Free to choose

My final year research project starts this week. First txt I received on Monday was fr a student unable to come to university due to family matters. Before I joined university, I hardly tolerate when people give this kind of excuse...well, I guess I'm getting more mature or more practical nowadays...:-D

Everything goes on quite ok. I always ask myself do I want to be a person who just give assign people to do the job or somebody who guide them...?? During my FYP, my sv only assigned me with a title, never really guide me..But she actually spent time when I really could not think anymore...my PhD sv also did almost the same thing. None of them ever pushed me..hahahaha..thank God I still myself...:-))

Am I going to do the same..yeah...I guess it's up to me. I know what I like and what I hate the most...am I going to repeat the history?

with 5 FYP students + 2 master students, it's quite tiring to do what I wish to do...oh well, I'm quite good in kicking _ _ _..

Yellowman..

Months ago when I read in The Star about this Digi yellowman turned up at somebody home, I always thought I would love to do the same...hahahaha...this yellowman getting more and more cuter day by day..and the ads also funnier than ever...

My youngest nephew shares my interest as well :-D Yesterday, when I visited him he made several yellowman moves from the latest ads..soooo cute...Although, he can't speak yet, he manage to mock yellowman move :-)

If only Digi can promote themselves like XPax or Hotlink....

Palace statement

With news in all media that Istana regret the 10 eleven march make me sick. Obviously something is wrong somewhere..I just don't get it first, it's not the official 'penyimpan mohor besar raja-raja' that gave the statement. Secondly, they invite 'tauke' from Bukit Bintang to say all business lose millions in 1 day..what's the relation?

Here is an interesting article from Malaysia Today. Some parts quite interesting :-D

• FROM HISTORY- In November 1999, I was tasked with the job of delivering a letter from Barisan Alternatif to the Istana Negara requesting an audience with The Agong then, my uncle. I delivered the letter at noon on Friday and went off to the mosque for my Friday prayers. When I went back to the office around 2.30pm there was a reply waiting for me in the fax machine turning down our request for an audience, with a suggestion that we try again after the general election. Our letter was addressed to The Agong. The reply came from the Prime Minister’s Department. The Agong never got to see the letter and was not even aware that one had been sent. And that was probably the fastest reply ever from a government department in Malaysia’s entire history.

• This Datuk Pengelola Bijaya Diraja chappie is a most unpopular personality in the Palace office. Everyone in the Palace office knows he has been planted there as the eyes and ears of the government. And his job is not only to keep a watch on things and report back to the Prime Minister’s office whatever is happening in the Palace, but he has also been tasked with the job of frustrating every effort of The Agong in interacting with the rakyat (citizens).

• Oops, forget about arresting them. 50,000 is too large a number to arrest. There are not enough trucks to ferry 50,000 and not enough jails to house 50,000 people. Instead, close all the roads leading into Kuala Lumpur. Seal off Kuala Lumpur and not allow anyone in. Let it remain 50,000. Don’t allow it to grow to 100,000. Then we will announce we won. We will announce that the march failed and the ‘illegal demonstrators’ were prevented from assembling at Dataran Merdeka.

Those who read The Star on 10th March should know that massive traffic jam happened on that day. Heaps of road blocks and a lot of roads were closed and diverted to other places. Most 'official media' reported only 4000 people in that gathering, how true?? 4000 out of 24 000 000, nothing to worry hahahaha..Obviously more than 40 000...

Hujan - Pagi Yang Gelap

Hot song on FlyFM...although the voice was like the singer just woke up in the morning (quite mandom) :-), the song quite nice...hehehehe..at least me and few friends like it..probably because I listened to this song more than 5 times a day...

Hujan - Pagi Yang Gelap

Lebih tua dari ku harap sabar menunggu
Kepulangan mu ku tunggu
Bukan maksud ku mendiam
Tiada niat menyimpan dendam
Hakikat nya rindu yg mendalam

Jalan inikan membantu
Hari esok siapa yg tahu
Kata ibu dengar sahaja
Cerita hanya kita berdua

Pagi yg gelap kini sudah terang
Aku adik mu
Dan engkau abang
Ku amat merindui kan mu
Pagi yg gelap kini sudah terang
Aku adik mu
Dan engkau abang
Ingin ku ulang kemasa dulu

Tak akan putus
Hubungan kita
Tarik nafas lega kerna aku tak apa apa

Jalan inikan membantu
Hari esok siapa yg tahu
Kata ibu dengar sahaja
Cerita hanya kita berdua

Pagi yg gelap kini sudah terang
Aku adik mu
Dan engkau abang
Ku amat merindui kan mu
Pagi yg gelap kini sudah terang
Aku adik mu
Dan engkau abang
Ingin ku ulang ke masa dulu

I need some sleep..

a bit tiring this week with short course and exam marking...sleep late, wake up in the middle of the night or wake up early in the morning just to do some work..



I need some sleep. I can’t go on like this. I try counting sheep, But there’s one I always miss. Everyone says I’m getting down too low Everyone says: "You just gotta let it go" "You just gotta let it go" I just gotta let it go I need some sleep time to put the old horse down I’m in too deep and the wheels keep spinning round Everyone says I’m getting down too low Everyone says: "You just gotta let it go" "You just gotta let it go" I just gotta let it go You just gotta let it go You just gotta let it go You just gotta let it go

5 star but not a world class university

Excellent but not a world class university. in line with out motto "WE LEAD"

According to The Star today, USM was named as the best overall university in survey..Although, UKM held the highest rank in World Class Universities list, USM is more popular when comes to research.

