{"id":915,"date":"2019-05-28T12:58:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T04:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=915"},"modified":"2019-05-28T13:54:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T05:54:11","slug":"915-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/915-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What a true academician and scholar&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/743\/2019\/05\/KhooKayKim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-916\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/743\/2019\/05\/KhooKayKim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I always admire this guy since I was young (I think when I started to read about an article that he wrote in the 1990s).\u00a0 To envision myself as an academic like him, it is something that I have in mind.\u00a0 It is not easy to choose this path but I will try my best to stay true to myself In sha Allah.\u00a0 He was one of the co-authors of Rukun Negara (I googled about this).\u00a0 I guess, every time I recite Rukun Negara, it will remind me of him.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">When I heard about his passing, I am sad.\u00a0 As I browsed the news to read more about him, I came across his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/nation\/2019\/05\/28\/historian-khoo-kay-kim-82-passes-on-from-lung-failure\/\">saying<\/a> &#8220;<strong>The child is the father of the man. Educate and groom the young person, and he will grow up to be the right kind of adult. If you wait until he becomes an adult, it is too late&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">What a true academic until the end!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always admire this guy since I was young (I think when I started to read about an article that he wrote in the 1990s).\u00a0 To envision myself as an academic like him, it is something that I have in mind.\u00a0 It is not easy to choose this path but I will try my best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/915-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What a true academician and scholar&#8230;.<\/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":[4,13,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-random-rambling","category-teaching","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","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=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}