Here we are , bracing the third wave of Coronavirus. still WFH.
Anyway, I found this while browsing for Queen videos, and I just have to post it. Lyrics by comedian Dana Jay Bein, performed by Adrian Grimes, music by Queen obviously. Just a bit of fun to see us through these gloomy times. Enjoy.
salam and good day, It's a beautiful day. A day for spending at the beach or a park or taking my grandchildren to the swimming pool, before covid19 that is. Right now, its best to follow the government's order and stay at home. To quote Clint Eastwood in Heartbreak Ridge: 'we adapt, we compromise'. Right on mr Eastwood. Speaking of adapting and compromising, how do you feel about online teaching? Me? I'm so not into online teaching. Maybe it's because i was born in the 60s and grew up in the 70s and 80s, way before the age of IT, or, may be i'm just old fashion. Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against technology or online teaching for that matter. Technology is great, just not my cup of tea. It is certainly useful, and some people might be really good at online teaching. It's a matter of personal preference, I guess. i remember a scene from the Bohemian Rhapsody biopic where they went to a farm to record their album 'A night at the opera'. At one point, after Brian did his solo part for BoRap, he asked what Freddie thought of it, and Freddie said, 'almost perfect'. Brian: Almost perfect? Freddie: Now play it like you actually wrote it. Brian: i did. I wrote that part. Freddie: put your body into it. And he went on to say, put your heart into it. That is exactly how i feel about online teaching. Making a video of my lecture or lesson is not a big problem, but putting my heart into the video is not easy. Some might say, just post the video. After that, it's all up to the students. Who cares whether the understand it or not. Well, I care. Anyway, there was a forum (online, of course) with my vice chansellor this morning, on the new norm for us in UMP. Nèedless to say, online teaching and learning is going to become a normal thing, post MCO. So, there is no escape for me. Heart or no heart, I'll have to get used to it. All I can do is to give it my best... find ways to put some rock n roll into my online teaching materials...LOL Just like with the movement control order, we adapt, we compromise, the same goes for online teaching. In the meantime, i will do some gardening, helps me think. Salam Ramadhan to all muslims.
Been a while, but here I am again. Two weeks ago, I finally got to watch 'Bohemian Rhapsody', two years after it was released. Sad, but it's been ages since I've set foot in a cinema. Thanks to Astro, I finally got to see it.
I recorded the movie and I watched it over and over, and it breaks my heart every time. All their songs came back to me one by one, songs that I grew up with. Memories of my late brother, who introduced me to Queen when I was 10 or 11, singing along to 'another one bites the dust', 'Fat Bottomed Girls' and 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. My brother was a big fan of 70s and 80s rock, and, needless to say,so am I, and I am still Queen's number 1 fan.
Memories of my days studying in the UK in the 80s, scrambling to the common room to watch 'Top of the Pops', going into record shops to buy their 'A kind of Magic' album and watching 'The Highlanders' a few times because of Queen, and also because of Christopher Lambert, in that order. The movie brought them all back to me.
I love the movie, mainly because I love Queen and I adore Freddie Mercury. Rami Malek, did a great job of playing Freddie. The movie doesn't have any hi-tech special effects or any great fighting scenes in it. It's just a simple story, with great acting and awesome music. What else do you need?
I was in England in 1985, so, I know about the live aid concert, and I can relate to the excitement of that time.I breaks my heart, every time I get to the 'live aid concert' scene at the end, seeing them perform the best live rock concert ever, knowing, six years after that, Freddy Mercury would die.
I guess I'm still mourning for the loss of someone so beautiful and so talented.
RIP. Love you always, Freddie Mercury..
here is the video of what is still known as the best live rock concert ever, from youtube.
esok...i mean hari akan bermula lah International Conference on Human Capital Development (ICONHCD) anjuran Centre for Modern Languages and Human Sciences...(saya punya department la tu)...UMP....bertempat di Swiss Garden Resort and Spa, Kuantan....
tak jauh dari rumah saya...UMP lagi jauh.maknanya, dari pukul 8 hingga pukul 5 saya perlu berada di sana, selama 3 hari...
Saya, originally, dibawah committee special task...dengan en Baihaki, en Musab dan en Adnan (boss). Kami ni, konon2nya macam SWAT la...
tapi, tiba2 saya ditarik ke bahagian registration, sebab mereka tak cukup orang...huhuhu...kena duduk di front desk, dan berdepan dengan participants dan presenters dari berbagai negara...dan perlu senyum selalu... actually, that's not a big problem...
Masalahnya, esok (hari ni) front desk perlu pakai batik.
...erk...batik? mana saya ada baju kurung batik...kata saya...
ala, kalau gitu you pakai je kain batik ala2 sofea jane dalam perempuan, isteri... tu...sure havoc...kata mereka...
huh...tak pernah mati kah dia orang ni....minda saya mencelah.
Bukan saya tak ada baju batik, tapi bau batik saya adalah baju kebaya...agak sexy by my standard...
so,...saya akan pakai baju kurung bercorak batik, tapi bukan batik..boss sure tak perasan nya.
oh...and malam esok ada dinner plus perasmian...rasanya, saya nak skip saja dinner tu.
majlis2 rasmi dan berprotokol ni sangat tidak sesuai dengan jiwa saya yang bohemian.
esok...i mean hari akan bermula lah International Conference on Human Capital Development (ICONHCD) anjuran Centre for Modern Languages and Human Sciences...(saya punya department la tu)...UMP....bertempat di Swiss Garden Resort and Spa, Kuantan....
