things to do....

The next few months should be a hectic period for me. I have loads of things to do -- things that I HAVE to do. Once I'm done with all the exam scripts which would be somewhere around the end of next week, I will have to put all of my attention to all these:

1. conference paper for the Jogja visit in June which is due on 31 May.
2. proposal for the 3K research, due mid-June
3. proposed syllabus for IMC, already overdue but I'm giving it a new deadline, 25 May
4. book chapters on Corp.Comm, due mid-August
5. Notes for my upcoming PLK class

But of course, I do need to take a break which will be the most important thing that I need to do, and must do. May be the list can be altered a bit...

Can't wait....

I'm so looking forward to a long break away from all these craps that are around me. I've not been feeling enthusiastic about going to work like I use to (yeah right!). Betul. Selalunya I would leave home at 7.30am and will be at the office by 8.00am. I will leave for home around 7.00pm. Well, bukanle spend all those hours faithfully buat kerja. Ada gakle masa bersukaria. But off late memang I have lost my rythm. Maybe it's because of the work that gets growing every second. Maybe it's the people yang many of them selalu get on my nerve. May it's the place... Or maybe it's ME.

God, I really need a break before a strangle someone. That is why I am so looking forward to a long break in June.

A good friend of mine once told me that at this age (hmm) we have to get away for a good long break at some far away places. So we have decided that our annual KPI should be one international destination a year. I totally agree with that and in fact we have already made that agreement. Tapi masalahnya whenever I have the time, no fulus maa. Whenever ada fulus (cukup makan je), no time pulak. So, camno... and now that friend of mine baru dapat kerja baru. I don't think she will get a leave easily. Nampaknya Xian, Seoul, NZ, Aussie, South Africa & yang sewaktu dengannya will have to wait. Apa-apa pun, Cotton Island, will be seeing you soon!

I'm looking for a...

PUNCHING BAG!!! I am full of anger right now. Dah lah the other day pi meeting I was bashed for other people's inefficiency. Balik meeting, gave the feedback to this inefficient person and she gave me a 'like-I-care" look. Relayed to her the message from the Dean that the we (the section) had to submit the the report on program review by the end of the month and her response was "well, just say that we don't have any changes". GOD, it's been six years and a half-dozen graduations since the last review and she said we don't need to change. Anyway, I insisted that we made the review and suggested the dates to sit down and do it. These dates happend to fall on a weekend. These dates were suggested based on the knowledge that many of us would be invigilating the exams on other days. BTW this was last week's episode.

Yesterday, got to know that the dates that I suggested were not accepted. Reason being, this particular person needs to do the marketing and washing and cleaning and.... Helllooo. Like I and the rest don't have to do all that??? The point here was we need to do this with everybody's presence.

This incident may not be important to you but to me and my colleagues who have to endure her selfishness all the time (FYI this was not the first time she gave selfish reasons to many things) and the thought that she's the program coordinator who once held a senior post, her action is so unbecoming.

GOD, please let me not deal which such person anymore. I have been doing this since my 1st day here. Should this continue, I pray to you GOD to spare me from any insanity. Amen.

hooray hooray...

I'm almost done for the semester. Accept for my Master's classes yang studentsnya best, I'm done layanning all those b******g students. Now I'm able to concentrate on marking the assignments yang I know will again get on my nerve. But at least they are just pieces of papers.

I'm also done with writing the module. That was also another burden yang I manage to get off my shoulder. Kalau tak hidup memang tak aman sebab kena haunt selalu dengan u-don't-have-to-know-who. It's not over yet sebenonya. I have another module to write and it is due in August. Heiyya! So the semester break will not really be a break for me as I have a list of things to do. Anyways, at least there will be less people for me to deal with!

P/S Karnivall, here I come. Lama tak main air!

hari-hari yang memenatkan...

The past two, three weeks have been such a tiring one for me. Penat sebab there were so many things to do and yet so few accomplished. I managed to finish marking the PJJ exam scripts yang mentensyenkan sebab answers yang teruk-teruk. Sakit jiwa membacanya. I managed to update the syllabuses yang kena add in the so-called Course Learning Outcome (ni sumanya angkara cikgu-cikgu yang tiba-tiba jadi administrators yang masih ingat kita ni ajar bebudak sekolah gamaknya!). Buat le CLO canggih macam mana pung kalu silibus tak update and tidak membantu dalam mencapai objektif tu tak guna gak. Kebanyakannya kena improvise sendiri so that students boleh jadi apa yang depa sepatutnya jadi - boleh be critical, analitical and ada skill. Kalau ikut silibus, satu pung tak jadi!

Enough about keja yang takkan abis. Ada gak le yang sampingan yang memeningkan. Two weekends ago balik kampung sebab grand-niece kawin... Argghh GRAND-NIECE!?? Mak ooii, tuanya rasa! Anyway, penat le jugak sebab kena travel balik kampung. Bukannya boleh spend lelama relax-relax kat kampung sebab bukan cuti semester. So it was only a short break. Meaning I had to rush back to Kedah sebab ada kelas (itu pung kena cancel gak kelas and ganti later). Penat sebab was rushing here and there, apart from penat jadi hostess and penat deal dengan perangai-perangai yang tak memberangsangkan.

Anyway yang menggembirakan was that we (the family) got to get together even for a few days. So meriahlah jugak Lubok Batu for a while. And of course the kenduri gave us the chance to meet up with many other relatives yang jarang jumpa.

What made it even a great moment for me was that I got to meet two of my former schoolmates yang memang tak jumpa since we left school. And that was more than twenty years ago. My God, how much they have changed!

Anyways, below are a few of the pixes taken at the kenduri.

Ini adalah hasil kerja my nephew and gang yang masih study kat UiTM. Not bad...

Yang ni pulak hasil kerja Cik Puan Sri AzlinaAzmar from KJ.

Marble cake yang cuuunnnn...

Kenduri kawin orang Johor kalu takde tol tak sah...

The bride and groom... there's nothing to say about them

Family Haji Jalil. This is only a fraction of the clan. Kalau semua

ada tak muat frame! And of course le primadone kena duduk

depan...hehehe

betul betul betul...

I have never written anything on films before but this time I really want to say something especially about Malaysian movies. I went to watch the much-publicised movie GENG ADVENTURE UPIN DAN IPIN last week. Of course it's nothing compared to Finding Nemo, Little Mermaid, Bee Movie and the rest that come out of Pixar or Dreamworks studios.

But for a Malaysian standard, I think it was commandable. The visuals were beautiful, the effects was fantastically done. The storyline, although not as interesting as those of the movies I mentioned above, it managed to make audience laugh and tense at the same time. I have to say GENG was the best locally produced animated movie ever. Credits to the filmmaker and producer Les Copaque. Mind you they are mostly local graduates with great talent and vision. Although it is still a long way to reach the levels of Pixar and Dreamworks but with such great talents like those youngsters that produce GENG I'm sure the road can be shortened.

Congratulations to Les Copaque and all the best for your future works.

Is this me?

I have this keychain that has a name similar to mine on it and the description of the person with such name. ( I'm sure you've seen such keychains sold at shops, or you may even have one!). This is how I, and many others whose names are similar to mine are described by whoever that wrote it:

Bererti Jiwa. Kuat daya firasatnya. Mampu memahami apa yang terlintas di
hati orang lain. Meminati benda/perkara yang bersifat seni. Halus jiwanya.
Berupaya menghayati atau menjiwai sesuatu bidang dan karya.

Is this me? Hmmm....