This year seems the 'fastest' Ramadan since years ago..hehehe...with unbelievable workload and so on, all I realize Raya next week yeehaaaa...
Since first day fasting, I think I barely missed pasar ramadan. Keep changing from 1 pasar ramdan to another. During weekdays, I always have colleagues to 'shop' with me...I use the word 'shop' because we really 'shop' :-D from 1 stall to another, taste almost all foods..which stall sell the best murtabak, lemang, ayam panggang, ikan bakar, kuih, nasi kerabu etc, you can just simply ask us..hehehe...Also, sort of unofficial role in my house, I have to cook over the weekend. I showed them my talent in cooking ranging from nasi arab, nasi ayam, nasi tomato, spaghetti etc...For a person who hardly cook before I went to NZ, it's quite amazing...:-))
About baju raya, technically I don't have baju raya. However, before Ramadan I sent several 'work clothes' to my tailor. Since I only got them 3 weeks ago, this raya I have 3 baju raya...Plus 2 kebaya which I only managed to fit it now, I have 5 baju raya...hahaha...quite vogue this raya...
About kuih raya, of course I don't make any. I ordered 10 types of kuih raya ranging from my favourite tat nenas, chocolate short bread, putu kacang, tempeyek etc...typical kuih tunjuk I would say.
I only take 2 days extra leave for raya. I have so much to do including lab reports to mark and quizzes..Also, I have to sit for Bahasa Malaysia exam after raya. It's unbelievable...So many changes in Bahasa Malaysia since 1990s....:-( Really have to put some effort to study tatabahasa...
Well, those people in HR sort of don't have raya spirit yet...They call me for interview in Minden Campus this Wednesday. They just called me last Friday. Thank God I don't have to balik kampung (since I live in kampung) or else I might miss this interview..ok, wish me luck for the interview!
Selamat Hari Raya & Maaf Zahir Batin!
Sunday, 7 October 2007
Friday, 21 September 2007
Ramadan in Malaysia
This is my first fasting in Malaysia since years ago :-D Quite challenging coz I still haven't completely change..hehehe...
The best thing about fasting in Malaysia is Pasar Ramadan. Here, heaps of Pasar Ramadan. We just need to decide where to go. Several factors need to consider such as how easy to park our car, food price, specialty, distance, and not to forget how crowded..hehehe...as for myself, normally I can't stand crowded places...Either I go early or not going at all...I enjoy buying food. Unfortunately, my body seems cannot accept heavy food during breaking fast...since last few days, I sort of lost appetite. I only had kueh for breaking fast and bread for sahur. Well I guess, I just don't like white rice hehehe..maybe I should find other option...
Teaching during fasting is quite challenging...sometimes, i can see student sort of 'lost'..Not sure due to sleepy or hungry :-D or eat too much last night! hahaha...we tried to be patient though..Work wise, too many marking to do..hundreds of lab reports, quizzes, test, assignments to mark..all of them must be ready after raya. Raya break is actually study break for university, so we can imagine how much work need to be done during raya :-)..I don't think I will take extra leave for raya...
hmmm..time to order kueh raya..heaps of supplier...we can choose from kueh 'kampung' to modern. Since my area consider as kampung, the price is not too bad...can order more and more kueh...
Baju raya? next post....
The best thing about fasting in Malaysia is Pasar Ramadan. Here, heaps of Pasar Ramadan. We just need to decide where to go. Several factors need to consider such as how easy to park our car, food price, specialty, distance, and not to forget how crowded..hehehe...as for myself, normally I can't stand crowded places...Either I go early or not going at all...I enjoy buying food. Unfortunately, my body seems cannot accept heavy food during breaking fast...since last few days, I sort of lost appetite. I only had kueh for breaking fast and bread for sahur. Well I guess, I just don't like white rice hehehe..maybe I should find other option...
