Survey (To Whom It May Concern): How many journal articles you read per week

Feel free to share your view by clicking the link below:

http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/2663096/

February-Chinese New Year Celebration

Apologies that I have disappeared for the last 2 weeks, because I was busy dating with chick. Wish me good luck :p. Note: Chicks = research and plant. HAHA :-p

Anyway, I am not active on twitter、facebook、blog, simply because :

February is the great period for us to celebrate this wonderful festival. That’s Chinese New Year (CNY). I would like to see my friends spending their time with friends and families rather than hooking on the internet, esp. social networking sites. For this reason, I didn’t share any news, twits, status updates etc. (except few shceduled posts regarding Christmas celebration whereby myself also don’t know how come these articles published in wrong period..haha).

Sorry for any inconvenience that may caused. I understood my friends concern about my latest progress.

I came across some updates on social networking sites, and learnt that some people blamed about troubles encountered etc. Come on mates, cheer up and you are not suppose to let these –ve moods ruin your celebration.

Some complained bored life in hometown, which I think is inappropriate. I think you should spend this precious moment with you family.

Ok, let’s me share some of the CNY events (more pics will be coming soon):

the day before CNY eve：had dinner with housemates (total 5 people) in a Chinese Buffet Restaurant situated at the city centre.

CNY eve: Completed planned research works at 3pm. Then went to the Uni’s official CNY celebration. Vice chancellor of the uni and Exeter’s mayor celebrated this exciting moment with us. There’re some cultural events, lion & dragon dance, fireworks show in the celebration.

We had re-union dinner on the same day, and I learnt to make dumpling.

After 5-hour dinner, I have done some readings。

First day of CNY：

2010 is the year of tiger, and since I born in year of tiger, therefore wearing new, red colour in the first day of CNY will boost your luck.

I stayed at home in the first day of CNY, recharged and took a great rest. Nothing special happened here, but there was a great event in my hometown. That’s

My mother (including uncles/aunties) re-unite with her sister that lost in contact for more than 55 years.

which mean at last my grandparents’ 3 sons & 9 daughters gather together.

On that day,nearly all the relatives (>100 people) gather at my home and there was a press conference & photo sessions. After that, a reunion dinner in a local restaurant.

hope to visit “new” aunty when I go back later.

Day 2 of CNY –>Now:

Since CNY is not a public holiday, therefore I started research works as usual. I have pretty packed shcedule as I need to complete planned works so that I can enjoy a great vacation later of the year.

I have started PhD research 4 months ago, and have been arranged to give a presentation in a deparmental meeting with my supervisor. (although is quite early for me, but I am pleased with the exciting opportunity given). I got positive feedbacks from colleagues and these are encouraging.

Also, established new experimental approach in my lab from skills attained in previous lab.

Recently, my supervisor met with previous supervisor in Glasgow, and I got positive comments from them, which make a good start for my career here :-p

Will be watching a new movie called “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief” and attending a new year dinner organised by Chinese student society.

Lastly, wishing everyone has a great CNY celebrations.

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I like to share interesting articles through blogs and various social networking sites. Gaining new knowledge leading us to become a wiser person.

With the advancement of IT and interesting web gadgets, I am going to improve this sharing event. Please bear with me.

I will come out a new post describing the new changes

introducing HootSuite—new twitter experience

came across this site few months ago, HootSuite is a multi features web-based twitter client.

It allows you to post scheduled twit (so don’t surprise if you see I tweet every 2 hour, the same applies on facebook as well).

with scheduled twit, I can shared interesting articles/ website at desired period, so that I will not spam other people facebook / twitter front page.

Besides, a Mozilla plugin is available, (a button that next to ‘home’ button). You can directly tweet/ scheduled tweet when browsing an interesting page/ website, simply by clicking the button of this plugin. 

you also can integrate facebook & word press account in one site. Likewise, you can update latest status on facebook, wordpress, tweeter simultaneously.

 

furthermore, you can perform statistical analysis on website you shared through HootSuite and find out your tweet traffic on shared website/url/link, location of readers and also the popular post among tweets you posted.

