Something to think about...

Reminder

ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION

UTAR BUS SCHEDULE FOR Y3S1

Please visit here for the UTAR bus schedule for this semester.

1. Wednesday is Course Tee Day
2. Go visit 15 Malaysia's official website when you are free!
3. Please participate in the polling.


Do you support the Biotech dramas to immortalize our memories?

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Student Bill


Fellow biotechies, your student bill for next semester is OUT. This time, you will have to download the soft copy (in pdf) and print it our yourself. No more hard copy from office. You can pay it the usual way - Public Bank or Finance. Read the bill for more information.

Also, the bill, also called the e-bill, is found on the intranet under the newly created tab - "My Billing". See the following:

Home | My Course | My Co-Curriculum | My Billing | My Account | ...

Or, click and view the image below:

Figure 1: Student Bill notification

The deadline for the payment is 12 June 2009.


Regards,


Your Course Rep
Min-Zhin

Monday, April 27, 2009

Today | Tomorrow

Today, might be a cloudy day...


Tomorrow, is expected to be a lightning storm...


But let's spread a little bit of hope and ray of joy here, think of tomorrow as a storm but with a silver lining;


and believe that, the sun will eventually shine - with warmth and comfort.

"God helps those who help themselves."
- Benjamin Franklin

We believe we have put in enough effort, so may God bless us all.

Good luck tomorrow, guys!

Regards,

Friday, April 24, 2009

Class tee

Sorry for the long wait.

Just to inform you all who ordered the 'You Name It, We Clone It' tee-shirt, they are here. There is still a balance of RM8.00 to settle for each tee shirt.

I hope we can wear it sooner and take a group photo before we finish our final at 12th May.

All the best and good luck in the final!


Regards,
Liang少

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

UTAR Biotech Boleh!!

Just to lighten the tensed-up pre-examination atmosphere:

A proof that we are memang boleh!!

Notice what is on the upper right hand corner?? Hehe, that name filled all the space in top ten. (wonder who is that?? us or our senior?? anyone knows??)

It seems that UTAR Biotech can achieve great results in games, so why can't in exam?? The coming exam will be piece of moral cake, like makan MB kacang and also cute cute Drosophila... Haha...

Sunday, April 19, 2009

!!! HOT !!!

Many people MIGHT agree with me..
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These few days are sooooooo~~~~~~~

HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
However, Final is coming..


Gambateh and good luck!!!
TQ BB for gambateh-ing for us.



Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Y3S1 Timetable

Click here for the coming semester's timetable :)

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Exam Schedule Part II

Exam schedule is out in the intranet. Not a good change. Not at all. Before, the time table s**ks. After, it also s**ks. I don't feel like posting the time table. My fingers feel heavy for every word I type. So... THREE WORDS: God bless us.

Nevermind. BT will never fall. Fact is a fact and we cannot change that. Time table is fixed and nothing much we can do BUT... BT can stand no matter what. We have been through the Killer Week 9/10 and we survived - amazingly. No matter how bad the arrangement is, as long as we are fellow BT's, we will walk down the path as strong as we can. Nothing can stop us.

If you mess with BT's, you are messing with a hive of bees. We never give up. We go for our target. We act as a swarm. We WON'T FAIL. Beef up ourselves! W-E C-A-N D-O I-T!!!

Our last day is pushed later to the 12 of May. Bad. But so what? If you want us to do so, then we fight till that day though we hate it. You will not break our spirit. Not our kiasu spirit.

Monday, April 6, 2009

Urgent - ATC

For those who have read earlier, please read again. It has been edited.


Here is an important concept for ATC:


The calculation of cell counting and step-by-step reasoning:

A x B x C x 10^4

"Divide total viable cell by 8 to get C" This is what the TA say. But Dr Lim say NO! In the test, whenever you are given a viable cell number, divide it with 4, not 8, to get average viable cell. Why 4? Because normally, we use only one chamber instead of both of them. In one chamber (see figure 1) there are 4 corners with 4x4 boxes. Each of them is 1mm (width) x 1mm (length) x 0.1mm (depth) = 0.1mm^3.

Figure 1: One chamber of the haemacytometer

1. We need to calculate how many cells are present in only ONE of the corners (the corners are marked RED in Figure 1). Since there are 4 of them, you calculate all the viable cells in all 4 corners (like what we did in the lab), then divide by 4. Last time, we calculate for 2 chambers. So, 2 chambers x 4 corners = 8 corners. That's why we divide 8 for our last experiment. But in the test, please divide by 4. Because normally we use ONE chamber. Let's say we calculated 20 cells for all 4 corners. So, 20 cells /4 = 5 cells.

Then, 5 cells x 2 (dilution factor) = 10 cells.

