It's the penultimate day of the year and a lot has happened in 2017, especially in the past two months. I'm not sure if this is a characteristic of aging, but time has been flying past really really fast lately. And every day in my last working week felt like a week in itself with insufficient time to complete what I had planned for the day.
Showing posts with label studies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label studies. Show all posts
Saturday, December 30, 2017
Monday, April 24, 2017
Organisational Culture
Like a typical Gen-Y, I have had my fair share of job hopping (not as many as some I know though). And what I've noticed is that although organisations are made up of individuals working together, there was an unmistakable difference in corporate culture in each organisation. It isn't just working style, but age spread, dressing and even physical attractiveness.
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Linking risk management with news
I must say that the syllabus and reading materials I've been exposed to has helped me to gradually see how risk management comes into play in many situations. For example, the United Airlines incident a couple of days back where a passenger was dragged out screaming and injured, forced to leave on an overbooked flight - the first thing I thought of was that there was a lapse of controls.
Monday, November 14, 2016
Health & Wellness week
I knew it was not a good idea to have a toffee nut latte after dinner and this is the consequence - a wee hour post.
The good thing about smaller organisations is that corporate initiatives can be done in a more intimate setting. We had our Health & Wellness week a couple of weeks back. I for one, was quite excited to see how the plans would pan out after hearing the first mention of this in management meetings and then seeing the proposal papers come through. The objective was for us as an organisation to walk the talk as well as to reduce our medical claims.
The good thing about smaller organisations is that corporate initiatives can be done in a more intimate setting. We had our Health & Wellness week a couple of weeks back. I for one, was quite excited to see how the plans would pan out after hearing the first mention of this in management meetings and then seeing the proposal papers come through. The objective was for us as an organisation to walk the talk as well as to reduce our medical claims.
Thursday, May 07, 2015
Learning of the day
Before I forget. Yesterday I learned a new word, well actually I learned to spell the word. It's quite common for me to use a word in speech for so long and not know how it's spelt.
This time, the word was "pored". As in 'he pored over the maps and guides in anticipation of his next trip'. All along I thought this word was spelled p-o-u-r-e-d! I don't know why I thought that, maybe the mental image of a person all absorbed in reading and like his eyeballs are "pouring" (as in the forward tilt head position) over the book etc.
Yeah, so sometimes imagination is WRONG.
This time, the word was "pored". As in 'he pored over the maps and guides in anticipation of his next trip'. All along I thought this word was spelled p-o-u-r-e-d! I don't know why I thought that, maybe the mental image of a person all absorbed in reading and like his eyeballs are "pouring" (as in the forward tilt head position) over the book etc.
Yeah, so sometimes imagination is WRONG.
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Cheating and Starting Again
It's been almost a month since my disappearance! Oh how time flies! Here's an IOU note for my 12 days of happiness in Japan (I hope I'll have the time and mood to work on it this weekend).
Anyway what spurred me to pick up and continue on with my 100 days of thankfulness, was my joining a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) where one of the first things mentioned was to "rewire" my brain - changing to a positive mindset. The exercise was to list down 5 things I'm thankful for every day - which coincidentally was what I've tried to do for the past month or so (with the exception of the hiatus). It would be difficult in the beginning but would become more fluid as time goes by and this would be the sign that a rewiring was taking place.
So in order to have a clean start, I've decided to drop the backlog days I've missed after my return from Japan (that's about 14 days worth of thankful posts). To a new start of self improvement!
Anyway what spurred me to pick up and continue on with my 100 days of thankfulness, was my joining a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) where one of the first things mentioned was to "rewire" my brain - changing to a positive mindset. The exercise was to list down 5 things I'm thankful for every day - which coincidentally was what I've tried to do for the past month or so (with the exception of the hiatus). It would be difficult in the beginning but would become more fluid as time goes by and this would be the sign that a rewiring was taking place.
So in order to have a clean start, I've decided to drop the backlog days I've missed after my return from Japan (that's about 14 days worth of thankful posts). To a new start of self improvement!
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Failing Isn't As Bad As I Thought
This post is late by 3 weeks.
I finally got my results for the last 2 IQS ICSA papers I took in early June - the last, just a day before flying off to Manchester.Somehow at the back of my mind, I thought that I would be able to make it through. I was just hoping for a teeny weeny pass in Corporate Financial Management and in fact I was more doubtful about my Corporate Administration results.
In the end, I passed CA and failed CFM by a scale of 6-10 marks. When I saw the results on my laptop screen, I didn't feel anything - not happy, not sad, not anything. It was weird. I'd thought I would break down and cry in front of the whole office, but I didn't. Not even when I had to announce it to everyone in our weekly operations meeting an hour or so later. In fact I was able to MSN message, SMS, FB message and e-mail my other course mates, informing them of the online release of the results and adding a (;P) to the texts!
I tried analysing my feelings with anyone who would listen. And they all said that it was probably because exams weren't that important to me anymore. So failing wasn't a life-shattering event. And the funniest thing is... I've told almost everyone that I failed my CFM paper (when it is something that I "should" be ashamed of). In fact, my close friends were more worried for me than I was for myself!
Well anyway, I'm taking comfort (if any) in the rumour that CFM had only a 10% passing rate for this sitting. Which means every 9 out of 10 candidates failed the paper. I wonder if 'that certain someone' failed the paper too? Well, we shall see on 30th November...
Above all this non-reaction towards failing, I really thank God for enabling me to pass CA when I was so sure that I would fail it because I was writing whatever that came to my mind and made sense and they were basically the same points for practically every question. And I'm also thankful that He had prepared my heart to accept my results gracefully. I'm glad that despite me creating new financial theories and P&L analysis techniques in the short span of three hours of the answering time allocated, the examiner did not throw out my paper or give me negative marks (below zero)! Well, next time I'll try harder and if I have to think up of new financial theories again, I promise to make them more realistic and logical! ;P
I finally got my results for the last 2 IQS ICSA papers I took in early June - the last, just a day before flying off to Manchester.Somehow at the back of my mind, I thought that I would be able to make it through. I was just hoping for a teeny weeny pass in Corporate Financial Management and in fact I was more doubtful about my Corporate Administration results.