Teaching during fasting is quite challenging...sometimes, i can see student sort of 'lost'..Not sure due to sleepy or hungry :-D or eat too much last night! hahaha...we tried to be patient though..Work wise, too many marking to do..hundreds of lab reports, quizzes, test, assignments to mark..all of them must be ready after raya. Raya break is actually study break for university, so we can imagine how much work need to be done during raya :-)..I don't think I will take extra leave for raya...
hmmm..time to order kueh raya..heaps of supplier...we can choose from kueh 'kampung' to modern. Since my area consider as kampung, the price is not too bad...can order more and more kueh...
Baju raya? next post....
Friday, 31 August 2007
KC's visit to USM
My School
Last Friday, KC visited my school. It was quite embarrassing because my office was in complete mess. hehehe..Actually, we've been busy with RU, research niche and also research proposal that due on Friday..He arrived 30 minutes earlier that's why I didn't have enough time to tidy up my office..full of files and papers everywhere...:-D
Last Friday, KC visited my school. It was quite embarrassing because my office was in complete mess. hehehe..Actually, we've been busy with RU, research niche and also research proposal that due on Friday..He arrived 30 minutes earlier that's why I didn't have enough time to tidy up my office..full of files and papers everywhere...:-DWe had lunch together with my colleagues at Hotel Damai (the only hotel in this kampung). After that KC gave seminar. I brought him to visit our lab which is much better than UoA :-)
May be we could have collaboration in the future....
Here are several pictures..
How do I look in Baju kurung :-D
Here is the abstract of his talk.
Seminar on Progress in Polymer Electronics
Dr K.C. Aw
Mechanical Engineering Department
Date: 30th August 2007
Time: 2pm
Venue: Seminar room, SMMRE
Abstract:
Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) based on solution-processible polymeric materials have shown impressive improvements in their performance during recent years. These devices have been developed to realize low-cost, large-area electronic products. This review gives an overview of the research work performed at the Faculty of Engineering,
Several topics covering the development of OFET’s non-volatile memory incorporating ZnO, polyaniline(PANI) nanotubes field-effect transistor as gate controllable diodes and newly synthesized functionalized polythiophene as OFET deposited using electropolymerization technique will be discussed.
Saturday, 25 August 2007
Some pics...
Here are several pictures around engineering campus. The first two was fishing competition in REDAC pond. I did not fish though :-) I was there just to represent academic staff to give moral support to my school's team..The weather was very hot...
Engineering campus in 'Kampung'
My OBE class (120 students)-group exercise
Office siapa la yg bersepah ni?? :-D
From my left Aida (assistant registrar), Khairol (technical staff) and Iezan (office)
Engineering campus in 'Kampung'
My OBE class (120 students)-group exercise
Office siapa la yg bersepah ni?? :-D
My new toys....
Ahaks....here are pictures of my new toys....Most of my friends laugh when I told them I bought these :-D
My toys in my bedroom
My justification, since the past 3 months I barely have enough exercise..First, of course my routine work in which I finished work after 6pm. It's too tiring to go for exercise after work. Second reason was uncomfortable gym in USM. Of course the gym was not well equip compared to UoA. Moreover, very few exercise gadgets there or in bad condition. They were not well maintained. Probably , it's not our lifestyle here...:-) In the first place, I still make time to go for a jog, play netball or squash. However, nowadays it's almost impossible to make time to do so...
A couple of weeks ago, me and my friend went for PC fair in PISA Penang. As expected, the traffic was a nightmare to go back. We decided to detour Queens Bay Mall. That's how I decided to invest in treadmill. At that time, they had promotion-buy treadmill get an exercycle and slimming belt for free. It was quite a good bargain although I actually paid extra to upgrade the exercycle. The one for free was not my taste and too far from gym specs..hehehehe...
