Before joining PhD:
* I want to win the Nobel Prize.
* I want to win the Turing Award.
First year of PhD:
* I want to finish PhD in two years.
* I want to publish papers only in top tier conferences.
* I want to make ground-breaking research.
* I want to win the [...]
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Funny PhD Resolution!??
Posted in Study Time on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Survey: Update
Posted in Study Time on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Setakat hari ni, dah dapat balik questionnaire around 38 out 500 (about 8% jer). Teruk betul la respond.
Tak leh buat apa la… doa and tunggu. Hopefully esok lusa (next week la) ada banyak la questionnaire yg dipulangkan semula (yg complete la).
Anyway.. next week (from 20-22 Feb) ada kelas RM kat Skudai… hai malasnya eden nak [...]
Slow and Painful Process
Posted in Study Time on November 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Things are a lot better today at work, and hopefully till the rest of the pregnancy. I’ve finish entering the students’ grade into the system (but yet to be finalised) and after lunch time has started compiling all the (supposedly 500) company names from the MSC status list so that I could mail the questionnaire soon. [...]
Terbengkalai
Posted in Study Time on November 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Morning sickness dah berkurang… but now I have different problem.. malas. Malas masak, kemas rumah, lipat baju, gosok baju… semua la. At office … lagi teruk… malas nak proceed with the survey things. Dr S informed me that there won’t be such letter from MDEC since his contact person didn’t respond to his email regarding [...]
The last mile of the survey
Posted in Study Time on September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The questionnaire has been finalised, the support letter by MOSTI has been received last week on Sept 13th, the tokens are ready too, the envelopes are coming.. but there is one last thing needs to be included in this survey so that the response rate is more than 50% … a collaborator’s support letter from [...]
test of the pilot test
Posted in Study Time on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wow… baru buat pilot test pun dah pening kepala!
I contacted 6 companies last week and so far only 2 had responded to the questionnaire. One company, in fact, allows me to have a short chit chat with the staff. I received lots of input … especially in terms of the jargons used in the questionnaire. … and so far both of [...]
Support Letter?
Posted in Study Time on August 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was informed by someone that a support letter from MOSTI should increase the response rate to a survey done in Malaysia. So off I went to MOSTI yesterday with a high hope of getting such letter.
jeng…jeng … jeng… when I reached C5 (does C stands for cluster?), the building is currently under total reconstruction (I believe [...]
Questionnaire itu…
Posted in Study Time on August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I showed the questionnaire to Dr A yesterday and as expected he thoroughly checked it for about 1 hour and a half… teliti betul la dia tu… choice of word pun dia check sekali… nak buat macam mana.. dah dia master in the area. But very happy (gini la rupa nya) …
… with his remark… [...]
Spinning SPIN
Posted in Study Time on August 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was invited to attend Dr S’ meeting at MSC Innovation Centre in Cyberjaya yesterday. I was introduced to a number of committee members of SPIN (Software Process Inprovement Network) M’sia. What’s more important is that I secured a good contact that could help ensure a smooth sailing data collection execution, insyaAllah. Btw, the questionanire is final now and I [...]
Preliminary Data Collection -Part 1
Posted in Study Time on July 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yes.. that’s what I’m doing at the moment. Now, I’m at the beginning of the year 2 stage of my study… I’ll write about what had happend in year 1 stage soon (when I have time la).
In fact, I had submitted the first draft of the questionnaire to Dr S last week and I’m in the process to [...]