In the end, I passed CA and failed CFM by a scale of 6-10 marks. When I saw the results on my laptop screen, I didn't feel anything - not happy, not sad, not anything. It was weird. I'd thought I would break down and cry in front of the whole office, but I didn't. Not even when I had to announce it to everyone in our weekly operations meeting an hour or so later. In fact I was able to MSN message, SMS, FB message and e-mail my other course mates, informing them of the online release of the results and adding a (;P) to the texts!
I tried analysing my feelings with anyone who would listen. And they all said that it was probably because exams weren't that important to me anymore. So failing wasn't a life-shattering event. And the funniest thing is... I've told almost everyone that I failed my CFM paper (when it is something that I "should" be ashamed of). In fact, my close friends were more worried for me than I was for myself!
Well anyway, I'm taking comfort (if any) in the rumour that CFM had only a 10% passing rate for this sitting. Which means every 9 out of 10 candidates failed the paper. I wonder if 'that certain someone' failed the paper too? Well, we shall see on 30th November...
Above all this non-reaction towards failing, I really thank God for enabling me to pass CA when I was so sure that I would fail it because I was writing whatever that came to my mind and made sense and they were basically the same points for practically every question. And I'm also thankful that He had prepared my heart to accept my results gracefully. I'm glad that despite me creating new financial theories and P&L analysis techniques in the short span of three hours of the answering time allocated, the examiner did not throw out my paper or give me negative marks (below zero)! Well, next time I'll try harder and if I have to think up of new financial theories again, I promise to make them more realistic and logical! ;P
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Romantic Side of Corporate Financial Management
Last weekend's CFM class was weird. This is one of the things we learned:
I know they're just finance jargons, but if I'd read this statement a year ago, I'd never have made sense out of it! And I would have thought it was some sort of medieval chivalrous story! hahaha
Plus I discovered that those advertisements we see in newspapers announcing rights issues or any other securities placements are called "Tombstone ads"
Defences against hostile bids
1. Seek a white knight
2. Dispose off the crown jewels
3. Include anti-takeover provisions in the company's Articles of Association
4. Poison pill tactics
5. Public lobby
6. Make a counter offer for predator company
I know they're just finance jargons, but if I'd read this statement a year ago, I'd never have made sense out of it! And I would have thought it was some sort of medieval chivalrous story! hahaha
Plus I discovered that those advertisements we see in newspapers announcing rights issues or any other securities placements are called "Tombstone ads"
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Of more cheerful stuffs...
Did I happen to mention that I passed two of my four ICSA exam papers? Praise the Lord! I'm overjoyed with my results - I was expecting a scrape through "Pass" but instead, the Lord blessed me with a "distinction" in Corporate Secretaryship and a "merit" in Corporate Governance! It's bizarre because honestly, I thought I'd done really badly in Corporate Secretaryship after walking out of the exam hall!!! Truly by God's grace that I have survived my first 2 papers! Amazing!
So there's just 2 more papers to sit for in early June 2010! These would be the "killer" papers, as everyone terms them. And the ironic part is that I have no idea what I've been learning from the 3 lecturers in charge of these 2 subjects. Ok, to be fair, Uncle Chee did clearly show us how to attempt the calculation questions. But after the classes, I tried scanning through part A of the past year question papers and... I could only answer like, 1 out of 10! This is alarming! I'll be needing plenty of God's grace come June! =)
So there's just 2 more papers to sit for in early June 2010! These would be the "killer" papers, as everyone terms them. And the ironic part is that I have no idea what I've been learning from the 3 lecturers in charge of these 2 subjects. Ok, to be fair, Uncle Chee did clearly show us how to attempt the calculation questions. But after the classes, I tried scanning through part A of the past year question papers and... I could only answer like, 1 out of 10! This is alarming! I'll be needing plenty of God's grace come June! =)
Friday, January 29, 2010
It's not so Boring and Greek after all...
For the past two weekends I've been attending Corporate Financial Management (CFM) classes. The first lecturer we encountered was Dr Harvey Gill. He eased us in to the toughest ICSA subject - it isn't too bad (yet) and lots of memory work which we're supposed to have already done during Financial Accounting (and which I can't remember a single thing). His advice was to read The Star Biz section everyday and The Edge weekly publication. When we met the other CFM lecturer (whom Dr Harvey calls 'Uncle Chee'), he recommended the same thing, besides reading a finance reference book.
So, I've been trying to read Star Biz this past week. Honestly, I've never finished reading the whole section yet. I'm always just getting through to the first 5 pages before I'm somehow disrupted everyday. Initially I thought I'd have to read with a computer in front of me, so that I can look up the business jargons on Investopedia.com but I've grown lazy and just try reading as much before falling asleep! The partially unread Biz sections are piling up in my room - I only flick the Biz section from office because I don't think anyone reads that part.
Anyway, my point being that it's true what Dr Harvey said. He said we would first find it such a chore to read the Biz section but after a week, we will start getting interested. Personally I found that it's getting interesting because I see all these company names which I've either seen on billboards or buildings or product labels etc which were only words to me before, but now I get to see what drama is happening behind their boardroom doors! With all the announcements these PLCs have to make to Bursa Malaysia according to the Listing Requirements, we get to speculate whether the company's in the pink of health or not.
And the current EON Cap takeover bid by Hong Leong... Interesting... I'm actually seeing (oh well, reading actually) what I studied in my previous ICSA courses, in action. All the procedures, EGM, permission from Bank Negara, MSWG etc. Hope this interest lasts (at least till June!). ;)
So, I've been trying to read Star Biz this past week. Honestly, I've never finished reading the whole section yet. I'm always just getting through to the first 5 pages before I'm somehow disrupted everyday. Initially I thought I'd have to read with a computer in front of me, so that I can look up the business jargons on Investopedia.com but I've grown lazy and just try reading as much before falling asleep! The partially unread Biz sections are piling up in my room - I only flick the Biz section from office because I don't think anyone reads that part.
Anyway, my point being that it's true what Dr Harvey said. He said we would first find it such a chore to read the Biz section but after a week, we will start getting interested. Personally I found that it's getting interesting because I see all these company names which I've either seen on billboards or buildings or product labels etc which were only words to me before, but now I get to see what drama is happening behind their boardroom doors! With all the announcements these PLCs have to make to Bursa Malaysia according to the Listing Requirements, we get to speculate whether the company's in the pink of health or not.
