Do not lose hope, nor be sad
I have been reading my student’s PhD proposal for several days. The proposal is good, but it is sooooooo lengthy. Can you imagine the proposal is of 113 pages…. piuhhhhhhh what a laborious reading task. Alhamdulillah, I managed to finish my binge reading series.
We had a workshop on Multimodality with Theo Van Leeuwen on 31/5/2011. Found these old photos shared by a colleague, Mr G. Thank you Mr G.
Binge reading is a common phenomenon to all academic staff when it comes to the end of a semester. The reading list will be as lengthy as it can be:
˹Consider˺ the Day He will gather them ˹all˺ together and say, “O assembly of jinn! You misled humans in great numbers.” And their human associates will say, “Our Lord! We benefited from each other’s company, but now we have reached the term which You appointed for us.” ˹Then˺ He will say, “The Fire is your home, yours to stay in forever, except whoever Allah wills to spare.” Surely your Lord is All-Wise, All-Knowing.
And some men used to seek refuge with some jinn—so they increased each other in wickedness.
Not only a laborious reading task. But, after giving the comments, here comes another painstaking job, that is, answering questions from the supervisee. Nonetheless, I love my job, Alhamdullilah!!!
For 3 days I was reading my students’ proposals and thesis drafts non stop. The task was really laborious and made me feel so exhausted. Since there were different topics and areas, I had to shift my mind from one to another drastically.
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While watching the movie “Soul”, one of the characters told a very interesting story. There once was a younger fish who swam up to an older fish. The younger fish asked the older fish where he could find the ocean. The older fish looked at him and said, “The ocean? That’s where you are now”. The younger fish replied angrily that the place they were in was water not the ocean. My interpretation of this is story is that sometimes we build up high expectations of something that even when we get it, we wouldn’t be able to appreciate it as it is.