{"id":1965,"date":"2019-06-27T16:09:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T08:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2019-06-27T16:31:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T08:31:23","slug":"al-fatihah-to-my-former-lecturer_part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/al-fatihah-to-my-former-lecturer_part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-fatihah to my former lecturer_Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

He is known as “a killer” lecturer.\u00a0 (Former students still remember him as such).\u00a0 Nobody dares to come later than him.\u00a0 The moment he entered the class, he would lock the door.\u00a0 Late comers?\u00a0 You wouldn’t able to enter the class.\u00a0 Period.\u00a0 No negotiation.\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

At that time, nobody dares to make a complaint to the administrator or the dean.\u00a0 Who dares to make a complaint when the one who locked the door is THE DEAN<\/strong> himself?\u00a0 You make complain to him?\u00a0 Are you crazy?\u00a0 Even the VC is younger than him.\u00a0 He is like Don Corleone.\u00a0 You don’t mess with The Don.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But former students learn values such as punctuality and such.\u00a0 One of my friends who took sociology classes with him would proofread her assignments (the things that we don’t bother to do for another classes).\u00a0 Why?\u00a0<\/strong> Those with grammatical errors would be publicly shamed once he returned the assignments.\u00a0 \u00a0He teaches us to be perfectionist and proficient in English.\u00a0 Of course, as students at that time, being young and reckless, some of us didn’t appreciate his style.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I heard the news yesterday that he passed away in his sleep.\u00a0 He was 81 years old.\u00a0 Al-fatihah to Prof. Dr. Mohamed Aris Othman<\/strong> (he is fondly known as Pak Aris even though he has Professorship title).\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He is known as “a killer” lecturer.\u00a0 (Former students still remember him as such).\u00a0 Nobody dares to come later than him.\u00a0 The moment he entered the class, he would lock the door.\u00a0 Late comers?\u00a0 You wouldn’t able to enter the class.\u00a0 Period.\u00a0 No negotiation.\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 At that time, nobody dares to make a complaint to … Continue reading Al-fatihah to my former lecturer_Part 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-random-rambling","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}