School of Education EXPLORIA and FSSH Gotong Royong 2020: Did we win?

The aim of the Exploria game is not for competition or winning.  Yet, it is a human nature that we hate losing.  When it was announced the winner from the last place, the members were hesitating to come in front and take the prize.

The seventh place. Not bad. At least we are not the last (tongue in cheek)
We are not promoting junk food (tongue in cheek)
The prizes… loads of junk food

I like the picture in your webometrics

One of the juniors asked me where do I get the picture from for this blog.  Well, it is a picture that I took long time ago when I was in Durham. It was autumn.  Durham has a picturesque landscape.  Every nook and corner is breathtaking.  I am glad that I decided to do my PhD there even though I vividly remember some of my friends mocked my decision of going there because Durham is less unknown as Cambridge or Oxford.  Yeah right.  That is a common assumption by some Malaysians about Durham.

I like the picture because it shows a canoeist in the River Wear (Note: Durham has its own rowing club).  Yup.  The name of the river is River Wear.

This is the route that I used to go to School of Education
I took this picture a day after I had my viva with my friend, Putri who came all the way from London to accompany me for my viva.
I took this in autumn 2007. Not long after I started my PhD journey
A rowing boat in the middle of the frozen river. Where are the ‘hunky’ rowers? Dancing on ice, anyone? I took this picture in winter 2010.

 

BS4DCP? What is that?

Some people asked me if I underwent BS4DCP like them.  I said that during my time, we had Induction Course.  I had that long time ago (more than 10 years ago).  Upon saying this, I realize that I am not young.  Let’s admit that.  With the number 4 in front of my age, unlike BMW 4 Series, some of the things that I have are starting to deplete.  Yup.

I was informed that one of the things that they have to do as new academic staff is to attend the BS4DCP courses.  They have to do assignments and one of it is to create a post on their people.utm.my (webometrics).  One of the juniors suggested that they should look my webometrics.  Hearing that, my first reaction is “What?  My webometrics?” It is kind of funny when people start looking at my webometrics as a reference.  I never thought that I would be this famous.  Oh man!

But what a heck!  Please go through my posts as you wish.  If whatever I have posted make sense and could help you guys in completing your assignments, I feel honored that I could assist you guys through this blog.  Happy reading!

P.S:  I write this post with the knowledge that you will read this somehow (tongue in cheek remark!)

School of Education EXPLORIA and FSSH Gotong Royong 2020

School of Education EXPLORIA and FSSH Gotong Royong 2020 was conducted on 1 October 2020 (Thursday).  We were divided into groups.  Our group composed of academic and non-academic staff.  The dynamic our group is awesome.  We strategized to pick the places and how to pose and who would the be tracker since there are members in our group who are not in the best of health.

We had to detour a bit as it was starting to rain when we were about to take pictures nearby the Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying. We switched on our touristy mode. So, when we came across murals on the column at the faculty, we strike a pose.

As a tracker, it was my responsibility to walk as far I could, whereas the others who with health conditions would take the short-cut to go back to our faculty.  I am definitely not the fittest in this group but I tried my best to walk the farthest as I could.  I thought that I walked quite far but only managed to walk 1.7km.  I was not satisfied but my members said that it is enough when I showed them the results.  They were waiting for me at the designated place.  Some of them were panting and feeling breathless.  Age is catching up.  Indeed.

We walked 1.7km. I was assigned as the tracker. My average speed is 2.2 (Don’t know what it means though).
There are nine of us (not in any order): Prof. Madya Dr. Aede Hatib bin Musta’amal, Dr. Muhamad Abd.Hadi bin Bunyamin, Encik Mohd.Rafiz bin Abu Bakar, Puan Roziah binti Tamin, Encik Rosli bin Mohamad, Puan Mas Aminah binti A.Kadir, Encik Razeed bin Md.Supaai, Encik Zulraizam bin Shamsudin and me. The one who took the picture is Mas. Being young and energetic, we assigned her to take pictures for us.
Our Chair, Prof Fatin Aliah Phang and Dr Shahrul Ridwan were among the earliest to reach at the meeting point
A usual practice. Take picture before we start anything