Drowsy Bloggy

Just got back from one-week Kursus Asas Pengajaran (held in Shah Alam) last night. I was so exhausted, mentally in particular. To top it all, I received almost 100 emails in my official inbox. It was a tedious job sorting the important emails (read: awating jobs) from the unrelated ones. Then came another phase, completing the tasks given. Honestly, I felt so drained out, but there is an urgent job which needs to be finished by today. Alhamdulillah, finally I managed to accomplish it, and I rewarded myself by keeping track of my good friends' blogs. Lady Zaini's latest post triggers this entry. Basically, I just copied what she did :).

Your Blogging Type is Pensive and Philosophical

You blog like no one else is reading... You tend to use your blog to explore ideas - often in long winded prose. Easy going and flexible, you tend to befriend other bloggers easily. But if they disagree with once too much, you'll pull them from your blogroll!

What's Your Blogging Personality?

Your Surfing Habits are 70% Male, 30% Female

If we had to guess, we would guess that you are a man. You use the internet to make your life more efficient - and to make you smarter. For you, the internet is like a vast encyclopedia. You search and surf extensively. You look up everything online.

Do You Use the Internet Like a Man or a Woman?

p/s: hehe yang kedua tu sama la lady z

Lembutkan Hatiku

Peperiksaan akhir untuk semester Julai 2008 telah pun berakhir. Sesi bersengkang mata menanda skrip-skrip jawapan juga telah langsai, alhamdulillah. Lumrah bagi para pensyarah untuk menemukan ucapan-ucapan memohon simpati daripada pelajar pada kertas jawapan dengan harapan kami akan meluluskannya. (meskipun kertas jawapan pelajar terbabit selalunya lompong-lompong)

Berikut merupakan ucapan-ucapan yang biasa:

Bantulah saya untuk lulus miss. Saya telah cuba yang terbaik.

Terima kasih kerana mengajar saya. Tolong lah saya untuk lulus.

Kata kuncinya ialah lulus. Begitulah lazimnya ucapan-ucapan yang diterima. Namun baru-baru ini saya menerima satu ucapan yang lain daripada yang lain. Tika saya sedang pening-pening menanda kertas mereka, saya terjumpa ucapan ini :

YA ALLAH YA TUHAN KAMI. LEMBUTKANLAH HATI PEMERIKSA INI SEPERTIMANA KAU LEMBUTKAN HATI SAIDINA UMAR UNTUK MEMELUK ISLAM. AMIN.

Spontan saya tergelak besar dan hati berdetik, garang sangatkah saya ini. Kini saya tekad untuk membeli buku tentang psikologi remaja (setelah begitu lama menimbang-nimbang sama ada wajar saya membelinya).

Alhamdulillah

Bismillah

Thanks to Allah for His Great Blessing and Solawat to our beloved Prophet (P.B.U.H). This thesis is the outcome of years of research that has been done since I came to IIUM as a postgraduate student. By that time, I have worked with a great number of people whose contribution in various ways to the research and the making of the thesis deserved special mention. It is a pleasure to convey my gratitude to them all in my humble acknowledgment.

In the first place I would like to record my gratitude to Assoc. Prof. Dr. F. A. for his supervision, advice, and guidance from the very early stage of this research as well as giving me opportunities to present my findings at many international conferences throughout the work.

In addition, I would also like to express my thanks to U.niversiti T.eknologi M.ARA for generously funding my studies. Their financial support has given me opportunity of experiencing comfortable learning facilities and environment.

And of course, I am thankful for being blessed with support and understanding by my parents and siblings. They stand by me at all occasions, through the happy and tough times. To them, I am still their clumsy sister and daughter who would still go to them no matter what. They have been my inspiration all this while.

I also gratefully acknowledge my Networking Research Group Lab members: Bro Zeldi, Dr. Omer, Sis Naimah and Sis Fariza for their advice, supervision, and crucial contribution, which made them a backbone of this research and so to this thesis. I am grateful in every possible way and hope to keep up our collaboration in the future. Our friendship has also become a memorable one.

It is also a pleasure to pay tribute to Mr Ronan de Renesse and Mr Vinod Kone for their kindness of answering my inquiries regarding QoS in MANETs through emails. They have been very generous in providing the information that I require.

Last but not least, collective and individual acknowledgments are also owed to my colleagues at IIUM whose presence somehow perpetually refreshed, helpful, and memorable. Many thanks go in particular to Sis Shuhada, Sis Rozaidah, Sis Winda, Sis Zakiah, Sis Yusnita, Sis Hasimah, Sis Hanani, Sis Syazilawati, Sis Iman, Sis Siti, Bro Iwan, Bro Turnad, Bro Hakim and Bro Amart for giving me such a pleasant time during my study, especially for the exhilarating time we spent together.

Finally, I would like to thank everybody who was important to the successful realization of this thesis as well as expressing my apology that I could not mention personally one by one.

Wallahul musta'an

Viva La Ida, Viva La Liberty

My post title is actually a good luck wish by a fellow workmate. I am so nervous now, lately even my nights have been haunted by thoughts and visions of viva voce presentation. Still, being in my beloved Garden of Knowledge and Virtue once again, certainly cheers me, and of course nostalgic moments as well. May Allah guide and help me, and may this viva accomplishment be a part of my ibadah, insya Allah. Below is the official invitation for my viva presentation :)

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful ……..

Assalamua'laikum,

May this memo reach all of you in the best of faith and health.

Sr. Ida_zy, a Master degree student in Computer
and Information Engineering is scheduled to defend her thesis in Viva Voce
session as follows:-

Date/Day : 29/07/2008 (Tuesday).

Time : 3:00 p.m.

Venue : Conference Room A, Building E1 (Alpha) - Kulliyyah
of Engineering.
Title : “Performance Study of Quality of Service Routing
Protocols in MANETS”

All staff and students are cordially invited to this session. Your
presence to this session will be highly appreciated.

Thank you, wassalam.

Deputy Dean Postgraduate & Research
Kulliyyah of Engineering, IIUM

Personality Puzzle

ida_zy took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test! "Needs release from stress. Longs for peace, tranqu..." Click here to read the rest of the results.

The results seem pretty much in line with my personality (from my point of view, at least). How about you try it for yourself? :)