MCO 2.0

 It's MCO again.

I am not surprised with the announcement. Most expected.

Working from home? Nothing changes ... I have been at home since March 2020. It is nearly a year. Classes went on as usual. Students were evaluated and assessed. They passed and failed. The turbulence behind the happy faces on the camera is something that no one knows. Or behind the closed cameras of an online classes, they are some struggling to juggle between helping parents and fulfilling their students duty. Pity them so much.

 When this morning a colleague of mine send a screen shot of a   conversation between a student a lecturer in our office WhatsApp group, most of us were devastated. The student requested an extension to submit his work due to the flood and the power cut-off, the lecturer just bluntly replied, "Solve your problem professionally".

A shot from my class presentation

When another student perform a recorded presentation, another lecturer commented that the set-up is not professional. When viewed at the video, the student was dressed formally, in his blazer, hair were neatly combed, the only lacking was the background was at a corner of the house, which deemed unprofessional. O Allah, perhaps that was the best corner that the student has in the house.

Getting these kind of messages from a so called 'intellect' is something inconceivable. Intellectual may not come from the piece of paper that you obtained after the degree, intellectual is the ability to assess and react to situation in a very justly manner. 

Wake up dear lecturers, you may not feel
the hardship, but please put some sorrow and kindness in your action. After all, these are the man made rules, bound to be adjusted.