Showing posts with label Work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Work. Show all posts

Am here

Am here... Not going anywhere.. Life is a bit busy lately, and I lost interest in writing. So, ya. I stopped for while. I have no ideas what to update.

Let's begin with work.
This semester I start to lecture diploma students. So far, it's going ok. I cannot say it's going well since the lecture is in Malay. Am having hard time getting myself to speak in Malay. But am learning. Workloads as usual. So, I just do whatever things I have to do. In fact am in the midst of updating my teaching files but I decided to spend a little time here. Heh. I had completed all my classes with bachelor's subjects. They even had their final exam last week, so they are off on semester break now. Except for my Seminar paper students. They will be having their presentation paper next week with me. And the diploma's class. I have one class with diploma students. Three weeks left before we wrap up everything. Yup, it does affect the flow of my leaves as I still have class, I cannot have my leaves like usual.

Now, laptop.
Nothing much. They changed my laptop's hard disk. So I lost everything there. Hhhmmmm. Sad but, yeah. looking at the bright side. It actually better in that way. All old memories are now erased. So, let's move on building new one.

Home Sweet Home.
With this, am proudly say the home is already 90% complete. Why 90%? Because we haven't move in yet. I cleared all payments for the wiring and electric connectivity. Done. Now all is left is the touch up stage. Hopefully by December will be moving in. Glad it ends well.

Social life.
Nahhh, still the same. I don't go out that often. I don't even go out meeting my friends. Am still living with the rule I will go out when I feel like I want to. Maybe because of age factor. And I think I spent my youth days very well, extremely well before. So i think maybe it's time for me to a homebody rather than spending hours outside of home. It drains my energy. The most would be spending times with family and relatives and my close friends.

I guess that's all for now. Need to get some work done today.

Life as an educator: Part 4 - Happy Teacher's Day!!

Happy Teacher's Day to all educators around the world!!!
And thank you to families and students for the wish. 
Hehehehe

Once a teacher, forever a teacher. 

But gosh, I still prefer the word educator than teacher.
Have to go now. Am in the midst of watching BTS Comeback Preview Show on VLive. 
Fake Love will be released today at 5pm (Malaysia time).




With this, happy holiday!!! I'll be on leave starting tomorrow until June 3rd, 2018. So, most probably am not going to update anything here. Meeennnnnnn, need to reset body and mind before start the new semester later in June. 
Adios!

I got no feelings

Still got no feel to do typing. Wanted to write something but I left my notebook at home. So, I just write everything on my mind, for now.

Many things going on this week.
Few things I just don't get it.
I don't understand it. Or maybe am just being too ignorance.
The fact that I don't want to know something that isn't related to me.
But somehow it does. And it's affecting me too.
I wanted to type them out here but never mind.
I'll just keep them to myself.
All I can say, I have already meet few of the worst many many years before, so perhaps these are just minor.

This is May, and I dare to say that the way is getting rough for me. At least for me.
From family matters to personal matters to works... I don't know.

Dealing with human is totally a burden for me. It annoys me sometimes. I mean, most of the times. Especially when they did wrong but acting innocent. How rude that could be...
And me, not knowing anything feeling dragged by that. How crazy is that sound to you...
It doesn't make any sense too. When I came to know about it, I was like, really? When did that happen? How? Who involve? They really did that? Behind our back?  How surprised that could be... And me, I never expect it by the way. Just considered yourself lucky enough to meet me since I don't complain about people, and I still can jaga hati orang lain, can still jaga your air muka.
Seriously. Think before you act. That's why I just ignored and buat tak tahu jak.

Am I getting them out now? Telling everything that's in my mind right now? Owh, maybe. The things I observe now, I feel so like "Please get me out of here!". I need a break before come back again next semester. Seriously since what had happened during my university years taught me a lot on how to ignore certain type of people.

I really need a break to reset my brain activities. I need to reset everything.
Next post please.

And meanwhile, my friend was like

Hahahaha😄😄😄😄😄😄

Last few weeks, I told her to watch One Night Sleepover Trip episode 1 until 3 since she's a VIP. I told her, you must watch them. Today she's watching first episode and she's in tears. I can hear her sobbing from my own cubicle here. Hahahahaha
 By the way, I don't considered myself as an ARMY but I do following BTS. I thought to post something on Singularity. How can you not love V's voice???? *melting*
Lets move to the next post. Am done dealing with my rant here. Whatever lah. 

Foods be like

Weekend be like....

Weekday be like.....

