He gets it, barely a week after his final paper. Wednesday was his last paper, on Friday he was called for an interview and Monday he was accepted. He starts work on 23 July 2012, four months shy of 22.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
PAPPARDELLE REOPENS
Pappardelle, after an absence of many months, reopens. It reopens a few doors away from its former location. Its internal decor is fast becoming the talk of town, especially those who have been longing to be her guests once again.
We were her first customers. We arrived at exactly 2.00 pm and revisited her last night...
To all Pappardelle's clients, please come and visit her...
We were her first customers. We arrived at exactly 2.00 pm and revisited her last night...
To all Pappardelle's clients, please come and visit her...
Thursday, May 31, 2012
The MQA Panels have come and done a complete evaluation of our Programme - Bachelor of Animal Production and Health. All the members of the panel of evaluation are my dear friends from UPM.
So the two-day programme went on in a very friendly atmosphere.
Days before the evaluation were hectic. Imagine having to print all the lecture notes, test and exam question papers, answer scripts, etc
The sweetest thing was to hear The Chairman of the panel saying that we have to be proud that our programme is unique in the sense that it covers almost equal portion of animal production and health.
A small concern is that there is too big a gap in the age of lecturers. There are no 30+ - 40+ age group! We all realize this.
It is over and I hope we will get a good report.
So the two-day programme went on in a very friendly atmosphere.
Days before the evaluation were hectic. Imagine having to print all the lecture notes, test and exam question papers, answer scripts, etc
The sweetest thing was to hear The Chairman of the panel saying that we have to be proud that our programme is unique in the sense that it covers almost equal portion of animal production and health.
A small concern is that there is too big a gap in the age of lecturers. There are no 30+ - 40+ age group! We all realize this.
It is over and I hope we will get a good report.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Again I was called to mumble and nag about the standard English among us, students and adults alike.
It is because, like it or not, most of the present scientific presentations, be it oral or written, are in English.
Even tests and exams are also in English.
We just have to accept that English is important. I know, some of you will say what about the Japanese? The French? The Germans?
I know, they still speak and write in their mother tongue lingo.
No, I don't care about them. What I am interested now is us.
We have to be good in English, that's all.
Please, be serious and listen. We can do it.
Look at me, a kampung boy, wandering barefoot in the beris soil of Kampung Tuan, far from English-speaking comunity and English books, still have the motivation to improve my English.
I am not bragging or blowing my own trumpet, but you may say that it was the system, we, I mean those of us born in the fifties, are good in English.
Why not look back at how we did it those years. There is no harm and nothing to be ashamed of, to shift into the reverse gear, if that will bring back the standard of English to us.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
AGING GRACEFULLY
Friends, old and new, questioned me for doing what I have been doing since my retirement - still working and living alone.
I told them repeatedly that despite of my retirement, I still have to work and earn a living.
I just retired from DVS and never from LIFE.
There are still mouths to feed, minds to educate, bodies to cloth, necessities to meet, life to continue and knowledge and skills to pass on.
An FB friend said that it is bad for a man of my age to stay alone 5 days in a week. He proudly told me that he enjoyed life with his family besides him after retirement.
I told him that I am proud of what I am doing now. I know, life can be a bit miserable with the distant-marriage thing and doing many things alone.
I just have to work to continue living. The one and half month leave prior to retirement had taught me that not-doing-anything-for-most-of-the-day was not a good and healthy way of life!
Too much relaxation and a life void of stress kill, or at least make you lose your mind! I don't want to be like that.
My daughter gave me another two years, after that she wanted me to call it a day and she will look after me for the rest of my life. Well, that was what she said. Reality is another thing.
I told her that I will continue working until they found me no more useful. I will work till 65, that is my goal.
I know, some of us also know and may be not many of you know that life as a weekend husband is full of trial and tribulations for marriage.
Feelings of both husband and wife can easily be disturbed by sense of insecurity, loneliness and of course, that dreaded green monster.
Delays in answering an sms or picking up calls have been misunderstood as I was doing something else. Sounds of womanly giggles from the next table during dinner as overheard during mobile conversation could easily be misunderstood as I was enjoying my dinner with the opposite sex!
