I Observe, I Hear, I Feel and I Think

Assalamualaikum.

Great Monday morning indeed! *Sarcasm* Today, I took the initiative to try to memorize Surah Yaasin. As we all know, Surah Yaasin probably the most common surah recited because it is being recite almost every Thursday night. I think it is easier to memorize Surah Yaasin first because I already familiar with the verses inside it. 

After a few moment try to memorize it, I realize that I have to know what word is at the beginning of the verse. If I know, then I can continue it. It's like a cue for me. I think I have to improve on that part. I have to remember and memorize the first word of each verse so that I can memorize the surah quickly. That's all for today. ;)

p/s: I know this is a pretty quick post. 

Assalamualaikum.

The second post for today! It seems that I am rushing to get this blog full with words. Haha! Anyway, Dr Lihanna asked us about four weeks ago to find out various ways or techniques to memorize Al-Quran. Job is successfully done and I found these techniques from muslimmatters.org, which I don't remember the full url to that link/web. This is the 13 steps provided by Yasir Qadhi and I rephrase or summarize his points.

These are techniques I found from the website muslimmatters.org. I would like to apologize to the author if what I wrote is a misunderstanding one. InsyaAllah, it's not. From all these techniques, Dr Lihanna then instructed us to relate it to some of the psychological terms regarding memory. Some of them are encoding specificity, maintenance rehearsal, and chunking.  

For the assignment, I have yet to choose my technique of memorization. But, from this, I may of thinking to use one or two technique(s) to help me to memorize the Surahs. Okay, that's all from me. Assalamualaikum

Today (9 October 2011) or nicely or awesomely written as Nine-Ten-Eleven, is the day I once again start blogging after 2 years I have lost the sense of blogging. Well, the purpose of this blog is to fulfill my assessment for my psychology subject, Psychology of Learning. As Dr. Lihanna instructed all of us to make a blog, so my interest of blogging is reborn, some sort of like that. 

The class project that all of us in Dr Lihanna's class have to do is that we have to memorize 2 surahs from Al-Quran which are Yaasin and Al-Mulk or Al-Waqiah. At first, I was shock that the assignment is a little bit different or can I say unique from any other subjects I take this semester. Which also I am gladly to receive because I think it's not that hard. I mean, I don't have to do all the group meetings, research on journals or articles and other heavy workloads. 

Truthfully, since last week (or last two weeks, I don't remember) when she given us the assignment, I haven't start any memorizing on any verse yet. InsyaAllah, after this week, I will spend some of my time to try to memorize the surahs. Anyway, it is for my benefit too, duniawi and ukhrawi, InsyaAllah. The first weeks of semester is quite hectic one. Program here and there, assignments keep increasing in number. I'm still trying to adapt with all this situations. Despite all that, I hope I can manage my time carefully to memorize those surahs.

With that I end my first post on this blog. Assalamualaikum.