Tomorrow is a voting day for Malaysians. And this week will be the last week of exam weeks. I still haven't apply for leaves. Need to clear all works before semester holiday. Hhhmmmmm...

Life as an educator: Part 3 - Do you know...

Do you know what are the things that make us the educator feeling sad? And disappointed?
One of the things is when you get caught cheating during exam. It marks as a failure in fulfilling our job as an eductor. Seriously.

Personally to me, when something like this happen, it feels like my world has been crushed down.

It feels like, what have I done wrong that triggers you to cheat during exam?

It makes us feel like a failure.

A failure to nurture you into a good person.
A failure to shape you into someone with responsibility.

It is a failure.

We may not say it to you, or even show you how disappointed we feel, but you never know..

When we get home, when we are alone, we tend to wonder why this happen. Is it really our fault or it is just the students themselves....

So for long am in this field, working in a higher institution, there was only one time one of my students got caught cheating during exam. I remember how I felt. Devastated. Disappointed. You name it. I kept on questioning myself for few days. Where did I do wrong? What did I do to deserve this kind of attitude? I was there for 16 weeks and all I asked was for you to do your best in three hours time. And yet you gave me this. Hhhhmmmm

Yesterday one student got caught cheating in exam. Ironically the student said there were two other students who cheated as well. No names were given. They planned it together but only one got caught.

You see, 15 minutes before the exam starts is very crucial for you. You have to be at the exam room or hall for at least 20 minutes before the exam starts. Some people will say that, owh, why so traditional and so on. Hey, that 20 minutes we read to you the administrative order on the conduct of exam. We tell, instruct you, before we go and check on you one by one. When we say, please check if you bring any papers into the room, even blank papers, please put them away outside. How good is that... Hhhmmmm

From my own perspective, it's not only exam. Besides to measure your knowledge, to evaluate you, exam teaches you to be responsible in your own doing, to teach you to take responsibility in your own action, to teach you on how to discipline yourself. When people say, abolish exam, it's not relevant anymore, I feel like, huh?! Say whatever you want to say, but you have to look at the other side and think deeper before you say those things.

I had one student before. She did diploma in other college before she went to continue her degree at our institute. I still remember she said this.

When I first got here, I was surprised. Especially during exam. At my previous college, they were not strict during exam. We even cheated. Sometimes the invigilator just left us in the room without supervision. And there were times they just wrote down the answers on the white board for us to copy. 

I was like, are you serious? What's the point of having exam if you did that?

Dear students, if any of you come across this page, think before you do anything. Especially cheating during exam. We were all students once, so we know whatever tactics you try to use to cheat. We are not that stupid enough to let you risk your life to get caught for doing this. Just don't disappoint us. Just remember this, when you cheat, you are actually dragging down your own attitude as a person. Don't keep this kind of thinking, oh it's ok, this is my first time doing this, next time I will not do anymore. Just don't.



Tea-time with Secret Recipe

This just happened in less than one hour ago.
 Sylvia bought a cake from Secret Recipe. 
So we had tea time at the office pantry since most of lecturers were free. 

Gosh. 
It's such a waste if you don't have Secret Recipe at your place.
😃😃😃😃😃😃

One of favorite places to get any kinds of cakes too. 
Check out their website at the link below.

Thank you for the cake, Sylvia!


Life as an educator: Part 2

You see, there will always be ups and downs when you are in this field. As an educator, I've been through the bittersweet of teaching life. I may not have that vast experience. From my own perspective, I think I had seen enough, although it may not be that enough. It just enough for me.

Do you want to know what keeps me happy? What keeps us the educator happy?

From my own experience, it would always be words. Words like thank you, it's nice having you to teach us, we'll meet again next semester. Hahahaha, you never expect that, didn't you?

Honestly, those kind of words keep me overwhelmed, keep me feeling appreciated by my students. It even help to cure and relieve my stress.
I may not show you how much I love hearing those words, but if you look closely, you will see my little smile at the end.😊😊😊😊😊

For me, I just don't need fancy stuffs or gifts or foods from students. The words that you utter to me that I normally and always remember the most. And the most expensive gift, the most valuable gift that I expect from you is to see you excel in your academic, and also in your life after you graduate. I'll be thankful enough for I know I've done my little part in shaping you. That is what I called life.

Since it's almost the end of semester February 2018, few more days before the final exam starts, few students came and brought food. Received cupcakes the other day, thank you very much. I truly appreciate it. Received fried bee hoon yesterday too, thank you very much. I was on diet, but never mind, I ate them by the way. Hahahaha





Thank you, class!