And the current EON Cap takeover bid by Hong Leong... Interesting... I'm actually seeing (oh well, reading actually) what I studied in my previous ICSA courses, in action. All the procedures, EGM, permission from Bank Negara, MSWG etc. Hope this interest lasts (at least till June!). ;)
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Emptiness Syndrome after Study Cessation
As of 1745 hrs on December 4th, 2009 I was freed from the pressure of studying for my ICSA Corporate Governance and Corporate Secretaryship papers. (Not that I actually suffered much from that pressure, in fact I effectively ignored it and am hoping I won't need to learn the hard way)
So what did I do to celebrate this "MERDEKA!" of mine? I went shopping with mom. I don't know whether the shops were just plain uninteresting or I was still in the post-exam state of mind, but somehow, I didn't really relish it. However, I did buy a blouse from Forever 21 on 'credit mom' and so, am broke again before the month has even reached its maturity. Great work SM!
Again, as with all the past examinations I've sat for, I've got the post-examination emptiness syndrome. It's a directionless feeling I feel when I suddenly stop studying (after the culmination of the exam) after routinely cramming for an exam for a period of time. It's that loss of momentum that throws me out of balance. All the wonderful plans I was dreaming up to realise after the exams suddenly disappear into thin air! Maybe they were just that proverbial "carrot" that I subconsciously dangled in front of my eyes as motivation. Haha... the wonders the mind can do!
December will be a good month for meeting friends and family. Although that sounds like a Zodiac Star prediction, I do really think December will be lovely. Christmas is coming and there'll be people to meet, meals to eat and... some plans to make.
More to come when time allows!
So what did I do to celebrate this "MERDEKA!" of mine? I went shopping with mom. I don't know whether the shops were just plain uninteresting or I was still in the post-exam state of mind, but somehow, I didn't really relish it. However, I did buy a blouse from Forever 21 on 'credit mom' and so, am broke again before the month has even reached its maturity. Great work SM!
Again, as with all the past examinations I've sat for, I've got the post-examination emptiness syndrome. It's a directionless feeling I feel when I suddenly stop studying (after the culmination of the exam) after routinely cramming for an exam for a period of time. It's that loss of momentum that throws me out of balance. All the wonderful plans I was dreaming up to realise after the exams suddenly disappear into thin air! Maybe they were just that proverbial "carrot" that I subconsciously dangled in front of my eyes as motivation. Haha... the wonders the mind can do!
December will be a good month for meeting friends and family. Although that sounds like a Zodiac Star prediction, I do really think December will be lovely. Christmas is coming and there'll be people to meet, meals to eat and... some plans to make.
More to come when time allows!
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Online Bible Study, Anyone?
I was reading past posts, back from the days before I started university, and found that I used to sound so kiddish! (maybe I still do... haha). It got me thinking - I used to mention full names in my posts, so this blog isn't as anonymous as I'd perceived it to be. Anyway, I'm not in the habit of going back into my archive and editing away the slips of information that I may have unwittingly leaked. So, que sera sera for whoever that discovers this blog and happens to guess who I am. I think I can rest assured that I did not flame anyone using their full name in the same post.
OK, moving on to the next topic. I've signed up for an online Bible study, where a study helper is assigned to you and he or she sends you lessons (from a fixed curriculum) via e-mail. I'm currently in my third lesson now. I've never seriously taken Bible study before (well, with the exception of that one short stint in UM, where I just could not concentrate on what my 'teacher' was teaching... feel bad for wasting her time). Anyway, what I was trying to get at here was that I find the WBS (World Bible School) lessons interesting - relevant to what I'm searching for. However the tougher part is the discussion questions, where I really need to evaluate what are my beliefs (and me not used to analysing my own heart) and searching for more understanding online. However the thing that I like about this is that I am not under pressure to memorise and answer the questions correctly within a short time frame. The time factor also allow me to phrase my questions properly before sending the reply e-mail.
OK, moving on to the next topic. I've signed up for an online Bible study, where a study helper is assigned to you and he or she sends you lessons (from a fixed curriculum) via e-mail. I'm currently in my third lesson now. I've never seriously taken Bible study before (well, with the exception of that one short stint in UM, where I just could not concentrate on what my 'teacher' was teaching... feel bad for wasting her time). Anyway, what I was trying to get at here was that I find the WBS (World Bible School) lessons interesting - relevant to what I'm searching for. However the tougher part is the discussion questions, where I really need to evaluate what are my beliefs (and me not used to analysing my own heart) and searching for more understanding online. However the thing that I like about this is that I am not under pressure to memorise and answer the questions correctly within a short time frame. The time factor also allow me to phrase my questions properly before sending the reply e-mail.
Monday, May 05, 2008
FOUR months absence
wow, i really can't believe it's been four months!!! a whole semester of no blog activity... this just shows how preoccupied i've been this semester (my final semester as a Biochemistry degree student)
however, i must say that this has been the busiest, most stressful semester ever! the fact that i had 3 biochem lab sessions per week with all the lab reports to write, contributed alot to the 4am sleep regime... and for some reason, my piers (referring to those 3 other intelligent girls whom i hang out with all the time) decided to produce QUALITY lab reports this semester. what i mean by QUALITY reports is that "thou shalt not reproduce thy senior's report and hand in as thy own report"... as is the common practice among many public uni science students (i have no idea of the situation in private colleges etc... perhaps it's the same?) therefore, one report would take at least 1 day for researching the topic and and at least another day to actually physically write out the report and i almost forgot, the use of excel to analyze the data and print out the graphs!!!
as busy as i've been this semester, i believe i've learned alot this semester... especially in the use of MS office suite (in particular: words, excel, powerpoint) and DNA analysis programs such as chromas pro, MEGA 4 and geneious pro... plus my image editing skills have finally come into good use in the production of my thesis and oral presentation slides... not that i want to brag or anything, but i really think that first impressions are very important when you're trying to present something... from the way you present your data to the uniformity of your presentation slides and the aesthetics of your slide organizations to the language you use... it all plays an important role in how your audience will perceive your presentation or work. unfortunately, many science students (from what i've observed among my course mates and through the intervarsity biochemistry seminars i've attended) fail to recognize the gravity of first impressions.
