小学生的天真..

小学生永远都是那么好奇的，总爱问些我们年轻人都觉得似乎不以为意的问题如下：

1）第一天一进4B班（我是他们的代课级任）和3B班(我是他们的国语老师)， 就有学生问：
a) 老师,你会很凶吗?
b)老师,为什么你很高耶!
c) 老师,为什么你教马来文?你是不是马来人? =.=

2)也有一些问题是我们觉得毫无必要问的:
a) 老师,这面不够位写了,怎么办?(下一面啦!) @@
b)老师,这个那个要不要抄?

其实,虽然觉得这些问题是'多余',可是小学生嘛,他们的辨识能力还不够佳.需要时间来慢慢学习,磨练.所以身为老师的,也就要更加有耐心来回答他们的'问题'.

当老师,真不易啊!

Start teaching at SJKC Hun Bin

Tomorrow, 8/8.2011 is a date where i start my teaching at SjkC Hun Bin. Here i come as a Guru ganti for a month and half to teach subjects to 4B class students on subjects of Mandarin and Maths.

An inspiring quote  by Eunice Tan which i will use it as my sole motivation to teach :

A good teacher tells and demonstrates.
A great teacher asks and inspires.
But a great teacher can never be great without first being good.=)
~How to become a great teacher~

Hope everything is perfectly fine!~ =)

Internships Done! Yay...

Saturday ( 30 July 2011) is my last day of intern at Farm' Best Food Industries. Well a mix of feelings overwhelm me, there are happy, sad, worried touched etc... The lists go on and on ..End of my 2 months Industrial Training

First, I wish to take this opportunity to thank the GM of Farm Best Food Industries , Dr Subra, for giving me the opportunity to undergo my internships for 2 months. Yes,you may wonder why he is called a Dr, and No he is not a medical doctor but  he is a vet! He joined Farm Best on the year 2010 as a QA Manager, and currently he has been appointed as the GM of the Farm's Best. When having a conversation with him, i was a bit nervous, this is the first time when i stepped into the meeting room to have the first interview with him. He briefed me a bit about the operation of the factory and i was asked to start the intern as soon as possible. I started a bit late than most of my coursemates who have started right after exam, 16 May 2011 and so i completed it a bit late as well.

Well, the 2months industrial training has exposed to the real operation of food industries. Moreover, SInmah as an intergrated company, have the chain of operation from poultry breeding, livestock , to poultry and further processing. Luckily I have seen with my own eyes the operation of Sinmah Livestock(refer to ), Farm’s Best Food industries, and Sinmah Multifeed Sdn Bhd. The only Group which I haven’t see is the Sinmah Breeder Sdn Bhd which I hope in future I will be able to see the operation.

Below are the persons who I would like to thank. Since I have done my training in 3 different places and meet many different people so I have divided into 3 different places and with each different people that have come to my industrial training’s aids.

Farm’s Best QA Lab ( ALor Gajah):

Puan Maslinda: You are such a good helper, remember the first time when I asked you whether you are able to pick me up on the way to work, and without hesitant, you said Yes! I feel lucky to know you as my supervisor and as my friend. Throughout the whole industrial training you have not only helped me by providing me a transport to work and also, you have taught me about microbiology, the ways to perform a microbiological test on food samples, equipment swab etc. Seeing the facts that I have not exposed in dept to the microbiology field, you have indeed help to shed light onto this area. Not forgetting to thank Kak Chandra , Kak Zabidah, Abang Shamsul, all of you are just nice!=)

1 Malaysia slogan always been with us whenever I went out lunch with Kak Chandra and Kak Linda. LOL

Farm’ Best Food Industries Plant:

2 Senior Supervisors have helped me a lots, they are Hemah and Alina.=)

I thank you two for your generosity in sharing your knowledge the moment I stepped into the plant with zero knowledge. Your explanation is great and it helped me to get a clear picture of the whole operation of poultry and further processing plant. 

Sinmah Multifeed Sdn Bhd( ALor Gajah):

It is a feed manufacturing factory, one of the Group of Farm's Best berhad. In fact, it is the headquarter. Quite a number of accountants and office administrators from various groups like livestok, breeder, working there. The silos are extremely huge! But the production department have fewer number of workers since the whole operation of feed manufacturing is simpler than the Farm Best Food Processing plant where you would expect 500 workers are needed for the whole processing plant. 

