Publish or Perish

I am grateful to Prof Kim Fam and Prof Ernest for giving me the chance to collaborate, and most importantly to learn so many things in the process. The award is a testament to the paper and presentation, and a recognition of our effort. In IBBC2012 Tawau we presented two papers. And thus far, I have presented two papers at PCSSM2012 Unimas and ICS2012 Taylor respectively, and published one journal paper at AJBR with Prof Ernest. We have submitted one paper to ISI-indexed journal and another to Scopus-indexed journal. I am drafting an abstract for the upcoming GBSR conference in KL in June this year (2013), and writing another two papers, one intended for ISI-indexed journal, and another for Scopus-indexed journal again. With the guidance from my supervisor, I can see few more potential papers, be it for conference proceeding or journal article, from my database. Compared to many, I am still a slow-moving researcher. However this 'research path' and things about doing a PhD has become clearer and clearer. Publishing as a result of reading, analyzing, writing and redoing the whole process time and again is fun and rewarding (in various forms). I do not know what my future lies in academia but for the time being I will just savour the moment.