2. Now, we get 10 cells. 10 cells refers to the number of cells, on the average, in ONE CORNER. But, how much is the volume of the cells is in ONE CORNER? According to the manual, the volume of 1 corner is 0.1 mm^3 (as calculated as above). But we don't want mm^3, we want ml! So, to change 0.1 mm^3 to ml, you need to divide 0.1 mm^3 by 10^3 . So,

(0.1 mm^3/10^3) x 1 ml = 1 x 10^-4 ml

The ml value is now 1 x 10^-4 ml. But how to get a conversion factor?

3. Still remember your microbiology? If you do a dilution of 10^-5 (the diluted value), your dilution factor is 10^5. Right? You just have to do this to get the factor: 1/(diluted value). So, 1/(10^-5) = 10^5. See? That's the dilution factor. In our case, to get the conversion factor, just do the same thing:

1/(converted value) = 1/(1 x 10^-4 ml) = 1 x 10^4 per ml or 10^4/ml.

TADAA!! Look carefully, your conversion factor's unit is PER ML, or /ml, because you divide 1 by millilitre (1/10^-4 ml).

4. When you get the 10 cells in step 1 & 2, you are only calculating for one corner, still remember? And 1 corner is 0.1 mm^3 or 1 x 10^-4 ml. So, what we want to know now is, how many cells are there in ONE MILLILITRE? To get that, you multiply 10 cells with the conversion factor (10^4/ml):

10 cells x 10^4/ml = 1 x 10^5 cells/ml

Yay. Now we are almost done. Now, the LAST STEP.

5. This step is VERY IMPORTANT. We didn't do this in the report. Now, what we want to know is how many VIABLE CELLS ARE IN THE WHOLE CULTURE. Just now, we only calculated how many viable cells in ONE CORNER per ml. To get the number of cells for the whole cell culture (in the T flask, or petri dish), just multiply with the total volume of the culture. Let's say the culture in the T flask is 20 ml. So, the total of viable cells in the whole cell culture is:

1 x 10^5 cells/ml x 20 ml = 2 x 10^6 cells (see that the unit ml is cancelled off)

So now, your answer is the unit of CELLS.

In short, the formula is:

A x B x C x 10^4/ml

where A is the TOTAL CELL CULTURE VOLUME
B is dilution factor
C is the average viable cell => total viable cells in all FOUR CORNERS divided by 4
and 10^4 is the conversion factor from mm^3 to 1 ml.

Just a slight modification from what you have learnt in the lab manual.

PS. Do the same thing for dead cell count. Good luck in your lab test!

PPS. For the unit of conversion factor, if you want to delete the "/ml", it is okay. Dr Lim allows this. But if you do that, you also have to delete the "ml" in the total cell culture volume (A). Otherwise, you will find that you can't get "cells" as the unit.

PPPs. Some more, the example above assumes that we use only 1 chamber. If the question specifies that we use TWO chambers (so got 8 corners), then you have to do one by one. DON'T SEKALI GUS count all and divide by 8 like what we did in our report. After you do both, plus the both answers to get the total cells. Although the answer is the same as dividing 8 , Dr Lim insists on doing separately. Go ask her why yourself.



Source: Dr Lim and http://www.abcam.com/index.html?pageconfig=resource&rid=11454 .

Sunday, April 5, 2009

binatang liar series~

since the beginning of the sem, we've actually observed the lives of a new species of wild animals...

and here these are some of them.....


hands r actually nothing but just deco to make her looks normal, head is the substitute of hands for her

sleep like a bamboo in high places during summer to avoid heat

sleeping style during winter...with additional layer which is also the lab coat and moral notes in this case

oh, she use straw to drink, same as human...

told u edi, lab coat is used as shelter for winter, so din wear in the lab. drinking in the lab somemore, means they dunno how to read signs at the door...



til then, more observations have to be conducted for more of the life-style of the new species

BT Y2S1 Perak Campus


From top left:(KC, Chee Wah the top1 student, Goh Poh Tien, Leon, Candy, Lord aka Vincent Then, Clement Wong, Sanjaya, Neo, Siah, Xian, Yen Da, CM, Iyngaran)
Bottom from left: Manju, Angie, Bonnie, Monica, Kylie, YeeChan, Jenny, Jing Jing, Joselyn, Siet Teng.

