Re Start

Dah sebulan kelas start, next week dah convo. Kejar puasa lah tu... Some students dropped by the office after picking up their academic robes. Felt very old, when your students are graduating..*sigh*..

This session is also a close friend's PhD graduation...me and tuty are planning to suprise her with some killer pollens!! and started me thinking of my own graduation..biler lah agaknyer..

abis tu biler la nak boleh buat..all these admin work yang due..terkejar2 nak siapkan..semalam baru abbis antar file kursus for audit, itupun ade satu lagi file due..do not even go there...

Semalam my supervisor reminded me on the edited chapters, which are due, as usual. By Khamis I have to finish reading and commenting the PhD thesis of my student..I mean how sick is that? My student is graduating way ahead of me..I mean kudos to my student but boo-hoo to me..aww life sucks!!

So again, another note-to-self, must cleanup room (after the juggernaut that is "Audit File Kursus") so that I can start (or re start) reorganizing my thoughts towards my unfinished chapters... fin...(God!)

On a more private note, we are happy to announce the arrival of the baby girl by Awang & Co. For now I call her Jidan the sequel, sbb kakak die Wijdan..look forward to call her proper name... now let me check my diary, I should be making that visit to my gynae anytime soon..(God!!)..

My Worry List

The semester starts on the 6th of July. Some classes were cancelled for the new undergraduates, like my Edu Law class. It's the H1N1 scare thingy. Now kena ganti lagi the missing 5 hours tu, kat ner nak carik tatau lah (My first worry).

As it were, jumpa my supervisor semalam, handed her my progress report (or pro-stress report as i'd like to call it!). She envisioned that everything would be ready for submission in the next few months, of which I concurred. It is a do-able thing, I said to myself....(My second)

Next in my worry list is the research write up, and some of the underutilized research funding, still sitting pretty while the clock is ticking. All reports are due September/October 2009. Pose dah dekat, which would slow down some of the research thingy..which is worrisome. This weekend is already fully booked as were the last weekend. G PD lagi, kena wat module for some IPTS, the organizer kata ada saguhati, which is nice...one less thing to worry about..

Life Post Scripts

The last week was a blur... semuanye nak cepat and nak sekarang. Managed to hantar all the results and answer scripts to both faculties, not exactly on time, but more importantly it's off my table now. I thought I was not going to make it.. but somehow, I found out that we will always find a way. By hook or by crook..they say lah kan.. I'm just glad I'm out of the woods.. now looking at the aftermath..all those assignments bertaburan, nak kene clearkan..so that life could move on. I do this every semester, always making note to self that I will do better next semester, in terms of organizing all these tasks. .but just when I am all prep up to do it the organized way, there will always be a glitch, of human kind, mind. Tak leh sangat nak plan2 ni, tu yang I ended up with the motto 'go wit the flow' tapi kalau flow die tsunami caner? kan? so how, you ask? I really don't have the answer. All I know is, I have deadlines, and I try sticking to it (underline TRY). There are times yang I was dangerously close to not accomplishing it. Tell me about THAT! I had my fair share of dissapointments, all life's lessons learnt..but as I have said in my last post..nothing is without value, your winnings as well as your losses, in my case especially my loss..now as I was blissfully unhampered by the thougts of massive mountains of answer scripts to attend to, my attention is turned to my other commitments. Which is equally massive in volume, and requires my thinking cap again. The campus is becoming less populated now, with the semester holidays on, everything calm and quiet..the best time for me to finish my writing up, get that book(s) out, finalise the draft articles, send the research reports, apply for more research grants, google that article up, help a friend with the proposal, help myself to my oen proposal......etc..etc...

Organization

I look at organization as the skills needed to actually go through my life on a daily basis..Macam semalam, hubby nak kene pegi KB on work-related matters, flight at 1830. At 12.30 found out that semua seluar dia dah past due..dan tak sesuai nak pakai..now no time to sew on the buttons or whatever lah kan..at 1330 moi ader meetg kat fakulti but hubby nak bawak seluar jugak .. so the solution is for moi g cari seluar die while hubby g amik anak kat sekolah and antar balik..so with 15 minutes to spare, raced to the nearest carrefour (mujur duit beli seluar die bagi ok?), buat supermarket sweep-like action and out of the carrefour in record time, of course I was still late to the Ijazah Dasar meeting by now, not with the absolutely torrential rain pulak yang turun after weeks of dry spell the moment I cleared off the parking bays..not amused... So balik office called hubby, who said he's on the way and was wondering (out loud) if I am able to drop him off kat Station University? A quick glance at the car clock... I'm late by 45 minutes now..what did I say to my hubby? What could I say is the question..so, yes, I'll send him off, come whatever...and was back at the office exactly an hour into the meeting...sampai bilik meeting, soaking wet, kak siti cakap "meeting dah abbis la puan"...! Such is life.. I plonked down one of the seats after helping myself to a heaping bowl of soto ayam, suddenly remembered that I hadn't eaten anything since morning...so time wasted you say..I don't think so..I had long ago accepted that we can never please EVERYBODY all at the SAME time...so there...

No man is an island?

Was thinking of keeping more regular tabs on my blog, found out that that is not so realistic. am so busy like nobody's business! balik rumah ambah pun kadang tak sempat..apa yang busy sangat u ask? That is actually a tricky question. I was on a whirlwind tour of Perlis last Labour Day, more of a tsunami than anything else. Yang's daughter punya wedding. Penat tak abbis lagi pegi Bogor pulak..Bogor is not under the Malaysian Flag..of course! Pun ribut jugak yang tu, pegi pagi balik malam hari yang sama ok? Not amused, like at all!! All this for what? Pleasing other people? Do we really need to please other people THAT much? Surprisingly, the answer you might find is, YES we do? I read somewhere that man is a social animal, and that man = island not the same..what we do has a lot to do with what others' do, otherwise jadi hermit la somewhere or a recluse ingenue or whatever you call them..that's why telco providers are charging us like tonnes of Ringgit like each time we try to connect to others, and because it is our own innate reaction, well all the more reason for the telcos to smile all the way to the bank..I am thinking of something that involve only me, no one else, just a me thing.. found out that there is NO such thing...

Back to basics

Salam, peeps..

It's March already, and I've just come up for air!! tak sempat langsung nak mem'blog' sekian lamer..the start of the year is so hectic, it took me almost three months to finally settle down. As usual so many things happened, some of which was chronicled kat dalam my facebook. Yup, just found out the joy of FB tu yang sampai blogspot ini seperti di'anak tiri'kan..today, nothing much, work as usual..I'm starting my journey to JB right after this blog, nak visit my students kat the Southern State ade tiga tempat, BP, JB and Muo. Will update as soon..in the mean time, carpe diem!!