my main supervisor when i am doing master research is a lecturer who is master degree holder, excel in handling administration job, talkative but weak in guiding research candidate. Asking me to write conference paper but the main writer should be his name and also tag along his friend name (free ridesm). I nearly quit the research field until my researcher frens suggest me to find another co-supervisor. Thank god! my Co-supervisor is an associate professor malay women, quite busy but helpful, knowledgeable and easy to talk with. The lesson i learn when finding supervisor is "don't simple trust the information stated in the CV especially when a lecturer boasted himself as hardworking, resourceful.... but in fact....you know"

The graduate office staff assigns me to him as i am not the bachelor degree student in this uni previously. He had well establish networking (so-called cable) with management staff and i found that many academic staff boycott him such as purposely absent to jamuan organized by him. What is more, that's really hard for me to seek help from other lecturer with the same area of expertise as my main supervisor. Some of them refuse to help me. After struggle for two semester, i decide to talk to dean straight away and assigned with another co-supervisor. Unfortunately, i cannot change main supervisor as i defense my proposal dy. That's really a nightmare for me to deal with him in the past three years.....


For Lyners who decide to step into research field, don't judge a lecturer by his/her cv. Better try contact graduate students under their supervision to ask for clarification whether he or she is trustable or just a mr/dr/prof kangkung in fact....