Tuesday, May 5, 2009

What can I say...

This entry related to the previous one. In what way? Well, I thought that if we want to conduct a research in IPG, we just need an approval letter from JPN but well, in actual fact, we also need an approval letter from the BPG, Ministry of Education first (oh ya, just in case u guys are wondering what IPG is, it stands for "Institut Pendidikan Guru" or previously known as Maktab Perguruan and BPG stands for Bahagian Pendidikan Guru). So, I have another setback with one of the IPGs. Alhamdulillah, I know someone in the IPG who helps me to use her students as samples even though I don't have the approval letter yet (I think I will never get it since they requested me to give the letter from BPG that I don't have. If I want to get the letter from BPG, I have to go to Putrajaya again and meet the "WOMAN" in EPU. I had enough with her. So, this time around, I am taking the chance to break a rule)

Well, what I described above is just an ideal unclearly stated procedure. When I started my data collection, what's happened is a bit different from it. Different IPGs apparently have different ways of doing their things. An IPG in Kedah doesn't even ask me the letter from BPG. Same with the IPG in Batu Pahat that I went last week.

Come to think about it, I feel so small. I am just a human being! No matter whatever I do (according to procedure or not), in the end, it is Allah who will bless me with anything and everything that will happen or not. In my case, Alhamdulillah, even though I have to face layers of bureaucracy I still find some people who are willing to "break some rules"just to help me.

So, my stand now, do the best, dengan ikhlas, pray for the best and tawakal to Allah. If things happened not as we expect, Allah has better plan for us. I believe in that.