so now, i'll commence on to the major item which took up alot of my time and concern for the past few months... my final year project... i can't remember whether i've blogged about this before... but my final year project was giving me alot of problems since i started on it... and all the results finally came tumbling in when our dateline for ending the lab sessions was way past its due and when the thesis writing dateline was approaching at break-neck speed... but THANK GOD for that!!! Really truely praise God!!! a specific instance would be during one of our (me and my lab mate) overnight stints in the Antarctic Lab... we were trying to optimize our PCR conditions, conducting more than 10 runs on that night itself, but not getting any results... multiple bands, multiple bands but none with the size we desired... my partner (which is the brilliant one among the 2 of us) with sleep-deprived swollen eyes had already expressed her defeat and since she was out of ideas, i suggested we try a PCR profile which i pieced together using the "mini mini miney moe" technique (a.k.a pin the donkey's tail blindfolded)... and after we put the PCR tubes into the thermal cycler, i prayed and prayed and prayed (silently) that we'd have a band at 1.5 kbp... and at last, my prayer was answered when we saw that beautiful band at 1.5 kbp (amongst multiple bands) on our ethidium bromide stained agarose gel!!! it was our eureka moment! (although it wasn't a break through discovery or anything important in actual fact...) but yeah, that was a really miraculous event that can only be attributed to God answering my prayers!!!
after that miracle, the project progressed in quite an uninterrupted productive flow... with an occasional stumbling block here and there. but evidently, the project went quite well as i've gotten through my oral presentation and have finished my thesis (to be submitted tomorrow). for the first half of the duration, we (my partner and i) were so worried and our mentor (a PhD student) and supervisor were already thinking of changing our project title... and one really 'encouraging' PhD student (not our mentor) told us not to worry, we could always extend our project work to the special semester (which would delay our graduation)... however, thankfully everything went well and to completion.
at first i thought since i wasn't 'the one who made the big decisions' in this project, i would have difficulties writing my thesis... so i just wrote what i understood and could think of... but to my surprise, i received positive comments (among some criticism) on my results and discussion section (which is the core of the thesis) from both my mentor and supervisor. however, this led me to think whether they thought it was well-written because of the content, or because of my writing style... again, i'm not trying to brag but i'm more confident in my writing skills than with my scientific thinking skills... so lies the undecided balancing scale of content and writing style over my head... (i'm actually having the "timbang" image in my mind!) therefore, i really cannot gauge that the positive comments will get me an A... i really hope i can get an A, since it's an 8 credit hour course!!! but my supervisor is not known to be a lenient evaluator... so i shall have to wait and see and receive my grades gracefully.
as for my oral presentation, i somehow lost all my concerns when i went up to present... it was really weird... since i have a very real phobia of public speaking... but my 'matter-of-fact' behaviour caused me to accidentally skip mentioning an important point in my introduction on PHAs and also i finished my presentation before the 8 minutes bell (we were given 10 minutes to present). so i'm not sure whether they will penalize me on that... anyway, i think it went quite smoothly... Praise God!!!
oh, i think i forgot to say what my project is about... the title is 'Genetic Characterization of the Polyhydroxyalkanoate Synthases in Two Pseudomonas Isolates from Antarctica'. so basically we ran PCR to amplify the PHA synthase gene and then we sent the fragments for DNA sequencing. since the DNA sequencing only can sequence around 500 bases in one run... we had to design a primer to conduct gene walking (which is the process where primers are designed so that we can sequence an entire gene step by step). we did not sequence the entire gene, but we managed to sequence the 1.5 kbp and part of the 1.3 kbp fragments ampilifed using primers designed by Solaiman in his 2002 journal paper. i know it doesn't seem like much but the sequencing and PCR reagents were really expensive, in fact our project has exceeded the rm500 per person budget which was allocated to all project students. i think i can safely say that our project cost could have even exceeded rm2000... but thanks to the generosity of our mentor, she used her grant to pay for the DNA sequencing etc.
hmm... as can be seen, my final year project has been a major part of my life for the past few months... my last exam of my final semester was on saturday... i only had 3 papers this semester and 'post-exam pre-results' comment would be that i didn't come out of the exam wanting to cry... so i know that i won't fail and probably could get at least B's for these papers... but of course it would be better if i could get A's (pray, please pray, pray...)
i haven't started looking for a job yet... i'm kind of worried since i'm not too sure about what i want to do... ads and writing really interest me, but i don't have the formal training in those fields... however, sometimes i see myself doing postgraduate studies but i fear i lack the discipline to work on my own schedule to finish masters by 1 year and PhD by 3-5 years. and i don't know much about finance and investments to determine whether i'm suitable for that field... this is bad... too fickle
in the meantime, i'll be taking a computer course on web designing using flash and dreamweaver... it'll be starting next week and i'm really excited about it... since i've always wanted to learn flash (whether i'll be good at it is another story)... i think i've blogged about this before...
gosh, i'm so hungry now... i think i'll stop here... i don't know when i'll blog next... my blogging pattern has been pretty erratic... maybe i'll blog tomorrow or it could be 5 months time... i don't know.
however, i must say that this has been the busiest, most stressful semester ever! the fact that i had 3 biochem lab sessions per week with all the lab reports to write, contributed alot to the 4am sleep regime... and for some reason, my piers (referring to those 3 other intelligent girls whom i hang out with all the time) decided to produce QUALITY lab reports this semester. what i mean by QUALITY reports is that "thou shalt not reproduce thy senior's report and hand in as thy own report"... as is the common practice among many public uni science students (i have no idea of the situation in private colleges etc... perhaps it's the same?) therefore, one report would take at least 1 day for researching the topic and and at least another day to actually physically write out the report and i almost forgot, the use of excel to analyze the data and print out the graphs!!!
as busy as i've been this semester, i believe i've learned alot this semester... especially in the use of MS office suite (in particular: words, excel, powerpoint) and DNA analysis programs such as chromas pro, MEGA 4 and geneious pro... plus my image editing skills have finally come into good use in the production of my thesis and oral presentation slides... not that i want to brag or anything, but i really think that first impressions are very important when you're trying to present something... from the way you present your data to the uniformity of your presentation slides and the aesthetics of your slide organizations to the language you use... it all plays an important role in how your audience will perceive your presentation or work. unfortunately, many science students (from what i've observed among my course mates and through the intervarsity biochemistry seminars i've attended) fail to recognize the gravity of first impressions.
