2021 Day 137 Task โ€“ Marking Petroleum and Refinery Technology Test

This is not an easy tasks as the answer scripts are all in softcopy form. Students have uploaded the pdf version of their answer script to elearning and I just used the platform the marked it online and insert the marks straight away in eLearning. Luckily I have graded more than half of it the day before and left with just few more today.

Other Highlighted Tasks of the day:

  • Mock Presentation #1 with my PDP students at 1pm.
  • Went to clinic for wife and daughter medication.
  • Assisted my daughter (standard 3) with her online class and assignment.

2021 Day 136 Task โ€“ Drafted Contract Research Grant in Radis System

This is indeed a long pending task that I have to do since last December 2020. Unfortunately, I procrastinated on this tasks. Today I forced myself to work on this project. It is actually a contract research grant i was given from Centre for Engineering Education (CEE) and the short title of this research is “Identity of an Engineer”, which is non-techie, non-chemical engineering but important for capacity building of an engineer.

2021 Day 135 Task โ€“ From JB to Seri Iskandar to JB

First things first. I have not done any official task work for today. Me and my wife we traveled from JB just before 7 am to Seri Iskandar Perak and back to JB again, reached around 6.45pm. We sent our son Ikhwan to UiTM Seri Iskandar Campus as he is requested to pursue a face to face study.

Long trip… but Alhamdulillah, Allah protect us throughout the journey. Syukur.

2021 Day 134 Task โ€“ The Lemang Project – 3rd Day Eid

Today is a wonderful Saturday, also the 3rd day of Eid. I suffered a massive stomach ache due to some eating or food problem. Half of the night was spent in the toilet. Nevertheless, after recovering a bit, I joined the Lemang Project that was done just in the vicinity of our residential area.

But it is imperative to highlight that I did not do any official task today. The day was busy with Lemang, Surau and family activities ๐Ÿ™‚ .

2021 Day 133 Task โ€“ Few Research Monitoring Work

It’s the second day of Hari Raya but I am doing some research work such as applying for conference research activity, going through PSM research work and some manuscripts. But it was not that serious or heavy.

2021 Day 132 Task โ€“ Eid Mubarak 2021 – Stay Safe, Stay at Home

Selamat Hari Raya Maaf Zahir Batin. No work today!!! Just purely celebrating Hari Raya… At Home!!!

2021 Day 131 Task โ€“ Green Lab Report Evaluation

I am one of the Green Hero Committee member at the School of Chemical and Energy Engineering (SCEE), UTM. I have been involved in several rounds of audit and checking of selected blocks and buildings in the vicinity of SCEE. Today, I completed the final task which is to complete the evaluation of Green Lab Report of one of the research center – in this case I was assigned to evaluate Prospect at N29.

I submitted my review manuscript to BCREC yesterday. Unfortunately, the submission got some problem, which is shown as below:

Dear Dr Zaki,

Thank you for uploading the graphical abstract of your manuscript. However, according to the second revision requirement in the previous email, REFERENCES must be typed according to Author Guideline of BCREC journal Section 10.19 (URL: https://ejournal2.undip.ac.id/index.php/bcrec/pages/view/authorguide\). Please be careful on how to write

First and Last Names (all authors should be provided, not et al.), article title, journal name (should be consistent whether full name or abbreviation), vol (no), page start-page end, and DOI: …..

Thank you for your contribution.

Regards

Hence, I have to improved and correct the way we did the references…

Other highlighted tasks of the day:

  • Repair / Improve BCREC Journal Submission
  • Went through the activities of Week 2 SCEE RAE – It is about Creativity and Diversity.

2021 Day 129 Task โ€“ Completing End of Grant Report

One of my Tier 2 Report granted by the University, more known as Grant Universiti Penyelidikan (GUP) has completed last year. It’s my responsibility to prepare an End Report for the grant. This grant basically supported the expenses to conduct my PhD research student, Nur Nazlina Saimon.

2021 Day 128 Task โ€“ Visited and Donated to Asnaf at Kempas Area

Our Surau (Surau-Al-Taqwa), led by Ustaz Mohd Ismail Musytari today visited 2 groups of Asnafs that are living in a very poor conditions, located at Kempas. Eight of us travelled in 2 cars attended to the 2 asnafs. We brought foods and also cash, that were donated by Jemaah Surau. The first Asnaf are a couple that lives in a land, more like a forest for about 7 years. They were 75 and 69 years, old respectively. The wife is diagnosed with kidney problem and hence have to undergo dialysis 3 times a week – and this incur massive cost. They are lucky because a generous person built a small proper brick house for them which can be dwelled by them 1 month ago. There were so many tiny mosquito around the asnaf’s house but we did not hit the mosquito aggressively to respect the asnaf. Oh gosh.. the condition these people live in are indeed very poor and sad.

The second asnaf was a single guy who nearly reaches 70 years old. He lives alone in a poorly constructed place he deemed as his house. I sneak peaked into his house and saw that the floor is actually the same soil outside of his house. Basically, there’s no proper flooring. We gave this old man dry foods and also cash.

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2021 Day 127 Task โ€“ Began PDF Proofing for Our Renewable Energy Journal Manuscript

Alhamdulillah, I am glad that Zarifah’s massive effort writing this review paper was finally showing some nice rewards. Today, Renewable Energy journal system got in touched with me to ask me to verify few things about our manuscript and also to go through the entire article to check in case there are any problems. There were several issues, mainly on the unit for certain parameters that require very careful check. I realized that I have started this, but I cannot complete this task today. The manuscript was a 70 plus pages word document and after it is converted into Renewable Energy format, it became 22 pages. Nevertheless there are still a lot, seriously plenty to go through for the checking.