This is the 5th day of our Work From Home (WFH) ~ which I only consider the official working days. However, we have been quarantine in our home since last Wednesday, that means we were at home for 7 days already. It’s really challenging to be just staying at home, but this is what we need to do now to save the community and country.

Today at 9am we have this MKKE Coordination Workshop for Course Information Preparation. The early part is to discuss and decide on the CLO, PLO, PEO etc.

Read all my “1 Official Task Per Day Record Challenge for 2020” —> https://people.utm.my/zakiyamani/category/1-activity-1-day/

This task was quite pending since last September last year, until the MKKE coordinator suddenly mentioned 2 weeks ago to have a workshop to complete all the course information (CI). Although we still work from home, the coordinator suggested to have an online workshop to complete the task. I have a different idea… which is just to complete the CI and stay out of the online workshop.

I spent the morning during this Covid-19 days to do some work that was quite pending earlier. Among those pending tasks are revisiting my PhD student progress.

Today I checked and reviewed the work of my Engineering Education PhD student from UAE (this is PhD student #4). Subsequently after that, I reviewed the Chapter 6 draft of my PhD student #1. That’s a bit progress from today.

Finally I managed to successfully complete my review for the long manuscript.

It is the first day of Partial Lock Down day that the government of Malaysia announced starting from today (18th March 2020) till the end of the month (31st March 2020). It is also declared as controlled movement where were are all asked to quarantine ourselves to just stay at home to curb the spread of lethal Covid-19 virus.

It is the second day for EAC Audit for Prof Lukman Chuah from UPM. This second day, he is focused on the undergraduate chemical engineering program. This include two course that I take care which are (1) Plant Design Project and (2) Petroleum and Refinery Technology Course.

Suddenly I received a message on Friday  13th March 2020 from the Chemical Engineering Program Director about the course file for Petroleum and Refinery Technology Course if I have prepared it?

Oh My God… I haven’t yet. And I haven’t actually prepared any of it for this course that I just taught since just 2018.

It is a Sunday, a working day, but I am still on leave at my wife’s hometown. Since I didn’t do any work yesterday, I felt I need to catch up and do some of the conference review request from ICPEAM2020 and RCEE2020.