Dah hampir sebulan lebih aku cuba untuk update blog ni tapi tak berkesempatan. Macam2 acara marathon untuk aku habiskan dalam masa beberapa minggu ni sejak report duty. Sampai masa untuk aku share kan 4 berita2 gembira yang aku terima dalam tempoh 10 hari.
The first good news:
After 3 years of joy and tears, finally aku dipanggil utk sesi viva. I submitted my thesis for pre-viva in May 2015. After 1 month, I was called for the session & passed. After made some corrections, I submitted the final version for Viva Voce, in early July. The common practice is it only takes about 3 months to be called for the viva. However, my session was delayed twice because the examiners were unavailable. So, after waiting for more than 4 months, baru lah viva aku diadakan. Quite unhappy because my aim is to complete the viva becfore I report for duty in the end of September 2015. Tapi kita merancang, dan segala2nya Allah yang tentukan. I was told about the viva session 20 days before the date. I only prepared 2 weeks before the viva, and a few days before the viva I was too lazy to study my slides and notes. Most of the time, I spent time to pray and recite Al Quran & asked Allah too make ease of everything. I was quite calm (more than I imagined) during the day of the viva. A day before the viva, I go back to Kuantan. My husband took a day leave to take care of the children. I guess the next day is going to be a Papa Day care.
20 November 2015. It was Friday. The session starts at 9 am.
I came early, set up my lappy and try to make myself comfortable with the viva room , which is located at IPS UMP. While waiting, suddenly Arif (one of my former colleague at KPM) came to the room. Rupa2nya he was appointed as the Secretary. Good, I think. At least I can have some familiar faces, including my SV in my viva session. Then, my SV came, followed by the Dean, Prof Chairperson, Internal Examiner and lastly the External Examiner. I was quite surprised that only 1 external examiner attends the session. So I asked my SV why (after the viva). Rupa2nya in UMP, only 1 external examiner will be called if the PhD candidate has passed with minor corrections. OO… napelah aku tak tau awal2 sebelum viva..hehe
So the session starts tepat2 pukul 9 am. Prof. Chairperson greets everyone. He asks me to leave the room for a while. Alamak , kene keluar ke? Baru excited nak present. So aku pun tunggu la kat luar kejap. Baru je aku nak duduk, tiba2 Arif panggil aku masuk semula and the session starts. Prof. Chairperson kata aku boleh present between 20-30 minit. Aku memang tak sabar2 nak present. Sebabnya ini je lah peluang untuk aku betul2 syok sendiri, knowing that the audience know what Im talking about. Sebab dah sah2 examiners dah baca thesis aku. So diorang sepatutnya faham lah apa yang aku present. Berbekalkan keyakinan yang agak tinggi (99.5%) aku pun menggoreng ayat demi ayat. Dan rasa sangat happy bila tengok examiners really pay attention to my presentation (regardless whether they like it or not) & angguk2 when I emphasized certain points. I complete the presentation in exactly 20 minutes. Wow.. rasa macam 2 minit je bercakap.
Then, Prof. Chaiperson pun warm up dengan bagi pendapat dia secara general about the presentation. Then he opens the floor for the examiners to give respond. The Prof from UKM is the Chief Editor of one of the paper that I published this year. She is a very nice lady. The responses are more on clarification and to check whether I did everything by myself or not. Among the 40 spot viva questions- none was asked! But takpelah, because I did not really prepare for the spot questions.
After about an hour the Q&A ends. I am satisfied with myself because I handled the questions professionally, in a way that I did not commit into any arguments and I defended my work whenever appropriate.
Next, Prof. Chairperson asked me to leave the room for a while. I was about to sit when Mr. Secretary called me to enter the room. He said, “ Umi, whatever happens harap kau bersabar ye..”. At that time, aku memang pasrah je . Nasib la nak bagi lulus ke fail , minor or major. But Im quite confident that I am going to pass the viva.
Masuk je bilik, Prof. Chairperson saja je bagi intro panjang2.. Dia kata saja nak dera sikit perasaan. And I don’t even remember apa yang dia cakap.
Then, Prof Chairperson said, “ Umi, for this viva session we have decided to award you a PhD with a minor correction”. And how do I feel at that moment?
“ Alhamdulillah, I know that I am going to pass”. Kalau masa tu boleh sujud syukur, memang aku sujud time tu jugak. Tapi tak sesuai tempat and situasi.
My sv, the internal and everyone say “Congrats Umi, you are now have become part of us. Welcome”. Then, Prof Chairperson continues, “At first we decided to give you less than 1 week for the correction because yours is too minor, not many corrections. But considering that you are now working, plus your SV will not be in Malaysia for the next 3 weeks, we give you up to 3 months. But you can submit your thesis as soon as you complete everything.” Wow, that’s a good news. Getting up to 3 months to do the correction is really an advantage for me. With 12 credit of teaching load and 210 students + mid term + consultation of assignment, I really need that 3 months.
Apa pun, this will not happen tanpa izin Allah. I am so happy, delighted, overjoy, contented and all synonyms yg seangkatan dengannya.. Alhamdulillah Ya Allah. Pengorbanan and susah payah selama 3 tahun ni mendatangkan hasil.
Before everyone left, we took photos. The examiners congratulate me again and hug me. The Prof. from UKM says, “Umi, I have another good news for you. But let your SV tells you about that”. What? Another good news? Wow.. Lepas tu aku terus gi IPS amik segala borang yang kene isi & janji jumpa SV at her office, excitedly want to know what is the good news.
The second good news:
The good news is.. the paper which I published this year is a Scopus-indexed journal. And My SV told me that the journal has been upgraded to be in ISI-indexed journal list…
Ni link untuk paper tu :
http://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/article/view/8361
Woow kan? To get published in a Scopus is veeery challenging, and to be in ISI is reaaaly a good news. Again, alhamdulillah, thank you Allah so much for these two good news. What are the other 2 good news? Ha, yang tu next time aku tulis. Penat dah ni taip panjang2..
Ni link untuk paper tu :
http://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/article/view/8361
Woow kan? To get published in a Scopus is veeery challenging, and to be in ISI is reaaaly a good news. Again, alhamdulillah, thank you Allah so much for these two good news. What are the other 2 good news? Ha, yang tu next time aku tulis. Penat dah ni taip panjang2..
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