OutHadi the Box

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.

My brothers - left to right: Hamdi Nur, Huseini Nur, Me and Hamda Nur

The above photo was taken in 1973 in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra. At that time my father was teaching at IKIP (Institut Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan) in Bukittinggi. Our house is located near to the Bung Hatta Palace and the Clock Tower (Jam Gadang).

What is the feeling of having successfully managed teaching? Surely the answer is excited. I felt this feeling when I saw my assessment of my teaching last semester (Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy – SSC2463). This assessment was made by the students. The following is my score.

Overall Achievement Statistics:
Min of my score: 4.64335
Min score of faculty: 4.39
Min score of university: 4.35
My rank in UTM: P5

Note:
P1: Rank <= 20%
P2: 20% P3: 40% P4: 60% P5: Rank> 80%

Below are the comments from my students:
1. best belajar dengan Dr Hadi
2. Dr Hadi Nur baik…
3. bagus naikkan gaji naikkan pangkat
4. sila naikkan gaji pensyarah ini

My father, Nur Anas Djamil, in his library at home in Padang, West Sumatera. The shelves of books collapsed when the earthquake hit Padang on September 30, 2009.

This is the first post about my father, Nur Anas Djamil, written by me in this blog. As you can see in the above picture, you can guess my father’s occupation. Yes, my father was a teacher, more precisely a Professor in Islamology. He graduated from IAIN (Institut Agama Islam Negeri) Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta in 1962. His thesis was supervised by the late Prof. Teungku Muhammad Hasbi Ash-Shiddieqy, an Indonesian national hero. Before retiring as a professor at the University of Padang in 2001, he has served as dean of the Faculty of Literature and Art Teacher Training at this university from 1969 to 1971. He was Chairman of the Regional Board of Muhammadiyah of West Sumatera Province, Indonesia from 1995 to 2000.

As a lecturer and researcher, he has published several research articles that can be viewed via Google Books#1 and Google Books#2.

In Minangkabau society, a clan has a chief, called “Datuk”, who is appointed on the basis of matrilineal descent. My father was appointed “Datuk Rajo Mangkuto” by his clan. The following link is the procession of inauguration of my father as Datuk Rajo Mangkuto in Balai Mansiro, Payakumbuh, West Sumatera in 2003.

Satu Januari tahun dua ribu sembilan di mulai dengan memasuki ruang kuliah — mengajar mata pelajaran Solid State Chemistry. Tidak ada yang menarik, namun tahun ini merupakan tahun yang penuh cabaran karena:

• restrukturisasi Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)
• dunia yang mengalami krisis ekonomi
• tugas saya sebagai profesor madya dan Manager of International Affairs di UTM.