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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Open Day UNITEN 2012

poster Open day uniten

Hari ni keputusan SPM kan? How’s yours?

Mesti ramai tengah tengok2 IPT mana nak masuk lepas ni.

Jom weekend ni (24 March 2012) kita beramai-ramai ke UNITEN for UNITEN’s OPEN DAY. Ada College of Engineering, College of Information Technology, and also College of Business Administration. Not to forget, College of Graduate Studies (untuk masters and phd). Tengok the facilities and tenaga pengajar di UNITEN.

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Source: http://www.uniten.edu.my/newhome/content_list.asp?Catid=364

Untuk college of IT, Untung2… next semester dapat belajar dengan saya. InshaAllah.

Mahal? In the middlelah sebab ada lagi uni yg 1 sem RM14K! Yuran in UNITEN is around RM6-7K for a semester. But I heard that budak tajaan YTN, MARA and JPA poket kencang. Siap ada elaun bulanan. (zaman aku dulu mana ada semua ni. Harap YTN n PTPTN jela)

You pay… for the quality. Memang quality pelajar UNITEN selalunya better than some of the other unis.

Ehhhhhh sape ntah yg kat tengah dalam poster tu?

;)

Laku lagi la muka ni untuk dijadikan poster. Nanti masa registration ada picture/poster lain lagi.

*wink 2 times*

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Location: TNB Bangsar

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Big Smile

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Status: Bergraduan

Program: Master of Information Technology

(^____^)

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Parallel execution of distributed SVM using MPI (CoDLib)

That is the title of our (me, supervisor and co-supervisor) conference paper. Alhamdulillah ada jugak nama dalam IEEE Xplore. This paper has been presented in 2011 ICIMu International Conference. The journey is not easy. We took months to write it… and the conference fees is not cheap. Thank Allah all of the efforts (fees, review, ‘add-some-peppers’) in publishing this paper is mainly made by my supervisor and co-supervisor. Yes, thanks also to one of my loyal proof-read-friend, Nur Syahinaz. Her english (or anglais – French) is great. Stay loyal my dear. A lot more papers are coming.

imagehttp://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=6122723

Okay. What this paper is all about?

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is an efficient data mining approach for data classification. However, SVM algorithm requires very large memory requirement and computational time to deal with very large dataset. To reduce the computational time during the process of training the SVM, a combination of distributed and parallel computing method, CoDLib have been proposed. Instead of using a single machine for parallel computing, multiple machines in a cluster are used. Message Passing Interface (MPI) is used in the communication between machines in the cluster. The original dataset is split and distributed to the respective machines. Experiments results shows a great speed up on the training of the MNIST dataset where training time has been significantly reduced compared with standard LIBSVM without affecting the quality of the SVM.

Too technical? Let me explain in a simpler way.

There is an approach in data classification – SVM. But this method performs quite slow when dealing with large number of input (dataset). Due to that, we have proposed a combination of distributed and parallel computing method – CoDLib. By using this method, we used a cluster – consists of multiple computers. In the end, the training time taken the results give huge speed up compare to the original sequential program.

I am happy. Really happy. and of course my family will so proud of me. And this makes me nak write more conference paper in the future. I hope Allah will gives me a great team again.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

A dream come true on 16 January 2012

Isnin, 16 January 2012, 1015.
Location… Meeting room Level 4 COGS, UNITEN

“Shakirah, Congratulations. You have passed with minor… minor corrections.”

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Isnin, 16 January 2012, 0850.
Hello Admin building. Owh segaknya terasa diriku melangkah masuk ke dalam bangunan kelabu macam dalam drama omputih dengan fitted blazer jalur-jalur berwarna blue black matching dengan boot-cut pants, and completed with 4.5 inch high heels (platforms)…

but…

the ‘macho FBI’ looking was a little bit spoiled by galas 1 beg laptop berwarna ijau dibelakang, and beg shopping yang berwarna hijau yang dipenuhi file2 references tebal dan buku rujukan Shell Programming yang mungkin seberat 5 kg. I wish nak pinjam beg polybag (yang ada roda) kanak2 darjah 1 nak heret file2 ni. Whatever… tugas aku seterusnya lebih penting daripada yang lain2… aku bakal masuk ke medan perang sebentar lagi. Dalam hati tak berhenti berdoa memohon pertolongan Allah agar permudahkan presentation ni. Harapan yang dibawa bukan hanya dari dalam diriku, tetapi aku membawa sekali maruah keluarga, dan harapan mak, ayah, and my brother yang menggunung tinggi. Aku perlu lakukan yang terbaik… No need to be afraid of anything. Just defense what ever that I have done, what was my efforts through out my research… TELL THEM!

Owh ya, Dr. Shariffuddin came n wish me all the best and finally I have made it until that day. He told me and the external examiner that my case sangat strange.. 2 kali thesis hilang! 1st hilang was the 2nd draf submission, and the latest, my thesis tak sampai ke external examiner. OK… pihak surat menyurat UNITEN patut buat kerja dengan bertanggungjawab dan amanah and please jangan main-main dalam hal keje. Kalau tak penting, kitorg tak suka2 hati nak hantar surat lah. Pakai Pos Laju pon bole ilang. pfftttt.


