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Saturday, February 26, 2011
Intervene
Assalamualaikum and Good Morning guys.
Yeah, it's been an earlier morning. I'm talking about 12.03 am right now and it happens that I've some interesting stuff that I want to talk about.
How many of you guys ever watch any anime out there? It is a Japanese some sort of cartoon like but they called it as an Anime. If you ever closely about the theme for some serious anime out there, most of the Anime has a very common tagline for the main character (heroes)
- Don't ever give up
- I definitely protect those important to me
- I' sorry, let me handle this, please take care others for me.
- No matter how hard it gets, I will go through it
- .... and others
From the anime, Naruto,the best tagline that I always like is to never give up even though the challenge is hard, to keep on fighting no matter what and try to go through your ambition. Let say in real life, if you want to become an engineer, so never let other people to decline what you are about to become.
The important stuff that I really like to highlight is the spirit of getting yourself in better and have a good life. To proceed with your ambition and at the same time maintaining and improving the way of your life is the most important stuff you must do in your life.
I have heard a story that there is a person A that told the other person B to not giving up job just because to take of her new born baby. The reason is quite simple as the person A said this is what happened in the future, the baby soon is not going to stay with you in the future and don't want to take care 100% of you when they are about to grow up.
For me, it is the choice that has to be made by every new mom in this world or any person who are getting married. That is why most of the big town, suffering a problem called "where money is the most important to keep on living in this big city". Yep, it is quite true because of the nature of human being that stay inside the big city. You and your wife must be struggled to work because of the daily expense is quite bigger and bigger every 5 years. Most of RM3000 household income even don't have a home to buy in the future if they are not getting themselves promoted into high salary income. Poor guy, if they just move to the "not so big city" or just some ordinary town , they might have a house to buy or even a land that cost only RM10 per square feet. Wow, that is only RM100K for 10k per square feet (100 x 100 feet).
To be honest, I'm talking about the time you have spend with your family. Imagine for the time that you have spend all together. Today community does not have time to keep looking at their sons and daughters at home and just let their grandmother or grandfather to let after them. Well, it is not me to decide because I am the one who give an opinion and I don't give a da*m whether you still want to read it or not. Don't put hatred into your heart because that is the reason why you will have an heart attack. Btw, just kidding. But, back to the discussion, it seems, today, partially some of human in this world got nothing to do anymore instead of pursuing for more money and got fewer time to spend for after life. What would you bring for your after life? That is the question you must willing to answer carefully and honestly.
Another important stuff that you need to remember that you are the one that decide what is the best for you and your family. I'm not the one who decide everything because I'm not going to intervene with your life. As long as you are happy with that life, then it is ok. For me, I want to watch my future children daily life, I want to remember how they become bigger every single day. Not just during the weekend and watch them sleep at night, but play with them in the evening after hard work from 8 to 5. Because, I can wake up earlier money from 2 am to 5 am to do my research work and sleep back after Subuh prayer, then take a nap for 30 minutes to 1 hour. As a human, all I can do is to plan. I don't know what happened if I'm not planning.
So, that it is for time being, It is just being nice to write something because that is the nature that I've found after a few years of doing research. Thanks to my fiancee(soon to be my wife) and my family and also my supervisor that gave me an opportunity to do my master (now PhD). So, what ever you do, you must be able to like it. Just I'm always like to write. It is just happened I don't have time to write abook yet. But in the future, after I'm getting my PhD, for sure that should be a plan for that. (Again, another plan).
So, see ya, Good night and have a nice sleep.
Yeah, it's been an earlier morning. I'm talking about 12.03 am right now and it happens that I've some interesting stuff that I want to talk about.
How many of you guys ever watch any anime out there? It is a Japanese some sort of cartoon like but they called it as an Anime. If you ever closely about the theme for some serious anime out there, most of the Anime has a very common tagline for the main character (heroes)
- Don't ever give up
- I definitely protect those important to me
- I' sorry, let me handle this, please take care others for me.
- No matter how hard it gets, I will go through it
- .... and others
From the anime, Naruto,the best tagline that I always like is to never give up even though the challenge is hard, to keep on fighting no matter what and try to go through your ambition. Let say in real life, if you want to become an engineer, so never let other people to decline what you are about to become.
