Wow, i will be going to have a week holiday off after my enzymology test 1 today!' This thought has got me to think over the excitation of how free and how relieved i would be after released from several continuous assessment tests ( neurochemistry, plant biochem, and membrane biochem)! I realised there are quite a numbers of stupid mistake i made in my enzymology tests though the questions are relatively direct!
Haiz, let bygone be bygone, as long as i have tried my best to study for this subject!
Well, to say that i will be totally free isn't sound as true and as fun as it may go. I still have my final year project (FYP) to worried about! Seeing most of my course mates have started their FYP while i am still doing nothing, i feel as if i am so helpless. I wish i could start earlier but lab materials and ingredients are still in the midst of purchase and order( P/O).
So, the only thing that i could do is to keep on enriching myself on what am i going to do for my FYP. Though journal after journal have been printed out, i just need some time to further understand and grasp the concept on the FYP that i am going to conduct.I will start to fully utilise my deepavali break for that!
Thing to do within the 1 week break ( 25 Oct- 30 October)
1) Finish my UMEC ( Masheng) works. Hope to settle it as soon as possible!
2) Do revision on subjects like Plant & Membrane Biochem( feel like i am far lagging behind) =(
3) Back to Melaka to spend some precious time with grandpa, watch my favourite Astro channel, teach my neighbours- Ah De and Ah Phing( Both form 4), maybe shop with Aunty, that are the things i normally do while i am at Melaka.
and....wait!! did you see the picture as follow ?
The Dairy technology book which i borrow from library, somehow might be useful for my FYP..
Laptop and Journal!! @@
4) Not to forget about my FYP!! To research more on the topic concerned! I will have to enjoy this lifestyle more : Journals, books and laptop!! @@
All in all, hope i could fully utilize my time for completing my tasks and achieve my set targets!
Well, after my enzymology test today, haha! I have an important appointment with Chui Kheng! Going to discuss somehting important with her--Work and Travel (WAT) USA.. If you remember my previous post about this, you will surely ask: ''OMG! you haven't go to WAT US yet?! i thought you have?!''
Lolz, i wish i could have experienced it just like Chui Kheng!! it is just that during the last 4 months semester break, i have been utilizing it for my practical training and temporary teaching at primary school! Plus adding to the fact that i miss my grandma so much and wish to spend time with her has made me no regret of not going to WAT or student exchange programme to Korea. I am sure there will be another opportunity for me to venture there.=)
So , we have our lunch at OASIS, the 2nd class famous food court after the food court on the top floor at Midvalley according to Pei Er ! We put off our initial plan to go for KimGary after seeing the huge crowd especially during lunch hour!
After she explained and told me about her experience of joining WAT programme under Speedwing, we went for having snowflake at top floor of centre court Midvalley.
Upon reaching ( 3pm) , there are a few people lined up before us.
Luckily we grab a seat! can see chi kheng at the middle xp..
The Beeping UFO. Once it is ready, it will vibrate and shine! Fun right?!
The electronic ads showing Grass jelly series. there are actually many series to choose.
Certain but not all deserts can be adjusted according to sugar level you desired!
3 famous series. but personally, i think soya series is the nicest!
I ordered Taroballs series , set 2 ( with Barley and Pearl) , while Pei Er and Chui Kheng both order soya bean series.
Soya bean series is more nicer as it has a thick layer of ice made up of concentrated soya.
Yeah, two soya series and one taroballs series
Taroballs series ( mine) ..Personally the taroball just taste like Chinese famous Dong Zhi food ' Tang Yuan'
Soya bean series with yam, read bean and pearl. yummy!~
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Pei Er
Snap a shot!
Behind the receipt ' I Love Taroball'
And before we went back, saw this ads at South Court. I Love Taroballs again! LOL..
I feel like the taroballs nothing special, just taste like Tang Yuan with different colours.
