choices

this page is so slow to load! sicko!

Anyway, while i was doing thing on GrADS and reading essentials of meteorology, a lot of thing came into my mind. well, finally i asked my currently supervisor, about the financial-assistanship offer from U.K.M. He said, he won't hold any of his student to stayu there long but adviced me to at least stay there for better exposure. and i said, of course i will at least finish my MPhil at U.M first, before I can go anywhere i chose to. The exposures he meant are so great, he said that he has connection with cambridge and univ of washington, i i need a reference for my PhD in the future. Wow, that's early right? even my MPhil's offer letter is still pending.

Good to know that, i [most probably] having job after finishing MPhil and later PhD.

In the mean time, i need to at least take a glimps of which uni i'll go for PhD. since i need to be in Math department [not earth science like i was planned way before i finished my BSc],i came across a lot of interesting applied maths field they offer, especially in modelling climate, atmosphere and enviroment. Right now, i have three uni that i will consider. Univ of Washington, Austalian National University and University of New South Wales. they have an interesting interdepartment research, which combined my both interest, maths and meteorology.
anyway, i was thinking, is it possible if they support me for graduate degree before i go for PhD...?
i pray to God that everything will be fine, and give me strength to make all this happen.

Workshop on Hydrologic Data Management and Modelling in South East Asia

I am attending this workshop this week, well as a secretariat but since they have vacant computers, so, I should not let this opportunity just passed. anyway, the presenters are actually from Univ of California,San Diego, apparently under San Diego Supercomputer Center.

This workshop anyway more to hydro information and of course data management. so, not directly related to my field of study, but i am trying to extract information as much as i can from this one week workshop. especially the model they use.

most of the participants are from South East Asian countries, representing their institutions and agencies.

Great thanks to Dr Ilya Zavlasky, Dr Tom Whitenack from SDSC, California, for this informative workshop. and other participants including Dr Dave, from UCSD.

me: remember how Prof Ganikhodjaev pronounce "have" exactly the same as Dr Zavlasky does! LOL...

First Hands-On lesson

I am so excited 'bout this.

First day of ...kind of ..new life....

First day? nothing much. except that i have to run from NARC to Geo Dept and sweating like hell. Then went back to NARC [luckily by bus]. And good thing to hear from Prof Azizan is, he will sent me to a Training on MM5 and another new program for weather modelling at malaysian meteorological Dept at date soon-to-be-told. Currently, i just get familiarize myself with meteorology and atmospheric science stuff..hoho... and he expected that I will be able to simulate the weather system [as an outcome for the research], which i am sooo nervous about it..haha..owh..it's not nervous! it's adrenalin!!

oh yea..i stopped by at Bank Islam UM branch for awhile, to transfer my money. then, apparently my data in the bank server still "staff account", and need an offiver to override the transaction, the teller asked me
"siapa fadzil?"
"saya.."
"owh..staff bank islam ke?"
"ex..."
then the conversation just went on and on... and I actually felt acknowledged by them. wah~ what a great feeling..hahahahahahahahaha... the officer actually knew that one of 'uia branch' staff will come to UM for study, thanks to my ex-boss for telling the whole branches..ciss...


me: lalalala~

First Day

Alhamdulillah, finally I got into National Antarctic Research Center, not being an officer, but as a research assistant. It's a good start isn't it? I hope so. So, this morning, I have to finish up two forms and required the head of the research to sign. i haven't got on line with him yet but I will definitely try to do this as soon as possible. yesterday, I called him, and he said that he will send me to Malaysian Meteorological Department for MM5 training. So, I am so excited to go. the training will held on...err...around two or three weeks from now. so i guess, before that I will be clueless, staying here alone. hmm.. maybe i should reads something for my upcoming master.

me: clueless~