Year 2 Week 44

Bermula lagi hari baru di minggu yang baru
Mudah-mudahan segala urusan dipermudahkan oleh Allah SWT
Setelah bertemu dengan bekas pelajar PhD yang datang berziarah di rumah baru-baru ini, banyak tips yang beliau kongsikan bersama saya.. insyaAllah saya dah take note dan harap2nya saya akan aplikasikan dalam pengajian saya ni plak


minggu lepas adalah minggu hujan di Egham, maka hari ini akan datang ke kampus menjenguk study sites mana tau ada cendawan yang tumbuh.. harap2nya ada lah supaya comparison antara species yang dikutip last autumn boleh dijalankan... 


sebelum summer holiday officially start dalam masa 2 minggu ni, saya akan cuba settlekan online course yang saya register untuk sem ni hari ini jugak.. untuk lulus kene dapat 80% at least dalam test yang diberi di hujung course nanti.. will do my best there!


insyaAllah, dalam minggu ni akan register untuk conference di France... boleh claim tak untuk my first conference ke luar negara ni, pihak KPT?


progress writing untuk journal adalah sangat slow.. adakah ini normal??? :(

Year 2 Week 41

already started writing for thesis, yeay!!

found a perrr-fect location to write and to look for ideas.. definitely not at home..hehe

mission to complete this week:

1. Complete MOODLE course - Selecting a Conference, Presenting & Networking

2. Complete Introduction part and revise again before submit it to mr. sv

3. Update result sampling site kat Windsor

4. Drafting report for my 2nd year review meeting (will be held in July/August)

"Dan katakanlah: "Ya Tuhanku, tambahkanlah kepadaku ilmu (agama)." (Thaahaa:114)

Fungi Poems.. cool!

Grabbed from http://www.poemcatcher.com/

Have fun reading!


AN ODE TO THE MUSHROOM

Molecules flow through space
ebbing and eddying
a single cell forms into life
touching another, making love
cellular strings lace outwards
forking, branching, frolicking
mosaics of networks emerge
a model of life surges
finds home on land
on this blue planet
the network is mycelium
rejoices in creation
in elegance and grace, to form
a mushroom
the universe smiles

By Paul Stamets




The fungal thread of death

It was a damp summer
all the gutters leaked
into my mansion
Rotten plaster and window frames
The fungal thread of death.
I played squash like a maniac
Every week. The showers
were humid and smelt quite bad.
My feet too. Smelly trainers.
The fungal thread of death.
I went organic. Green spuds
and tomatoes too. Chemical free.
By August they were all black and putrid
The fungal thread of death.
I printed this poem
on high grade handmade paper.
The sweetest cellulose. Quite soon
It was spotty and almost gone.
The fungal thread of death.

By John Lucas



PLAYFUL BOYS – By Elizabeth Sheedy

Oh playful boys of the forested groves
With caps all alone or fruiting in droves
All colours from browns to bright blues and red
Beneath are the searching, invisible threads
Connecting all plant in the life and death plan
Continue, caring not for endeavours of man



MUSCARIA IN MIND – by Ted Tuddenham

To find the sacred mushroom
on the trail,
The ‘shroom of shaman,
priest and fairy tale
To seek and spot the red
topped Amanita
And then, oh joy
To pick and eat her


THE FOREST’S FLOORS By Luke Heaton

Creeping, seeping, spitting spores
Fungi link the forest’s floors
Living fountains, shifting webs,
Feed the living, eat the dead.


GROWING THE ART OF YOUR SCIENCE

To the scientist who fears

the world of art so strange
I share with you the doubt
That e’re the two shall twain

Together? be these worlds
Together? where to start?
Together? doubt our minds
Can mix a science and art

You know not of the rhythm
The meter or the form
for words to blend to meaning
for poems to write and dawn

I know not of the science
The technics of the lab
Pharmaceutics or genetics
the latest Myco fad

Yet here we are together
In Scotlands castle zone
a city proud of literature
UNESCO’s writing home

So we call on Ye who visit
With science on the mind
Welcome to this city
We hope you find the time

to wander to the castle
botanics and the seat
Where Arthur’s names’ interred
where people walk and greet

We hope you meet your nemesis
in challenge ye shall grow
We hope you taste the Whisky
with dram in ye to flow

We hope you learn of fungus
more than you ever dreamed
We hope you write a poem
to tell us what you’ve seen

So Grow your art of science
And teach us through your words
of mycologic meaning
mixed with poetic prose

By Andrew Newman

AKA PoemCatcher

who's the destroyer?

pic courtesy of  http://panimagine.blogspot.com/

'Dan tuntutlah dengan harta kekayaan yang telah dikurniakan Allah kepadamu akan pahala dan kebahagiaan hari akhirat dan janganlah engkau melupakan bahagianmu (keperluan dan bekalanmu) dari dunia, dan berbuat baiklah (kepada hamba-hamba Allah) sebagaimana Allah berbuat baik kepadamu (dengan pemberian nikmat-Nya yang melimpah-limpah) dan janganlah engkau melakukan kerosakan di muka bumi sesungguhnya Allah tidak suka kepada orang-orang yang berbuat kerosakan'.

Surah al-Qasas : 77

still in Year 2 Week 40

salam and hi everyone!

i am very grateful to Allah as for His blessings, I have overcome my nerves to present my very first poster for Annual Postgraduate Symposium yesterday

to sums everything up, i was able to answer all questions asked by the people and i managed to explain my statistical results to both evaluators.. it looks to me that they seems to get the idea of my project and also satisfied with the poster arrangement too..

hope to get good marks for the assessment!! insyaAllah!

Happy Weekend everyone!

Year 2 Week 40

it has been week 40.. and it means that i only have another 12 weeks before ending up my second year
woah.. going to final year? let's not talk about that at the moment.. *panicks!*


well, i have scribbled down a lists on what to do/to achieve this week
hopefully, once i've completed them all, i should give myself a reward... eleh sikit-sikit reward.. 
well, that's how i work.. if you know something awaits you at the end of the day, you'll be high-spirited to finish them on given time.. agree, anyone??


so here it goes:


Monday - yesterday was May Bank Holiday... cuti.. :)


Tuesday - today.. supposed to collect my poster today for the annual pg symposium from the faculty administrator (FA).. but she hasn't had the poster in hand yet.. but she will let me know once she had it and i could come and collect it.. ooh can't wait! my very first poster in rhul!.. in the meantime, while waiting for FA's reply, i will do my journal readings.. *harap-harap tak tertidoq la!*


Wednesday -  the annual postgraduate symposium for my school starts today! my session will be on Thursday but i have friends presenting on the first day. should give them support eh? boleh observe dan ambik berkat awal2..huhu


Thursday -  my poster presentation session will starts at 2.. but i'll be in school in the morning to watch presentations by 1st year student..mana tahu boleh dapat idea baru untuk projek akan datang, kan? 


Friday - my exam's invigilator work starts today.. :) for the first day, only covers 2 hours exam.... will find some time to read at least a journal today!




May Datelines!


- submit Results chapter for 1st project to mr sv.. chaiyok Qila!
- should have a complete materials for literature review for 2nd chapter by end of May