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As for the July meet, its tomorrow, Saturday, Jul 19 7:30pm – 8:30pm
@ EpiCentre at Pavilion KL. See you guys there. I’ll be talking about Scripting and Scripting Bridge and Chris Hong on iPhone dev.
For those who missed the earlier iCal invitation, please do leave your email with me or Chris Hong and we will add you into the loop. Cheers and have a good weekend everyone!
Take a look at the date of my last post and today. That’s how long I’ve been busy/swamped/too exhausted from and with work. Don’t really want to talk too much about work. Not much I can say anyway — nothing interesting, the usual boring stuff again.
This weekend is however a small relief for me — the worst of my hectic schedules are finally over and how wonderful to coincide with the iPhone OS 2.0 update. Killed my stress away tapping, shaking and swiping all over my iPod touch all afternoon. Heh.
On the other hand, I’m playing around with AppleScript’s ScriptingBridge. I may (most probably) do a little something about this during the next CocoaHeads meetup. Given that I have quite a few bash scripts, this would be useful, and especially to finally have time to build GUI/Cocoa wrappers around them. (I used to have a lot of perl scripts but not entirely sure how and why I filtered them out one by one until I ended up with no more left).
Till next time. G’nite while I play Guitar Hero TapTap Revenge on my iPod touch
The title sounds so much like I just lost someone/broke up/etc 
No… moving on from my Postgrad Diploma. What next?
I think somewhere along the way I have mentioned about the possibility of doing my PhD… and today I was told that based on my results of my Postgrad Diploma, I am eligible for consideration for PhD candidacy.
But PhD is still too early for me to do right now… maybe a few years down the line. In making sure that I keep abreast of research developments in that area I am studying and also to keep up the momentum, my supervisor and I have agreed to churn out and publish (in international journals of course!) some research papers. I will do it independently, in my professional capacity, not aligned to any research or academic institution but as part of a larger study stemming from the research I did during my P.Dip. days. And my wonderful supervisor will journey with me along the way.
I don’t know how much doing my PhD will benefit me.
I do know at least, that the papers I’ll be churning out now will directly benefit me in my professional and personal capacity as well as contribute to academia. But it’s hard to say that in say, 5 years time I would still be doing what I am currently working as.
I guess this is something only time will tell.
For now, I’m committing myself to publish one journal paper, hopefully by the end of this year. Time to start hunting for reputable journals to publish in and examine their submission guidelines.
For all the political drama going on there.
Admittedly, I have believed it as nothing more than political overhype all these while.
Until I had the opportunity to go to Kota Kinabalu for 2 weeks. Which totally shook every fibre of my thought. No, the problems run deeper than just political disgruntlement.
I shall not comment any further… except that on the grassroots, Sabahans aren’t kidding when they said they’re fed up with the government. And after hearing personal accounts on why, I deeply sympathize with their predicaments… ask me personally if you want to know why.
