Khamis dan Jumaat lepas saya ada attended seminar writing thesis proposal. It is by Prof Noorzan Mohd Noor. Saya ada beli buku hasil tulisan Prof title on Writing Research & Thesis Proposals Guidelines & Examples. I bought before I registered for my PhD to write on the proposal.

What is the input?

She advice us to read full thesis research in our area at least 3 research paper.

On the writing part, she said that a good proposal depends on the backbone of the thesis which is introduction part. For thesis, we need to change the tenses. Proposal need to be write in the future tense while full thesis report basically will be writing on the pas tenses because it is actually had been DONE!

This is very important!

She asked us, how many word should be in our thesis. Okey, this memang terkial - kial nak jawab. It depends on the faculty. PhD thesis basically should be different from others and all around the world and we should avoid plagiarism, of course!

There are a lot more information that we got, what among the important things that I had learned is on how to write an introduction.

- from general to specific

- sort references, sort LR

- link problems and solutions (HARD!)

- write LR first before method (pls take note)

- introduce topic, provide background, indicate  gap and state purpose.

Chapter one - is the most difficult to write but need to be finish. It must be clear - interesting.

Research background - LR not just listing - research - years - why relevant?

Research questions - has to be focus - (3 t0 5 RQ is good enough)

Significance - practical value in solving problem value to policy development - contribution to the theory. The criteria should cover - originality - can promote further investigation?

An example of significance: 

1)Previous study have shown importance of innovation in entrepreneurship etc....

2) This study will provide the importance of level of innovation in order to sustain in the services industry...

Problem statement: (what you expect to achieve)

Scope and Limitation: An example:-

This study concentrate on the Bumiputera entrepreneurs in services industry which cover Selangor and Wilayah Persekutuan. Cocentration only 30% of the total entrepreneurs in services industry might limit the data. Additional to this, there are already mush study on Bumiputera.

Literature Review

- need the conceptual framework

- link

- critically review

- narrow LR - focus on keywords

- do literature search

Structure of LR

1) Intro - define topic - trends - gaps - theme

2) Main body - Sources - dates - method

3) Conclusion - area what we wanted to do

Skill in LR - survey - select - analyzed - synthesizing

Then, Prof thought us few basic skills how to synthesizing LR. Do it in table. I had done this.

Methodology

In this chapter I believe that we should confirm the RO with our supervisor then we could clarify what method that we could used. SPSS or AMOS or whatever should be match with our objectives.

We also should look for reliable sources and unreliable sources include fb, twitter and etc.

This snap during the lecture:-

Terjawab Sudah...

Akhirnya persoalan yang bermain di kotak fikiran kami suami isteri terjawab.

Kenapa air rumah kami kecil macam air kencing baby?

Kenapa air tak naik, no water pressure then tank is empty?

Why????

Last Sunday hubs dengan anginnya call Syabas, then Monday tu call lagi, call lagi, sampaila operator Syabas naik fed up, maka tengahari tadi segerombolan kontraktor Syabas dengan lori kecil bawa pelbagai jenis peralatan. Wah gitu!

The, they found out paip tersumbat so bermulalah kerja - kerja diorang kan.

Ni pemandangan dari dalam bilik.

Hubs tengah cekak pinggang gaya ready to go nak korek sekali?

Caya tak?

Memang TAK la!

Tunggu punya tunggu dari pagi sampai petang diorang buat kerja.

Entah macamana pokok depan rumah kitorang tu tumbang!

Apakah????

Sebab diorang korek dalam sangat sampai akar rosak.

Ai pun macam tak kisah sangat, lantak la ko pokok

Cuba korang nengok JCB yang terperangkap dalam pokok tu, nasib tak ada yang cedera dihempap pokok, kalau tak, masuk TV3, glamer ai kejap!

Tanya sama pokok, apa sebab tumbang (sambil bernada ye nyanyi)

Then, terus kontraktor tu call MBSA and clean up the  mess.

