experiment.. oh experiment..

at last.. dpt juga buat experiment.. mmg best.. mmg menarik giler!

ada macam2 myths bila buat phd ni.. ada stgh supervisor suruh kita baca.. baca.. baca.. literature review.. kadang2.. baca saja.. mmg memboringkan.. ada supervisor pula.. galakkan buat experiment sambil2 baca.. tapi.. it actually depends on us.. kita rasa yg mana best..

but.. for me.. i like the second one.. buat experiment sambil baca.. it kinds of like absorb better, don't you think? bila buat experiment.. kita belajar sambil buat.. bila kita baca.. kita add on to our knowledge.. bagi kita pemahaman yg lebih mendalam.. i think this method really works well for myself.. i like it..

so.. at the moment.. what i'm doing is experimenting it on myself.. eventhough it seems soooo biasa2 aja.. it is not actually.. even it is self experimenting.. the data is soooo interesting...

actually melly.. my research at the moment.. berkisarkan macammana GPA membantu kita untuk mengetahui sejauh mana competent nya seseorang itu dlm mana2 bahasa... antara bahasa yg sedang di kaji: English, Spanish, German, Korean dan Arabic.

The method i used is so simple. Just copy all the paragraph again, but using GPA to analyse. The software I used is called the TRACE. This was created by my supervisor himself. Gempak tak? best giler ok...

And the system, actually boleh trace pauses duration when pen off from the paper, duration length of each strokes of each letters... like.. very detail ok!

Results dan data adalah amat menarik skali.. there is sooo much prospects in it... and i can actually apply this to many things in the future... this had given me another research goal to catch on in the future...

Since I am actually attached with Department yang berkenaan dgn Early Childhood Education, it does actually relates in a way that.. we learn how human processes understanding language and writing them plus.. from there.. we can actually find out.. how competent they are..

now.. bnyk membaca ttg cognitive science.. its related with psychology a bit.. something that I have been wanting to do all this time... and alhamdullillah sgt2.. dpt gak jump into it..

i am at the moment enjoying every moment of it.. i hope to be able to complete in time.. not mentioning having 2 children and having to manage home.. but.. insyaAllah.. rezeki di tgn Allah.. Allah pasti akan mudah kan.. insyaAllah.. solat.. jgn tak solat..

Untuk sesiapa yg berminat!

SEMINAR ASUHAN DAN DIDIKAN AWAL KANAK-KANAK SECARA HOLISTIK

PERHATIAN KEPADA SEMUA WARGANEGARA MALAYSIA

Pusat Penyelidikan Perkembangan Kanak-kanak (NCDRC) dengan kerjasama Bahagian PERMATA, Jabatan Perdana Menteri akan menganjurkan Seminar Asuhan dan Didikan Awal Kanak-kanak secara Holistik dengan tema "Setiap Anak Permata Negara". Tarikh : 13 & 14 November 2008 Masa : 8.30 pagi - 5.00 petang Tempat : Hotel Crown Princess, Kuala Lumpur Untuk makluman, yuran penyertaan adalah PERCUMA. Pengangkutan juga akan disediakan. Walaubagaimanapun, pengangkutan adalah terhad kepada 48 orang peserta sahaja. Borang penyertaan boleh diperolehi dengan melayari laman web http://ncdrc.upsi.edu.my Maklumat lanjut dan pendaftaran boleh berhubung dengan kakitangan kami sebelum 7 November 2008 :- Cik Norshidahwati bt. Mohd Noor Tel : +605-4505085 Fax : +605-4590169

research work is doing ok

8th oct 2008 - my first meeting with new supervisor PC - it turn out good! I updated on what I have read.. and covered.. and presented my idea.. but was advised not to proceed due to some constraints.. and so.. he gave some ideas.. and i was soo hooked up with one of it..

since i really like the kind of research my friend was doing (UHO), and mentioned them to PC, i was given a set of graphic tablet too.. and was asked to explore it.. with the TRACE software created by PC...

and yeah.. i did explore them.. and i used 5 different languages..
english
german
spanish
korean
arabic

got some raw data from it.. and managed to analyse them.. and shared with PC... on our next meeting...

