Ogras...

Ogras means headache. Memang headache pun. Since the semester starts till now Im so headache. With the classes and with the students' attitude. They drive me crazy all the time.

Ni nak citer pasal minggu lepas. This semester I lectures three different classes ( Intro to Comm, Interpersonal Comm. & Theory of Media Comm) and 3 diff semester ( 1,3,5). Alhamdulillah, so far my interpersonal classes are doing great. Subjectnya amat ku suka and students2 nya pun sama. I taught this 3 semesters students before and 99% of students dah kenal. So we are getting closer right now. I know their attitude and they also know my style of teaching. It become easier for me to handle these people.

Well, talking about 5 semester students, they are pretty good too. These student I ajar Theory of Media. Yang ni bermasalah nya adalah subject. Amat laa membosankan.. Really, lecturer pun baca notes ngantuk apa ntah lagi students2 ku yang kurang memahami isi kandungan subject ini. Elllooooo.... its theory !! What do u expect right?? The name of the subject also is sound so bored!! What more the content. I cant blame my students .. its hard to understand, very long info. for each chapters. Disebabkan kesian dan kasihku terhadap students2 ku ini, I take an initiatives to make notes for them. I make notes so called "mind-mapping notes". Bagus punya lecturer kan? Ader u all punya lecturer cam ni?? Dulu Miss Nik ader buat cam tu ker kat students dia?? Hahah.... Miss Nik x buat cam tu sbb dulu students2 budak cam kanak2 unta kat sini. Miss Nur kat sini terpaksa carik jalan utk bagi tarikan students2 paham dan ingat membaca. Well, the students in this class are easy too handle even this is my first time teaching them. Most of my students semuanya dah besar2 and mature2 blaka.

Satu lagi subject ialah subject Intro to Comm, semester 1 students. Aaaa... intro, subjectnya amat laa senang. Less preparation coz this is only at my finger tips. TETAPI...TETAPI.. BUT..BUT.. class ni laa yang slalu I mengucap panjang. Dalam class ni, ader benda yangku lakukan hanya dikelas ni and tidak di mana2 kelas lain...

• mengucap panjang. Astarafirullahal azim ( more than 5 times in each class)
  
• membebel cam mak nenek ( i guess better than mak nenek)
• tenung kat students lama2 ( slalunya kat students yg buat salah)
  
• leave the class before time
• hazin ( sad+ mad)

This class semuanya boys and they really drive me crazy. I guess this is the most craziest class I have ever taught!! What make me crazy are:

• they are talking never stop like a fish market ( more than that I believed)
• they never understand what I want
• never answer my questions
• not even bring notes, books or pen to the class
• came to class like watching me a movie star
• duk kat krusi pun berpeluk tubuh dgn lectures
• never care whats happening to the class
• etc..ect...ect ( x tertype..so and so many)

Well, I feel exhausted and really sad after this class. All the time since at the beginning of the semester. I will be kind to my students if they behave well and I will become devil if they are not. Really... coz of one group students make "dajal" in class. I just really cant stand them.

Its pity to those who want to study and listen to my lectures. Ada laa dalam 7 orang out of 25 yg betul2 nak blajar. The others suka main2.. x larat laa.. seriously since Im getting older I feel I cant stand with this kind of thing anymore.

Well, told you earlier.. since I was here Im very patient. Extremely patient with everything. Alahmdulillah laa kan compared when I was in Malaysia.. x penah sabar and x penyabar pun. Really, I need to admit that... but not here.

Tapi kan.. kesabaran ku dah tahap maksimum... tu yg terus meletup cam bom. Ogras!! Ogras!!

Last week, I gave a paper to each of these students and ask them to write something that they wanted to tell me. Its like a personal letter from them to me. They can write their problems to me and I promise with them I will never get angry in what they are going to write to me. Will be happy to change anything if Im wrong.

What I got... puhh.. amat laaa tidak ku menduka sama skali. These are some of the papers written by them:

Each of students wrote something... ada yg faham ada yg I x paham...

Look at this.. dia ckp I never smile.. Cam mana nak smile kalau dah asyik duk bengang jerr memanjang bila masuk class ni.

Tetiba jer x paham topic "barrier in comm." sbbnya after writing this I want to do quiz for them on that topic. Bijak2...

Adakah anda faham bahasa apakah yg digunakan oleh studentku ini?? Spelling.. Ya Rabbi.. masalah utama diaorg. Zeinas tu means bagus.. siut jerr kan.. suka2 dia jer nak tulis campur2.. Bengong tul kan!!!

