Week 15: 19 December 2011 - 25 December 2011

Assalaamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.


20 DECEMBER 2011


Today, En Nasir taught us about the 4 Principles of Personal Innovation:

1. Innovation is not something you do after you get your work done; it is how you do your work.
2. Innovation is about more than inventing new products; it is about figuring out how to add value where you are.
3. You can innovate in any job, any department, or any organization.
4. Innovation is about taking action.

At the end of the class, En Nasir reminded us about our reflection journal and asked us to bring newspaper and cellotape. He also said iit is a loss if any of us did not come to the last class. 

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22 DECEMBER 2011

Today was the last class of this subject. I felt quite sad. Because actually learning in this class was very interesting. Before begin our last class, he gave us some tips of final exam. Thank you En Nasir for your kindness!

Then, he asked us, in group to create anything to show our creativity and innovation attitude. There were many types of things..my group created multi-hanger. 

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Week 14: 12 December 2011 - 18 December 2011

Assalaamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh and very happy day to all of viewers.


13 DECEMBER 2011


Today,En Nasir gave us some tips >> innovation will come out in our final exam! Thank you En Nasir.


There are two elements that determine the innovation which are innovation and can be commercialized.


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15 DECEMBER 2011


Today was the last presentation from us, which were from Group 12 & 13. Our class was again at Dewan Sri Alam, Kolej Tun Fatimah. I like it!


Group 12 showed us how to use CD in many ways, such as CD as handphone holder. They also organized several games for us, including CD bowling.

The last group, 13th group used cards as their tools. Their objective is to test our memory. It was interesting game to me.

Week 13: 5 December 2011 - 11 December 2011

Assalaamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh and hello to all of you.


6 DECEMBER 2011


En Nasir continued the BRAINSTORMING lecture. We discussed on the pre-requisite based on the model of brainstorming:

1. Results - What are we trying to accomplish?
2. Action - Who? What? When?
3. How - Plans and strategies.
4. Possiblity - stating what is possible.
5. Relationship - showed and aligned the commitments.

We also learned about "preparing yourself and your team tools".

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8 DECEMBER 2011

Today, I was absent because of I had a fever. Yet, I was noted that today was Intan's group to present their project (11th group).

I was told that the project is about chocolate. yummy! :) Below is one of the chocolate that they have produced.

Week 12: 28 November 2011 - 4 December 2011

Assalaamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh and very pleasant day to all of you.


29 NOVEMBER 2011


Today,En Nasir continued our class with new topic, which was BRAINSTORMING.

Brainstroming is a social process for generating new thinking around problems and challenges (theories, technology, ideas, services, products)


We also discussed on where programme thinking works?

• in the analysis or research stage of a project
• in detailed design of product, service or system that has been identified
• root cause analysis

When lateral thinking works?

• to improve existing concept
• generate radical ideas
• making creative leaps

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1 DECEMBER 2011

Today was our test day. We are having test in the lecture time, for the first time. The test started at 8.20 am. and ended at 9.30 am. I was not earning high mark, but insha Allah I'll try my best during this coming final exam.

After the test, it was our turn to represent our project. Now, our project was named as "Wheel of Dream". It is inspired from one of populat TV show in Malaysia before, which was Roda Impian. We set up two types of question; based on lecture notes and creative question that need to be answered using body language.

Congratulations to Ayuni's group to become the winner of this game. :)

Week 11: 21 November 2011 - 27 November 2011

Assalaamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh and hello to all of you.


21 NOVEMBER  2011


Today, we had our class at Dewan Sri Alam, Kolej Tun Fatimah. At my own college, I like it! :D


As beginning of the class, En Nasir divided us to groups that consisted from local and international students. He gave us a paper of Vice Chancelor of UTM' speech about "Menjana Minda Kreatif & Inovatif". It's a challenge to us to make the International STudents understand about that and I thanked Syakir as he tried his very best to make our International Students in our group understand the speech. Then, every group presented their ideas and as usual, Syakir was the one that presented the point for our group.

The most important thing is En Nasir said that he will take this question (NC's speech) as one of the final year exam question.


Then, the 7th group proceed with their group presentation which was about series of Fast & Furious movie.

They also promoted the latest Fast & Furious movie to us.

Next, Group 8th presented their games. The games were so interesting and creative. 

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24 NOVEMBER 2011

Today, the class was again in Kolej Tun Fatimah, but at Dewan Sri Berlian. Today was the 9th & 10th group that presented our assignment.

The 9th group showed up creativity when they used tables and mahjong paper as a replacement of white boaard or wall in order to show off thier slideshows. Congratulations!

Group 9th presented about creativity that can be applied using such paper plate and so on.

