Saturday, December 3, 2011

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!


Monday, October 10, 2011

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!


Tuesday, July 5, 2011

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:❤❤❤

Monday, April 18, 2011

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.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Birthday bash!!

Harini ahli2 Lab Atas Kayangan Bukit sangat kekenyangan selepas menikmati dua biji kek Secret Recipe kerana meraikan kejayaan dengan tertangkapnya anak Cik Ti.. haha.. kesian Cik Ti, mesti dengan geramnya dia menyaksikan parti di bilik puaka rehat sambil menangisi kehilangan anaknya..(alamak, tiba2 rasa sedih pulak, huhu) Ok2.. stop it right there.. don't spoil the mood.. Ok the actual is party itu bukan untuk Cik Ti, tapi untuk kakak2 & abang2 yang telah pun berumur 30 tahun (jika dibundarkan kepada puluh yg terdekat..hehe..jgn mare :P)

The birthday girls and boys are Kak Aizi, Kak Iza, Abg Kheng Onn & Abg Hassan. Selamat hari lahir, semoga panjang umur and may God bless you :)

Now, let the photos speak.

Classic cheese cake & Chocolate moist cake yang sedang menunggu untuk dimakan.. pi mana ntah la si birthday boy sorang tu.. (see, ada 3 batang lilin)


Semua org dh kelaparan.. Ada yang dh x tahan lantas keluar makan kt arked meranti, budak2 docking pulak mkn nasi ayam dan xkurang juga yang melayan lagu Hindustan (sapa yer?) Kek menunggu lagi untuk dimakan...


Sampai pun orangnya. Eh2, pisau tu utk potong kek bukan kepala. Adakah itu hukuman untuk diri sendiri yg lambat?hehe


Bermula lah Birthday Bash Part 1 (mcm Harry Potter pulak ada Part 1 Part 2 ni)


Eh..xde acara tiup lilin ke? haha..buat pertama kalinya, terlupa nak pasang lilin. Cut! Start balik dgn scene meniup lilin.


Ni apa kes pulak ni.. org lain yang semangat tarik nafas, org lain yang tiup.. haha.. ape2 jelah


Birthday Bash Part 2 (oh no..lighter contam! selamat dah masuk perut..hihi)


Kheng Onn: Hmm..dah boleh tiup ke belum ni..dah ke belum ni..


Fuuuuu.....




One slice of cheese cake and one slice of moist choc cake mmg cukup untuk menggemukkan ahli2 Lab Atas Bukit. Esok cuti maulidurrasul, so beramai2 lah kita membakar kalori dgn berlari 2kali padang kawat (ni nasihat Prof). Birthday Bash kali ini kurang mendapat sambutan. Hmm.. kenapa ye.. ada yang tak nak makan pun, ada yg dah datang tapi keluar balik. Adakah kerana diet? Adakah disebabkan kelewatan si birthday boy? Andaian saya, kita semua dah bosan dengan kek secret recipe ni sebenarnya. Tapi hati masing2 men'deny'kannya sebab yelah kalau kek ni mcm cantik skit, ada tulis2 nama, boleh tiup2 lilin. Atau pun mungkin 2 kek dalam satu hari kurang praktikal. Setelah mesyuarat Senat diadakan, ada cadangan untuk mengadakan transformasi untuk sambutan hari jadi. Mungkin lepas ni kita sambut dengan Pizza Hut pulak, ataupun makan2 di restoran. Mungkin lebih praktikal. ye.. saya rasa lebih praktikal. Kalau dh mengidam sgt Secret Recipe, then baru beli.. Ok la mcm tu kan.. hehe..



Anyway Happy Birthday kepada org2 yang terlibat :)

Monday, February 7, 2011

Sesi Mengemas Sambil Menjerit. Sungguh Harmoni

Argh!

Lari2!

Tu dia tu dia, bawak meja!

Takpe2, bagi dia keluar...(selang 5 saat)...arghhhhhhhhhhh!

Amendelah korang ni  menjerit sampai melompat2, terkinja2 ni. Apehal? apa yang bawah meja? apa yg nak dikeluarkan?

Owh...ada "ahli lab terbiar" yg dipaksa keluar dari kediaman setinggannya. Tapi, kesian kat dia, dahlah dipaksa keluar, kena jerit plak tu! Sket2...argh! sana...argh! sini...main kejar mengejar sesama mereka. Sampai ada yg berdiri atas kerusi, penakut betol.ermmm...sape ek? heheh!

Hancinglah bau....yucks!

Rosak almari digeget oleh dia...dasar "ahli lab terbiar yang tak diundang"

Apapon tempat melepak sambil buat kerja dah berwajah baru hasil usaha mereka2 yg bertungkus lumus mengangkat, memunggah, mengemop (ada ke word ni?) sambil pakai baju yg cantik2 belake...especially pinky mopper (again...word ni wujud ke?).heh!

Ermm...mano gambornye? Heheh...xda sebenarnya. Baidura ada kan gambor? sila upload..heheh!

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Potluck Hutan Bandar Mutiara Rini

Assalamualaikum semua...

Aktiviti potluck ini sebenarnya dirancang untuk semua ahli L.A.B (Lab Atas Bukit). Tetapi kemudian bertukar kepada aktiviti gadis-gadis comel Geng Rumah Sewa (GRS) disebabkan memang kiteorg saja yang melibatkan diri.

*Potluck ialah sejenis aktiviti bertukar-tukar makanan antara kawan-kawan atau sesama kumpulan yang lain.

Tarikh aktiviti : Sabtu, 22 Januari 2011.

Lokasi penggambaran : Hutan Rimba Bandar Mutiara Rini

Aktiviti : Potluck, makan-makan, bergambar, bergossip, melapangkan fikiran yang kusut.

Menu adalah seperti berikut:

Jalan Palas: spaghetti, pudding Puan Aizi, ribena

Jalan Lumpit: Aiskrim buah-buahan, popia istimewa

Jalan 3/9: Anggur, Jambu air yummy-yummy

Alright. Let the picture do the talk.

hasil pinggan,mangkuk,cawan yang dibungkus kemas oleh kak Iza.


tempat parking kereta yang luas di hutan bandar mutiara rini. usah risau jika ingin berkonvoi datang ke sini.


Ahli rumah Jalan Palas. seorang yg sedang mengambil gambar ini dan seorang lagi belum tiba.


Ahli rumah Jalan Lumpit


Ahli rumah Jalan 3/9 (yang berbaju hijau)


jangan confius..kiteorg bukan di Mersing, tapi nama gazebo tpt kiteorg berpicnic ialah Laman Sri Mersing..lalala..


sesi bergambar yang mesti: 4 orang model bunga-bunga (yang sedang ambil gambar itu mewakili kumbang bewarna kelabu;))


bergambar di bawah gazebo (ya,saya baru tahu ada istilah 'gazebo'. ikutkan saya mahu gelarkan ia sejenis pondok/pangkin saja)


ahli GRS-complete!:)


selain makan dan amik gambar, kawan-kawan boleh bawa jurnal membaca kat sini. ada basikal juga untuk disewa.


masa untuk pulang...perlu berjumpa big boss..i'm comingggg...

jemputan vvip..sory tim, terpaksa pulang cepat sbb nk cepat.huhu..kena jmpe big boss..


Sekian. Time to sleep...zZz...