so now, i'll commence on to the major item which took up alot of my time and concern for the past few months... my final year project... i can't remember whether i've blogged about this before... but my final year project was giving me alot of problems since i started on it... and all the results finally came tumbling in when our dateline for ending the lab sessions was way past its due and when the thesis writing dateline was approaching at break-neck speed... but THANK GOD for that!!! Really truely praise God!!! a specific instance would be during one of our (me and my lab mate) overnight stints in the Antarctic Lab... we were trying to optimize our PCR conditions, conducting more than 10 runs on that night itself, but not getting any results... multiple bands, multiple bands but none with the size we desired... my partner (which is the brilliant one among the 2 of us) with sleep-deprived swollen eyes had already expressed her defeat and since she was out of ideas, i suggested we try a PCR profile which i pieced together using the "mini mini miney moe" technique (a.k.a pin the donkey's tail blindfolded)... and after we put the PCR tubes into the thermal cycler, i prayed and prayed and prayed (silently) that we'd have a band at 1.5 kbp... and at last, my prayer was answered when we saw that beautiful band at 1.5 kbp (amongst multiple bands) on our ethidium bromide stained agarose gel!!! it was our eureka moment! (although it wasn't a break through discovery or anything important in actual fact...) but yeah, that was a really miraculous event that can only be attributed to God answering my prayers!!!
after that miracle, the project progressed in quite an uninterrupted productive flow... with an occasional stumbling block here and there. but evidently, the project went quite well as i've gotten through my oral presentation and have finished my thesis (to be submitted tomorrow). for the first half of the duration, we (my partner and i) were so worried and our mentor (a PhD student) and supervisor were already thinking of changing our project title... and one really 'encouraging' PhD student (not our mentor) told us not to worry, we could always extend our project work to the special semester (which would delay our graduation)... however, thankfully everything went well and to completion.
at first i thought since i wasn't 'the one who made the big decisions' in this project, i would have difficulties writing my thesis... so i just wrote what i understood and could think of... but to my surprise, i received positive comments (among some criticism) on my results and discussion section (which is the core of the thesis) from both my mentor and supervisor. however, this led me to think whether they thought it was well-written because of the content, or because of my writing style... again, i'm not trying to brag but i'm more confident in my writing skills than with my scientific thinking skills... so lies the undecided balancing scale of content and writing style over my head... (i'm actually having the "timbang" image in my mind!) therefore, i really cannot gauge that the positive comments will get me an A... i really hope i can get an A, since it's an 8 credit hour course!!! but my supervisor is not known to be a lenient evaluator... so i shall have to wait and see and receive my grades gracefully.
as for my oral presentation, i somehow lost all my concerns when i went up to present... it was really weird... since i have a very real phobia of public speaking... but my 'matter-of-fact' behaviour caused me to accidentally skip mentioning an important point in my introduction on PHAs and also i finished my presentation before the 8 minutes bell (we were given 10 minutes to present). so i'm not sure whether they will penalize me on that... anyway, i think it went quite smoothly... Praise God!!!
oh, i think i forgot to say what my project is about... the title is 'Genetic Characterization of the Polyhydroxyalkanoate Synthases in Two Pseudomonas Isolates from Antarctica'. so basically we ran PCR to amplify the PHA synthase gene and then we sent the fragments for DNA sequencing. since the DNA sequencing only can sequence around 500 bases in one run... we had to design a primer to conduct gene walking (which is the process where primers are designed so that we can sequence an entire gene step by step). we did not sequence the entire gene, but we managed to sequence the 1.5 kbp and part of the 1.3 kbp fragments ampilifed using primers designed by Solaiman in his 2002 journal paper. i know it doesn't seem like much but the sequencing and PCR reagents were really expensive, in fact our project has exceeded the rm500 per person budget which was allocated to all project students. i think i can safely say that our project cost could have even exceeded rm2000... but thanks to the generosity of our mentor, she used her grant to pay for the DNA sequencing etc.
hmm... as can be seen, my final year project has been a major part of my life for the past few months... my last exam of my final semester was on saturday... i only had 3 papers this semester and 'post-exam pre-results' comment would be that i didn't come out of the exam wanting to cry... so i know that i won't fail and probably could get at least B's for these papers... but of course it would be better if i could get A's (pray, please pray, pray...)
i haven't started looking for a job yet... i'm kind of worried since i'm not too sure about what i want to do... ads and writing really interest me, but i don't have the formal training in those fields... however, sometimes i see myself doing postgraduate studies but i fear i lack the discipline to work on my own schedule to finish masters by 1 year and PhD by 3-5 years. and i don't know much about finance and investments to determine whether i'm suitable for that field... this is bad... too fickle
in the meantime, i'll be taking a computer course on web designing using flash and dreamweaver... it'll be starting next week and i'm really excited about it... since i've always wanted to learn flash (whether i'll be good at it is another story)... i think i've blogged about this before...
gosh, i'm so hungry now... i think i'll stop here... i don't know when i'll blog next... my blogging pattern has been pretty erratic... maybe i'll blog tomorrow or it could be 5 months time... i don't know.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Are university students actually environmentally concious?
i'm studying biochemistry. i have 70 plus course mates of which the majority of them are taking a course called environmental biochemistry. it's a third year course but in my opinion, it is a relatively easy (no... manageable) course. why do i say this? it's because the biochemistry part (which involves certain biogeochemical cycles and molecular structures of pollutants) of the course is just half of it. the other half is about how pollutants actually pollute the environment, ways we can remedy and prevent further damage (which for me is eye-opening and easy - because most of it is common sense) and also learning what 'biodegradable' really mean - how this term has been rampantly misused in commercial world. many of my course mates do not like this course because the lecturer is temperamental at times and will not bend to accommodate you. but aside from that, i would think it would be a very practical course to take as it relates directly to our lives, unlike many other biochemistry courses where the main focus is biochemical processes of a minute part of our body. yes it does relate to us but sometimes you can get a little lost in all the glucose transporters, second messenger systems and major histocompetibility complexes that you tend to forget that these stuffs are actually in every one of us humans and other living organisms.
anyway, all the ramblings above leads to the following scenario which i witnessed with my very own eyes. my friends and i were walking up the 'hill' to lecture halls complex and ahead of us were another bunch of our course mates. we were going to attend our last lecture on environmental biochemistry. we were drinking milo form those green paper boxes and i saw one of my course mates (from the group ahead of us) throw the milo box into the drain!
