Friday 1 July 2011

Berbasa-Basi

Discussions had and is still going on about the new flexible timetable we are doing now. I am not against it, but have some improvisation, if that can be called, to the system. For example, add 5 minutes break at each of the hour between the subjects.

For example, if the subject is two hours straight, there will be 5 minutes break between the two hours, so that the students can relax a bit before going on to the next hour. Penat juga kalau dalam satu jam sebelumnya penuh dengan lectures, kan?
And the 5 minutes break can be used for the students to proceed to the next class without taking the time of the next subject. Effective jugalah.

But starting next week, about half of the students will go out for their practicum. So, there will be more empty rooms and flexible timetable is just timetable on paper only.

And in this week, there were already two days off lectures. And we got a hell lot of classes to be relieved. (betul ke ha ayat aku ni?)

And I am now have successfully read. Recently, I already read two novels, which I found out very interesting. First one is Manikam Kalbu by Faisal Tehrani which I think is very brilliant, even the story is light, the message is somewhat touches us very much in our life. Next novel is Panggil Aku Melaju by Rahmat Haroun Hashim which is quite heavy in terms of linguistic and history. The plot is boring and slow, but as you finished the whole book, you'll find out that the story is quite interesting and open your mind in certain aspects of history and the effects of what happened in past to us.

Currently, I am reading The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong, which is quite controversial but in some sense waking up our sense of thinking rather than accepting a system like we are an idiot. But as I read up her book, I quickly thought of another book entitled Cogito Allah Sum by Lalu Mohammad Zaenudin about how a man being an unbeliever and how he then starts to believe in God once again. The tagline used is 'semakin aku berfikir, semakin aku yakin bahawa Allah ada.' We have been brought up in a religion which is true, so we are in no doubt about the existence of God when we really dig in the religion. But for someone who has been brought up in Christianity for example, there are too much flaws in the religion which really makes an intellectual an atheist.

Okay, I have class in 20 minutes time. Guess I have to stop typing now.

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