Meeting and Panel Meeting

Just had a meeting with my supervisor and there are lots of rooms for improvement to be made on my chapter writings.

Next week, on Friday 28th August at 10am, is my panel meeting. There will be 3 panels and me. Don't know how is it gonna be like but I pray for more criticisms and questions so that I can better my writings and thinking. Amen.

Praying hard for my panel meeting next week! (Argh!)

Praying hard for my Korea Foundation's grant application.

Finally a first diagram of my framework!

Although I barred myself from internet surfing and blogging, I could not wait to show the framework that I have just came up with for my study, OMG finally!

Although it has yet to be finalised and confirmed after 3 years of research, it is nonetheless the first fruitful outcome of my hardwork: I work on this for 3 months! I can't believe it! It looks simple but actually there is a complexity theory behind it that makes me sleepness for nights and days without caffein intake

(丌^丌)

My conceptual framework is Startegic Stability, and I attempt to redefine it and later apply it in my case studies. My case studies are North Korea Crises in 1993-1994 and 2006, which occurred during Clinton and Bush Jr.'s administrations respectively. I want to see how the US-ROK security alliance affected the regional stability by using my proposed framework, which should be able to cover issues that the old startegic stability concept not able to cover.

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I will meet my supervisor tomorrow, and the meeting will be about:

1. My first progress report for the higher Degree Committee
2. Confirmation of my panel meeting and when is the exact date to submit my works for it
3. Consulting about Faculty or School's *****
4. Year-end Postgraduate Conference?
5. Update my progress >_<

キャ~ ドキドキ

Praying hard for my panel meeting in 2 weeks time! (Argh!)

Praying hard for my Korea Foundation's grant application.

Say no to Internet

A shorebird by a small lake at Bundoora Park, Melbourne, Victoria

Will remain offline until the end of this month. So no more updates until September.

Wish me luck on my panel meeting a.k.a. candidature confirmation meeting!

Muacks!

Praying hard for my panel meeting in 3 weeks time!

Praying hard for my Korea Foundation's grant application.

Praying hard for my panel meeting in 3 weeks time!

123456789

Tonight after midnight we will experience the only 123456789 moment which occurred only once in the human history.

What I've done so far until 12:34:56AM 07/08/09?

1. I was born at 08:55AM on 22/09/83
2. Went to Gospel Chapel Kindergarten from 1988-1989
3. Went to S.R.B. Chung San from 1990-1995
4. Studied at S.M.K. Riam for one year in the year 1996
5. Then S.M.K. Lopeng Tengah from 1997-1999
6. Transferred to S.M.K. Chung Hua Miri in 2000 and graduated in 2001
7. Working part-time for half-year and went to Kolej Tun Datu Tuanku Haji Bujang Miri from June 2002 - November 2003
8. Working part-time for 4 months and went to Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia on 13 June 2004 together with 3 other hometown friends: Siaw Kim, Hsiao Ching and Jin Wen.
9. Knowing lots of BFFs for life during 3 years study in UKM from 2004 until 2007.
10. Working at Merdeka Centre for Opinion Research for 4 months, graduated with Honours on 11 August 2007, working for UKM since 11 October 2007.
11. Sat for TOEFL and GRE in November and submitted applications to Columbia University, University of Washington, SAIS of Johns Hopkins University, and university of Colorado Boulder in December of 2007.
12. Tutoring for the first time on January 2008.
13. Received offer letter from University of Washington on 22 March 2008.
14. Submit applications to POSCO scholarship and Sogang University in April or May 2008.
15. Awarded Sogang Scholarship for 2 years after an interview and Sogang university's admission in June 2008. Applying for Australian National University and La Trobe University.
16. Rejected POSCO and Sogang in July 2008.
17. Confirmation letter from LTU, apply for Study Leave in August 2008.
18. Received La Trobe University's offer letter in September 2008, study leave approved.
19. Went back to Miri to see family and friends.
20. Departing Kuala Lumpur on 4 December 2008 and arrived in Melbourne 5 December 2008.
21. Beginning one of the toughest journey in life since December 2008.
22. Experiencing emotional turbulence throughout the first half of 2009.
23. About to finish 2 chapters, a proposal and a literature review of totaling more than 15000 words by the fateful 123456789 moment. 85000 more words to go.

I am so going to walk down this bumby winding road. Life is short, live it to the fullest, don't waste time on whining and complaining.

Wasted 25 minutes to write this post. Continue my work ~("￣▽￣")~

For the love of bookstand

Have been looking for this for a long time, finally I own one! T_T

You can adjust the leaning angle at the back.

And the clips for keeping the book still, perfect! No need to holding the book on one hand and typing with another one hand!

You can lay on your stomach on the bed while reading the book. Do some exercises by stretching out your hand to flip to the next page!

Just place next to your PC and laptop for quick reference while typing out your ideas, superb!

Can hold up to 2 articles or papers. Say yes to bookstand and no more procrastination due to aching wrist! \(≧▽≦)/

Praying hard for my Korea Foundation's grant application.

Praying hard for my panel meeting at the end of this month!

Drawing framework

After getting myself done with the writing of literature review, now it's time to build a working framework for my study. First I have to portray what are the weaknesses and limitation of the old framework according to my literature review:

So next I shall come up with a new framework which I think is more suitable and applicable for today's world and especially for my regional case study:

Still blank, LOL

Because I explained 3 theoretical perspectives for my conceptual framework (complexity, balance of power, and offense-defense/security dilemma theory), I am still drafting on many pieces of paper and struggling to come up with a comprehensive, easy to understand (OK this is the hardest part), yet able to present the "complexity" of the variables in a coherent way, in that limited space shown above.

Wish me luck. *somewhat feeling unwell and want to puke*

*self-imposed deadline: within this week* (丌^丌)

Praying hard for my Korea Foundation's grant application.

Praying hard for my panel meeting at the end of this month.