Research Proposal Presentation

Alhamdulillah, praise be to Allah for today, I had successfully completed my proposal presentation, one of the key milestones in my PhD journey. This time I would say that I am very proud of myself for being able to present the proposal during the first semester, by which none of the Ph.D. or masters' students registered with me did so. Though I am not that good, at least this would be one of my great personal achievement.*Humble brag alert.

Frankly speaking, after going through 3 proposal presentation sessions conducted by the faculty previously, it brings me anxious to see how some of the students were severely criticized by the panel of assessors. Moreover, there were still a lot of things that I need to study regarding on the topic of my research.

My presentation session lasted for one hour including the Q&A session. Alhamdulillah, not many bad comments that I had received throughout my presentation. Yes, there were few moments that I stumbled when the questions asked by the assessors went deep into technical aspect, which then I straightaway do my cute and pitiful face and also smile all the way. I think those saved me.

Overall, it was a good experience for me and I learned a lot from the feedbacks given by the lecturers. Hopefully, this would be a good kickstart for me to begin my research. My tips to everyone who is about to present the proposal, make sure you know when to stand up to your argument and when to just be humble and accept the constructive critics, or else you will have a really tough time during your proposal presentation. Peace! | HM

Research Proposal Submission

Alhamdulillah, for today that Allah had given me a chance to successfully achieved the very first milestone in my Ph.D. journey, which is the submission of my research proposal. After struggling for more than two weeks, I managed to complete the proposal and straight away handed it over to the faculty.

Due to the fact that I am not from a research background, it did give me a really tough time even to start writing up the proposal as I have no idea what I am supposed to do. But in the end, I was able to comprehend bits and pieces of my own research.

I am glad to have decided to take pure science in the first place for my Ph.D. though it is tough and challenging. Now it is time to prepare for the Proposal Defend and keep my head up for the game. Hopefully, everything will be just fine. InsyaAllah.

Self reward 

Army Themed Party : 5 Cendekia

Today, 5 Cendekia had organized a farewell party as a part of school's yearly tradition. As usual, I had given the full autonomy to my students to plan out and organized the party themselves. Since our classroom's theme is the army, so we decided to put army theme for our party as well. 

I firstly distributed the job scope to the pupils according to their groups. Each group then planned out and executed things like; preparing food and beverages, venue, backdrops and decorations, planning out games to be carried out during the party, performance, preparing the presents and hampers for the lucky draw and also preparing the text for the emcee. All were done by the students themselves.

The menu for this year was quite different from last year's as I managed to order KFC (Snack Plate), and JCo Donuts, as well as the complimentary homemade foods brought by the students. Besides that students also were given an opportunity to operate a float drink counter and serve the float ice creams. 

We also invited some other teachers to our party, where they were given the honour to present gifts and mini hampers to the lucky draw winners. After having the lucky draw session, the students then played games such as musical chair and shooting range. All were prepared by the students. 

Overall, I was so happy that the student managed to come out with such a great party. Special thanks I bid to the parents who sponsored our magnificent army cakes, putting up decorations as well as sponsoring the presents and hampers. To all my students, as usual, you had really done a great job. The memories shall forever be cherished in my mind. InsyaAllah. | HM

5 Cendekia, 2017