Isnin, 16 January 2012, 0910.
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The battle has begun. Presenting… talking… answering questions – there goes… satu demi satu bullet menembusi baju dan seluar kalis peluru. damn. tiba2 aku ‘flying’. Aku hanya jawab dan jawab (a.k.a. tembak dan tembak) tak kesah la kena sasaran ke tak. sebab dalam preparation aku target musuh datang naik kuda, rupa2nya dia mai naik helicopter dan jet. Aku lihat co-supervisor aku disebelah chairman dengan penuh harapan pertolongan walaupun aku tahu dia tak dapat mengulurkan bantuan ketika peperangan sedang berlangsung. But by looking at her and she’s smiling and trying to help tapi tak boleh, aku gagahkan jua mara dengan pengalaman dan hasil kerja aku di medan pertempuran ni. Hah… akhirnya setelah lebih sejam, pertempuran aku berakhir. Aku diarahkan untuk meninggalkan kawasan peperangan sementara para hakim lagi bijaksana sedang berbincang mengenai keputusan oral examination aku. Keluarlah aku dengan hati yang berdebar dengan anggota yang berlumuran darah dan luka. Aku sudah lakukan yang terbaik dan terdaya. Bibir tidak putus2 bertasbih dan berdoa kehadrat Allah. Hanya Allah yang Maha berkuasa dan Maha Mengasihani aku dan keluarga. Jauh di sudut hati, aku tahu mak aku masih ditikar sembahyang berdoa supaya semua selamat.


Isnin, 16 January 2012, 1015.
Aku sedang duduk di suatu sudut di luar bilik mesyuarat. Aku tak kesah duduk atas lantai atau bertinggung… aku tak peduli. Yang aku tahu hanya berdoa tanpa henti. Tiba-tiba, “Shakirah, please come in”, Dr. Salman (Chairman) panggil aku untuk masuk ke dalam bilik mesyuarat semula.

“Shakirah, Congratulations. You have passed with minor… minor corrections.”

Alhamdulillah, Syukur kehadrat Allah. I was looking at my co-supervisor, Dr. Azizah… she was smiling at me. Perasaan Sebak. Terharu. Gembira. Bergenang air mata.

Juri-juri memberi komen masing2. Aku hanya senyum dan tak peduli komen2 tersebut pedas atau apa. Yang penting isinya adalah AKU DAH LEPAS MASTER DENGAN MINOR CORRECTIONS! (Okay… some of you will cakap… alaaa bukan perfect pon. Ada corrections pon still proud ke? FYI sangat jarang org pass master dengan 100% correct. At least ada 0.1% lack. So kalu minor corrections tu is dah cukup bagus sebab selalunya result viva adalah major corrections).

My target, take note apa yang juri cakap, betul kan yang tu. Make sure dapat paham betul2.
I called my mum to ask my ayah to fetch me. I told her dah habis n dah lepas. OMG… she sounds so happy and proud of me. Same goes dengan ayah. Lepas tu I went off to COIT to have a short discussion dengan Dr. Azizah and Dr. Salman mengenai correction yang kene buat (Finalize). Done with it, pegi wat lawatan sosial teman2 lama di COIT. Finally I went to the hotel to fetch my mak and ayah. Its time to go back to Penang.

I was talking non-stop from Bangi to PJ citer what was happening. Owh y pegi PJ? Nak fetch my brother from his house. Ok… did I missed something? I forgot to tell my brother that I have passed my viva! And the story pun bermula balik.

We celebrate my viva dengan tapauan nasi beringin di pondok R&R Sungai Buloh. Nasi yang sedap, makan dengan my mak, ayah and brother di bawah pondok, celebrating my achievement.. It’s a PERFECT MOMENT! That was the ‘real’ makan after seminggu tak lalu makan… macam skrip Abdul Wahab dalam Tiga Abdul;Makan tak kenyang, tidur tak lena, mandi tak basah. Nasi beringin sangat sedap and rasa macam nasi kandaq okay! jadi korg xyah mai penang nk makan nasik kandaq… makan ja nasi beringin. TQ Bae, nanti aku nak makan nasi beringin lagi.

Eh, what else yang aku lupa? Bagi tau my supervisor pasal my result! He was in the middle of the meeting. I called him, Im so glad to hear,”Good” from him. Short but very meaningful.

Owh, the corrected thesis baru hantar td and now waiting for the approval sebelum hantar yang hardbound.

Overall.. Alhamdulillah!
*Wink*

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Finally.... V-day


masa yang ditunggu telah pun tiba
hari Viva bakal menjelma
nervous hati tidak terkata
harap semua berjalan lancar dan sempurna

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Re-registration Sem 2 2011/2012 Done!

 
Hari tu I have received 1 email. Utk re-registration. Owh man… lupa sekarang ni sem bukan macam dulu. 6 months/sem. Now dah pendek2… 3+ months/sem. Macam budak2 Bachelor. The ‘best’ part is…
YOU ARE BLOCKED DUE TO FINANCIAL DEBT
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Ceq lupaaaa… Almaklumla… sebelom ni 6 bulan baru p menghadap kaunter kewangan. + dulu tolak duet BMK.

Dengan berat hatinya bagitau kat mak (My lovely Sponsor).

*kacheng Kacheng*

$$$

Naseb baik my brother is staying in KL. So bole la dia g bayarkan kat kaunter kewangan and unblock my ID. Then baru la bole buat re-registration. Makasih ya abg.

What if i am unable to re-register?
“Failure to re-register can result in your candidature to be terminated”
=((((((
Sekian.

What ever it is… now dah re-register. Copek2 la proceed utk viva ye. Thesis dah re-submitted dah. Slides pulak need another review kasi touch up sket… letak lip gloss, blusher bla bla bla. Last night I cut-off the unnecessary slides. From 130 slides jadi 20! Then bila practice… apesal pendek sangat pulak utk di present dalam masa 30 minit.
=.=’

Owh ya… former UNITEN student dapat discount 25% for tuition fees.
University pon ada discount!