Dr Dayah

30/04/2025

[ Working with AKEPT - Again ]

I had the privilege of being the emcee for AKEPT's latest webinar series hosted by USIM. It's a joint venture between AKEPT, USIM and SEAMIO RIHED, with international speakers on the roster. The series is meant to be co-organized on a rotational basis by different departments and faculties within USIM, with another four webinars in the pipeline.

The webinar itself was a blast. The panellists were amazing - such great personalities to talk to. We set up camp up at the uni's green screen studio which was a complete "jakun" deer-in-headlights moment for me. What excited me the most was the opportunity to use the uni's live Streamyard dashboard first-hand. This was immensely handy - it's just in time for my lecture on livestreaming next week 😂 I took a tonne of photos and videos of the entire setup, and I was recording things flying across the screens. All perfect materials to embed in my lecture slides 🤭

It also felt incredibly powerful to have the ability to take over the uni's official livestream and do whatever I wanted to do 😈

(I behaved, though.)

Right before we went live, we had a short welcoming spiel from the AKEPT rep, who mentioned, "Hi Dr. Dayah, so you're new to AKEPT," and I just grinned. In fact I had spent a good five years grinding for AKEPT as the Editor-in-Chief of the now-defunct LEADER Magazine, wrote up numerous events and articles as their rapporteur, and also assisted with the editing of some of their books. But after many staff changes in AKEPT, I guess the slate is now clean 😉

I never thought I'd be working for AKEPT again, but here we are, locked in for the whole webinar series as emcee.

Jodoh kuat.

Watch 👉🏼 Cultivating Adaptive Leaders : Lifelong Learning for Sustainable Success (YouTube Livestream @ USIMTV)
https://www.youtube.com/live/vmtPv3pATis

28/04/2025

I am emceeing! Join us on USIMTV's YouTube channel at 4pm tomorrow Tuesday 🤩

📣 AKEPT Let’s Talk About – Webinar Series 2
(A Collaboration between AKEPT, USIM and SEAMEO RIHED)

Title: Cultivating Adaptive Leaders: Lifelong Learning for Sustainable Success

Event Details:
🗓️ Date: 29th April 2025 (Tuesday)
🕓 Time: 4.00 PM (local time)
🌐 LIVE on USIMTV YouTube and AKEPT Malaysia Facebook
📌 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/
📌 AKEPT Malaysia Facebook:
https://fb.com/AKEPTMalaysia

Distinguished Panelists:

👤 Dr. Séamus Ó Tuama
Director, ACE (Centre for Adult Continuing Education), Chair of ASEM LLL Hub, University College Cork, Ireland
👤 Dato’ Dr. Shakir Husein Kalid
Managing Director, Shamawar Group of Companies, Malaysia
👤 Dr. Laurene Chua-Garcia
Technical Committee Expert on Transnational Higher Education (TNHE), Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Philippines
👤 Dato’ Nur’Aliyah Karen Abdullah
Group CEO - Dialysis, Life Care International Medical Group, Malaysia.

🔹All are invited🔹

27/04/2025

[ Internet Multimedia: AI in Multimedia ]

In this brand-new chapter, I had loads of fun doing tonnes of demos of all sorts of multimedia AI tools 😁

Tools I live-demoed in class:
1. Midjourney (text-to-image)
2. NightCafe Studio (text-to-image aggregator)
3. ChatGPT (text-to-infographics)
4. Google AI Studio (text-to-video)
5. Sora (text-to-video, storyboards)
6. Kling AI (image-to-video)
7. Canva AI (text-to-design)
8. Remaker AI (image deepfakes)
9. Akool (video deepfakes)
10. VEED (auto-editing, auto-subtitles)
11. ElevenLabs (voice cloning)
12. Suno (text-to-songs with lyrics)

To close out the chapter, we discussed the pros and cons of using AI in multimedia. There were examples of AI-generated content being used to capture eyeballs during sermons and prayer calls. But naturally there were concerns on multiple ethical issues, from deepfakes to copyright ownership to the general safety of humankind.

Despite the imminent dangers of AI usage, it's imperative for us all to embrace its usage, sharpen our prompting skills and brace ourselves for a rapidly shifting technological landscape.

