By hook or by crook, BE THERE!

Gone were the days aku semak kepala sebab mencari hotel di Dubai untuk conference next week.

Mula-mula plannya nak meronggeng dengan my dear sister, Ryna Ismail yang keje dengan Royal Brunei tu. She has arranged her flight to be in Dubai jugak around those dates, tapi sayangnya bila RBA started downsizing, she was also affected. Immediately effective pulak tu :(

Maka cita-cita untuk hoyeh-hoyeh secara berjemaah pun jatuh berguguran satu demi satu.

semak kepala terubat bila dapat a bar of choc from my dear students

Kelam-kabut la aku cari hotel, sebab kononnya tak nak dok kat hotel tempat conference tu. Jauh dari facilities la, apa la. Tapi setelah aku belek reviews tentang hotel-hotel lain, I decided to just book the same place.

Dah la aku tengok senarai presenter macam tak jumpa pun nama Malaysians. Kalau ada pun, tak sure whether they are going, or their co-authors are.

Lagipun, grant yang aku dapat untuk pegi sana is not that much. 

So, I ended up booking Holiday Inn jugak. Mana la tau dapat geng dengan any presenters...leh jalan sama-sama.

Yang penting, I HAVE TO BE THERE to present the paper.

Why oral presentation?

• Sebab aku malas nak buat poster. 
• Sebab weightage for oral presentation adalah lebih tinggi (or is it lebih berat?) daripada poster presentation.
• Sebab aku bajet terer nak kelentong masa Q&A session nanti. Hahaha

And once everything is done, I will rush back home...bcoz 30th is Lil Adib's FIRST birthday.

So, by hook or by crook, I WILL MAKE AN EFFORT TO BE BY HIS SIDE. Maklumlah...the first birthday kan?

Lagipun, if I delay sampai conference habis, the flight ticket's gonna be ridiculously expensive.

So, demikian sahaja alkisah serabut Volume 1.

Sekarang aku nak sambung Volume 2 pulak, sebab petang ni ada taklimat SBPA pulak.