Parents/teachers meeting

The meeting was held yesterday at the school gymnasium. Grabbed the chance to meet few of Abg Long's teachers. Happy to find out Abg Long is catching up with his study. As usual his excellent performance is in the Art and Japanese class. The teacher showed me his latest project in the art class. Very impressive. Once again Abg Long is invited to go to Japan this year. This time for the ski trip. And once again I have to use the old scripts to explain the reasons of not going.Siannn.....hopefully bila dia besar dia paham le...

As for mathematics he made an outstanding improvement. He scored the second highest mark in his algebra test (gamaknya lepas kena drilling kat umah kot). I really hope Abg Long at least maintain his performace coz Abg Long's performance in math is just like playing "yo-yo". He is coping well in his society and environment. But he needs to do a lot for science. Memang bukan "otak angkasawan le..."

The best part is this year Abg Long has two Asian teachers (Singaporian and Indonesian). Seronok berborak ngan diaorang. Siap bole sembang bab bab nak dapat PR lagi..heeee
Semangat "keAsianan" diaorang dalam mendidik Asian students ni pun bole tahan gak. Good to know about that.

Muga Abg Long akan terus bersemangat untuk memajukan diri..

p/s: ada new updates about my "haru biru-blues" life....tungggu.......

The "haru- biru-blues" life

Yesterday teman " tidur siang". For some people tidur siang ni may be dah jadi routine but for people like me, it is a sign that I tak sihat. Kalau sihat, memang saya tak tidur sebelah siang. Kalau letih sangat pun I would rather baring baring , bermalas malas atas katil tapi will never tidur yang cam tidur sebelah malam tu. Tapi semalam , I memang tidur. Nyenyak. Environment pun cam sunyi gitu(si J Lo pun tidur). Cuma bila bangun tu, the whole body sakit. Badan pun cam panas sikit. Akhirnya 2 biji Panadol active fast masuk dalam perut.

Bila dibuat postmortem apa punca tak sihat, rasanya my daily routine yang ntah apa apa including umur teman yang makin lanjut. Ditambah plak ngan pengambilan caffein yang menjadi jadi. Bole jadi duta "Nescafe". Sehari ntah berapa mug I ambik untuk keep going..

Kalau dikira le sejak hubby mendapat kerja PTD (Pencuci Tadbir Diplomatik) ni, masa tidur teman dah makin kurang le plak. I have to wake up at 3 am. My life begin at 3 am till cam 11pm gitu.. Masalahnya , bila dah bangun at 3am I memang tak leh tidur balik. Malam semalam I tidur awal. Pukul 9pm dah masuk bilik tapi sian pulak Abg Long, belum abih buat homework. Nasib baik ari ni dia tak ada test.

Ditambah plak ngan kerisauan bab bab analysis yang masih meraban- nak kena guna PLS (apa pun tak tau lagi), conference paper yang patut dibuat (i belum really sit down and start), my chapters yang asyik dok kena rewrite..yang cam tak habih habih processnya...

iron plak rosak..ni pun contribute ke stress gak ni..pasal baju banyak tak iron lagi..On top of that dapat notice dari agent nak buat house inspection this thursday..all these make mylife miserable...rasa cam nak jadi pokok je....senang...tak yah kelam kabut cari air or baja...semua org bagi.....huaaaaaaa....

Discussion on mixed methods research

Attended a discussion on mixed methods research at GSB yesterday. The main issue was to share and discuss the idea developed by John Creswell ( yang banyak tulis buku on research methodology tu..)on how to carry out mixed methods research. Was a very fruitful discussion. At the end of the day, I think I would considered my self as having a " positivism head" who is really into the positivist paradigm in doing research. Besides, as a sponsored student I would like to be realistic on the time allowed to carry out my research. Thus I think I would prefer to stick on the positivist paradigm but mixed the methods of collecting data ( this way is a little bit contrary with what has been suggested by Creswell...heeee) whenever I would like to carry out any mixed methods research.The best part is I got a better picture on what is actually mixed methods research!

Nina & Montessori

Our beloved Nina / J Lo is going to be 4 years old this coming August. She could only start her kindy class( free class) at any public school next year. But her temptation of going to school cannot be controlled anymore. Everymorning she will cry histerically, telling us she really wants to go to school and she is old enough and more than ready for school. So , yesterday we made a big decision. We enrolled her at the Southbank montessori. We could only enrolled her for 2 days in a week coz it cost us AUD 70 per day. In a month it will cost us AUD 560. On top of that we need to pay a deposit of AUD 280 hu hu hu....I think the best way to express this decision is:

Nina + Montessori = Budget Porak Peranda