The main advantage of universities in Klang valley is they can easily find postgraduate students. Unlike us in such a small town (engineering campus in particular), we can barely find students. The best thing we can do is to call up friends from other universities and ask their favour to find students for us. I can't imagine to do research work without postgraduate students..In order to maintain the highest position, I guess the top management must do something about it..or else it will affect the performance in the future...

here is the full article about it...

USM named best overall university in survey

By KAREN CHAPMAN and SARAH CHEW

PUTRAJAYA: Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) has been named best overall university in an academic reputation survey carried out by the National Accreditation Board (LAN).

It had a score of five, which is equivalent to excellent.

Of the 10 domains in the survey, which include the perception of respondents according research quality, academic resources, reputation of academics, quality programmes and the university of choice for students, USM scored mostly fours and fives.

According to the scale, one is weak, two unsatisfactory, three satisfactory, four good, five excellent and six outstanding.

In an immediate response, USM vice-chancellor Prof Datuk Dzulkifli Abdul Razak said it was a good start.

“Now we have to work harder to maintain this position and lead the pack,” he said.

Asked why none of the four research universities had obtained “excellent” or “outstanding” in terms of research quality, he believed the universities had to improve their applied research.

“This is as opposed to basic research, which is laying the foundations and viewed by the public as having little application,” he added.

Higher Education Minister Datuk Mustapa Mohamed said the survey, based on information from 2005, was sent to 954 individuals with 272 responding.

“Outstanding could be seen as world class. Based on the perception of the respondents in the survey, our universities have not reached that status yet,” he said when asked why no institution had been classified as “outstanding”.

Tiada Universiti terbilang

Tok Pa's statement in Utusan Malaysia, non of the public universities achieved 'universiti terbilang' (world class university) -survey by Malaysian Quality Accreditation or previously known as Lembaga Akreditasi Negara....Therefore, don't syok sendiri :-))

Anyway, it's great to highlight 2 paragraphs:

Beliau berkata, kajian yang bermula sejak Ogos tahun lepas hingga Julai lalu itu mendapati ramai responden meletakkan Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) pada tahap cemerlang, manakala Universiti Islam Antarabangsa (UIA), Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Universiti Malaya (UM), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) dan Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) pada tahap baik.

Bagi kategori reputasi tenaga akademik fakulti pula, UM dan USM (Cemerlang) manakala UIA, UKM, UPM dan UTM (Baik); universiti yang menjadi pilihan pelajar ialah UM dan USM (Cemerlang) manakala UIA, UKM, UPM, UTM, UiTM dan UUM (Baik); dan kualiti graduan pula merujuk kepada UIA, UiTM, UKM, UM, UPM, USM, UTM dan UUM (Tahap Baik).

From the survey, I guess I'm in the right direction....Just can't imagine how much more workload they are going to dump on us to maintain or improve the status...cemerlang, terbilang, TEMBERANG!

my life update

I've been busy after raya...most of my colleagues took 2-3 weeks off, so we have so many things to settle including course work marks, grants etc..also, so many gossip...hehehe..

I managed to spend my weekend at Kuna's place last week. Me and Syaf visited our 'sentimental places' e.g. Tasik Melati, MRSM Perlis, Taman Ular...A week before SPM, me and my classmates spent our time at Tasik Melati to study history...I never even got B and above in history, but I got A for my SPM....hahaha..Tasik Melati changed a lot compared to more than 10 yrs back while I was there-so fast..I feel like I just sat for my SPM last year hahahaha....young forever! When we visited MRSM, they actually had graduation ceremony..so we only wandering around to see familiar places such as Desamara Anggun, Ekhwani, Bukit Gondol etc...Hmm, I don't know either I do like MRSM or not since that place changed me a lot...physically and mentally...Best parts of our visit were foods and shopping...nice ikan bakar and seafoods in Kuala Perlis..Shopping at Padang Besar and Wang Kelian..Don't know how much I actually spend there...hehehehe....

Here is a note from my students...sweet haa?? :-) well, I never wrote to my lecturer though...

When the idiot talk

hmmm..the news in The Star today really make me want to vomit...:-D How on earth SIL said he will use 'protection' as PM's son in law..Well most of us alert how he already misused the connection to the Sleeping beauty PM...oh well I never believe he will use the protection to change UMNO for better...

His comment on myteam is another disaster. Those who watched Myteam2 vs Indonesia will definitely curse him for his remark :-) Started with opera singer Ning Baizura sang Negaraku song in her version. If her version was nice, I don't think I even bother..But she sang the song in God knows what version, very slow...no energy...I was very surprised when only 1 news paper commented about it since the event belonged to SIL..If the event belongs to me, no doubt even my friends will comment on it, am I right???:-) The game was a complete disaster. How on earth the team that was trained almost a year, recruited the player around Malaysia, trained for a week or so in Manchester-end up loss to Kampung-Trained Indonesian??? And then this people say it was a good game.....hello, are you guys deaf or blind??? Or kiss ass too much?

oklah, don't want to ruin my day..hahaha...