Enjoy the photos. If anyone of you spotted anyone of them, please tell me. XD

p.s. Angie, Xian, KC, Chee Wah, Poh Tien, Jose and Vincent (they are couple) not available. Others all single and available XD

p.p.s. I do like selling my friends. =.=

p.p.p.s
What the hell is this? One pBR322 (left), another one is unknown (right). Insert size is 1.3kb. These are all after digestion, so how to map to determine the unknown? T.T

Saturday, April 4, 2009

我在kampar的生活

今天买猪肉送条葱~~~
本大人来个买一送一
po多一篇
这次让本大人来说说我在kampar总校的朴实生活~~~
嗯...首先说说环境..

kampar的太阳公公很有活力
所以...肤色黑了

kampar的雨小姐很有个性
所以...雨淋多了

kampar的空气应该比kl好
所以....鼻屎少了

kampar的牛粪很多
所以...我骑脚踏车的技术进步了

kampar的aunty uncle很热情
所以...我常常无端端被uncle aunty 搭讪

kampar的campus算大(加上我懒)
所以...开学到现在我只在学校食堂吃过一次饭...

嗯...
就是酱...
然后kampar真的没什么娱乐
没有mid-valley,没有times square,没有sg.wang
所以当然就没有red box,没有green box,没有gsc
最重要的就是....kampar没有mc.donald!!!!
最近的mc.donald在怡保!!!所以也没有delivery!!!
kampar去怡保要差不多半小时车程...
唉...

所以我们的娱乐就变成
打cs(自己跟自己打)
看anime(我还没有internet,只能永远重复看那几部)
去tesco散步
去tesco玩投篮机
去tesco k box唱歌(有很多马来歌)
去tesco杂志点白看人家的报纸杂志
养狗(养了一天结果狗跑掉了)
溜狗(就是狗自己溜掉了)
看牛
看月亮
看人
看山
看湖
看车
看虫
打篮球(可是最近篮球筐歪掉...不能投篮了...我怀疑是个胖子想灌篮的结果...)
在马路上打羽球(结果跌伤右脚)
在马路上打排球(3人排球...自创新的玩法)
骑脚车到处溜(刚睡醒骑车结果跌伤左脚)
去巴杀买菜
煮饭
种菜
吟诗作对,饮酒作乐(和中文系的学生去瀑布喝他们老师酿的酒体验诗人的风花雪月)
捉鱼(中文系老师说捉到一条赏RM10...结果我看到好几百块在握面前游来游去,可是我一条也没捉到)
开烧烤会(常常都有)
"围炉"(就是大家一起吃火锅的意思)
爬山(要上瀑布就要爬山)
玩水(瀑布)
去怡保几十年老店吃好吃的
半夜睡到一半被人挖起来骑脚车去喝茶
各种赌博(常常赌通宵)
拼酒(啤酒)
玩uno
玩pick up stick
研究"一棵鲜草长在牛粪上"
和蟑先生小强同学玩兵捉贼

这....就是本大人在kampar朴实无华的生活...

我housemate有plan周末去pangkor...
kampar去pangkor还蛮近的
所以有机会应该会去

msn怪谈

大家!!!本大人muzhi我又回来啦!!

总觉得这个sem大家都过得很辛苦

唉...我虽不能和大家一起并肩作战

但我的精神永远与大家同在!!

(怎么感觉那么像我去了卖某种咸咸的食物??)

choi choi choi!!!

回归正题,今天让本大人来po一点废话吧

话说...

难得有机会一面做assignment一面和tingting闲话家常的本大人

在msn上和tingting有一句没一句地聊着

聊着聊着我就问tingting要不要看看我做的assignment有几变态

然后tingting就说好

我就send过去给她看咯

怎知...她一直收不到

然后我们就开一个新的room

顺便add埋yongyong进来

然后就出现以下的对白了...











怕大家看不清楚,以下是文字版本:

穆祉=本大人 ;
≡〓‖天堂⑦号‖〓≡ = yongyong(草容) ;
Marilyn=tingting

穆祉 says:
ok? is everyone in?

≡〓‖天堂⑦号‖〓≡ says:
ok?

Marilyn says:
how cmoe got yong yong de?

穆祉 says:
i tot u said yongyong wanna in?

≡〓‖天堂⑦号‖〓≡ says:
cannot got me?

Marilyn says:
i cannot accept the file becoz got more than one person in the conversation

穆祉 says:
juznow dat conversation room only got me n u ah

≡〓‖天堂⑦号‖〓≡ says:
wat file?

穆祉 says:
got 3rd person meh????!!!

Marilyn says:
shi meh?

穆祉 says:
dun scare me!!!

Marilyn says:
got 3 ppl wo

穆祉 says:
huh?!!!!!!!!!!!!

Marilyn says:
really de

穆祉 says:
......

≡〓‖天堂⑦号‖〓≡ says:
-.-



所以从以上的对话我们可以总结出3个conclusion:

1. 灵异事件发生了
2.tingting看到我看不到的东西
3.就是....yongyong从头到尾都被我和tingting无视!!!最后只能以一个-.-表情作结尾~~

啊哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈啊哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈

所以虽然做assignment做到吐血,
可是我还是突然觉得很爽!!!哈哈哈哈哈~~~(嘴巴流着鲜血奸笑ing)