yesterday there was an MSC meeting. due to the one-in-three months arrangement of the meeting, naturally, much needed to be said and presented. an elective student from University College of London, brother Nadhir who is the President of the Islamic Students association there, came to observe the way our meetings were conducted, i love his british accent :)
after we'd finished presenting our issues, he gave his comments. he said that we were so lucky to have everything very easy for us and that we didn't have to struggle and fight to survive here. that's probably why we're not really performing excellently. everyone is complacent with merely passing and getting by that they do not strive hard for excellence. mediocrity is the general goal.
he told us to never wait for other people to do something. if you want something done, do it yourself! he said that if he asked a muslim to do something, he'd have a backup of three people to do it and also a backup ready if the backups couldn't come through but whenever he assigned something to a non-muslim, he'd get the job done straight away. he was surprised this happened in Malaysia too. hmm, i'm not.
another thing that puzzled him was how there was only two saffs during the jamaah prayers when there are three block-fuls of brothers. haha, i'll leave that to the bros to answer and ponder.
hmm, the way Bro Shams, our president, wanted to home in his message to anyone who he thinks hasn't done their job reminded me of Dr Naznin's method. he'd convey his points in a subtle way that the intended person realizes his or her mistake and feels quite sheepish.
i hate lengthy meetings!
p.s. just realized that this blog is a year-old now. i wonder how long it'll last???
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