Yang penting bersih kan.

Kalau tak mau bangsa - bangsa bersatu kat sini naik meroyan kan?

Harus

Cuma dah takde pokok tu and OF COURSE there will be talking in this area.

Selamat tinggal pokok. and dah tak ada orang sibuk nak rebut park bawah pokok tu lagi.

Kan bagus???

Hehehehhehe

Anyway, ucapan sayabas kepada pihak SYABAS!

Syabas bete!

Apa Negeri Kamu???

I am not a big fan of football or soccer or whatever they called it!

Bukan, tapi once upon a time ai ni suka juga tengok bola, it is World Cup 1998 and Holland was my favourite team. Hehehehhhe

Okey, last night, there was a game between Pahang and JDT. Ni bukan pasal Pahang, bukan pasal mat yo aku tak salah, aku tak salah (baca dalam nada bini mat yo!)

Masa ai kecik - kecik dulu kalau ada games, ayah kata "Yong, kau tak leh sokong Selangor sobab kau dongan mak kau orang nogori!'

So, ayah kata ai and mak sokong Negeri Sembilan because we both lahir kat negeri sembilan, tapi tau - tau jela time tu negeri ni bukan team yang kuat pun. Selangor yes.

So ayah and adik - adik lain akan sokong Selangor and gelakkan kami if Negeri kalah.

Hahahahahha. we took it as a joke.

Sampai sekarang ayah kata ai and mak adalah orang Nogori, dia bukan (even dia cakap nogori mak aih sikit punyo pokek). 

Ayah - he is from Beranang, Selangor and memang sempadan dengan Negeri so dia memang cakap negeri yang pekat. 

Mak - dia asal Lenggeng (N9) yang memanag bersebelahan dengan Beranang.

Kalau dah jodoh kat KL bertemu juga.

Hahahahahahhahaha.

Sampai sekarang, I dunno I negeri apa?

Selangor? 

Negeri Sembilan??  Because I was born in Seremban.

So kalau orang tanya ai, eh u asal mana? I macam ambil masa nak jawab.

Atau pun I cakap "Saya Jawa".

So , apa negeri you all?

Laki I Pahang, noted!!

An Author and Journalist

Ada satu quick test on FB 'what is your dream job'. So i gotta to answer 2 times because I got this two answer on my mind and guess what I got this 2 dream job.

Hahahah. Best suits me kot ye?

Apa beza author and journalist? 

A journalist works at covering news on a daily or weekly or even monthly basis, for a newspaper, magazine, television show, radio news, or Internet reporting. Most journalists are employees of the publisher, although some are free lance.

An author writes books, or poetry, or the occasional magazine article. An author is almost always self-employed, although he has remunerative contracts with publishers. Some authors work for publishing houses that print travel guides in example.

See??? 

It is either an author or journalist that I see myself 20 years from now, but now I nak kejar cita - cita lecturer dulu!!!!

A week

It is Friday. I was busying for the whole week and now at mak ayah home sweet home, in front of the pc. The water pressure at our home sour home kk sangat slow and daddy got to go Kedah, ai took the easiest way balik klm. With the kids.

Monday I got this TPM - bukan tenaga pengajar muda tapi Teachers Parents Meeting at cic. Tuesday, I got busy with hubs at restaurants. Wednesday, I had to see Dr SS and yesterday I spent my time watch DRP presentation.

TPM tu will be on the kids blog.

Tuesday tu I teman hubs pergi renew passport. Half day petang kat imigresen sahaja. Tiring betul. Tiring, bosan dan lawak. Lawak sebab ada sorang pakcik tu dia datang imigresen tidur till the end of the day and missed his turn. LAWAK! Tiba -tiba dia datang kaunter bayaran asked for his turn. Pakcik, tak buat lagi passport kau nak bayar, biar betul pakcik!

