Me Academia

This is my official blog. "The Faculty of Minds"

p.s. nothing related to the Butterfingers the Malaysian band ok.

yours truly,

Got over it, and one more to go...

Fuhhhh fuhhh... berabuk betul rumah nie....habuk tebalnya seinci. Been away to prepare for another milestones in this journey. Alhamdullillah...all went well, I need to make some minor changes though, but as expected. But have yet to get a full report from the panel members. I don't want to put my hope up very high, sekali dapat report kena buat perubahan selambak ko..haaa... mau terduduk. But I am very hopeful that what ever it is, I can complete it in 2 months, because it is the targeted submission date.

Now I can really concentrate on the packing. Still have about 40% more to go. And I have other things to look after too... adeh...tetiba banyak benda nak kena settle nih...

yours truly,

Harapan

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

وَمَڪَرُواْ وَمَڪَرَ ٱللَّهُ‌ۖ وَٱللَّهُ خَيۡرُ ٱلۡمَـٰكِرِينَ

Maksudnya:
"Dan orang-orang (Yahudi yang kafir) itupun merancangkan tipu daya (hendak membunuh Nabi Isa) dan Allah pula membalas tipu daya (mereka) dan (ingatlah), Allah sebijak-bijak yang membalas (dan menggagalkan segala jenis) tipu daya."
(surah Al-Imran, ayat 54)

Ya Allah...permudahkanlah urusan ku di sini. Amin.

yours truly,

Dateline is approaching

I just got back the annotated draft reviewed by a proof reader....adoiyaaaa....banyak benda nak kena refine nih...but I am glad I have sent it to him, because when I read the comments he gave me, I realised there were too many careless mistakes and confusing sentences. My sifo and I sat down and look at the comments, yup, definitely much work is needed. My sifo saw that I was frowning at each comments given by the reviewer and he suggested that I put aside the thesis and go for a break...aiyoh....I cannot la sifoo... a break!! am penniless... I just want to finish this fast and go home.....nak balik nak balik....

tetiba teringin nak makan rendang mak.... nak buat, tapi rasa malas la pulak...aiyohhh

yours truly,

Ramadhan Day 8: Prioritise

Today is the 8th day of Ramadhan. Days are getting less colder now, the winter is leaving soon and spring is coming. Aaaaa...can't wait to see jacaranda blooming, for the very last time.

I received an invitation to review two papers for a conference this morning. I have reviewed several papers before, and I like the idea of providing feedback to the authors for improving their paper. It is not an easy job, especially you are reviewing papers that are not closely related to your research or field. I am very new in this field, have very limited knowledge, hence not able to provide a good constructive feedback especially on theory, but can provide feedbacks on the methods, writings and ideas on practical implications. However, normally each paper is reviewed by least two reviewers, thus the paper got the advantage from other people opinion as well, not solely from my opinion. Nevertheless, I enjoy doing this. Thank you for my sifoo for recommending my name to the editors of several publications. This is a valuable experience indeed, an opportunity that I never thought I will get. But this time, I have to reject the invitation and recommend someone else to take the job (mind you it is pro bono). I totally can't do it now, time is pressing me, really bog down to accept other things right now (my sifoo has just assigned me to another task...hohoho). I have to prioritise. I hope this opportunity will cross my way again.

OK I guess that is what I want to write today. Yesterday's iftar we had ayam halia and telur dadar, am getting lazy to take picture and post it here.Not important right. After sending yaya to school today, I stopped at the local grocerer to buy kangkung, my plan is to fry nasi goreng kampung for iftar today. I wasn't lucky because there is none, so I bought a cabbage instead. I saw cavendish banana, bought them, and will fry the banana too.

So..till next time, selamat berbuka, biar sederhana.

yours truly,

10-minutes post: The proof is in the pudding

"The proof is in the pudding"

That is my boss favourite quote. After an hour of discussion, I learnt a lesson,

"Everything is open for discussion"

Hope that I am able to make one good, strong, interpretation and conclusion of what I have, found so far. Hope I have enough ingredients, utensils, the right temperature and the right amount (note the word 'right' but not 'accurate') to make a good, or better, the best pudding.

But again, will everyone enjoy my pudding?

"Que sera, sera"

Jawabnye.......

"TawakkaltuwAllah"

yours truly,

Been busy because....

Arrrrghhhhhhhhhh....stress stress.... all because of.. let this comic strip narrate my current situation

(source: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1323)

First time in my life I have numerous folders in the hard drive containing loads of extracted data, loads of report, loads of discussion. And am running out of space in the hard drive....

