Back to College Varia

On Saturday, we send back our youngest son Izzuddin, back to college for his BSc studies. It was also my first time using the petrol subsidy Budi Madani for my car that has not been used for awhile. I paid RM50 for petrol that was supposed to RM65.33. Every help counts. 

Most of the registration matters was done online and his registration at the campus was a breeze. My other half helped pay his fees while I provide for his pocket money for at least for the first two weeks (to be topped up later). 

Despite all the preparations for this trip, there are still some necessities that we forgot to bring e.g. a pillow, padlock for his locker. So we went out to get these as well as bringing him to lunch.

We left him at the college sometime before 2pm.

After having him stay with us since his industrial ttaining, I kinda felt sad as we drove away. I used to joke a lot with him at home and I will certainly miss him. I pray that he will be successful in his studies.

Currently our third son is with us at home and he is currently seeking for a new job. Today we will be sending his car for service. So we are pretty much occupied at home with personal matters. Elsewhere, the news is abuzzed with the humanitarian aid floatilla to Ghazza being intercepted at international waters. The floatilla group, this time, is big consisting of 496 participants from 47 different countries.

They have been 'arrested' on interception and many are still being held in prison despite the international protests. With the help of our Prime Minister and many others, 23 of Malaysian participants have been released, alhamdulillah.

On another piece of interesting news, the Prime Minister has also announced the forming of a national team for quantum science & technology. I do not know who will be on board but I certainly hope that it will be inclusive particularly given that there is already the MyQI initiatives. 

I am also happy to see that my younger colleagues in UPM has started to organize events in collaboration with UM (see here). I hope that it will be successful.