Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Why Being Single Is Great
You get the whole bed
You don't have to make an effort
You don't have to worry about hurting
You don't have to worry about buying valentines crap
You have freedom, to choose
Not having to tell someone where you are
Complete control
Chance to experiment with who you are & what you like
Eat what you want
Do what you want, when you want
A chance to bond with friends
Loneliness hurts less
Jodoh
Jodoh adalah keajaiban yang Tuhan saja yang Maha Tahu
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Facebook status by a friend on 16092011

Facebook status by a dear friend on 20092011

Thursday, January 6, 2011
salam jumaat...

Tuesday, November 23, 2010
if I were to compare...
Salam, we went to parents info session for Farhan's next year pre-primary. In the briefing about maths, the teacher mentioned the importance of the PP kids to know, about more and less, big and bigger, long and longest and she jokingly said, the kids always want to have the biggest, the largest, wanted to be the tallest and the smartest etc.Monday, November 22, 2010
enduring...
For all my friends enduring the journey of phd...Tuesday, November 9, 2010
....a dramatic exemplary of strong determination
" Tak pe, jalani dan nikmati saje, lama-lama siaplah... (Dr. Adiwirman Izhar, 2010)".Do you want to know who's that of my friend? When he did his Phd, his wife passed away while giving birth. But the baby alive. What I want to tell here... he was a strong man facing all ujian Allah. MasyaALLAH... Pak Adi, semoga dikau terus tabah...(Siti Zaharah Sakimin)
"Nak semayang subuh pon is a jihad, so what you are facing ni is dugaan / ujian, face it with sabar is jihad." "Genggam bara api biar jadi abu" "anggap phd is utk self satisfaction, don't worry abt what others think abt apa you do, yg penting you satisfied plus look for appraise from Allah" huhuhuhu byk pesan wisdom fr my dad kan? (Nonie Harun, 2010)
Thursday, October 21, 2010
"Empty Cradle"