i know that our faculty doesn't have dustbins at every corner, but they do have 2 to 3 dustbins on every floor of all the buildings... would it mortally hurt you to hold your rubbish for a couple of paces more to a dustbin? i guess there's always a thrill of breaking the rules... but it's just so ironic that a university student that has just finished a course in which she learns exactly what can be biodegraded throws a cardboard box which has plastic lamination and bits of other plastic materials into the drain without casting a thought on how it would clog the drainage system and contribute to the already too-foul-to-breathe stench of the faculty of science! and this behaviour from one whom i've known since form 6 and she, a city slicker!
anyway, all the ramblings above leads to the following scenario which i witnessed with my very own eyes. my friends and i were walking up the 'hill' to lecture halls complex and ahead of us were another bunch of our course mates. we were going to attend our last lecture on environmental biochemistry. we were drinking milo form those green paper boxes and i saw one of my course mates (from the group ahead of us) throw the milo box into the drain!
i know that our faculty doesn't have dustbins at every corner, but they do have 2 to 3 dustbins on every floor of all the buildings... would it mortally hurt you to hold your rubbish for a couple of paces more to a dustbin? i guess there's always a thrill of breaking the rules... but it's just so ironic that a university student that has just finished a course in which she learns exactly what can be biodegraded throws a cardboard box which has plastic lamination and bits of other plastic materials into the drain without casting a thought on how it would clog the drainage system and contribute to the already too-foul-to-breathe stench of the faculty of science! and this behaviour from one whom i've known since form 6 and she, a city slicker!
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
It's all in the head
it's really ironic how all day i can think of so many things to blog about but when i'm actually sitting in front of the computer, all my thoughts are gone... so now, i'll just start with what i did today... hopefully it'll lead me to remember what i wanted to blog about initially.
i started the boron calibration last friday and it was so demotivating!!! the procedure involved evaporating the standard solutions on a steam bath (which took about 4 hours for 100ml standard solution), refluxing the dried standard in a muffle furnace at 550 degrees celcius for 1 hour, adding acid to dissolve the residue, centrifuging the resultant solution, adding 2 drops of concentrated HCl and 10ml concentrated sulfuric acid, waiting for the solution to cool down, adding the carmine reagent (which was practically concentrated sulfuric acid with red carmine powder) and waiting for 45 minutes for full colour development before taking its absorbance reading on the spectrophotometer. (see how long the method is!!!) on thursday after i'd finished the phosphorus calibration, i tried reading the SOP (standard operation procedure) for the boron calibration and half way through the procedures, i came across this phrase "... and triturate with a rubber policeman to dissolve." at first i couldn't believe my eyes, i thought i was seeing something wrong... what do policemen have to do with calibration methods? so i asked the lab technicians and they too didn't know what it was about... in fact, everyone had a good laugh over it! jokes were flying about non-stop till work ended! even the chemist didn't know what the phrase meant and wrote it off as a typo error. before i went back, i asked my supervisor what it meant (while trying very hard to stiffle a giggle) and turns out, it wasn't a typo error and simply means agitating the solution by blowing bubbles using a dropper (rubber policeman is the term used for the black rubber bulb)... i felt so stupid after that...
anyway back to my story, it took me the whole day to prepare the standards until the centrifuging part and i had to continue on friday morning. the results were totally and utterly out of the expected range! it was a total failure. i had to do the whole thing again (my supervisor suggested not diluting the stock solution this time). so i did everything again and had to stay till 6.15p.m. (overtime) to finish the calibration. again the results were as bad as the previous time... i think my supervisor kinda guessed i was getting abit fed up, so he asked me to redo it on monday minus the drying and centrifuging steps. it worked! and i'm so happy it's finally done and over with... whew!
ok, i'm starting to nod off... i've lost my train of thoughts. so i'll end here. i guess i didn't get to recall what i wanted to blog about.
i started the boron calibration last friday and it was so demotivating!!! the procedure involved evaporating the standard solutions on a steam bath (which took about 4 hours for 100ml standard solution), refluxing the dried standard in a muffle furnace at 550 degrees celcius for 1 hour, adding acid to dissolve the residue, centrifuging the resultant solution, adding 2 drops of concentrated HCl and 10ml concentrated sulfuric acid, waiting for the solution to cool down, adding the carmine reagent (which was practically concentrated sulfuric acid with red carmine powder) and waiting for 45 minutes for full colour development before taking its absorbance reading on the spectrophotometer. (see how long the method is!!!) on thursday after i'd finished the phosphorus calibration, i tried reading the SOP (standard operation procedure) for the boron calibration and half way through the procedures, i came across this phrase "... and triturate with a rubber policeman to dissolve." at first i couldn't believe my eyes, i thought i was seeing something wrong... what do policemen have to do with calibration methods? so i asked the lab technicians and they too didn't know what it was about... in fact, everyone had a good laugh over it! jokes were flying about non-stop till work ended! even the chemist didn't know what the phrase meant and wrote it off as a typo error. before i went back, i asked my supervisor what it meant (while trying very hard to stiffle a giggle) and turns out, it wasn't a typo error and simply means agitating the solution by blowing bubbles using a dropper (rubber policeman is the term used for the black rubber bulb)... i felt so stupid after that...
anyway back to my story, it took me the whole day to prepare the standards until the centrifuging part and i had to continue on friday morning. the results were totally and utterly out of the expected range! it was a total failure. i had to do the whole thing again (my supervisor suggested not diluting the stock solution this time). so i did everything again and had to stay till 6.15p.m. (overtime) to finish the calibration. again the results were as bad as the previous time... i think my supervisor kinda guessed i was getting abit fed up, so he asked me to redo it on monday minus the drying and centrifuging steps. it worked! and i'm so happy it's finally done and over with... whew!
ok, i'm starting to nod off... i've lost my train of thoughts. so i'll end here. i guess i didn't get to recall what i wanted to blog about.
