Just for your info,

you will be very poor 'before you obtain your PHD' title,
most research grants are able to pay you rm1.5k~2.2k for master/phd.

Although some of the research grant are able to provide you allowance of 2.5k~4k, but some of them required you to do additional admin works such as tutoring and etc.

Now adays, it's not easy to get a lecturer job as well. And i would assume that you're aiming for research based master/phd, bear in mind that, research based master/phd is an entire new way of 'studying' as compared to degree.

This post has been edited by hihichew: Sep 7 2018, 06:38 PM