UKM 35 Years How old is a University life? Well, UKM is 35 years old. Being a university, it is a very young one. Very young indeed. UKM was born in 1970 May; its 'courtship' began as early as in late 1960's amidst all the oppositions, including, like those of 'Uda dan Dara', its 'parents'. Like many of us, I was part of the birth of UKM; I was a student in 1971 May; then I was a tutor in 1974 Aug; then I was a lecturer in 1976 Nov; then I was an Assoc Professor in 1984 Dec; then that was all I was. 2005 UKM 'celebrated' its 35 years old; Nov 28 Mon was perhaps its climax with the "Hari Anugerah Kualiti 13". Some of my seniors could celebrate together as 35 years with UKM, but I have to wait till next year 2006 to do that. But next year, when I would be 35 years with UKM, it will not celebrate it for me, because its rather odd to celebrate 36 years old.
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Nonetheless, I was not forgotten, as were many others. Many of the many others apparently were very much the UKM themselves, unlike me, who was just an employee of UKM.
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The gratitute the university expressed to its employee who had endured 30 years with it; the similar item I was given ten years ago in 1995 June 9 (UKM 25 years old), supposedly for 20 years of my endurance in UKM, the ceremony of which I attended in DKU.
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The prize I 'won' for the web page competition; at least it is better than the similar prize I 'won' in 2001 for similar competition when UKM celebrated 30 years old. CC apparently had collected quite a goodies of sponsored items. I did not know to which it was meant for. I put up two entries. One was my personal page in non-academic category, and the other was the Pusat pages in the academic category. I knew, none would 'win', because I did not know the criteria in the assessement, and I never bother to recompose them to suit the criteria. And I even never bother to workout a leave to attend to collect it in the ceremony in the DECTAR. Two days after the ceremony, it was delivered into my pigeon hole. Thank you very much dude!