Southern Baptist leader on yoga: Not Christianity
practicing yoga is incompatible with the teachings of Jesus. Pat Robertson has called the chanting and other spiritual components that go along with yoga "really spooky." California megachurch pastor John MacArthur called yoga a "false religion." Muslim clerics have banned Muslims from practicing yoga in Egypt, Malaysia and Indonesia, citing similar concerns.

Jobs competition in Malaysia

Jobless in Malaysia only less than 3.5%
More challenge now because of demand for skills workers.
Local graduates are lacking in communication, English, confidence, not willing to go to the ground, less general knowledge, low analytical power, choosy (jobs&salary),.... these need to be looked after during they were in the university. Long life in exam oriented and computer oriented teaching make them lazy and sleepy. In fact in the university the lecturer must give them notes and the questions are from notes. They will rate this kind of lecturer high quality and later this lecturer will be promoted. The lecturer with high skills and experience are not in this list if they do not give notes to the students.
University should not become welfare department but a competitive institution to produce a quality and competitive graduates.
Jobs now become more international and demand for high quality candidates.

MOU UPM-LIPI di serap dalam rancangan lima tahun LIPI 2011-2015

Indonesia merupakan negara maritim yang luas yang mana sebahagiannya bersempadan dengan Malaysia. Lautan yang bersempadan juga merupakan sumber perikanan yang sangat penting yang perlu ditangani bersama. Antara kawasan penting menjadi isu sempadan ialah Selat Melaka, Perairan Kepulauan Riau dan Coral Triangle Initiative(CTI). Malaysia perlu melatih generasi pelapis bagi mengambil bahagian dalam bidang sains marin yang mana kawasannya lebih luas dari daratan. Perancangan dan tindakan yang bersungguh-sungguh perlu dilakukan segera.

Ahli-ahli sains LIPI menerima baik pandangan untuk berkerjasama tentang isu-isu sains marin di kawasan perairan sempadan Malaysia-Indonesia.Perbincangan lanjut berkaitan sains perikanan dan pencemaran bersama ahli sains, bekas menteri kelautan dan perikanan Prof. Dr. Rokhmin dan penasihat governor-governor juga bersetuju dan mengharapkan kerjasama ini akan berjalan dengan baik serta menunjukkan hasil yang cemerlang.
Selain dari perbincangan dan lawatan ke lapangan lautan, makmal ikan medaka juga perlu dibangunkan di LIPI bagi melengkapkan program pembangunan ikan medaka sebagai organisma ujian serantau seperti yang telah dibangunkan di Malaysia (UPM).

Mungkin pasukan berkuasa di Malaysia dapat menyambung idea dan perbincangan awal yang tidak formal ini kerana idea ini sangat penting bagi ke dua-dua negara. Bidang sains marin yang satu ketika dahulu menjadi kekuatan di Malaysia sudah berkurangan sekarang ini. Dalam proses transformasi yang sedang berlaku di Malaysia sekarang mungkin kesempatan untuk menguatkan semula bidang ini

Effective Teaching and Learning in Biology

Teaching biology is not limited in the class room only but also involve laboratory and field/out door. This make teaching and learning of biology are more interesting.
Some subjects need to be tested and analysed after they were explained in the lecture. The students will understand better after they some experiments in the laboratory.
[Pictures above show BGY3102 students discussed with Prof Ahmad Ismail on frogs identification, behaviour & ecology. Frogs were collected from hockey and rugby fields in UPM, 8.00-11.00 p.m. 4 October 2010 ]

Outdoor activities is a must for certain subjects such as biodiversity and ecology. Field biology is very challenging and interesting. Unfortunately this field now is not very popular among the young scientists. May be Malaysia can be a center for field biology in this region and probably can collaborate with advanced field biology scientists from USA, Japan and European. These countries are leading in field biology in the world. May be Malaysia can support Prof Ahmad Ismail in his international collaboration research on Java Medaka as testing organisms for coastal pollution, bio-logging in Milky Storks, False Gharial & crocodiles, Biodiversity of forest floor and canopy of tropical forest and few other topics. International scientists are fron Japan, USA, England, Scotland, Thailand, Iran, Indonesia and Singapore.

Understanding Culture: 1 Malaysia

Jamuan Hari Raya yang dihadiri oleh lebih 10,000 rakyat Malaysia telah diadakan di kediaman rasmi Yang Amat Berhormat Timbalan Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yasin. Sambutan hari raya adalah antara acara menyatukan umat manusia dan memahami budaya, pakaian, makanan dan amalan. Malaysia sangat bernasib baik dalam hal ini. Walau apa pun majlis dari majlis politik, kanak-kanak, anak yatim, acara sekolah, hari kebesaran, realiti TV dan berbagai majlis lagi, artis sentiasa diperlukan. Majlis ini misalnya di hiburkan oleh Dato A Rahman Hasan dan Datin Isterinya, serta beberapa artis lagi lama dan baharu yang saya tidak kenali. Tidak hairanlah mereka mempunyai ramai peminat, lebih di dengari dan dihormati lebih dari ilmuan-ilmuan.

Kelab Pencinta Alam Malayan Nature Society-Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia

Hari ini 3 October 2010 majlis penutup Kem Kelab Pencinta Alam selama 3 hari anjuran MNS, Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia dan di taja oleh Siemen telah di adakan di Bagan Lalang Selangor. Peserta di berikan pendidikan dan pengalaman tentang ekosistem hutan bakau, persisiran pantai dan isu-isu yang berkaitan. Para peserta kumpulan ini terdiri daripada murid sekolah rendah dari seluruh Malaysia. Program seumpamanya sebelum ini telah pun dijalankan bagi kumpulan sekolah menengah dari seluruh Malaysia Julai 2010 lepas. Majlis di sempurnakan oleh Prof Dr Ahmad Ismail, Penasihat Program Pendidikan Alam Sekitar MNS-Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia.

Where is Brainiest Place in Malaysia?

Tables above show top ten and bottom of braniest cities in America.
Where are the brainiest place to live in Malaysia.

Is brainiest place safe to live, comfort? Or enjoy?; harmony? OR full of corruption and unhealthy social activities?
Is brainiest place have people with creativity, thinking smart, intelligence society…etc…

How about University's Society? Full of "PHD"?