beginning of the unknown

received 1st assignment from sv1. need to gather: 1) statistics on proposd subject 2) plan for preliminary interview to be more familiar with them. Asked is possible to start from scratch and end on time, he said ok. adalah semangat sikit, added to semangat from sv2 semalam.

was planning to have this the first day, but didn't have time. so to recap activities since 1st day, here goes...

8/1/08 - registered, went well but had to wait until 3 for id card to be made. made appt to se sv2 but lucky for me both are around and thus had a chance to talk to both, yeay! both were quite optimistic about the journey and assured that insya allah all will be well, provided need to be CONSISTENT!! tips: sv2- write one page a day sv2- try reading 10 papers a day (yikes!!!). hadn't walked that much in such a short time, naik bukit, turun bukit. reminded me of alma mater's orientation day...was very disoriented with the new place. p.s. sv2 is only a year older than me!!

8/4/2008 - early morning received 2 missed calls and a msg that looked like this:
D mana kunci bilik off? DR * R***K. WTF??? what the hell is this person's problem??? i've only been gone 2 days!! 2 days!! and still haven't cleared all the stuff and he's giving me this??? talk about sombong!! could it be because of the DR??? so all future DR....please ambil iktibar sikit. so went to mbk to really empty the highly-demanded room. lepaked with eh, ka, kz and others.
the pinnacle of today is that later in the evening, mfh commented that i haven't worked hard enough, and that i watched too much of the tube :(. sleep with a rock in my heart and tears in my eyes.

8/5/2008 - went to the library, the post grad office (which has ladies yg mega merapu!), thesis room and made a beeline to sv2's office. had to see her to talk, wanted to know more about HER journey. very very optimistic. to add to this, we were joined by ds, who says that "if others can do it, you mmg boleh buat, cuma kena tekun and rajin". tips were given, anecdotes were shared, thank you! while waiting outside sv2's office, noticed the surrounding was not as iso-ed as mbk. no flowers, plants at the dept's foyer, no timetables stuck on notice board (let alone CH!), so diff from mbk. started wondering why would anyone be hard up for cert but performance wise still questionable?? is it not ok to work normally, as long as deliver?? does cert quality?points to ponder....