Then, it came to us to conduct our group presentation. I was the conductor of the games. We began with our first game which was coconut bowling. All of us were so excited and something acciednattly happened. One of the glass broke due to the hardness of throwing the ball. 

Because of this, we could not proceed our another two games. En Nasir provided us another task which was drawing poster that must contained pollution, time, green, money and economy.

Not so beautiful, hehe. 

As solution for the broken glass, everyone of us must pay RM 10.00 in order to replace the glass, but if there will be balance, En Nasir said he will prepare for gathering for us with the balanced money.

We learnt so many things today; responsible , friendship and how to manage feelings.

We, Group 10, would like to thank En Nasir for giving us the chance to represent our presentation. Jazakallah ya ustaz, :)

Week 10: 14 November 2011 - 20 November 2011

Assalaamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh and hi to all of you.


15 NOVEMBER 2011


Today, the 6th group, continued the group presentation. The 6th group was Syakir's group. They were presenting the 5 seasons restaurant.

The presentation was nice and interesting. Then, En Nasir continued his lecture, today we learned about 6 Thinking Hats, but today we were only discussed on white hat and red hat only.

In brief, white hat - obtain facts/figure/info

             red hat - concerned on feelings. (opposite with white hat)

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17 NOVEMBER 2011

The class began by En Nasir review on the previous two hats; white and red hats. Next, he continued introducing to us the other four hats which were black hat, yellow hat,green hat and blue hat.

In short, the role of these four hats are:

• black hat - concerned with control and careful.
• yellow hat - optimism (opposite of black hat)
• green hat - concerned with new ideas
• blue hat - organisation of thinking (like a referee)

As usual, En Nasir gave us a group task in order to make us more understand about the 6 THINKING HATS. We were given question:

You're a group member's of Student Representative Council (SRC). The Student Affairs (HEMA) has asked you to submit proposals to solve the problems of students come late to class, especially in the morning. The financial burden is a major problem to HEMA to increase the number of buses available. In addition, the University is very sensitive to air polution, noise and congestion, and this should be noted in your proposal.

My group has agreed that the best solution is HEMA should prepare one bicycle for one student and make it compulsory to all students to have one bicycle. HEMA can charged on the fee for those who were not yet have bicycle. SO, students can go to the class by bicycle that is more economy, free pollution and interesting. :)

Week 9: 7 November 2011- 13 November 2011

~ MID SEMESTER BREAK~

Week 8: 31 October 2011 - 4 November 2011

Assalaamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh and hello everybody!


31 OCTOBER 2011


Today was our replacement class for 10 November 2011. We had the class at Dewan Merdeka, Kolej Rahman Putra from 5pm to 7 pm. Today we had the 4th and 5th presentation. They organized some games for us and we were very enjoy the games! :)

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1 NOVEMBER 2011


Today we continued our class by learning about Triangle Concept.

To more understand this Triangle Concept,En Nasir had asked our group to solve problems on why students UTM always come late using this concept.

Week 7: 24 October 2011 - 28 October 2011

Assalaamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.


25 OCTOBER 2011


En Nasir, without bored, continued taught us about EUREKA. EUREKA is a Greek word that brought mean " I found it!"


Then, he also told us about development. It is the final stage of creativity. Development is acting on an idea to make useful, functional, possible and profitable.


En Nasir also gave us 12 puzzle questions to us to ask..and the answer is very creative! everybody laughed with most of the answers which were so easy, and actually did not require critical thinking. :D


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27 OCTOBER 2011

Today we learned a new topic which was LATERAL THINKING.LATERAL THINKING was the idea of Edward De Bono.


Lateral Thinking is the opposite of vertical thinking.


In brief, lateral thinking is solving problems by an indirect and creative approach, typically through viewing problems in new and unusual view.


In contrast, the vertical thinking is solving problems using conventional logical process.


We also discussed about several ways of defining lateral thinking and characteristics of lateral thinking.

Week 6: 17 October 2011- 21 October 2011

Assalaamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.


18 OCTOBER 2011


Today we have the 2nd presentation, and the presenter was from Chong Loon's group.

The presentation is about toilet tissue. there are variety of toilet tissue, so interesting as I did not ever think of it before. :)


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20 OCTOBER 2011


Today, I was not attending the class because I've got an interview for 5 ETP programme (Entrepreneurship) at Canseleri building. But I was told by my fellow friends that today they had learned about STEPS to CREATIVITY:

1. Knowledge
2. Thinking
3. Incubation
4. Eureka (I found it!)
5. Development

Today also group 3, which was Firdaus' group was presenting their project; 2 in 1 stapler and puncher (IZZY PUNCHLER).I copied the picture of the innovation product from this group.

