Of Thursday

I'm done with my paper since last week. Happy since Friday.

However, this week I am receiving numerous amount of forms waiting to be processed by me alone - fyp, plant design, up until the feedback form from students (yg ini pon tak reti2 mau kira sendiri!).

Some were kind enough to process the forms themselves and give the end result to me. I really am grateful for the thoughtfulness. But others, can be so inconsiderate at times. I do not know for how long I can stand all this crap.

Firstly, if they seriously need to dump the forms on me, I do hope that they will do it earlier.

Secondly, I do not really appreciate people putting the stack of forms in my pigeon hole just like that without notifying me or asking me first whether I would be able to help. Especially that feedback forms. I think it is ridiculous if they wanted me to process the forms because they are the ones teaching the course. And some of them have hundreds of students! I think dear boss only wanted me to compile the final result and make the appropriate analysis. Not doing the data entry for everyone. If dear boss is able to do it by himself, I cant see why other people cannot be doing it. In fact, some even requested me to do this for almost every semester! And not even a thank you...hangin juga saya! Minta tlg cover subjek masa saya maternity leave, tak hingin pulak dia!

And I am scratching my head to 're-decorate' the coursework mark of some students. Some are giving me the grades only, I now have to work backwards to fill up the empty spaces in the form so that it'll finally total up to the given grade. Macam-macam ada kan..

Sometimes I just dont get it. Am I the only one that has nothing to do at the workplace. Seriously, at the back of my mind, I really wanted to be more active in doing research, going to conferences, workshops and many things. If only I have more space to breath. Thinking that I am stuck here and playing with the keyboard all day long, while others went for workshops and outstation for a good reason is making me a little blue. Again, if only.

I asked murni and sariah to join me for a workshop next mth somewhere in KK, but apparently there is no budget anymore at the school level. Hmm.. is it so? Ida herself didnt know who will pay for the fees asides from the school. So we have to pay the fees ourselves if we are still interested to go. How-lah? Last time I went for conferences, everything was paid for.

Thank God, there is a seminar held today at the school. The keynote lecture was quite interesting, at least we gain something today. Tak dapat kluar pegi tempat lain pon ok lah. Ditingkat atas pon boleh dapat ilmu lagi. And yesterday, there was also a seminar at the school level (I was involved in it), tu pon only postgrad students who are willing to come. Ya-lah sapa la mau pigi sgt kalau setakat dalam sekolah nih.

Its 15 min past 7 p.m. and I am still at the office. I am sweating like mad, maybe because of this whole thing and suddenly I have no will to keep on punching the numbers on the keyboard. Ah well, no point of getting upset and all, think I should just go home.

Oh ya, btw they sent me another letter today concerning the fees. I have forgotten all about it. Hmm.. Maybe its time to pack my bag and leave on a jet plane. Huhuhu....

All in all, since today I am a little sad (do you think its the hormone that is making me so blue??), I went for a shopping spree at 1B during lunch.... Hehehe....

The first thing I bought is this...(of course la lapar bah! ). I swallowed 4 pieces at one go. Terer tak??? ha ha..

Then, 10 mins later..I bought this..OGAWA Mobile Seat Massage Cushion

And this too...Ogawa Mobile Shiatsu

I can smile now... :)...uuuuuuuuuuuu!!

Nenek Diah

Ma called just now. My neighbour and a distant relative, Nenek Diah passed away this morning. I visited her during raya, and she looked a little pale and was unable to move due to mild stroke.

She was a great cook for the kampung, and she played a big role for my wedding too. I remembered her telling this to me "masin banar bah nasi ayam kamu tuh masa si angah kawin" during my last visit. Sempat lagi tuh komen time2 sakit. :)

Dad went to her house already. I think I 'll probably go home after the plant design viva this morning.

My slides are not ready yet, and I am still studying. Will be bringing some work to be done at home, but I dont think I will touch them anyway. I think I'll just do whatever I need to do tomorrow, regardless of whether I am ready or not.

Hmmm...sometimes we are just so busy mengejar hal-hal duniawi nih, we have forgotten that we are here for a different reason. Right??

Received another call. Its abah. I believed he was hoping that we could go back much earlier. Kejap lagi ya abah.

The Seminar

Apparently we will have the school seminar this Wed, after being postponed for many times. Not exactly at the right time I must say.

The presenters have become less and less as some of the names were not in the list anymore.

I'm not done yet with the slides and furthermore I have to study all over again, which is not something I am willing to do at this very moment. Of all time, why in the midst of the craziness of marking and collecting forms and key-ing the grades of the students. I am not done with plant design viva too...

Kepala saya sudah sakit. Saya sungguh tidak bersedia nih. Then how? Hmm...I just hope I will not make a complete fool of myself on that day. Hmm..Seperti ada siren ambulans di pasang di kepala saya sudah.... Ish ish ishh....I am very very reluctant to do this...

Yayyyy!!!!