From that onwards, i fall in love with the yummy snowflake! This is my second time for having snowflake! Will be going to have it again surely.=)
Btw, i envious Chui Kheng for having her eye opened during the last 4 month semester break at US! Will surely think about it after your motivational guidance=)
Well, time to post about FOOD, entertainment and wine!...This time it is all about Japanese food --Sushi Zanmai! Last night i had a wonderful night with Zhe Yi, Khang Way, Hui Ying, Chui Teng, Stephanie Tan, and Toh not only to have the indulgence on Sushi Zanmai in The Garden, but also movie, cake and wines! =D
Let's start with the Sushi Zanmai first! In order to make ourselves to be seated by the waiters at Sushi Zanmai, haha! one thing which we need to bear in mind: Get yourself ready early in order to catch up with the long queue awaiting you. Luckily i managed to catch a bus and went there myself to catch up with the queue first. It was 6.15pm and i have waited till 6.55pm until i managed to get seated by a waiter. It was coincidental that Zhe and others reached by this time and we start to have our ' Feast' immediately!~
* Hungry look*
Okie, let's have a look at the atmosphere inside the Sushi Zanmai.
When i reached, it has been seen a few people lined up before me.
The waiters are busy serving the customers in making reservation
A typical style of a Japanese Sushi surrounding
This sign has definitely served its function very well! Customers have to wait to be seated during peak hour almost all the time.
Nice arrangement
Khang with his Namebono
Me with the menu! xD
Me and Khang way's order- Nabemono
And the Sushi!
After eating, POSE!
Not forgetting about the RM1 Japanese green tea which is refillable.
Well, the price cost us one person about RM 25-RM30,but after all we think it is worth a taste!
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After that, Jen Jen! A surprise birthday party for Zhe at a bakery shop ( forget its name, but it is right opposite the The Garden's Cold Storage .
The cake and the wine :
The Banrock Station Moscato Wine displays lifted Muscat-style aromatics, with subtle hints of fresh grapefruit and lemon.It is just nicely blended with our cake! not forgetting to metion its 5.5% alcohol! 0.o
Zhe cutting the cake after making his wishes
The cake! Yummy!
and a final shot! xD
I salute Hui Ying's way of organizing the celebration, make it filled with cake and wine, and that particular must performed ' birthday ceremony'..xD..
But it was just too nice after all, hope Zhe would find it a memorable one! And Happy 21st Birthday to you. Opps, suddenly realise all of us ---Baomily has reached 21st ! All old liao >
Last night was a memorable night! not forgetting about the movie---Real Steel ! Highly recommended for the year 2011 best movie! The excitement to enjoy the trilling of victory and failure of fighting robot- Atom versus Zeus. Not forgetting the dialogue between Max and Atom:
Max: Don't worried! your secret is safe with me! Atom: ^^
Final year signifies the need to struggle with my final year project . Everything has not yet to start, due to the waiting of response from Sigma company regarding the ordering of the materials and ingredients for lab work.
I have done what i am supposed to do: search and read related journal, preparing my proposal,start my roundtable with Miss Fatemah( my supervisor), try hard to grasp the concept of fermentation and sort of previous studies done by other scientists etc.
Till today, Miss Fatemah has briefed me about the protocols and what i need to do for my final year project and what i can do now is to further enrich myself with the know-how in probiotic, diary chemistry, functional food's fields.
All these final year project has made me think of the option on whether to continue my postgraduate education or not.
So, have been searching for the right information regarding this and suddenly bump into a comment given by Mr Azarimy , a architecture lecturer from UTM Skudai.
His reply in LYN helps me to get what really a Master in research all about.
For research based programmes, it is highly recommended that u obtain honours in ur degree. some universities take honours into consideration during an application for a research degree. Research degree (masters): generally ur application to the course comes with a topic proposal, a focused field of what u wanted to research. some schools require just a page of proposal, some require an extensive research being done prior to application. a research degree will produce a thesis written on the research that u have done during the course of ur study. topics can range from qualitative or quantitative study, an basically u need to be very fluent in academic writing (which is quite different from a general degree's dissertation way of writing). u'll spend a year or sometimes more just reading, cross-referencing, testing, searching and writing on one particular subject. first u come up with a hypothesis, then a research to prove ur hypothesis. that's roughly what a research masters is all about. and u dont go researching things that have been done before. no sir. i have a basic method of explaining level of studies here: i. primary school - basic of all learningii. secondary low - wider scope of learningiii. secondary mid - wide focus on a group of subjectsiv. secondary high - deeper knowledge on a wide range of subjects v. diploma - basic applied skills on a specific fieldvi. degree - skills and knowledge on an specific, established fieldvi. degree + honours - skills & knowledge, with an academic discussion contributing to the body of knowledge vii. masters (taught course) - advanced study on a specific, established field; with basic focus on new, unexplored areas of study.viii. masters (research) - advanced study on a specific field, focusing on unexplored areas in a field of knowledge. ix. phd - generally creating a new field of knowledge that have never discovered before in the world.
