Keletah Imran

Situasi 1:

Imran merengek-rengek datang kat ibu yang duduk kat sofa lepas dia bosan tengok kartun

Ibu: Iman, gi ambil botol susu iman tu

Iman pusing belakang, dan menuju ke tempat botol susu yg jatuh kat atas carpet 100 meter oppps... anakku belum pandai lari pecut 100 meter mcm ibu.. hanya berjalan terkedek-kedek 100 cm sahaja.....daripada ibu

Iman pergi kutip botol susu yang dimaksudkan, dan dengan tersengih-sengih pusing balik ke arah ibu dan bagi ibu botol susu yang ibu request itu.

Ibu and papa: waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ( Iman dah pandai mengikut arahan rupenye)

Ibu: Dah besar anak ibu ni.

Papa: Iman, meh sini naik atas papa

Iman dengan bersungguh-sungguh memanjat sofa yang tinggi separuh daripadanya untuk berusaha duduk di atas papa seperti yang papa request.

Ibu and Papa: Pandai daaah iman nii...

Situasi 2:

Iman tak selesa kerana ada stool dalam pampers yang dipakainya

Ibu pergi membasuhnya

Ibu: OK iman, sayang ibu sbb ibu dah basuh yak iman

Iman menganga mulutnya besar2 utk mencium pipi ibu sambil air liurnya meleleh... huahauha

Situasi 3:

Semasa beraya di rumah uncle midon

Iman begitu gembira melihat 'anak' uncle midon. Iman begitu suke untuk mengejarnya. Tetiba sahaja, ibu oopps... (chucky ko jadi proof reader aku)...Iman menukar aksi daripada berjalan dgn merangkak ke dapur. Ibu pun pelik. Buat ape pulak Iman merangkak sedangkan memang jarang nampak dia merangkak sejak pandai jalan walaupun terkedek-kedek. 

Dengan bersemangat, dia merangkak sampai la ke hujung dapur tuan rumah dan berjaya menangkap 'anak' uncle midon itu.

Habis cabut bulu ' anak' uncle midon itu dan 'anak itu' rasa fobia dan menyorok dibawah meja sahaja.

kenapa Iman suke beno mengejar 'anak' uncle midon (i.e kucing yang berbulu lebat dan bersaiz besar dan taktahan panas, kene duduk dalam air cond...huahau... kucing sini berpeluh if kene matahari.. dan besarnya ada saiz Imran)

1. Kerana saiz Iman sama besor dgn saiz kucing kat UK ni.. esp. if Imran merangkak.. memang sama saiz.. mungkin Imran pikir tuh kawan dia sbb 'sebaya'.. huhauaha

Planning your research

Just for few notes regarding the tips that I learnt on my last class about 'Planning the PhD research'

1. Must differentiate between 4 of this terms

- Important and Urgent

- Important but Not Urgent

- Urgent but Not Important

- Not Urgent and Not Important

For the 3rd term, we must get on it and finish off as soon as possible so that anything that included in that matter in our life do not interrupted our research schedule. For instance, the activity that likely included on that quarter is doing the laundry (esp. me with baju berendam tuh payah nooo nak basuh, sejuuuk nak basuh tangan). Merindui suasana panas memberus baju semasa di Malaysia :)

By the way, Not urgent and Not Important is something that we should avoid such as playing PsP, beat others at facebook geochallenge, surfing AutoTraders, blogging, reading emails, watching YouTube.... and the list goes on...

2. We must have master plan for our research (i.e. 36 months plan). It's important so that we have the idea of what should we do for the next months and later on. By the way, by using that big plan, we could detect and monitor our progress in such a big depiction. But we must reorganized or likely make some rearrangement on the plan if there's changes.

3. Researcher must have a log book in order to write the progress of a day. In the log book, we could divide the column into two, named it as 'Activities' and 'Action'. In the Activites column, we write down the work that we have done on that day and the work that we must do for the next day or for the week, and set the datelines for that work on the 'Action' column.

Enough!

Buat ape perlu risau sangat,
Ada hadnya,
Ada tahapnya,
Ada levelnya,
Aku pun belum lepas,

Buat ape perlu kisah,
Dia bukan aku,
Dia bukan anak kecilku,


Mungkin itu caranya untuk mencapai kejayaan,
Mana tau itu caranya untuk berjaya,
Berjayakah?,
Mampukah?,
Itu semua hanya Allah yang tahu

Bagaimanakah jika tidak berjaya?,
Itu maknanya tiada rezeki,
Bagaimanakah pula dengan malu?
Malu tanpa kembali dengan ijazah sepatutnya?
Biarlah diri sendiri yang memikirkannya.

Kerana aku sendiri pun entah macam mane nanti juga
Aku baru sahaja berdiri digarisan permulaan,
Terkedek-kedek macam Imran melangkah,
Masih bersemangat untuk cuba dan memperbaiki langkah,
Masih bertenaga untuk bangun walaupun kakak aisyah suke menolak,

Jangan difikirkan sangat,
Diri sendiri lebih penting daripada segalanya,
Kerana tiada guna untuk terlampau kisah,
Buat penat minda, hati dan juga lidah,

Kerana aku hanya boleh berpesan-pesan kepada kebenaran,
Yang lain, terserah kepada tuan punya badan,
dan juga kepada kehendak Tuhan


Enough! Enough! Enough!

Getting into the habit of writing

Since last 2 days, I have suffered with slight oppps... severe sore throat ( I think because of the heater) and high fever. I can't even managed my children. No nasi for 2 days. When aisyah asked, " bu nak nasi", kesian jugak. But then, I replied, tunggu papa balik bawak ayam. Bile nak susu baru pun I said must wait for papa. I can't stand with this weather anymore. Tak best langsung. The cold is more than I could stand. Papa said, it could be a snow last night as he saw our wheelie bin has white spots on its top.

This low degree temperature makes me suffer! I just experienced only minus 1 degree. Not yet the minus minus degree. The night before the first snow fall this year (about last 2 weeks) made my skin experiences severe dry skin. Terasa pedih sangat2 when me put the moisturizer on my face. I am always thinking how these people can adopt with this extreme weather. When read or heard my friends at malaysia mentioned about the hot weather they have to face with, I wish I will feel like them too. I missed the situation when the steering was too hot to hold on the midday and quickly turn on the aircond or opened the window sebab rase macam nak meletup duduk dalam kereta kepanasan.

Only this night, I am feeling better. I have the energy to do the laundry and accompany aisyah watching the cartoon till 12 midnight. And it's 3 o'clock in the morning and I can't sleep. Thinking what to make for breakfast and wanna cook the ketam sambal sira for lunchtime. But then I think I have to control the level of spicy in our meal. I am not sure this sore throat is because of the sambal belacan (first time ever I made sambal belacan in UK) or the ketam masak cili api that I've cooked the 2 days before. Sumenye pedas2..

OK back on the title. I have attended the graduate training class last week for knowing the tips to have the habit of writing. I learned 3 techniques
1. Freestyle writing
2. Mind mapping
3. Bullet/ structured notes

In order to have the habits, we should write at least 5 minutes everyday for the beginning. But then, we could increase the time day by day. Writing a diary or blog could be the starter to have the habit. When doing the writing, especially if based on freestyle, we should write anything that we want to write about the topic. Forget about the grammar, the structures etc. Just write anything that the mind and heart are talking But then after 5 minutes, baru la check ape yang patut.

And I think, for writing a thesis, or any documentation, better if we start by drawing the mind map all the points that serabut dalam kepala itu. Then sort it out by using bullet points. Remove the unnecessary points. Then start with freestyle writing, so that the writing is a bit organized in terms of what should be written.