants..

We had lunch with En Muzammil for a while, before going back to Shah Alam. We thanked him and his family for the priceless effort that has been given throughout our presence there .

We then head back to Shah Alam with a very satisfied feeling. The experience was highly valuable and priceless. The tremendous support overwhelmed us, which made us smile all the way back to our hostel. Tiring but worth it. That was what we truly felt that day .

Selamat Hari Raya..

2007-10-17T00:20:00.000-07:00

assalamualaikum, and hi again to all the readers out there..

first of all, we hope it's not tooo late to wish all of u 'SELAMAT HARI RAYA, MAAF ZAHIR AND BATIN' from us, The Wonderers.

We would hereby apologize for any misunderstanding caused, any mistakes done, or anything that has hurt anybody's feeling. [kami menyusun sepuluh jari, dan memohon maaf dari hujung rambut ke hujung kaki jika ada sebarang salah dan silap.]

May God bless us all. Amin.

Journey to Kg Sg Hj Dorani (PART 2)

2007-10-09T16:11:00.000-07:00

Assalamualaikum again my fellow readers. greetings..

** As promised before, we are going to tell about the rest of our journey... The first part of the journey (click here to view the 1st part of the journey) has been told earlier. The first part tells about the 1st phase of our journey, while the 2nd part explains the rest. The 1st phase explains how we interact and discussed with the secretary of the village, Pak Yatim, and the agreement between the team and him.. **

heee..At last, its time for the team, and supporters (which helped us A LOT by giving moral support and in doing the activities together with us..) to approach the villagers to accomplish our mission.

We (the Wonderers) had agreed to do a few activities here in this village. Besides having a concept of 'mentor-mentee' between the youths and kids in the village with us, we also planned to share our knowledge about ICT with them. This is to enhance the interest towards ICT in them, besides exposing them to the current communication through ICT applied.

After we've met Pak Yatim, its finally the time for us to seek the villagers. After a few minutes of driving, we stopped at one of the corner of the village, where the houses are close to each other (it somehow makes our approach more effective when the houses are near to each other).

All of us split into 3 groups, approaching house by house. At that time (nearly 12 PM), most villagers gathered in front of of their house and were cutting fruits to make 'jeruk'. According to them, these fruits were provided by a Chinese man, and after cutting the fruits and make jeruk, the Chinese paid them RM5 for a big basket of jeruk. They were average and older women, with their children playing around them. It was fun to see such thing. .

We waited no longer, and approached these villagers. At one of the houses, the mother called her daughter when we mentioned about ICT, computers and Internet, while her little sons stood all around us. They were keen to know what's going on, and what computer is all about. The interest that they showed attracted us to explain to them the basic things about computer. It made them even more excited when we brought laptop to show them the content of it. .

A few minutes later, her daughter came to us, as she stayed in her room before this due to the shyness she has towards the boys in our team. . We (the girls) had to actually ask ALL the boys in our team to go to the corner of the house, in order to attract the daughter to come to us...

They (the daughter and her little brothers) then surrounded Fara, which was the one holding the laptop. Dila explained to them one by one, about blog, Yahoo! Group, and ICT in common. They seemed attracted. , while Syida and Shera approached others that were in front of the house too.. We made few conversations with the granny, mother, and the rest of the family. The friendliness in them made us comfortable during the chat. .

During the chat, one of our team members actually felt sad . It started out when one of the makcik's son joined in the chit chat with elder ones. The boy looks concerned towards our chat. When the team members tried to explained to them about ICT ect, that makcik suddenly said, "takpe dik, tak payah cakap dengan budak tu. dia tu pelat, susah nak paham..". The team member kept quiet for a while, wondering the little boy's weakness. It reminded her of her little brother at home, and what if her liitle bro's in this condition. Her feeling was touched. . All she could is to pray for the kid's success, and may the child gow up to be a wise and successful gentlemen. Amin.

hmmm..

