Syukur

Alhamdullillah, all my files could be recovered!!!! Syukur sangat-sangat ya Allah. How did I do it?

I went to vienna-expat forum and searched for computer and ada this one guy recommended a person who can fix computers. I went to that guys website and tgk a youtube video he uploaded in which he salvaged a usb stick dan the files in it. Terus I felt like there is hope that my external hard drive could be saved!!! So, on Monday, I went to that guys place. Jauh juga tempat tu, but I managed to find it. Dia kata, he will try his best to fix it, dan kos maxima mungkin adalah 70euro. I pon ok ajelah....

Lepas tu, I felt like treating myself to some hot choc and cake. Masa tengah minum2 hot choc tu, dapat text cakap dah siap baiki!!! cepat ok the service. hihi.

Lagi satu, I bersyukur, anak2 ai dah baik demam. :)

Next...is, one of my paper has been accepted to be presented at a conference in Japan. I will be presenting vitually because conference is in April. So, inshaAllah, next year, akan ada 2 paper presented at international conference and dalam proceeding. :)

Tapi kan, tetap la i tak habis2 lagi tulis pasal modernity nieeee......*ketuk kepala sendiri*

you get what you give

Hari ini, saya tidak bangun untuk solat Subuh.

Dan tak tahulah sama ada kebetulan ke apa, hari ni adalah antara hari paling sh**y yang pernah saya alami.

1. Pergi buat groceries, namun tertinggal satu barang di kaunter and only realised it when i got home. Mak tak koser nak pi kedai tu balik, lagipon what proof do i have that I tertinggal barang ittew di kaunter.

2. My laptop dan juga komputer di universiti tak boleh read my external hard drive which contains my thesis!!!!!! And altho I have some backup (only a few chapters) the ones that I have corrected atau add info non ado back up. I wanted to do it today but alas...this thing happened! Call dr sunshine, tapi terasa seperti kena marah.:( Maka call kawan di sini and she said, maybe the cable that connects the external to lappie yang longgar. Emm..mungkinkah? LAgipon it did jatuh before i guna pagi tadi. Maka decided to go to Saturn to get a new cable.

3. On the way to Saturn to get a new cable to connect my external hard drive to the lappie, bus berenti jaaauuuuhh lagi dari stesen that i want to turun. Sebab apparently now, every Samstag leading up to xmas, bus will only stop till this particular station. Maka, terpaksa I menapak (sambil ber-babywearing cik Aaron yang agak berat ittew).

Now i am home (its almost 4pm) and baru nak makan breakfast/lunch. :(

Lepas makan ni, nak test if pertukaran cable berjaya menyelamatkan external ku. Doakan yek.

Ke uols yang expert2 computer tu camana i can rectify this matter????

pasal sms

Tahu tak, when i was pregnant with aaron last year, i text Dr Sunshine almost every single morning (time malaysia), just to say good morning ke, or drive safely ke or apa2 ajelah.

Pastukan, when I got back here with Aaron, I pulak yg dapat text almost every morning from him!!!!!! *tersengih lebar*

I tell you, waking up to find a text from my husband is one of the greatest feeling ever. It may seem so simple, but, it really makes my day! :)

Lagi-lagila bila dapat text ajak pergi holiday. Ooohhh...cannot wait for it to materialise.

Ok, sekarang, kena buat kerja. :)

mulut yang laju dari otak

ok. hari ni i rasa i buat sesuatu yang mungkin akan membinasakan diri sendiri.

you see, i tengok kawan-kawan i yang dah complete phd kan, cara sorang buat kerja adalah, tulis, sv cek, pastu depa buat corrections, sv recheck, pastu dah ok baru submit, betul?

So, I pon dengan innocentnya ingat its just like that over here. Maka tadi, bila sv tanya bila rasa-rasa nak hantar my completed thesis, i kata in december as I set a deadline for myself, which is dec 5th. yes.deadline ittew adalah tarikh di mana saya yakin akan siap ketujuh-tujuh bab sahaja. read. bab2 sahaja. bukan abstrak lah, acknowledgement, update references, dan segala bagai mak nenek ittew.

tapi, rupa-rupanya konsep kat sini (or maybe konsep sv i la kan) ialah bila sv kita examine thesis kita, dia tak baca draft2 sume tu. dia akan baca the binded copy tu terus utk examination. huaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....so how?? so bila dia kata bila nak submit tu, maksudnya bila nak submir the binded copy. pepandai je kan i kata nak hantar in december.....

takpe.

this means i have to work extra super duper hard.

my plan of action adalah work my butt of and submit it before xmas hols. doakan i berjaya ye uols.

p/s: risaunya nak hantar kerja yang tidak diperiksa oleh sv. mujur butiran thesis tu, well, some of it, i dah guna dan diperkisa untuk a few assginments.

caiyok caiyok!! kata mak budak yang nak tengok amazing race dulu sebelum start buat kerja

almost there

Dear blog,

Hari ni, ai bertungkus lumus habiskan bab 6 yang sudah lama tergendala. Tahu tak betapa susahnya nak curahkan idea wahai blog? Dahlah tu, anakanda pulak hari ni a bit grumpy (prolly because i pepandai pi minum green tea and i think that made him gassy..logic ke my tanggapan wahai other breastfeeding moms?) and only wants me to hold him. I can letak him la sekejap-sekejap. Finally, sebab tak tahan, i just placed him on a pillow on my lap while i continue to type away, like masa sekarang ni. Atas lap, tido punyaaaa nyenyak!