Wednesday, I met Dr SS. I represent to him what I had already done. The outcome:-

1) Data tu I have to go to Department of Statistic juga I guess, no choice

2) Read 25 journal then we will discuss together.

3) Title need to be improved

4) He will choose co supervisor with me.

So next day, myself Kak Sheri and Ida we all dah decide to watch drp to get more knowledge. Myself sendiri sempat tengok 2 drp. Then Kak Sheri tanya ai " You got to be kidding Dr SS nak discuss journal with you?" 

I pun macam what?? Aah betul ke kan, I was like blur juga but after all he yang insists to help me because I think that I am the only phd cadidates yang ambil single Dr, in fact yang lain - lain tu ambil AP. AP maybe diorang banyak kerja lain. Ok, I pun malas nak fikir as long as could do the drp next semester that is all.

Khamis pagi before I started the day teringat yang semalam (Rabu) Hanis dah masuk duit kutu, so pagi - pagi terus online and transfer ke Fara. Kalau tak, takut tak ingat. Pagi buta dah hadap pc. Kerja juga tu.

Khamis tu juga hubs cakap he got to go to Kedah, so malam I siap pack everything and pagi tadi terus balik klm.

Tell me, bila masa ada free?

Ohmaiiii!!!!

Thank you!

It's been a while since I have started school. Today, I decided to discuss further dengan Dr SS, so I email him and suddenly, I got an email from Dr Kadir asked on our progress. Eh macam tau tau je, lagila aku tak nak Dr SS fikir aku nak jumpa dia pasal email tu, haruslah tak!

Since I have attended on my own initiative on all seminars, workshops and databases courses tu, I then nak discuss what have I done la.

So I am quit busy with updating my proposal some more. Mybrain result tak kunjung tiba, tpm application lembab bak siput sedut. So, aku macam agak emosional sikit la, okey. 

All of sudden, penjaga adik dah start buat hal dah, I know it! Mom's instinct. I have been spoke to my close friends and also my mom, so mak cakap takpe, dia dah besar, boleh hantar taska. I infact dah survey and tinggal decided nak hantar bila, either on December ke January ke, or atau hantar je next month.

But after all, I really kesian kat adik, yela, dah bape lama pulak dia tinggak kat sana, buat kata aida, kemanusiaan tu takde kut, budak jadi mangsa. Kan? So I pandang muka adik dalam - dalam. I tau compared with the other 3 kids tu, dia yang paling lasak, dia redah je. Macamtula perangai dia kat rumah, kat rumah orang, langsung tak takut.

So dia anggap rumah orang macam rumah dia. I realised that diorang ada favorite budak lain, so adik ni I tak taula macamana dia kat rumah orang tu, sampai terbawa - bawa dalam mimpi. Itula diri I ni kalau apa je mesti dapat mimpi, sikit - sikit mimpi, bosan betul.

Eh, cerita pasal school tadi kan, dah melalut ke adik then kedai daddy pulak. Daddy memang dia spent most of his precious time kat kedai, and a very little time with kakak and adik. Sampai I have to curi masa daddy so that ada ruang - ruang kosong bonding time daddy and children.

Petang weekend je I called daddy jom pergi playground. Daddy tanya siapa yang nak pergi ni, mummy ke anak - anak, I buat bodoh je. Apa jadah I yang nak pergi playground kan? Sebab I tak buat cam tu, nanti diorang tak keluar rumah pulak.

So ada some fun sikit. Sebab kedai tak boleh tinggal and it is our sources of income. So, I pun tak leh nak merungut because I tak payah masak and I must asked daddy to pay all my expenses.

Haritu yang pergi Penang pun dah macam hape tinggal kedai. Susah, So I rasa kalau nak pergi mana-mana tutup je kot kedai tu. Ni daddy kata nak balik Kuantan for his cousin's wedding, I dunno how he is going to manage it. Dulu kata ada kawan yang nak jaga during weekend but it seems macam he is the only to take care of all. Kawan tu pun of course la berbayar kan, takkan nak jaga free je? 