At the end of the chit chat, and explanations by the team, we shook on their hands. Shera, while smiling, said,"sedapnye bau jeruk ni. kalau tak puasa, bole la merasa", in a kidding mode. Shockly, the granny went to the kitchen, and took out a plastic bag full of jeruk! . We said, "eh, takpela makcik, kami gurau je. tak payah la makcik, menyusahkan makcik je..". But then the granny insisted in giving the jeruk. We then accepted it, and expressed a million thanx to the family, for their jeruk and positive support to us.

We went a few more houses, and approached the villagers in a friendly way. There were even kids that called upon their friends, and gathered them in front of the surau. All of us had a rest at the side of the surau, while a few of us explained to the kids about our activity. It shocked us again, when the kids said," kami tahu komputer, tapi tak pernah pegang. cikgu je yang pegang. ada kat sekolah je. kat rumah kami takde..". It shows that they were never exposed widely to computers. Syida and Shera told them about computer, and how it can actually bring them closer to the outside world. Fairuz said, "korg pernah dengar tak orang kat Malaysia borak-borak dengan orang kat India ke, England ke, pada masa yang sama. Macam tu la konsep chatting kat Internet. Benda tu semua ada dalam komputer,...". We tried our best to explain to them in the most interesting way.

We soon opened our laptops, and showed them the basic functionality of it, such as listening to music, play games and watch favourite cartoon series through it. They seemed attracted. . At the end of our chat with the kids, Nina said," nanti, adik-adik belajar bersungguh, masuk universiti, pastu beli la komputer. nanti mak ayah adik pun gembira kalau adik jadi orang yang berjaya masa besar nanti..".

10 minutes later, after having a small discussion between us (the Wonderers and supporters), we agreed to stop by Pak Yatim's house, to inform him that we were about to leave. After stopping by and say thanx to him, we went back..

We were happy and satisfied on the visit to the village. The satisfaction of communicating, explaining, the chit chats, and the responds of the community cannot be expressed by words. It overwhelmed us. And priceless.

We stopped by at a nearby mosque on the way back, to perform prayer. Nearly two hours later, we arrived at Shah Alam. We chose 'Seri Bunga Tomyam Seafood' in Sek 20 as the place to 'berbuka puasa' ramai-ramai, after a tiring day. .

* we forgot to mention something. We had given pamphlets and small gifts to the villagers that we met. The smile in their faces had somehow soothed us

the pictures that we took can be seen in the slideshow below. Enjoy it!

A mentor and his 6 Wonderers

2007-10-09T09:34:00.000-07:00

assalamualaikum to all of u..salam Ramadhan..

as mentioned in the earlier post, our team (the Wonderers) went to Maxis Academy, KL on Saturday morning, 6th Oct 2007. We managed to meet our humble + supportive mentor, Mr. Zulakmar..

The team arrived at Maxis Technology Centre at 10.30 am, and met Mr. Zul at the lobby. He then lead us up to 2nd floor, and right into a discussion room, where the meeting will be held.

During our meeting with Mr. Zul, several topics and issues has been discussed. It includes the details of our project activities at Kg. Sg. Hj. Dorani, and future plans of the next location to do more activities. the constraints and milestones has also been outlined during the meeting. As time passed by, everybody has been warmed up with each one's own opinions and suggestions, including abg Zul himself...

Throughout the meeting, abg Zul had gladly shared his valuable experiences with us, from the ones related to community project, till the knowledge of attractive sites and blogs for our inspiration ... THANX ABG ZUL!

The meeting came to an end at approximately 12.30 pm. 'us' aka (also known as) 'photo addicts' did u-know-what (took PICTURES!!) around the area of level 2. heee..

top 2 pics : the Wonderers waiting for train to arrive..
2 pics below : the Wonderers + abg Zul in the discussion room..

the Wonderers with their mentor during 'photo sessions'!

from left : syida, shera, mu'az, abg Zul, nina, fara, dila

ps : may we meet again, abg Zul. Thanx for all your support and motivation towards us. may God bless u..

-the Wonderers-

new icon..