Tengok yang ni best teacher in my life tu.. Dashyat kan.. Yang paling bestnya, ayat yg last skali.. "Please help me in marks"... tu laaa statement yg setiap pelajar wajib ckp kat lecturernya..Blajarnya malas, asyik nak suruh tolong jer memanjang.. bleh??

Ni yang salah sorang yg nak belajar...

Kononnya dia memahami laa kawan2 dia punya perangai and rasa simpati atas apa yg terjadi ;((

Ni yang paling best.. bila plak laa I cakap kat diaorg yang i dah kawin and one more sejak bila laa Im from china?? Ohh tidak... ogras!!!

Dengan kata lainnya amatlah ku sakit jiwa dgn kanak2 unta ni. Ni baru dapat satu class... cuba 7..8 class. I guess I need to stop lecturing here and go back to Malaysia. Please.. really pray no more students like them for the next semester.

2nd SeMester.. Hectic

This semester is so hectic compare to previous semester. Really.. less sleeping, less resting, less watching tv but more reading, more preparation, more headache, exhausted!!!

Well, my Eid was great even only 10 days I was in Malaysia. Alhamdulillah, I got chance to eat most of the food in minds while I was here during Ramadhan. Guess what food... ( nasi kerabu, nasi kukus, bubur lambuk, kueh muih yg hanya dibulan Ramadhan jer ader, all types of biscuits during Raya, etc - bear in mind all of these food cause me gaining some weight!!! Ohhhh tidakkk....

Like what my mum said.. " x pe, bukannya slalu, nanti dah balik sana dah x jumpa semua makanan ni" hahahhaha... which was true right??

Well, masa balik sini nasib baik laa x excess luggage. I was so worried .. siap guna penimbang tu before went to the airport. Luckly it was not excess even it was nearly excess. Ngam2 jerr.. yelah, bawak balik biskut raya laa, keropok laa, baju raya laa etc... biskut raya berat apa ( butter kan, sure laaa berat)

I arrived Muscat early in the morning at the airport as early as at 3.30am and ambik bag semua skali dah nearly 4 ++ and took my car at airport and drive back to Sur. Ohhh memang laa kepenatan even I x drive.. Pening sangat2 and I arrived in Sur nearly 7am. Kalut laa yg teramat coz on that day jgk kena pegi class.

Well, at 7.30am took shower and nearly 8 arrived at the college. I thought my students were not showing up but they are. Mak Oiiii... bagus plak kanak2 unta ni. Full class on that day and me.. x prepare apa2 lectures pun. Bleh?? Yelah, balik Malaysia beraya sakan. Sakan ker? Not really, but it was great anyway spending time with family and relatives around.

Apa lagi, Miss Nur buat quiz jerr laa.. group work. Al maklum laa x prepare kan? Then right now mula laa kalut terkejar2 nak abiskan chapters. Really exhausted.

After a week been here after Eid, terus sambung pose 6 + pose ganti coz still in Syawal month. Most of my students here pun pose 6.. bagus kan kanak2 unta ini. Hhehehhe...

Well, on the first week balik sini dah ada guests on the weekend. Belum lagi ganti tido and rest terus ada guests. X pe, as I always tell myself, tetamu tu kan bawak rezeki.

My guests are from Nizwa ( 2 1/2 hours journey from Sur). On Wednesday and Thursday, Prof. S dtg dgn family and we had a good supper with 'ketam rebus". Berpicnic kat tepi pantai makan ketam rebus.. Prof. S bought 3 kilos of crab and I did cook all of them. Memang laa rebus jer.. but then still I consider hard work. Yelah, nak kena potong ketam tu satu persatu... byk 3 kilo wey and then rebus dlm kuali kecik tu ( 8..9 round). Puhh... tapi amat laa berbaloi sbb diaorg suka sgt makan ketam tu. I not only rebus cam tu jer..letak laa jgk rempah ratus bawang semua.. at least ada jgk rasanya kan??

On friday plak, my coordinator of comm. prog dr Muscat nak dtg beraya plak. Early in the morning dah dpt call ckp diaorg nak dtg. Kalut lagi skali masak nasi goreng utk diorg for breakfast. Even kepenatan yg teramat sangat but still I did enjoy having guests around!!

Busy Week...

