Professor Nasri

こんばんわ! Haruhi-desu! How are you all doing?

A funny thing happened to Ubaydah yesterday. One of his students wrote him an e-mail. This is what he wrote:

Hello Professor Nasri
My name is K**** T*****, i am trying to graduate this spring and still yet to take my Biology class, i saw your section was open, however after speaking to the registrars office and the bio department, i was told i had to get a hold of you to get a permission number....

Professor Nasri?? He just started grad school this quarter! He's definitely NOT a professor! =P

By the way, he asked me to show you all this:

Showoff! XP

Anyway, I told you that I'm going to post some pictures of Ubaydah's classroom right? Well, here they are:

He also told me that the next two classes that he tought were better than the first one. I guess he's starting to get the hang of it.

I guess that's it for now.

じゃまたね!

The first class he ever teach...

こんにちは! Haruhi's here! おげんきですか?

I've mentioned before that Ubaydah's going to teach a class as a teaching associate right? Well, he just finished teaching one class today! Just now, I asked him how it was. He said it was okay but he also said that it wasn't the best. As prepared as he was, he just didn't have enough experience in teaching. I guess that's just something that you have to gain over time right? He still has two more classes to teach this week. Both classes are on Wednesday. がんばれ!!!

I'll post some pictures of his classroom next time!

I guess that's it for today.

 おやすみなさい!

Awesome Gathering!

こんにちは みなさん! Haruhi-desu! How are you all doing? I'm good by the way. Ubaydah's doing good too~

I've mentioned in the previous blog post that Ubaydah and his housemates are having an open house in order to celebrate Hari Raya. Well, they just had it yesterday and it was awesome! A lot of  his friends came and they had loads of fun! They ate food, played Super Street Fighter 4, and ate some more food!

Check these out!

Look at all the food! There were roti jala, pulut kuning, kuah kacang, rendang daging, kuzi ayam, and many more! すごい!!!

After all the eating and gaming, they watched Ip Man 1 & 2. It's a movie about Bruce Lee's master. I know Ubaydah had watched it several times before but he seemed to enjoy the movie still. Everyone else did too since most of them stayed through both movies. I especially like the fighting parts! :P

Overall I think they all had a great time and the open house was nothing but a success!

I hope you people had a great Hari Raya celebration too!

バイバイ!

Selamat Hari Raya!

Hi! It's Haruhi again! おげんきですか? Hope you are doing fine!

As you may already know, I'm here to write on this blog on Ubaydah's behalf. He would like me to wish you all...

SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDIL FITRI!
Maaf Zahir & Batin

I would like to wish the same thing too! XD

To those who celebrate this joyous and meaningful celebration, hope you all had a great time! おめでとうございます!!

Here's a picture of Ubaydah in the morning of Aidil Fitri.

He woke up pretty early that day which was unusual if you asked me, hehehe... (he's going to kill me when he read this :P).

Even though it's a day of celebration, he went to work that day. He got back from work pretty late. After he arrived at home, he went to dinner at Yasmin which is a Malaysian restaurant with some friends.

Overall, that's how he celebrated his Aidil Fitri! It wasn't traditional, but it's not that bad. By the way, he's going to have an Aidil Fitri gathering tomorrow. There're a bunch of friends coming! There're also going to be roti jala, rendang, and nasi ayam. It's going to be awesome! XD

That's it for his Aidil Fitri celebration! I'll be back to write some more stuff!

いってきます!!!

いらっしゃいませ!!!

Hi! My name is Haruhi! I'm the guide for this blog. Basically, my job is to narrate on this blog from a third person's view. Ubaydah's pretty busy to write on this blog himself so I'm going to do all the writings instead. はじめまして!

A lot of people especially family members and friends in Malaysia are wondering what Ubaydah's doing right now, so I'm going to tell you....

He's currently working in a research lab in his school (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) with his Master's supervisor. Oh yeah, he's also starting his Master degree next Fall (end of September 2010) in Biological Science. In addition, he's also going to work as a teaching associate (TA) next Fall. He's going to teach BIO 115 lab which is basic Biology for non-Bio students. He said that he's pretty nervous about it, but I think he's going to be okay since he's tutored that subject before. But I guess tutoring and teaching are two different things so hopefully he would do fine. がんばって!!!

I'm going to mention a little bit about his research. Basically, he's working with C. elegans (a type of nematode worms) and he's trying to map a gene that suppresses a mutation in the worms itself. That's one of the things he's currently working on.

Here's a picture of the worms he's working on:

Source: http://www.nem.wur.nl/UK/Research/Ecogenomics/

The worms are not like you would imagine right? He gets this all the time, hehe... These worms are about 1 mm long and can only be seen clearly under the microscope.

Here's a picture of his workstation:

Pretty cool huh?

Here is where the worms are kept:

The worms are kept in petri dishes/plates and are stored generally in a 20 degrees celcius incubator. The worms crawl on agar made by him and his lab-mates.

The picture above is the plate making schedule. See his name up there! ^_^

And those are his lab-mates by the way.

Let me show you around Ubaydah's campus:

The picture above is the College of Science, the building where Ubaydah works.

The picture above is the quad area where students meet and hang out.

The picture above is the area near the Bronco Student Center. Did you notice the 'Bunga Raya' on the left of the picture?

The picture above is the university gymnasium.

By the way, Ubaydah bought a new laptop because his old one was broken. Here's a picture of his desk!

I guess that's it for tonight! I'll be updating this blog soon enough with new stuff to tell! If you noticed, I sometimes use Japanese words in my writings so if you don't understand those words, you can always Google translate them! ^_^

じゃまたね!