Day 217 Task – Course Analysis Report (CAR) Preparation for Graduate Student Attribute (GSA) Course

I was shocked yesterday since the GSA Coordinator informed to submit the CAR for GSA today before 10am. So, without wasting any time, I started to prepare the CAR report for GSA as early as 7am, since I have no experience yet using the iOBE platform. It was quite a challenge to prepare the CAR report at such a rush but Alhamdulillah I managed to complete it just before 9am. I submitted the report to the coordinator and I planned to start working on the CAR for my master subject and also Plant Design Project today. Let’s see how it goes.

Today, I also presented the marks for my PA students to our Deparment Head. The result is just fine with all students did not complete the lab at Fakulti Science in view of the Pandemic.

Later Update:

It was not easy as there are errors in the iOBE system when I attempted to start the CAR for MKKK1653 course. Frustrated, puzzled and confused, I decided to continue tomorrow.

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Day 216 Task – Continuation of the ICLCA2020 and ICOST2020 Paper Improvement

I haven’t yet fully completed the correction and improvement of the paper that need to be submitted to ICLCA2020 and ICoST2020 as shared before here and here. Because of that, I need to focus on completing at least 2 manuscripts today.  Not only that I have 2 for ICLCA2020 and 1 manuscript for ICoST2020, I also have 1 manuscript each for RCEE2020 and ICCME2020 that need to be corrected and prepared, respectively.

I hope today will be a productive day in terms of completing most of the papers. InsyaAllah

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Day 215 Task – Participated in Korban Activity at Surau Al-Taqwa

Two days ago, Friday, was the Eid Adha and it was a very meaningful moment for Muslim’s around the world. Surau Al-Taqwa is the surau that I perform my prayers in this community. Usually the sacrifice (Korban) were made on the first day, 10 Zulhijjah, but this year, in view of Covid and also since the Eid falls on a Friday, the sacrifice was performed on the 3rd day which was today (Sunday).

I took the opportunity to participate in the Sacrifice at the Surau. Seven cows were sacrificed and a lot of us, the nearby community helped in the process. This is part of our social obligation, community service that we should do.

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Day 213 Task – Hari Raya Eid Work Break!

This festive season was celebrated in Kuantan, Pahang with my wife’s huge family. 8 out of 8 siblings appeared in this one day gathering which marks a record. It’s indeed not a suitable time to do any work but we need to bond and connect with each other. This is NO TIME to do any work. I deserve a break too 🙂

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Day 212 Task – Preparing My Custom Made CV for A Training Project

Few days ago, I had a discussion with one centre in UTM to work on a special training project custom made for a company. But before that, I need to prepare my CV to suit and be proper for the company to evaluate my CV. I have several version of CV such as comprehensive CV for academic promotion, 1 page CV, 2 page CV, 4 page CV and several other versions. All

 

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Day 211 Task – Working on ICOST2020 Paper Correction

Working on ICOST2020 Paper Correction

 

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Day 210 Task – Correction and Improving My Paper for Publication

Despite of quite a handful of tasks to do, today I will be focusing mainly on improving on of the research papers that I will be publishing in ICLCA2020 and ICoST2020. There are due dates to submit the improved manuscript version and I need to handle that as soon as possible.

At the same time, today I received an email from ICCME2020 mentioning they have accepted my new abstract to be presented in their conference soon. ICCEME is a conference organized by Universitas Diponogoro (UNDIP), Indonesia. The Director for this conference is my colleague Prof Ir. Dr. Didi Dwi Anggoro. He invited me to send publications to this conference few months back, and here i am.

Day 209 Task – CEE Meeting

We had our virtual CEE meeting this morning after quite a long time not having one. Among the agendas were:

  • RCEE Progress
  • CEE office renovation
  • AJEE progress

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Day 208 Task – Inserting Master MKKH1653 marks into the GSMS System

Finally, I completed inserting the final marks for MKKK1653 Master in Chemical Plant Safety and Health into the GSMS system. Unfortunately, the GSMS system was not functioning properly and the submitted marks were said to be completed and finalized, which was not supposed to happen. but it’s OK, nothing to be worried because I managed to get hold with those from Academic Office to help me deal with the matter as I have some marks that were wrongly added.

Apart from this, I have several other tasks such as following up all my UG and PG students. Need to follow up with their progress and get them move…

But among the interesting task today was the updating of the Perisytiharan Harta into the system, which was sent back to me due to some inaccurate data inserted by myself last February 2020. Alhamdulillah, everything was settled, thanks to the clerk who kindly assisted me. She knew me and knew my father too. And the funny thing is that she is my friend in Facebook 🙂 Haha.. what a small world.

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Day 207 Task – No Official Academic Activities

Today, I freed myself from any official academic or research activities. I just spent my beautiful Saturday on my new personal interest which is exploring the internet to learn various new things. I also relaxed, break the pattern of my strict routine by watching Keluarga Iskandar sitcom which is very funny and interesting.

Most importantly, I have planned all the important task to be accomplished for tomorrow, a brand new day and week.

Working productively is good, but too much of something is bad. Hence, from time to time, I try to balance myself and mix it with other activities, not just official work.

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