The last week has seen that 117 of us had officially graduated from
JAD-MJHEP as JAD batch 15 or MJHEP batch 4. As always every start must ends.
Macam pepatah melayu, bertemu dan berpisah adat manusia biasa, berdoalah kita
agar aman dan sentosa... And this, is the end of our ‘ceritera’ as student in
preloved MJII for three years.
3 tahun bukanlah waktu yang
singkat. Walaupun kadang-kadang orang cakap pejam celik pejam celik je dah
habis belajar. Jadi, 3 tahun suka duka pahit manis gelak tawa riang tangisan
akan sedaya upaya aku catitkan disini sebagai coretan dan bingkisan dari kisah
hidup aku. Maybe in the next few years i will read this again, but who knows.
For the first year, yes the year is the year of hardship, commitment and
dilemma. Ada masa aku terfikir betulkah keputusan aku ni. Kalau kecundang
tengah jalan nahas aku bai. Enter as the last intake (third intake) for the
year is not something that you will dream of. Dengan berbekalkan pujukan ibu,
daftarlah jugak aku disini. In that room, there were eight people, only six people
stayed until today. Eight of us were exclusively taken for intensive lecture
for three months. It was like catch up class in school when u are left with
most syllabus because of the late admission (a month) from others.
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The first semester, the engineering subjects were taught in English
before they were transferred to Japanese in second semester. Quite a shocking
experience when u see sensei (lecturer) yang English terabur first semester,
speaks Japanese in second semester macam orang baca berita. Mengantuk tapi
kagum. For records, inilah masa aku diuji macam-macam test setiap hari (mostly
Japanese test), baru nak merangkak baca bahasa Jepun, nak hafal kanji Jepun
plus aku tak kenal orang lagi. Believe it or not, sampai graduated pun ada lagi
batchmates perempuan yang aku tak kenal. Good thing or bad thing? All in all,
this is the hardest year in JAD, u survive this, u survive another two years.
Naik ke U1, sejujurnya tahun ni macam form 4 dekat sekolah menengah
dulu. Honeymoon year. After all that blood and tears in the first year, apa
salahnya nak rilek-rilek sat. In this year, there will be less Japanese class
meaning less burden and affliction. Plus the class will be in more relaxing
style like ‘baling-baling dadu’ or ‘lakonkan situasi yang awkward’. In the
opposite, the engineering class will increase bringing the rapid increase in
sleep-in-class rate. So, less tests, lesser stress, more time, better joys. Akan
tetapi, kalau ada junior2 yang baca, ubah sikap sebegini. Yep, there will
be culture shock when suddenly tests that made your nights sleepless gone, but
honeymoon here, suffering next year. Personal advice, struggle, do the best for
this semester because this semester will holds large percentage on your
available universities when u go to Japan.
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Satu lagi perkara yang meninggalkan kesan bermakna ialah Beranang yang
ketiadaan air setiap bulan. Dan setiap bulan, air terputus selama 4 hari
sekurang-kurangnya. Fun facts, human can only survive 3 days without water.
And here comes the last year, U2 as the final phase before flying to
Japan. Tahun yang masih segar diingatan, baru beberapa hari berlalu. Terasa
macam baru semalam daftar masuk sini. Pejam celik pejam celik dah habis. Ya,
sama macam ayat diatas, but the facts is there. Aku start kenal orang, their
habits, who they like, what they dislike and the year that I felt a strong and
tight bond. Just like when I was in form 5 a couple of years ago. Aku mula
rapat dengan sensei, selesa dengan orang-orang jepun dan makan sekali
ramai-ramai. The thing that I will definitely miss – ramai study kat bilik
sebab study thermodynamics. Dan tahun ni juga, aku wajib pilih university yang
diidamkan untuk menyambung pelajaran. I choose Meiji University because I want
to feel the life of Tokyo Metropolitan city and my house located at just at the
back gate of university. Save money on transport.
In the end, enrolling on this program is like a sweet dream that u never
wanted. U want another dream but this dream is sweeter (although sometimes
there were nightmares). All in all, this is the best three years that I had in
life. Living here with u guys are like the best episodes in my life and I hope
hingga berjumpa lagi di lain masa…
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