I joined my new faculty which is totally different from my normal background middle of April 09. It was an entirely new experience and totally different environment for me who came from the faculty that is known for their business like and professional approached (bla bla bla...what ever). I must say I had a 'small' cultural shocked at this new faculty of mine hahahaha. Things like unisex toilets; 'artistic' (too artistic) photos; different group of sexuality people (openly declared); and creative story telling (hmmm too detail I must say....). So I was a little bit shocked at first but the funny thing is that, these new group of people accepted me in almost instantly. They really make me feel comfortable and feel at home. Even the g** group are so nice to me and as usual were sooooo fasinated with my believe and religion. So here we go again......explaining about my culture and religion like I always do where ever I go, but don't get me wrong....I LOVE doing it. Looking at how amazed people are with my culture and religion from my perspective is just great. Most of them didn't know much about my culture and religion or got wrong information about it. There are just kind people...I love them all. My principal supervisor is a renown professor in his area and I'm very blessed to have him as my supervisor. He had produced over 30 PhD students.....hmmmm I wonder if I ever gonna produced that many PhD students or even 1/3 of it. Even to finish this journey is still fuzzy and blurry. Anyway, I am so thankfull to my supervisor who agreed to take me under his wing and I still remember the very day he said to me..."You have found your new home now....you have a home now". I cried instantly hearing those kind words (and it happen during our first meeting....how embarassing) and realised once again that, they are actually many kind people in this world. Praise to Allah for that.
Because of my special case status, the uni gave 3 months for me to complete my confirmation which is really hard to achieve like I said earlier even for English native speaker. Of course I didn't achieve it in 3 months time but I achieved it in 6 months time! Wow....what a feeling....at last, THIS IS IT. But the biggest contributor to my confirmation story must be given to my associate supervisor who turned to be my principal supervisor for the past 3 weeks. He really was the person who made this happen....he worked with me so hard for 5 weeks and I hope he will continue doing that after this until I get my PhD. After all the struggles and pain I went through....I got this much awaited confirmation status at my university in Brisbane early Nov. To learn that even the fastest English native speaker student could get through their confirmation stage was within 9 months was really a soothing feeling to me. At least after the long struggle to get my confirmation status there is something you can feel proud of ;-). I started from zero at this new faculty, everything from scratch....as if I was a new PhD student who just registered. I had to start all over again. So to get through the confirmation after 6 months was really a great personal record for me. Yeah, there are so many people involved in this journey which I can't thank them enough but they know who they are and I really appreaciate all their help. Apart from my two most loveable supervisors who help me got through this process and of course my family and friends there is another person who costantly pushed me to work hard. The person is MJFD....sometimes he can be so harsh with his words to me (and he is sooooo young!!!), and I hate that. I really hate it when young people acted that they know everything and on top of that they were right about it. Arghhhh terrible feelings....but to my dearest MJFD, thank you, thank you, thank you. You are a true friend indeed and I hope you'll be successful in your field and your PhD too. I am blessed to have you around in Brissy dude.
This section is dedicated to people who constantly help me with my PhD study in Brisbane (of course there are more but these are the name who directly involved in this journey). Professor Greg Hearn; Associate Professor Michael Keane; Professor Ahmad Shuib; Associate Professor Kusairi Noh; Associate Professor Ghazali Musa; Eric Shelton; MJFD; Siti Salwa Isa and Dila Kamaruddin. I can't thank you enough for all the support, guidance and assistance so may Allah blessed all of you always. Like I said there are more people involved and I thank all of them so much for everything.
Anyway, now that I got my confirmation life is so relaxing I must say. I spent a lot of my time organising parties with lots of food involved, watching youtube, catch up M'sian tv programe and facebooking. Now I'm waiting to go back home for data collection for two months. I need this break althouhg it is not entirely a break but I need this break from Brissy. I haven't been back to M'sia for almost 2 years due to the twisted and dramatic stuffs going on with my PhD starting from Dec last year (2008). But now I can go HOME, yes HOME. And I'm so looking forward for that and can't wait to see my family. But....what is going to happen next after this? Well I guess we just have to wait and see.....because none of us know what the future lay infront of us. Hmmmmmm what I'm thinking right now is just to go HOME. Ok now...PACKING!
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