Jom belajar statistik

Posting kali nie takde gambar langit biru ..heheh sebab gambar langit biru masa Newtown Festival ada lagi kat kamera my friend ..dia sibuk ngan fieldwork nya so tak nak le pressure dia bagi gambar kat aku ...but what I can tell you was that i had a blast last sunday ....mula2 tu gi brunch kat rumah Niole, kawan si Maryam ...she invited me to tag along ..so i did ..it was fun, food melimpah ruah ok ,,,and semua nya home made (click here for posting pasal brunch tu) ..malas nak cerita twice, since aku put in my English blog, so click ajer lah :)

tapi pagi nie  aku bangun jer tengok kat luar mendung and it was 16 degrees celcius ..so memang malas lah nak keluar ...so my plan nak jalan2 gi area Lambton Quay ...and to take photos kat Beehives etc cancel ...kena tunggu matahari memancar baru gambar cantek ...aku bangun2 nie pun rumah dah kosong ..all my flatmates dah kuar merayau ..esok baru aku plan nak kuar ..today lepak rumah lah ...sejukkkkk ..and letih ...

so back to the original cerita yang aku nak bgtau nie ....minggu nie sangat memenatkan ...and minggu nie jugak paling banyak de javu ...sebab minggu nie adalah my first week kena attend kelas ...aku secara paksa-rela enrol dalam kelas statistik sebab sv aku kata i will need it for my analysis and formulating composite indices nanti ...so sebab lama dah tak belajar stats ...dia soh aku masuk kelas nie ..and bukan sit in mcm kelas lain (kalau phd- you sometimes have to sit in kelas kelas yang relevan ngan topik yang dibuat) .yang nie Prof PM soh aku enroll as student ..so will have to buat assignments and sit for exams semua ...my first reaction mmg menyumpah seranah ..but after having 3 lectures this week ...i am happy ...lecturer tu sangat sempoi and his way of delivering the materials is interesting and sangat senang difahami  ...

sebab buku text yang aku beli online belum sampai, kena cari buku gantian kat library

yang kurang menarik nya, the masters and phd students yang ambik course nie bercampur ngan first year undergrad students ..we all have been undergrads students kan ..so you know how I memang tak suka dorang ...my experience in the UK dah cukup for me I think ..tapi, sebab nak mendapatkan ilmu, maka ku gagahkan jugak masuk kelas ngan undergrads ie semua ..and there were over 300 students in this class alone ....giler betol ...

like I said, nasib baik lecturer tu very good ..actually kawan my SV ...my SV called him last Fri tanya ada lagi slot kosong for me or not ..and at that time dia kata ada a few seats left kat stream yang pagi ..stream petang dah penuh ..so dia bgtau my sv to enroll me ptg tu jugak ...so i did ...and was assured by my SV yang Richard is very good in teaching stats ..and dia glad Richard yang mengajar kata nya ...and now I understand why ...i have taken stats kelas before ...and this guy memang senang nak faham apa dia ajar ..kelas sejam per session ..and ada 3 sessions a week ..and one hour tutorial ...and kalau ada masalah can go to drop-in sessions yang diadakan setiap hari selama dua jam ....but first week was ok ...i am re-learning stemplot ...dotplot etc hahahaha ...

this lecturer is also old-school ..dia tak guna powerpoint etc for delivering his lectures ...dia lah satu satunya lecturer yang aku tahu masih setia pada chalk and blackboard! kalau aku buat kat uni macam nie, sah2 le student aku complain ....even kalau takde notes and deliver lectures gitu ajer pun dorang merungut ..students malaysia sekarang dah sangat senang and i personally think that dorang sgt dimanjakan oleh uni uni kiter ...sebab tu semua benda nak hafal ajer :-)  (opsssss terlebih sudaaaa) ooo ya ...this lecturer jugak so sempoi ...pakai selipar, seluar khakis sampai lutut and t-shirt jer ...today plak the tee was so lusuh that colour dark blue (i assume lah) dah jadi pudar ...huwwwaaaaaa nanges kak long kalau tengok lol .....tapi itu tak penting ..yang penting aku faham apa dia ajar

self-test di hari pertama masuk kelas ...

and org selalu kata karma kan ..one day karma will bite you in the ass ..well, it has happened to me ...hahaha kalau aku mengajar, aku suka bagi test ke quiz ke..dan sewaktu dengannya on the very first day of lecture ...jarang lah ada kelas yag aku tak buat macam tu ...this is to find out if they already know about the subject or not ...or manatau kalau yang tak berjiwa kental, dengan tengok soalan mcm tu di hari pertama lecture akan gugurkan kursus aku tu (well, you can only hope ...hahaha) ..and guess what, lecturer stats nie pun buat kat kami benda yang sama ...question 1 is how to use and interpret the notations in calculators ...hahaha sounds easy but pastu tengok le soalan soalan seterus nya ...

semalam pulak dapat soalan tutorial for next week ...dah diberitahu awal2, tutorial tak wajip tapi kalau attend bagus jugak ..sounds so familiar ...and to think masa kat Uni dulu, aku disuruh ajar stats dua kali ...sekali masa ganti haslina masa dia maternity leave ..and sekali lagi aku lupa biler ...but on both occassion aku swap ngan org lain ...hehehe coz i dont know how to make stats into an interesting subject ..sebab mengajar and belajar stats nie can be very dry....

anyway, i am hoping to score well here ..and to learn things other that the mean, median, mode and regression etc ...this subjects have 5 weekly assignments, 2 individual projects, one mid-term and one final exam (3 hours) ..giler kentang ok!!! Lagi padan muka aku ....now I know how my students for subject computer in planning tu rasa masa aku bagi dorang 7 assignments for that course - tapi aku tak bagi dorang exam tau ...just 100% assignments ...again, what goes around, comes aroud :-)

got to go now, maybe nak make a start at that tutorial questions!

Have a great weekend ahead people ....