ENTERING MY 3RD MONTH

Assalamualaikum,

Since yesterday, my life has been upside down. After receiving a very shocking email from the PG office, I had tachycardia plus sweating! haha. Well, the issue is still ongoing and I believe the shock made a movement for us to have our first meeting with all the PG students in the department. Alhamdulillah. Things does turn out to have good reasons behind them.

This whole hanky panky thing really reminds me of the old memories while doing my Master. The same history repeats itself. huhu. Alhamdulillah, I'm glad that I've gone through the process and I hope it will improve this time insyaAllah.

Anyway, I'm already in my 3rd month PhD. I am counting the days just like counting the days during my pregnancy. In my opinion, PhD is like a time bomb. Everyday, the time keeps on ticking away and if I don't plan my time properly, the time will just slip away and nothing will progress. So far, Alhamdullillah, I've been doing labworks. There are more labworks to do. But, thank you to my very helpful understanding SV for guiding and supervising me perfectly. So, during my night prayer, I must pray that she will live long life, be happy and filled with Allah's barakah and rahmah fidunia wal akhirat. Amiiin.

Latest news, Bibik is not coming back. Yeah. Whatever the reason is, I am glad that she is in her country and not running away just like she did before. So, cooking, cleaning and the rest of the housechores are the added "fetal kicks" for my PhD pregnancy. Haha. I am stil cooking the same food somehow. Yet still to cook new recipesssss....

Aha, talking about new recipe. I did this recipe three times already. Habib loves this so much. He can really eat this Mac and Cheese many-many times. :) So, I must share the recipe here so that  I can refer back easily whenever I want to cook it. And Habib can also refer here whenever he wants it later when he is a grown up man and missing his Umi's Mac and Cheese. haha

The recipe is:

Makaroni Bakar Extra Cheese
Sumber 1 : DayangJack@DapurKu SaYang
Sumber 2: Dapur Mamasya
Sumber 3: Kak Nita

Bahan-bahan : untuk 4-5 orang makan

2 cawan makaroni + 1 cawan pasta spirals (direbus ala dente* dan toskan)- guna 3 cwn makaroni
150 g minced beef/chicken/seafood
2 ulas bawang putih (dicincang)
1 labu bawang besar (dihiris dadu kecil)
1 tin kecil puri tomato atau 1 botol kecil sos spagetti - kak nita guna Kimball
sedikit sos cili
sedikit sos tomato
sedikit garam
sedikit kiub ayam -kak nita tambah
1 sudu besar mentega
sedikit mixed vegetables (akak tambah)

Sos Putih :
2 cawan susu segar
1 sudu besar mentega
sedikit lada sulah
2 sudu besar tepung gandum (dibancuh dengan sedikit air)
1 slice cheesedale atau 30 g krim keju
sedikit garam dan gula

lain-lain : keju parut dan oregano
mozarella cheese (kak nita tambah)

The reference is: http://jomknitamasak.blogspot.com/2013/10/makaroni-bakar-extra-cheese.html

InsyaAllah this Sunday I will bake one. I'll try to snap some pictures and add in for my next blogpost insyaAllah. 

Till then, Annyeong Haseyo

BULAN KEDUA PHD

Assalamualaikum

Alhamdulillah, without me realising, I am already in my 2nd month of PhD. There are a whole lot of things that I need to learn, as some people like to put it in words "That's why people do PhD in 3 years, so you cannot expect to know everything in 2 weeks". haha.

But, since yesterday, I've been feeling good about doing PhD now. And no need to do work as a lecturer for the time being. The feelings just came. Maybe, it's because I've been reading 2 articles thoroughly that really make me learn new things and ask a lot of things. hehe. Whatever it is, hope it's a good thing for me to keep motivating myself to continue this PhD journey till the end successfully. Amiiin.

Just met my SV. A superb one of course! She never complaints but always encouraging. She will keep answering my questions eventhough she already explained many many many times before. Erkk. Eventhough the feeling of meeting the SV is very scary sometimes because she wants to see me every week and update the progress. Scary tak?? hehe. But, I am so grateful to have her as my SV. So, what's next? Of course-lah, not to dissappoint her and my own self, right? :D

K. Tata for now.
It's my 6th week. Gulp!

LELAKI TUA BERKAIN PELIKAT BACA AL Q URAN SETIAP KALI LEPAS ASAR SAMPAI MAGHRIB...

Forwarded dari group lain:

Tulisan Dato Roslan Abd Hamid

Saya jumpa lelaki tua ini.. 

Selalu lepas Asar, dia iktikaf di Masjid..

Baca al Quran..

Umur dlm 70an..

Duduk rumah dkt masjid.. 

Rumah agam besar & menarik..

Hartanya di sana sini.. 

Ada bangunan komesil tengah bandar, bernilai dlm RM 35 juta..

