Sunday 20 January 2013

Top 10 sources of blog visitors during last week

Myanmar [Burma]    181
United States              97
Taiwan                       59
Malaysia                    47
Brunei                        38
United Kingdom        31
Saudi Arabia              25
Singapore                   22
Australia                    17
Germany                    15

Thursday 17 January 2013

ေဒါက္တာ ဆိတ္ဖြား, ေဒါက္တာ စိုးရင္ and Dr. Dr. blogger

Your blogger learned that Dr. Soe Yin, a law maker, a MP from the parliament of Myanmar, is going to sue  ေဒါက္တာ ဆိတ္ဖြား, an online entity like your humble blogger who expresses her opinions behind the safety of an on-line mask. Since your humble blogger is not sure whether that ေဒါက္တာ စိုးရင္ or  ေဒါက္တာ ဆိတ္ဖြား are fake PhDs or medical doctors with MBBSes, you readers should not expect comments nor opinions here. But it is very funny to see law makers are busy with petty issues such as proposing to sue the no-name Facebook personality like ေဒါက္တာ ဆိတ္ဖြား. Wow! my mother land, beautiful Burma, has democracy now!!!!!

So this  ေဒါက္တာ  ေဒါက္တာ blogger who has earned double doctorates is now thinking whether should he or she stops blogging as feeling wary of law suits.

Saturday 12 January 2013

Congratulations for driving a faker out of academia!

Maung Zar Ni is a popular fellow at this hall of shame. Let us reflect this as a case study. For the knowledge of our readers we will report you as a whole as we have been presenting you piece after piece.

Since early 2000s, we have learned that there is no thesis of Maung Zar Ni at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. But we did not pay attention. However, our suspicions grow, alarm bells in our scholarly bodies rang, and signals that there is a faker out there amplified in recent years. We got gut feelings that he is faking PhD after reading articles after articles of his unbalanced lope-sided writings in popular on-line publications. His writings, anything but scholarly, prompted us to start investigating him. When we were quite certain that he is very likely to be a fake, we have given him
a chance to prove himself otherwise. We offered that if he can send his thesis, we will remove him from this hall of shame of faking PhDs. To make sure that we did our research right and presented our case clearly to you via this blog. We have presented our research question, methodology, tools, findings, conclusions here. Therefore, till now, our stand remains the same, until he sends us his PhD thesis, he is a fake PhD for us.

Recently, it seems to us that we are seeing some progresses ranges from uncommitted replies from administrators from the US, UK and ASEAN universities and now the resignation letter of our man with fake PhD. Congratulations to Dr. Nyein Chan, other Drs. and wanna-be Drs who have heavily contributed to this blog to take down a fake PhD, Maung Zar Ni.

We congratulate your efforts such as sending tips, talking to librarian of UW-Madison, checking whether the degree was conferred to the suspect with the university academic director, discussing with HR staff at the London School of Economics, initiating the communication and following up with UBD, getting opinions from few Burmese and foreign academics at London universities and running the plagiarism check of that random collection of sentences and paragraphs in an Adobe Acrobat file which he claims as his PhD thesis. We have read that pdf file but we find it hard to believe it is a thesis, especially from a university like the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a public ivy.

In fact, academia is already tainted by in-competent researchers who cannot publish or publish in fake journals and swamped by un-committed lecturers who cannot teach but merely rumble, so it is unbearable to see fake PhDs doing fake research and tutoring rubbish. So congratulations Drs and Dr Drs.

Tuesday 8 January 2013

When you got fired or forced to leave, fake that you quit!!!

In the middle of a travel, your humble blogger has learned that one faker said quit to his employer.

Remember, your very humble blogger has not only earned 3 terminal post-graduate degrees, 2 professional degrees. But also he has been working or consulting private companies and public corporations of small, medium, large and mega-large sizes for more than 30 years. And he also teaches in 2 universities. So he knows about all work places those also include universities. Been there, done that, seen all.

Getting fired is nothing to feel sad or shame. It is part and parcel of professional lives although not for tenured professors who lose jobs unless they bonk a 17 years old freshman or a sophomore girls or both at the same time. Just don't say quit when you get fired. Don't do it. It is pathetic and people are not fools, they can sense fishy smell from thousands of miles away. We know that you are lying!

Read between the lines, I think our lad who publicly ranted "Long live my sugar daddies, who came through gaping holes in the western border of Burma, their man-meat I love to suck!" got fired from his employer, the only university in the small country. When you put foot in mouth, you get fired.

Thursday 3 January 2013

The breakdown of last week traffic source nations

United States         96

Russia                    78

Myanmar [Burma] 70

Sweden                  60

United Kingdom   43

Saudi Arabia         38

Japan                     31

Australia                27

Malaysia                25

Poland                   11