I noticed most people like to view current issue and relationship items. Having this statistic data, I can decide when is the golden period to upload worth reading items, and also what information my readers prefer.

for more info, visit the HootSuite main page at

http://hootsuite.com/index.php

Parcel from home, with CNY goodies ;-)

Article@ UTAR’s Feb Newsletter

More info visit the following link:

http://www.utar.edu.my/alumniMain.jsp?catid=8

 

article entitled “Passion, Commitment, and Prolonged Interest: Keys to achieve your goal”

Christmas Eve dinner

dinner with two of the flatmates, they are Master student in business, from China.  We had hot pot.

 

turkey

lovely Christmas card

A greeting card from PhD student in my lab. An English who did her project in Malaysia last time and spent significant amount of time there.

 

Santa in Malacca. :-p

Proposed blog/twitter contest on CNY/Valentine celebration could be organised by our UTAR May 05 Biotech’s face book group

Some ideas came across my mind recently after browsed through comment left on our group..feel free to share your comment, and we can modify from here.

====Blog contest:=====

*You can produce as many posts as you want, each post contains maximum 10 pictures.

*You can upload short video clip as well, not more than 3 min

*You can blog about your CNY/Valentine/ single valentine celebration

*Any languages,

*Deadline: 1-march-2010, 12 am (Malaysia time: GMT + 8 h). Please upload you blog post to our facebook group’s wall post before the deadline.

## later, we will create a poll, and let every member to vote the best blog post.

Prize--> souvernirs : TBA

====Twitter + picture contest:====

*Share your favourite picture and a tweet (as caption) to describe it.

One picture per tweet, maximum word to describe the picture is 140 words. (twitter has word limit function)

*Maximum 5 pictures for one member

*Any languages,

*Deadline: as above

## later, we will create a poll, and let every member to vote the best pic.

Prize--> souvernirs : TBA

math formula that predicts you proposal age

First the mathematicians worked out a fiendishly complex equation: 
∑ (n-k)  (n-k-1)  (n-k-2) … (n-k-r+2) x       k        x   (1)
       n       (n-1)    (n-2)        (n-r+2)        (n-r+1)      (r-1)

 

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

Choose the oldest age by which you want to get married, for example 39.  Call this number 'n.’

Decide the earliest age at which you'll start to consider women as potential wives, for example, from 20 onwards. This number becomes 'p'.

Subtract 'p' from 'n' (20 from 39) then multiply the result by 0.368. 

This gives you 6.992, which you should add to your minimum age (20). 

The result of 27 (more or less) is your Optimal Proposal Age.

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1250250/Revealed-The-mathematical-formula-predicts-best-age-engaged.html?ITO=1490#ixzz0fFc4PD0P

what a hectic day

The day before, slept at 2 am, spending whole night to look at information on the genes of interest. Also, Prof suggested me to give a presentation in Plant Science group meeting next week, I had accepted and therefore I need prepare some slides this weekend too.  @-@

The next day, morning 3 hr demonstration @ 9am morning. As my Prof said, we always see some “odd stuff“ from students’ practical. I believed some of them didn’t do pre-reading before come to the practical session.

follow by research discussion, to troubleshoot some troubles faced in previous experiments and advice on new experiment setup. Afternoon, 2 h meeting with more and more information need to be sorted out and clarify .

This is followed by literature searching, as we have to plan ahead, consider every single step carefully before conducting new experiment.

Also, an insightful discussion with colleague who are taking the assignment for UK Higher Edu Academy, everyone also upset with students’ attitude today, whereby they prefer to be spoon-fed rather solving out problems themselves

Back home for dinner, take a short break.

Back to lab to do some plant tissue culture work and spread out bacterial culture in order to look for recombinant DNA.

Settle all bench works at 1am the next day. Follow by replying comments, reading RSS until 2am.

