{"id":777,"date":"2016-10-22T23:27:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T23:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/bakri\/?p=777"},"modified":"2016-10-22T23:27:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T23:27:35","slug":"for-the-love-of-learning-ts-l-see-yan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/bakri\/for-the-love-of-learning-ts-l-see-yan\/","title":{"rendered":"For the love of learning- TS L.See-Yan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tan Sri Dr Lin See-Yan<br \/>\n&#8220;For the love of learning&#8221;<br \/>\nTheStar, 27\/8\/2016<\/p>\n<p>My father knew the world was changing \u2013 and changing fast. He also sensed that the \u201cyoung\u201d needed to articulate a life-purpose, in order to bring about greater life-satisfaction. Just like millennials today, it is not enough to just \u201cfind a fun job\u201d \u2013 a purposelessness closely tied to worldly prosperity, alarmingly devoid of true satisfaction.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Or, what the existentialist French philosopher Jean-Paul Sarte evocatively termed, the \u201cnausea of existence.\u201d My father\u2019s message to me was simple: for heaven\u2019s sake (I can still hear him say), use that love of learning to avoid this sensation of purposeless living. Indeed, in today\u2019s uncertain world, it will be hard to find a better life-purpose, than what the great composer Johann Sebastian Bach called: \u201csanctification and service\u201d \u2013 yes, to do good and to serve.<\/p>\n<p>My father wished that for me. And now, as you all graduate to begin anew, I wish the same for you: to do good and to work for the public good.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: UTM Creative Media@UTM57thConvocation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/bakri\/files\/2016\/10\/Lin-Sin-Yee-UTM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-778\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/bakri\/files\/2016\/10\/Lin-Sin-Yee-UTM-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"lin-sin-yee-utm\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/bakri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1728\/2016\/10\/Lin-Sin-Yee-UTM-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/bakri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1728\/2016\/10\/Lin-Sin-Yee-UTM-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/bakri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1728\/2016\/10\/Lin-Sin-Yee-UTM.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tan Sri Dr Lin See-Yan &#8220;For the love of learning&#8221; TheStar, 27\/8\/2016 My father knew the world was changing \u2013 and changing fast. He also sensed that the \u201cyoung\u201d needed to articulate a life-purpose, in order to bring about greater life-satisfaction. Just like millennials today, it is not enough to just \u201cfind a fun job\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15855,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/bakri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/bakri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/bakri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/bakri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15855"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/bakri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/bakri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/bakri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/bakri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/bakri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}