PUBLIC ADVOCACY first class experience

Assalamualaikum and Hi readers,

02.03.2016, Wednesday

It is my third day of classes since I came back to my college. It is fun and quite challenging days, I guess hahahaha. Alhamdulillah, I have entered all seven classes since Monday until today which is Wednesday.

What I can say is, fuhhhhhhhhh what a hectic week. (ceh, baru first week Ned lek lek). I have eight subjects for this semester which are:

a) Intercultural Communication
b) Emotional Intelligence
c) Communication Research
d) Qualitative Data Analysis
e) New Media
f) Industrial Relation
g) Public Advocacy
i) Arabic language

*All of those subjects you may learn only if you are taking Bachelor in Interpersonal Communication, UiTM Shah Alam.*

Aite, what I want to share today is about this subject which I think it is very interesting and fun for me in my first week here. It is PUBLIC ADVOCACY. This subject is a new subject for me. Madam Sharifah Yuliana teaches this subject and she is super duper awesome. (Bukan nak puji ke bodek ke, but it is true) Well, every lecturers has their own way on teaching and lecturing. But, I like her style, She did include both things, Islamic thoughts and Academic at the same time. That is good for us too. We can gain both knowledge at one time.

In our class today, she gave us some exposures on "What is Public Advocacy". We do have two ways communication which is required in our course too. What I can observe, my classmates are very active in her class. This is a positive sign. She said she would give only positive vibes and in shaa Allah that vibes we will adapt it in our daily life.

 WHAT IS PUBLIC ADVOCACY TO YOU, NEDDDDD?

In my point of view, Public Advocacy like I said in the class just now was about persuading and also how the advocates create awareness towards the public and environment. I shall said it is actually hard to attract audiences if you do not have the skills in advocating. However, for me it is simple if you have your own strategies in persuading people. For instance, if me as the advocate I will come out with a good advertisements or some creativity through the social media to attract public's attention. If like nowadays, WIFI is everywhere. Oh, even in the public toilet also, there are WIFI provided. Therefore, through that way, public advocacy can easily be advocated to them. I have my own favorite advertisement in TV3 on "Texting while Driving". For me, it is a beneficial advocacy because drivers nowadays love to use their smartphones while they drive. It is wrong guys! Bare in mind, it may harm you.

Look! This is not a good example.

Other than that, there is some advertisement which I think it advocates the viewers so much which is on the topic of "Baby Dumping" and "Abortion". This is a serious case for me. Most of those people who did that in Malaysia are teenagers.WHY? Well, because there is lack of public advocacy they make. Okay, if there are various type of efforts advocates did, but still it is not strong enough to stop that kind of case from happening. Therefore, maybe new advocates need to find other ways or steps to figure it out.
Look!

Oh, not to forget, Public Advocacy usually been made by the advocates. But, sometimes public also can do this because the reason to make advocacy is to educate, inform and share to others on the topics that has been given. Public Advocacy not only can be made by the advocates, because parents, friends and governments also can be advocates. Parents they can teach their children at home and so do the others like friends and teachers. That is what I think on the definition of PUBLIC ADVOCACY, (Nedreme, 2016) hehehehe

We share many things in class today. The most interesting part that she has shared with us is on two verses in Al-Quran that touch on the payment that people will get back if the do good things in their life. It is from Surah Az-Zalzalah, verse 7 and 8:

"Maka barang sesiapa mengerjakan kebaikan seberat zarrah, nescaya dia akan melihat balasannya."

"Dan barang siapa mengerjakan kejahatan seberat zarrah, nescaya dia akan melihat balasannya."

I realized from this verse, as a human, we should do good deeds to others so in future we will get the payment or what I can say, like a reward. And if we do bad things, we also will be paid with those rewards too. So, the moral of the story is, we need to differentiate between good and bad things for ourselves.

Last but not least, before we ended our class just now, Madame Shayu asked us to give some reflections or any stories that we would lie to share.  And guess what, Ezza Asyraf who is my classmates, he did share a quote that I think it caught my attention. He said on something like this,

"We are alive, that's why we laugh" (Jaa, 2016)

To me, that quote means a lot because when I think logically, we couldn't laugh if we are dead right? So, it does make sense. Congrats Jaa, nice quotation!

Hmmmmmmmmm, thanks for reading today's story hehehehe. Well I shall have some rest then. Tomorrow I have one more class to go before I end up my first week there.

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Gorgeous,
nedreme