This blog has always been on the back of my conscious mind that it needs some updates. Unfortunately, I simply couldn’t bring myself the time to really sit down and pen my thoughts…until today, where it is already near to the end of year 2018. How time flies, in just a year since my last […]
As a member of the teaching staff, I get to be evaluated by my students near to the end of every semester. I normally see the evaluation feedback in the following semester and I have to acknowledge the ratings and comments given and to reply with my own feedback if necessary. For the first semester […]
I attended a workshop on optimizing the use of ScienceDirect some times ago because our university has subscribed to many journals from ScienceDirect. Being a teaching oriented institution for so many years, moving toward research oriented will take some times, especially for us, the academics who have heavy teaching loads each semester. During the workshop, […]
Where has June gone to? I have no idea a month has passed and I hadn’t visited my blog for that long. Now let me think what have I done in June. Err…Emm… Okay, the semester started at the end of May so I was pretty busy with lessons preparation the first few weeks of […]
Today is a public holiday for us here in Malaysia so I decided to switch on this Macbook at home and penned down some thoughts. Since my last post, I hadn’t have chance to properly update this blog and I felt truly bad about it. Okay, not many actually view my blog here but I […]
It’s not something very great. Anyone in academia can easily work for 10, 20 or even 30 years. My first 2 years in academia are considered child’s play to many. However, to me personally, these are the greatest two years of my working life, so let me virtually celebrating my 2 years in academia as […]
One of my personal goals as an academic is to maintain open communication with my students, both during and after classes. In our Asian learning style, our students don’t usually like to openly ask questions or even communicate with the lecturers. They simply like to sit in the classroom, listen (or half listening) to the […]
As a student, I dreaded the moment when I got back my papers full of red writing. As a postgraduate student, I extremely dreaded the moment I got back my dissertation’s comments, where the assessor wrote extremely long comments in red. I’m just glad I had already tackled that fear just a few years ago. […]
The 14-week semester is coming to an end (finally!). I hope I can get back some free time to write during the coming semester break. With this concluding semester, it also means that I have officially worked in the university for one year (hurray!). I can’t believe a year has passed already. I have successfully […]
Another month has gone by. I sometimes sit down and wonder what had really happened to my February? Where had all my time gone to? If I’m to be honest with myself, I would admit most of my working time, I spent it on preparing lecture slides, setting final exam and midterm test, replying students’ […]
Since I started my new job in academia, I have been attending various training sessions. I have been told each academic staff must attend 5 days of technical training per year. Guess how many days I have completed in my last 5 months here. Answer: more than 20 days. Impressive, right? The latest training that […]
I had everything backward for the past month! I knew I wouldn’t be having my first teaching class when I first joined the academia because the current semester was going to come to an end. When I started on my first day, it was already the last week of the semester, just merely 1.5 weeks […]
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