The moment when i heard of FINAL YEAR PROJECT, my head start to spin and the nightmare of no sleep and busy labwork will drive me to maximum madness. >
Finally, i get to know my supervisors - Miss Fatemah from Iran. From our meeting last week, i was brought to the lab- Makmal Serbaguna, which is located just next to our SBK. Pretty lucky as i don't have to walk so far unlike some of my coursmates who have to go till Institute Postgraduate Studies( IPS) for doing their final year project. Miss Fatemah is a current Phd candidate under the supervison of Assoc Prof ASB which is also my supervised lecturer for my final year project. I am given a project entitle ' increasing functional propertie of probiotics ice cream by addition of saffron.
Well, since i have started doing my final year thesis now,i am required to submit a proposal. A lots of work like journal reading and searching have to be done.
Here is the video which i would like to share to make all of us understand the reasons we should take probiotics.
Among the point which i have taken down:
1) All farmers give their animals good bacteria Probiotics after a course of antibiotics because antibiotics given to cow will destroy the good bacteria which will make them cannot digest grass---> starve and die.
2) Why we have appendix--A reservoir of good bacteria, protected from diarrhoe and antibiotics because if w we take antibiotics , basically will kill all good and bad bacteria.
Antibiotics are in:
Pills--for any infection
Our food ( chicken, fish, meat, eggs, milk)
Chemicals, sprays (anything that kill bacteria)
3) bad bacteria create Dis Ease. If Ecoli, salmonella, clostridia which is present in most people's bowel grow unrestricted, it will cause diarrhoe, typhoid, gastrenteritis etc.
it will cause mould ,putrefaction and toxin release, food is not absorbed( malnutrition, weight loss etc),parasite trive, attack the gut lining ( most dangerous--leaky gut)
4) Protein entering the gut are broken down into small proteins and amino acids, as they pass through the gut wall, the immune cell identifies them.
But if some proteins appears in the bloodstream, our immune system attacks it. If it goes wrong, this can cause immune diseases like asthma, lupus, diabetes, Crohn's disease, eczema. Leaky guts allow larger proteins to get through. If that protein is similar to one of our body tissues, our immune system attacks that tissue, of which if attacks on lung ( cause asthma).
5) Thus, bad bacteria cause major problems, so we have to replace it with ' good bacteria' , which can cleanse the bowel. Good bacteria are called pro-biotics ---'for life'.
6) Probiotics- healthy bacteria similiar to those found in breastfed infants. Most come from 2 bacterial species Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium. They are found in some foods: yoghurtm fermented and unfermented , miso, tempeh, and some juices and soy beverages . also found in diatery supplements in capsules, tablets and powder form.
7) we should also take Prebiotics which is non digestible food that the probiotics feed on, usually soluble fibre to feed the probiotics bacteria.
8) Are all probiotics the same? well, different starins of bacteria are more effective , they must be able to get into the bowel.
- Acid, bile and pancreatic juice tolerant.
-Gel matrix coating the bacteria
-Enteric coated capsule which dissolves in small gut.
A good probiotic could make a huge difference to our health:
So, take a short course regularly, when :
-you go overseas
-with a course of antibiotic
-with any bowel disturbances
-allergies and immune diseases
- thrush and other infections
Hope my final year project regarding probiotics would be a success with my ready hardwork!! =)
It always happens that whenever i feel boring, stress over assignment, final year project and all sort of university works, i will surely have friends or coursemates there for sparing and spending our entertainment time together.
We have been going to Ikea on 27 September and bowling on 4th October, McD breakfast on 7th October. It has been so much fun mingling and spending our time together and cherish our friendships as well.