Week 5: 10 October 2011 - 16 October 2011

Assalaamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh and hello to every visitor!


11 OCTOBER 2011




As usual, we continued learning how to be creative and innovative. En Nasir had continued his lecture about the THEORIES OF PSYCHOANALYTICAL.


People become creative in reaction to difficult circumstances or repressed emotions,

We also learnt about the THREE ELEMENTS OF HUMAN BEING which are ID, EGO and SUPER EGO.


In brief,

•  ID is driven by pleasure principle, which strives for immediate gratification of all desired, wants and needs.
• EGO is responsibility for dealing with reality. EGO strives to satisfy the ID's desires in realistic and socially appropriate ways.
• SUPER EGO holds all our internalized moral standards and ideas that acquire from both parents and society. Also provides guidelines to make judgments.

Next, En Nasir asked us to played a game on how to make 5 sticks moved in order to make 3 squares out of 6 squares. (please imagine the figure, hehe)

And I did it! :D

Lastly, En Nasir told us that next class 13 October 2011 would be cancelled but we had our online quiz.

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13 OCTOBER 2011

Today the class was cancelled but not totally cancelled. We have to do the online quiz at 8am. I just used my Sony Ericsson X10 Mini to answer that quiz, due to some problems. The quiz is about how to be a creative inventor. 

Week 4: 3 October 2011 - 9 October 2011

Assalaamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh and very good day to all of you...


4 OCTOBER 2011


Alhamdulillah, today, again, we continued our class by lecture from En. Nasir. We learnt about concept of creativity and differentiate between CREATIVITY, INVENTION, and INNOVATION. Most special, we've learnt new quotes by Stephen Baker >> "There is really nothing elusive or mysterious about creativity. Anyone who can talk is able to write. Anyone who can see is able to visualize and anyone who can think is able to have ideas" - Stephen Baker


Concept of Creativity


We were asked to write down all the possible use of safety pin in 5 minutes only. Our group lost in this task as we only able to list on 11 use of the safety pin.


We also learnt about Science,Technology and Engineering.


P/s: creativity>invention>innovation


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6 OCTOBER 2011


En Nasir continued his lecture today about EIGHT INTELLIGENCE:

1. Language
2. Logic
3. Music
4. Visual
5. Body
6. Intra personal
7. Inter personal
8. Nature

Today, also the beginner of the presentation, Carol's group was presenting their group assignment which was BANANA NATION.

Overall, this presentation was good, but I was not agree with the game that they had planned because the banana itself was a food, and should not be played under our leg, for me, the food value had been downgraded.Indeed, the first group had often started the benchmark of all other group's presentation.

Week 3: 26 September 2011 - 2 October 2011

Assalaamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh and hi to all visitors..

27 SEPTEMBER 2011


Our creative class started as usual with the cheerful face from our lecturer, En. Nasir. Before started his lecture,  he reminded us to activate our e-learning because it is very important during our learning process of this course. 


Then, he continued his lecture on Negative Attitudes last week:


2. It can't be done ; surrendering before the battle.


3. I can't do it, or there is nothing I can do; good mind with positive attitudes + some good problem solving skills will go far in solving the problems.


4. I'm not creative.Everyone is creative to some extent ; the problem that this creativity has been suppressed by education. All you need to do is to let it come back to the surface.You will soon discover that you are surprisingly creative.


5. That's childish; remember that sometimes people laugh when something is actually funny, but often they laugh when they lack the imagination to understand the situation.


6. What will people think? ; there is strong social pressure to conform and to be ordinary and not creative.




We also learned 3 Keys for Creative Inventor

1. Motivation
2. Commitment
3. Interest

P/S: Honestly, I have many criteria that listed in these negative attitudes, and I understood that I had to change it into positive manners. Insha Allah I will try my best to become positive from today.


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29 SEPTEMBER 2011


En Nasir continued his lesson on negative attitudes that can block creativity..


7. I might fail.


We've done some personality quiz and I had earned 39..

FAILURE, let us view the failure in two views:

• negative; when a thing that have been planned is not successful.
• positive: steps to gain knowledge so that the things will not happen twice, learn from mistakes.

FEAR of FAILURE is the MAJOR OBSTACLE in order to be CREATIVE.

in short, creativity needs process.

Week 2: 19 September 2011 - 25 September 2011

Assalaamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh and hi to all of my visitors...


20 SEPTEMBER 2011


Today, as usual En Nasir came to our class with his big smile on his face. Then, he continued his previous lecture. Today's topic was POSITIVE ATTITUDES FOR CREATIVE.


1. Curiosity

• want to know things
• passionate
• knowledge does not require a reason.