My class is already started this week. Feel so hectic and exhausted!!. Even my hours of lecturing is lesser than last semester ( 3 hours less) but still more preparation need to do. Last semester there was only one subject with 7 different groups and this semester, I got three subjects with three different semesters. Year one, Intro to Communication which is okey. Year two, Interpersonal Communication which is my interest and area and Year 3, Theories Of Mass Media which is not so okey. I dont like theory subject.. thats for sure!! But then I have too.. no choice.

Like previously, need a lot more preparation as here the lecturer MUST study more than students. I laa tu.. bukannya apa.. I need satisfaction of my lectures. When my students understood my lectures that is my satisfaction. It really a tough job for me to make them understand but Im slowly trying my best to use variety of teaching methods.

If you know me before.. I mean in giving lectures. Im the kind of person who like to give so many face expressions to my students. Thats me bebeh!!! Whether you like it or not you have to face it.

Coz of the new subjects and areas, everynite after terawih for sure I need to be like a student. Menelaah pelajaran.. Sometimes need to sleep till 2 coz of the long chapters. Ni semata2 utk students2 ku.. simplify the long notes, do mind mapping, giving handout etc. Still spoon feeding them.. even I hate and dont want to do that. But I still need to consider these coz of the level is so low.

I never regret choosing this line. Lecturing is my soul ( dashyat statement ni).. but I need to admit that I really enjoy what I am doing now.

This how it looks like when a lecturer like me is preparing lectures to their students

New Office Room

After one semester sharing a room with 3 people including me at last I got a new room. This time, Im sharing with my colleague. Only 2 of us in one room. Feel so release ;

Suker sgt dpt bilik baru ni. Yeah.. of course feel so damn happy. Diantara sebabnya adalah:

• Got privacy looorrr....
• Nak solat pun senang sbb before this tunggu our guy roommate balik then baru bleh solat. Sometimes sampai solat zohor pun rapat2 jer dgn solat asar. Bagus ker cam tu? X bagus kan? Told u!!
• X de lagi org nak bengang2 sbb ramai students slalu dtg jumpa. Yelah dulu ader jer org bengang2 sbb students slalu dtg kat bilik. Maklum laa kita students communication for sure laa dtg slalu kan.
• The room is so spacious, comfortable and cozy. Last time 3 people in a room and now is 2 people.

Meja yg kemas.. nampak sgt x buat keje lagi kan ;))

Look at the side cupboard .. for sure laa ader candle & mirror. Candle for sure utk bagi ketenangan bila ku nyalakan ( nak nyalakan ker.. syg nya) and mirror utk menyenangkan ku membetul2 kan tudung ku ini.

This semester most of the lecturers will get a new room. Like my department; Communication Dept, we got 4 rooms and its near to each other. It is easier for us to communicate and interact. ( Ye ker?.. I dont think so.. susah wey nak berkomunikasi dgn geng2 K***** ni.

At the moment, there are 7 of us in dept including 3 Indian, 1 Omani and 3 Malaysians. Well, things go so well right now and hopefully till the end of the semester.

Havent start my class yet. Should started last week as the students just came for the registration and went back home. Maklum laa Ramadhan kan... Hopefully they will turn up next week. I guess I need to catch up lectures for this semester. We got many holiday like Eid, Eid Adha, National Day etc. In a way, I feel happy to have holiday coz here is not like Malaysia. In Malaysian we have lots of holiday. The weird thing here is the holiday will be announced a day before. Giler kan? Its depend to their government... x kira laa cuti apa pun. Selagi announcement x dibuat selagi tu laa x confirm. Susah tul nak buat plan kalau cam ni kan? Especially like for the Eid. Till now, I'm no idea when is our holiday. Nak booking tiket pun susah.. Siut jer diaorg ni. Dengki laa tu org nak balik beraya kat negara orang!! Nyampah...

Mula2 dtg sini hampir sebulan x de bilik duk menumpang bilik orang sampai naik menyampah orang tgk muka kita hari2. After that dapat laa bilik menumpang jugak department lain for the rest of semester. Macam2 laa berlaku sampai orang pun naik bengang sbb lecturers communication ni aktif sgt dgn students. Ari2.. setiap jam ader jerr students nak jumpa and the room was always crowded with students. Sorry looor.. bukannya salah I okey.. dah namanya students kan, kita kena laa encourage diaorg dtg jumpa kita. Not like other lecturers x suka students dtg jumpa slalu. Tak paham lerrr!!

