Thursday, April 04, 2019

From LIMA19 to Finnish Dinner and Kebangkitan Harimau Asia

Tak terkejar saya kerja at the new office. Every day is a new day. If only my body is  20 years younger. I told Prof M, masa I muda tak nak jadikan I Deputy Rector. She said masa you muda, you bodoh lagi. Haha. Dapat le selepuk.

So I had to ganti Rector to go to LIMA19 last week. First time since its inception many years ago. Hari I pi tu khas untuk traders only so ramai la Raja2 dan menteri2 dan PM hadir. The crowd pun tak padat. I was well looked after by the young staff yang ada for their product exhibitions. So selamat la I sebab dia orang tolong angkat bags segala. Syukur alhamdulillah.

It was an exciting time. Macam pi concert tengok air show tu semua.Bising sebab lalu dekat atas kepala kita. Then we naik kapal combat USA (yang dah lapok..maybe they are trying to sell it off to any 3rd world country ke). And I saw kapal terbang yang Pakistan tembak jatuh jet India. Fuiyoo, unmanned.I thought LIMA was a male thing. Aleh2 tengok I pun suka. Pelik.

So ada la beberapa MoUs I helped sign on behalf of the uni. I was also shown kapal pertama buatan Msia. Canggih manggih OK? Budak2 muda je behind it all. Sangat bangga ..patut le Tun M tak balik2 dari pagi ke petang round2 exhibition tu. The day before pun dia datang.

Then I attended the Finnish dinner at the Ambassador's place.Baik dia tu. We chatted about trout fishing in Finland and Iceland and Norway.He pernah jadi duta kat Iceland so kita pun bertukar2 nota on Iceland.Very friendly chap. Makanan Finnish pun sedap. Salad dia sedap.


Yang paling best dapat mendengar talks by Tun M and Syed Sadiq at the Konvensyen Kebangkitan Harimau Asia (entah kenapa I selalu nak tersasul "kebangkitan harimau tua"). Although, kekadang byk juga I tak bersetuju dgn cara Tun M ni but pengalaman dia bagus didengar. Very humbling. Dia cakap dia bukan pandai sangat. Tapi dia rajin mengulang-baca buku2. Kekadang sampai 10 kali sehingga time exam, dia boleh nampak text tu sebijik-sebijik, siap dengan gambarajah. Haha, so cute cara dia cerita. I was seated very tepi tempat dia lalu (sengaja dipilih gitu utk mudah tangkap gambar). Aleh2 dia berenti betul2 di hadapan saya. Dia tengok saya, saya tengok dia. I was like nak salam ke tak, nak salam ke tak then I decided to salam sbb rude if I didn't sebab semua salam. :))

Sadiq has a lot of potential.Won't be surprised if he make it to PMship nanti.Better than KJ banyak kali.

Back at work, I kena start cracking on so many things.

2 comments:

ubuntu_linux said...

May Allah ease your task Prof and give you good health

Faridah said...

Thanks Ubuntu.You too.