Keystroke Journal

In my One unproductive day entry, I was hoping for a different day the next day. Well, yesterday was indeed different. No, it had nothing to do with my research project though. I found an excuse haha. I was out and believe it or not, as a chaperone again but not to my nephews. It was my sister’s class to have their field trip. Unexpectedly, two of the four confirmed chaperones couldn’t make it so I turned out to be the chaperone-to-the-rescue of the day. Well, who couldn’t resist my sister’s plea and her lovable grade one class, anyway? So there I was with Mr. Grandad and Mrs. Mom as the other chaperones. There were 18 kids, so there were four with me and with Mrs. Mom and five more with Mr. Granddad and with Mrs. Teacher. It was my turn to have four girls whose age ranged from six and seven year olds. I wasn’t sure if it was their cultural diversity that made my group unique or was it their dynamic and lively attitude. Nevertheless, it sure was a different day. When Meshka, the Ind...

I’m cramped with research papers and I can’t seem to start anything right. I even caught myself just staring at the monitor as if wishing words will just pop-up on the screen. If only ... I have to work on 37 tasks -- done with the first three tasks, whew! -- in one project. But I still have three more projects with more tasks to submit before I could say, “I'm done!” I guess I’m overwhelmed with the number of paper works to start with. I remember my thesis days of a post-grad program. I had one term to work on the proposal then another term to conduct the study and finish the paper. The final paper was done in a flash because there was a deadline – I’ll be migrating. But then before I could really set my mind into it, it took me two dormant years in between the proposal and final paper to decide whether I should go on or not. At that time, I had a bunch of excuses for not pushing it through because I was not only working, but at the same time I was earning another post-grad degre...