TELL ME WHY

Sorry, I should have made this acknowledgement.
The previous post is lyrics of a song by Declan Galbraith.

TELL ME WHY

In my dreams, Children sing
A song of love for every boy and girl
The sky is blue, the fields are green
And laughter is the language of the world
Then I wake and all I see is a world full of people in need

Tell me why,(why) does it have to be like this
Tell me why, (why) is there something I have missed
Tell me why, (why) cause I don't understand
When so many need somebody
We don't give a helping hand
Tell me why

Every day, I ask myself
What will I have to do to be a man
Do I have, to stand and fight
To prove to everybody who I am
Is that what my life is for?
To waste in a world full of war

Tell me why, (why) does it have to be like this
Tell me why, (why) is there something I have missed
Tell me why,(why) cause I don't understand
When so many needs somebody
We don't give a helping hand
Tell me why (Tell me why)
Tell me why (Tell me why)
Tell me why (Tell me why)
Just tell me why (why, why, why)

Tell me why, (why) does it have to be like this
Tell me why, (why) is there something I have missed
Tell me why, (why) cause I don't understand
When so many need somebody
We don't give a helping hand
Tell me why (Why why, does the tigers run?)
Tell me why (Why why, do we shoot the gun?)
Tell me why (Why why, do we never learn?)
Can someone tell us why we let the forests burn

(why why do we say we can?) Tell me why
(why why is it still the same?) Tell me why
(why why do we talk and run?) Tell me why
Can someone tell us why we let the ocean die

(why why do we always say?) Tell me why
(why why do we pass the blame?) Tell me why
(why why does it never rain?)
Can someone tell us why we cannot just be friends

(why why do we close our eyes?)
(why why do we really lie?)
(why why do we fight for land?)
Can someone tell us why cause we don't understand
Why Why?

~~~~ EIGHT MONTHS LATER ~~~~

It has been 8 (eight) weeks since Monsieur A passed his viva. Tahniah!!! Felicitations!!! Congratulations!!! Congratulazioni!!! I have not been updating my blog since the day Monsieur A had his viva. He is now a busy man, he has some hours of lectures and lab, he supervised some Masters/PhD students and also one of those in the management team at COIT UNITEN. (College of IT) Good money comes with big responsibilities.

But being an IT guy, he doesn’t like the management job… he just likes his research and his students’ projects. But since there are not many senior staff at COIT, he had no choice but to accept the post just days after he got through the PhD viva. It is a two-year kind of compulsory post since 1st January 2009. (ooopss… 1st January is a public holiday, must have been 2nd January then) He has been saying to me that come 1st January 2011, he will relinquish his admin post and would like to concentrate on research, blah, blah,blah. Well, do what you are good at, and what is important is that you are satisfied with it ….

PhD VIVA

Today is Monsieur A's viva at UTM Johor. I know that the viva was scheduled to start at 9 am. It is now 11.30 am, so I am not sure if it is over. I have not received any call or SMS from Monsieur A. Probably they (the professors from UTM and also from University Nantes, France) are still grilling him or it is over but Monsieur A is too busy to buzz me. I didn't want to call him yet in case the call might disturb his concentration.

I wish you all the best, my dear sweetheart! I trust that you will be able to breeze through the viva!

ANOTHER WEEK TO GO

I have not posted any entry for more than 2 months. Lazy me. Suddenly I feel like I want to write this ... In exactly a week Monsieur A will be back from Nantes, Insya Allah.
Both Atiqah and Afiq have told me something that they would like to do when Abah is back. Atiqah made plans to visit the aquarium complex - AQUARIA KLCC. And surprisingly Afiq has requested to go to MPH to get a book by Bear Grylls (I think he said the title of the book is Man vs Wild, hope I am right...)

I must admit that for the past one year, the children have not done much traveling, not done much outing, not done much visiting to relatives, etc. We do missed out on a lot of family activities ever since Monsieur A left for Nantes in October 2007 to complete his PhD. I blame this scenario on myself - I am not that adventurous by nature. Being married to Monsieur A has made me become a more 'outdoor' kind of person. So when he is away, family activities have been somewhat dormant! . Hopefully, when he is back next week we will have more time as a family!