The important stuff that I really like to highlight is the spirit of getting yourself in better and have a good life. To proceed with your ambition and at the same time maintaining and improving the way of your life is the most important stuff you must do in your life.
I have heard a story that there is a person A that told the other person B to not giving up job just because to take of her new born baby. The reason is quite simple as the person A said this is what happened in the future, the baby soon is not going to stay with you in the future and don't want to take care 100% of you when they are about to grow up.
For me, it is the choice that has to be made by every new mom in this world or any person who are getting married. That is why most of the big town, suffering a problem called "where money is the most important to keep on living in this big city". Yep, it is quite true because of the nature of human being that stay inside the big city. You and your wife must be struggled to work because of the daily expense is quite bigger and bigger every 5 years. Most of RM3000 household income even don't have a home to buy in the future if they are not getting themselves promoted into high salary income. Poor guy, if they just move to the "not so big city" or just some ordinary town , they might have a house to buy or even a land that cost only RM10 per square feet. Wow, that is only RM100K for 10k per square feet (100 x 100 feet).
To be honest, I'm talking about the time you have spend with your family. Imagine for the time that you have spend all together. Today community does not have time to keep looking at their sons and daughters at home and just let their grandmother or grandfather to let after them. Well, it is not me to decide because I am the one who give an opinion and I don't give a da*m whether you still want to read it or not. Don't put hatred into your heart because that is the reason why you will have an heart attack. Btw, just kidding. But, back to the discussion, it seems, today, partially some of human in this world got nothing to do anymore instead of pursuing for more money and got fewer time to spend for after life. What would you bring for your after life? That is the question you must willing to answer carefully and honestly.
Another important stuff that you need to remember that you are the one that decide what is the best for you and your family. I'm not the one who decide everything because I'm not going to intervene with your life. As long as you are happy with that life, then it is ok. For me, I want to watch my future children daily life, I want to remember how they become bigger every single day. Not just during the weekend and watch them sleep at night, but play with them in the evening after hard work from 8 to 5. Because, I can wake up earlier money from 2 am to 5 am to do my research work and sleep back after Subuh prayer, then take a nap for 30 minutes to 1 hour. As a human, all I can do is to plan. I don't know what happened if I'm not planning.
So, that it is for time being, It is just being nice to write something because that is the nature that I've found after a few years of doing research. Thanks to my fiancee(soon to be my wife) and my family and also my supervisor that gave me an opportunity to do my master (now PhD). So, what ever you do, you must be able to like it. Just I'm always like to write. It is just happened I don't have time to write abook yet. But in the future, after I'm getting my PhD, for sure that should be a plan for that. (Again, another plan).
So, see ya, Good night and have a nice sleep.
Friday, February 25, 2011
A Perspective of Further Study - Master By Research versus Coursework (v2)
Assalamualaikum and Good Evening,
Well, this is the newest entry for this year of 2011. And to be honest, this post is talking about the differences between taking master either by research or coursework. It seems most of us seems to be a little bit confuse about what path for them to take. Of course, after finished or completed your study in Bachelor Degree, you somehow felt that it is still long way to go in this world of knowledge. You want to contribute something even though you notice that you are not about to make money but for the sake of our grandson in the future, you want to make their life better by improving their lifestyle. One of the path is by taking master and phd or just become a plain researcher to produce better product.
Here the cycle, as a researcher, you might start with a fundamental problem that you need to tackle. From that, within 2 or 3 years of doing your research, you found something interesting and start publishing your paper about it. Then, various company or stakeholders or the government that gave your supervisor/university the grant will try to start developing product. Of course, at first you need to be clear whether you can patent your finding or not. Because it depends on the people or institution that gave you the money. Depend on agreement you've made with them, from the first time you signed agreement to do your research. Of course, money is important in order to pay you for your research. Without money, how you could ever survive doing research 24/7.
So, a product will come at last and then the people out there will start to buy it. And then the next cycle continue and research, company, government and others will start play their roles.
