Friends

Recently I received good news that both of my friends, Mette and Marcela have passed their Phd Viva...I'm so happy for them. Both of them started this journey about the same time as I did in 2007. but I'm still waiting for my turn..I can only pray I too will get that chance..Insyaallah (God Willing)..  Congrats to both of you..Hope we will meet again, someday...

Random thoughts

I'm happy for a friend who passed his viva recently and we share the same phd supervisor(Prof Eric)...So Nick (Dr.Craddock Henry)...Congratulations!

At work

It has been 20 days since I reported for duty at the Faculty and I still don’t have an office….am still waiting and hoping that I’ll get my old room back but the person in charge tells me, due to some administrative reasons, Ill have to wait… Teaching wise, I haven’t been assigned any subjects yet as its the middle of the academic semester but our head of department (HOD) has asked me to assist in one of the TRP studios taught by my good friend Dr Puziah...As for next semester,  I may be assigned another studio and a Master’s subject (?)…Meanwhile I’m lucky that my other good friend Zana who is working on her PhD thesis at home lets me use her office... UiTM limits access to FB and other ‘social’ networks..guessing it is a good idea but am not really sure why…

One study hurdle over for the time being Alhamdulillah

Today at 3:40 pm Friday 25th of November 2011, I submitted my thesis to the Post Graduate (PG) Office and they will send it to the examiner: one in the UK and the other in NZ but not from my uni though.... I thank Allah s.w.t for giving me that opportunity. I feel glad about going over this ‘hurdle’ but I know this journey isn’t over yet.  I had a lot of help today from my new friend Yanti with converting the work from words to PDF, which made printing all the chapters much easier because the figures and photos stayed where it should be...I almost thought I wouldn’t be able to submit as the office was about to close at 4pm...Alhamdulillah, Allah is most merciful and kind and I managed to reach the office with Yanti ...Alhamdulillah....I cannot bear to go home thinking about my dear husband and children's faces if I did not send the thesis in by today.... now I can only hope and doa dan bertawakkal kepada Nya yang berKuasa Allah s.w.t, for the next leg of the challenge....

Writing

‘To find the solution to the problem is to first understand the problem’. This I acquired from an article written by a Professor in political and policy studies. Applied to my current situation, editing my writing for all the chapters based on my SVs comments, I’ve realised that I have a big problem with writing. Reading his comments though I've come to understand that I need to write with more clarity, in a concise and organised manner to `help', rather than distract the reader. I hope I can do this... May Allah s.w.t help me (and all my friends in similar situations) in this jouney…