According to Wikipedia, Appreciative Inquiry (sometimes shortened to "AI") is primarily an organizational development method which focuses on increasing what an organisation does well rather than on eliminating what it does badly.

The picture above shows the approach to Appreciative Inquiry. It is the ‘4-D’ model:

1. Discover—people talk to one another, often via structured interviews, to discover the times when the organisation is at its best. These stories are told as richly as possible.
2. Dream—the dream phase is often run as a large group conference where people are encouraged to envision the organisation as if the peak moments discovered in the ‘discover’ phase were the norm rather than exceptional.
3. Design—a small team is empowered to go away and design ways of creating the organisation dreamed in the conference(s).
4. Destiny—the final phase is to implement the changes.

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In discovering different culture, we decided to start our journey with making friends with foreigners and also to go visit several museum around KL. We have several places in mind like Museum Orang Asli and National Museum.

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Last weekend, exactly 2 days before I came back to IIUM again, we (my family and I) decided to go to Dannok, Thailand. We departed around 7pm and arrived around 12am. So we decided to just get a hotel nearby. Eventhough we arrive late, but Dannok nightlife had just began. I can see light filling all the street, shops and restaurant and there are also many elephant around their roads. Yes, you read it right. Elephant! We went back home the day after. So here are some of the pictures I snap. Enjoy.

Elephant on the road

kuey tiow soup

to bring luck

mineral bottle

i think it is cockroaches. is it?

no comment

day market

There are also few other interesting things that catches my eyes, but I could not take the pictures for you. Among it would be how i noticed there are many small stall early in the morning that actually sell gas. they put it in the bottle and only have like 12 bottle per stall. interesting indeed. bye for now..^^

Down the memory lane of childhood. It is not the best things back then compared to now. That I almost forgot it. But as I've been remembered now, it is sure invaluable. How things have change, yet still the same. I am still me but I am not really..^^

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Bear with me as I have been addicted to editing pictures lately. This is some of the photos taken on ummatic week last week. Enjoy..^^

Picture on picture

Malaysia Booth

Turkey Icrecream

Traditional Games

Booth outside hall. p/s: i have mosaic the censored part..^^

Namastee

Whoever have sacrifice his Ipad, I hope he still have it now

Far-range booth.

It feels like i have traveled the world in a night. Sadly we are not allowed to take pictures on Ladies Night (which I think is a right move). TTFN
actually, this is our second time went to ummatic week. this event would be the an easy way to understand different cultures from many Muslim countries. here, we were introduced by their traditional foods, clothes, ceremony and etc.. here are photos that we took in this event





every country will be given booth. so, they need to decorate the booth to represent their country..

with yana, dila(me), and ila

some performance tribute to Palestine

Islamic martial art from China

every country has the opportunity to do a performance about their country.. prize will be given to the country who get the highest mark.

we are really having a wonderful time in this event. I hope that this information are enough to give some rough picture about this event.

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Malaysia, Religious Oriented? or Secularism?

I believe that we are religious oriented. Just look around us. There are mosque, temple, Thaipusam, Aidilfitri, Chinese New Year celebrated everywhere. Having said so, I did NOT look at it negatively. Malaysia is made up of different races, religion, language etc. Believe it or not, the only way to differentiate this differences is only through our religion orientation. It is such a shame to admit that and yet I am Malaysian. But that is true indeed. I truly love Islam yet I love being Malaysian.

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The very class we get this assignment. Please anticipate our journal of classes and outdoors activities..^^

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