Back to the topic, you are choosing your dream to become one of the Nobel recipient by upgrading your degree to the higher one. but you need to choose which path. Either by coursework or research. And I want to list them again even though I've made this article few months ago but this article seems to be a little bit upgrade.
We start by research because this is the path that I've chose. To earn your master by research actually takes longer than the by coursework. It depends. Somehow you can graduated at the same time as the coursework because you are smart or you are not smart. Why? You are 100% control of your research. If you are good at it, then for sure you are going to excel at it and complete your master by research within a year or 1 and half year. That is for smart people and we always thanks to them because we have a brilliant people there. But for a normal people or maybe above average just like myself, I've manged to complete my master by research within 2 years and half. Actually, I've completed it within 1 year and half but for 1 year, I've just need to write my thesis and took longer just to fix my broken english. I'm so sorry if my english is not for some of you. But, I'm about to improve it from time to time. Even though I don't have enough time to go to English class. But , I'm trying to fix it.
And then, what so smart about taking master by research, is you are going to publish some papers either in conferences or journal articles. For sure you guys should have known that journal is a little bit complicated because their reviewers area really from the expert. Maybe four to five people (that have Professorships maybe) to review your lame paper. Then, you got rejected because of your poor writing skills, bad english, not enough graph, not enough evidence, lack contents, etc. But fear not, that is normal, all you have to do is to fix it. That is what everyone does. That is what all the Professor out there has been through. 20 years ago, they are also not good at it, but finally they continue to struggle to write and fix the paper. That is also why they were Professor. They were given the status because of their experience in their area. Hence, you will learn a good skill = writing papers/articles,etc
Next fun things about doing research, you are in control of your own research life. You are not about to go to the class and learn some boring stuff but you are on your own track of research. You are about to do what you like at most because research is something that you have chose before. You find a right supervisor with the research that you like and you start doing and digging the web about it. You learn what you are supposed to learn. You are doing well and better than everyone in the class. Compared to the coursework, they are going to learn all stuff and what they are going to do in their final semester is to make a simple project. That is all for coursework, but for research, you are about to pull out new or improve theory about some stuff. You contributing to human history, and your name at least is one among the researchers that will help other researchers to find something. Imagine, the technology of collision detection for example. Today you help by finding the best possible theory and algorithm to improve the speed of collision by maximizing the potential use of Bounding-Volume with the Distance Computation algorithm. Later in the future, somebody, based on one of your finding, will help that future researcher to produce more efficient algorithm. Thanks to you that you have helped him to save a lot of time and all he got to do is to improve it. Research is something that always fun and that is why most of researchers intend to stay until late night because they are doing something fun in their life. Research is their life. Nobody cannot say "NO" to research, You neighbor, mother, father, son, and every human in this world is doing research. For example, person A want to travel to the north, all he has to do is to find the transportation, fare cost, and any other cost. He needs to have a good budget for him to travel. If it is not, then he might just do a small research. Just to think when to start traveling is also a research.
Now, back to the topic again, clearly, doing research is good for anybody, even though it might takes longer than the coursework, but it is fun and you are contributing more than the coursework. You helping people a lot more and your understand better than other people. And doing research is not all alone. You need to find other researcher in the same area and discuss from time to time. One of the nearest is your supervisor. Make your supervisor your close friend. This is to develop a good interest in research.
You also might realize that when doing research, you can travel to the country you might not have been. This can be done if your supervisor have a research grant, and most supervisor did have a research grant, at least one. So, using the budget, you can publish paper to any conference in this world as long as it is good to be there. Publish to the high impact conference is good for your research. Once you presenting your ideas, people will start asking you. Compared to the non-high impact research conference that mix all in one, you might not have a better chance of getting feedback about your research. And most conference just want to take your money, so better be careful in publishing your paper. But somehow it is nice to present the paper in no-so-high impact conference. Why? because you have never been to country A, so all you need to do is to write up a just so-so paper and send for acceptance (mostly they will 99% accept it if your paper included 3 basic stuff - contribution, graph, analysis). So, you can go and have a nice holiday free of charge at the Country A.
