Sweet Escape (2) at Langkawi 2013 - Part 1

Hi, assalamualaikum..

Ini merupakan escape kedua kami, warga Labatasbukit ke sebuah lagi pulau di Malaysia.
Dua tahun lepas (2011), pulau Tioman berjaya ditakluk..kali ini geng bas sekolah Labatasbukit pergi ke Permata Kedah = Pulau Langkawi! Yuhuuu~

Alhamdulillah..tiket flight adalah tajaan Professor R yang baikhati lagi pemurah moga dimurahkan rezeki beliau lagi boleh taja next escape ke Pulau Sipadan pula..yeay! Ameen..ameen.

Untuk makluman, tiket flight sudah dibeli sejak hujung tahun 2012 lagi sementara Airasia ada promosi.
Asalnya, tiket JB-PNG one way is RM39 pada hari tertentu. Tapi we decided to stay for four days and three nights sebab Day 1 sudah burn tanpa aktiviti. Disebabkan jadual feri dan tiket feri ke Pulau Langkawi lebih kurang macam naik flight PNG-LGK, kami pun decided naik flight juga. So, kepenatan travel dapat dikurangkan.

Program: Sweet Escape ke Langkawi Island
Tarikh: 7 - 10 Mac 2013 (4 hari, 3 malam)
Tempat: Malibest Resort, Pantai Cenang, Langkawi, Kedah, Malaysia
Peserta: 10 orang warga Lab Atas Bukit (L.A.B)
Objektif: Mencari ilham, menikmati indahnya alam ciptaan Tuhan, mengeratkan hubungan silaturahim warga lab.
Motto: Sila datang dengan senyuman dan pulang dengan seribu kenangan:)

Day 1: Jusco Queensbay Penang, Malibest Resort.

Mendarat dengan selamat di bumi Penang.

Bertolak dari JB ke PNG 8.20am. Tiba 9.30 di airport Penang. Simpan bagasi kat airport sementara kami meronda bandar Penang (harga caj sewa letak beg selepas nego, RM70). Tak meronda sangat pun lah cuma ke Jusco Queensbay. Tengok citer Jack the Giant Slayer (jauh benor nengok wayangnya yaa).
 * Tips: susah nk dapat bas dr Jusco tu ke airport. So, ambil cab lagi senang. Kalau bernasib baik, kena caj RM20..kurang baik sikit, kena lah RM25.

10 orang semuanya + seorang lagi kesian tgh amik gmbr..hm, kalau cameraman-lab ada kn best..tak pun, kena hire cameraman luar bawa skali masa kita jalan2 ni.hehe. Tengah tunggu bas di luar airport PNG.

Flight ke LGK jam 4.30pm..sampai di airport LGK, menonong  terus ke kaunter kereta sewa. Pilih la mana  berkenan. Ada banyak pilihan agen kereta sewa dan kereta da ready kat luar airport pun.
Sewa vios and sentra sehingga kami balik ke JB, RM450. Ok kan? Siap dibekalkan dengan peta LGK.

Check in Malibest Resort. Sewa satu malam RM180 untuk double deluxe. Bilik agak spacious and comforter sangat lembut dan empuk..saya suka sangat-sangat^^. Ada ruang untuk solat yang cukup, berbanding penginapan kami di Tioman dulu kena solat atas katil. wuwuu.. Bilik girls ada connecting door..best best..:) Room service pun cepat dan efisyen.So, i recommend uolls datang sini.

Bilik gadis manis lagi ayu menawan dan jelita..^^ Ada aircond and kipas, tempat sangkut baju, peti ais, bath tub dan sofa.

Fig. 1

Fig. 2 Gambar ni bukan nak tunjuk ahli bilik, tapi nak beri overview pemandangan luar bilik tempat kami menginap ya..

Day 2: Makam Mahsuri, Underwaterworld, Oriental Village.
Abbas memang suka tempat sejarah. Adik-adik biasalah..sebagai kakak/abg2 kena pupuk minat terhadap sejarah di kalangan muda-mudi ni.

Inilah Abbas di Makam Mahsuri. Muka gembira bukan kepalang..da macam lawatan sambil belajar pulak..