I know I have gone through some difficult times a few times, but patience, maturity and my great love to my family have made me sailed through the choppy sea, quite smoothly.
To Allah I pray that I will continue be useful to my fellow human beings and age gracefully till my last breath.
I told them repeatedly that despite of my retirement, I still have to work and earn a living.
I just retired from DVS and never from LIFE.
There are still mouths to feed, minds to educate, bodies to cloth, necessities to meet, life to continue and knowledge and skills to pass on.
An FB friend said that it is bad for a man of my age to stay alone 5 days in a week. He proudly told me that he enjoyed life with his family besides him after retirement.
I told him that I am proud of what I am doing now. I know, life can be a bit miserable with the distant-marriage thing and doing many things alone.
I just have to work to continue living. The one and half month leave prior to retirement had taught me that not-doing-anything-for-most-of-the-day was not a good and healthy way of life!
Too much relaxation and a life void of stress kill, or at least make you lose your mind! I don't want to be like that.
My daughter gave me another two years, after that she wanted me to call it a day and she will look after me for the rest of my life. Well, that was what she said. Reality is another thing.
I told her that I will continue working until they found me no more useful. I will work till 65, that is my goal.
I know, some of us also know and may be not many of you know that life as a weekend husband is full of trial and tribulations for marriage.
Feelings of both husband and wife can easily be disturbed by sense of insecurity, loneliness and of course, that dreaded green monster.
Delays in answering an sms or picking up calls have been misunderstood as I was doing something else. Sounds of womanly giggles from the next table during dinner as overheard during mobile conversation could easily be misunderstood as I was enjoying my dinner with the opposite sex!
I know I have gone through some difficult times a few times, but patience, maturity and my great love to my family have made me sailed through the choppy sea, quite smoothly.
To Allah I pray that I will continue be useful to my fellow human beings and age gracefully till my last breath.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Eye-lashed Palm Pit Viper
The ever-changing colour eye-lashed palm pit viper coiled as a spring ever ready to pounce on unsuspected passing-by prey. Don't let its colourful appearance deceives you. It is indeed a very poisonous snake.
It's venom is both hemotoxic and myotoxic, meaning it destrys red blood cells and your muscles. Its extra long slender sharp and curving fangs are scary, to say the least.
It usually lives up trees looking for preys such as birds, rodents and bats.
It's venom is both hemotoxic and myotoxic, meaning it destrys red blood cells and your muscles. Its extra long slender sharp and curving fangs are scary, to say the least.
It usually lives up trees looking for preys such as birds, rodents and bats.
Monday, February 27, 2012
SEARCHING FOR ENGLISH NOVEL PUBLISHER
My love for writing is forever bubbling, getting stronger all the time. I have finished one and am working hard on the other two.
The first is about my life. I wonder whether my life is worth publishing and will people buy and read the book if it ever gets published.
For me and a few friends who have peeped into parts of it, they all think that it is worth buying.
It is about my life, come to think about it as if have been arranged since very small, as a veterinarian.
It spans from the period when I was four to recently. It covers moments of my life, the times when I was with animals, different species at different time.
It covers games we, children of yesteryears used to play..you know the fighting fish and fighting spiders hunting...
The fruits and berries we used to gather..the fallen sentul, the mushrooms, the bivalves, the shrimps, etc..
The puppy love...the first love...the school and varsity lives...and the marriage..the kids...the accidents...the success..
Losing a son...so on and so forth...
To all publishers out there, please contact me...for I am searching for one to publish my novels...
The first is about my life. I wonder whether my life is worth publishing and will people buy and read the book if it ever gets published.
For me and a few friends who have peeped into parts of it, they all think that it is worth buying.
It is about my life, come to think about it as if have been arranged since very small, as a veterinarian.
It spans from the period when I was four to recently. It covers moments of my life, the times when I was with animals, different species at different time.
It covers games we, children of yesteryears used to play..you know the fighting fish and fighting spiders hunting...
The fruits and berries we used to gather..the fallen sentul, the mushrooms, the bivalves, the shrimps, etc..
The puppy love...the first love...the school and varsity lives...and the marriage..the kids...the accidents...the success..
Losing a son...so on and so forth...
To all publishers out there, please contact me...for I am searching for one to publish my novels...
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