Passion to learn

There is only one week left for my industrial training in the hospital while there are so many things to learn and to observe during this period of time. I still my remember my lecturer's last words before I began my training. She said, " Life at works is not as wonderful as you thought. There are many people with their own unique characteristics and instead of learning what to do in the lab, try to learn how to deal with people." I met different kind of people with different background. There are doctors, pathologist, medical lab technician, science officer and also cleaner.There are also trainees from other institution.

One day, a pathologist asked me about fixatives. Sudden question that cause me sudden blurred. After a few second I answered, H&E ( a type of stain in histopathology lab). Oh my God! I should think more before gave that answer, because of it she gave me only one day to make a preparation to do a presentation about fixatives. I was like haaaa...? You say what?? Thank God I'm not alone, I'm together with other trainees. Without wasting my time, I divide works among us and borrow a book from the pathologist. She is the Head of Department and I'm 'dead' if I do wrong. A few of my lecturers were previously medical doctor so I know how they work and what kind of expectation they had.

At the end of presentation, praise to Allah, she was satisfied with our presentation and 'good news' to other trainees, the assignment involving presentation will be continued by them. =D. Actually, the things that I would like to highlight here are attitudes. Because on that day, a trainee ask me why I remind the pathologist that I will do a presentation? When I wait for the pathologist, they said why am I so excited to do the presentation? Astagfirullahalazim (I ask Allah forgiveness). I really can't understand them. Should I remind that we are STUDENTS and we came here for a TRAINING? What's that mean? It means our job is TO STUDY. TO LEARN. Am I do anything wrong for just accomplish my assignment? What kind of attitude is this?

The situation make me fly back to a time that a lecturer (supervisor) for my final project said," Malay students are lazy because they don't have passion to learn. They are not competent enough to succeed besides other races. I don't want you to become one of them. We are MUSLIM. ISLAM taught us to be hardworking. Not only for now but until hereafter." MasyaAllah. A very straightforward  reminder from Allah s.w.t. They are Malays and so do I. I seek refuge in Allah from laziness and may Allah guide them to the right path. Wallahua'lam.