Doing research is also depend on what kind of supervisor you have chosen. You must be able to choose a good supervisor to supervise your work. Because your supervisor must be someone that can grab you when you fall down. it is supervisor responsible to train somebody to become a good researcher. Otherwise, that supervisor is just meant to be just an ordinary lecturer and not a good researcher. Btw, there is a lot of stuff you can do if it is happened you have supervisor like that = just be honest. Tell him that you are not understand and want to discuss, make him or her (your supervisor) realize their roles in supervising their master/PhD student. Act now and don't wait.
Momentum for doing master also important for you guys out there. As a researcher, somehow you must managed your time and vacation properly. Don't take so long vacation because that just make you become lazy when the vacation is over. it is true, It already had been my worse nightmare and it took me almost 2 weeks to recover and start doing some research. But, I realized that later and keep my momentum always in standard mode so I can back in the research work that I've been left out before went for vacation.
So, there is a lot of stuff you need to do when doing your research but it is fun if you really like to do research. Trust me, research is part of our life, and it is our responsible to keep the research going in our daily life. That is for today, thanks for reading my blog. Thank you.
Well, this is the newest entry for this year of 2011. And to be honest, this post is talking about the differences between taking master either by research or coursework. It seems most of us seems to be a little bit confuse about what path for them to take. Of course, after finished or completed your study in Bachelor Degree, you somehow felt that it is still long way to go in this world of knowledge. You want to contribute something even though you notice that you are not about to make money but for the sake of our grandson in the future, you want to make their life better by improving their lifestyle. One of the path is by taking master and phd or just become a plain researcher to produce better product.
Here the cycle, as a researcher, you might start with a fundamental problem that you need to tackle. From that, within 2 or 3 years of doing your research, you found something interesting and start publishing your paper about it. Then, various company or stakeholders or the government that gave your supervisor/university the grant will try to start developing product. Of course, at first you need to be clear whether you can patent your finding or not. Because it depends on the people or institution that gave you the money. Depend on agreement you've made with them, from the first time you signed agreement to do your research. Of course, money is important in order to pay you for your research. Without money, how you could ever survive doing research 24/7.
So, a product will come at last and then the people out there will start to buy it. And then the next cycle continue and research, company, government and others will start play their roles.
Back to the topic, you are choosing your dream to become one of the Nobel recipient by upgrading your degree to the higher one. but you need to choose which path. Either by coursework or research. And I want to list them again even though I've made this article few months ago but this article seems to be a little bit upgrade.
We start by research because this is the path that I've chose. To earn your master by research actually takes longer than the by coursework. It depends. Somehow you can graduated at the same time as the coursework because you are smart or you are not smart. Why? You are 100% control of your research. If you are good at it, then for sure you are going to excel at it and complete your master by research within a year or 1 and half year. That is for smart people and we always thanks to them because we have a brilliant people there. But for a normal people or maybe above average just like myself, I've manged to complete my master by research within 2 years and half. Actually, I've completed it within 1 year and half but for 1 year, I've just need to write my thesis and took longer just to fix my broken english. I'm so sorry if my english is not for some of you. But, I'm about to improve it from time to time. Even though I don't have enough time to go to English class. But , I'm trying to fix it.
And then, what so smart about taking master by research, is you are going to publish some papers either in conferences or journal articles. For sure you guys should have known that journal is a little bit complicated because their reviewers area really from the expert. Maybe four to five people (that have Professorships maybe) to review your lame paper. Then, you got rejected because of your poor writing skills, bad english, not enough graph, not enough evidence, lack contents, etc. But fear not, that is normal, all you have to do is to fix it. That is what everyone does. That is what all the Professor out there has been through. 20 years ago, they are also not good at it, but finally they continue to struggle to write and fix the paper. That is also why they were Professor. They were given the status because of their experience in their area. Hence, you will learn a good skill = writing papers/articles,etc
Next fun things about doing research, you are in control of your own research life. You are not about to go to the class and learn some boring stuff but you are on your own track of research. You are about to do what you like at most because research is something that you have chose before. You find a right supervisor with the research that you like and you start doing and digging the web about it. You learn what you are supposed to learn. You are doing well and better than everyone in the class. Compared to the coursework, they are going to learn all stuff and what they are going to do in their final semester is to make a simple project. That is all for coursework, but for research, you are about to pull out new or improve theory about some stuff. You contributing to human history, and your name at least is one among the researchers that will help other researchers to find something. Imagine, the technology of collision detection for example. Today you help by finding the best possible theory and algorithm to improve the speed of collision by maximizing the potential use of Bounding-Volume with the Distance Computation algorithm. Later in the future, somebody, based on one of your finding, will help that future researcher to produce more efficient algorithm. Thanks to you that you have helped him to save a lot of time and all he got to do is to improve it. Research is something that always fun and that is why most of researchers intend to stay until late night because they are doing something fun in their life. Research is their life. Nobody cannot say "NO" to research, You neighbor, mother, father, son, and every human in this world is doing research. For example, person A want to travel to the north, all he has to do is to find the transportation, fare cost, and any other cost. He needs to have a good budget for him to travel. If it is not, then he might just do a small research. Just to think when to start traveling is also a research.
