NUS National Conference 2010 recap

Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim

Last week I spent 3 days away in Newcastle and Gateshead for the NUS National Conference 2010. Right after I got home, I got ille and sick and hence lost the interest and ability to write and share some insight from the new eye opener experience for me. I am still sick as I wrote this.

Today, I received a text message from one of the FOSIS people who was there during the conference, which reboosted my spirit to write something. The text message was a news about the outstanding election results. Alhamdulillah Br Usman Ali and Sis Fatima Junaid got elected on the positions they ran for, the Vice President of Higher Education and a member of Block of 15 respectively. Congratulations to both of you. (Sorry sis Fatima, I think I lost your lovely campaign leaflet. Otherwise I can share it here as well)

Campaign T-Shirt

That was the good experience from the conference. The bad one was when I checked my bank account balance today, I saw an expenditure of GBP250 towards the hotel where I stayed. That is massive, a third of my monthly allowance! Immediately, I gave the hotel a ring and they said it was charged for a broken mirror in my room. It wasn't my fault. The mirror in my room was broken when I checked in. I should have reported to the hotel management about it when I was there. However, the luxurious and the comfy of the hotel made me forgot to do so.

Now I am fighting to get my GBP250 back! Tomorrow I am expecting phone call from one of the hotel manager to discuss about it. Luckily I snapped numerous photos of every angle of the room. Hope that they could be my evidence saying that I didn't break the mirror. Thinking about it, a mirror worth GBP250! I could buy a brand new 32" Samsung HD TV with that price on ebay!

The broken mirror (See bottom right of it)

Well, I am not supposed to write my experience there now because my priority should be reading journals, criticizing and writing on my dissertation. However once that is done, I hope I still can share some insights about the NUS National Conference 2010 here insyaAllah. Make doa that I will do so.

Ibn MuSa
Dunkirk 2010