Nak masuk bukan free ya..kena bayar RM7..haruslah, untuk biaya maintenance tempat ni. Jangan berkira sgt okey;)

Makam Mahsuri

Selesai meronda di Makam Mahsuri, kami ke Underwater world. Boleh rujuk jadual feeding time haiwan kat sana website underwater world. Bila kami datang around 11 am, ada staf staf sedang membersih tempat penguin dan beri makan. Comel sangat sangat sangat..! Rasa macam nak culik seekor penguin bawa balik tapi penguin tak survive suhu panas kat luar ni T_T sedih.

Underwater world. Nampak tak ikan yang anak panah kuning tu dikatakan 'mangsa fesyen'. Tapi warna dan coraknya cantik dan ia seolah-oleh ilham kepada jubah/kaftan yang sedang 'in' sekarang ni. :)

Oh, sebelum terlupa nak beritau tiket masuk untuk rombongan kak kiah bagi pelajar, RM22.
*Tips: Kad siswa atau matrik kad amatlah berguna untuk dibawa bagi tujuan lawatan seperti ini.

Lunch di warung sebelah jalan kemudian terus ke Oriental village di mana letaknya kereta kebal kabel yang menurut kak iza merupakan terpanjang di Asia (betulkan saya jka tersalah ya. *Punyalah malas nak cari info amik quote drp org lain je.lalalaa). On the way ke Oriental village, singgah di rumah api untuk bergambar kenangan.

Rumah api dan kapal mewah.

Tiba di Oriental village, solat jama' zuhur and asar. Ada surau disediakan. Beli tiket cable car RM15. Sila simpan dan jangan keluarkan kad pelajar kerana tidak bermakna apa-apa di sini harap maklum.
*Tips: kalau nak tengok sunset, datanglah petang-petang sikit..lepas asar ke.. kami tengok sunset kat dataran lang je..cantik juga sebab ada pantai untuk sesi photoshoot.:)

Ten of us. 10 sahaja yang berjaya melarikan diri. I love family potret^^ Gambar di puncak gunung. Angin nyaman sepoi-sepoi bahasa.

Kalau rasa nak stay lama kat atas ni (ada 2 perhentian), bawalah permainan sudoku ke..makanan nak berkelah ke..game truth/dare ke..novel ke..apa yang patutlah..boleh mengisi masa lapang. Masa kami pergi, jambatan gantung under maintenance. Rugi..rugi..rugi! Kena datang lagi nampaknya.. ;)

Ding dong ding dong..Day 3 and 4 sambung part 2 pula ok.
Mata da layu kuyu da..
tata! :)

Convocations!!

Hi, assalamualaikum..

Tiba-tiba rasa nk singgah jenguk L.A.B. yang semakin menyepi..

Maklum je lah..kebanyakan generasi awal semasa penubuhan labatasbukit.blogspot sudah melalui fasa hidup yang seterusnya, setelah menamatkan pengajian masing-masing.

Yang dulunya student Master, kini menyambung pengajian di peringkat PhD.

Yang dulunya student yang comot kini sudah berjaya bergelar Doctor of Philosophy.

Yang telah tamat PhD, menjadi post-doc pula.

Yang dulunya single mingle kini sudah berdua/bekeluarga sendiri, malah tidak kurangnya sudah bertiga (plus the babies^^)..

Ada juga yang sudah bekerjaya dan menjadi staff kesayangan majikan ;) ..

Alhamdulillah.

Yepp..seperti ulat bulu yang menjadi rama-rama, kita juga akan melepasi beberapa fasa dalam hidup.


Sebenarnya, nak cerita tentang konvokesyen..tapi intro terlebih.haha

Baiklah, ini gambar konvo yang dah lama tersimpan dah tumbuh kulapuk roti baru nak update..

From left: Dr. Anuar, Yusuf, Prof. Dr. Rosli, Hakimi, Dr. Aizi, Faizah, Izawati, Rabi'atul, Hasmaliana, Hafizah, 2012.