Arrgh, I seriously need to take a post-CNY break

careerpath.com (career tests)—>color career counsellor

got this link from marccus low, worth trying.

you can do the test at:

http://www.careerpath.com/career-tests/colorcareercounselor.aspx

Best Occupational Category

You're an ORGANIZER

Keywords

Self-Control, Practical, Self-Contained, Orderly, Systematic, Precise, and Accurate

These conservative appearing, plotting-types enjoy organizing, data systems, accounting, detail, and accuracy. They often enjoy mathematics and data management activities such as accounting and investment management. Persistence and patience allows them to do detailed paperwork, operate office machines, write business reports, and make charts and graphs.

ORGANIZER CAREERS
Suggested careers are Administrator, Secretary, Printer, Paralegal, Building Inspector, Bank Cashier, Private Secretary, Statistician, Operations Manager, Financial Analyst, Bookkeeper, Medical Records Technician, Developer of Business or Computer Systems, Clerical Worker, Proofreader, Accountant, Administrative Assistant, Banker, Certified Public Accountant, Credit Manager, Store Salesperson, Actuary, Dental Assistant, Business Education Teacher, Food Service Manager, IRS Agent, Budget Analyst, and Underwriter.

ORGANIZER WORKPLACES
Your very careful, conscientious, conservative nature gives others the confidence to trust you with handling money and material possessions. Structured organizations that have well-ordered chains of command work best for you.

Suggested Organizer workplaces are large corporations, business offices, financial lending institutions, banks, insurance companies, accounting firms, and quality control and inspection departments.

2nd Best Occupational Category

You're a PERSUADER

Keywords:

Witty, Competitive, Sociable, Talkative, Ambitious, Argumentative, and Aggressive

These enterprising types sell, persuade, and lead others. Positions of leadership, power, and status are usually their ultimate goal. Persuasive people like to take financial and interpersonal risks and to participate in competitive activities. They enjoy working with others inside organizations to accomplish goals and achieve economic success.

Section I: You and Your Team
This personality overview section highlights your natural workplace talents—the tasks you pursue with passion. You'll learn how your natural strengths complement those of your coworkers and how, joining forces, you can resolve on-the-job dilemmas.

Section II: Your Key To Success
Here you discover your capacity for dispelling disruption and maximizing profitability. Use this proven, beyond-self-perception advice to create a more positive career path free of detours.

Section III: Managing Strengths and Weaknesses
Your evaluation's highest and lowest scores result in this section's recommendations for staying on-track in your career and reversing wrong turns. In focusing on your talents and missteps, you'll re-stoke your energy and enthusiasm for managing costly mistakes.

Section IV: Leadership Power Moves
This final section identifies your "street sense," those power moves that turn obstacles into insignificant details. Here suggestions based on your color-ranked evaluations will guide you towards making the most of an interview or harnessing your fast-paced workday.

CNY Greeting

Received greeting card from a friend in Malaysia.

Thank you very much

Whoever can translate the greeting and manage to guess who is the sender may get souvenir from me…haha :-p

Q&A: Systems biology

The following paper providing comprehensive information about systems biology. This maybe of interest to people who are new to this area.

Full access available at:

http://jbiol.com/content/8/1/2

 

Ferrell,J. (2009). Q&A: Systems biology. Journal of Biology 8, 2. doi:10.1186/jbiol107

Proposed blog/twitter contest on CNY/Valentine celebration could be organised by our face book group

Some ideas came across my mind recently after browsed through comment left on our group..feel free to share your comment, and we can modify from here.

====Blog contest:=====
*You can produce as many posts as you want, each post contains maximum 10 pictures.
*You can upload short video clip as well, not more than 3 min
*You can blog about your CNY/Valentine/ single valentine celebration
*Any languages,
*Deadline: 1-march-2010, 12 am (Malaysia time: GMT + 8 h). Please upload you blog post to our facebook group’s wall post before the deadline.
## later, we will create a poll, and let every member to vote the best blog post.
Prize--> souvernirs : TBA

====Twitter + picture contest:====
*Share your favourite picture and a tweet (as caption) to describe it.
One picture per tweet, maximum word to describe the picture is 140 words. (twitter has word limit function)
*Maximum 5 pictures for one member
*Any languages,
*Deadline: as above
## later, we will create a poll, and let every member to vote the best pic.
Prize--> souvernirs : TBA

more info, visit

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=230202369722