2007-10-05T14:07:00.000-07:00

we've just received the email that informed us about the new icon to be put in our blog.. We were asked to do so, as a sign that our blog is specially dedicated for the Maxis Bridging Community Contest (MBC), and that we are among the FINALIST of the competition..

anyway, for those of you that would like to support us, anda boleh la dengan bangganya mengundi kami di blog MBC!!

segala undian anda amatlah kami hargai..

more details! {^_^}

2007-10-05T12:30:00.000-07:00

heee..

sory for not mentioning in detail about our selected kampung..

here is the detail of it :

ps : for your information, the FIRST meeting between the Wonderers and our MBC mentor, EN. Zulakmar will be held tomorrow morning, between 10.00 AM till 12 PM at Maxis near KL Sentral..

all the members of the Wonderers will be there..We will be going there together by train (KTM), and walk in a short distance to the building..

More details about the meeting will be informed later..

So, ALWAYS keep in touch with our blog to know about the latest updates!!

latest updates!~

2007-10-01T09:54:00.000-07:00

First of all, hi to all of you..and assalamualaikum to the Muslims..happy fasting people..

here are the updates for the few days before..

28 September 2007

it was friday. our class ended at 12.30 pm. We (the team members, except for Mu'az) went to the mall to get some stuffs for the community on the next day. Although it sounded fun, but it was quite a tough decision to make, since we have to find souvenirs that would represent us, students of UiTM Shah Alam. An appropriate gift were soon found..(phew~)..

besides, preparations were made for the photocopies of the pamphlets and the souvenirs for the community..^_^..the team members were busy as a bee that day..although it was a short trip, the preparations DOES take a LOT of time..heee..=)

as time passed by, that nite made us quite sleepless, due to the excitement in our hearts in going for the trip the next morning..

29 September 2007

Yeay!!

Finally..The day we have all been waiting for has arrived..

THE JOURNEY TO KG SG HJ DORANI (PART 1)

us with our supporters** (wireless guys, yna, ain) and our faithful photographer for the day, Madi, gathered at the petrol station. filling up tanks before starting the long journey to the kampung..

we started the journey at 8.30 am. Alhamdulillah, we managed to arrive at the kampung at 10.30 pm, without much problem. The weather was fine throughout the way. Such interesting sceneries made us attracted for a while..

We stopped at one of the JKK's (Jawatankuasa Kampung) house,Pak Yatim, which is also the secretary of the village. Unfortunately, the Chief of the village couldn't meet us due to health problems..May he recover soon. Amin..

We were entertained by Pak Yatim's wife first, while waiting for Pak Yatim himself at his house. We had an interesting chat with her, roughly about us and the village. We mentioned about our activity, and she seemed happy to hear about it. Such nice thing to do, she said. It made us smiled. =)

Finally, Pak Yatim joined us, and start discussing about our plan. Basically, he understood our plan, and suggested a few things that would nicely go along in our plan. Later, we discussed the new plan among ourselves (the team members), and came up with an agreement. Gladly, it seemed to have helped us in adapting our plan with the kampung's real situation.

Before implementing our plan, we (team members + supporter**) had a tour around the village. It was quite a big village, and a pretty one too. The paddy field attracted us the most, which made us stopped near it and took some pictures..

(the 2nd part of the journey will be posted later..tunggguuuu..)

*ps:our pictures says it all..enjoy it guys!

**'supporters' term in our blog describes the supporters that followed us along the journey. They hugely act as our sole supporter, and helped us in making this plan more successful and effective as it can be.. Our supporter includes the wireless guys, madi, yna, & siti ain.. THANX GUYS!!

-the Wonderers-

more updates!!

2007-09-27T08:43:00.000-07:00

well..

as promised, these are the pictures that has been taken during our 1st meeting yesterday..

ada gak gmbr masa penyerahan duit kepada kami..

penerangan :

a. & b. during the meeting [candid pics]
c. further explanation by 1 of the team members, muaz [the only bachelor in the group..=p]
d. photo session with our sporting lecturer, Cik Rashidah Rawi [with the prize money, of course...]

weeee...(",)

after the meeting yesterday, our group has outlined our budget* for the project, as shown below :

*any excess of money used throughout the trip will be informed in detail in the next update..

till then, BYE!hheeheh..

neway, pray for our success, n dun forget to wish us luck!!ameeenn..

