Thank you to staff at SK Pelindung

How can I express how I felt? When I saw the teachers at SK Pelindung helped the children to step out of the car without getting wet? As usual, during the monsoon season, everybody get wet. With or without umbrella. So, when the school let the parents drove through the main entrance, dropped the children at the cafeteria with teachers waiting with umbrellas, and exit at the rear on the second day of unimaginable amount of rain(our neighbouring village had flood the previous week), I was so so relieved and happy. That was a proactive action. Student-friendly management! I have been thinking of sending a card to the school. I am hoping that they will have their own website soon. That would be easier for parents to congratulate the wonderful gesture by the management and staff (for computer-loving souls). Yes, CEMERLANG BERWAWASAN indeed! It is a simple deed and yet it means a lot. The staff care. There is compassion. There is love for the children. Teachers who love children teach from their heart. Thank you to all teachers and staff. May Allah reward you in this life and the next.

Post-graduate research in Pharmaceutical Technology

If you are interested in pursuing a higher degree in Pharmaceutical Technology in particular, development of microspheres, please contact me or Farah. The grant received is sufficient to cover the work for at least a master degree. Please contact me. Thank you very much.

Thinking Out of the Box

When I gave assignments, students would normally copy & paste from the net or committed plagiarism in other forms. I don't quite mind as long as they know what they are copying and pasting and plagiarising. It is a learning process. Plagiarising in itself is a technique. Sometimes it can be so glaring it amounts to humiliation. I try not to get offended. So, once in a while, when a student submit something so original, your heart just swell with pride. Such a case was with Shaabana. She chose a topic on effectiveness of industrial training. To gather information, she prepared her own questionnaire and got the participation from her seniors. As Tracy Chapman croons, "give me another reason to stay...", I know I at least have one!:)

To Cherish and to Perish

Almost immediately after tying the knot, Julie Lai gave me this piece of advice: "If he wants to help you with the dishes, let him do it. Don't stop him. Once he is used to not helping with the dishes, he will never do it". I took her advice.

There were moments that I cherish and moments when something perished....

In the Pursuit of Excellence

Congratulations to Amirah Hajirah for being accepted by the University of Oxford to pursue her postgraduate studies. May her achievements inspire everybody. Learning is in itself interesting. It will be even more exhilarating when the process involves an environment that encourages excellence, exchanging and sharing of ideas, while at the same time provide an opportunity to understand people from different cultures.

Getting a degree is one thing. Getting an education is another. Obtaining wisdom is another matter altogether. And what is the purpose of going to university if all that we get at the end of the day is just a piece of paper. I was informed by a tourist guide in Hanoi that the primary objective of the university over there in the old days (now known as Literary Museum) was to instill morality. I was so overwhelmed by the wisdom of their people.

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