Prof. tersenyum happy dengan gelaran Datuk yang diterima^^

Geramnya..tembam sangat! Baby Irfan..=)

Our big family..love uolls!

p/s mungkin gambar di atas L.A.B perlu dikemaskini dengan generasi baru L.A.B yang ada sekarang ni.
Semoga momento L.A.B dan ikatan sesama kita ibarat double bond yang utuh dan tidak terpisah dek jarak dan waktu. Keep in touch!
(monolog sendiri: si penulis yang masih 'setia' di lab atas bukit..sigh ^^")

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Kenduri kawin intan..dan alkisah surat cinta.

assalamualaikum n hai uolsss..

bila kita nak ada aktiviti lab together gether lagi ea..
ummm.. tiba-tiba terasa nak update journey ke rumah GoIntan hari tu.

perjalanan bermula dengan mood gembira... tapi... di tengah-tengah perjalanan itu..tersebutlah kisah 'layangan surat cinta'..oleh..tuuuut..pak polisi..huhu

bergambar sebelum perjalanan bermula. lokasi tepi tasik indah nan permai, UTM.


singgah ke rumah ini untuk mengambil saya^^

tiba di rumah pengantin lelaki di Penyabong. ce teka ada apa dalam kotak hadiah tuuuu..

perut harus diisi terlebih dahulu..nasi n lauk dia memang sedap:)

pelamin nan indah~~mempelai bagai pinang di belah dua~~

❤family potret❤

Ibarat bunga dan kumbang..:D.
Lepas ni ada sekuntum bunga lagi dan beberapa bunga lain juga yang akan menyusul, bakal diculik oleh kumbang-kumbangnya..wink..wink..;) maka risaulah pemilik taman bunga ini nanti..*alamak, apa yang saya merepek ni~~

Orait. Tata!

Open house

Assalamualaikum n hai semua..

Malam ni tetiba rasa 'free'..mana tidaknya, big boss ke Melb..beliau siap pesan, 'sila bersuka ria sementara saya tiada (ke Aussie). Minggu depan saya nak tanya macam2 ye.' -_-

Raya da abis. Tapi rumah masih boleh dibuka untuk jamuan makan beramai-ramai. Tapi, jalan2 raya tahun ni tidak semeriah tahun sebelum ni. Mungkin semua orang sudah besar dan malu nak berjalan-jalan (hipotesis saya saja;)).

Petang tadi ke rumah Kak Lin..menu laksa penang dan briyani timbus. Sedap!:)

Family potret. Warga L.A.B bersama Kak Lin dan baby comel.



Bergambar bersama jiran-jiran lab.



Sebelum bertolak pulang.

Terima kasih kepada Kak Lin..semoga dimurahkan rezeki sekeluarga. Tahun depan jumpa lagi!

Sweet Escape at Tioman Island

hi, assalamualaikum semua..

Program: Sweet Escape ke Tioman Island
Tarikh: 2-4 Julai 2011 (3 hari, 2 malam)
Tempat: Tioman Paya Resort, Pulau Tioman, Pahang, Malaysia
Peserta: 14 orang warga Lab Atas Bukit (L.A.B)
Objektif: Menikmati keindahan alam ciptaan Tuhan/ mengeratkan hubungan silaturahim warga lab/ melarikan diri dari kesibukan kota/lab.;)
*Sila datang dengan senyuman dan pulang dengan seribu kenangan-abbas:)

DAY 1: Jungle trekking
bertolak dari JB ke jeti Mersing.
kepada yang telah menelan pil mabuk laut setengah jam sebelum bertolak, kesan pil terlebih dahulu dirasai ketika masih di darat lagi. kesannya, ada antara peserta yang pening dan mengantuk.

orait, lets the pictures tell you our story ya..

Gambar ketika di jeti Mersing dan ketika sampai di jeti Tioman Paya Resort. Menaiki feri Bistari 1. Mengambil masa 1 jam perjalanan untuk tiba ke destinasi. Tiada yang mabuk laut^^

Petang, aktiviti pertama-jungle trekking.. tiada org yang tunjukkan jalan. Pandai2 sendiri cari jalan dalam hutan tu..bernasib baik tidak sesat seperti yang pernah berlaku sebelum ni..(mencari telaga 7 di Langkawi;)) jangan marah kepada yang terlibat ye..:D


Orang kata, kalau pergi oversea harus ada gambar seperti ini-melompat di udara. Pergi Tioman kira over the sea juga la kn. Hiks;)


Pre-snorkeling..akibat excited nak snorkeling, semua orang dapat saguhati lepas balik petang tu. Kaki luka2, sampaikan terpaksa beli tambahan plaster walaupun sudah bawa first aid kit.


