How to make students serious about what they learned in class, develop their interest and improve their understanding?

Borneo is important for biodiversity. Sabah have done a lot for forest and wildlife; orang utan, rhinocerous, probosis monkey, pygmy elephant & others

OR as a gateway to the forest and develop another conflict between wildlife, forest and business in ecotourism and forest products.

Detox, Herbs and Brain: important research now and future?

Herbs for brain, should we study in detail? Not just extracting but more biology, agronomy, clinical test and molecular study

Saving Energy and Bills Just for ceremonial campaign or reality?

How Eastern Spices Promoting Health. Why Western Food More Popular? R&D and S&T and Promotion?

Food Security: How Professors Can Contribute?

How to manage food security?

1. What are common food for the country, people and religion?
2. Plan for food supply and demand.
3. Look for the best seed, high quality, productive, fast production and good yield.
4. Look for the space, accessibility, suitable and locality for food storage, food processing and distribution. right type of plants and animals can be cultured.
5. Food harvesting and storage; technology and procedures.
6. Food processing, product and storage; including good practices (processing and management) for human consumption.
7. Food supply, redistribution and consumption; involving storage, transportation, quality and enough for the specific locality.
8. Quality food processing and production; pest, contamination and diseases.
9. Easy distribution for consumption; packaging, distribution, management and easy and friendly comsumption.
10. Finance, management and politic.

How far Muslim cares about Halal Food?

Maal Hijrah: How far muslim learned the lesson.

healthy detox

Which car do you like, Malaysian Car OR Imported Car?

Maal HIjrah and Economic Transformation Programme: Plan your Expenditure

Teaching, learning and assessment in the university involve lecturer and the students

I think I already mentioned about this university's functions only between students and the lecturers. We create a lot of things just to create jobs and problems so that we can divert the functions of lecturers and students in the university. Then the quality of graduates will be questioned. In order to solve the question, many formular and procedures were developed. Then another jobs, technologies, systems, space and others will be established. Basic needs in good university only quality lecturers and good students. But how far we focus on the quality lecturers and good students? We are actually talking a lot on the supporting staff. Are they helping?, are they working?, do they know what are they doing? Finally the academician wasting time looking at them rather than the students.

Budaya menipu dan meniru di kalangan mahasiswa di universiti.

Sukar dibendungi, membuang masa dan mencabar Kewibawaan pensyarah.
Pelajar tipu assigment. Dengan meniru, cut & paste, tipu data penyelidikan, mengupah orang menulis tesis, dan meniru semasa peperiksaan.
Berbagai cara menipu dan meniru semasa peperiksaan. Talipon, SMS, nota dalam tangki air toilet, tulis nota di betis dan lengan, dalam kain, tudung, termasuk tuala wanita, label botol minuman, etc. Kenapa ini berlaku? Asas budaya rahsuah? Sistem tidak kemas? Kaedah pengajaran dan penilaian tidak sesuai? Atau apa?
Integreti pensyarah dan pelajar penting atau apakah kerana ganjaran untuk pensyarah tidak seberapa? Mungkin sistem penilaian perlu berubah. Kesan kepada negara masa hadapan seperti rasuah, tiada integriti, rendah moral dan menjual negara.

Why Mathematic make mathematician busy?

When we face a problems, mathematician always thinking what is the problem and why the problem occurs. Mathematician usually make all sort of assumptions why the problems occurred, analysed the causes, make a conclusion and solve the problems OR they create more problems. When more problems occurred then make the mathematician more busy and a lot more assumptions created. This make mathematic alive, dynamic and continuously interesting to study.
Long time a go I have learned about mathematic develop human personality. Today I learned that mathematic make mathematician busy.

Kawasan tadahan air, keperluan air bersih, banjir, pencemaran, carahidup dan sikap manusia, pentadbiran, politik, perniagaan dan pakar

Sejauh mana rakyat dapat berfikir, prihatin dan mahu berubah kepada cara hidup kelas pertama masih perlu didebatkan. Bagi orang-orang Islam, Ada al Quran sebagai panduan asas, Hadith nabi sebagai ikutan, alim ulamak sebagai rujukan. Adakah ini Sudah dimasukkan dalam kamus kehidupan.

