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One of the Best Motivational Speeches by Admiral McRaven

10 lessons from SEAL basic training. If you want to change the world:-

  1. Start the day with a task completed
  2. Find someone to help you through life
  3. Respect everyone
  4. The life is not always fair, move forward
  5. Don’t afraid to fail often
  6. Take risks
  7. Face down the bullies
  8. Step up when times are toughest
  9. Lift up the downtrodden
  10. Never give up
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Options in life

There are always options in our life. But, sometimes the options are limited. We have TWO options in battling the COVID 19 pandemic. The options are

  1. Fight the COVID 19 until we win, OR
  2. Stabilise our economy

If we choose the first choice, then we have to act accordingly. Take all precautionary measures to ensure the COVID 19 virus is totally eliminated.

The question now is, can we choose the second option? Ironically, the first option is needed before we can get the second one. Therefore, WE DON’T HAVE ANY CHOICE.

Please combat the COVID 19 before dreaming to stabilise our economy. We can do one at a time.

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Multimodal Representations of IS’s Ideology on FB

This is the title of my PhD student’s, Mr Omairi Hamid, thesis. The thesis is about:

  1. textual strategies of IS in portraying their ideology of FB
  2. visual strategies of IS in portraying their ideology on FB

He used two main theories which are Systemic Functional Linguistics in analysing verbal texts, whilst the multimodality was used as the analytical framework for analysing visual elements.

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PhD Viva Voce- Omairi Hamid Tarad Lafta

My PhD student, Hamid, successfully defended his thesis on 6 May 2021. He was awarded with an A for his thesis, what an excellent result. His thesis is on Multimodal Representations of Islamic State Organization’s Ideology on Facebook. Well done Hamid!

Special thanks to:

  1. Prof Dr Yeo Kee Jar – Chairperson
  2. Dr Kang Myoung Sook – Assistant Chairperson
  3. PM Dr Normah Mustafa (UKM) – External Examiner
  4. PM Dr Hadina Habil – Internal Examiner
  5. Mr Muhammad Arafat – secretariat
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Love your job

The most important thing is to love your job. Otherwise, you will never find peace and happiness in your job. You need to have passion for your work.

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Labour Day

In conjunction with the Labour Day, I wish to share the following saying by Steve Jobs.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Steve Jobs