He was surprised that I had kept my moustache and beard when he saw me. It was just over a week old. I kept it mainly to remind me how old I am with white hair in my moustache and beard.
Earlier that morning, my other half went to her sister's place in Keramat with eldest Khair and youngest Izzuddin. I stayed home with my third son Izhar. I had many unfinished work to do but most of that day and today, I was reading MQA Programme Standards, a 115 page document in order for me to finish a report. With all due respect to those contributing to the document (which had a panel working on it and I guess they spent many man-hours producing the document), I must say that it is a chore for me to read the wordy document. I tend to skim most parts of the document particularly when I get the gist of what they are saying and paid attention to the information that I needed to use. Probably those who do research in education will enjoy the document better. In a way, I tend to read many management and self-help books in the same way, focusing on parts which are really relevant to me. I have better attention span when I read more technical books, with statements tend to be more strictly defined and more controlled use of imagination in the abstraction. I finally completed the report just this morning after which I took some time off to rest and to ease the back pain.
For tonight, we had a quiet dinner at home as my other half prepared curry mee with some new recipe she had. Tasty.
I have also received a surprise email tonight from a student of Ted Jacobson regarding the work of my first PhD student, Ahmed Bouketir. I guess there is interest in what we do here locally, after all.
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