Asian Youth Conference on Biodiversity arrival

The Nagoya castle which located just infront of my room, can see the tower from my window

At the lobby of KKR hotel nagoya, ditribution of room by viki

hilman(left, white cloth) from Malaysia

Viki, very cute girl

In the mini bus, transferring from airport to KKR hotel

Claiming luggage

Changi Airport, checking in...

USM blunder

Academic year 2008/2009, a special year for USM, my dear beloved university. 

We get our status as APEX U, we aiming to be best U in this region and go on top of the world...

But not yet reach one year of carrying this status, a terrible mistake had been made, an internet blunder where accidentally posted unfiltered admission lists. 

As parents, I think they will inform all their relatives and friends about their kids getting into APEX U, because they are proud of them! 

If I were the student, I will feel very very sad. 

If I were the parents, I will feel no face. 

So, who will tolerate with this blunder which made my family no face? (esp for chinese)

But is USM deserved a chance to correct her mistakes and be better?

of course! Why we need to blame for a mistake that already been made?

We should focus on how to avoid this to be happened again.

If this blunder happen again next year, woisheh! we will be famous and even myself cant accept this. 

Reading newspaper, everyday, there will be some politicians or reporters comment about USM blunder, everytime I read, everytime I hurt, is like someone you love being scolded for a mistake. 

As USM student, I also regret for the mistake USM did, but we are still USM students, Don't worry, we will support you and fly towards our goal in the future together! (not the ranking but the real effective education system) We love you, USM!  

Adrian Chek 

Graduate of pure biology (Microbiology) 08/09 

chekminfey@gmail.com

Kapas Marang Swimathon 09

My first swimathon at Terengganu, Swim from Kapas island to Marang with estimated distance 6.5KM. We went there on Friday morning by USM Van with total of 9 swimmers, 1 driver and 1 officer. The journey was uncomfortable due to the traditional Malaysian Road and the seats of the traditional van. 

However, I'm enjoyed the swimming of 2 hours 35 minutes with 25th placing in the MEN category. I trained my mental fitness with this event, physical fitness? I think I can be more fit... When I swim, I keep imaging the shark is following me, so I keep looking at both side, while I'm taking my breath with front crawl. A great experience! Awesome!

The journey, We are chinese, and I like cho dai di! haha! 

Reach the junction... Left or Right? You have a choice... we choose right...and it is right!

Reach Hotel Seri Malaysia, with serious face... Worrying about tmr event...

where to eat after swimathon?

Dinner time!Behind us is the Kapas island where we heading in the morning the next day and the starting point of our journey back to Marang.

We are not scare of YOU, OCEAN! we are USISM! HUKASHAKA!

The beatiful scene of Kapas island!

The welcome banner of Swimathon!

After dinner, we went for the jeti and have a photo session!

Lunch at Kapas island, before snorkeling...

Before the swimathon, in our room, orangers were ready for swim!

is 6am in the morning, so most are sleepy face...

We have completed the event! with medals as proof! USM Orangers Rocks!

With T-shirts, caps, medals, 100plus, mineral water, power bar towel awarded after complete event... The yellow T shirt is low quality and make my other shirts yellow too...

With Ungkur Azhar, National Triathlete, after swimathon, We met in USM-LSSM CPR Instructorship course as participants. He taught us tips on training for Open water swimming techniques. A great guy. 

The end of the Swimathon. We back to USM. and start my final exam of my final academic year.

When reach USM gate, I feel stressed... A feeling of run away surrounding me...

I hate it, and that's maight be a reason why my academic results were not that great...

The interest was not there, the education system was fixed and not fun. Most importantly, I don't think what i Learned in the lecture was applicable... So, is not 'so' meaningful and eventually that leads to low productivity study...

I think what i have learned in the swimathon was greater than what i had learned in my 3 years course for my personality building.

Is just training for fun!

The picture i like the most, see the level of our oars, the length of stretch, is nice and uniform...

The bridge, lake and USM rowers...

USM Chinese rowers

From left: YC, KY, Superman, Teo, Puki Hu and Chuah

Waiting for boat coming back...

Training session with Wudi Boat...

Blek! Pipo! Pipo!

Row Row Row... Terrorism?

Titanic v. MASUM 2009

MEN 4+ (Rower1-Romeo, R2-Puki Hu, R3-Superman, R4-Dog Man, Cox-Naja)

While waiting for parking...

UTHM MEN 8+ beside us, they reverse to let us go in, but... too late...

Our boat no.2 break into 2 and sank...

The funniest moment in the official training... Who can be more 'Yeng' ?

5 people in the water, 4 are lifeguards, only the cox-Naja, don't know water...

obviously the splash from who... hehe...

Don't worry, we are coming, UTHM are giving us moral support by smilling...

The funniest moment continue...

But Romeo dont want to step down...

OK! Start working by towing back the boat to the platform!

All of us were excited and enjoying, except Naja i think...

Swim! Swim! Swim! 

Is just a boat, relax... We are proffesional tow machine...

Chern Chung was chock by the Buoyancy Assistant jacket...

The so called technicians take over the boat...

If they are pro, this superb experience will never be happened...

Me just climb up from the water...

On the platform, Sharing experience with UTM guy...

We are number 1? hehe...

After taken a bath, walking towards USM base. I heard 2 Malay girls conversation...

Girl 1: Hey, hey, did you heard of titanic happened just now?

Girl 2: Really? I heard alot people mentioned just now when I landed from kayak training. Is it true?

Girl 1: Ya, it's true! It's true! 

I laugh inside my heart... Win or not doesnot matter, we won in the training, we want 'Yeng'! 

We popular now...wakakaka...

SEM of filter paper degradation...

Control for this experiment, culture medium without D1 bacteria, Hence, the degradation of this filter paper is mechanical.

This is the bacterial culture, filter paper already degraded into pieces, Both pictures taken at the same time, incubated at 30C, 180 rpm around 4 days or till degradation observed.

This is one of my experiment in my final year project, isolation and sceening for cellulolytic bacteria...Filter paper is made from alpha-cellulose, hence, cellulolytic can survived with cellulose/filter paper without any other carbon source in my culture broth...

Here are some results, imaging by scanning electron microscope in E.M unit USM...

Ny tissue culture staining method, HMDS...

This is the filter paper surface without bacterial enzymatic degradation, set as my control...With 50X magnification

 

This is the filter paper surface after enzymatic degradation, filter paper becoming strips, all the linkages have been broken down, is like Maggi Mee...With 50X magnification

This is degraded part in the filter paper, with 500X magnification, I will zoom in the middle right strip in the next picture

This is the 5000X magnification, bacteria can be seen on the strips, especially the left part, the right part seen smooth from the surface, but how about the inside?

The whole pic showing thousand of bacteria 'chewing' on the filter paper and make it become sponge-like materials...with 2500X magnification

5000X magnification showing a pic with clearer view of the bacteria and 

the way of attacking cellulose

In this experiment, We focus on 2 topic, that is the effect of the enzyme produced by cellulolytic bacteria, cellulase on the filter paper structure and surface areas. This can be showed by the 50X magnification picture, control is the one with whole linked cellulose surface while Filter paper infested with D1 showing a maggi mee like structure, all the linkage were broken down...

2nd key is the way of attacking cellulose by bacteria D1, from the picture, Dr. Razip and me suspect that they are attacking from the inside out, hence, the surface of the filter paper is smooth and non-degraded, however, further investigation should be done to know what and why happen...

something is wrong

Something is wrong some where...

What is that? I don't know...

Maybe that is the cause of 'SIEN'...

go cook lunch...