Bila buat FnB ni macam biasalah masaalah tukang masak, tukang buat air la bla bla bla, kadang - kadang kita kene settle dulu then baru ambil adik. Tapi I rasa I dah tak boleh hadap dah penjaga adik tu, itulah satu perangai yang mak cakap susah betul dengan anak dia sorang ni. Time - time camnila dia nak buat halnya pun.

I told daddy if she is my staff, teruk I kerjakan budak ni, sampai menangis pun boleh. Tapi bila melibatkan anak - anak, aku pulak yang nangis kan? Mak suruh I berlapang dada je, cemana lah konsep berlapang dada cik Jamilah oiii. Daddy pulak cakap I suka campur aduk everything, tu jadi tension. Dah I bukan boleh tak tunjuk muka masam ni time amik adik. Kau suruh aku memahami situasi kau? Apakah? Situasi apa yang kau ada? Lain kali jangan jaga budak kalau tak mampu! Sekali lagi I tenung wajah adik dalam - dalam, sian adik. Sorry adik, mummy pun ada ego mummy.

Apa pros and cons kalau duduk taska? Kita tak payah cerita keburukan la kan, semoga Allah lindungi adik selalu. Harapan mummy;

1) Adik dapat makan cara teratur dan tak berterabur, baca doa sebelum makan, jangan suka - suka teraburkan makanan and kutip makan balik.

2) Ada jadual, so tidur petang tu ada, jangan asal time balik je mata bengkak. Alasan diorang ' Anak akak tak mau tidur' Bullshit! Kau mintak aku buai tapi anak aku tak mau dah tidur buai, anak orang lain yang tidur. Sudahnya anak aku tak tidur, kau ingat aku tak tau?

3) Adik sentiasa happy kat mana jugak adik tinggal, tak kisahla mana pun kan.

4) Adik kurang - kurang membuli anak orang lain.

5) Adik jugak tak di buli.

6) Taska adik nanti dekat kedai daddy.

7) Mummy ambil seawal boleh.

Thank you to all yang jaga adik, bukan mummy tak ingat jasa kalian, tapi mummy tau yang diorang dah malas jaga adik, standard la wei, budak cerdik kan nakal (pujuk hati sendiri sambil cry cry).

It is about time to change, they did came cross our life to teach us lesson and to prepared for unpredictable things in the future. We learn from each other.

Best describes me.

Till we meet again - next posts!

Review.. Seminar LR with Prof Juhana

Ini blog saya. 

Today, I wanted to review what Prof Juhana has taught me bout the LR Socratic Method. 

Okey la seminar Isnin tu sebenarnya banyak info berguna but then because of Prof was so busy at the day, ada yang dia tak sempat nak ajar. Ada juga yang rasa tak puas hati cos this is all paid seminar kan.

Btw, this is mpws seminar for postgradute students and workshop to learn more on the thesis things. Every month pun ada, cuma sediakan duit je. Hahahaah

Ok, soalannya agak -agaknya bila kita patut start tulis LR? Pada hari pertama kita baca artikel. 

Soalan kedua, bila patut kita berhenti baca artikel??? Buat time frame sendiri. If tiba - tiba kita jumpa artikel lepasss kita buat LR. what should we do? Just put it in the suggestion site, as simple as that!

At the end of conclusion, the review:-

Two technique approach

1) Mapping - map all your LR

    It is how to relate what we found.  

    Building blocks to all related info.

    Before mapping, we should do skimming and scanning first.

2) Comparing and Contrast 

    Before we could do the compare and contrast, we should find a way to made an argument to the article. 

Okey, but after all, kita kena practised kan?

And I planned to go for another LR seminar on 20th November.

Ni je pic yang sempat di ambil.

Prof Juhana yang pakai tudung biru tu.

Info very useful but time is veryyyy limited!