22nd Oct 2008 - PC looked at the data and was very happy with it.. I think he was surprised at my enthusiasm in doing so.. I am enthusiastic about it.. i really did enjoyed it... and i do like doing research... anyway, alhamdullillah for that..

i know there's a lot more for me to read and cover and understand.. but, i think i like this method better.. doing some experiments.. while reading.. to understand things better.. i like to keep myself busy.. its kind of like a pressure to me but.. positive pressure.. and i think because i'm the type that works under pressure?!?!? u get me?

well yea.. i hope PC knows that i am very keen in this research.. and ofcourse i love it..

i actually believe that.. as far as I know myself (until today).. that i can do whatever that i believe that i can do... and i know that i am creative on anything that is given to me... well yeah.. i just have to tune myself into being very very positive.. and insyaAllah.. things will happen as what I have programmed them to be.. its all in the power of the mind...

same goes to having 2 children at the same time of doing phd... i believe that i can handle it.. so.. i'm sure to work towards it.. no argument ok?

so.. back to my research tadi.. from the 5 languages tu.. after having them written and using the GPA to analyse them.. i found out that.. it is very amazing to see that... English and Spanish is in the same group... these 2 uses the same time duration to write... German and Korean is paired together.. took the same time duration to write.. and Arabic has the longest time taken... which is understood well because of the characters...

question is.. what makes german and korean language berada dlm group yg sama? hmm....

and..

what if.. the results di compare kan dgn results seorang native speaker of the same language? mesti akan ada kelainan kan? so.. that is my next experiment.. and will analyse on that one...

more to that.. bnyk lagi idea2 yg di share oleh PC.. and i hope to be able to do this.. and hoping to present to PC next 2 weeks...

I can't wait!!!

its my first meeting with my new supervisor.. and i am sooo anxious!!! I really hope this time, all will work well...

at the moment.. its all about HANDWRITING...

SV had given me a few options that I could do.. and I am still thinking about this...

a few tasks that i need to complete first:
1. Reading on Cognitive materials..
2. A few paper SV had pointed out...
3. Statistical tests in psychology...

all still in the process of reading...

i hope with GPA - will help me study the process of handwriting... understanding why some people have the difficulties of projecting some letters.. and why some can write quickly, but some takes ages to have a complete sentence written down...

i hope.. to be able to find some uniqueness from my study...

i hope... :D

what happens from August till now?!?! huh?!?!?

oh well..

I had my second baby delivered on the 22nd of august... it was another caesarean, but this time, not an emergency caesarean but, an elective ones... i had to choose this option.. no sign of baby coming out.. head still high up, not engaged... so, we chose friday as the day for baby to come out... and here he is... little brother to my first son...

at the sametime, before the delivery, i was in the process of changing supervisor.. i was sooo determined.. that phd is still my first option.. so, i tried very hard looking for a replacement... i went on meeting several people.. before finally, i managed to find the one! ahaks.. owh yess.. it is a hard work really.. i pushed myself to meet and settle this issue even when i was several days out of the hospital... (my parents & inlaws & relatives would surely be mad at me.. i'm not suppose to even go out of the house during confinement.. haha... but i had to sacrifice a bit.. for my future.. )

but yes.. i was so very happy when i was accepted... i brought with me, this interesting paper which i really love.. and showed to him.. i was overwhelmed that he likes it.. and was happy as well that i showed him that paper.. love it! so, we planned the next meeting.. and he gave me some reading list to cover... since i do not have much background on cognitive science & a little bit of psychology, he gave me some few reading materials to cover.. and I am happy to do it...

oh well.. i am proceeding with my latest research on handwriting.. but, target of experimentees... will be decided on soon... i might still be looking at dyslexic.. maybe... plus, i am also considering the ideas (like 5 of them) given by my new supervisor..

i can't wait to start again.. and i am so very motivated...

apart from successfully settled my supervision problem.. plus, i'm under confinement.. papa (father in law) was around for 1 month and half.. but has gone back recently... we really did missed him sooo much... it was fun having him around.. plus.. a lot of outings together... :D

what else.. baby is fine.. big brother is coping well.. i'm still coping with having 2 sons now... and planning.. planning.. for whats up to come...

2 more days.. will be our EID celebration.. owh.. how i miss my home country so much...

i guess that's a quick update of everything.. hoping to update more on my research further...

taa...

data representation

a friend asked me.. how best to represent her data...

i'm just soooo embarassed that I'm not of a good researcher yet, therefore my own knowledge sources are a bit limited... however.. i tried googling it.. and i found this:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/

this website shows a great idea of representing data... besides having them, plainly on graphs, table forms and SPSS...

hope this helps...

This is a good guidance to poster...

http://www2.napier.ac.uk/getready/writing_presenting/academic_posters.html

click on the link above.. it has a very good guideline on academic posters.