2. Challenge

• like to identify and challenge the assumptions behind ideas, proposals, problems, beliefs and statements.

3. Constructive discontent.

• ability to see a need for improvement and to propose a method of making that improvement.
• Greedy vs improvement

4. A belief that most problems can be solved.

5. The ability to suspend judgement and criticism.

• appreciate other's opinion/views.

P/S: I assumed that these attitudes can be treat as "KPI" for me in order to determine whether I am really creative or not.

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22 SEPTEMBER 2011

En Nasir continued his lecture on Postive Attitudes for Creative, which were:

6. Seeing the good in the bad.

• when we're facing with poor solutions, do not cast them away. It is because maybe there will be something useful even in worst ideas, plus, it might be turned to good effect or more greater!

7. Problems lead to improvement.

• most inventions come from problems that arose before. So, take PROBLEMS as OPPORTUNITY.

8. A problem can also be a solution.

• it is fact that when a person describes something as problems, it can sometimes can be a solution for someone else.

9. Problems are interesting and emotionally acceptable.

• then you will motivated to find any solution to overcome the problems.

This chapter ended here.:)

Before moved to another chapter, En Nasir asked every group to discuss the definition of PROBLEM among team members.

Here was the answer from our group:

Definition of Problem: New challenging learning process that may have solutions and leads to improvement.

Then, En Nasir started the next lecture which was Negative Attitudes:

1. Oh no, a problem!

• reaction to a problem is often bigger problem than the problem itself.

Problem could be defined as:

1. seeing difference between what you have and what you want.

2. recognizing or believing that there is something better than current situation.

3. opportunity for positive act.

# Today, we were given "turn" to present our group assignment,and our turn is 10. :)

Week 1: 12 September - 18 September

Assalaamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.


Today, 13 September 2011 is the very first class for Creativity & Innovation subject. Our lecturer, Mr. Mohd Nasir bin Masroom came out to our class with a friendly face and introduce himself and gave some guideline about this subject to us.


He told us including the course description, the learning outcome of this subject and the evaluation of this subject.


He also asked us to prepare a reflection journal, in what type, interface as well as we have to submit that reflection journal on the due date which is on 27th December 2011. Besides to prepare the reflection journal that shared all our footprints through this subject,we also required to prepare group assignment.


We could choose whether we would like to do creativity project (related to marketing) or creativity games(simulation).


Below is the provision for carry mark of this subject:

1. Tasks (10%)
2. Test (20%)
3. Journal (15%)
4. Report of Group Assignment (5%)
5. Presentation (10%)
6. Final Exam (50%)

Hopefully I can have the best carry mark for this subject, insha Allah.. :)

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15 September 2011

Today, I have formed my team members which consisting me, Wan Azimah (Zie), Li Hui (Johnny), Siti Roihan (Roihan), and Nurul Izaity (Izzai).

Mr. Nasir started the first lecture today. Today we learnt what is creativity, creative methods and also myths about creative thinking and problem solving.

And it's my pleasure to hare with all of you, in brief about those what I had learnt...

1. What is creativity?

• ability to imagine or invent something new (based on existence resources)
• an attitude; ability to accept change and newness
• a process; creative people work hard and continually to improve ideas and solutions.

2. Creative Methods

• Evolution ; (method of incremental improvement)
• Synthesis; (two or more existing ideas are combined into a third -> new idea.
• Revolution; sometimes the best new idea is a different one, a marked change from the completely previous ones.
• Reapplication; look at something old in a new way.
• Changing direction ; many creative breakthroughs occur when attention is shifted from one angle of a problem to another.

3. Myths about creative thinking & problem solving.

• Every problem has only one solution / or one best anwer.
• Best answer/solution/method has already been found.
• Creative answers are complex technologically.

P/s: Today I've started to believe that I also can become creative! ;)

The First Step

Assalaamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh to all visitors..

Welcome to my blog..."Journey to be Creative". This blog is created to share all I had go through along journey as student that taking SHY 1043 (Creativity & Innovation)..

A lil bit about my self:

I am Maznah binti Osman, my birth date was on 21st March 1989, I was born in Hospital Bersalin Kuala Lumpur, and now currently, my family and I are staying in Gombak, Selangor.

This is my first year in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru (UTM) and also the first time , I'm coming or in other words, staying in Johor, before this, I've never had time to come to Johor. Previously, I was studied in Selangor International Islamic University College that is well known as KUIS. During my Diploma, I was taking Diploma in E-Commerce Technology, an IT discipline. And now I'm changing my area, and I feel that this is so challenging for me. So, I really hope that, all of you will pray for me so that I can do well during my long journey in UTM.