Now, I have enough equipments in my bedroom, treadmill, exercycle, abstrimmer and gymball (which I bought in NZ)..Next on the list will be a set of dumbbell...hahahaha
To date, I can't be sure either I really make a good investment or not. Of course I don't have time to exercise everyday, but I still make efforts to exercise several times in the morning. My main point is I would rather spend my money for a good purpose rather than save the money for God knows why... For me, I prefer to have all those things even if I don't use it. If something goes wrong with me in the future I know it's not because I'm too stingy!
*Kuna said my treadmill looks like Ferrari car hahahaha
Treadmill and exercyle. Those abs trimmer and gymball were from NZ
My toys in my bedroom
My justification, since the past 3 months I barely have enough exercise..First, of course my routine work in which I finished work after 6pm. It's too tiring to go for exercise after work. Second reason was uncomfortable gym in USM. Of course the gym was not well equip compared to UoA. Moreover, very few exercise gadgets there or in bad condition. They were not well maintained. Probably , it's not our lifestyle here...:-) In the first place, I still make time to go for a jog, play netball or squash. However, nowadays it's almost impossible to make time to do so...
A couple of weeks ago, me and my friend went for PC fair in PISA Penang. As expected, the traffic was a nightmare to go back. We decided to detour Queens Bay Mall. That's how I decided to invest in treadmill. At that time, they had promotion-buy treadmill get an exercycle and slimming belt for free. It was quite a good bargain although I actually paid extra to upgrade the exercycle. The one for free was not my taste and too far from gym specs..hehehehe...
Now, I have enough equipments in my bedroom, treadmill, exercycle, abstrimmer and gymball (which I bought in NZ)..Next on the list will be a set of dumbbell...hahahaha
To date, I can't be sure either I really make a good investment or not. Of course I don't have time to exercise everyday, but I still make efforts to exercise several times in the morning. My main point is I would rather spend my money for a good purpose rather than save the money for God knows why... For me, I prefer to have all those things even if I don't use it. If something goes wrong with me in the future I know it's not because I'm too stingy!
*Kuna said my treadmill looks like Ferrari car hahahaha
Friday, 24 August 2007
Pangkor Island
Here are several pictures in Pangkor Island in June 2007. I attended Outcome-Based Education (OBE) course which is a new requirement for all engineering course in Malaysia. The first audit or accreditation will be held in March 2008. Currently, most of us were busy preparing for the unnecessary documents hehehe..
About the course, we were taught by UTM lecturers how they conducted their class in UTM based on OBE. Surprisingly, most of their class is 100% course work with less than 40 students. I still wonder how on earth we can implement OBE in class of 100-700 students??? With limited spaces in Lecture theaters and lecture rooms, how are we going to do group discussion ?? Let upper management decide this :-)
Scenery at Teluk Dalam Resort
About the course, we were taught by UTM lecturers how they conducted their class in UTM based on OBE. Surprisingly, most of their class is 100% course work with less than 40 students. I still wonder how on earth we can implement OBE in class of 100-700 students??? With limited spaces in Lecture theaters and lecture rooms, how are we going to do group discussion ?? Let upper management decide this :-)
Fellow SMMRE colleagues
Scenery at Teluk Dalam Resort
Diam tak diam..
At the airport with K/Afidah, Syahira, Sharon and Syaf
Classic pic with Sharon and Tun
Tengok mata diorang tu hahahaha...'Banjir' ke kak?
Last kopek 'menjilat jari' fried chicken hahahaha
Abang Ghulam and K/Ton's house
Auntie Fatimah's house
BBQ at Auntie Priska's house
Diam tak diam, I came back more than 3 months already...so fast...Still feels like yesterday..hehehehe..still can feel the weather, the people there, although I never think of going there again hahahaha...I haven't downloaded pictures at Syahira's place though..To those involved in farewell gathering and last kopek party, again, thank you very much.
Today, I completed 3 months out of 7 years service in USM. hehehe...not bad though, I finished one class for 2007. From today onwards, I think I will have more time to concentrate on research, and of course do lots of marking...
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