Now, back to the topic again, clearly, doing research is good for anybody, even though it might takes longer than the coursework, but it is fun and you are contributing more than the coursework. You helping people a lot more and your understand better than other people. And doing research is not all alone. You need to find other researcher in the same area and discuss from time to time. One of the nearest is your supervisor. Make your supervisor your close friend. This is to develop a good interest in research.
You also might realize that when doing research, you can travel to the country you might not have been. This can be done if your supervisor have a research grant, and most supervisor did have a research grant, at least one. So, using the budget, you can publish paper to any conference in this world as long as it is good to be there. Publish to the high impact conference is good for your research. Once you presenting your ideas, people will start asking you. Compared to the non-high impact research conference that mix all in one, you might not have a better chance of getting feedback about your research. And most conference just want to take your money, so better be careful in publishing your paper. But somehow it is nice to present the paper in no-so-high impact conference. Why? because you have never been to country A, so all you need to do is to write up a just so-so paper and send for acceptance (mostly they will 99% accept it if your paper included 3 basic stuff - contribution, graph, analysis). So, you can go and have a nice holiday free of charge at the Country A.
Doing research is also depend on what kind of supervisor you have chosen. You must be able to choose a good supervisor to supervise your work. Because your supervisor must be someone that can grab you when you fall down. it is supervisor responsible to train somebody to become a good researcher. Otherwise, that supervisor is just meant to be just an ordinary lecturer and not a good researcher. Btw, there is a lot of stuff you can do if it is happened you have supervisor like that = just be honest. Tell him that you are not understand and want to discuss, make him or her (your supervisor) realize their roles in supervising their master/PhD student. Act now and don't wait.
Momentum for doing master also important for you guys out there. As a researcher, somehow you must managed your time and vacation properly. Don't take so long vacation because that just make you become lazy when the vacation is over. it is true, It already had been my worse nightmare and it took me almost 2 weeks to recover and start doing some research. But, I realized that later and keep my momentum always in standard mode so I can back in the research work that I've been left out before went for vacation.
So, there is a lot of stuff you need to do when doing your research but it is fun if you really like to do research. Trust me, research is part of our life, and it is our responsible to keep the research going in our daily life. That is for today, thanks for reading my blog. Thank you.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
Why not Jeans?
Salam to all,
Today I would like to speak for a spesific stuff. Mainly on why not we wear jeans when entering the jungle for tough activities?
Some of the Malaysia government program now days is designed to have a so called "Kembara Hutan" or what ever people might called it.
Most of the instructor were asked to make sure the student or the participant wear a suitable clothes such as T-Shirt and a track suit.
But, do they think about what happens if some of the insect or dangerous plant (with thorns) go to tickle your body?
The reason why they want you to wear track suit because it is less expensive and very light. But it also has big disadvantage over those thorns plant. Not to mention that in the jungle even if it is something going to bite you, at least jeans give more protection than your track suit.
People just intend to wear tracksuit because they only think that jeans is for only casual wear and not for tough and rugged activity.
But, there is a rule. That jeans must meet certain conditions before going out to the jungle
- It must not very tight - so you can be able to move your leg, etc
- It must also very good denim - might be expensive but it can save your butt when you sit in the jungle
So, why not jeans?