And am still crunching...doh!! I miss Mak!!!

yours truly,
 

10-minutes post: @ the most comfy place at home

Since I have this recurring backpain, I do my work on this comfy sofa bed. I think I can write better at this comfy nook rather than sitting on the office chair. Maybe the bulky chair, and the height of the table have force me to slouch a lot, hence causing me the backpain.



And there is another added advantage, adik seemed to be on her best behaviour when I am sitting at this particular spot. She didn't bother me much, and can play by herself most of the time. But I have to make sure that her fav movie of the day is playing.

OK, I have target to meet today. Have a productive and pleasant day ahead.

"Rabbi Yassir wa la Tu'assir wa tammin bilkhair wabika nas'ta'een ya fattah rabbi zidnee ilma"

10-minute post: The word that keeps on emerging

It has been awhile since I wrote something interesting than cooking ya. Maybe I should change the header of this blog to, "Makan-makan in Brisbane". Honestly I have many things to write, but I should adhere to my priority, to write and compile my first and foremost "novel" so that all of us can go home for good as soon as possible. Why did I said first and foremost though this is not my first thesis. I found writing this thesis is soo challenging, interesting, time consuming, and sometimes daunting. There is a time I can't look at the chapter that I was writing, at all. Rasa nak muntah pun ada. And there are some times I feel like laughing at what I have written, rasa macam tak ilmiah langsung. Well I don't have any other option, but to finish writing this novel, and hope I could write something that is novel enough.

Noticed lately on my friends' wall who are on the same boat with me, I mean literally, this one strong word.
Procrastinate.  And the definition:
"To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness"
"To postpone or delay needlessly."
(source: answers.com)

Aiyah... I guess I am not the only one laaa... though this is a negative vibe, but can't help feeling a little bit relieve. Ehhh...or should I not accept this at all?!!

...alrite...I have exceed the allocated 10 minutes for this entry. Got to start working right away, no more procrastinate for today.

p.s. while I am typing this entry, adik is sitting at atang's desk, punching the keyboard on atang's laptop, immitating me. I was concentrating on writing this and not realising her climbing up atang's chair until I heard the tapping sound coming from my right...ahahahhahah... when I looked at her, she responded, "adik work nih..." owwhhh and that sounds so familiar too


yours truly,

10-minute post: A quick observation in the library

I am now at the library. Since this morning been writing about the outcome of the data analysis, eyes on the screen for a long period of time. And when my back and neck started to show the strain, I looked up and saw...around me, ONLY opposite gender sitting at the nearest cubicles/desks around me. Looking further, I can only see 1 woman out of 4 man in the vicinity. Wow... this is rather surprising. This is unlikely in Malaysia, well to be specific at a few institutions library that I have been too. I don't have any hypothesis to ponder. Just a mere observation.

yours truly,

Marah mode....

Pagi-pagi dah buat den hilang mood.... arrrghhhh tension tul... susah ke nak beri tunjuk ajar....kedekut ilmu betul!! Bukannya suh dia buat keje kite, suh ajar je camne nak buat test, apa menu nak pilih. Itu pun susah ke, kalau nak asyik explore aje, tak siap la keje. Dah sah-sah den nie tak pandai bab tu, nak suh orang explore. Explore pun ada limit laaa... kang jadik Dora the Explorer kang.

Rasa nak jeritttttt sekuat-kuat hati.............

p.s. Sorry, tengah marah sangat nih. Gi makan lagi bagus....

yours truly,

10-minute post: a comfy Nook

Library is the most conducive environment whenever I need to focus on something, be it for writing or studying, or just for retreating. There are a lot of comfy, secluded spaces at the library. Don't know any particular reason why I can work better in the library, maybe the smell of the books, or the isolation, or maybe less distraction of people walking here and there unlike in the office. Or maybe the silence, ehhh..nah... that couldn't be it, the office is much more quieter than the library, yela, with the sound of pages being flipped, the sound of books being retreived from the shelf, people talking though discretely, still audible to my ears. Ntah la ekk...what most important is, I can work better here...

Kalau kat rumah .... haa.... I have several places. An each of them have a specific purpose. Sempat sok, I will tell you more. My 10 minutes is up. Got to go back to the writing.

Books that I need for referencing.

yours truly,

Who says writing is easy....