There. I'm done marking the exam papers. Phewww!!! Glad that its finally over.

Currently waiting for hubby to fetch me. He is apparently busy with the sukan staf these days after being appointed as the bendahari for the event. Dearest hubby looked so tired when he came to get the notebook from me an hour ago. :(

Hopefully the road should be clear by now. Its almost 5 mins past 8. I am starving. Very hungry I could eat a cow. Hope we can drop by at the nearby restaurant to fill up my growling tummy first before we headed home to papar. It'll be a 1 hr journey, hence an empty tummy would mean a cranky madame. Ha ha...

3 complaints, and still no actions. Hmm..the corridor is still dark and creepy as usual. Okay I am exaggerating about the creepy part. I'll probably need to resort to plan B. That is... bringing this to the office...
P/s: Glad that we did quite 'okay' during the recent EAC torture :) Boss did a great job at making sure that everything is as it should be. Just look at his hair for goodness sake!! Hehe... Credits to everyone in the programme... And the students too of course, u guys rock-lah!!!!!!

Psttt....:)

My hp died on me last week, ah well I should have thought so, after series of tumbling and crashing the phone on the floor by my sweet daughter. Hehe..

Though I dont really use a hp be it at the workplace or home, it wont hurt to get a new one kan hubby...*wink*

So, my specs would be:

• CHEAP (in capital letter, so u know I am on a tight budget nih!)
• Simple functions only as I am a very simple person, very happy if the phone can receive or make call/sms. Yes that should be enough for me. I dont even care about mms! Let alone wifi, gprs, bluetooth, or whatever associated with internet
• PDAs make me confused with the so many functions - dont get me wrong, i think they are cool, but they were not invented for someone so ganas like me.. hehe, i hate loosing the 'pen' also
  
• Durable, meaning to say kena baling kaw2 pon masih ok
• Ok, last but not least...color screen-lah... ha ha ha...

So hubby bought me this!. tadaaaa......Muah2xx!!! Luv u hubby.....Presenting i-mobile tv 626. Its a cheap but fun phone honestly. All I wanted just a simple hp but having an mp3 player, video, camera, and radio all in one gadget is actually nice juga. And it comes with a tv function too. Now, I'll not miss my daily dosage of tv3 news anymore as I can watch it on the way home. How cool! :) I'm so thrilled...

psstt..... I scratched the screen after two days we bought it! Hot laki aku...Ha ha, told ya, I am so ganas...

Life

Asides from the marking the lab reports, exam papers and student's report on my desk, there isnt much to tell about the activity that I did since last week.

It took me 3-4 days to mark the 300 scripts, monday to thursday. Clap2... I'm am still very much impressed with myself. Haha..I know masuk bakul bah kan, but what the heck.

I'm all up for another round of marking the exam papers. Full swing since morning. Just that this afternoon, had to see Prof AB at the twin tower and arranged few things for the upcoming fyp presentation this thursday.

Wow, it didnt come to my senses that it has been almost a year already until the reminder sent by pendaftar landed in my mailbox. It's that time of the year again. Apa la yg dah aku buat sepjg 2008 nih. Apa lah kunuk sumbangan kepada nusa dan bangsa kuuuuu??? :)

Monster

Arrived at the office this morning and saw this!

Mak aihh...what in the world has happened to this poor box? Hmm... Cats? Or maybe dogs? Or makhluk apakah yg telah mengamuk??

Tuhla kamurang, lambat2 lagi ambil balik buku kamu. Kalau hancur lebur buku2 tuh, I think I'll probably buang ja la kali nih.

This has never happened before thats why I didnt bother to drag the box into my room before going back. Berat juga bah tuh. I guess last night was rather dark than usual, not a single light at my corridor far reaching the toilet area. Sampai tingkat 4 pon no lights. Meraba2 saya turun tangga, mau pergi ke kereta. Takut ok, takut orang jahat. Takut tergolek ditangga mahupon di lantai ada juga. Takut hantu?? Hehe...Dont ask ok. You have no idea apa yg saya dgr selalu.

Strange. Makin hari makin gelap tpt saya nih. Other wings terang benderang pula. Why? They have raised up the issue during the school meeting, but hmm its not getting any better, but worse. Maybe I should tell Izham again.

Well, we hated the congested road thus going back much later seems to be the perfect solution . But I may have to re-think about the whole idea again. It seems quite unsafe here at the workplace. Ada guard pon, asyik duduk di depan kaunter di foyer tuh ja dari pagi sampaila malam, dah jadi mcm receptionist. Weird kan.

Imagine, instead of the box saya yang kena gigit last night, kalau saya jerit pon I dont know org dgr ka tidak. Seram kan.

Hmm...call Izham byk kali but he's not around. Maybe I should just email him..

My little girl

My little girl whom is not so little anymore. Papa managed to snap this while I was busy inside having my antenatal check-ups. Damn, yesterday's jab still hurt like sh*t. Looking at the pic, will you not play with her if she made that smile? Even at 2 a.m.?