Well, Alahmdulillah... setelah sekian lama menunggu utk dpt bilik sdiri tercapai even tunggu for almost one semester. Berkat kesabaran kan.. sabar ker? Dalam duk sabar2 tu ader laa jgk duk menyamuk2, mengutuk2 sbb geram kan... janji tinggal janji till now.

Ramadhan in Oman

Ura-ura kat Msia most probably pose on Monday and kat sini blum tentu lagi Monday or Tuesday. But then i dah niat dah nak pose ikut waktu Msia. Then malam tu tgk laa news Oman and they declared fasting will be on Tuesday kat sini. Well, seperti dah niat Monday my friend and I start pose and ari tu jugak laa kitaorg pegi Muscat coz the next day ade meeting kat sana.

Well, monday morning tu pegi college dulu buat apa2 keje yg patut and at 3 pm baru bertolak pegi Muscat dgn driver. Masa kat college tu, nampak ramai lagi duk makan2.. yela dah lum pose lagi kat sini kan. This time ramai laa plak lecturers2 dtg kat bilik utk say 'hi' and " welcome back to college". Yang lawaknya... bila dia org dtg utk say "hi" diaorg akan shake hand. Ada jugak dtg borak2 and citer2 pasal kisah diaorg and ader gak tetiba reveal their secrets. Mmmm... sejak bila plak bershake2 hand ni and trust my friend and I ni pasal secret diaorg.. Kepelikkan betul laa. So I buat laa kesimpulan laa.. this semester are musim bershake hand & merevealkan secret!! Hehheheheh

This time guna jln baru.. blum siap sepenuhnya lagi but then okey laa kan. Almost completed.. best jalan baru ni sbb lalu ikut laut. Luas pemandangan.. The journey was about 2 hours plus compared to the normal road 3 1/2 hours journey. Driver ni drive mak ooooi.. memautkan.. suka suka dia nak brek...suka suka dia nak ke kanan then ke kiri. Scary the mary you!! Almost 5 ++ sampai laa kat Muscat and check in Hotel Al-Falaj yg biasa kitaorg tinggal bila ader meeting kat sini. Suruh laa driver ni tunggu and bwk kitaorg pegi restaurant sbb nak bukak pose x de makanan kan and after check in dgn dia2 skali ilang ntah ke mana. Bertuah punya driver. So kitaorg jalan2 laa kat tepi hotel tu..jauh laa jgk nak cari restaurant. At last jumpa laa restaurant beli laa roti ayam 2 ketul yg kecik tu and popia seketul and my friend plak beli roti dgn kuah kacang merah. Makan laa kitaorg dlm bilik otel berdua.. so laa sedih 1st day pose kat sini.

Then at 9.30 we decided to go to Coffee House kat bwh otel carik makanan sbb x kenyang. I did order Vegetable Fried Rice. Tu pun yg paling murah and it cost me RO1.500 and my friend just take a cup of coffee. Siut jerr kan.. mahal yg amat mencekik darah!!! What to do.. dah itu jer yg ader. Tapi I bersyukur sbb at least sempurna jugak pose utk hari pertama kat sini. Alahmdulillah....

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Result Revealed...

Guess what.. kanak2 unta nyer result dah kluar!! Ni dah kira 1 week ago punya citer ni. Disebabkan I x de mood nak menyepostkan ini punyer topic.. Ana Zaklan laaah ( marah ni.. bengang pun ader.. tapi nak ckp jgk..x kira)

Tahu tak.. one of my students ni anak pegawai kerajaan yg berpangkat kat sini and I dah kena warning dr awal2 lagi yg kena kasi more attention skit kat budak ni. Sebagai tenaga pengajar yg berdedikasi( dedikasi ker??) I menurut perintah laa tapi AWAS bersyarat okey!!! Syarat-syaratnya adalah:

1. Bdk ni kena laa dtg selalu jumpa I kalau x paham keee.. ader masalah kerr
2. Bdk ni kena laa tunjukkan minat dia nak blajar walaupun subject I ni susah skit especially bab2 nak menulis 'News"
3. Bdk ni kena laa berusaha and tekun utk dpt markah yg dia nak ( I di warning jgn kasi less than B, bleh?)
4. Buat segala benda yg I nak including assignment, homework, presentation etc

Tu jerr laa yg I nak kanak2 unta ni buat in order for them to get good mark. Ms Nur ni x de laa bakhil sgt dgn markah. Sebenarnya Ms Nur ni mulut dia jerr bising.. ati dia x de laa kejam bebonar. Cant be deny I always said I will cut their marks if they submitted their work late tapi x de nyerr nak cut kan... lagi tambah aderr lerr..

