Yeah! The Mamak is here!

Not going to tell you what his excuse was but at least he is finally here. Let's roll!

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Waiting for cendul

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We were tasked with bringing cendul and pasembur for Yaya's brithday do. The mamak said that he will be coming at noon, but the worry is there is no sign of him at all just yet. Just worried that he took the day off for Deepavali .... Hahaha!

Meanwhile, Irfan decided against coming. We had to force Idlan and luckily he agreed. The party will start with doa selamat first and the cake cutting will be at 2.

 

Makan dulu!

Since our old maid arrived, we were able to leave Irfan with her when Idlan goes for his music school. Something we were not able to do for the last year. Unfortunately I have yet to find an outlet that has free wifi here at Wangsa Walk Mall. I have to content to use my phone for access and updating my posts.

We had to do some shopping after this as tomorrow will be Yaya's third birthday. The party starts at noon so I will not be able to get the shopping done in the morning. Not sure what to get her and where to get it from yet. I'm sure Anita knows what to do. After all, she is the master when it comes to shopping. Yes! I will be doing the paying, don't worry.

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Update on Friday, October 16, 2009 at 11:04PM by Haris Abdul Rahman

We had dinner later at Madam Kwan at KLCC on Idlan's request. He wanted some nasi goreng. We then headed to Isetan to get the presents for Yaya.

At the Anugerah Cemerlang Ceremony

I was awarded with the Excellence Award for my effort last year and was invited to the certificate giving ceremony at the Dewan Tuanku Canselor. It was a nice change from the routine and I got to wear my batik. On the circulated letter, it said I had to report at 8 am. I did so and I soon realised that it was a mistake. I wasted an hour and a half sitting around. At least I managed to get a few emails and stuff sorted out.

The ceremony started by a speech from the Vice Chancellor. As you probably have read, University Malaya reached the ranking of 180 in the latest THES University ranking published recently. I was bracing myself for some bragging in his speech. I was pleasantly surprised however that not only he did not say any of that, his speech actually made sense. He was concerned about the state of the spoken English amongst the UM Graduates and feels that something needed to be done. I remember that in the first year I joined UM, and was asked to look at my students case reports, I was appalled at the level of their writing in English. The grammar was all over the place and they just cannot put their thoughts in the essays coherently! I then marked the student down, and was later called up to be told that I should not mark them down because of the language. Hmm! Good luck!

During dinner just now, I spoke to one of my colleague and he agreed with the assessment. A typical case report from my student will read something along the line of; "He admit because he was dry. He did drink for 3 days. He also did not eat for 4 days." Huh? Worse still, the "he" may suddenly changed into a "she" in mid-paragraph! This is not a graduate I want to associate with!

And now I have to walk back up! At least I managed to escape early though

Walking back

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