When I first got the email from the organiser to confirm my attendance to the event, I wanted to decline without any specific concrete reason except “I feel cringe”.\u00a0 Yup. I don’t like to be in the spotlight.\u00a0 I know some are looking forward and even create opportunity to be in the spotlight.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 That is not me.<\/p>\n
I revel in being nobody.\u00a0 Yup.\u00a0 I am so used of being nobody since childhood.\u00a0 I was not the straight As student (academically outstanding) nor athletics.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 None of it.\u00a0 But I asked one of my seniors that I am close with to get some opinions whether I should go to the event.\u00a0 She said “Dijah, you need to go or ________________ (fill in the blank)”.\u00a0 The way she said is like I will be doom to reject such invitation.\u00a0 It is akin to decline the invitation from Don Corleone (if anyone is wondering who is Don Corleone, as a start, you can find more information HERE<\/a><\/strong>).\u00a0\u00a0 Seriously?\u00a0 I never thought that we have Don Corleone at UTM.<\/p>\n I asked another senior.\u00a0 Her reply “Pergi je la.\u00a0 Bukan senang nak jumpa Datuk NC.\u00a0 Nak naik pangkat kena la tonjol muka biar orang pentadbiran universiti kenal<\/em>” .\u00a0 Errr…. Meeting Datuk NC and making myself known by the important people is the last thing that I have in my mind.\u00a0 Nope.<\/p>\n I was not convinced.\u00a0 So I asked few seniors more including Norah<\/a>.\u00a0 Norah said “Dijah, rugi tak pergi.\u00a0 Makan sedap.\u00a0 Bukan senang nak dapat UTM belanja makan sedap<\/em>”\u00a0 Makan sedap?\u00a0 It sparks my curiosity:\u00a0 “What kind of food they will serve us?”.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yup.\u00a0 I made my decision based on food.\u00a0 So shallow, right?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I first got the email from the organiser to confirm my attendance to the event, I wanted to decline without any specific concrete reason except “I feel cringe”.\u00a0 Yup. I don’t like to be in the spotlight.\u00a0 I know some are looking forward and even create opportunity to be in the spotlight.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 That … Continue reading Part 1_Citra Karisma (Anugerah Webometrics) 2019: The food is delicious<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citra-karisma","category-webometric"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564","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=5564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5867,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions\/5867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}