First Day

Been a busy day with the organization of the coming conference - Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology Conference to be held on 29 - 30 September 2005. Bit behind schedule. Hopefully things will pick up soon.

Still feeling the effects of the Boxing Day Tsunami caused by an 8.9 earthquake off Sumatra coast. Numbers of perished lives keeps increasing. With all modern technology, it is surprising that no early warning was able to be broadcasted. Where did we go wrong? Were we caught with our pants down? Or the seismic people were having a bit of a nap? Please don't get me wrong. I am not blaming anyone.


Restoration work on the Daimler seems to be progressing nicely. Fixed the aircon yeaterday. Took nealy 3 month to restore. Hopefully i can drive it in the New Year. It will be a long time till I will undertake another restoration work. I am itchy to do a Rolls.

Two days to New Year

Whoa .. what a busy end of the year!!. I am worried that some colleagues are poor teamworkers. Some of these punks think only of themselves .. sort of tamak - greedy. Many are non ethical. Not good for the academic profession. Gone are the days when academics respect one another and do not encroach into another colleagues' field. People who know next to microbes want to supervise students on microbial ecology. Poor students.. taught how to handle the ropes the wrong way.. Maybe I am senile ..

I am indeed happy that Honorable PM sort of suggested that the New Year celebrations be cancelled. Good on you Sir. I hope the organisers use that money to help the victims. Or do you need the PM to hint!! Malaysians are like that. When the PM opens his mouth, everyone scramble to be recognised doing what he says. Me blabbering again!!.

A happy new year to all. Don't forget the disadvantaged.