THE AWESOME MICROBES CARNIVAL

It was an amazing experienced for me as i can participate in the activity. I managed to see the real 3d printing model which was truly amazing as it can print up the microorganism in 3d model. besides, i can spend time with my lecturers, seniors and juniors as we organized the event together. it gave me the opportunity to know them better.

Being apart of the log and tech crew made me realized the responsible that we had to bear. and in addition, i able to do some workout for this event as i lift up all the tables and chairs. it was a good workout for me.

Last but not least, i think we should organize this kind of event in the future. i learnt lot of thing from this event.
Hardship
Friendship
Independence

P/S: just there is one thing that need to be highlighted. the division of work. it really look very unorganized for me. i think that we need to improve more on that.

REFLECTIVE JOURNAL WEEK 12

haiiii!!!!!!!!!THE BEST WEEK EVER!

GUESS WHAT. The event of #Lifewithoutmicrobes run smoothly.
From this event, i managed to improve my social skill as i had to handle some activities with the students of SMK Warisan Puteri.
The students even the teachers were so sporting. They gave the best cooperation ever. From this class also, my IT knowledge getting better.
Now i can proudly show off with my family about the tools that i had learn from this class.

Besides, one more good news. Chelsea had won the league. OH YEAHHHHHH!!!!
IT WAS THE BEST WEEK EVER.

 THE BEST GROUP EVER!!!
ALL MY TEAM MEMBERS GAVE FULL COOPERATION AND BEEN THE  MOST SPORTING RANDOM UNIQUE MEMBERS.

I LOVE THEM AND ALSO DR WAN.

P/S: Sorry Dr Wan for all the eccentric behaviour. Anyway, from Dr Wan's class actually i managed to improve my confidence level. Why?
Because Dr wan gave a big impact to us. Dr wan always be so energetic and im so sure that there is no dull or boring moments whenever we are attending the microbial ecology class..
Wish us luck for Final Dr Wan..

REFLECTIVE JOURNAL WEEK 10 AND 11

Im back. Sorry for late post. its been a hectic week for me. SIGH
So basically, our group pobl is is finish. the thing that challenged us the most is the interview part. Like seriously, we been rejected by 7 experts.
Luckily my friend introduced me to one of the PHD student who works with cyanobacteria. Thank God for that.
This past two weeks we learnt about human microbiome and food spoilage. it really an interesting topic!!!

There is an interesting article that really worth to read!

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/your-gut-bacteria-don-t-junk-food-even-if-you-do

Oh ya i will share more later but now i need to go!!

REFLECTIVE JOURNAL WEEK 9

HAI HAI HAIIIIII!!!
So basically this week we covered the chapter of human microbiome. it is an interesting topic to learn. I never knew that Staphylococcus infection can cause serious effect to human especially to the infants.

Here I attached one video on how to treat the MRSA naturally at home.

Besides, the thing the thing that I learnt from this week in never underestimate the "POWER OF THE BACTERIA".
Sometimes it can give out good effect to us also. but one must watch out the bad/nasty bacteria.

There is an interesting article that i want to share it here. FAT  CELLS CAN HELP PROTECT AGAINST INFECTIONS.
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/fat-cells-help-protect-against-infections

REFLECTIVE JOURNAL WEEK 8

HOLLAAAA.. we meet again after the mid sem break holiday.
From this week, i was very impressed with my fellow coursemates on how the using the e-learning to do the flipped classroom.
They used many tools to do the voice over, slideshows even quizzes.

During last class for this week, i had been assigned to do quiz regarding the chapter of human microbiome.

Besides, after we discussed the topic in the class, we asked by the lecturer to write the summary on the padlet. well, i guess it is a great tools also for us to se. Padlet seem convenient and user-friendly for my opinion.

That's all i want to share for this week. and i have high expectation for other group  who will presented their work next week.


ANDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD....i want to share my thinglink here. for me it was a great and interactive tool to study efficiently but i saw that the thinglink still need to upgrade its system. it does not have undo button. anddd guess what i need to redo everything because of that. anyway, i managed to finished it though.

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/642589247173296130

 

MY REFLECTIVE JOURNAL WEEK 7

HELLLOOOOOOOOOO..
Yes it is a last week before mid semester holiday.
For this week, my group has been prepared the material for the topic of Hydrosphere.
From my understanding, Hydrosphere consists of two types :

• Freshwater environment
• Marine environment

In the freshwater environment there are two system involved:

• Free running system (Rivers, Stream)
• Free standing system (Ponds,Lakes)

In  the marine environment is the open ocean which included salt marshes and estuaries

In this chapter also, I have learnt about microbial loop.

Microbial loop is a depiction of the microbial food web. The pathway start with dissolved organic matter (DOM) which makes its way through various trophic levels ultimately to the highest trophic levels

 

FUNGI AS WOOD DECAYING ORGANISM

Wood Decay Fungi is often not considered a serious pest of timber, but it can become such a severe problem that structural integrity is affected. Fungi occuring on wood are epigean.

Decay fungi destroy the tree's internal supportive or structural components its cellulose and hemicellulose and sometimes its lignin. Decay isn't visible on the outside of the tree, except where the bark has been cut or injured, when a cavity is present, or when the rot fungi produce reproductive structures. 

Wood decay makes trees hazardous, because trunks and limbs become unable to support their own weight and can fall, especially when stressed by wind, heavy rain, or other conditions. 

Most of wood decay fungi came from basiomycota. Basidiophores are exogenous spores.

Wood decay fungi have four basic requirements for growth:

•  Oxygen
•  Water
•  Suitable Temperature
• Food Source - the timber

Wood Decaying Fungi consists of two types:
 White rot fungi

Wood attacked by a white rot looks completely different to attack by a brown rot: The wood takes on a 'fibrous appearance and tends to go slightly lighter in color ( this may not be too noticeable). There is no cuboidal cracking as in the brown rots. Tend to be more common in hardwood

Brown rot fungi

Brown rots cause the wood to crack in a cuboidal manner; the wood also goes slightly darker in color. The 'cubes' may vary in size depending on the wood and conditions, but they are generally very visible and distinct especially as the wood dries.

Fungi is lack of chlorophyll. Thus it can undergo photosynthesis. Due to that it feeds off of the cells from the woods.
The process involved in the decaying of the wood is breaking down complex chemical compound (Cellulose and Lignin)


Soft Rot Fungi