Pentadbiran dan pengurusan akademik

Seperti yang pernah saya tuliskan dahulu dalam blog ini, ternyata masih ada konflik antara bahagian pendaftar dan ahli akademik, antara kepakaran dan perlaksanaan. Cuba lihat bagaimana kehendak profesor pendidikan berkaitan pengajaran, seolah-olah kerja pensyarah hanya mengajar. pensyarah mesti memenuhi keperluan pengajaran, bahan, teknik dan pemantauan pengajaran. Memadai pensyarah tahu kaedah, teknik, strategi dan pendekatan yang diperlukan dalam pengajaran, tidaklah perlu dipantau, dinilai dan diuji lagi. Pensyarah tahu apa yang nak diajar, nak dicapai dan kualiti yang diperlukan ditahap kurikulum yang disediakan. Pensyarah ada banyak kerja yang nak dilakukan; pengajaran, penyeliaan, penyelidikan, penerbitan dan pengembangan. Pendaftar mesti tahu polisi, kehendak polisi, misi naib canselor dan matlamat serta peranan universiti. Semua pensyarah perlu melengkapkan dan memperkasakan penyelidikan agar banyak pengetahuan dan pengalaman yang boleh diberikan dalam pengajaran. Pensyarah yang mempunyai pengetahuan yang baik, persediaan bahan pengajaran yang menarik dan mampu berinteraksi dalam kelas menarik minat pelajar dan memahamkan mereka.

Banjir di Kelantan, Terengganu dan Pahang. Adakah suatu tradisi atau bencana?

Peristiwa banjir di pantai timur semenanjung bukan baharu malah berlaku setiap tahun. Sudah tentu rakyat Kelantan, Terengganu dan Pahang Sudah cukup pengetahuan dan pengalaman untuk bersiap sedia menghadapi bencana alam. Sistem penyelamatan, perpindahan dan bantuan Sudah mantap. Tempat pemindahan Sudah di sediakan. Pengalaman ini sepaptunya di teladani seluruh rakyat Malaysia.

Facebook can change your life style, relationship, economy, communication, thinking and time management.

Unfortunately in some occasion Facebook can destroy your family life by develop time and distance between husband and wife, develop new relationship or refresh old feeling which might cause unstable husband-wife relationship and divorce, comparing life and economic status which may cause stress in your family, etc. What ever it is, think positive and value science contribution in communication.

Anugerah cemerlang sebagai satu cara pengiktirafan dan ganjaran kepada kejayaan murid. Mungkin saintis muda bermula di sini

OBE=Outcomes Based Education still under discussion. BUT How Far It Is Effective?

Not all oil are dangerous OR not all fat not important to our body

Can sports bring people together OR scientist can unite countries?

Dilema Profesor berjawatan di Universiti Malaysia

Kenapa profesor mesti buat kerja seperti mandor dan dispatch boy?
Apakah sistem pentadbiran di universiti lemah dan tidak mampu mengendalikan prosidur dan kerja rutin.
Profesor hanya sebagai pemikir, perancang dan pembuat polisi untuk kejayaan sesuatu jabatan atau fakulti. Profesor perlu ada KPI sendiri, penerbitan, penyelidikan, pengajaran dan pengembangan. Pelaksanaan polisi dijalankan oleh pentadbiran dan dipantau perjalanannya oleh profesor. Di Malaysia mungkin berbeza di mana ketua jabatan dan dekan menjalankan tugas pentadbiran sepenuh masa.

Proton servis untuk kereta baharu sahaja?

Proton bernasib baik kerana dilindungi kerajaan. Apakah dengan kualiti servis, sikap kakitangan, jenis pengurusan dan sistem yang ada cukup kompetitif dengan bengkel Persendirian yang bertaburan di sekitar pusat servis proton yang megah dan serba canggih itu.

Perhaps Agrotechnology Park Can Help Hawkers

University's research and extension programme should participate in the Agrotechnology Park Project. The coordinator of the programme should include universities.