Ha..inilah tempat kiteorang pre-snorkeling. Yang berbatu-batu tu adalah keadaan selepas air surut. Mana tidaknya kaki dapat luka2. Hu.. T_T (actually,tempat ni memang tiada orang snorkeling dan ia bukan tempat untuk snorkeling pun).


Malamnya, selepas dinner bermain teka lirik sambil menghirup udara nyaman di tepi pantai. Peluang menonjolkan bakat nyanyian dan lakonan. haha. Sweeeeet..^^

DAY 2: Taman Laut/BBQ
Hari kedua adalah hari yang ditunggu..
Jelajah pulau menaiki bot nelayan..n snorkling yang sebenar!
But first, we need to buy some food (roti) to feed our 'friends' nanti..
Then, kami diturunkan di tempat beli belah-duti free..shopping souvenir: baju, keychain, magnet, chocs etc sebelum diterjunkan ke laut..hehe

Harga barang murah sedikit berbanding harga kedai biasa (am i right?) tapi ada yang kata, tpt duti free di Langkawi lagi murah berbanding di sini.

Nak dijadikan cerita, ada yang bawa RM10 je..kononnya hanya nak beli makanan untuk ikan. Terpaksa la membeli sambil 'mengukur baju di badan sendiri' haha. *bernasib baik ada yang bawa duit lebih tapi bukan jenis kaki shopping. so, pinjam dengan mereka da bole..:)

13 orang kiteorang plus 2 orang driver bot. Menikmati indahnya alam ciptaan Tuhan..

Snorkeling is great! Jumpa Nemo dan kawan2 di taman laut...:)


Pulau Renggis yang comel. 'Sin Island' dalam kenangan (fact: there are no such 'sin island' at tioman. it's just a name given by me. pls don't confuse and think bad 'bout it).


Taman Laut..heaven!


DSC TX5- i ❤ it;)
Macam iklan twister pun ada jugak.. jangan silap ye, ikan tak minum air twister, tapi mkn roti yang ada kt dalam tu..


Malamnya, masa untuk ber'bbQ'..ayam, sotong, udang, ikan..semuanya segar. yummy2..


Acara tukar hadiah. Masing2 bermuka ceria dengan hadiah daripada pemberi misteri;) Nice!

DAY 3: Last day

Masa untuk pulang. Menunggu feri yang tak kunjung tiba. Selamat sampai ke tanah besar jam 3 ptg waktu Malaysia:)


Alhamdulilllah. Selamat pergi dan pulang semula. Amazing holiday ever with labmates.
Trip to Tioman-memang berbaloi. ;)

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose -quote-

Looking forward for the next Sweet escape II. Maybe our reunion of LabAtasBukit?:)
With lots of love:❤❤❤

al-kisahnya...satellite colonies

The wise molecular biologist tells us the tale:

Once upon a time, a plasmid met a cell, and they struck up a conversation. Saith the plasmid, "Kind cell, I bring thee a gene for antibiotic resistance, and if you let me in, I shall repay you by showing you how to make an enzyme that might save your life one day." The cell replied with annoyance, "What use hath I for the likes of thee? My food is all gone, I'm freezing my pili off, and you think my biggest problem is antibiotics? Maybe you're just a selfish gene, looking for a cell to make copies of you. Begone!" The plasmid smoothed out his supercoils, dodged a DNase, and tried to think of a suitable reply.

Just then, a massive wave of thermal energy struck them both, and it was all he could do to not lose his footing, standing as he was on the cell membrane. The plasmid trembled, partly to distribute the energy uniformly to his vibrotational degrees of freedom, but mostly at the thought of how painful thermal denaturation might be. Fortunately, it was not coming to that. Not this time. The temperature was high enough to pop a few hydrogen bonds, and his strands were breathing a bit, but he was covalently closed after all. He could handle it!

