I also prefer to lecture but its not easy to get a job as a lecturer. Everyone thinks that u get a phd then automatically education institution will hire u as a lecturer. U still need to go for interview, apply and most important your skin colour which is a disadvantage for me

Hmmmm,

as postgrad (still MSc) in IPTA, honestly, the perception that the lecturer/supervisor are pigs (lazy) not entirely true, four years spent in public, I only experience 2-3 lecturer that really pissed me off. They shouldn't teach, easy said. However majority of the academic staffs are respectable characters. I adore my supervisor, he's basically my role model.
Talking as biotech postgrad (VMSmith already explain on behalf IT), I'm doing research for master degree. Even tho public uni better funded, however, again, it really depends on the lab leader (normally here, it's the supervisor). I don't how my supervisor do it, he manage to ensure the lab well equipped. Still, we have areas to improve. Here in UNIMAS, choices for Master degree (research) quite a lot. We have from very upstream application (genetic engineering) to downstream (fermentation technology).

In my view, lecturers in most Malaysian public Universities (at least in the field of Science) spent way too much time on administration stuffs (as ordered by the Uni) until they don't have time to really emphasized on their research zzz

yeah, agree on that too...my mentor during graduate years complaining on how little time he spent for lab works.

i just heard a joke today,
PhD = pass habis darjah...
so guess almost all of us got PhD

LOL

anyway,

BS (Bachelor) =Bullshit
MSc (Master) = More shit
PhD = Piled higher and deeper

LOL good 1

yeah, good, sadly is not original. Kinda well established joke in the english speaking countries.

Anyone here familiar with the PhD comic?

Yeap. Just started reading it on and off last year.

It helps to know when other PhD students go through the same crap that you do.

yup a big fan of the comic...

phd comic? whats dat? sound geekish... probably not for me..

yeah, it's more to inside jokes for postgrad students. http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php a lot of postgrad students can relate to the comic and it's kinda a therapy to know you're not suffering postgrad alone...lol

just remember another lil joke, PhD=permenant head damage

sometime during blur or stuck at research things, i read comic from this:
http://xkcd.com/

mathematical and sarcasm, perfectly blend lol

Good one...another place to hang out while waiting for stuffs to run..

another place to waste my time...and I have progress report to submit this friday...lol

nice agarose gel you have here...

thanks, agarose pic back when I'm doing my undergraduate final year project, use the pic as banner for the blog i make to help undergraduate with lab practical...and finally use it as my avatar. reminiscing on how hard to make agarose gel when i first started

I'm doing the negative correlation of the number of TVs in Malaysia and university school grades.

so far how's the results? interested to know

i dont watch tv... maybe only 1 hr for the hk drama last time.. most of the time spent playing computer