Pendapatan pasif kutip sewa dlm RM70k sebln... 

Belanja RM 20k & baki RM50k, dia sedekah & infaq.. 

Dia tenang bersendirian melayani anak cucu..

Saya mahu ambil gambar, tapi dia menolak.. 

Katanya malu..

Saya minta 1 formula, dia berikan 10...

Saya catat & mahu kongsikan..

1. Pertama, dia kata muliakan ibu bapa..

Doa ibubapa adalah segala galanya..

Ia tiada hijab, terus termakbul..

Raikan ibubapa & jaga mereka sepanjang usia.. 

Doakan mereka apabila telah tiada..

2. Jaga masa..

Ia datang & berakhir..

Urus masa antara 5 waktu solat..

Atur kerja dgn sebaik cara.. 

Pada setiap waktu, ada perkara yg kita mulakan..

Berada di masjid, sebelum azan..

Masuk waktu, terus lah solat.. Selepas solat, bertebaran lah berusaha cari rezeki..

3. Berdoa dgn khusyuk.. 

Berserah pada Allah & bertawakal lah.. 

Allah tahu apa yg terbaik utk kita..

4. Namun begitu, kena lah berusaha..

Usaha pagi ptg siang & mlm.. 

Usaha lah bersungguh2.. 

Usaha bermula dgn berniat.. 

Lepas itu buat, sampai dpt.. 

Kalau tak dpt, usaha yg lain pula..

Adakan masa utk baca 

Al-Quran..

Maka dia pun nasihatkan saya..

"Org yg membaca surah Al-Ikhlas satu kali, sama ganjarannya dgn memperolehi ganjaran membaca 1/3 Al-Quran..

Jadi jika membaca surah 

Al-Ikhlas 3 kali, mendpt ganjaran seperti membaca 1 naskah Al-Quran..

Lelaki tua itu berkata, mulut dia tidak berhenti baca surah al Ikhlas..

Kadang2 sampai 1000 kali sehari..

5. Jaga Kesihatan..

Banyak kan berjalan kaki.. 

Banyaknkan minum air masak atau air mineral..

Jaga pemakanan..

6. Hidup kena buat target & kena ada wawasan..

Ikat perut & usah membazir.. 

Makanan & minuman mesti lah dihabiskan..

Usah berlagak org kaya, padahal kita teman pada syaitan..

Sentiasa lah belanja org mkn & minum.. 

Apabila mkn di kedai yg kecil,  perhatikan kebersihan kedai itu..

Apabila bersih masuk.. 

Disitu kita akan temui ramai org susah..

Belanja mereka mkn & minum..

7. Bila waktu maghrib, usah berada di atas jln... 

Apabila dlm perjalanan, berhenti..

Cari lah masjid..

Apabila di rumah, tutup pintu rapat2.. 

Malam, buang sampah sarap.. 

Basuh pinggan mangkuk.. 

Pastikan semua teratur sebelum tidur..

Gunakan waktu antara maghrib & isyak utk tuntut ilmu agama..

Boleh dgr org mengajar.. 

Boleh juga baca kitab..

Lepas Isyak, buat kira2 untung & rugi..

Siapkan bahan utk kerja esok hari..

8. Usah takut jumpa org.. 

Walau pun 5 minit mahu berjumpa., pergi lah sendiri.. 

Usah pakai posmen apabila depani soal penting..

Biar kita merangkak panjat bangunan..

Biarlah kita ambil masa berhari hari perjalanan.. 

Yg penting, sampaikan dgn tgn sendiri..

9. Balik mlm, usah cakap penat, usah cakap letih..

Usah cakap sakit..

Apabila sakit, senyum..

Allah sedang luruhkan dosa.. Lepas sakit, kita akan lagi bertenaga..

Siapakah dlm dunia nie yg tidak pernah rasa sakit, jatuh & dihina..

Semua pernah, termasuk lah Rasulullah SAW.. 

Namun, baginda ajar kita utk maafkan semua org..

10. Niat kan mahu kaya..

Niat kan mahu bantu ramai org.. 

Niat mahu jadi manusia berguna..

Niat itu macam tulis surat.. 

Dulu tiada internet, mcm tulis surat lah..

Salah tulis alamat, akan sampai salah tempatlah surat itu..

Maka tulis alamat betul2.. .

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how do you summarize your literature review?

This article reminds me of Dr Syazwan's teaching. Learned the knowledge but yet to apply it for my PhD. InsyaAllah, will do one and put up here. 

