Am one of the Nicksters

  by   Monday, November 04, 2019   No comments
Haven't written much, lately. Despite having extremely hectic magical days ongoing mini project with the colleagues, turned out we had a tight schedule to get this mini project done. I boleh estimate dalam 2-3 hari minggu yang lepas, I cuma ulang-alik lab tingkat 3, just to record the microbes profile growth. Bak kata Anggun dalam instastory beliau, our routine fixed with visiting anak-anak kat taska. Here, we need to grow our own culture strain for a week-long mini project as if they were our anak3, much made us kelam-kabut for the first six weeks of the 5th semester. All said, I'm too occupied by them that I couldn't spare the time with my precious Tangled Thoughts.

Only, yes, again, to do some reports regarding the lab work. sobs

Last weekend was a hectic one. Spent my last four-day weekend by sitting on meja belajar, doing on the individual discussion in the middle of the night. But, my brain can't work best without playing a background music of Only Human by Jonas Brothers. It was just like my body response to the music and felt the rythm in my head. Then, I found myself foot tapping at the same time nodding the head. And might sometimes accompany with dancing while singing along to it. Singing, a karaoke, so called karok by dak3 hipster nowadays rather than paying 100% fully attention to get my reports done.

Motif?

I did the fangirling thingy over past 7 years ago when I was 15. By the time I was drowning deep with Adam Levine in Maroon 5 (listen! he's a super super good looking, considered his squared-jaw, tallness, etc) Gorgeous wei! and he's a very good singer as well. Over time, however, as you get older, you tend to see more, do more and explore more. I may seem to have slightly change in Maroon 5 music taste. Sorry bro, the ship has sailed.

Now, say hello to JoBros for their hit single, music video of  "Only human" and, lemme tell ya, IT'S ALL ABOUT THE 80'S GROOVY BOP IN THEIR CONTENT.

But I find the real star, of course, Nick who served up 80's hotness by wearing silkiest button-downs with his flyest retro sunglasses and his hilarious window shenanigans!

Like this! 

You'll understand once you play the video below. 


Needless to say, this music video was so goooodd and I've already watched it up to 20 times! Xoxoxo bye



Mind wanders

  by   Sunday, October 20, 2019   No comments
Today's lecture sangat menusuk kalbu. I can tell that all my coursemate would feel the same as I did, but the Guy-With-A-Gummy-Smile, THIS GUY OMG! turned out to be seorang yang mudah terhibur pada hari kejadian barangkali since I heard him gelak terbahak-bahak during the enzyme class when it comes to enzyme teaching by Dr. Aini. Those enzyme jokes never get old, is it.

Today's lecture seems to be out of topic. Instead we were being taught on lignocellulosic enzyme, the lecturer brought us to think outside of the box for a while regarding the bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass from waste to wealth. If people asked me is there something to do between the lignocellulosic enzyme and the biomass, I would simply take a few minutes to think. Think ain think!

My random, general answer got to be lignocellulosic enzyme is a degrading enzyme used in plant dry matter, so called lignocellulosic biomass. As you can see, the word enzyme itself represents an important role in breaking down complex molecules into its monomer, so called the simpler molecule. Meanwhile the word lignin and cellulose referred to a complex organic polymer deposited in plants cell wall to which they supply the strength and rigidity of plant walls.

Yeah, bla bla bla bio stuff -,- so what?

Ok continue. The major plant cell walls however consist of three main lignocellulosic components lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose. These compositions are differed for different types of biomass.  The dense layers of cellulose and hemicellulose are packed by layers of lignin hence, pretreatment is necessary to breaking down the lignin layers in order to expose both cellulose and hemicellulose. So, pretreatment is the first and most important step in lignocellulosic biomass processing. Why so?? Sebab lignocellulosic biomass is considered unfermentable as most of the microbes incapable to degrade it without pretreatment.

(Saya pun bermonolog sejenak, thinking so pretreatment yang macam mana that has to be taken to break down the lignin layers?)