I guess my princess knew that she's going to be a big sis really soon as she keeps on telling me where her little adik is (in my belly of course). And not forgetting the constant kissing on my tummy followed by soft whisper ad-diikk.. Aww..sweet kan. :) I am smiling while typing this entry.

Oh did I ever mentioned in here that it is going to be a girl too.. Hehe, I guess I'll be having more gilmore girl days with my kids in the future and besides I am more than happy to have extra hands during hari raya when they grow up later. Kih kih, too bad hubby have to play soccer with the girl's team, as of now. Maybe next baby? Gulp.... hope not that soon alright, mummy needs to go back to school.

Over lunch, we made a quick visit to the kf house and alhamdulillah, we managed to get a new tenant the following month after Ros left the house. So fast kan. And surprisingly the couple are staying opposite of our house. They have to vacant the current house as the owner intended to sell it - at rm330k!... crazy kan!!!

Hmm.. prices of goods have soared tremendously over a short period. Strange. Petrol price is getting cheaper by the day, and yet the susu tin cap ayam is pricey, beyond words. Now they told us to use the hak pengguna to control the price, and of course everything now should fall into the hand of persatuan pengguna. Funny I must say.

Over The Moon

Ehem-ehemm....presenting the new features in my office...tadaaaa.... ha ha ha.. loving it so much! now i can always lepak2 here, while marking the scripts. no more sakit pinggang la after this hehe. nice huh. courtesy of hubby, thanks dear! :)

Sunyi

Jumaat. 7.00 p.m. Masih lagi melangut di ofis. Masih tunggu hubby selesaikan tugasan nya.

Agaknya siapa lagi yang masih ada di ofis nih, malam2 begini. Takut ada juga sebab aku sorang saja. Takut juga dgn keadaan koridor yg gelap di level aku nih. Yang herannya tpt tiada org stay, terang benderang pula lampu.

Ahh...mungkin masih ada orang lain lagi yg masih sibuk dgn kerja time nih di sini. Ada ka? Gulp...

Kenapa pula aku tak buat kerja, sambil tunggu hubby.. Ntahla, otak dah tepu marking dari tadi. Mata berpinar2. Letih.. Dan paling penting, irama keroncong dalam perut aku nih perlu di layan segera. Mana mampu bertahan dgn hanya 3 keping roti sahaja utk lunch. Tak lalu mau makan di buatnya bila tingu paper2 student yang belum mark lagi tuh.

Nanti on the way balik, aku akan paksa hubby singgah mana2 la. Jagala dia...mesti belanja tuh...

Hubby, cepatla... I am scared, tired, and starving okay...

Remember

While marking the students' work, I couldnt help but noticed an annoying pattern in the answers they are giving me. The similar marks they are getting show the consistency of copying each other! Even up to the point of printing the same cover page.

Clever or stupid? Yes? No?

Am I angry? At first yes, but now it has changed to sympathy. If only they knew that the world outside is so cruel that they will not survived even for 2 secs if they keep on practicing this habit. No colleagues in the world would be happy if you are taking credits on their work.

My dearest students, please do remember. Although it may seem safe to be doing this now, there will come a day in your life especially when you have the privileged to be real adults old enough to take responsibility, you must accept the fact that you cannot be digging other people's backyard for food (say they have small kebun ka?? :)).

Remember ok?

Sleepy

Mengantuk.

The usual sleeping time is 2.00 am but last night she stretched it until 3.30 am. Mau orang temankan dia main, tgk tv, menyanyi or even dancing.

Since hubby is unwell for the past few days, the sleeping shift that we have arranged earlier had to be canceled. Almost 3 days in a row.

SAYA MAU NANGIS SUDAH NIH!!!!!!!!! At 7 mths, I am truly exhausted at the end of the day and the fact that we will only reached home by 8.00 almost everyday is making it worse. Hate the traffic so decided to go back much later.

At the back of my mind, I just wish for a decent sleep once we reached the house. No need for dinner, or mandi, or even tukar baju kerja sbb saya rasa macam mau pengsan sudah. All I want to do is cry myself to sleep. Wishful thinking, none of it materialized pon. I do not know where did I get all the strength to keep an eye on my daughter till the wee hours. Strange. But of course, mentally I am very much tired.

This morning I woke up feeling grumpy and restless. Patutkah aku bawa pigi jumpa doktor anak aku nih? Sakit apakah tidak mau tidur malam nih. She was up by 7 am tadi though she slept at 3.30 am. Segar bugar pula tuh. Ala ala lepas minum kopi lasindah. Weird.

Anyhow, I have decided that I should sleep during lunchtime. Probably looking for a decent sofa this weekend. Or should I buy katil instead and simpan di ofis. Ha ha ha...Nanti hari2 dtg ofis, kerja tidur la pula....Kih kih..