Crafting the slides and materials for this chapter has been incredible. Some of the tools I was considering to showcase had quickly went from supposedly cutting-edge to arguably obsolete within a matter of days..!

What a time to be alive 😎

Previous write-up on Internet Multimedia: https://www.facebook.com/dr.dayah/posts/pfbid0TvbqXaw9rPhjQtVjKY2LGuGRi5cRd2pjRAq8DKzFbbmQQZUMc5QVqoPXWNv8sMZpl

19/03/2025

[ Terima Kasih Pembeli Sampul Raya ]

Terima kasih atas sokongan para pembeli sampul raya CSM x CGN9 x DCE di Kipmall Senawang pada Ahad lepas 🙌🏼

Terima kasih juga kepada pembeli atas talian - sampul anda dalam perjalanan menuju anda 📨

Dapatkan sampul raya anda sekarang!

Tiga pilihan set:
- Set A: 8 sampul
- Set B: 8 sampul
- Set C: 10 sampul

1 Set 👉🏼 RM 4.00
Beli 5 Set PERCUMA 1 Set 😱
Boleh campur set 💚💜🖤

Sila hubungi nombor tertera di bawah untuk dapatkan set sampul raya anda:
- Seremban: 019-3768146 (Masli)
- Nilai/pos: 019-3513524 (Dayah)
- Jempol: 011-10358586 (Khusairi)
- Jelebu: 011-32970169 (Abu)

17/03/2025

[ Internet Multimedia Reloaded ]

It's back!

The last time I taught this course, I wasn't sure if I was ever going to do it again. Restructurings and childbirth aside, it feels like an eternity since the last time I did this. Today's the first day of the semester, and I've never been more excited and raring to go.

I've taken it upon myself to revamp all 333(!) lecture slides because they're ugly as hell, and it's been almost a decade(!!) of recycling the same slides, so we'll see how far I get with the "cosmetic surgery" over these 14 weeks 😂

This year there'll be a brand new chapter on AI in Multimedia, where I plan to include hands-on practice with image and video generators in labs. It'll be interesting to see how these new labs will work and I can't wait to see the students' output. Pendakwah Teknologi is also returning for a guest lecture which is amazing. I'm also doing team teaching with a professor in AI who also happens to be the former dean of my faculty, so that's both incredible and terrifying 🤣

Let's see how this semester goes ☺️

Previous write-up on Internet Multimedia:
https://www.facebook.com/dr.dayah/posts/pfbid02Xbkmnwss4Nurouu9bhgqKBmMBhHthQLWTjPUwbQqiWrmsP787uDa3M7QUBTASe6il

12/03/2025

[ Jualan Sampul Raya CSM x CGN9 x DCE ]

Dapatkan sampul raya CSM x CGN9 x DCE sekarang!

Tiga pilihan set:
- Set A: 8 sampul
- Set B: 8 sampul
- Set C: 10 sampul

1 Set 👉🏼 RM 4.00
Beli 5 Set PERCUMA 1 Set 😱
Boleh campur set 💚💜🖤

Jualan bermula AHAD INI 16HB di Kipmall Senawang semasa Catur Zon 3 U17 (9pg - 2ptg).

Sila hubungi nombor tertera di bawah untuk dapatkan set sampul raya anda:
- Seremban: 019-3768146 (Masli)
- Nilai/pos: 019-3513524 (Dayah)
- Jempol: 011-10358586 (Khusairi)
- Jelebu: 011-32970169 (Abu)

06/03/2025

[ DIRECTING CSM 2025 ]

This year I took the helm as Tournament Director for this year's Seri Menanti Chess Open and boy, was it a rollercoaster..!

I've been involved with running the event for years by now and I (wrongly) thought it'd be a cakewalk. But NOPE. The difficulty level suddenly went up to what felt like a 3000 ELO rating, and for months I was fighting one dumpster fire after another. I had a mile-long to-do list. The amount of things that went wrong meant Plan A quickly became Plan B, C, X, Y and Z. I didn't sleep much due to pulling all-nighters the entire week leading up to the event.