How we can predict what is inside, numbers, taste, colour, texture, etc. by looking at the outside.

Definately we need to understand the biology of this fruit, the shape of the fruit and its genetic.

Agrotechnology Park

To day I have the opportunity to visit Agrotechnology Park in Selangor. I was invited by one of the participants in the park. After looking at the activities and future plan, I am not too sure the direction of this park is right. I think it will be just another agrorecreational park where people will go for fishing, picking fruits, eat durian and probably for training location for agricultural students. If the project go on as planned. I suggest the land should be given to those Who are capable to develop technology in agriculture. If the land already rewarded to the companies, I suggest they should collaborate with the universities. Many experts in the universities could help them. The technologies developed in the park not only can be used by the entrepreneurs but for the student training centre. This will help to achieve the government mission towards modern agriculture.

CTI (Coral Triangle Iniciative): Can we lead?

Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI): If Malaysia want to lead in CTI, we need to equip our self with experts, organisation structure, leaders, facilities, networking and strategies. Otherwise we are just following or entertaining others.

Landscape jiran: kesan kepada jiran

1. Tanam pokok; akar pokok menjalar ke bawah rumah jiran, retak lantai dan dinding rumah, daun gugur ke kawasan rumah jiran, jadi sampah dan halang cahaya matahari.
2. Tanam pokok menjalar di dinding rumah boleh menyebabkan akarnya menembusi dinding rumah jiran.
3. Tanam pokok berair, air bertakung untuk nyamok bertelor. Masalah nyamok aedes dan denggi.
4. Tanam pokok menjalar dan rimbun di tanah tempat tikus dan ular membiak.
5. Tanam pokok berduri, tersangkut akin cantik jiran dan tetamu. Bayangkan jiran yang diabetik, bila luka, akan berikan kesan yang lama.
6. Kolam air terjun mini yang boleh menyerap air ke dinding rumah jiran.

Jiran jenis ini amat bodoh, mementingkan diri tanpa bertimbang rasa dengan jiran sebelah.

Justeru itu bagi orang muda yang masih siuman dan boleh berfikir jangan jadi macam orang tua yang dah tak mampu pikir lagi, bertimbang rasa dan nyanyok dalam Hal merekabentuk landskap rumah teres.

Top sale: WHY people buy?

How to promote your academician

Academic excellence depending on the academician. BUT why academician still complaining?

Simple answer!
1. we do not set the policies, procedures and assessments.
2. we have the opportunities for no. 1 but we give to others to dictate us.
3. evidence: in the university for example, deans and deputy dean do not attend important meeting that involve no. 1. therefore the decision made not according to the academician needs.
4. many meetings become instruction and follow orders, so deans and deputy dean just become the message delivery.
5. the victims are always lecturers. lecturers are competing to fulfill their own uncertain KPIs (always changing depending on whos ideas).

Therefore The Academician need to be Strong and Justified!

LIVE on TV3 talking on Extreme Rain in Malaysia, Worries and actions 16 November 2011 5-6 p.m.

Thank you Fizah for the picture in your fb.Picture with Ahmad Fidtri (moderator) dan Norzie Pak Wan Chek (Producer)after show.

toxic chemicals and food supply: Ecotoxicology play roles

Students must understand the system in the university so that they can perform in the university and achieve their mission

To day \i met the students to explain about the system that they are in now and prepare for excellence.

Research University: Publication, students lecturer ratio, number of post graduate students, postdoctoral students, government old prosedures,...

some old professors still informing that the number of staff in world class university is far higher than our top university in the country. Then we still want to compare their number of post graduate students, number of publication published and the quality of their undergraduates.
Our leaders need to expose not just visiting top university as a tourist and implement it in our local universities.

Health, obesity and fitness. Malaysia no six obesity in Asia?

university's functions in teaching, research and knowledge transfer must be seen, known and followed

Professors teaching students = knowledge transfer.
Professors supervised students = knowledge transfer.
Students graduated teaching others = knowledge transfer.
Professors involving public and industries = knowledge transfer.
Professors leaders must think hard to appreciate professors contribution in knowledge transfer programme (KTP).

