I had a pre-retreat meeting today, and boy what a meeting it was. Well the good news was I did not present my ill prepared proposal for e-ScienceFund (thank God for that at least) but the bad news is now I have to do THREE ; one I am leading and the other two as collaborator. Sometimes I wonder if the KPT and UMS have gone a bit OTT in trying to inculcate this research culture amongst us lecturers.As if we haven't got enough to do?
I retract back what I said about my job. As of this minute, its CRAP.
With all the hullabaloo about UMS getting three star rating and a new VC announced recently, I expected to come back to work today (had to be off yesterday - maid's got court appearance on her divorce case) feeling a bit less stressed with the celebration mood in the air as the new VC actually is Prof Ann (my pengarah)'s dearest other half. Unfortunately it was entirely the reverse. She's on leave while tomorrow and the meeting was a mind-numbing exercise . Its meetings like this that make you feel you ought to be on ice or something. It started at 9 and did not finish until after 3p.m. And the best part was the talking part took ..I don't know..maybe 2 hours? But the thinking part.......took ages....
In the end we came up with four proposals. The first which I was going to lead in the proposal writing for MOSTI's Science Fund was on B.pseudomallei molecular characerization , second : Microarray analyses, third : Seaweed and Fourth: secondary metabolites.
I don't know how on earth we are going to do this with just the 6 of us but Prof. wants to see them it come rain or shine, so I guess it means we have to.
That's not including my unfinished reports that I mentioned yesterday. And to top it all, tomorrow, I have to spend the whole bleeding day helping Vida our lab assistant with changing the probe of our DNA sequencer, and Friday we have a meeting.
My 1grand is still parked at Bendahari, unclaimed because I still have not done the after-conference report that they want. Even if I can do the report by tomorrow (although there really is no chance of that happening) I will need to wait a coupla months before they can approve it.
So today I want to say that not only am I tired, stressed, I am also bloody skint!!!
To make matters worse what have I been reading in the papers today ?
Petrol hike announcement tonite??? Din't they just announce not too long back it wasn't happening until August??
What the fish????????
Like I feared when I went home at about 6pm I received a text message form my dearest cousin Aree who told me that hikes effective midnite at MYR2.70/litre. What else, Sazmal went straight out in frenzy petrol panic buying, having to wait over one hour for petrol due to the massive queue at Petronas for the Proton, then come back home again to take our Livina out back to Shell because he said they queue at Petronas was horrendous...
Hmm.......
Tun MAHATHIR!!!!!Please come save US!!!!!
As of tomorrow, I am buying all things Giant as I am sure very soon other food stuff price will go up as well. Even electricity's going up July, so maybe buy motorbike-la..Sazmal also said macam kena duduk Tambunan ke, dalam pondok so that electricity tak naik above MYR43.
Nevertheless, I still thank God as we live in KK so the petrol hike is still manageable for us at least for now. My heart goes out to all my friends in KL and Semenanjung whose fates are worse than ours what with the traffic jams and toll...KL's not such a pretty place to live in right now I am sure.I just hope the rakyat won't demonstrate. The good news though is our allowances will surely naik for us who are in the Public Service. Housing allowance definite and hopefully EPW as well.
Anyone wanna come live in Sabah???
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