You know it's almost end of the semester if you start to receive things from students or someone leave something on your desk...

And today, I received this. 
My students were like,"Miss, we left something on your desk."
And me,"Really?"

 Auuwwww, so sweet... 
Sweet like BTS Suga.
Well, you know how I love seeing Suga's smiles. Hahahaha
It's addictive.
😁😁😁😁😁

Aaaaa... Looks cute. See the icing. I just use my finger and tasted the icing. Tasted so goodddddd
I assumed it was done by FR Pâtissier (based on the sticker there).
Maybe you should give it a try. 
Based on the taste of the icing, I like it. Hahahaha

Seriously, thank you, guys, for these cupcakes. I really appreciate it. 
I wish you all the best in the coming final exam. 
Specifically to my Testing and Evaluation in Education class. Huhuhu
I guess I'll not be meeting you guys next semester since most of you will start to attend classes for your major subjects.

😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

Save me: Happy 7th Anniversary!!!

*long sigh*

I know, it's not a good thing to sigh.
I just can't help it.
See, I have works to complete by this week.
But then, it seems like I lost my motivation.
Or maybe because am lazy to get things done.
Or maybe, maybe, because I have this laid back attitude when it comes to things like these.
Things will not get done until few hours or few days before they need to be completed.
I don't know. I just don't know.

Can someone just save me from all of these?

My mom always complained on these before especially when I was in high school. I was just too laid-back and did not push myself that enough to strive for the best. I have the brain, but not the attitude. My attitude depends on how I see things. If I feel it's crucial to get it done, I will always work it on to meet the best end. If I see thing in a way that, it's not something important, it'll be like, I'll get it done later.

This attitude thing.

It's such a problem. For me.

You see, I keep on coming back to this post and update it. Ideas don't come just like that. Am bad at expressing it too. I looked at the date on my desktop, and guess what???

Tomorrow will be the 7th year of Appaz's Place. Huhuhuhu
It has been seven years since my first post on the 13th April 2011. Huhuhuhuhu

Seven years of on-and-off relationship with this blog.
I changed the title few times, I changed the link twice. The older link of this blog before this was www.appazsplace.blogspot.com. I deleted my old blog and the link (and lost the old statistics. Ahahaha. The numbers of visitors on the old link before this was pretty good than the latest link), and created a new one (www.mzappa.blogspot.com which is the one am using now).

And massive thanks to my university buddy, Deideian, for introducing me to this platform. I used to write diaries before. I mean, a lot of diaries. I had more than three, and every year I would always write a new one. Damnit. Those were the times...

Writing things digitally and doing it traditionally are just totally different.

Seriously.
I always have things running on my mind which I express better when I have them written down.
When typing, ideas running away, not want to be expressed here. If it's too personal, I don't put them here. Some things are better to keep in private. More safe.
And there are things better to be written down here.
Why? Since I have no ideas on who are the people that come across this page.
So, I just don't mind it at all.
I don't know you, and you don't know me.
That's how things work for me when ever I post something in this blog.
😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

For me, it's just good to put things up here. There are times where I just search up for my old posts and read them. It makes me like, owh, I was like that before, I didn't know that. And sometimes, it makes me like, I shouldn't repeat the same things ever again, I could be better.
It's like a personal journal where I can always reflect on my self.

It's nothing much here, honestly.

I don't do review, I don't do post that are useful to other people. It just that, I do this for me. Just for my own pleasure. To accommodate my free times, to fill up the emptiness whenever I feel so... I guess it's just a real definition of doing whatever I want to do, depending on my time, whenever I want, whenever I feel like doing it...

It's a SATISFACTION and also a HAPPINESS.


Anyway, Happy 7th Anniversary, Appaz's Place!!!!


Such a lame, nerdy first post. And still the lame-ist until today.👆👆👆👆👆👆
*feeling meh*


Life as an educator: Part 1

There was this one student came to see me yesterday.
I asked her, "Ada apa?"
And she said,"Nothing, I was just passing by. I had class later."
I knew it, but it just that I wanted to ask her.
She looks sad. The sadness in her eyes. Am a good observer. You just cannot lied me.
So I told her,"Don't cry."
I asked her, "How's your father?" I know about her struggling between study and responsibilities as a daughter. I know her father has been warded in the hospital since last week. He is on the surgery waiting list for brain tumor removal. He was attacked by stroke too.
I feel her. Juggling between her study and her responsibilities, it's just.......*sigh*

She talked on her father, I asked her on her families. You know what, she has to travel by public bus all the way from Serian to Kuching and back to Serian whenever she has classes to attend. If it's not peak hours, it will take around one hour. If it's peak hours, it can goes up to one and a half hour. When I listened to her stories, I felt choked up. It somehow felt exhausted.... I just couldn't imagine how she managed to deal with everything.