Alhamdulllilah... I have completed chapter 1 and emailed it to both sifoos. I thought I could finish it in 3 days, but I took 5 working days, about 40 minutes in total to complete it. But before I send it to sifoos, I did final review, and am satisfied with the outcome. But I am expecting a little more room for improvement, coz I felt my words were not smooth enough. But I think, I have tell the story more clearly. Anyway, I can now say, I have one completed chapter, and I can move on to the next 9 chapters (aiyah.... lets ignore the number). My target is to have a complete chapter (by complete I mean, the content, the story line is there, but maybe need more editing work to have a clean and smooth chapters) in two weeks. Yet I know, the LR chapter will need at least a month to do it. The date line is the first week of August. That is to come out with a complete draft, free from spelling and grammatical error. I sure need a proof reader to read it before I can hand over the complete draft to my sifoos for final review. Any volunteer? :D

Academic writing is not an easy task for me. Atang asked me why I spent a lot of time writing a paragraph, for I can write a post in no time for this blog. I said academic writing is not the same as creative writing. When I write this blog, it came straight from my heart. I just spilled out what I have on my mind, often I don't need fact to support my argument. And whatever I write today, it doesn't has to be valid, and may not apply for tomorrow.

On the other hand, in academic writing, you are writing a story that will contributes to the knowledge for the benefit of the people, nation, on the phenomenon you are researching. So you need to have the fact right. And you need to tell it in a language that anyone who have no knowledge about your research can understand. And you need to tell a convincing story. And you also need to relate your research with past researches. Senang citer, bukan suke-suke tulis la, for your own excitement and satisfaction.

Ahh sudah, dah mula bebel budak fazid nie. Don't get me wrong, I love writing. I think it is in my blood. But sometimes I can easily feel frustrated and demotivated when I am stuck at one sentence...yup...at one sentence. Last-last bangun dari kerusi, and carik yaya n adik. Phewwww... am so glad the kids are here. They are the one who keep reminding me the reason that I am here.

OK, tukar channel. I have a story to tell. Of late we noticed something about adik. Whenever we called home to talk with mak and abah, adik will be restless after talking to them. Especially after talking to her atok. She will has difficulty to fall asleep. Often woke up after a few minutes of dozing off. Many times, after she fell asleep, she will woke up and screaming for me. She will screamed at the top of her lung, and we didn't know what's troubling her. This has caused anxiety for both me and atang whenever adik falls asleep at night. Lately, I put adik to sleep in front of the TV, most of the time with Upin Ipin's vids running. Sometimes this works, other time she will demand this particular video I took of the kids back home in Malaysia. My conclusion is, she misses Malaysia a lot, and more of her atok. For a solution, atang suggested we shall not call home at night, a day time is preferable. We will see whether this solution will work. Kesian adik....

OK laaa...dah lama sangat nih... I should concentrating on my next task. Tomorrow I have a meething with the sifoos, to discuss my chapter 1. Suddenly I feel sooo nervous....

I end this post with some pictures of my two little princesses that we took at Southbank Parkland last Saturday. Masih lagi summer, so bagi chance diorang berendam puas-puas sebelum sejuk datang....

yours truly,

bila tekak nak apam balik

Salam friends, kengkawan and all...

Last week I finally get the focus I need. Tak lama, dua hari jek, but cukup la tu. Managed to complete a couple of tasks and met the milestones. And suddenly my sifoos started demanding, although I think it is conceivable, tapi den nie cepat gabra, bukan sikit, banyak...ahahahha...nampak aje den nie cool outside, tapi dalam, rasa seumpama kartun flintstones yang tengah berlari membawa kereta yang bertayar kan batu tu. Kat sini ada tayangan kartun flintstones setiap jam 6 petang kat Go Channel (lari tajuk dah nie)...

Anyway, minggu lepas jugak rasa malas nak duduk depan komputer, tapi apo nak buek, dah kojo dengan komputer, so malas la nak online segala macam fasiliti rangkaian sosial ni. Kengkawan pernah rasa cemuih/jemu/jelak tak bila mengadap internet? Haaa sampai gitu sekali. Tapi sempat gak la dload Nigina dan O-Mei pada penghujung hari, ahahahhaha....

Dan oleh kerana mood detox (detox dari online yo, tapi still working with the machine) minggu lepas, jadik malas la nak carik resepi-resepi baru untuk projek hujung minggu, sampai la petang Khamis, tetiba tekak nak makan apam balik. Nie sebab tengok "My Kitchen Rule" la nie, tengok chocolate mousse cake contestants yang sedap tu. Nak buat mousse cake, issshhh tak terbuatnye, nak buat chocolate cake, kena pikir 100 kali, kena find out dulu sape yang boleh menghabiskan kek itu (kang tak pasal-pasal den yang kena abiskan). Jadi oleh kerana tak nak menganiaya sesape (atang now is blaming me on his sudden weight increment), tekak nie terus switch kepada apam balik (boleh gitu). But then I need to get the approval of atang (sebab dia yang akan makan nanti) wakakakkakaka.... and he agreed by searching the recipe for me (dah den masih lagi cemuih nak masuk internet).

