The New Semester 2010

It's a new semester, new year 2010 and first month of the year. These four weeks seem to fly in a giffy. Many things happened and some dear ones passed away even some prominent public figures. A colleague lost her dear father, after another lost her dear husband last December.
I'm trying to cope with work, hoping to achieve more thanhat I could before but plenty more things come by to steer away from what I now think I really want. And that would be...? I'll decide if I'll write and tell.
Oh, amidst the busy life (who doesn't claim this these days?...), we had our work retreat last weekend and it was fun and tookus all at the School off the hook for a while. The planahead was alright but the casual performace on Saturday night was fantastic! My group had a medley of songs of Malay, Korean, French , Arabic, Thai, Spanish as well as English. I hope to upload the pics and video soon.

End of Semester 1 2009/2010

It's already end of Semester 1 2009/2010 at the University Kebangsaan Malaysia / the National University of Malaysia. Students are in the middle of their examination weeks and soon it will be semester break? A break? Doesn't look like there'll be one for the academic staff as usual. But to mark end of the semester, our International students held farewell gatherings and here are some of the pics taken at a few of those that I was invited to.

I'm back :) !

Hi again. I have misplaced myself for quite a while. To those who follow thia blog, please accept my apology for not updating the bolg. But I'm back. The coming postings will include the many things that I wanted to share with you but then I had to give priority to other things including researches (officials and nons!). Peter Reynolds, watch this! I'm back and till the end of the year, as a Chritsmas gift, this blog need not necessarily be student-oriented but no harm done if my international students join in, unconditionally. To myself, Happy Blogging again

Bloggers' blogs

Excited, I got my students to participate in my blog today. Some looked surprised, but obviously it turned out that I was the one who was also surprised to find that many of them own their own blogspots. What a cyberworld! Happy blogging all!
p/s Rozmel, enjoy every bit of your blogging session!

SKVT2283 Computer Translation

Dear Students,
Welcome to my weblog! It's the third week of the short semester (Semester 3, 2008/2009) and I know you are all geared-up with your project work on translation software analysis. A little surprise for you...! The two tag-words for the project are first given here before I reveal the answers day after the deadline.

Tagwords: E _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and A _ _ _ _ _ _ _. The first word contain 10 words , the second, eight.

First to respond to this blog correctly, wins 2 bonus marks for the project! GOOD LUCK!

My Condolences

My condolences to my head of Unit of Foreign Languages and Translation, Assoc Prof Dr Siti Hamin Stapa for the loss of her dearest beloved husband Wan Ramli bin Wan Mohd Zin who passed away on the 23rd of May 2009. May he rest in peace in the care of Allah.

I thought I did what I had to do...

To start my own weblog? I heard of it, I saw some of them but I never thought of having one. So at the PTK course on 23rd May 2009 marked the very first milestone of my own weblog- when it was made compulsory. That was what I thought at first, for the sake of submitting, but then no one mentioned about getting addicted to it. After Saturday the 23rd of May, I put a side PTK, got busy with other 'priortised' matters, until yesterday, after a farewell lunch for Dr Musaev Talaibek (our Japanese lecturer moving to another university in Kuala Lumpur) I thought I just gotta upload somewhere the pics taken at San Francisco in Bandar Baru Bangi. Well, very early today I got up, uploaded all the PTK pics and San Fran pics and Sydney-Melbourne pics and I got all geared up to start with my very own NORWATI'S TRANSLATIONBLOG.

The blog ready, the pics uploaded and some text written to start with, I know Dr Noraziah, I won't let you down!

For now, those who asked for pics from me, happy downloading.