To be honest, am not good in comforting people. Am not good in with words. My vocab is so limited. All I can offer is just to lend my ears. Am good in listening, good in keeping secrets.
All I could say to her, "take care of your father while you can. Family cannot be replaced. Maybe now you feel a little burden, but to think of it again, keep holding on and be strong so that you will not regret anything later."

I didn't want to say much to her. Am afraid coz I have a soft heart. I don't want to end up being the one who is tearing up. Hehehe

I could see tears in her eyes and she tried hardly to avoid looking at me. So I told her, "Don't cry."
And she tried to giggle and asked to leave. I just watched her leave...

May God bless you and your family. May the surgery goes smoothly. May God be with you always. There is always a blessing behind every difficulties.

Being in this industry for 6 7 years now, I saw many things, I listened to many stories...
And all those made me feel, blessed in some ways....

P/s: Listen to many, talk to few.


Goodbye.. for now.

I was ready to get off two hours ago when I was strucked by an email from my course leader. Aiiissshhhh. So I did everything and delayed my half-day leave for 45 minutes. I'm waiting now for my cousin's wife to fetch me.

I'll be officially on leave starting this afternoon until February 4th, 2018. Will resume back to work on February 5th, 2018. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Sit back and relax
Byeeeee
Will not update this blog until I get my new phone ready
Happy holiday!!!!


Breakfast

The moment I reached office this morning, I went to the office co-op. I saw this and thought of having it.
 (Image from https://www.maggi.com.my/meet-the-family/noodles)

I was craving for it. But I took some time to think whether to have it or not for my breakfast. See, this whole week, I didn't have proper breakfast. I was always late in the morning. I guess the feeling of having holiday is already taken the whole of me. Be patient, Moon. In two more weeks you can have your rest. 
So instead of having Maggi Tom Yam, I had this.


(Image from http://www.misedaap.com.my/product/)

And it looked like this. Coffee is a must but I didn't manage to make nor bring my own from home. I didn't even get my time to go to the kitchen this morning before I went to work. So I didn't know what's for breakfast prepare by my auntie. *sigh*
🙅🙅🙅🙅🙅🙅🙅🙅🙅

 Not so healthy and not recommended for you to try and do. But it's still the fastest I could do every day. 
Today I post this by using my friend's pc. Mine got sicked and was sent to the store. The computer store. Don't know when I will get it back. ICT department told me probably in a week or two. Work a bit delayed, but am still working on it. Mind that "working on it" thing.

Monday me

Yeaaa.
It's starting again. It's Monday today. My throat does not feel good today. So I opt for not to have lunch today. Drinking water should be enough.

Lately I guess I retweeted and tweeted a lot on BTS.
Oh well. Blame this eclectic taste in music. You give me any kind of musics, I can still digest them well. I was searching for their old mvs. And guess what, I found the exact song I heard few years back. Way back before they got famous and I didn't even know their group name. I just remember the music. Recently I started to listen to them again.
You see, good songs, good musics will always bring you back to the roots, to the base.

Anyway, work is still going on like usual. 10 days left before I can finalize all marks. And then, owhhh. I didn't apply leave for Christmas. Because of the key in marks. Damnit. Why must during the Christmas week? I think it has been years since I had proper Christmas holiday.
This year will be different. Many things happened this year.
Am not gonna talk about it or post it here.
It's not something that should be discussed here.

I wish to end my 2017 in a quiet way. Close every chapters and leave everything behind and start a new one in 2018. Hopefully things will turn out well next year.
Am sick and tired of being hurt.
And perhaps this page will start a new thing too. I know I mentioned before everything here were randomly typed and posted. Maybe next year will be more organized.

I hope so, as the main purpose I have this page is just for me to rant and do whatever I want to do. Keep in mind, whatever I share here are something that are meant to be shared. And whatever I feel like I need to keep to myself, I never spill it here.
I still keep them with me and secrets will always remain as secrets
(am good at keeping secrets, ok. This one can be verified by my cousins and friends).
It doesn't mean that I have to tell everything here. Whatever good, whatever I feel I want to share, it will be here. If not, then no.

