OutHadi the Box

Photograph of two hours prior to the year 2011

The above photograph is taken two hours before entering the year 2011. Year 2010 is now a memory which many great events happening during the year 2010. The biggest event was my appointment as a full professor at UTM. Another happy event was when my son, Farid Rahman Hadi, got 9A in Lower Secondary Assessment (commonly abbreviated as PMR – Penilaian Menengah Rendah – in Malay).

To be sure, the 2010 is a very busy year. As a regional manager of international affairs for Indonesia in my university, in 2010, I made thirteen-time trips to overseas, where twelve times to Indonesia and once to Japan. Internationalization is one of the main agenda of the UTM in 2010 and also 2011.

I also would like to express my apology to all of my students because in the year 2010, many of the lectures were canceled because of clashes with oversea trips and my attendance in important meetings.

Analysis of my publications cited in ISI Web of Knowledge as of 29 September 2010.

Explosion of information has occurred in recent years. Therefore, good information from high quality scientific researches is needed. These pictures show my duty as a reviewer of various journals to maintain the quality of information and research produced.

Currently I am a reviewer of the following journals:
- Applied Catalysis: A General (Elsevier B.V.)
- Catalysis Communications (Elsevier B.V.)
- Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier B.V.)
- Chemical Papers (Springer-Verlag GmbH)
- Colloid and Polymer Science (Springer-Verlag GmbH)
- Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology (Elsevier B.V.)
- Materials Research Bulletin (Elsevier B.V.)
- Materials Chemistry and Physics (Elsevier B.V.)
- Catalysis Letters (Springer-Verlag GmbH)
- Applied Surface Science (Elsevier B.V.)
- Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters (Springer-Verlag GmbH)
- African Journal Pure and Applied Chemistry

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Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hadinur/sets/72157624646416209/

Foto di atas adalah foto terbaru keluarga Hadi Nur. Nah, baru ketahuan “siapa” mirip dengan “siapa”.

The above photo is proof that we are in the age of information. Recently I deleted 2600 Short Message Service (SMS) messages from my mobile phone. This does not include the ‘junk SMS. Sometimes I thought about running away from the ‘gadgets’, which has been controlling my everyday life.

This post is about the history of my personal website, http://www.hadinur.com. I began to know the Internet when I came to the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 1995 as a PhD student. In 1999, when I was a postdoctoral fellow at UTM, I created a website at http://www.angelfire.com/mt/hadinur. In 2000, I created a new account in http://www.geocities.com/hadinur when I was a postdoctoral research fellow at Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University. After I returned to UTM, in 2003, I moved my website to http://www.ibnusina.utm.my/~hadi. In May 2007, I decided to rent a domain http://www.hadinur.com.

I and my mother when I was 10 months (1970) in Bukittinggi, West Sumatera.

Abu Huraira reported that a person came to Muhammad SAW and said: Who among the people is most deserving of a fine treatment from my hand? He said: Your mother. He again said: Then who (is the next one)? He said: Again it is your mother (who deserves the best treatment from you). He said: Then who (is the next one)? He said: Again, it is your mother. He (again) said: Then who? Thereupon he said: Then it is your father.

This page is about my mother. My mother’s name is Sofiah Djamaris. She was born in Sawahlunto, West Sumatera on October 10, 1933 (in the certificate and the passport were written born in 1934). She was retired as a senior lecturer at State University of Padang (Universitas Negeri Padang) in 1999. Although my mother is not well recognized in the academic world, their children know that she is an intelligent person. Her friends and teachers recognize that she is a smart student. She was the favorite pupil of Pak Jalal (father of Prof. Fasli Jalal, now is a Deputy Minister of Ministry of National Education, Indonesia) when she was studying at Diniyyah Putri, Padang Panjang, West Sumatra in the 1950s. She obtained her first degree in Islamic Studies from Institut Agama Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta in 1964. Her thesis was supervised by the late Prof. Muchtar Jahja.

My mother come from a village called Pamuatan which is located in Sijunjung distric in West Sumatera province. She was the first person from the village who got a bachelor degree from the university. At that time, this is a remarkable achievement since her mother who financed her study at the university is illiterate.