Keluarga angkat di Hiroshima

Selepas selesai bergambar bersama2 di Goko Senior High School, kamipun bergerak ke Hiroshima Station utk bertemu dgn foster parents masing2. Borang pengagihan keluarga telahpun dibuat sejak kami di Malaysia lagi. Saya dapat Kasumi Kushio dan ikut dia balik ke rumahnya yg sejauh 15-20 minit drpd stesen tersebut. Rupanya dia ada bela anjing, tp saya terangkan …

Rising from the Ashes

  Macam2 aktiviti sepanjang 3 hari ini yang telah saya ikuti sepanjang berada di rumah keluarga angkat di Hiroshima termasuklah lawatan ke Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum yang menggambarkan ttg dasyatnya pengeboman pada Ogos 1945 dulu, lawatan ke Children Peace Monument yang menceritakan keinginan Sadako yg mengalami leukimia hasil bom atom utk terus hidup.   Bangunan …

Hiroshima University: My personal notes

I had an opportunity to embark on an academic tour to South Korea and Japan. Among activities planned were to attend an innovation award ceremony at Seoul, and to visit established universities, including Hiroshima University. Apart from this, I also visited the Port and Airport Research Institute (PARI), the University of Tokyo, and Goko Senior …

Who am I? I am an Introvert

  Just finished listening to an excellent TED talk by Susan Cain entitled “The power of introverts”.https://www.linkedin.com/embeds/publishingEmbed.html?articleId=6956535961619752546 I self-described myself as an introvert. I knew it since I was a child that I belong in this type and this is why: I don’t usually have a lot to say, I prefer staying in my room, …

PhD: It wasn’t easy

I defended my Ph.D. thesis in August 2013. This is my story. After almost 1.5 hours defending my thesis in front of two professors, I passed with minor corrections. Alhamdulillah. But within the next 3 months, a lot of things can happen and affect this result. Therefore, it is crucial for me to not mess …

More about me..

My name is Norpadzlihatun, and my peers call me ‘Atun’. I am a construction lecturer at Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). I joined this university in 2007 while pursuing my Master’s degree in Engineering Management and after resigning as a Contracts and Commercial engineer at Malaysian Maritime and Dredging Corporation (MMDC). I worked with …