Sunday 7 March 2010

ARE WE ABSORBED TO ICT FACILITIES OR ICT FACILITIES ABSORBED US?

Last Thursday, I read a few PhD theses, not a recent theses but theses wrote in 15 - 20 years ago. I wondered how they are managed and searched for the latest information. I imagined how they used typewriter and hand writing to keep their information in their note books (I mean not a laptop). However they can complete their thesis on time.

Today in the world of IT, we are as a PhD student has an advanced facility to search latest information related to our research and managed your information. I noticed every university students, undergraduate and postgraduate have laptop or desktop. There are so many search engine such as Yahoo, Google etc to assist us to search and download information on university, government and company website, latest journals, book review, newspaper online and etc. However why we cannot complete our thesis on time. Is it the research methodology is too complicated or there are so many university's requirement to fulfill? ICT should expedite our research not make our research difficult to complete.

Furthermore, ICT also absorbed us to spend more time to search and download irrelevant information to our research. I used a word absorbed because we spend so much time unnecessary to :
a) searching information for entertainment... gossip, films, song, movie stars etc;
b) reply email;
c) Yahoo messenger (YM)
c) read, update and reply facebook;
d) read and update blog;
e) read and update twitter;
f) You Tube;
g) Download movies and songs; etc

One of my friends said.. facebook make our networking widen and meet new friends. Did I need this? You tube..you will not miss anything, watching video etc. Email...exchange information so easily. The above entertainment and social websites really attracted us until we forget that we have more important thing to do. How much we spend our time to update our facebook or reply our email or download movies or song in laptop? What ever it is...up to you to assess which one good and bad. We should wisely think which one more important...complete our research or entertain ourself....

Tuesday 2 March 2010

HOW MUCH DID I SPEND MY TIME FOR MY PHD RESEARCH?

Last week I and a few friends discussed about our research progress. One of my friends asked me, in a day how much did I spend my time on my research. When I look my daily timetable and calendar dairy for February 2010, I summarised under one table. And I found out that I spend about 11 - 12 hours a day for my research. Figure below shows the result of daily activities for February 2010. Did I spend my time more to family or less to my research? Should I balance my time for my family and research? How much I spend my time on research for coming month...Mac, April, May...etc? Should I sleep less than 5 hours, so I can spend my time on my phd research. However my brain need rest. I need to complete my phd research on time....


NOTES

One segment of the pie chart represent 1 hour

Red colour - sleeping / resting hour

Yellow colour - time spend for my family

Green colour - time spend for my research

Purple colour - public holiday

PEOPLE AROUND ME..FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

PEOPLE AROUND ME..FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
To my Wife, Zulaini, my sons Zulazlan, Zulazman, Zulazmir, Zulazmin dan my daughter, Nuris Zulazlin...I love you all..thank you being with me

CIRCLE OF FRIENDS... KUALA LUMPUR PROJECT OFFICE

CIRCLE OF FRIENDS... KUALA LUMPUR PROJECT OFFICE
Thank you guys...for your support and encouragement

2007 / 2008 METHODOLOGY AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH COURSE FOR PHD CANDIDATES

2007 / 2008 METHODOLOGY AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH COURSE FOR PHD CANDIDATES
My new friends during my course in INTAN 9 Jan -2 Mac 2007

KUALA LUMPUR PROJECT OFFICE, JOURNEY TO MOUNT OF KINABALU SABAH 21-22 JANUARY 2006

KUALA LUMPUR PROJECT OFFICE, JOURNEY TO MOUNT OF KINABALU SABAH 21-22 JANUARY 2006
WE CAME, WE SAW, WE CONQUERED 4095.2 METER ABOVE SEA LEVEL

How are you, guys? Where you are now?

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