Aftermath of the presentation

I intend to describe in lengthy of my performance and feedback that I got in the presentation yesterday. But before that, thanks for the best wishes and support I got yesterday prior to the presentation. I must admit, I really freaked out for this presentation and if you ask me.. this only carry 5% of the marks...I am sure there are such smirk out there in readers' face but..I have my own reasons for being so takot for this presentation. So, thanks everybody..sib baik ramaiii laa yg rajin melayan karenah2 freak out aku nih... and for those encouraging words too...

The presentation

Well.. I should say that my presentation went just fine. I think I did my best presenting my work. And I also think the audience kind of got what I intended to tell them. There are certain parts that I think I went pretty quick as I was the last person and.....I dont know.. somehow on the literature part I basically just went through without detail explanation. I spent more time explaining the conceptual model I proposed.

The feedback

Erm....what I can say is the model that I proposed in my work gets to stay. Alhamdulillah. That means.... I kind of see that the model that I presented was more like a backbone or basic model. They *the panels* seem to accept the model but with numerous feedback on improving it to enhance my model. Kind of, their comments extend the breadth and depth of my proposed model that according to them should make my work even richer. O course I appreciate it so much as it provides me with further direction to go. So, kiranya, my basic work stays and I will work from this point onwards...syukur...The details of the feedback will be written in the other private academic blog. I should email the panels thanking them tomorrow. Didnt do that yesterday. Were just too tired with the aftermath.

Supervisor

Surprise surprise, my sv came and stayed till we finished with the presentations. There are occassions when he perhaps disagree with the points or ideas suggested by one of the panels so he did the justification. I just kept quiet. So, I take it as on that particular point, my sv is not so keen on me to pursue. Other than that, he seems to agree.

The work

I should say I have been concentrating more on the first part of the work - the conceptual model as I think this is the heart of any researches. And I was really looking forward for further enhancement and constructive comment. The second part of the assignment -methodology... I actually started this part from scratch only 2 days ago... *yesss very der last minute one!* and this is due to thinking that I still have another 2 weeks for the submission for this part...so in the presentation.. my approach was more like open to suggestions....the choice of words in presenting methodology was more like.."thought...intend...alternative..." you know.. words like that....and therefore.. I went really brief on this one although I provided them with a table of few literatures that show methods that prior studies did. I thought I would receive or will be attacked the most in this part... but nope! not at all. Most of the comments were on the conceptual model.

My feeling?

Somehow, deep down I dont feel quite satisfied with my performance. I dont know why. If I were to take it for the sake of my phd work.... then..the feedback I got is excellent!! Really! It provides me further direction and some light...But.. if I were to take it for the sake of assignment, I would think that my assignment is still weak and not robust enough. Hrm.....

Okay.. that's about all. I should print out the feedback I got and discuss this further with my sv.. but probably not tomorrow coz I have another data analysis assignment to be submitted this Friday.

Once home, I straight away go to bed just now... but dont know why woke up at about 1.30am just... couldnt sleep.. so I thought I'd better put those on my mind into this entry.