Today I would like to speak for a spesific stuff. Mainly on why not we wear jeans when entering the jungle for tough activities?
Some of the Malaysia government program now days is designed to have a so called "Kembara Hutan" or what ever people might called it.
Most of the instructor were asked to make sure the student or the participant wear a suitable clothes such as T-Shirt and a track suit.
But, do they think about what happens if some of the insect or dangerous plant (with thorns) go to tickle your body?
The reason why they want you to wear track suit because it is less expensive and very light. But it also has big disadvantage over those thorns plant. Not to mention that in the jungle even if it is something going to bite you, at least jeans give more protection than your track suit.
People just intend to wear tracksuit because they only think that jeans is for only casual wear and not for tough and rugged activity.
But, there is a rule. That jeans must meet certain conditions before going out to the jungle
- It must not very tight - so you can be able to move your leg, etc
- It must also very good denim - might be expensive but it can save your butt when you sit in the jungle
So, why not jeans?
Saturday, October 30, 2010
When you are telling the truth and talking about the truth
Salam to all,
Speaking about the truth, is always something that is not annoying the person that is telling, but it is most importantly, annoying the person that always lying.
This is rather based on my experience when working at the government sector. When you are telling the truth, not much people will stay on your side because all they want is to become silent and not to tell everyone about it.
It is just to maintain the working environment even though some of them is lying to each other. For example, person A really hate so much the organization that currently been lead by person B, But person B also is not really like person B. However, when they suddenly or incidentally meet each other either inside lift or escalator, they intend to pretend to each other especially when in public.
For a big company?
Most of them is keep lying their clients and customers. Nothing comes free when there is dealing happens. All is just a business and not for the sake for the humanity. Most of them just claim that they are champion of humanity but all they do is just make people on the other side suffers. There is NO SUCH THING AS WIN-WIN situation in this world. They just claim about it. In Islam, we need to lose something if we want to win something. You need something to lose before you got something to win.
You can jog around 4 to 5 km per day and enjoying it but you cannot play badminton at the same time. So, if today you are about to jog around 4 to 5 km, tomorrow you are going to play badminton.
Truth has a lot and many different perspective that must be taken into account. Telling the truth is not really the same as talking about the truth. You could always tell the truth but talking about the truth might annoying some people.
When you are starting to telling the truth, people will dislike you because you are the one to reveal the mistakes as some people are so afraid to tell the truth because it might lose them their job, their friends, etc. That is why some people in this world is gifted with a gift to tell the truth without nothing to lose. They can fight and stand up without even a glitch in their speech with a strong evidence and strong support. Even if the guy has retired/deceased/terminated, people still love the guy because of his stand up against the world of corruption.
There is also something I want to say about those in some big companies. They intend to keep on faking to each other about the partnership and no real life partnership has been through.
The real world today has been going through a lot of corruption especially Israel that always lies to the media around the world. But, some of the media already know the truth and keep on revealing about the truth of Israel.
In my opinion, honestly, not much people is able to stand up and make changes. So, I'm going to break that and bring people to the real world and not a fake real world.
Just be honest, don't do it if you don't want it.
Ask about it if something fishy happens
Tell the truth if something happens (given that you are in good position and has a lot of strong supports)
Don't always stay in conform zone, "dakwah" must keep on move forward and keep telling people about the truth.
Stand with your own foot and with your statement.
That is it for today. Make your tomorrow life brighter with positive and maintain "telling the truth" everyday.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Your Future
Salam to all,
Your future is somehow is not always accurate not matter what planned that you've developed during the past, Whether it is too big or too loose, you cannot define it by the correct measure.
Somehow, the thing that you are currently doing is not always the best thing you ever done because not much issues can be developed from that.
The best thing you can do right now is always to trust yourself no matter what happens
Your future is somehow is not always accurate not matter what planned that you've developed during the past, Whether it is too big or too loose, you cannot define it by the correct measure.
Somehow, the thing that you are currently doing is not always the best thing you ever done because not much issues can be developed from that.
The best thing you can do right now is always to trust yourself no matter what happens
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