Plus i need to break the chain of being too obsessed with study and work will make me even dull like the saying, all work and no play make jack a dull boy. =(
Friends have been telling me ' you surely can't miss Ikea meatball when you come to Ikea'. And now i get to taste, well, it is DELICIOUS! especially the sauce and jam.Have tasted 5 meatball for RM5 .=D
And this cake ordered by Fiz. Get Tasted a bit and YUMMY!
Bowling session at Ampang Superbowl ,5th floor Time Square
My first time bowling experience teach me one lesson: 'Practice makes perfect'! Indeed when it comes to bowling, one has to know the correct ways of holding the ball by placing which 3 fingers of yours into the hole on the ball. ( i have learnt ;p). Sometimes luck is on my sides, i could bowl and topple down all except three( the best result i obtained)! And sometimes, i could just miss it and bowl into ' longkang'. LOL, it depends on luck sometimes but more importantly is you have to practise the correct way of bowling. Tt is a form of exercise too, especially when you are holding a rather heavy ball and bowl ( roll along the ground) , you are strecthing your muscles involuntarily.
Well, i am proud to say that I start to love bowling !~ ^^
Today is my first visit to UPM!! I went there with 3 of my friends with no intention to just visit the campus but we went there for the Big Day Wolf Books---The so called biggest book fair in the world! LOL~ http://www.facebook.com/bbwbooks
Being in the first time we go there, we have little to no idea how to get to the book fair. I initially thought that it would be an easy and convenient task for going there since upon reaching KTM Serdang, there will be a shuttle provided. But i was wrong.
After we reached KTM Sedang, we have been asking people and searching for the right way to reach there. I learnt that MAEPS is actually inside MARDI which is located within UPM campus if i am not mistaken.
Initially, we have gone to the wrong place. We boarded a UPM bus to get into UPM and move all the way long to the so called Bukit Espo which is opposite Kolej 13. >
Then after asked for the direction, we further board a UPM bus to the Faculti Sains,in which CIMB is nearby and then we walked across the bridge and search for a taxi. The taxi charge us RM 10 after several bargain( still freaking expensive since it is quite a short distance to MAEPS from UPM science Faculty). The taxi driver took us till the gate of MAEPS( --and told us that there are actually a bus ( going to Kolej 17) passing by the MAEPS's gate.
So, after we finished shop for books at about 8pm, luckily we managed to board the kolej 17 bus to the bus stop which is opposite Faculty of food science and technology. From there, we further board a UPM bus to the KTM Serdang.
So, the lesson of today is: for those who are taking public transport, the route is:
KTM Serdang------> Board a UPM bus----> Stop at Faculty of Food science or others (i am sure you may stop at other faculty as no 17 bus wil surely pass by)----> Board a bus (kolej 17)----> Stop at MAEPS-----> Walked into and take the free shuttle provided
Throughout our journey, we are lucky enough to meet drivers who would allow us--non UPM students to get into the bus though some of them not even checked and we just look like normal student luckily . Most of the people are taking their own transport as it is impossible to get there by public transport and you will be faced with charges if u did not show your campus matric card upon requested.
The books which are on the list are more to international books, range from fiction, references, cookery, gardening, transport, children, etc..
Managed to grab some of my favorite fiction and Robert Kiyosaki--rich brother , rich sister and reality check by Guy Kawasaki, as well as the journey to the centre of earth by Jules Verne( finally i got this and i am sure i will enjoy it after unintentionally watched and fall in love with the story =p ) . But personally i feels that there are not so much academics book such as medical and engineering reference textbooks available as i was expecting i would buy some of the international textbooks.
Anwyway, today trip has taught me one lesson: plan well your trip for the sake of avoiding 'going astray'!
I knew Visa when i was working as a computer lab temporary assistant at Tunku Abdul Rahman College (TARC) way back in 2008. We were working in the same department. Now , Visa is still working there as usual, and i could see he is very happy and satisfied of having his working life at TARC. Moreover,funny laughter always overwhelmed his colleague including my brother as well.
I remember a day before i went back to UM to start my new semester, my family was being invited to his 21st year old birthday party . So here is a few pictures which i have snapped during the party.