At some point, that was probably one of the reasons why I insisted to go to the today's lecture, listening to enzyme stuffs. LOL

Ya allah, the last time I've so done listening to this part when my bed was calling my name and I insisted to get myself out from, yep my beautiful soft warm bed. You see, the problem was I couldnt get out of bed since the blankets have accepted me as one of their own belongings. Tapi disebabkan saya waras sikit masa tu, saya tetap paksa diri untuk datang lecture.

"Enzymatic hydrolysis has to be efficient, rapid and complete to preatreat the biomass..."

"Enzymes are added to hydrolyze the pretreated lignocellulosic biomass into fermentable sugars including glucose and/or oligomers that can be further converted into valuable products through biological and chemical approaches."

"Ibarat sampah yang dibuang, di kemudian hari boleh menjadi sesuatu yang berguna"

"Same goes to some of you that being a late bloomer in their age group. Cumanya, saya tak cakaplah awak3 ni sampah, kata Dr. Aini kepada anak3 didiknya."

And the whole class laughed towards the statement.

By time the Guy-With-A-Gummy-Smile laughed so hard, something had pierced my heart to such a deep, emotionally statement.

The point is, however, the late bloomers begin to do well in college or at work, they will go from a barely noticed individual to a star. They do not suddenly become smart or talented. And maybe I'm pretty sure that it can be triggered by some other events that happen in a specific period of time. Of course, the transformation from being barely noticed individual to a star isn't due to overnight magic.

Metaphorically, they get to use escalators while you’re taking flight of stairs to your life journey. When you’ve finally reach your final step, it’s supposed to be an accomplishment, right? 

Out of sudden, you know that when the reality hits you out of nowhere. It's just getting hard to pay 100% fully attention without my mind wandering to some other places. Ok berangan lagi dalam kelas.


Muka sama ada jodoh?

  by   Friday, October 11, 2019   No comments
This happened between me and Dr. A during our biannual major event in the university of  *******

(censored sebab I refuse to let people know where am studying, yang dah tahu sila tutup mulut anda guna adhesive tape)

Dalam banyak3 orang, kes Iman kena tarik berlakon untuk berlanggar basikal-moto dengan Chemat, under the scorching sun and getting surrounded by JPAM team, Dr. A came and approached me in his usual style, SMILING TOWARDS HIS FANS.

Then, came this one another guy, surely he hasn't been invited into our circle.

Dr A: *smile* showing some greetings to us.
Kereks: Fuh. Cuak takyah cakap lah, I'm freaking out man!
Dr A: Eh awak berdua muka sama, adek-beradek ke??
Kereks: Hmm taklah Dr.
Dr. A: Muka sama jer, sepupu ke??
Kereks: Pun tak juga. Kiteorg coursemate jer.
Dr. A: Muka macam sama, ada jodoh ni *chuckle to himself*
Kereks: *I were just like, euwww sama ke muka kiteorg?? Aku rasa aku lagi cantek kot compared to 'that guy'*

I'm so done with any wicked games of  'that guy' FULL STOP



Good girl, cursing lesson

  by   Friday, September 20, 2019   2 comments
Good girl has learnt her lesson. 

Nobody expects me to drop some curse words into my language at least every once in awhile because of my innocent-looking yet naive. Remember when I once told everyone, like I literally know 1001 cursing words when things happen??? LOL SHOOT ME I LIED. I might let this one malay cursing word berlegar-legar dalam kepala otak and of course it is out of my knowledge. Because of this one word, I come to realise that I misused it on Instagram without knowing the exact meaning behind it. Malunyaaaa.

I was guilt-ridden at the fact that my most recent Instastory update was misusing the word 'palat' as part of instagram caption of my duo selfie photo of me and Ayu as I thought it got something to do with coffee thingy (?) 

Kopi ku rasa palat, 
Rasanya sangat kelat.

