What a week this has been!
Last Friday, my third son Izhar came back home and we planned to go to Luna Wonderland in Seremban, the very same night he arrived. This is due to that I have other activities during the weekend (a wedding and an online talk). We also thought that there will be less people there than during the weekend and how wrong we were. We were lucky to have a parking place quite near to the entrance.
As we were waiting to buy tickets, I had this photo with a drummer and (part of) his drumset. Seeing the drumset, I had this impulse of taking a pic since I was a(n) (amateur) drummer. Later, we heard the performers performing some popular Malay rock songs.
After getting the tickets, we went in and took pics (see below). It was a huge place and I got too tired at some point and rested many times.
My eldest son was not with us then since he will be driving us to a wedding next day. My youngest son too was not with us since he received the sad news that his best friend passed away (may Allah forgive him and grant him jannah). He was visibly upset and he wished to go to his funeral in Muar (his father's place). He was living in Seremban with his mum and went for some activities in Kelantan before falling unconscious into coma due to a heat stroke. He was also formerly my son's dorm-mate in UiTM Jasin and they often went outing together when they are both in Seremban. My son then arranged with another friend in Seremban to travel to Muar that very night to go to the funeral. He was back home at about 4am and thus was resting the whole morning thereafter.
That Saturday, we started our journey to a wedding sometime in the morning since my eldest son told us that it will be a three hour journey (I didn't know this). So we passed by some beautiful green scenery of paddy fields in Sekinchan. I knew before this that
Sekinchan was where the model paddy agricultural project for the country and I got to see why. The wedding invitation was from a former student of Dr. Nurisya, Shela Tiansin and we knew each other through our group activities. She had also been to our house a few times for the gathering functions we organized. Here are some pics.
We were back home sometime in the late afternoon and I rested for a while before my online talk that night. It was supposed to be a workshop and I was supposed to say something on the topic shown in the slide below.
When I was preparing the slides, it then occurred to me that it was on the
Malaysia Day. Thus I inserted this slide.
The content of my talk is shown in the slide below,
Too bad, it was not recorded (if I had known, I will probably record the talk myself). So all I had for the talk was these screenshots.
Following the weekend, was the week where I started my teaching in Xiamen. I went quite early to the campus to make sure I was there before the class starts (need to get my temporary staff card from the library to access the lecture facilities - a full-time staff has his/her own card to use). By the end of the first day of teaching, I was really physically tired (body aching all over). I have left teaching for some time and suddenly I'm doing four hours teaching in a day, standing most of the time (I rarely sit). Nevertheless I felt good teaching at the time. The second day of teaching was less so, due to perhaps I had less time preparing and felt a bit of mental fatigue. I promised to make up with better notes next time. It also had me thinking on how best to teach complex analysis. Some rigorous details might not be necessary for physics students but on the other hand, they should be at least aware of the technical details (usually important for problematic situations that are discussed less in physics). Still thinking what is best. I have also arranged for replacement classes next week since classes that fall on a public holiday (Thursday next week) will have to be replaced. More brooding and long hours ahead.
Finally, this week also saw my other half celebrating her birthday. My second son who came from JB on Tuesday bought her a cake.
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