Back to work

I reported back for duty on 31st may 2010, after 3.5 years of studying. I am at the moment typing this blog at my new workstation. Room is an issue here. i don't have the luxury of having one whole room to myself. My previous room is still being used by a contract lecturer, so I am now sharing a room with female fellow who's doing PhD, and two bujang trang tang tang tutors. The bujangs used to be my students. All 4 of us have our own compartments. I takde masalah pun sharing this room with them coz they are nice chaps. Duduk diam2 aje kat meja sendiri, tak de jenguk2 tempat orang. The workstation I am occupying at the moment used to be used my late colleague, Allahyarham Zul Azman who passed away last year in April. This is how my workstation look like.

See that article pasted on the partition? "The long hard road to PhD" by Md Zabid Abd Rashid. That article was pasted by arwah Zul. I remember him showing the article to me last 2 years. He was doing his Masters at that time, and I was in 2nd year doing PhD. "Baca ni Nik.. interesting" I was like.. hmm... interesting article. The article says, if you want to do PhD, you must have 4Cs - Commitment, Consistency, Concentration and Conceptualisation. Arwah felt that the article was really good, he decided to photocopy it and enlarge it to A3 size. Thanks Zul, for sharing. I must admit, sometimes I can't really believe that you're really gone. And I am sorry that I have forgotten to check how's Sal and your children are doing. I have forgotten about them Zul. mungkin pasal sibuk sangat dgn hal dunia yang tak pernah habis.

By the way... see that watermelon bag. It's my lunch pack. Ever since I started working, I feel so malas to go out for lunch. You know why... sebab, every morning I have to struggle with my two lil kids. Rizq susah bangun pagi, while Arsh pulak.. buka aje mata, terus nak memerap dengan ibu dia ni ha... He 's so attached to me. So pagi2 kelam kabutlah saya berseorangan menguruskan hal-ehwal nak siapkan mereka berdua & lepas tu drop them off at the nursery. Shad pagi2 dah pegi sekolah dgn abahnya. Disebabkan kelam kabut pagi2, I can only reach my office roughly at 10 am. I usually have my brunch first before going to office. by 5pm the latest, I must leave to fetch Shad from school. Disebabkan keadaan saya yang masuk kerja lambat & keluar kerja awal, maka saya mengambil keputusan untuk tidak keluar lunch. Tapi masalahnya, bila saya brunch at 10 am, pukul 1pm mulalah perut saya mengeriut2 minta diisi. Tapi saya tak suka nak keluar lunch sebab saya malas nak bawa kereta & saya rasa sangat membuang masa. Jadi sekarang saya mengambil keputusan untuk mentapau lunch on the way to work. Dan disebabkan itulah, saya membeli beg watermelon itu yang sekali set dengan Tupperware Reheatable Divided lunch Box untuk mengisi nasi yang ditapau dari cafe.

Disebelah kanan beg watermelon terdapat Tupperware freezermate. Dalamnya ada botol susu kosong. Atas freezermate tu pula, ada beg comel berwarna hijau with gajah prints. Dalam beg tu pula ada my precious milk. Arsh sangat bertuah... sebab kali ni, ibunya sangat berdedikasi dalam usaha membekalkan susu yang terbaik di dunia, tak lain dan tak bukan, my own milk. Di balik partition itu, ada seorang jejaka yang bernama Shahizan. Dia tak tahu selama ini, ada kilang susu di partition sebelah. Mungkin dia rasa Puan Nik di sebelah ini sangat rajin sebab rajin betul print. Sekejap-sekejap print. Lama pulak tu. "mesti Puan tengah print thesis dia", agaknya lah kot Shahizan pikir camtu. Dia tak sedar bahawa sesungguhnya, yang berbunyi itu bukanlah laser printer, tetapi my beloved Ameda Lactaline breastpump. So far, okay.. aktiviti pumping tak pernah kantoi... cover baik punyalah... I told you, they're nice chaps...jenis budak2 baik, tak reti nak mengepoh kiri kanan.

Oh... bercakap pasal thesis, saya telah mendapat green light untuk submit thesis saya dari supervisor. Saya kalau boleh nak submit minggu ni juga, tapi.... supervisor saya agk sibuk sekarang dan sering tidak ada di Penang. Nak submit tu, kena mengadap dia dulu minta sign borang macam2 borang. jadi, terpaksalah saya tunggu sehingga dia free untuk dihadap oleh saya.

Minggu depan dah start kelas untuk semester baru. Saya rasa sungguh bertuah kerana semester ini saya hanya mengendalikan tutorial sahaja. Itupun cuma 2 jam hari Selasa, dan 2 jam hari Rabu. Hal ini kerana department saya sudah mahu dipindahkan ke Fakulti lain, so we don't take first eyar students anymore and that's whylah teaching load sikit coz we only teach 2nd and final yr students. Alhamdulillah... ni kira rezeki lah ni, dapat kelas sikit aje....