Ethics application

...submitted at last!

But I received a conditional registration. Have to make a transfer report; looks like my MSc is a few months too early to get away with the transfer. Hmmm....

University Challenge

Was watching an episode of University Challenge when a thought occured to me, 'How would my students, or even I, fare in this quiz?'. I have never encountered a range of questions so wide, it covers the whole spectra of arts and science. I don't I can survive 5 minutes into the quiz, let alone 30.

But here's a bit of trivia for you, just in case you're selected to be in a team for the University Challenge:

7 Fundamental SI Units:

• metre for length 
• kilogram for mass 
• second for time
• ampere for electric current
• kelvin for temperature
• candela for luminous intensity
• mole for the amount of substance

(Source: Wikipedia)

Fusilli Chicken Tomyam

Perfect when it is chilly outside, you just walked home from class and couldn't be bothered to cook rice & the accompanying dish/dishes.

Ingredients
boneless chunky-diced pieces of chicken
ready diced carrots and swede
potatoes, diced
fusilli
bell peppers
instant tomyam sauce/tomyam paste
oil

Heat oil and fry the paste/sauce till fragrant (or follow the instructions given for the paste/sauce). Add carrots, swede and potatoes. Fry for a minute. Add water, chicken pieces, peppers and fusilli. Let boil till everything is cooked. Season to taste.

It may not be haute cuisine but it may just be the thing you'd want to eat in front of the TV at the end of a busy day.

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...

Recruitment form done!

One thing to cross out from my to-do list, yay! Am going to reward myself with a shower, a lather of my newly-bought vanilla & apple body butter, and Xpress Noodles noodles :D :D :D.

14-month plan

Was asked to construct a 14-month plan, October 2011 - December 2012. Looking at it, December 2012 does not seem so far away anymore (which can be both good and bad heheh...). Finished that and also the annual review form. A little bit more work on the ethics thingy - consent forms, recruitment forms, etc.. But first, a trip to town because it is SO sunny and I need to get a few supplies. And perhaps reward myself with a couple of fried chicken pieces; three meals of fish fingers in 4 days is more than enough even for a (lazy) student like me.

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Bismillah...

My first entry.

Have been alternately staring at the monitor and the papers in front of me for 3 hours. And all I managed to (academically) write are four sentences.

Time to make fish finger sandwich!