International Exposure Needed For Our Young Scientists

If we are serious about internationalisation of our young scientists, we have to expose them to high class international meeting/conference/seminar. The seniour professors must supervise them AND the professors must be appreciated for his/her effort. The institution must provide fund. They do not go for holiday but to learn, observe, develop contact, ideas, confidence and motivation.

Hottest careers of the next decade

The Jobs of the Future

Occupations with the largest percentage growth expected through 2018:

• Biomedical Engineers 72%
• Network Systems Analysts 53%
• Home Health Aides 50%
• Personal, Home-Care Aides 46%
• Financial Examiners 41%
• Medical Scientists 40%
• Physician Assistants 39%
• Skin-Care Specialists 38%
• Biochemists, Biophysicists 37%
• Athletic Trainers 37%

In develop countries main public demand will be quality food, good health and save environment to live. Due to their failure (or lack of awareness) during developing their countries by contaminate their environment for good economic values, contaminate their food for high yield, now their generation have to pay a lot for quality food, healthy life style and medication. Biology and ecological based research and knowledge are still needed. Science education is still important. These are the young generation future jobs.

Singapore Straits oil spill enters Malaysian waters

Published: Thursday May 27, 2010 MYT 9:02:00 PM
Oil spill enters Malaysian waters


JOHOR BARU: The oil spill caused by a collision involving the tanker, MT Bunga Kelana 3, and bulk carrier MV Waily in the Singapore Strait, about 13km southeast of Changi East last Tuesday, has spread into Malaysian waters.

Johor Department of Environment director Dr Zulkifli Abdul Rahman said the spill measuring 1,600-metre long and 960-metre wide, was now 960 metres from the Tanjung Ayam beach in Pengerang, Kota Tinggi.

"Currently, the Southern Region Marine Department is in the midst of preventing the spill from reaching the beach," he said in a statement here Thursday.

He said the 'boom' or equipment to prevent the spill from spreading had been installed. - Bernama
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"The Malaysian-registered tanker MT Bunga Kelana 3 was carrying nearly 62,000 tonnes of crude when it collided Tuesday with the MV Waily, a bulk carrier registered in St Vincent and the Grenadines"

About 2,500 tonnes of crude had leaked from a gash on the double-hulled tanker's port side, port officials said.

Double-hulled tankers are designed to limit spillage in case of a rupture.

"Singapore is one of the world's leading ports, with data from the port authority showing the island-nation handled 472 million tonnes of cargo last year, with bulk oil cargo constituting 37.5 percent of the total"

Harapan Berputik

Hari ini atau minggu ini ibubapa ke sekolah mengambil kad laporan kemajuan anak-anak dan berjumpa guru-guru belajar untuk menjadi guru di rumah.
Inilah dilema masyarakat Malaysia, ibubapa adalah segalanya; menjadikan anak, melahirkan anak, membesarkan anak, mengajar anak tentang kehidupan, akademik dan kokorikulum.
Disamping itu menghantar anak-anak kesekolah untuk diajar oleh guru, ke surau untuk diajar oleh pak imam dan bermasyarakat.
Ringkasnya ibubapa segalanya dalam menjadikan anak seorang manusia yang sempurna fizikal, keilmuan, kemahiran dan spiritualnya.
Amat malanglah anak-anak yang tidak mempunyai ibu bapa atau ibubapa yang terlampau sibuk mencari rezki keluar awal pagi dan balik lewat malam.
Beruntunglah anak-anak yang mempunyai ibubapa yang mempunyai banyak masa untuk memberikan tumpuan kepada kemajuan mereka.
Daripada kepelbagaian latarbelakang dan corak kehidupan ibubapa dan keluarga menghasilkan kepelbagaian dalam generasi masa hadapan.SIAPA YANG AKAN CORAKKAN GENERASI AKAN DATANG DAN APAKAH RUPA MASYARAKAT GENERASI AKAN DATANG YANG AKAN TERJADI ATAU YANG KITA MAHU. GURU ATAU IBUBAPA ATAU KOMUNITI ATAU KERAJAAN. ....ATAU CUKUP BULAN DAPAT GAJI!!!

Green Campus

Steps in the Process
• Commitment – get buy-in at the top and at all levels
• Inventory – collect energy, emissions and disposal
data & establish a base case
• Action Team– involve key players in the Team
• Brainstorming – evaluate all options. Perform life
cycle analysis. Look for funding from federal, state and
local utility programs, and third party sources.
• Action Plan – develop a short (1- 5 yrs.) and long
range action plan (10 to 50 yrs)
• Implementation – put your plan to work
• Monitoring – create indices and measure your
progress
• Communicate &Recognize –publicize and reward
success

Sejauh mana semangat alumni dapat menyokong membangunkan universiti yang pernah memberikan ijazah kepada mereka

Sekarang dengan ijazah ditangan graduan sudah berkerjaya. Apakah yang mereka dapat menyumbang kepada universiti mereka. Bukan sahaja bantuan kewangan tetapi juga tenaga, peluang, publisiti, program "kampus hijau" dan lain-lain. Bagaimana guru-guru di sekolah alumni Universiti dapat menyumbang disamping membangunkan diri sendiri....BUKAN MLM!!!!

What Fomer Prime Minister Said about Langkawi

LANGKAWI O' LANGKAWI
By Dr. Mahathir Mohamad on May 17, 2010 5:17 PM

1. I used to sail in the Mediterranean sea and visited the islands there. They were all very bare. There were a few trees growing in between bare rocks.

2. Coming back I appreciated our green islands more. And the greenest of them all (to me at least) is Langkawi.

3. But I am afraid it is getting less and less green now.

4. We like to blame the developers for cutting down the tree. And I think they should be blamed. But in Langkawi we see people, mostly locals I think, who quietly burn down the undergrowth and sometimes the trees as well, so they can plant bananas and other fruit trees. They do this on the hillsides normally.

5. As a result when it rains, muddy water which used to be trapped and the flow slowed by the bushes now come down in torrents.

6. If the hillsides continue to be cleared, there will be landslides soon.

7. A Langkawi that is not green won't be much of an attraction, I think.

8. My blog seems to have some effect. The straightening and widening of the north south highway, as well as the cutting of trees have now stopped. All praise be to Allah. Thank you JKR.

9. I had lunch on the rocks at Tanjung Sanctuary. This is an old hotel but the new owner has completely refurbished. No trees were cutand you pass through a real forest to reach the chalets and the restaurant.

10. I was there when the hotel was started almost 20 years ago. This was my second visit and the ambience is fantastic. Very restful.

11. O Langkawi - may it always be green. In my years as Prime Minister nothing gave me so much pleasure as developing Langkawi. It still gives me the same pleasure.

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Perhaps all locals need to be educated on the values of Langkawi as an ecotourism attraction and destination. People go to Langkawi not just to buy free duty products but to enjoy nature - trees, cocunuts, corals, beaches and eat seafood. The locals need to promote nature instead cutting trees for "pisang rebus" and ubi bakar" eat with "nyok kukoq". May be UPM (Universiti Putra Malaysia) can help Langkawian together with LADA.