I was assigned to QC Laboratory, the so called chemical lab to performe various tests like protein, fat, ash, moisture, sodium, calcium etc on feed and food samples.

 Thanks to Miss Toh, the QA Manager for her generous sharing of knowledge,you have shared with me the feed nutrition and the book which you lend me may be just another good start-up of my learning in poultry nutrition. Pretty much appreciated=)

While on the water treatment plant:

The EQ tank and the SBR tank

The boiler and the chemical tank

Behind me is the huge SBR tank

The huge SBR tank 1 and 2

 While at the Farm's Best Food Industries plant:

Wearing custom inside the plant

Abang Shamsul and me

Abang Shamsul, Kak Bedah and me

1 Malaysian: Kak Chandra, Kak Linda and me

While at the Sinmah Multifeed Sdn Bhd:

Kak Ila , Mr Balan, and me in Simah Multifeed

阿媽的話

阿媽,你走的那一天,距离现在已有2个月多了,

想你,在每个家里的角落,不管房里,客厅,厨房,都有你那犹新的脚印,

那双毫无从来不觉得累的双手,无时无刻都会准备佳肴,清理一切家里的事物,

记得每当我从大学回来时,不管是假期还是新年,都会有一道道佳肴摆在桌上,

有你煮的咸菜加里,酱油大虾,卤肉,杂菜等,每一道都无不垂涎三尺,吃了一次还想要呢!

你说你是向祖母(太妈)学习这些亨饪功夫的,虽然我只是小时尝了太妈煮的,可现在也许忘了其味道,但是你煮的每一道菜都有你亨的独特味道,无不叫人喊’赞’!

还记得我最喜欢在厨房帮你准备材料吗?尤其是切蒜头,你还赞我的切法’妙;呢!呵呵!好光荣!~

至今,我还保持着这功夫呢!当然哦,我就是这样习惯这个切法啊!~

在你开始无力一人在厨房亨饪时,每当回到来,在厨房陪你的次数越多,也向你学习亨饪的工夫也更明白

你开始无能为力的在与病魔抗斗时,我心里好难过.每当看你那辛苦的呕吐,无法消化,肚子胀风,腰骨痛时,吃药只是暂时性舒缓,好心酸! 我好想可以立刻发明一种药,把你的病即刻医好!

童年,虽不是我理想中的那样天真,那样活泼,那样幸福.可你让我决的人间处处有温情,

这种亲情,好真挚,好真诚,也好难形容,就像在冷冻的天气里,你无时无刻把炭送给我,让我感觉温暖.这远远超越母爱,你对我的疼护,我的关爱,我铭记于心,我要在天上的你知道,无论天涯海角,不管哪个角落,我都希望你开开心心.无法无时无刻的服伺你,照顾你,我心里有点遗憾,可是我相信只要在这世上做好自己的本分,活出自我,那就是对你最好的礼物.我知道你希望我好,我也是如此,所以不管如何,想你,后哭了,也好,我都明白生活都是要好好充分度过.生老病死是生活的必经之路,每个人来到这世上,也一定会有离开的时候.我会活出自我!

阿媽,安息吧!

这首歌道出我的心声~

A Visit to Chicken Farm

It was my 6th week of intern ,and yesterday, friday, unexpectedly, i have the chance of going to chicken farm!  

One of the farm of Sinmah Multifeed Sdn Bhd, coded NS 1

The outside view of one of the brooders

The entry to the farm

Thanks to Dr Narex and Dr Azril for allowing me to have a chance of having a short trip to Sinmah Breeders Farm ( NS1) at rembau .

 Today at noon, I am so surprised that Dr Azril came to me and told me that he and Dr Nerex will bring me to the breeder farm.i was taken aback, feeling so surprised as I am not expecting he will bring me over there today. I thought he will bring me over next week. At the same time I am so excited to have this chance to go to the farm to witness the operation and condition of the farm with my own eyes. 

