Need FYP student

Baru bulan november lepas naik lecturer.. and bila jadi lecturer kena amik student final year project sbb it is one of the aspect yg perlu capai dalam KPI.. I was like so worry sbb I taught foundation before so I never had a chance to meet degree students.. and this sem lah baru start mengajar degree.. Semua org ckp takpe kalau takde FYP student pun.. but I really want to have FYP students because it's one of the new thing that I haven't try. And in my mind, the only topic that I could think of it's either buat genetic algorithm like my research masa master atau buat robotics.. which something that I did masa degree punya FYP (final year project) 

Then suddenly meet one of my students.. kebetulan dia pun tgh cari supervisor.. and dia pun sgt kebetulan berminat nak buat robot.. I was so happy sbb ada org yg share interest yg sama.. Alhamdulillah.. Tapi dia tak confirm lagi.. esok dia akan confirm whether dia berani tak nak teruskan dgn project ni ke tak.. Hopefully kalau dia setuju.. I would want to let him try to make a soccer junior robot..  Robot yg boleh main bola.. During my time.. I just make the robot trying to find the way inside a maze. It will look like something like this..

Happy Mode

One of my absolutely favourite subject in uniten dulu is discrete mathematics.. Kebetulan, next sem dapat opportunity untuk mengajar that subject and skrg tgh buat solution untuk all of the tutorial dia.. One of the best topic mestila buat numbering systems.. At my time, there are no such thing as calculate the numbering systems using the calculator.. We all learn the hard way.. Kira sendirik.. tapi skrg mestilah guna calculator kan.. gilo nak kira satu2 cam dulu.. tak kose nak guna brain pepagi nih.. Tapi students aku kena paksa guna brain sbb diaorg masih belajar..

To my ex-unitenian.. This bring back memories kan?

Pastu plak smlm mmg gembira.. This semester punya students mmg selalu nak membuat aku terpekik2.. letih.. Kalau latihan tu mmg selalu je nak spoon fed.. oleh kerana geram sgt.. satu kelas kena buat latihan programming dalam 20-30 latihan.. Tetiba this week.. diaorg boleh buat latihan yg paling susah.. dgn sendiri tanpa bantuan aku langsung and diaorg siapkan dalam masa sejam.. baru ingat nak bg 1 week.. And tak meniru sbb programming tu lain dari yg lain.. and diaorg adalah first batch yg tak memerlukan bantuan aku langsung untuk soalan tuh.. Peh berbangga giler.. Nmpknya oleh kerana cara paksaan membuat programming berkesan.. maka next sem students boleh paksa students buat lagi bnyk latihan weeeeee~~

Kesan Pygmalion

Maaf entry kali ni berunsurkan teori bosan --> khas untuk guru2 yg mudah mengamuk!

Have u ever heard of this word --> Pygmalion..No? Me too... Sampaila hari ni when I was reading one book that wrote about it.. Prof Robert Merton memperkenalkan benda ni yg explain mcm mana harapan kita mewujudkan kepercayaan yg kita inginkan..

Penjelasan Kajian : Ada sorang cikgu ni dia kena ajar kelas di mana pelajar2 dia sgtla pintar (it's what that they told the teacher la kan) tapi sebenarnya diaorg tipu.. kelas tu takde sorang pun budak pandai.. semua ada IQ yg rendah.. Then bila ajar opkosh la takde yg nak dgr.. Tapi cikgu tersebut percaya budak2 tu adalah budak pintar jadi dia rasa salah dia.. yg buat budak2 tak nak tumpukan perhatian.. dia rasa dia yg ajar dgn membosankan.. So dia tukar strategi.. dia mula pk apa yg bole buat budak2 tu tumpukan perhatian.. and akhirnya budak2 tu mula menunjukkan tindak balas yg positif..

And in the end.. IQ pelajar2 tu meningkat sehingga 20-30 mata.. (This is written in the book, I also don't know how to calculate the IQ) Jadi di sini.. kalau la cikgu tu tau pelajar2 tu rendah IQ dia mestila dia tak nak ajar kan.. mesti la dia kata budak tu yg tak bijak..

So konsepnya di sini bermula semester depan aku akan mula percaya semua yg datang dlm kelas aku adalah pelajar2 bijak..Beerti tons or work menanti..dgn kesusahan yg maha hebat

New things to do.. Mempercayai benda yg palsu sehingga rasa seperti  benar! hahah

How is the first week of the semester?

Satu minggu pertama telah berlalu.. dan dah pun start bertimbun2 exercise kat atas meja aku.. campur kat email.. Takut rasa nak buka email.. terkejut tgk bnyk sgt dlm inbox... Checking??.. Wait until saturday la.. tak sanggup nak bersengkang otak tgk jawapan diaorg.. Takut nanti *fainted* tgk jawapan.. Hari ni hari yang free yeay! smlm mmg dasyat.. kelas dari kol 10 - 6 ptg.. Budget nak puasa tapi tak takyah la weii.. Silap2 nmpk semua kepala student cam bulat2 yang membentuk donut..Iman senipis kulit bawang.. Like onion slice haha bole gitu..