Masa I duk mark paper, usually I x akan tgk nama2 diaorg ni utk mengelakkan ketidakadilan kan. Gilerr bahasa jiwa bangsa ku.. terasa amat bagus skali. hehehhe

Akhirnya bila dah siap semua, bdk ni yg anak pegawai kerajaan yg ..i kasi nama M laa ..senang nak citer kan dpt markah utk final hanya laa 10/50. Bagus kan.. amat laa excellent bravo diextelanvanzo skali kan?? Dpt 10 tu pun sbb I dah tutup sebelah mataku masa check.. If bukak kedua2 belah mataku ini for sure dapat less than 5.

Bila dah result kluar... I dpt laa panggilan dr org yg warning kat I dulu dan bapak dia skali. Apa ke jadah ni wey.. Bapak dia x puas ati laa I kasi result yg teruk kat anak dia sampai failed!!! Ohhh tidak.. adakah I yg bersalah wey??? Cuba tanya skit cam mana anak you tu dulu.. performance dlm kelas.. Ni main hentam kromo jerr kat I.

Sessi perbahasan ttg markah anak dia ni berlanjutan sampai 3 hari and sampai i demam2 pikirkan pasal budak ni. Ye laa pikir kan adakah diriku ini bersalah?? Kejam sgt kerr diriku ini kasi markah kat anak dia?

Nak jadikan citernya, bapak dia ni mmg famous kat sini sbbnya slalu jumpa dgn tenaga pengajar yg mengajar anak dia. Senang laa kan nak kasi markah nanti. So kalau benda2 yg berkaitan dgn visa, passport, lisen ni semua bapak dia bleh uruskan.

Masa mula2 i dtg dulu, mmg laa bapak bdk ni tlg mak ayah I buat IC sini.. tu pun tlg x yah beratur pepanjang. Atas sebab itu laa i kena reply balik jasa dan kebaikan yg penah dia buat dulu. Adakah patut tuan2 dan puan2 skali??

Macam ni laa.. I dah tolong sehabis2 nya and I need to tell him and people around that I cant help him anymore. Helluuuuuuuuuu... x sedar diri betul laaa.

When I talk to his dad, sedih sgt.. rasa hiba. Betapa laa seorang bapa dtg merayu utk naikkan naikkan markah anaknya dan anaknya x rasa apa2 pun. X berusaha, kelas pun ikut suka nak dtg ker tak, assignment pun buat acuh x acuh and presentation x buat tu. So cam mana tu.. renung2 kan laa kisah ini yerr...

Apa2 pun I cant really stand with this kind of people and environment. Sabor...byk kan bersabor jerr lahh.. coz i know what Im doing..

Coz of this matter, they make me

1. Sick ( flu+fever)
2. Headache ( migrain 3 days did not sleep well)
3. Thinking of their bad ways of doing smtg

Apa2 pun I did pray so that God helps them. Bukakan pintu ati mereka2 ini. Kalau semua nak ditlg tukar markah, for sure bila lepas grad nanti x de quality at all. Kesian kanak2 unta ni kan???

FinaL ExaM FeVeR

Minggu lepas start final exam utk kanak2 unta kat sini. As expected laa kan...a day before the final exam x henti2 laa kanak2 unta ni duk dtg bilik tanya soalan exam. Some of them came coz they might know that I knew the questions and some of them came coz sajer laa kan..mana laa tahu dpt rezeki.

Yang peliknya kat sini, final exam disetkan oleh coordinator. Coordinator tu plak bkn nyer from the same college. The coordinator of the subjek ni pelik gak... dia bleh jer selamba land dia jerr email lecturers2 lain yg mengajar that subjek so that we can submit the final exam questions to him or her dalam masa seminggu... mana laa sempat nak buat soalan wey.. ingat otak apa kerr!!

Memandangkan I ni baru kat sini kan..I submit laa jgk soalan tu even lambat laa skit sbb x de masa nak buat ( ala..hantar awal pun bukannya dia nak ambik soalan i pun...x kuasa nak melayan laa) and dia ade kuasa laa nak buat cam mana dgn soalan2 tu. Yang geramnya, dia x kasi tu soalan tu in advance..at least bagi laa tahu kat lecturer2 yg mengajar kan?? Senang laa kitaorg ni nak kasi tips kat kanak2 unta ni.. email bertalu2 i kasi kat coordinator i tu... tapi langsung x reply punya laa kedekut!! What a big deal laa kasi soalan tu kan...cam laa kitaorg ni nak bocorkan soalan!! Ish..so laa x berperikemanusian.

