Basketball during EMLA Winter Games 2013

Hello there!

This is Kagami again!

Long time no see!

How are you doing? I hope you are doing well!

A few months ago Ubaydah participated in EMLA (Education Malaysia Los Angeles) Winter Games 2013 held in Arcadia, California.

Even though it was winter, it was pretty hot that day!

Ubaydah played basketball that day.

His team lost the first game (against the runner-up) but won the next. This put them in the semi-finals where they lost to the winner of the whole tournament. Ubaydah's team made it to the top four out of six participating teams.

Here are some of the moments experienced by Ubaydah that day.

Ubaydah attempted a shot.

Ubaydah attempted a shot-block.

It was a hot day for sports but it was really fun according to Ubaydah.

That night, a banquet was held in Pomona for the prize-giving ceremony. There were many prizes given for many sporting events such as basketball, soccer, ping pong, badminton, bowling, and volleyball.

EMLA Winter Games 2013 Banquet.

THE END

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Ubaydah's first research article

今日は!!! Haruhi-desu!

Long time no see! How are you guys doing?

I have great news!

After a lot of hard work and perseverance, Ubaydah finally co-authored a research article. Ubaydah was pretty excited about it! The title of the paper is "Premature Sperm Activation and Defective Spermatogenesis Caused by Loss of spe-46 Function in Caenorhabditis elegans." It was published in PLoS ONE, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal. The impact factor of the journal is 4.092, so it's pretty good! ;)

Hopefully there'll be more papers to come! :)

On a totally different note, the quarter is coming to an end. Spring break will be arriving in less than a week. Happy Spring break, everyone! :D