"Beyond grief lies hope, and beyond darkness may lie a life of purpose and meaning"
I would like to dedicate this poem to all those who lost their babies.... what they wanted from others;
I wanted them to say, “ I’m sorry about your loss” instead of trying to be upbeat
I wanted them to hug me more and to say to me, “I know this is tragic. It’s okay to be sad and cry.” They didn’t have to be sad but just respect my sadness. It would be nice if they would send flowers or cards because that’s what people do when you lose someone. They would be acknowledging that we lost a child.
I want them to bring up Adam like they would any baby who died, to come to a memorial service, to weep with me. I don’t want Adam to be forgotten by anyone. I don’t want time to take away the existence of this child.
I wanted people who have gone through this to talk with me at great length and to make me feel I wasn’t the only woman who didn’t bounce back.
What would have helped me would have been for someone to talk about the baby as a baby. I lost a BABY! To say to me, “Mrs. English, you have lost a child. You are going through grieving. Here is what to expect. Here are some guidelines. Here is a support group.”
The Art of Writing
I found that writing qualitative research is a matter of “playing the games”, a matter of playing with the words and language used and choice of right vocabulary. The style of discussion or interpretative writing in advanced analysis is different from reporting a finding as well as writing a literature. I always find myself stuck in writing my interpretation, stuck of not wanting to write in a style of reporting findings and writing literature reviews. In writing the discussion, I am supposed to critique or explain or enhance the findings and not reporting them. In interpretation too, I am supposed to support my interpretation with the literature but not criticizing or merely writing the relevant literatures.
I found that writing is a matter of the style or a matter of sentence structure. For example, there is a different of writing
They reported that they were always treated as sole caretakers of the parents and some appeared to become the breadwinners for other siblings....VS...Thus, the participants felt that they are not being treated fairly by the parents and siblings as they always have to be the caretaker......
My conclusion, learn the language of qualitative interpretative language and there are differences between interpretation and description and reporting findings and writing a literature!!!!
My beloved hubby recently post in his FB, the more you write, the more you get confused...To be honest, I can truly reflect and understand that statement my dear, but take one step at a time, sikit2, lama2 jadi bukit and the "confusion" should be treated as a catalyst to move on!
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Saddening news...
Perginya pelajar yg disayangi selalu Khairina Badron, pergi yg tidak akan kembali, semoga beliau ditempatkan dikalangan orang yg beriman dan beramal soleh, amin.
Still vividly remember we laughed at you, coz you had a lot of expressions with your hands during your presentation. I liked to tease you, I liked to make fun of you. Your smile, the laughter that you'd brought to us, will never be forgotten. You were a great person. I still remember you cooked for our meals, especially me, the vegetarian….how could you leave us just like that? I am just speechless – friend,Scott
telah ditakdirkan kan kau pergi dulu, di saat kau masih diperlukan, Tuhan lebih menyayangi dirimu, ku pasrah di atas ke hendak yg Esa. Ya Allah tempatkanya di tempat yg mulia, tempat yg dikau janjikan nikmat utk hambamu, sahabatku akan ku teruskan perjuangan ini walau ku tahu kau tiada di sisi... Salam kerinduan buat Almarhumah Khairina binti Badron (25 Dec 1987-20 Ogos 2010) Al Fatihah – friend, Faizal Anuar
Salam Takziah buat keluarga arwah, semoga semua tabah mengadapi .. alfatihah – lecturer,Merikan Aren
Salam takziah buat keluarga Khairina - Seorang pelajar yg lembut tutur bicaranya, baik budi pekertinya.. Moga rohnya d tempatkan bersama insan2 yg terpilih..- lecturer, Fa Yahya
Alfatihah untuk arwah Khairina Badron, seorang pelajar yang sangat baik tutur bahasanya, sentiasa tersenyum dan bercakap lembut, tidak langsung terguris hati selama mengenalinya. Moga Allah menempatkannya di kalangan orang-orang beriman, satu berita yang mengejutkan diri dari lena...- lecturer, Salmah My
Salam takziah buat keluarga allahyarhamah khairina badron ...al-fatihah - lecturer, Mohd Azhari Abu Bakar
Monday, June 7, 2010
is it true?
"Never-married women without children are often stereotyped as being career-driven, competitive, and aloof, and they have no mate or offspring to validate their attractiveness, desirability, or compassionate nature. Therefore, these women often struggle to achieve a balance between being perceived as serious professionals and maintaining their femininity. This struggle only reinforces the often pervasive notion of singlehood as a “problem” needing to be fixed"(Anderson et al., 1994; Wilson, 2004).
what say you?
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Phd and other lives...
"physically, mentally, emotionally,financially exhausted!!!!Thursday, May 27, 2010
west vs east
salam and dearest all...Thursday, January 28, 2010
Himpunan Doa' from frens
Ya Allah, Ya Tuhan Ku... Yang maha Pemurah, lagi Maha Mengasihani.. Hindarkan aku dari rasa lemah dan mudah kecewa... Perjuangan ku belum selesai... Langkah demi langkah... Biarpun bertatih... Aku harus cekal dan tabah, agar dapat membina mercu tanda bangsaku yang berjaya...Amin.. Perkenankanlah oh Tuhan doa hambamu yang kerdil ini....(Hannerita, 2009) Ya Allah,kukuhkan jiwa hambaMu ini, anugerahkan keyakinan dan tawakalku hanya untuk Mu...Jadikan kami dalam golongan orang-orang yang sabar.Hanya kepadaMu kami berusaha dan hanya kepadaMu kami berserah.Amin. (Syarif, 2009)
Thursday, December 17, 2009
We don't live in a vacummm
Hi all, for the last few days I met and talked to a few friends, kak Z, kak ZP, kak E, of whom I am indebted. They shared, adviced, assisted me during my 'hard' time now. I found myself at the "no end" road, I am stuck and one of the reasons is because I am worry so much and I kept on worrying and thinking about my worries and I did not "DO" anything.... hope you can understand my 'crap' splurt....Thursday, December 10, 2009
words of wisdom from a friend; million of thanks
Kamek understand your journey kinek tok..........the toughest road. Noworry but hang on there and keep working. Klak you sendiri terkejut what Ucan do bila dah habis tulis. I am glad analogy driving ya dapat nolong yousikit. Anywhere in phenomenology cam ya lah you expect to write. Sik dasigek penulisan atau buku atau example yang perfect untuk panduan u nulisthesis secara phenomenology sebab setiap phenomenology approach sangatsubjective, specific to its contact, culture and even every subject,kitakenak highlight ke unikannya.So my suggestion,you kenak baca banyakkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkpenulisan phenomenologist and learn the writing skill from there, journal,books or even story book!!! Lepas ya keep writing and re writing and rewriting quoting from my supervisors word masa kat NZ dolok. Once u sendirirasa puas menulis ya discuss with your supervisor. 1st step yang palingpenting ialah thema thema you answer your research questions and explainwhat you want to achieve in your study objectives. I started with coding,categories and themes and move forward and backward and sometimes back tooriginal codes many times. Yes its time consuming and mind boggling.Yes in writing take one step at a time. Mun U tengah nulis researchfindings you, focus tok ajak your reading, your searching , your thinking,your refelction. Jangan campur aduk dengan chapter lain.Another things, mun you rasa serabut, overwhelm or stuck up....no worry itsnormal process. Give yourself a break and go holiday with family. You willfeel fresh and rejuvenated when you return from your break and wow lekak ya best nulis.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Words to ponder

Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Supervisors:Phd life line?
People said Phd is very much depending on your supervisors, they are like your life line, talian hayat sehinggal berjaya dlm PhD. Btw, I have two active supervisors, A is my main supervisor and B is my associate supervisor, the post doesn't matter as the responsibility ratio is 100% each.Tuesday, October 20, 2009
why? why?
I kept telling myself if I ever had the chance to turn back the clock, I could have gone somewhere else to do my PhD, US perhaps because I am sick of dealing with the red tapes in Australia.