Anyway, back to chapter 6. Yes. Selesai akhirnya. Tho baru habis tulis ajelah. Belum lagi baca dan edit semula. You knowlah kan bila baca dan edit tu...sekali overhaul. Whatever it is, I am just so super happy uols!

Dengan ini, saya ingin mengumumkan that I only have 1.5 more chapters to go!!! 0.5 adalah part modernity yang ai tak mula lagi tulis dan 1 tu adalah conclusion uols!!!!! I am so excited to be able to get this far dan bersyukur ke hadrat Illahi sebab memudahkan kerja ai. :) Tapi at the same time, kadang-kadang risau jugak if apa yang i tulis tu tidak menepati kriteria. NAmun begitu, kita buat yang terbaik kan. SV tu hanya akan baca bila dah complete.

So, esok ingat nak start retyping stuffs that I plan to use for my modernity piece. Kalau boleh, by Tuesday dah nak start writing. I am waaayyyyyy pass my deadline. Sepatutnya, I should have finished writing everything by 20.11 and start my proofreading and editing process. Tapi tak apalah kan. My new target date is 5 December, inshaAllah. Tolong doakan i berjaya ye uols? Kalau sempat siap by 5 December, boleh la minta SV tolong baca dan betulkan. Pastu can do corrections and then submit to sv again and then correct again dan kemudian submit for external review. I really hope that I can submit it before january ends, inshaAllah. I really envision myself going back at the end of March. But, I am not sure if I should still go back if tak dapat jawapan or result from reviewer ittew cos lepas tu nak kena arrange for viva plaks. hmm... Takpe, tu nanti kita pikir when the time comes.

Oh, and I have a piece of good news to share! My paper has been accepted for one of the conferences that I talked about, Alhamdullillah. Conference is at the end of March. Am itching to go actually, but tak surelah if feasable or not. huhu. If not, kita jadi virtual presenter sajalah ek.

Ok. ittew saje dari iols.

Esok ada some thingy happening at D's house. So I shall be going there. Balik tu I akan buat kerja.

Monday nak pi jumpa SV. Sebelum date ittew, I nak pi print out my chapter 6. Lepas meeting dgn sv i plan to lepak stabux and proofread my chapter. Having said that, I couldnt believe that my chapter 6 is supppeeerrrr panjang.

Oklah. ittew saje blog. Doakan kejayaan ai ek?

menarik!!!

one of the things that i have been doing these past few days ialah to browse the internet cari conference. And, I just found out that some conferences allows virtual presentations! How cool is that?

You see, I mmg terasa nak present paper buy my biggest worry ialah, siapa akan jaga Aaron during the duration of the conference. There is such a thing as flying nanny offered at my uni, in which a babysitter from the kinderbeuro will ikut kita ke conference tu and help care for our child tapi keringlah poket ai if nk kena bayar fir their flight, food, accomodation n child care charges kan? That sort of stopped me from sending out abstracts n etc.

Tapi, dengan konsep virtual presentation ni, ai tak payah risau pasal siapa nak jaga anak n also the flight tix and accomodation. Its much much easier on my pocket and you are still considered as a presenter walaupun tak de kat sana in real life. :)

So far, I came across two conferences which i am interested in yang offer virtual presentation. So what would a virtual presentation be like? Well, satu tu, dia suruh kita record our presentation and upload it in a specific channel on youtube. Satu lagi tu, kita kena submit poster and if ppl are interested in our paper atau research, they can email to ask the questions.

Best kan??

Ok...I better start writing my abstracts.

p.s: lepastu, nak look at my chapter 6 yg dah seminggu diabaikan. but on the bright side, i finished my book review!! i plan to submit it to a journal as well, inshaAllah. :)

habislah

i was not productive at all last week. I did not even bother to touch my thesis atau apa-apa yang berkaitan dengannya.

tapi semalam, selepas kena 'sound' dengan Dr Sunshine, barulah nak start baca buku that I have to review (and kena submit the review by Nov 29th). There's 12 chapters, and I baru nak masuk chapter 7. uwaaaa.....nasib baik buku tu ada kaitan dengan a paper I have to write and also my research. Alahai...whylah so malas sekarang ni??

Tapi...dalam malas-malas tu, I ada juga rajin sikit. Rajin apa tau? Rajin browse online for things that I nak bawa balik. aiyoo..tak sedar diri betul i ini kan? Kerja tak buat, tapi dah berangan nak balik. howlah???

Dr Sunshine and I agreed that tak payah beli electrical items. I am planning to bring back pinggan mangkuk, periuk belanga and other knick knacks...maybe like baking pans and etc. itu sajalah barang2 household yang akan dicari dan sedang dicari pon sekarang ni. hehe.

I feel like going to UKlah untuk beli all those tea towels yang kiut-kiut dan benda seangkatan dengannya. Namun demikian, harapan ittew mungkin tidak feasable. *nangis*

oklah...nak sambung surf internet lagi..heheh...