So smlm I ask the students to answer this question..
Develop an algorithm for the robot /computer to cross the road at the zebra crossing with traffic light.

Asnwer:
So firstly the robot must go in front of the road.. Near the sidewalks.. Then the robot scan.. "Oh there is a traffic light".. Then scan the color of the traffic light:

If  (traffic light color == red)
     then push the button and wait until it goes green

If (traffic light color == green)
     then the robot can move

If (traffic light color == yellow)
    then the robot should ready to speed up..

And then everybody was laughing.. Typical malaysian robot.. It is so funny and I never thought of this. Usually it was a boring answer.. For example just wait until it turns green and then u can walk.. So the answer this time is different and I can see that they have really good imagination.. They really think of something in details.. Starting from move until u find a sidewalk until the robot scan the button.. Scan the colours.. Haha hilarious..That's why it's great to become a teacher.. Seeing students is one powerful way to make ur day! I have a blast time with them..

Some of them can't wait for their labs.. Keep asking me when we can do our first programming?.. Ok tomorrow is the day when u can make ur first program.. They were like Yeay!!!! Ok.. I never face this situation before haha.. Let see tomorrow how they will work out with python.. Python is one of the programming language..No GUI bebeh..

Ok right now I have to go back and work to check ur exercise *Sweating*

Best day

I have to teach the students that are going to fly to oversea for this semester and I havent get a chance to meet them individually.. And after meeting them today whoaaa they are so different.. They are active, super bright and really love to express their thought and opinion.. This is like a new experience to me.. Well, I guess it's a good experience after all. Perhaps I will learn something from them as they also learn something from me.. At a very young age, they already trying to do C and C++ and they even know about cryptography, md5 hash..

They also bring their laptop in the lecture hall.. but they are not using it for entertainment only. If I was explaining on historical of computer science, they will trying to find more information about the topics.. Sometimes they were not agree with the contents; they will say it and justify the reason.. Which is cool because it's challenging.. It open up my mind..

and today is holiday.. they were going to the book fair!! cool huh.. Who wants to go to the bookfair on holiday?.. But they are all super nice, humble and very cooperative.. I will certainly know that I will miss them after they fly..


So all of my students take this as a challenge.. You should not take it easy when it comes to learning.. Find information that is around u all of the time and don't just study because you want to get Perfect A.. Study because u want to fill up your knowledge.. I love you guys so much..

For the second best thing that happen to me today is my student status..

September 2011.. Insya Allah will be my convocation day.. Just got the senate letter today..

New Trimester.

Tomorrow a new semester will begin again.. It's not like I didn't feel excited.. It just I just have a 5 days holiday before this make going to work is the last thing on my mind.. Certain people feel happy to go to work again after a long holiday but maybe not for me.. Because dlm masa 5 hari tu I still went to UNITEN, answering phone call, answering emails.. I dont know what will happen to my inbox if I didn't check my email each day.. So still feeling tired..

Dont get me wrong.. I love my job so muchhh.. Since I know I'm good in teaching, I know this is the thing that I always want to do.. I just hope I have a fresh start tomorrow..

Ehem ehem let start again.. Dear students, welcome to Universiti Tenaga Nasional.. I hope you guys will study hard for my class and try not to fail in my class..I am so happy to teach you new things and hopefully can make u one of the greatest person one day. Be prepared and try to think like a university students..



So ting! A new trimester has begun!



Week of conjecture

Hari ni pepagi dah bengang dapat email from one of my vendor.. Huh.. Sakit hati ni.. Tapi pastu pk2 balik malas rasa nak marah2.. So da reply email tu.. even tak tau sape la yang customer dlm situasi nih.. and terangkan secara baik2.. and then baru la org tu ok.. Mgkn la aku pun ada bersalah dlm hal nih.. tapi tak boleh ke bincang elok2.. bukannya takleh paham..

And tak lama lagi exam akan diduduki oleh anak2 murid aku.. and hopefully korang perform la okey.. Cikgu dah bagi apa yang terbaik..dan dah bagi exercise yang cukup bnyk.. So hopefully it turns out ok jugak..Then tadi tgk la balik soalan exam sbb soalan ni dah siap dah lama.. Tetiba cam rasa susah pun ada jugak.. hehe.. But I positively believe you all can answer it if you are well prepared.. After exam, boleh la lepak2 sementara tunggu next trimester.. Itupun maybe sambung buat experiment2 yang bole menambah baik kan pengetahuan and results.. Hopefully tercapai apa yang nak dibuat in this month..

Tapi mmg dugaan kesihatan betul la bulan ni.. Habis tenaga dok menahan sakit jek.. Masa awal2 bulan hari tu g check.. and doc detect ada low blood pressure.. and this week sakit perut yang unknown.. Tapi aku tetap kuar jalan2 cam biasa.. main badminton.. pastu mula la muka dah pucat2.. Hairos dah dua, tiga kali tanya.. awak ni sakit2 camni nak g jugak ke?..Mestila.. kata nak main untuk uber cup.. huhuhu.. and Hairos akan wat muka cam ingat kelakar la tuh..