Monday, May 28, 2007
My ignorance!
a couple of days ago i was reading the standard operation procedure for the ferrous iron calibration method and i came across this apparatus called Erlenmeyer flask. somehow i seem to remember hearing of such an apparatus before but couldn't put a picture to it in my mind. so, i set about asking the lab technicians what it was. and they were like, "what's that? should be a volumetric flask... but we don't have 125mL volumetric flasks... hmm..." and in the end they asked me to just ignore that and proceed to the next step. so that was that!
when i read another method for a different procedure, i came across this Erlenmeyer flask again. and to prevent myself from sounding really brainless, i refrained from asking my supervisor (who was right next to me) what it was... vowing to look it up on the net as soon as possible. after so many days of forgetting (when i was online) and remembering (when i was at work), i finally got down to checking it out on wikipedia just a few minutes ago... and after all the enigmatic thoughts, turns out it's just another name for CONICAL FLASKS!!! i can't believe i'm so silly!!! (to cover up these silly mistakes/discoveries, i'm keeping it from the knowledge of the chemist and my supervisor... after all, they'll be contributing 40% to my assessment!)
when i read another method for a different procedure, i came across this Erlenmeyer flask again. and to prevent myself from sounding really brainless, i refrained from asking my supervisor (who was right next to me) what it was... vowing to look it up on the net as soon as possible. after so many days of forgetting (when i was online) and remembering (when i was at work), i finally got down to checking it out on wikipedia just a few minutes ago... and after all the enigmatic thoughts, turns out it's just another name for CONICAL FLASKS!!! i can't believe i'm so silly!!! (to cover up these silly mistakes/discoveries, i'm keeping it from the knowledge of the chemist and my supervisor... after all, they'll be contributing 40% to my assessment!)
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Industrial training
working has been really tiring... it's not really the work that tires me but more of the journey to and from work as well as sitting around trying to figure out what to do next. i'm doing my industrial training in Permulab and i've been placed in the water analysis lab. i've to admit that i didn't do my research thoroughly when i applied to this lab, so now i'm stuck doing chemistry lab work (which is not really related to biochemistry, but on the other hand will help very much in improving my lab skills)
from my experience in working at the kindergarten and this lab, i've found that there are good days and there are bad ones. i don't know what makes them good or bad, it just happens. in the kindergarten, the children could be devils one day and and angels the next. in this lab, things would go smoothly one day and terribly tiring the next day. perhaps it could be me... my mood or something... but somehow, i've never really experienced this in school or uni.
my first day was pretty good... my supervisor came in late, so i didn't get to speak to him until the end of the day. however one of the chemist taught me some stuff... basically i helped him to prepare stuff... not the real sample analysis. the next day, he was on leave so i really had almost nothing to do... sitting around wasting time... it was a bad day. i thought my third day would be the same but then my supervisor saw me with nothing to do and so he let me read up the manual on free chlorine testing and later try to do the spectrophotometer calibration. so that turned out to be quite a good day. my fourth day was so-so, i spent half a day pouring samples into plastic centrifugation tubes for the aforesaid chemist (who was back from his leave) and the other half calibrating the older spectrophotometer. the fifth day started out good with me calibrating the newer machine but after showing the results to my supervisor, i had to repeat some steps a couple of times. after which the results were still not satisfactory and i had to try calibrating on the older machine. i kind of felt like i was in the way of some of the lab technicians... my day ended by helping the chemist to pound some solid samples into powder form and helping him do some other miscelleneous stuff. (sometimes i get the feeling that the chemist is just using me to help him do stuff... but i guess that's what a trainee is for right? so i must abolish that thought!!!)
i have no idea what's in store for me this week... which starts tomorrow...
from my experience in working at the kindergarten and this lab, i've found that there are good days and there are bad ones. i don't know what makes them good or bad, it just happens. in the kindergarten, the children could be devils one day and and angels the next. in this lab, things would go smoothly one day and terribly tiring the next day. perhaps it could be me... my mood or something... but somehow, i've never really experienced this in school or uni.
my first day was pretty good... my supervisor came in late, so i didn't get to speak to him until the end of the day. however one of the chemist taught me some stuff... basically i helped him to prepare stuff... not the real sample analysis. the next day, he was on leave so i really had almost nothing to do... sitting around wasting time... it was a bad day. i thought my third day would be the same but then my supervisor saw me with nothing to do and so he let me read up the manual on free chlorine testing and later try to do the spectrophotometer calibration. so that turned out to be quite a good day. my fourth day was so-so, i spent half a day pouring samples into plastic centrifugation tubes for the aforesaid chemist (who was back from his leave) and the other half calibrating the older spectrophotometer. the fifth day started out good with me calibrating the newer machine but after showing the results to my supervisor, i had to repeat some steps a couple of times. after which the results were still not satisfactory and i had to try calibrating on the older machine. i kind of felt like i was in the way of some of the lab technicians... my day ended by helping the chemist to pound some solid samples into powder form and helping him do some other miscelleneous stuff. (sometimes i get the feeling that the chemist is just using me to help him do stuff... but i guess that's what a trainee is for right? so i must abolish that thought!!!)
i have no idea what's in store for me this week... which starts tomorrow...
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Transposons!
a couple of minutes ago, i just found out that transposons are responsible for the multi-coloured corn kernels (black, yellow, red etc) on some corn cobs (especially indian corn)!!! for a biochemistry student, it's pretty sad that i only know this 2 days before my final exam... and this i found out on the web, not through my lecturer's notes (which induced a panic attack in me 2 days ago... i don't know why, but the more i read them the more confused i become)
anyway, i had my first finals paper yesterday (toxicology to be precise)... i thought i did ok till we started discussing the answers after the exam... and i'm pretty sure i've lost 30 marks or so... hopefully i can get better than C for this paper as i really did memorize alot (and actually enjoyed studying) for this subject... my problem was not reading the question properly and hastily answering it... i didn't have time to think my answers through... all my thoughts just went straight from my brain to my pen via action potentials transmitted through my neurons with nitric oxide as neurotransmitter in my brain synapse and acetylcholine as neurotransmitter in the neuromuscular junction. an action potential along the axon of the presynaptic neuron stimulates the influx of calcium ions which then causes the release of acetylcholine into the synapse and stimulates the nicotinic cholinergic ionic channel receptors which causes an EPSP and as a result muscle contraction occurs. probably half of that is inaccurate, but that's just a taste of what i had to come up with in my exam... the best part was that i started to memorize the lipid peroxidation pathway for linolenic acid at 9 a.m. and that question came out in our 11.30 a.m. paper! Thank God i memorized that! (and actually could remember it during the exam!) i need supplements for my brain... i think i'm extraordinarily "nyanyuk" (forgetful) for my age...
anyway, i had my first finals paper yesterday (toxicology to be precise)... i thought i did ok till we started discussing the answers after the exam... and i'm pretty sure i've lost 30 marks or so... hopefully i can get better than C for this paper as i really did memorize alot (and actually enjoyed studying) for this subject... my problem was not reading the question properly and hastily answering it... i didn't have time to think my answers through... all my thoughts just went straight from my brain to my pen via action potentials transmitted through my neurons with nitric oxide as neurotransmitter in my brain synapse and acetylcholine as neurotransmitter in the neuromuscular junction. an action potential along the axon of the presynaptic neuron stimulates the influx of calcium ions which then causes the release of acetylcholine into the synapse and stimulates the nicotinic cholinergic ionic channel receptors which causes an EPSP and as a result muscle contraction occurs. probably half of that is inaccurate, but that's just a taste of what i had to come up with in my exam... the best part was that i started to memorize the lipid peroxidation pathway for linolenic acid at 9 a.m. and that question came out in our 11.30 a.m. paper! Thank God i memorized that! (and actually could remember it during the exam!) i need supplements for my brain... i think i'm extraordinarily "nyanyuk" (forgetful) for my age...