We departed at 12.30pm after I got permission from Miss Toh( QA Manager of Sinmah Multifeed). We had a chat in Dr Narex ‘s new car( Kia) while on the way to the farm.  This new car is a four wheel car which is newly bought by the company. As a vet, Dr Narex and Dr Azril are expected to travel a lots, thus the car, petrol fees, as well as all the maintenance fees are under company sponsorships and responsibility. As they need to travel daily to the breeder farm , so this kind of benefit will be surely provided by the company. Dr Azril was expecting his new car to be a better four wheel car, maybe a Hyundai or Kia, but he is not so expecting the company will provide him a better and costlier can than Dr Nerex as Dr Nerex is his senior and junior, and I am wondering is a junior will expectedly have a company sponsored car of cheaper price than a senior? LOL, I guess this is a very subjective and I know that Dr Azril will feel contented to whatever new car the company got to offer him. But for sure the previous salon car was a no no, as it would be very troublesome to travel against a stony and hilly roads up to the farm with a salon car, definitely a four wheel car is needed.

When we reached the farm after having our lunch( Nasi Daun Pisang) at one of the famous Indian restaurant at Tampin, Dr Nerex and Dr Asril guided and explained to me the operation of the farm.The farm located at a very remoted area. I noticed at the entrance there are wheel drip column specially for lorry to dip the tyres and be sprayed with the disinfectant sprayer fixed around the wall before entering the farm.This is to avoid 

any contamination and ensure good sanitary.

The chicks are lying  and enjoying the feeds on the feeder.

The drinker in Red and Yellow colour.

A few chicks awaiting for Post-Mortem.

Wow, when you stepped into the brooder , the chicks will shunned away from you. 

The heater in the brooder

 There are 5 workers and when I reached there, there are 2 indonesian workers in charge of the farm. They have their own wooden house to stay as they need to take care of the birds 24 days 7 weeks. The farm manager is a Chinese guy who rent the facilities and land for Sinmah breeder group to grow broilers there.  There are 7-8  brooders( a heated house for chick) for growing the birds, each brooder can have the capacity to accommodate up to 17000 birds.

The wood shaving are scattered on a floor layer for the small birds to move around. According to Dr Nerex and Dr Azril, the use of wood shaving has its purposes. It protects the small birds (Grower) from falling down from the brooder. When the birds start to grow for a certain size, the layer of wood shaving will be rolled up because the birds are able to walk stably on the brooder. Besides serving the purpose of protection, the wood shaving also absorb moisture and provide heat to the birds. There are drinkers and feeder inside the coop which are to provide water and feed to the birds. Sometimes the drinkers might be unbalanced and contains not enough water, so the workers need to take note and correct the mistakes whenever possible. Dr Nerex said the feeder need to be full of feeds as birds sometimes can have a different eating habit, and thus the feed need to be filled fully to ensure the birds obtain enough nutrients for their growing pattern. 

Besides , the brooder also equipped with heater( using infrared ray ) to provide heat to the birds. it is usually switched on at night.  When the birds grow to 1.5-1.7kg only will the birds be sent to be slaughtered and further processed in Food industries.

It will take half year for a hen to mature and 67^th week old to continuously producing eggs . The capability for a hen to produce eggs range from 175-180 eggs per life span.

Integrated companies like Sinmah have the whole operation of producing chicken to further processing the meat based food . So basically there are Sinmah Livestock, Sinmah Breeder, Sinmah Food Industries which cater for the need of an integrated company.

To make it simple, there are basically divided into three categories:

1.  Broiler- The tasks is to grow the broilers for further processed food purposes. The broilers are usually be given unlimited nutrients and allow for quicker grow.
2.    Layer- This category has its sole purpose, that is to grow the broiler which meant for only laying eggs.Cocks and hens are not allowed to mate, thus hens will yield unfertilised eggs.
3. Breeder – to breed the birds , allowing the mating between cocks and hens. Fertilisation occurs and eggs hatched to produce chicks.

Dr Nerex and Dr Azril performed post mortem to a few birds. As a vet ,they are supposed to check the farm in which mortality of birds are reported to verify the health status. Dr Nerex even tested me the name of the organs from which he dissects the birds. luckily I answer them correctly all thanks to the practical experience I obtained from dissecting rats during Matriculation Biology practical as well as biochemistry practical 1.

    

It is an eye opening experience to have short visit to the chicken farm. If one day i ever have a chance, i will surely set up my own farm=p

Chapati and tosai as breakfast=)

Today is my 2nd week of internships.Treat my supervisor -Kak linda and Kak Chandra 2 Tosai and Chapati.

Suddenly,it pop up my mind to 'research' and ask Kak Chnadra about the preparation of tosai and chapati! 