And this weekend, akan bergerak ke melaka.. Yeay!! Itupun kalau kesihatan mengizinkan... huhu..

to many things to be grateful for..

One the best time in my life is I think when I work as RA.. I have wonderful friends and we still keep in touch with each other until now. and one of the best thing is most of us now have the job that we dreamt of.. Rozi dah jadi lecturer, Huda dah kerja as PTD, niza pun dah kat govt sector (MAMPU), lim has become a tutor and aku pun dah jadi tutor. The best thing is, alhamdulillah we reach our dream. But it's not just plain lucky. We really work our a** off.

As for me, when all of my friends have been hired and get really high pay, I still work as RA to further my study and received really low pay ok.. but the important thing is I know this is the path that I want to take. If not dah lama lari kot.. sometimes akan rasa down sbb your friends ada yang dah kerja title best2.. ada yang dah naik gaji..

So kalau ada org rasa sesetengah org tu mcm mudah je dpt apa yg diaorg nak. well I guess it's not true.. We have to sacrifice a lot of things to make it happen.. but if believe in yourself , you will MAKE it happen, Insya Allah.

Tetiba nak cari deco untuk raya last 2 years and terjumpa gambar ni

dah tak ingat wujud gambar ni.. rindu



mereka



all RAs except Alan

awak ada baju ni ke?

my students

I just need to express what I felt towards my students.. Mmg hangin betul... I have like 163 students and I need them to pass up their lab exercises. Every week is like I have to check 163 lab exercises and they would send me their name like this

1)adhha
2)hidayah
3)Ali
4)akmal

What do you expect??? should I go through one by one in the namelist just to find your name??and you expect me to give fullmark for the bright thinking.. Dah kalau ada 10 org nama hidayah what should I do?.. And I have to tell them everytime in the class, please put your fullname and ID.. adoi nak kena remind 1000 kali.. Jantung sakit....

semester baru

Phew!! baru 2 minggu semester start.. hidup dah balik kelam kabut balik.. mana nak layan past2 student.. nak buat course file untuk last semester punya pengajaran.. Sumpah aku ingat jadi lecturer tu senang abis dah.. bnyk nak mati kerja.. hari2 balik mlm.. rupanya kerja bukan la setakat teaching je.. dlm masa yg sama kena buat research balik.. kena ada project sendiri.. kena supervise project student.. kena pergi lawat student training.. tambah lagi kalau kena ada advisor advisee day.. kena amik student jadi anak angkat.. pelbagai lah!.. ni ialah satu cara untuk jadikan korang manusia berguna ok!.. so jgn asyik nak memonteng kalau nak jumpa lect..

Tp sem ni dpt student fresh from school.. so masih lagi takleh adapt dgn cara universiti belajar.. where takde lagi spoon feeding.. belajar mendengar arahan sekali.. lepas tu instruction ikut nota.. dan belajar sendiri.. so far adalah yg boleh and ada jugak yg tak.. cam biasala.. but kesian gak diaorg sbb this sem adalah dekat 3 tahun i have been teaching and as usual lect akan jadi lebih kejam dan tegas biasanya lepas lebih lama mengajar.. awal2 baik giler.. not to say diaorg pijak kepala tapi diaorg akan tend to submit assignment lmbt.. sbb lect baik.. so nasib le diaorg.. mgkn good opportunity for them to belajar respect the deadline.. yelah nanti dah kerja.. ingat bole suka2 hantar kerja bila2 masa korang suka ke.. tidak2.. mmg ada harapan nak kena fired la tak lama lagi..

but this sem ada satu program baru.. nak buat atom campus.. where the lecturer akan ambik budak2 ni n jadi cam their mom kat universiti so that bole mengadu kalau ada masalah.. and jangan bg diaorg terpengaruh dgn seniors kerana mereka ini masih lagi rebung ye.. masih hijau.. belum jadi buluh k... so lebih baik dgr ckp mak dari senior korang yg dah mula tak lulus sbb asyik memonteng..

So studentku selamat datang ke semester baru!!!!

11 Mei 2010

Today I just knew how talented my students are.. Always ask them to think outside the box.. and they really done it.. so so proud of them. They really worked hard for their class and asg.. only segelintir jelah yg mcm menyakitkan hati.. didn't want to come to class and tak buat kerja.. Other than that diaorg sgt2 baik dan menghormati.. Really2 grateful that all of them are my students..

hah hari ni plak tetiba kena visit student industrial training.. first time.. pelbagai perasaan ada.. takut + pening.. coz I know I always sesat jalan.. even though tmpt visit tu tak jauh pun kat ampang ngan cheras je.. coz this is first time maka sgt cuak.. there always the first time for everything.. tapi nak melepasinya selalu rasa takut.. then what should i do first, contact the supervisor or the students.. baru je nak lepak2 lepas dah habis kelas sem ni.. nak focus buat thesis nye correction.

ahh tak tau dah nak tulis apa.. bnyk benda yg mengganggu fikiran hari ni..

boredom. sekian.