Jadi petang jumaat tu, oleh kerana dah tak tahan sangat... orang kalau dah food lover, craving dia memang tak bleh sekat-sekat lagi. Den pun try la buat. Kacang tumbuk, beli yang dah siap. Dan....



Fuhh....lembut dan gebu apam balik nih. Credit pada yang berkongsi resepi. Untuk resepi, sila klik di sini ya :D.

Oh ya....hampir-hampir terlupa. Ada sorang reader, namanye Lya, tinggalkan comment at one of my pizza's entry. I thought at first I wanted to respond directly under that story, but I think it would be difficult for her to search back the post since I have removed the "direct-link" box to comments posted in this blog. Thus, I replied her comment here:

salam, find out your blog. interesting. nak tanya mana u beli chicken pepperoni kat brisbane ni?Thanks.Lya

Thank you Lya for visiting, it is my pleasure to help newcomers, muslim students especially, about halal food in Brisbane. And glad you found this blog interesting.

About halal pepperoni, I usually bought it at Ismail Butcher at McWhirters in the Valley, or popularly known as China Town. Tapi tengok jugak, sometimes takde. Other option is the butcher at Logan Rd. But it is a bit expensive there. Maybe some of my Brisbane friends have other suggestion. Hope this helps.

Apa pulak citer my two little princesses. Yaya is now happy in school. She met her old friends from prep classes, so happy to go to school everyday. Tapi makcik nie mmg jenis forgetful laaa...ada aje barang tertinggal kat sekolah... aduhai... Yang si kecik cilik nie pulak, kuat menyonteng, pantang kite leka sikit, kalau ada pensel kat tangan dia, ada la ruang, n ceruk dia akan conteng nanti.... And adik still can't leave her pacifier. Her old ones dah koyak, so we have to buy a new one on weekend (takut kang dia tertelan pulak bila sedap ngisap tu). Kenapa we all tak stop aje kan?? We just hope she will get tired of it, like yaya. Yaya dulu tak lame, masuk 1 tahun lebih sikit, dia dah tak nak. Maybe puting adik nie sedap sangat kot....

yours truly,

Gelagat orang dan citer makan-makan yang sudah semestinya ada...

Tengah buat data collection nie, although it was very tiring, tapi seronoknye dapat jumpe user yang citer macam-macam, baik dari segi sistem yang sedang dinilai tu, sampai la citer raye. Den nie pulak mmg suka berborak, bila user tau den nie datang dari Australia, lagi la panjang citer nye. Yang kelakarnye, masa mula-mula nak start communication tu, diorang macam layan tak layan la den nie, sebab den tau, kalau den cakap student, mesti diorang ambil endah tak endah aje. Tapi bila den citer den nie keje kat so-and-so, sambung belajar PhD, baru la diorang layan den macam kakitangan. Ini lumrah alam la nie, den pun mmg expect benda macam nie berlaku. Jadi den anggap nie semua learning process. Manusia nie macam-macam ragam, macam-macam persepsi, macam-macam fikiran. So den kena la professional kan... wakakkakaka...takpe...den tak kisah. Jadi den layankan aje....

OK ..dalam borak punye borak tu dengan pelbagai user nie, yang lawaknye, bila den kata den sambung buat phd, remark yang diorang bagi, issshhh muda-muda dah buat phd.... den reply, "ehhh tak puan, saya dah tua nie, anak dah dua". "haaa anak dah dua, yang tua baper tahun?". "sekolah dah, darjah 1".... "laaaa umur berapa nie? ".. sambil sengih-sengih, "XXX" (ceh XXX kunun wakakakkakakakk...den bagitau la kat user2 tu, kat sini den tak disclose laaa :D)

OK tu bab umur, bab lain, diorang banyak tanye pasal makan la kat sana. Halal tak? Makan macammana? ada sorang tanye "KFC sume ada kan...". "Ada, tapi tak Halal"."Iye...laaa....macammana sini boleh halal pulak". "Sana ada daging tu la puan." "Ohhhhh....." Diorang pun kesian tengok den buat muka kesian..wakakakkakak....