It makes me realise that there are indeed many other more delicious food.

 A) Tosai is a fermented crepe or pancake made from rice batter and black lentils.It is known as many alternatives names like Dosa, Dosay, Dose, Dosai, Dhosha, Thosai, Tosai,Chakuli. We usually call it as Tosai.

2 main ingredients:

-Batter is a semi-liquid mixture of one or more flours combined with liquids such as water, milk or eggs used to prepare various foods.

-Black Lentrils( Ulundu) It is largely used to make dal from the whole or split, dehusked seeds

Preparation of Dosai

Rice is ground finely to form a batter. Rice can be uncooked or parboiled. The mixture of urad dal (black lentils) and rice can be replaced with highly refined wheat flour to make a maida dosa orsemolina for a rava dosa.A thin layer of the batter is then ladled onto a hot griddle ( a thava) greased with oil or ghee (clarified butter). It is spread out evenly with the base of a ladle or bowl to form a pancake. It is flipped to heat both crusts and removed from the griddle when the crust becomes dry. Dosa are served hot, either folded in half or rolled like a wrap.

Types of Tosai:

1) Rava dosa: made with rava (semolina), which doesn't need fermentation and is usually considered a snack or fast food.

 2) A masala dosa is made by stuffing a dosa with a lightly cooked filling of potatoes, fried onions and spices. It wraps the dosa around an onion and potato curry orsabji

3)Plain Tosai

Nutrition of Tosai!

Nutrition:It is a common breakfast dish, and street food. The dosa is rich in carbohydrates, contains no salt, sugar or saturated fats and its constituent ingredients of rice and lentils mean that it is gluten-free and contains protein. The fermentation process increases the vitamin B and vitamin C content. There are also instant mix products for making dosa, with somewhat lower nutritional benefits.

B) Idli is another great food to try!

C) Chapati

Made by Tepung Atta

Atta ialah perkataan Hindi untuk sejenis tepung gandum yang selalu digunakan dalam masakan Asia Selatan. Ia kaya dengan protein, menjadikan doh tepung atta adalah kuat dan boleh dicanai menjadi sangat nipis. Tepung atta lebih ringan berbanding tepung-tepung lain.
Secara tradisionalnya, atta berasal daripada proses penghancuran batu, yang memberikan karakteristik aroma dan rasa kepada roti. Atta ialah makanan yang kaya dengan serat. Kandungan karotinnya mengeluarkan bau dan memberikan rasa manis atta.
Roti yang diperbuat dari tepung atta ialah capati, roti, naan, dan puri.

Oh, the next time i shall try to make one;)

Use PDF format For your Document!~

Sometimes, we might have some issues with microsoft words documents , we will see ugly underlines, single line space becomes a double line space,and for whatever text the software thinks is an error just because it is not compatible and we can't simply assume  the recipient has an application that’s capable of reading such format.
So, always remember that not everyone has an application that reads Microsoft’s format installed. Microsoft Office isn’t cheap.. One way of soving this problem practically is as follow:

Why Use PDF?I think from my elaboration on the weakness of Microsoft’s formats, you could probably guess what are the strengths of PDF documents.
1. It is readable on almost any other device, and Adobe PDF document readers are available for free!
2. It is not editable.
3. It makes everything look neat and nice.The only down side of using PDF document is that the file size is a lot bigger. I tried converting a 22Kb .docx text file and the PDF version of the same file was 143Kb. Yes, you still need a reader but...
Converting to PDF
Don’t have Adobe’s Acrobat to convert files to PDF format?Here’s are some other ways you can get it done.- If you’re using the latest version of Microsoft Word, you can immediately save it as PDF document but from my experience, Microsoft’s conversion to PDF bloats the file size really badly. The same 22Kb .docx file I mentioned earlier resulted in a 515Kb PDF document when I saved it to PDF via Microsoft Word.- If you have OpenOffice, they also have a button for you to convert the document to PDF.- Use PDF995, it works like a printer so all you have to do is choose PDF995 as the printer and you’ll get the PDF file.- Use Zamzar, all you have to do is upload the file to the site and they’ll convert it for you. 

Source: PDF Format By Goldfries TechBlog
I am very glad to come across this articles written by Goldfries, i would rather use PDF form than causing a little errors to recipients and myself.