I know most of you have your own ways of summarizing the literature review. some of em are quite comprehensive. :) cant compete with that.

what do u hope to achieve with your literature review?

if you're writing a review paper to be published, the comprehensive approach is very tempting. however, if you're using it for the purpose of doing research ie helping you in solving your research problem, or helping you direct your research better then you may not need to list out everything you've read.

so, when should i use this?

inshaaAllah, this technique is okay if you wanna organize the literature review in your MIND. remember, the mind can't really suspend too much facts at one time. so, this approach is more of a lightweight process.

the approach exploits the concept of'layering' in literature review. looking at all the journals, articles etc that u've collected can be a bit overwhelming right? so, we're gonna layer them pretty much like a cake.

image from freedigitalphotos.net

how can i do it?

so, how do you do it? remember the acronym I-BRING.

what does it mean? Idea - Basic Related Important New Goal

now, let's take a look at how we can use each of em step by step.

Idea

what's the central idea for your literature review?

first of all, you gotta decide on the main idea that u wanna focus on. this is the central idea of your literature review. supposed u have one and it's all about "driving". so, we're gonna visualize that now. ahh look at that. assume that (faridah, 2010) is the paper that you wanna attach to the idea. so you have the idea in the centre and the ring circling it. wassup with the ring?

Basic 

what's the basic ideas that are related to this main idea?

yeah, once the central idea is clear, try figuring out what are the basic ideas that explain the central idea. when you're doing try your best to stay FOCUS. forget about the new technology and what not. just ask yourself. "what is the basic idea that explains the central idea?" there can be a few, but for the sake of illustration, let's just say that three things are basic to driving. they are... the car you're driving, the cost of driving and finally the traffic. so, you can now update the diagram this way inshaaAllah. ahh that's the first layerof the literature review.

Related

what is related to the basic idea?

now that you have the basic idea etched properly in your mind, along with the key reference, it's time to go to the next step. let's expand it a bit by looking at the ideas that are related to the basic one. Again, try to stay focus when you do this. don't clutter it too much. at most, just take three ideas that are related to the first layer. this would be the second layer. Why are we using the lines to mark the layers? to remind us that we should stay focus in doing the literature review. i know, it's really tempting to talk about 1001 things under the sun when it comes to citing something but again, stay focus!

Important

what are the important ideas for me?

ok, in this step we won'd be adding any more layers yet to the cake, urm.. i mean the literature review. instead, we're gonna accentuate the ideas that are important to our own research. accentuate in the sense that we're gonna make it stand out from the rest. so, to do this, it's important to contemplate, what is it that you're doing for your research? let's say you're doing research on how to exploit the time of driving to save the cost of petrol. can you see how that would affect the pic below?

see that now, all the related ideas are in bold. they are time - traffic - driving - cost - petrol.

New

what are the new things that others are suggesting?

now comes the final layer! the third layer. in this layer you put all the new ideas that are emerging in research. for instance, to save cost of petrol in driving, we could do two things. first, we could work only 4 days a week. going to the office only four days a week instead of 5 or 6 times would save petrol. another alternative is to go to work at non-peak hours, when everyone else is not on the road. this way, there would be less traffic and so inshaaAllah.. less petrol would be consumed. Oh, and notice the question mark inside the idea (?) . it means that the idea is new and is still being explored.

Goal

does the diagram fit your research goal?

the last step is to check the summary you just made for yourself. does it fit your research goal? if it doesn't then you may need a revision. always remember that in summarizing the literature review you need to know two things :

• what's my goal for research? (the literature review must fit the goal of research)
• how do i plan to use the summary? (comprehensive one is for writing, this one is for helping you think about research.

anyway, hope it helps. try it out now. you don't need to draw it nicely like the example. it's best to sketch it with a pen and paper. oh, and when you draw it on paper, you don't have to draw the orbits too. just remind yourself that you need to do it in layers ... Basic, Related, Important and New.

if you have any questions, just ask. i'll try to answer if i can inshaaAllah. and if you wanna know the rationale behind the usage of this approach, feel free to do your own research on schema theory, cognitive load theory and radial diagram. 

http://simpler-research.blogspot.com/2014/09/how-do-you-summarize-your-literature.html?m=1

MY PhD JOURNEY STARTED

Assalamualaikum.

Alhamdulillah, I am back and entering my 3rd week of being a student again. And this time, I believe it is more challenging as compared to before. It's PhD. Just spelling it or pronouncing it to others makes me feel so super scared. 

So, recently I had my "Korea Getaway". Haha. No, I didn't spend money, and time to go to Korea. PhD meh? No travelling-travelling lorrr. But, I watched a very beautiful Korean movie entitled "Angel Eyes". Yup! It is just one of the means for me to release my tension. Errkkk PhD! 

Anyway, promising myself. For my next Korean Getaway, I need to work hard, study hard and smart, then only I'll reward myself. Deal ok drnehar? Huhu. 

Why I am babbling here? 

Well, Mr Hubby forced me in a very nice way to start writing again. "Only with writing, we can share knowledge and experience with others" he said. InsyaAllah, after this, I'll write something more "knowledgeable" to be shared here. 

Till then... Tata. :)