Thursday, December 20, 2007
Doki Doki First Supervision.
I went back to school today (20th Dec) to meet Dr Y for my first HT supervision. Well, ok, it wasn't exactly a supervision session, but more of a short meeting just to go through my research proposal and to plan for how we're going to work for the rest of the semester.
If you haven't noticed, today is Hari Raya Haji. I thought Dr Y knew that it was a public holiday since he even wrote it down in his diary and that he had his own reasons for choosing to have our meeting today, so I simply agreed to it, since I didn't have anything on today anyway. Well, it turned out he didn't realize it was a public holiday at all until he got back from Malaysia yesterday night. I should have remembered that he is rather 'blur' - after all, he once emailed one of his HT students to ask her when the submission deadline was =X
But it was nice seeing and talking to him again, and thank goodness he liked the research proposal. I was so worried he wouldn't take to it since it proposes a rather weird research topic that combines literature with historical scholarship. Everytime I tell my friends that I'm researching on historiography, they go "Huh? You're still a Lit student, right?" But he said he liked the research topic very much and he praised my work so much I felt very embarrassed - or maybe he was just being nice, as usual...?
After we finished discussing the HT matters, we chatted for a while and during our conversation about his recent holiday in Malaysia, THE ANSWER TO THE ETERNAL QUESTION SUDDENLY DESCENDED UPON ME AND I WAS ENLIGHTENED. As Joan has said, we can rest in peace now.
I can't believe he gave me the answer just like that. Just like that. And we gossipy female Lit students have been speculating for more than 3 years! At that moment, I don't know why but I was amazingly calm. I was simply like, "Oh, I see." And then afterwards, when I was on the train typing the sms to Joan, I was like @__@
Ok, I'm totally inarticulate now. I guess I'm tired. But it's been a great day, and with Dr Y's encouragement, I now feel more fired up to do my readings and note-taking properly. Previously I was feeling rather out-of-sorts and anxious about the HT. I think I have gotten some of my "yaruki" back again.
kaoru said at 7:58 AM
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