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Dated: 2013 Oct 28 Mon
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Previous Unloads: 2013 Oct 28: An Imperfectus Conferment 2013 Oct 12: Sandakan at Last 2013 May 30: Romancing the Wave 2013 Apr 20: Agro-Euro Study Tour 2013 Mar 2: The Lagoon of Merang 2012 Dec 31: The Band Has One Last Song to Play 2012 Dec 3: Degree Conferment in Dec 2012 Jun 23: To Bogor Again 2011 Oct 7: Southern Flight to Bogor 2011 Jul 20: Minding the Innocent Creatures 2011 Jun 20: Seeing the Birds in Medan 2011 Mar 5: A Hop to Chiang Mai University 2010 Apr 25: Receding From the Sea 2010 Mar 28: To the Bornean Land Below the Breeze 2010 Feb 28: On the Beach of Kijal 2010 Jan 17: To the Bornean Land of the Hornbill 2009 Nov 10: Dedicated to My Teacher, CheGu Ghazali Hanafiah 2009 Jul 25: A Bridge to Bayan Lepas 2009 Jul 16: UDM Maiden Degree Conferment 2009 Jul 1: The Tanjong at the Muara of Terengganu River 2008 Dec 28: The 2008 Year Event 2008 Aug 12: Kenyir Re-Visited 2008 Aug 08: Taken to the Memory Lane - UKM 1970 in 2008 2008 Jun: Bukit Besar - The Last Bastion 2008 May: An Old Man and the Sea 2008 Apr: Drifted from the Past 2007 Nov: Ke Tepian Sang Seluang Melaut 2007 Mar: Duku - The Fruit of Terengganu 2006 Oct: The Faces of Ramadan 2006 Aug: Convocation UKM #34 2006 2006 Jun: Bidong Revisited 2006 May: Kenyir, Here I Come 2005 Nov: Jalan Hale Revisited 2005 Apr: In the Backyard (and Frontyard) 2005 Jan: Seri Puteri Eventually Visited 2005 Jan: SAS Re-Revisited 2004 Jul: In the Heart of Two Cities 2004 May: Cameron Highland Revisited 2003 Nov: Reunion of Class of 66 2002 Sep: A Consequential Events from Feb 2002 2001 Dec: Digging Deep Into the Root: SKBT Revisited 2001 Jul: 29th Covocation of UKM 2000 Dec: Just An Unlucky Day 2000 Jul: A MiniReunion of Class of 66 1999 Dec: Study Tour to Taiwan 1999 Sep 23: A Week on Leave 1999 Sep: The Officiation of Smart Technology Centre, UKM 1998 Apr MOU and Launching of Chito-Chem (M) Sdn Bhd 1997 Dec: Rally Nationwide Vision 1995 Dec: SAS Revisited 1994 May: First Asia Pacific Chitin and Chitosan Symposium (APCCS) 1991 Aug: Study tour to Medan, Indonesia 1991 May: A Visit to Langkawi, the Land of Mahsuri |
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It was its 37th, the 5th session, 2013 Oct 28 Mon. I was here last year, the 36th, 1st session, which was on Sat, representing Unisza, on the stage. Both were of exact routine, like in an abattoir. And exactly like thirty-five times before. And every time, I kept wondering to myself, how different I was from the rest of them in one thing. The music that was supposedly to accompany the graduates receiving their scroll. It was so loud that the name announcer had to compete to make him-alt-her heard to the audience, even to the q-ing graduates. And the music always wanted to be louder than the announcer, and the announcer yelled to make louder to make him-alt-her heard by the audience. And thus very soon all went to maximum volume. I wondered what was the opinion of the organizer on this competing sound in the event so important to the graduates and their parents? I opined that they deliberated it because they had been bored by the same routine every year, six to eight times in three to four days. Year after year over the years.
Once I was on a commuting bus for about an hour journey. The seats were full by people going home from a full day work in office. These people were tired, some even fall to nap. And during that one hr drive in the traffic-congested road, and a drizzling outside, the driver put on a very loud music. Was it for the tired and sleepy passengers? No, it was for the bored driver. The passengers preferred a quiet drive home after a tiring long day in office. It was an agony during that one hour ride.