I was worried coz that day I havent finish all the chapters. I did speed up my lectures but tahu la kanak2 unta ni amat laa slow skali and terpaksa laa i masuk gear satu dan dua jerr... and Alhamdulillah..I managed to finish it all...

Kat sini bagus gak..if your paper on that day, lecturernya x bleh jd invigilator ..yelah nanti ader laa yg gatal2 mulut ckp jawab kat students kan. Tapi yg menyampahnya I need to wait kat dlm control room ( tempat soalan disimpan and penyerahan kertas2 soalan) for 2 hours plus. Siut jerr kat ... ntah apa2 laa I nyerr HOD tu.. nak suruh temankan dia laa ... ngader punya K*****.

While I was there, I got a call fr the invigilators sbb ader students nak tanya soalan yg diaorg tak paham ... so berkejar kejaran laa pegi kat dlm kelas utk explain. Bila dah masuk kelas tu..bukannya sorang jer duk tanya soalan... ramai laa plak.. yang menaikkan darah i nyerr.. tanya soalan yg bodoh2.. like what is the meaning of the words..cam mana tu?? Sabor jerr laa... One of the room tu..siap the invigilator tu announced " Dont ask ur lecturer the meaning of the words.. she is not your dictionary" . hahahhah... Lawak laa plak...tergelak i kat situ!!

I been given 72 hours to mark all the papers after they are done. Apa keee jadah ?? Ader kerr kasi 72 jam jerr nak marking semua ni.. ingat robot nak buat semua ni!! Geram tul laa... Nak submit kat Ministry lambat laa lagi...sajerr jerr diaorg ni kan!! My paper was on Wednesday and the next day was weekend... aaaa bagus laaa dgn weekend2 laa tergadai!!

My weekend was so suck!! Yelah.. x klaur pegi mana pun... initial plan nak jalan2 but need to cancel coz takut laa kan x siap nak marking paper. Imagine laa I got 7 classes with 200 ++ students. Nak marking semua ni ari Khamis and Jumaat.. Nak termuntah2 dah rasanya...

With so many kinds of handwriting..so many answers ... membuatkan ku rasa loya skali..

Lagi loya nak muntah2 bila pembahagian markah. Soalan objektif dicampur aduk kan dgn soalan fill in the blank. Bodoh tul laa org yg buat soalan ni!! Haaa... sebijik kan dpt bodoh kat atas muka!! Hehhehe... yelah nama jerr ade "DR" tapi nak buat soalan pun x reti.. soalan UPSR pun lagi bagus laa!!

Disebabkan loya and nak muntah kan..so I pelbagaikan laa aksi2 masa marking tu.. Kuang lentang, kuang dada...kuak kupu2..atas katil..kat meja..bwh meja..meniarap..ishh..macam2 aksi laa.. termasuk laa aksi2 yg mengghairahkan!! Hehhehe.. jgn nak imagine yg bukan2 okey.. aksi2 tu jgn ditiru..sbb i kan duk sorang kat dlm bilik ni..sapa nak peduli kan..lagipun kan panas kat sini.. memarking ni lagi laa buat ku kepanasan...

Thank God, I managed to finish marking all the papers in the weekend walaupun weekendku tergadai... Yelah.. dgn tido nyer x lena. On Thursday I slept at 3am and on Friday I slept at 12 mid nite. Even petang pun x de masa nak tido even kepenatan sgt!!

x pe.. nak abiskan semua ni..malas dah nak pikir..just nanti tunggu nak posting markah dlm form jer laa.. Tu pun malas nak buat lagi...

My friend also was helping me in counter check the marks.. Luckily got her. Tq bebeh!! nanti i tlg counter check paper u lak yerr.. heheheh. Tapi kan kalau kat Msia sure ader org tlg kan.. my two great sis yg slalu tlg.. at least marking objectives nyerr questions kat. Well, nasib badan laa kat sini duk sorang2..kena laa buat sdiri semua...

First Meeting

The meeting supposed to start at 9 am and turned out at nearly 10 am. Terukkan diaorg punya timing kat sini. Meeting with all the communication lecturers from all colleges. Since I came here never meet anybody some of them and guess what 3/4 of the staff in this department are Indians. Hahhahahah.. as expected. They are good in communication right!!