1st meeting

2007-09-26T09:00:00.000-07:00

heee..

our first meeting were conducted after class today..

from left : shera - dila - fara - nina - syida - muaz [~the wonderers~]

kesimpulannya :

plans has been outlined. activities has been discussed. place has been set. lecturer has been informed about the plan. supporters has been reminded. required items to be brought during the trip has been decided.

kamera sudah dibaiki. jurugambar sudah diupah. pakaian sudah disediakan. layard sudah dibuat. pamplet sedang di design. heee..

(yeay!!)

finally..sudah dekat ke tarikh unt mengimplement projek kami..

wish us luck!!

ps: esok gmbr2 penyerahan wang kepada kumpulan kami akan diupload. ia xdpt diupload hari ni atas sebab2 yg xdapat dielakkan..

tunggguuu...

Greatest news to be accepted..yeay!~_~

2007-09-25T11:30:00.000-07:00

pheeww..that was what we can say about the past few weeks..

work by work have to be submitted aka hectic week!

but then, its a brand new week, must start it off with some motivational feeling..

"SELAMAT BERPUASA"!!..from the team members..

to begin the new post, our group just wanted to express our GREATEST feeling toward the GREATEST news we could ever receive from this competition, that is the qualification to the 2nd phase!!heee..

only God knows how thrilled we were when we received the GREAT news..

We really thank our humble lecturer, Cik Rashidah Rawi for her continuous guide along the development of our project..also THANX to MAXIS for giving us this meaningful opportunity for us.

THANX is the only word that we can say..

About This Project

2007-08-12T09:13:00.000-07:00

Background

Federal Land Development Authority, better known as FELDA is the foremost land development agency in Malaysia, was established on 1st July 1956 under the Land Development Act 1956 as a result of recommendation of Government Working Committee.

Today, FELDA has developed approximately 480 new areas totaling 853,313 hectares, which became plantation and settlement areas. Through its land development and settlement, FELDA has uplifted the living standard of the rural community as well as narrowing the gap in the quality of the life between the urban and rural population.

Current Situation

FELDA communities have limited facilities and lack of knowledge in ICT, related directly to the fact that they are not widely exposed to current technologies. The communities there also experience weak network coverage, which makes them quite difficult to communicate through the technologies provided, due to this weakness. Furthermore, the lack of knowledge to communicate to outside world somehow limits their capability of widening their business opportunities through the usage of ICT.

Problem Or Opportunity

Communities in FELDA have limited exposure in ICT and its benefits as well as its abilities. Besides that, facilities related to ICT that are provided in FELDA are not being fully utilized by its communities.

Objective of this Business Case

Identify the main problem in FELDA that relates to ICT.
To enable Maxis to plan effective strategies in order to meet the project’s missions and goals.
To enable the project plan to be well managed and controlled properly

Organization's Goal and Strategy

To improve the ICT skills among FELDA communities to a better state through demonstrations and hands on facilities.
To encourage the modernization of FELDA by exposing the usage of ICT among communities in that area by providing IT facilities for public places.
To build an excellent platform between Maxis and communities in FELDA especially in the aspect of ICT through this tour, within the time constraint.

Project's Measurable Organizational Value

This project will be successful if ICT awareness and skills can be effectively understood and applied by communities in FELDA towards becoming a more modernized and well known community.

Relation Between Project's Measurable Organizational Value and Organizational's Goal and Strategy

Fundamental understanding about ICT among communities in FELDA will be effective through interactive ICT activities.

Maxis can widen their business opportunity and introduce services they offered in various ways.

Through a systematic management, budget and profit can be controlled effectively.

Welcome!

2007-08-10T08:33:00.000-07:00

This blog was created specially for our project, which is Maxis - Felda ICT tour, related to a project called Maxis Bridging Communities in our Project Management class by Cik Rashidah Rawi..

Our hope is to get as much support as possible from everyone, especially YOU! We have no other intention besides bringing the Felda community and Maxis closer, along with many other benefits ahead of both parties. May our project be as successful as we hoped for..

Project Team