Pardon me but I have to say that the locals’ presentations bore to the core! And it’s not me alone having this opinion, even the lecturer! Dr Kamar even pointed out how boring the presentation was and she urged all of us to be more interesting as this will bring effects on our da’wah mission, if we are boring then people will assume that the Muslims are boring people!!! And I agree with her. Come on people, show a bit more enthusiasm while presenting please. For the past two weeks I’ve been enduring presentations one after another, coming to class for the sake of attendance and seeking that some interesting topic will be discussed in class, and I’m disappointed. Of course, there are one or two classmates who did great with their presentation, but most of them…. they have such interesting topics, but they SPOILT the interest with their monotonous reading of their text or word by word from the powerpoint slides! People! Wake up!! Have some character. I’m truly disturbed and terribly annoyed with how they present. It’s just that it’s a waste when you have tried so hard looking for the sources and reading and rereading them just to make sense of everything, and on the day you present, you go monotone, no expression, and people don’t understand a word what you’re trying to say even though you’re talking in simple terms, people just couldn’t get what you say because you can’t seem to relate the topic and no eye contact with the audience, since you’re busy READING the text! I want to learn and you spoil it all!

Am truly not saying that I’m such a good presenter, LORD, No…I tried hard too to try and convince people and make my topic interesting, and I always asked people how I did and if there’s any mistakes, I’ll accept and learn from it, and alhamdulillah, people have given encouraging comments and I put them to practice.

And am fortunate that all of my presentations fall on the same week, and I was so in the presentation mode, and built up on my confidence, and reading again all the sources, and discuss with groupmates if it’s a group presentation. I don’t know, but I do not want to bore people and did lots of eye contact, just to see their expression and notice whether they understand what I’m trying to say. And I don’t have prepared scripts, while most of the locals do have and thus they just read. The scripts should be only to help them remember the points they want to discuss, not the WHOLE THING. I wish I can help friends how to present, but I don’t have the formula, and furthermore, I’m not the expert in presentations. I’m learning too. I just hope that people will grow up and realise that they are not in primary school anymore, but in UNIVERSITY and there’s a high level of expectations on uni students. This kinds of presentations are below the standard. People have to realise that when they graduated, they have a mission to accomplish, not mere graduates and find some job, work work work, get married and for the ladies, ended up being housewives, no, there is something else that needs to be done….as the vicegerents. Every existence has its role.