The chairman was the coordinator of the program and he is an Australian if Im not mistaken. Well, the meeting was like 'a talk show' coz Mr Chairman been talking non stop since the meeting started till at nearly 4pm. There were an argument between the staff as I expected and suggestions and ideas from the other colleges. The meeting was so dull and bored for me coz they were talking abt smtg ridiculous. Mmm... salary thing, relocation, exam, coordinating and etc...

Guess what the "good" thing abt this meeting was they were only prepare the snack of the day... even the meeting tooks more than 5 hours still we got only breads. Is it funny?? Not like in Msia..especially in govt. sector...Dengar jerr meeting sampai ker lunch..even till 11 pun dah kalut dah nak mintak lunch. Isnt that good?? Jangan harap laa kat sini.. Even bfast... supposedly the hotel is including the bfast but not here..it is excluded..dashyat kan?? Yeah, the hotel do served the bfast but we need to pay for RO4.100= RM40 for only the bfast?? Of course big NO...NO for me.. why I need to waste my money just only for the bfast right?? The supposed to include the bfast..so laa pelik laa kat sini. Even when you wanna stay at the hotel, they didnt count as per room but per head.. so laa pelik kan??

Well, I was not really enjoy in the meeting.. I be a good listener and got a task need to complete before I leave for summer holiday.

Went back to Sur right after the meeting at nearly 4.30pm. Stop for the Asar prayer and bought food to pack home. The journey was so good even the road was not completed yet. Up side down.. free exercise as I told in the earlier post. Been chatting with the driver ..making jokes..laughing ... and x tido..Hahahha.. serious x tido!!

At first, I decided to extend our stay till weekend.. but I got a bad mood. My mood swung coz of the meeting and decided to go back right after the meeting. Arrived Sur at nearly 6pm and I was so exhausted. Time to sleep and take a good rest for myself..

Journey for the Meeting

I been told that Im going to have a first meeting with all the communication lecturers from all the colleges in Muscat on Wednesday (14 May). Bestnya... bleh pegi Muscat after so long didnt go there.

In my department of comm, there are only 4 of us including me. 2 Indians and 2 Msians. My boss needs to go one day earlier coz of HOD's meeting and another colleague will go by himself on the same day. We decided to get a driver to sent us there and the hotel been booked by the administration people.

I left the college at the afternoon around 2.30pm on Tuesday. At that time, panas mentari terik diatas kepala.. Mak oiii.. can feel the real heat!! The driver is named Ahmad Sabar and he was the person who took me to the college when I first came here. He is such a very quiet man but nice. Only my friend and I went with him.

There are two ways to go to Muscat..One is the long way which is higway. It takes 3 1/2 -4 hours to reach Muscat while another way is a bit shorter way which is by the coaster road. This coaster road takes 2-21/2 hours there. Ahmad preferred to take coaster road coz its shorter and will be pass his village called Tiwi. Sukerr laaa si Ahmad ni... melalu kampung halaman dia kan. We all x kisah pun..as long as sampai kat sana sudah. We used own college land rover and its totally suit for the coaster road like he gone through.

The coaster road is expected to finish it soon.. now is still in the process of building the highway. Supposed to finish Jun this year and extend to next year. Once that coaster road finish, it will only take us 1 1/2 -2 hours to reach Muscat. Bestnya kan...x de laa lama sangat..senang laa nak berulang alik nanti.

At the moment, the road is pretty good compare to the last time when I came here. Ahmad took my parents and I with this road and amatlah teruk skali. Jalan yg berbukit bukau..main redah jerr... simpang siur.. Still remembered, on our way to Sur using this road..my mum was so worried till her tears flow. Yelah, tgk jalan cam ni.. teruk tul kan. dia risau laa kat I kat sini. Cam mana laa anak aku ni nak pegi Muscat ..pegi airport kalau ader apa2 emergency nak kena balik Msia. Ish...my mum ni kesitu plak yg difikirkan. Tuhan tu kan Maha Adil..Insyaallah, everything will be going to be okey. Seee... skrg ni pun jalan tu dah nak siap dah..no more worried. I totally understood her feeling last time. She loves me so much and she doesnt want me to suffer... Luv u min..

Actually, best jugak lalu jln ni.. bila lalu jln yg byk batu bata... berbukit bukau... duk kat dlm kete tu rasa cam exercise jerr. Free exercise.. semua otot2 bergerak.. dr ujung kepala hingga laa ujung tapak kaki. Bergerak2..bergetar2..Hahahhaha... Automatically dpt free exercise!!