The cell was not so lucky, however. His membrane, which had been reasonably firm to this point, began to swirl and form vortices, and lost its smooth surface. The cell had gotten used to the cold temperatures by boosting the fraction of short chain and unsaturated fatty acids in his membrane. While it gave the membrane a good consistency in the icy cold, it was completely wrong for this new, higher temperature. The van der Waals interactions weren't strong enough to maintain cohesion, and errant lipids were now leaping through the bilayer like divers at a mosh pit. Huge patches of the membrane were involuting, bringing massive gulps of medium inside. The cell was just seconds away from a complete membrane breach!

Then, as quickly as it had started, the problem was over. The buzz of thermal energy was drawn away by some unseen entropic sink, and dissipated. The membrane returned to its glassy-smooth state. The plasmid was now inside the cell, having been carried through the membrane in its moment of weakness, but the cell was too preoccupied to notice the uninvited guest. The cell was using his last remaining energy to bail out the excess liquid, and set his ion gradients to rights. When he thought he could do no more, that his determined course would be senescence and death, a warm flow of fresh medium restored his spirits.

"Ah! Tryptone, and yeast extract", he said as he gratefully derepressed half a dozen operons. His ribosomes got right to work, making the enzymes that would help to catabolize the new food source and restore the structure of the cell to full health. He almost exclaimed, "I thought Darwin had me for sure that time!" but being a cell with little memory he had already forgotten the privations of a few minutes earlier. Thirty minutes passed, and he found himself cast onto a wide surface that was warm and rich in nutrients.

"Not bad", he said. I could live like this for generations!" But then, the horrible sounds of dying cells reached him. All around him, his brethren were being killed by an unseen attacker. An antibiotic was there, and was destroying the entire population. Oh the humanity! He braced himself for death, but then ... nothing happened. He was alive!

"Remember me?", said the plasmid? "I told you that I might save your life one day, and now it has come to pass." The plasmid, which had gone unnoticed since the thermal catastrophe, had been copied several times and transcribed by the cellular machinery. It had provided a gene that encoded an enzyme that destroyed the antibiotic before it even got into the cell. Although more antibiotic was diffusing into the neighborhood, the enzyme was on the job, and prevented it from doing any damage.

"Yes, you were right", said the cell. "I am grateful that you transformed me, and now that I have a logical explanation for my good health, I don't have to develop survivor guilt either. Stick with me, plasmid, and I'll make sure you are provided with a high copy number."

The generations passed, and the cell divided many times. Each time there was fission, the two daughter cells received an inheritance of plasmid copies. There was widespread prosperity.

I would say "They lived happily ever after", but sadly that is not the end of the story. The daughter cells grew into a prodigious colony, and soon had destroyed so much of the antibiotic in the immediate vicinity that the real danger had passed. Some cells that had not perished in the original attack even managed to survive and grow nearby - little "satellite colonies" seeking refuge from the high levels of antibiotic elsewhere.

Then the cells in the big colony became lazy. The plasmid was not replicated to the same high copy number - it no longer served the interests of the cell to do so. Sometimes, daughter cells did not inherit even a single copy of the plasmid! As the colony aged and grew, the proportion of cells that carried the plasmid became less and less.

The colony actually believed itself to be quite progressive on this point. Some of the more strident cells even argued: "Why should young cells be forced to make enzymes that they don't need?" They said "We want to evolve higher order characteristics, not merely regurgitate the knowledge that served our great-great-great grandcell!" Before long it was unfashionable to carry the plasmid, though a few still did, but the colony grew faster without the added responsibility of the added synthesis.

One day, a toothpick scraped the colony from a plate and carried it high into the sky. "At last," the progressive cells thought, "we are entering a bold new era in which we are going to be able to realize our true genetic potential!" The toothpick was dropped into a tube of fresh medium. The fresh medium had fresh antibiotic.

What happened next is almost too horrible to tell. The cells that still carried the plasmid lived of course. They produced the enzyme that destroyed the antibiotic. The cells that had not inherited the plasmid were unworried at first, because they thought that a protective shield of enzyme could be built by the others, but being in liquid medium there was no hope for them. The antibiotic was not limited by diffusion, as it had been on the plate, and they were soon overcome.

The few wise cells that had not lost their plasmid went on to eternal storage in glycerol stocks, and were written about in books and famous journals. They were grown in huge 10,000 liter fermentation tanks, and provided with the very richest medium that had ever been made!

The end.