When the team finally assembled in Kuala Pilah, I was so relieved. Everything clicked into place and everybody worked so great together. The team is remarkable - where else can you find a bunch of guys _beginning_ the venue setups at midnight until 3-4am, then come straight back into work at 7am? This is their THIRD YEAR doing exactly that. We're so blessed to have them onboard 🥹

The event went relatively smoothly - missing breakfasts and last-minute scrambles for banknotes aside 😂 Amazingly, we even finished ahead of schedule ✨🌟

I'm so incredibly in awe of my fellow chess organizers who do this on a monthly and sometimes weekly basis - I don't know how they do it. This one-day event consumed six months of my life - the last of its loose ends just got tied this month(..!)

There's one GREAT silver lining though - now that I know all the ins and outs of what to do and what NOT to do, I'm pretty sure _next_ year's event will be the best yet 😁

Assuming my team and I get called back to run it, of course 🤞🏼

I'm still pi**ed at myself for one thing though - I drove Pavel and his lovely wife Natalya from KLIA to Kuala Pilah and I FORGOT to play my Russian playlist 😱 What a missed opportunity - it would've been an epic carpool karaoke 🤣

TikTok NEGERIfm vids:
- https://www.tiktok.com//video/7458478034916560136
- https://www.tiktok.com//video/7458477390763740423

04/03/2025

[ SM TESTIMONIALS - FEB '25 ]

February's student feedback 🥰

This month's March cycle is followed by a three-month break - the next one will be in July(!)

So if you're interested, the next Level 1 class begins this Sunday 9th March. Join us by registering here: bit.ly/SwissMgr-Mar25

More details: bit.ly/SwissMgr-Mar25-FB

Don't miss out 😎

26/02/2025

[ SWISS MANAGER CLASSES ]

Learn how to use Swiss Manager, the leading chess pairing software used across the globe.

Available online classes:

🌟 Level 1️⃣ - Beginner (9 Mar 2:30-4:30pm) 🌟
- Setup tournaments
- Import players from Excel
- Pairings & results
- Exclude players
- Delete rounds

🌟 Level 2️⃣ - Novice (15 Mar 2:30-4:30pm) 🌟
- Uploading to Chess-results
- Setup custom columns (web & print)
- Manual pairings & colour
- Teams & team tiebreaks
- Special FREE GIFT 🎁

🌟 Level 3️⃣ - Advance (23 Mar 2:30-4:30pm) 🌟
- Step-by-step Cheat Sheet
- From Google Forms to Winners List
- Auto age-groups
- FIDE/MCF bulk updates
- Excel filters

RM 35 per class
RM 90 all three classes

📑 Over 60 pages of notes
🎥 Recordings provided

REGISTER NOW!
bit.ly/SwissMgr-Mar25

💬 NA Dr Dayah 019-3513524

21/02/2025

[ Emcee @ MCF-FIDE 100 Dinner ]

Five days before the event, I got a call up offering to become the emcee for the MCF-FIDE 100 Years Celebration Dinner. The opportunity was too great to pass up. I get to speak in front of Hannah Yeoh AND GM Alexandra Kosteniuk? I'm there!

So began my last-minute scramble to clear my schedule and to make sure my baby will be OK. I had to reschedule my class - nak jaga suara katanya 😂 Also leaving my baby for 10 hours straight when she refuses formula is a challenge and a half.

What was fun about the gig was I got to flex my rusty Russian again. That meant going to Google Translate and peppering my script with 4-5 Russian phrases 🤣

The entire night was filled with all sorts of changes, one after the other. I was scrawling notes all over my script throughout the night. At one point in the evening, I had FIVE (5) people instructing me to do this and that, but the beauty of being the emcee was that nothing goes unless I said so - it was an awesome power trip for my ego 🤭

The highlight of the evening was when I approached GM Kosteniuk for her autograph. She said, "You've been practicing your Russian" 💖 We also shared an inside joke about the Russians, which makes us besties now 😜

I also got Quah Seng Sun to sign my chessboard. I told him I grew up reading his chess columns in the papers, and it was a privilege to finally meet him in person.

N9's Johar also signed my board. His signature is the prettiest by far 😄

It was a great evening - I had a lot of fun 😁

18/02/2025

Material for my next Excel workshop..? 😂