Cracking my head...

...over Excel.

I discovered that DBP has a corpus of Malay words (yay!), and researchers (e.g. me), or even members of the public, can access it (double yay!).

After several trials and errors, I sort of got hang of the process, and got some important output from the corpus. Thing is, if I wanted to transfer the output to a Word document and check it manually, it would be thousands of pages long. with almost 30,000 words to look over. So I tried to analyse them on Excel, instead.

Now, the last time I properly used Excel, with formulas and all, was 10 years ago. I know that as long as you can think 'logically' and 'mathematically', you'll be able to churn out formulas as fast as David Teo churning out films.

But 10 years ago I was playing with numbers and wave, and now I'm faced with texts. I'm stuck, I just can't figure out any applicable formula for the data that I have and I need. It is trial and error all over again, and my worry is that Excel just don't have the functions that I need :( .

All these thinking make me hungry...