Peranan belia masa hadapan melalui kefahaman dan persediaan sekarang. Mereka perlu dipimpin

3rd international symposium on oryzias fishes finished

Symposium tamat dengan jayanya. 2013 symposium Akan diadakan di Menado, Indonesia. Tahniah penganjur dan pelupor kajian ikan medaka di rantau ASEAN prof. Dr Ahmad Ismail.

Birthday celebration: thanks, challenges and respect

Tun M still popular among the old and the young

At UPM yesterday Yang Amat Berbahagia Tun Dr Mahathir gave his lecture on "Dilema Ekonomi Bangsa Malaysia". The Dewan was full with young educated Malaysian, professors and entrepreneurs. On his way out of Dewan Besar UPM, we can see clearly how the young generation respect and appreciate Tun M.

Academic culture in the university

University's functions to produce intellect, thinker, philosopher, profesionals and leaders. Therefore students must have continuous and systematic exposure to develop students to be an intellect, thinker and leaders. In the university it is a students right to demand knowledge, freedom to think to achieve the university's mission producing a quality graduates that are competitive globally. Probably students must have more seminars, forum, organising conferences, essay competition and presentations during their study in the university. Academic culture in the university can develop creative students, leaders, high competitive spirit, entrepreneurs and professionals.

More Educated Profesionals needed to manage and heading administration, research and development in Malaysia

Are We Serious in Teaching English at School level? English still needed in cyberworld.

How to produce real local's first class graduates?

1. Get good students for the first year in all programmes, not only CGPA and grades but good in English proficiency too.
2. Teaching and learning style. More discussion, presentation, assignment need to be given to the students. Not just listening and smiling in the class and the discussions are dominated by the lecturer.
3. Students must be given opportunity to speak and freedom in thinking and giving opinion on the issues discussed in class not just cut and paste from websites. Free discussion in class make students more matured.
4. Learning burden need to be assessed so that the students have ample time to study and involve in other social activities.
5. Lecturers have time to discuss with the students so that more knowledge are well transferred, not just communicating through SMS, email, fb or notes on the door. The universities must recognise lecturer-students contact hours, not just publications in high if journals and h index.

Why Not many scientists involve in solving government issues? Eg. Government transformation programme.

Mainly economist, social sciences, historian, religious department and not many scientists were asked to participate.
May be in Malaysian still think that scientists mainly teaching in schools or universities. From now on Malaysian must change and think that scientists are researchers in their field. Government can ask their advice or opinion in the government transformation programme.

Ladies, beauty, sacrifice, foot, shoes, stand, walk and run.

Daily Hazards to Women

Unity of races, culture and nation under ONE Religion ISLAM. Now World can see Muslim gathering in Mecca.

Budaya dan Sikap Pelajar Universiti Tempatan Berbanding Luar Negara: Kenapa Berbeza?

Hari ini saya mendapat dua komen perbandingan tentang kualiti pelajar universiti pra siswazah dan siswazah.
komen pertama tentang pelajar prasiswazah bidang kejuruteraan. dua pelajar yang belajar dalam kelas yang sama semasa tingkatan lima dahulu. seorang di universiti tempatan dan seorang lagi di luar negara. yang dalam negara hanya bergraduan dengan kepujian biasa manakala yang luar negara bergraduat dengan kelas pertama. mereka membandingkan kurikulum dan proses pengajaran dan pembelajaran dikedua-dua universiti. Komen mereka univesiti tempatan terlalu banyak nak dibelajar dan kaedahnya macam sekolah tinggi manakala kandungan mata pelajaran di luar negara kurang berbanding universiti dalam negara tetapi mereka mempunyai masa yang lebih dalam amali, kertas kerja dan kreativiti. Malangya lulusan dalam negara pula mendapat gaji yang kurang berbanding dengan luar negara. Ini tidak hairan kerana orang melayu memang begitu, kalau tak masakan semua orang boleh tingal di Tanah Melayu (yang dah tiada lagi) dan lebih berjaya dari orang Melayu sendiri.
Perkara kedua ialah tentang pelajar ijazah lanjutan. Ramai pelajar ijazah lanjutan tidak atau takut memcuba yang baharu. Mereka lebih suka meniru atau mengulangi kajian yang telah berulang kali dilakukan oleh orang lain. makanya kita tidak dapat menujah penemuan baharu dalam bidang-bidang tertentu.

