UTM Research Management Centre (RMC) is pleased to announce an International Research Funding Opportunities page is created to highlight competitive international research grants for all UTM researchers to apply.
All researchers are highly encouraged to visit our page at https://sites.google.com/utm.my/international-funds/active/july-2019 and apply the available research grants.
When I feel stressful, sometimes I like to sew beads on my baju kurung. But I am too lazy to restock the beads so, whatever left is not enough to embellish my baju kurung. I am trying to spring clean my room (a wish that I have since January) but like always, I find some of the things that I have stashed away (on my last spring clean). I found a left-over fabric from my late mom’s baju kurung and a polka dot black-and-white fabric that I bought last year (for my other project that has never been materialised).
I watched Youtube on how to make lunch bag, pouch and and such. I came across a video showing how to make a hand-sewn small pouch. So, I gathered all the materials that I needed after maghrib yesterday and I started to sew around 8 pm until 10 pm and I continued to finish sewing this morning.
a) All you need are a piece of fabric (the sizes depend on your preference) – 4 pieces and a zipper. The tools that you need are a needle, thread and scissor (for cutting)
Align the different pieces of fabric together with the zipper and sew it together.
Flip the stitched fabric and make sure the same fabric are stitched together. Make sure you keep the zipper open. When you sew the edges of the same fabric together, leave a small space (not sew together) as an opening so that you can flip the pouch like picture D below through the opening.
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After you flip the pouch inside out, sew the opening.
The end product. I put my stationery, official stamp and such inside. I always want to have a small pouch like this. The one that I can buy have different sizes and materials that I don’t prefer. So, creating my own pouch ticks every single requirement that I want to have on a small pouch. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power‘. Indeed
The recent uproar among UTM students and alike with regards to the increased of study fees was astounding. Looking at various posts on UTM confession about this issue, I feel sad. As an academician, I can’t make any statement on the university policy. Well, they have the corporate office to give official statement on this. You can find it HERE.
Today is my session (1 August 2019). My session should begin at 830am. But the students came at 9am. I was mad. They took their own sweet time to have breakfast. Ita apologised because she did not forcefully urge the students to be quick. What is wrong with this situation? Why did the teacher has to apologise on the behalf of students? I hate to deal with situation like this because the ones who should apologise are the students who came late. Not the teacher who is in charge of the programme.
I met Fatin who was participating in a team building programme with the TNCPI office during lunch. Fatin must be amused looking at how I was flocking by students who chatted non-stop about what they like about the camp. What they liked about the camp? Well, they got a smartphone courtesy of the hotel in each room. So? What do you expect? Yes. They stayed up late and got busied updating their Insta post. They also said that it is quite rare for them to have opportunity to stay overnight at a hotel. Some of them belong to B40 families. Indeed it is such a rare opportunity for them. Alhamdulillah the hotel gave them a good deal. They have printed logo and signage in each seminar room. So, students took pictures and whatsnot. Me? I took pictures for documentation purposes.
Today (31 July 2019, Wednesday) is the first day of the academic camp. My session will start tomorrow (1 August 2019, Thursday). But I came today because I want to check out the venue and Ita asked me to help her taking pictures for documentation purposes. Since they cannot use DSLR camera, we are relying on each other’s effort to take pictures throughout the sessions by taking turn using our smartphones instead. Here are some of the pictures.
Just to remind myself on how to use this website, I put the instructions here for my reference and others who might need it
How to edit the page
How to edit a post.
If you want to know more information, you can download some handouts from here https://humanities.utm.my/education/download/
Go to Webometrics UTM and check out the handouts to know more about it!
P.S: No more excuse not to update your personal profile 😛
Be barking up the wrong tree means to be wrong about the reason for something or to be wrong in the way to achieve something. That is what I can describe about how the students deal with the issue of revised fees.
She was in coma for nearly three weeks. I visited her with my eldest sister two weeks ago. I took a leave on a weekday and off we went to visit her. She was immobile. Unmoved. As I hold her hand, she did not make any reaction. At that time, it reminds me of my late dad. He was in similar situation. The only difference was he was at the hospital and my aunt is at her home. Both suffered brain hemorrhage due to a fall. With such an advanced age (my dad was 75 years old and my aunt was 85 years old), they were physically fragile. A mere bump and fall could lead to catastrophic consequences.
As caregivers, it is not easy to provide the best care especially if we are not medically trained. One of my cousins, my aunt’s daughter is a retired nurse. She is trained medically to provide medical care to people yet when it comes to caring her own parents, she finds it difficult to care for them. It is not due to lack of training, but due to emotional burden that she feels every time seeing her mom or dad whimpering when they were in pain. Indeed. It is never easy to care for our ailing parents.
On 30 July 2019 at around 10pm, my aunt passed away. May Allah bless her soul.