Ugh silly me. 
Lain kali tolong buka kamus dewan, ok.

Dipendekkan cerita during the lab, I received a reply from Ayu, saying that the 'palat' word was actually dirty. So she asked me to remove the post sebab girl swearing isn't cool at all and never will be. Pastu, cuba try teka apa jadi?? Ayu pun tak tahu behind the meaning of 'palat' word in the first place before I decided to type it away on Instagram.

Ah sudah! Kami memang nubis when it comes to the word 'palat' to which it is one of malay cursing word used against people. WHAT. THE. FISH I just learnt the 'palat' word within 3 minutes ago from the most-followed instafamous then, I dare enough to use it openly on social media. Woah ain, you memang naif sangat sangat sangat :p

And apparently, during maghrib-isya prayer we, the housemates usually gathered around kat tingkat bawah to share what we have been up to in a day between classes.

"Aku baru tahu yg palat tu benda tak elok", kata seketul Ayu.

"Aku pun taktahu", kata seketul saya pula.

"Korang taktahu palat tu apa??", Pfffft after all this while, Kiera and Iman know the exact meaning of 'palat' ???

"Pasaipa hang tak tegur yg kami dah pandai mencarut sekarang ni?", kata seketul saya yang kelihatan sangat kereks.

"Yela kiteorg ingatkan kau memang nak mencarut pun. Hhahahahahha", lalu Kiera dan Iman pun ber'hahahaha'

Hihihi... honestly I had no intention of hurting others pun sebenarnya, apatah lagi mencarut sobsobsobs....the most important is that, I've learnt my lesson.

#mindyourlanguage



Math only math

  by   Tuesday, September 10, 2019   No comments
Just checked out my Whatsapp. Turns out my kid bro sent me some numbers of 23,540 minus 96 hundreds.


And garden math with fractions. Brinjal planting (?) But honestly, my eyes only caught the word 'SULIT' at 11pm. (Yes don't give that look when I'm the best-known for sleeping at wee hours of the morning) No wonder I smelled something fishy when I received the reply. Oh! Soalan maths UPSR rupanyer from my adek.


Apparently my kid bro, Amirul is struggling to finish the last leg of the race to the UPSR exam. By the time when he was about to take his maths paper, I was miles away from home to get into a thing they called studying (forgodsake). But you see, the problem with him is that, there's no one he can refer to when he comes to ask for his school worksheets. Except our other sibling, Anis. His three years gap older sister. She helped him, but yet still, he refers me just to double confirm his answer sheets.

So this time, he tends to analyze and compare his answers through all three phases by different people. 

Phase I, he usually gets his math answers approved by some teachers at the school. 
Phase II, he would get Anis to check them again, at home. 
Phase III, the two siblings get through me to finalize the answers for approval via Whatsapp.

Aigooo kids these days.

Everything is only at your fingertips, adek3 

So I ended up becoming my kid bro home tutor for 4 subjects (oh so fun) 

"Monday would be BM" 
"Then, BI should be on Tuesday" 
"Oh yes, Wednesday is the Math Day!" 
"And, of course we do Science on Thursday" 

The best of all, I got ways to annoy him or to get him into trouble if he refused to listen to me— such a mean sister, is it. "You better read some books before I tell ibu or ayah that you're playing mobile legends. Remember, I'm your kakak" *evil grins*

But in all seriousness, my kid bro is undeniably underachieving at school however performed best in bola sepak & sepak takraw. On one more serious note, he even got invited to STL practices for Astro. "Aww bro, you're such a sports guy person but why is your kakak not even good in any sport??" Am I adopted?? omaigard!

As a kakak, all you want to do is to give him all the help that he needs from the beginning. So, here's the thing that I did. We got through all the syllabus in each subject and I prepared him some past years questions to allow him identified the style of UPSR questions. But then, he mostly would ask me for math questions. So why maths?? 


Math ain't easy until you reach the most advance ones, wahai adek3 sekalian :p


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