Arrrrggghhh. Typing this while listening to Drug Restaurant Pomade album just give me that vibe.
*Currently on Escaper*

I guess there are many things running on my mind right now.
Did I mention that I already deactivate my Facebook? Ya, I did, again. Nahhh, not for any specific reasons. It just that I need to concentrate on my work till the end of this semester. Am using only Twitter for social networking, and my email and this blog for the time being.

I'll be 32 next year. Haisshhh. Time flies really fast.
My school friend, Catherine, treated me dinner to Secret Recipe last Saturday (my belated birthday dinner treat).
Thank you, dear friend for always be there for me despite my pretty love-hate behavior. I know this friend of yours which is me, is such an annoying person. 😀😀😀😀😀
That pretty love-hate behavior of mine, I'll reveal in the next post. When I remember and have time to compose the post.

Now, see what years have done to me. Look what you've done to me. 
😚😚😚😚😚😚
Oh wait. 2006 without make up, just bare face. I love my 2006. I always had the thinking of me being too pretty, overly beautiful, and superbly attractive. Hahahaha. But seriously, I was once.
Well, time changes people. So do I.
2017 with make-up. So fake.
😁😁😁😁😁


Have a nice weekend!

When me just being me...
This morning I was like, ok, i will start with marking later on after lunch. Owh yesszerrrr I did the marking, but not come to two hours I gave up.
Muahahahaha
The biggest challenge of being an educator.
Marking and scoring. I have no problem when it comes to calculation subject, but sadly this semester I was given more on reading subjects than calculation.
I marked everything for my calculation subject. And moving on to the next one, I managed to mark three groups only which means 6 reports.
And guess what, I have 142 essays to read and score, 30 infographics to mark, 36 reports to read and mark.

 Don't be fooled by these stack of papers. It looks ok in the photo but wait till you have them in hand and count them.

And I just have no idea where to begin. It is always the same problem when it is nearly the end of the semester.
Dear motivation, please do not leave me. Be by my side for these two weeks. Am begging you.
Huhuhuhu😢😢😢😢😢😢
Another problem when doing work in the office is this pc/desktop. See, I have problem doing few things at the same time. When I work, I hate to be distracted. In this office my main distraction is my own desk, my pc. Its keeps calling me to surf YouTube.😁😁😁😁
Seriously.
I think the ICT department should temporary disable the internet connection during this hour. (Think, but please don't do this to us. Hehehe)
Hehehehe (Bulak jak. Eksen jak. Kelak mun benar ICT stop internet time tok, alu mohaaaa😛😛😛😛)
So what I did is just put aside my work and begin to type these things. Hahahaha
It's ok. I plan to bring that 142 essays back home later. I'll do them this weekend.

Oh Christmas! They already put up the Christmas tree here at the academic department. Exchange gifts session will be held in another two weeks. The students did caroling here last week.

It may look simple, yet so meaningful
Christmas mode is on!
Fireeeee (BTS) 👏👏👏👏👏👏

P/s: Was listening to Macklemore albums (all three albums) and Drug Restaurant's today. And it's raining heavily out there. Kuching! Oh Kuching!

Let's talk THURSDAY

Gosh. Thursdays will be hard for me this semester. Packed schedule on this day. And it is also an indication where you have to be careful when communicate with me. I can be very unpredictable on this particular day.

For whatever it is, dear Lord, give me the strengths to face Thursdays for these three months. Do not let me to be crushed down by any negative emotions or feelings. I just cannot afford that....

Photo credit: I didn't remember from where I get this photo. It was once on my FB. Since I deleted most of my albums and photos containing my images and also my family images, I save this somewhere on my pc.

Sneak peek - Work

Okayh. Still hard to find time to update myself here. (lame excuse)
Let's take a peek on how my schedule looks like this semester. Currently am using this one. Still need few changes here and there since my research day is still TBD. Schedule packed.

Taaaddddaaaaaa

Work till you drop.
👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊

Here comes October...

Hola!

Nothing to type. Just that I feel like I need to type something. But since the surrounding does not permit me to update, hold this first. Will update soon.
Just start new semester today.

Ya ya ya
Am back at work.
👏👏👏👏👏👏
After on two weeks holiday, here I am.

Another thing is have a blessed journey in this month to all Catholics out there.
It's the month of rosary. As for me, I try to do my best to not miss any single day reciting Rosary prayer. Pray for me so that I may do well till the end of this month. And I pray that you will end your beautifully too.
🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇

P/s: My birthday is on the October 17th. *cough cough*
Hadiah (gift/present), please...😄😄😄😄😄