Friday, April 13, 2007
MYC!news article which i wrote... they've probably edited it...
Having Fun Helping the Needy
Saturday the 24th of March, 2007 marked the opening ceremony cum fund-raising concert of Young Visionaries 2007 (YV’07). This community-based project organized by AIESEC in University Malaya (UM) started in 2003 and has been successfully running for the 4th time in 5 years. This time around, YV’07 has adopted Trinity Home and Agathians Shelter for two months in which specially selected international trainees will facilitate weekly activities at these orphanages.
To get the ball rolling, a two-day carnival held at the car park area of Perdanasiswa, UM preceded the fund-raising concert. Participants of this carnival include NGOs and merchandisers.
The YV’07 fund-raising concert held at the Dewan Tunku Canselor, UM was officiated by Mr. Ambhihabathy Ratnam, Assistant Head Registrar of Student Affairs and Alumni in UM. This star-studded night hosted by Jules of Fly FM and Shamser Sidhu, started off by a stunning break dance performance by the children from Agathians Shelter. Next in line, fellow AIESEC member James Loh cooled down the excitement with his soothing ballads. Local band Borange then raised the tempo with their original numbers followed by a cute Indian dance by the children of Trinity Home. Marionexxes and Flirting with Sleep were next with their hardcore experimental music. The final band FasyLive “wow”-ed the crowd with guitar, drums and bass solos incorporated into their tight set of blues/rock songs.
As the saying goes ‘save the best for last’, the headliners of the night were Karen Kong and Juwita Suwito! Karen hooked us with her sugar sweet voice, singing “Juli Doremi” and “Cinta Hello Kitty” from her debut album “Mulakan”. After which Juwita Suwito mesmerized us with her version of Alicia Keys’ “If I Ain’t Got You” and two more songs from her current album “For Real” – “Teman Sejati” and “Walk Away”. The latter song she performed by popular demand from the crowd.
Other highlights of the night include lucky draw sessions sponsored by The Body Shop and bidding sessions for three 3 months memberships to California Fitness. The audience also received goodie bags sponsored by myc!news on their way in.
The funds raised from the carnival and concert will be used for the weekly activities to be held at the two orphanages. Any surplus would be donated back to the orphanages. Among the weekly activities planned are pot-planting, craftwork, puppet show, brunch sponsored by Paddington House of Pancakes, watching movie, tutoring, games/sports, scouting experience and an excursion to Gardenia.
Interested to know more about AIESEC or YV’07? Visit http://youngvisionaries.bravehost.com. Perhaps you’d like to volunteer, please contact Ms. LS (xxx-xxxxxxx) for further details. Donations in monetary or in kinds are most welcome (Please contact the abovesaid person). Let’s make this a Mission Possible!
Saturday the 24th of March, 2007 marked the opening ceremony cum fund-raising concert of Young Visionaries 2007 (YV’07). This community-based project organized by AIESEC in University Malaya (UM) started in 2003 and has been successfully running for the 4th time in 5 years. This time around, YV’07 has adopted Trinity Home and Agathians Shelter for two months in which specially selected international trainees will facilitate weekly activities at these orphanages.
To get the ball rolling, a two-day carnival held at the car park area of Perdanasiswa, UM preceded the fund-raising concert. Participants of this carnival include NGOs and merchandisers.
The YV’07 fund-raising concert held at the Dewan Tunku Canselor, UM was officiated by Mr. Ambhihabathy Ratnam, Assistant Head Registrar of Student Affairs and Alumni in UM. This star-studded night hosted by Jules of Fly FM and Shamser Sidhu, started off by a stunning break dance performance by the children from Agathians Shelter. Next in line, fellow AIESEC member James Loh cooled down the excitement with his soothing ballads. Local band Borange then raised the tempo with their original numbers followed by a cute Indian dance by the children of Trinity Home. Marionexxes and Flirting with Sleep were next with their hardcore experimental music. The final band FasyLive “wow”-ed the crowd with guitar, drums and bass solos incorporated into their tight set of blues/rock songs.
As the saying goes ‘save the best for last’, the headliners of the night were Karen Kong and Juwita Suwito! Karen hooked us with her sugar sweet voice, singing “Juli Doremi” and “Cinta Hello Kitty” from her debut album “Mulakan”. After which Juwita Suwito mesmerized us with her version of Alicia Keys’ “If I Ain’t Got You” and two more songs from her current album “For Real” – “Teman Sejati” and “Walk Away”. The latter song she performed by popular demand from the crowd.
Other highlights of the night include lucky draw sessions sponsored by The Body Shop and bidding sessions for three 3 months memberships to California Fitness. The audience also received goodie bags sponsored by myc!news on their way in.
The funds raised from the carnival and concert will be used for the weekly activities to be held at the two orphanages. Any surplus would be donated back to the orphanages. Among the weekly activities planned are pot-planting, craftwork, puppet show, brunch sponsored by Paddington House of Pancakes, watching movie, tutoring, games/sports, scouting experience and an excursion to Gardenia.
Interested to know more about AIESEC or YV’07? Visit http://youngvisionaries.bravehost.com. Perhaps you’d like to volunteer, please contact Ms. LS (xxx-xxxxxxx) for further details. Donations in monetary or in kinds are most welcome (Please contact the abovesaid person). Let’s make this a Mission Possible!
YV'07 flyer!!!
this is the YV flyer that we managed to get printed. California Fitness printed it for us with thei advertisement on the back. negotiationg for this is another long winded story that i'll just let lie...
i had to redesign this countless times!!! but actually it's kind of simple la...
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