Mungkin kaedah penyelesaiannya kita mesti menukar dan membuat penilaian semula kaedah pengajaran dan pembelajaran, mengiktiraf professor dengan memberikan pendedahan antarabangsa dan sistem penilaian yang lebih mantap. Kerjasama dengan universiti terkemuka luar negara perlu di tingkatkan agar kita dapat membandingkan perlaksanaan pengajaran, pembelajaran dan penyelidikan universiti tempatan dan luar negara bagi kedua-dua pra siswazah dan pasca siswazah.

Ibadat kurban, peluang perniagaan, sains & teknologi, peraturan dan undang-undang

1. Bayangkan setiap tahun berapa ribu ekor lembu disembelih dalam masa Hari raya korban sahaja.
2. Lembu-lembu yang disembelih adalah berumur antara dua hingga tiga tahun.
3. Korban lembu adalah suatu ibadat bagi orang Islam.
4, Aktiviti korban makin Bertambah Dari tahun ketahun. Rakyat makin berada dan kesedaran makin tinggi. Justeru itu permintaan lembu makin Bertambah.
5. Projek menternak lembu Akan menjadi lebih berdaya maju dan menjanjikan peluang perniagaan yang menguntungkan.
6. Sains dan teknologi sangat diperlukan bagi menghasilkan lembu yang sihat sesuai keperluan lembu korban dan menjamin keperluan.
7. Kajian berterusan tentang lembu Dari segi pembiakan, permakanan, tumbesaran, kesihatan, ruang ternak, jaringan pasaran dan kejuruteraan sangat penting dan diperlukan.
8. Agensi kerajaan perlu melihat perkara ini dengan serius dan menyelaraskannya.
9. Keperluan agama dan masyarakat mengatasi perniagaan dan budaya serta upacara.
10. Satu sistem, peraturan dan undang-undang perlu Ada sebelum terlambat apabila Malaysia menjadi sebuah negara maju dengan masyarakat yang supercyber.
11. Kecukupan keperluan, murah, sihat, tiada penyakit berjangkit dan memenuhi keperluan syariah dan masyarakat perlu dipantau khas oleh agensi kerajaan dari segi pemantauan, penasihatan, kecukupan permintaan, peraturan dan undang-undang.

Cocoa, Chocolate, Malaysia and China: Business Opportunities

We do not look forward with what we have. We follow orders blindly. We should develop our confidence, use science to think and move forward. Human should be better than ants and rats. They do not have upstream and down streams industry. Historically we are leading in rubber, oil palm, cocoa and pineapple. Now chocolate in high demand in China. How we are going to champion in this.Millions of Chinese like to eat, drinks, swallow chocolate.

Selamat Hari Raya Kurban: another culture, believe, practice, conflict on biodiversity and conservation, economy and science

May be we need to have a farm of buluh lemang or buluh lemang sanctuary for orang asli. No proper management of buluh lemang, high demand, culture, tourism, high income, wastage and promotion of food festival and culture, one day buluh lemang will be like buluh tumpat. very difficult to get, expensive and create another issues of protected forest destruction.

design your direction right and move towards it. when people are talking about success, health and safety, some are trying to divert other attention!

Ecologists are always alert with what happening and what will happen in the specific ecosystems. history, function and the equilibrium are important for the ecosystem. Monitoring, assessment and management of the ecosystems are continuously needed.Freedom, supply and demand, democracy, dominant, prey and predators,leadership, respect, cares and laws are in the ecosystem. Why for human freedom and democracy cannot learn from the stable and equilibrium ecosystem. Perhaps they need to ask the ecologists.