Actual study started

Last week I started collecting data for my actual study. Thus far, everything is under control, although I couldn't deny problems occured. Students attendance so far is great. I thank all of them for coming and participating in the study. Activity sheets and slides were all ready for the previous class. However, I still need to add few other things for next week class. I pray to Allah that the process of collecting the data is smooth for me in the sense that I can handle whatever circumstances that come into ways. Back at home, Hakim is having fever. Therefore, I couldn't spend extra time in the university photocopying or printing today. I hope I can also key in students' attendace as well as marks for the pretest. Of course need to do post-mortem of the first lesson. Just to make sure that I can improve things in the future.

Melangkah Gagah: Urus Kerjaya Anda

Ini adalah buku pertama yang ditulis bersama rakan sekerja, Ida Rizyani Tahir. Buku ini telah ditulis seawal tahun 2008 lagi. Tetapi disebabkan komitmen lain yang perlu diutamakan, maka ianya dicetak pada tahun ini. Buku ini ditulis untuk memberi panduan kepada siswazah terutama yang berada pada tahun akhir atau lebih spesifik lagi pada sesiapa yang baru melangkah untuk bekerjaya. Penulis memuatkan cadangan dan tip-tip yang praktikal untuk dimanfaatkan kepada pembaca golongan ini. Ianya juga ditulis menggunakan bahasa yang mudah untuk difahami. Setiap bab mempunyai dialog khusus untuk memberi gambaran kepada pembaca akan kandungan bab tersebut. Selain dari itu, ianya juga dipersembahkan secara santai dengan ilustrasi kartun dan 'font' yang menarik. Antara kandungan buku ini adalah "Ketahui Pasaran Kerjaya Anda", "Penjenamaan Diri", "Kerjaya Kedua", "Pemeriksaan Karier" dan pelbagai lagi kandungan yang boleh dimanfaatkan oleh pembaca. Buku ini boleh didapati daripada Unit Penerbitan Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) atau pesanan boleh ditujukan kepada zurainaali@gmail.com atau rizyani@gmail.com, rizyani@yahoo.com.

Muka hadapan buku Melangkah Gagah: Urus Kerjaya Anda. Putih menggambarkan bakal graduan yang bakal memasuki Dunia Sebenar alam pekerjaan.


Antara bab didalam buku Melangkah Gagah: Urus Kerjaya Anda yang dimuatkan pelbagai grafik. Kandungan bab diharapkan dapat membantu bakal graduan merancang kerjaya dengan lebih efektif.

The proposal defense

Alhamdullilah. The waiting for proposal defend was over yesterday. It went okay. I received construtive comments from the examiner, chairperson and audiences. Some of the things I need to ammend were:

(i) problem statement needed to be refined. There's ONE point that I didn't address in the section. I stated it in the introduction but didn't highlights this in the problem statement's session.
(ii) further reading on theories used for the study needed to be done. They suggested that I read books though articles are also important. I can buy books on line for this. Committee recommeded me to go to the uni's library to borrow books
(iii) address why I left out some elements in the theory I adopted for the study.
(iv) check formatting. Is it APA, MLA..check consistency

They didn't comment on the method (Chapter 3) of my study. My committe (the only one) attending since the main SV was on academic trip oversea, was really happy about this. He gave me deadline for 5 months to analyse and write all chapters. What a challenge!

I'm still waiting

Last Friday, I prepared myself to present my proposal. I was nervous but always had faith that no matter what happened, I prayed that I could handle all matters well (if not best). I went to the presentation room (the usual room for presentation) and I saw that they were a few people in it. I guessed they must be there for my presentation. However, they seemed to be quite matured. That was my first doubt. Well, perhaps I was the only presenter. Moreover, it was a "last minute" notice for the students (they also didn't notify the presentation online, not that I care that no one will be attending the presentation. It's just that I felt that, would'nt there be at least a student to see me presenting? If there's none, the better actually!. I also didn't see a note on the door. Usually, there'll be a notice paste on the door if there's any presentation on that day. I thought it was better for me to go and check at the Graduate office. The staff told me that they changed the venue. Okay.. so I went to the building as was requested by her.

I waited for a few minutes. Then one of the SVs came (not the main SV). We discussed a few things. There were a lot of fruitful discussions, but just before I'll be presenting, not a good sign!. After a while, I could see a food caterer preparing tea-break in the room. Then came the examiner.. we made a short acquaintance. Just a few minutes after that the examiner's phone was ringing. I overhead her conversation. I could tell that something bad would be happening. My thought was right, she told me that the presentation was postpone again. I didn't know what to say. The SV was also speechless. He called the staff in the Graduate Office for confirmation. Yes, it was true as what the examiner informed us. The SV consoled me telling me there would always be a "hikmah" behinds all the things that happen to me. So, my defend was schedule to be on the Thursday 7 October. And yet at this hour the Graduate Office was still unable to find one available MC for the presentation nor can they fix the time whether is it going to be in the morning/afternoon. Ku mohon dipermudahkan buatku Ya Allah sebagaimana Engkau permudahkan tugasan hamba2mu yg lain, Amin.