Saturday, 14 July 2007

kelakar giler..adeiii!!

keh keh keh... semalam petang dpt fwded email dari cik lin..kelakar giler...adeii sampai nak tido pun aku bleh gelak bila teringat. Ni lah dia bendanye yg buat aku gelak tak renti2: Desperate students during exam

ha ha ha..ada gak benda kelakar bleh tengok2 time tensen..

Friday, 13 July 2007

Time Management Tips (By: Sidi Faraz Rabbani)

1) Always ask Allah to bless you in your time
2) Always start things in the name of Allah
3) When starting, have the active realization of ‘la haula wa la quwwata illa billah’ (There is no ability nor power except through Allah)
4) ‘From the excellence of one’s Islam is to leave that which does not concern one’, said the Prophet (PBUH). Thus, leave anything that is not obvious worldly or next-worldly benefit. When choosing between beneficial matters, choose the most beneficial.
5) Consult a good time management book.

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Wednesday, 11 July 2007

Must Read::Four keys to successful action

“How often is a small action made tremendous through its intention, and how often is a tremendous action rendered small through its intention.”
-Abdullah Ibn al-Mubarak (God have mercy on him)

Read more at : http://www.deenport.com/ufind/jump.php?dpid=15&t=op&link=
http://www.islamicamagazine.com/issue-19/four-keys-to-successful-action.html

Tuesday, 10 July 2007

Hari ni dalam sejarah..Hujan lebat + windy lagi...first time aku rase jalan terhuyung hayang kena tiup angin...huhuhu seb baik tak melayang betul...
hari ni rombongan en hussin KPT dtg ke Auckland utk sesi temuduga, so aku pegi je la jumpa diorang kat Langham hotel.. Lps tuh bawak gi makan kat Ayuthaya... Lps tuh, aku jalan kaki balik ofis, sbb nak bwk balik kerja2 tuh kunun nak buat kat umah mlm ni.. Skang ni dah 5.34pm...hari dah gelap...tapi aku still tak bleh balik umah lagi...im stranded here becos its too windy out there..Ujan pun still blum berenti lagi...

Esok..nak jumpa John Grundy..co-supervisor ku yg baik ati tu...terharunya dpt email dia..huhu apa aku nak borak esok ek?? Hari ni aku dpt feedback drpd emilia, so okay la aku kena buang secondary questions tuh.. Actually mmg pening la nak refine and revise research questions nih.. It is damn difficult.. Aku tak sabar nak setelkan bab formulation of review questions ni..sbb the rest of the stories will depend very much on the questions. I still have another 2 weeks to complete the protocol for the review. So far it goes fine...except the one on how to synthesize the evidence.. Aku pening la tak tau nak guna ape, ie cara apa.. if meta analytic is applicable, then I must figure out how to plot the studies using forest plot etc. But if not, then I must find out ways to tabulate ie to summarize the findings such a way to conclude pros n cons of all included studies...Kdg2 rase letih dan busan gak...but what are the choices that I have... I have no other option but to go thru this... May Allah gives me all the strength that I need at the moment..Ameen...

Friday, 6 July 2007

Why research is sometimes boring to some people?

- May be the topic that you’re researching is not your area of interest. Susah la idup klu cam tuh..huhu.. morale of the story is “buat-buat la suka dgn topic tuh..”

- You need to read, read, read and read. Reading papers undoubtedly is very tiring and boring activities..huhu. No escapism unless you’re truly doing theoretical stuffs or pure qualitative research in which your own and only resource is your brain!! Thus, less papers.

- In addition to read, you must also write, write, write and write. So, if you’re kind of person who hate writing, then you’re in big trouble. To research, you must love read and write (macam C program pulak…haha..) Why one need to write? People write to convey ideas and in doing research, you need to tell others about your findings etc.

- The outcome of research takes years to be materialized. If you’re kind of fast person, you will definitely boring tahap gaban because you will never get the result unless you had gone through the experiments and data analysis (if related), or perhaps to run simulations or prototype to prove your hypotheses besides forever reviewing related literature. Bosan tau…

- External factors could also contribute, perhaps the type of supervisor you’re having as well as the environment (people in the office, klu ada mcm “pelangi” ‘best fren’ kak yati tuh, huhu kena sabo je la)

Then, what is the best part about research??

- Having doing research, you will eventually involve in writing a lot of papers for conferences or publishing your paper in journals (berangan dulu tak per..hehe..). So if you’re lucky, your paper will get accepted and you’re ready to fly to US or Europe….yuhuuuu best…!! (this also depends on support from the supervisor + department lah)

- You can do your research at your own preferred time, tak perlu pegi ofis selalu kalau byk distraction (sibuk ym, sibuk cek email etc..). Once a while, you need to get disconnected and focus on your research (so far, it works for me). In relation to this, you must be able to identify the best time that you can highly concentrate on your study (ie. Whether you’re type of morning person, or night person, or weekend person, or ape2…sukati korang lah)

- You will get recognition in the area you’re working on once it is published. Ada jgk la benda nak tambah kat list of publication dlm CV tuh..hehe

- Habis PhD, balik negeri and berkhimat lah untuk negara. Ilmu dan bakti anda diperlukan untuk mendidik anak bangsa..Semoga kita semua mendapat pahala dan rahmat berlipat ganda dari yg Esa.. Ameen..

Ahlan wa sahlan:: Kak Aida and Akmalia

Kia Ora! Welcome to Auckland City of Sails to kak Aida and Akma..Semoga gembira dan selamat menjalani kehidupan baru di sini… (huhu aku pun org baru jugak..ekeke)

Terharunya ada orang nak buat gathering utk mengalu2kan kedatangan kita..ahaks.. terima kasih diucapkan kpd penganjur dan semua yg terlibat.. J

Yeah see you all on this Sunday…

Friday, 29 June 2007

LET BYGONE BE BYGONE

There is an incident that triggers me to write on this theme: Let bygone be bygone. After a month plus living in this city, I finally came to know that actually there are lots of “things” happened here among the M community, some of which are good but some are really... As a newcomer, I did not expect that I need to know much about it. What more important is that, what has happened, has happened. That is it. None of us can turn the clock back to the past. That event is already happened. It is a past. Thus, no matter how bad it is, I do not think that anyone of us (including me) should feel sensitive about it. Instead, we should look and think about it positively for the purpose to learn from the mistake and perhaps to be a better person. There is no use to keep the hatred in our heart. It is a total useless to condemn people about the mistake he/she had done in the past. Let bygone be bygone. Why can’t we be forgiving to each other? Forget the past, and let’s start a new episode. Isn’t it more beautiful to live peacefully and harmony without keeping any hatred or jealousy or negative perception towards other? We know that nobody’s perfect so why do we expect that someone should not make a mistake. Everyone makes mistake in life. But you see, Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Benevolent, always listens to our prayers, and always forgive our sins or wrongdoing. Who are we if we’re not able to forgive people?? Let us now forget the past, learn to forgive and forget. Open our heart to accept if someone were to change to become good. Try to give a chance. Throw away all the egoism since it never gives any benefit at all. Be honest to yourself and to others as well. Be good to people and you will see that many people appreciate you for your kindness. It is so simple yet it is hard to implement one if we keep that hatred in our heart. Take the first step which is purifying our heart to see the truth and to seek only the truth.

Jazakumullah…

p/s: “Dilla, Dzun, Chea, Tikah, Noy, Ekin…you’re the most wonderful housemate I ever had.. I really miss those time when we’re together..”