Si Ahmad Driver ni x pandai sgt ckp English and we all plak x pandai sgt ckp Arab. Bagus laa cam ayam dan itik. Hhehehe.. bila ckp smtg in Arabic... dia gelak.. bila dia ckp English kitaorg gelak.. Labu...ohh Labu... Bergelak2 jerr laaa.

My friend yg lawaknya ckp ni pakwe dia...konon2 laa.. Coz tgk si ahmad ni cam muka yg x de perasaan jerr. Alah...cam muka selambaland gitu.. jenis yg tak reti nak marah..susah lerr nak explain..Korang paham2 laa sdiri okey!! Just imagine what I said...Nama lagi Ahamd Sabar,..aaa jenis muka penyabar pun ader.. hehhhehhe...

Kitaorg duk laa melawak dgn dia suruh dia berhenti kat Kg dia tu.. pandai plak dia ckp mak ayah dia tido laa..x leh berhenti laa.. Mmmmm...takut lerr tu, yelah suka2 jerr kerr ingat nak buat blk 2 perempuan jelitawati ni balik umah.. Haram...haram..hehehheheh... Gelak dia!! Skit..skit..tomorrow aaa... tomorrow aaa... Giler lawak !!

Gelak punyer gelak...ckp punyer cakap...tertidur gak I kat dlm kete tu.. yelah panas terik ni.. sampai2 dah kul 6 jgk laa..terus check in kat Hotel Al Falaj. Okey laa otel tu.. dah penah dah duk otel ni dulu2 masa mula2 dtg.. The hotel is very close with the ministry as our meeting the next day is at the ministry.

The otel may be only 3 stars otel kot.. cam biasa2 jerr laaa and it cost RO60=RM600..siut mahal.. RM600 siap bleh duk kat Hotel Golden Horses dah okey kat Msia tu.. sini just hotel3 stars jerr.. and coz of ministry booked they gave half price RO37 including the taxes and its excluded the bfast. So laa kedekut ministry ni...x termasuk bfast tu..jahat..jahat.. x sukerr. Kalau nak bfast kat situ bleh just pay RO4.100 per head. What... mahal siut..sgt laa mahal!!! We rather eat outside.

Luckily one of our Msian friend another state will be coming and staying at the same hotel too. She came with his husband and 2 kids. Thank God, they got car and on the next morning, they brought us to one of the coffee shop to have our bfast before the meeting starts. Pegi makan roti parata kat indian coffee shop.. Sedap gak..dgn kuah dal. Hahahha dal nyerr amat laa pekat skali.. satu pinggan 2 keping paratta.. If kat kedai lain usually satu pinggan 3 paratta.. Mak oiii...ingat perut i ni besar sgt kerr...2 paratta pun x dpt nak abis wehhh..

When to the meeting right after the bfast.. Ehhh.. nope.. we check out the hotel before we left for bfast and I just realized I left my new Clark sandal in the hotel room. Biar betui aku ni..tetiba jerr lupa.. I was wearing sandal at first and change to shoes coz of the meeting and forgot to put inside my bagpack. Nasib baik ingat kan.. so right after having our bfast went to the hotel to find my sandal.

My dearie Clarks Sandal.. mmg laa x lawa but comfortable sgt..sukerr!!

Kalau sandal yg murah2 ..yg dah buruk2.. for sure I will just leave it there but this is Clarks sandal okey!! Beli dah lama kat sini during sale but I never used it. Sayang sangat..sbb baru and sbb mahal..hahhaha..Teruk kan?? Tak kan laa nak tinggalkan cam tu jerr kan. Went to the counter and the receptionist gave me the key of the room. By the time I reached the room, the people was cleaning the room... and unfortunately I x not find my lovely sandal. Nak nangis pun ader...nak marah pun ader.. sayang okey kat sandal tu.. seriously sayang!!

Akhirnya kau miliku.. serious comfortable!! Its sale product for sure..if not cant afford to have one

I asked the cleaner and he didnt understand. I show my shoe.. he gave me the plastic bag..I said sandal...sandal.. he gave a paper for the shoes polish.. after 5-10 minutes explaining and at last he understood. My sandal is inside the big black plastic bag. Ohhh tidak.. if not he will throw it or put it under "lost and found". Ada rezeki lagi laa kan.. Alhamdulillah...

If not I will be crying for my sandal.. for sure nak kena carik the same sandal again... ;(

Dengan senyum yg panjang lebar ... we went straight to the ministry for 9.00 am meeting.