If I have kids..

.. I’m going to name them (notice the non-singular subject/pronoun used here? Purely subconscious & wishful thinking of my mind eh?) something like Ain, Abu Bakar, Asma’, Adlan or Ahmad something (never starting with Noor- or Mohd- coz the list is endless). This is because I’m not entirely patient person. Eons ago, I usually dreaded waiting for my name to be called upon (it never come across my mind to volunteer for anything – you see, I’m shy.. heheh) by teachers in schools. Usually by the time it’s my turn somehow I would have forgotten the answers or whatever. Of course, teachers know their student inside & outside. They knew that I knew (?) thus I’ll be called upon at the very last (time & again) to give a definite answer (chewah!) to otherwise yet another-unanswerable questions/tasks (ye ke?).

So, it becomes no surprise that I’m ecstatic to this first-name and surname@family-name business in the Western world. By right, I’m now Ms.A instead of Ms.Rad. Happy eh?!
But what happen now had scared me shitless (for the first time ever since I’m new into this discussant business) - the conference organizer had come up with this novel idea of getting discussants for every paper simply by using the participants name-list arranged according to the surnames. Thus my slot is going to be the first slot – first session & first day. I die lor….

What do I know about Vietnam (my intended paper-to-be-discuss)? All my research (again the plural ..encompassing current and future I hope…) are based on Malaysian scenario & I read mostly literature from developed countries like UK, Japan, US, Europe and developing countries like Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico or the Asian Tigers. Aside having to prepare for my own paper presentation, now I’ll have to brush up my knowledge on this Vietnam business.

Er…I’ll be happy to stick to 'rad' anytime!