Issshhh macam-macam citer lagi laaa.... hilang penat den naik turun tangga kejar user nie, bila dilayan macam tu sekali. Tapi kalau diorang offer sirap limau air batu lagi best...wakakakkakaa

OK... balik kali nie den tak merayau sangat, macam-macam keje kena buat. Ini pun banyak lagi nak kena buat. Lepas tu ngan kejadian cirit birit raya haritu, kena conjukvitis pulak kami 3 beranak minggu lepas. Memang tak ke mana sangat la kami. Lagi misi mencarik makan pun kurang kali nie, maybe sebab dah banyak kali pulang Malaysia kot. Apa-apa pun ada gak la yg kami teringin....



Dah ada Manhattan FM kat Jusco Seremban laa....mussels garlic butter die mmg marvelous.



Satay R&K...jangan tanye den R&K tu apa maksudnye. Yang den tau satay dia memang sedap. Dah lama jadi klien nie. Kuah kacang dia yg paling sedap, daging satay rasa manis, tak rasa ubat (setengah2 satay tu terasa ubat pelembut daging tu). Fuhyooo....satay....



aaaa yang nie den beli kat pasar malam yo.... banyak2 yong tau foo yang den pernah rasa, 2 tempat je den rasa yong tau foo dia orang tak bleh celen punye.... satu kat plaza kotaraya JB (tak tau ado lai ke tak nie), lagi satu kat foodcourt The Mines. Yang kat JB tu, sup dia mmg sedap, lepas tu kuah dia mmg macam yong tau foo cina punye...alamak susah pulak nak explain. Kalau sempat kat JB nanti den gi terjah, kalau ada lagi laaa. Yang kat The Mines tu, special dia, sebab dia goreng dulu semua Tau Foo yang kita ambil tu, so dia garing2 sikit la. Sedappp.... adehhhh....
eh kengkawan.....tau tak resepi kuah yong tau foo nie.... kalau tau...sudi la share ngan den yo....hehehehhe

Itu aje la citer hari nie...Minggu nie den ke JB, insyaAllah. Sempat kang den citer lai yo...

yours truly,

Spring has sprung....

.....it shouldn't be this early... but it surely warm nowadays... yesterday the temperature marked at 34 deg C.... it was like I was sitting near to a vacuum blower.... was expecting a cooler weather during this fasting month. Well this will be a motivation for me to stay in the office...

ok...been busy..and will be busy for the rest of the week, month until end of the year kot... nak dekat2 abis nie...tetiba je rasa tak cukup 24 jam....tetiba je sifoo jadi alert dan provides me with a list after list of questions for me to answer..... aritu rasa macam tak diendahkan.... how frustrated when your hard work, your arguments like falling on a deaf ear.... baru lepas overhaul agaknye.... suddenly everything is working well.... and I got an endless list to do (my sifoo called it as "laundry list") ..... hambik..... ahahhaha...

ok laaa...dah 4 hari Ramadhan berlalu.... tinggal lagi 26...eh tul ke....kalau kat sini slalu puasa 29 ari je...ahahhahaaa... Selamat berpuasa, terawikh jangan lupe :D


yours truly,

VALIDATING THE IS-IMPACT MODEL: TWO EXPLORATORY CASE STUDIES IN CHINA AND MALAYSIA

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Still unable to...

Salam and hello kengkawan/friends

This weekend was pretty messy (FYI I do all my blogging in the weekend ya, except for certain urgent entry, hence the word "this weekend" heheheh). I have drafted some entries, but I am not able to finalise them to be published. Will try and publish some stories after my presentation ya. And... I am SOOOO SORRY for not visiting you lately... but that doesn't mean I am ignoring you my friends hehehheh.... soon when everything is back to normal (I mean in my mundane life), I will knock on your doors again ya.

And.......slurrrpppp...hehe




There were many times, that I didn't feel like cooking and eating out. So that leave only one choice....atang's mee segera. I can never cook the mee segera like he did. Tak tau kat mana silap. Atang's mee segera is extra super duper yummy. But I guess that is my weakness and atang has skill in that area. OK la tu, sekali sekala pekena air tangan suami ekkk :D

owwwhhh... can't wait to fall in their arms again.....





yours truly,

Sorry love...I've been busy

Sorry kengkawan, last week was pretty tight with the analysis, and preparing slides for the presentation. Last Saturday, we had lunch with my long lost friend. She came to Brisbane for a week, office matter.

Tomorrow I have a presentation in front of the colleagues and sifoos. The sifoos want to make sure that I don't say benda-benda merampu...ahahahha.... seriously ahahaha..naahhh.. I should be ready for the actual presentations, so tomorrow is kinda rehersal.

ohh yes... forgot to mention, "sorry, love" is a common speech by oz. Love is referring to female. So if they are referring to male, they would say "sorry, mate".

See you soon.

yours truly,