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FINALLYYYYY. Don't get me wrong, of course I'm sad because there's final examination to face, friends to say goodbyes to, lecturers. But. SEMESTER BREAK IS NEAR GUYSSSS. I. CANT. WAIT. So on this week, it is mainly focused on our 3MT presentation and wow am I nervous. I talked about the Geobacter spp. which can actually generate electricity. It is simply amazing. With the presence of this microbe, we can even turn plain soil  into our source of energy. Simply amazing. Sooooo, it was fun while it lasted. Goodluck to everyone and me for the finalssss and thank you both to Dr Irwan and Dr Wan lol (lots of love) hahaha *hearts emoji*

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Saddest week ever because Dr Irwan, without warning, said it is our class with him!? So sad :( its fun while it lasted Dr hahaha. Okay, so on this week we learned about Microbial Epidemiology. To be frank, i dont even know what epidemiology is before this class. Yeah, already hit myself on the head. And I dont know, I think this topic can be interesting because we are actually observing about the disease and how it spread and its patterns. It surely looks interesting to me. I hope I will explore deeper on this subject. (Hitting myself on the head again for being so lazy)

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Woohoo on this week Dr Irwan wants to play games so he assigned every group to create a game for the whole class to play. The game, of course focused on the topic Immunology. My group ended up with a game that is called Taboo words. I dont know how to explain this game, but its fun. Totally. The other group also make a game of ladders and snakes with a twist of their own and of course, theres also Bingo!

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On this week, theres nothing much to report since its the second examination and God I hope I did well in my test. *praying*

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Gene regulation! My favourite topic everrrrrrr like. Since I was in high school. Idk hahaa genetics fascinates me in a whole new level. Basically, we learned the basic. *moon emoji* The lac operon, trp operon. All of this, I ate for dinner. Dr Irwan explain all what is in the slide and likes to ask random questions to get us thinking and our brain running (I assume because everyone is casting sleepy eyes all over) and then at the end he recaps and played many, manyyy cute videos on what we have learned.

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Movie! Yay so this week is the week the whole class watched the movie Temple Grandin. The movie that Dr Wan cannot stop gushing about hahaha but I kind of have to admit, the movie is nice. Not so fun fact: I'm a bit jaded when it comes to inspiring movies. I mean, I always found them a bit cliche and mainstream. Everytime I watched a movie that people claim is inspiring, I cannot help but to think that it only happens in the movie, this is the real life, the real thing, things like that don't happen to people like us. But. Yeah, theres a but. Some movie, some movie can actually manage to wiggle its way to my tiny realist heart and it kinda make me hope a little and thats what I think about the movie Temple Grandin. Oh how it heavies me to admit that dr's bubbly positivity actually rubs on me. (Sorry Dr Wan) Andddd yeah heres a glimpse of my letter to Professor Dr Temple Grandin yo

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For the eight week, Dr Irwan takes over the class and yayyyy Dr is so cute so the class is naturally fun and even though the atmosphere is different than Dr Wan's class I love both ways of teaching. So the topic is about aspects of biotechnology. Subject of interest: so Dr Irwan asked us, if we have the means and power to control the direction of biotechnology, what will we focused on? Some answered climate change, foods, medicines. But for me? I answered agriculture. So hear me out, plants are important. They gives us sweet oxygen, they're our foods, our medicine, our beauty products and I even believe they will reduce the global warming that is making our planet flike an inferno so they. are. everything. So of course, if agriculture is advanced, it will affect everything right? But then, it got me thinking, plants cant even survive if the climate changes is all screwed up. So does this means we need to focus on climate change? At the end, my brain hurts and I concluded that we need to be fair and focus on everything because one cant live without the other and every aspect is equally important. Bam. Oh and Dr Irwan also assign us a task to find a biotechnology company and present it in the next class and my group chose Jonhsons & johnsons and this task kind of open my eyes because there are actually...many biotechnology companies in Malaysia and fingers crossed, many job opportunities.

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In seventh week, we focused on Principles of Ecology. Hmmm, ecology is not exactly my forte, but I tried to keep an open mind about this topic. So. Principles of ecology, we learned about the ecology of the microbes, the role of them in our ecosystems and all. And, homeostasis. Homeostasis is a very relative subject, because it states that we can only achieve homeostasis if all the things that exist in our world is balanced. Not suprising, it is quite impossible to achieve but hey, does anyone dare to hope?

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So in the sixth week, theres nothing much. We continued our lessons like usual. On the topic algae and protozoans. Actually, I also found the subject protozoa very intriguing. Side note: for my virtual microbe group for Lafayette, we've chosen an amoeba which is called Naegleria fowleri and did you know, if it inserts your body, it goes to your brain and actually eats it? Yeah, a freaking zombie and a very terrifying one because they attack silently, creeping...eating..your brain...without any warning. Hahahaha so this week is very busy because exams is around the corner so many people are distracted and miserable because guess what? DIDN'T STUDY YET. Yep. Hmmm and OH! Dr Wan praise my groups work on the algaes slideshow. Looooving it

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Welllllll, as usual, we microbe students are one excited little bunch when we have a field trip and INTI college is no different. When we arrived at INTI which is located in Negeri Sembilan, we are forwarded to a seminar room and to hear a talk. I vaguely remembered the title is about the microbial resistance and how surgeons perceived it. Okay first let's talk about superbug. They are scary. Fun fact: I hate getting sick. Loathe them. Everytime I got sick, I treated all my medicines like the freaking holy grail and what? Now I'm hearing that there's a chance that the medicine won't work? Because wow, it's not enough that the bacterias can cause sickness, but they're resistant to medicines too? (hard to kill). I can't even- okay. So that's what I felt when I first heard about superbugs. Sooo back to INTI, it was informative, though a very short talk. It's interesting to hear what the surgeons think about this phenomenon, from their point of view. One of the few informative things was on how and what we can do to reduce the occurrence of this phenomenon and such. After the talk, theres lotsa game outside and we participated of course. It was fun.

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In the fifth week, we had two trips. One to INTI college and one to yakult. Wellll actually theres so much I want to say and babble and talk buttt ohmy so lazy to type. Okay here goes. So for the yakult part. Wow me and my friends are so excited. Except Bsya hahaha with extreme 'poyoness' she says she have gone there during the foundation studies but well, I'm sure it'll be different because this time, she came as a microbiology student. Haha so we arrived there and suprise, suprise, pictures first. Heres an attach picture below luls. So upon arrival, we are shown to a meeting like room and the yakult's representatives gave a little talk about yakult. I am ashamed to admit this but I never known about probiotics. I mean, I know that bacteria exists in probiotic drinks but like, it never registered in my brain you know? That we actually, willingly drinking bacterias haha the shirota strain.So the representative talks about all the benefits about this bacteria and all, it helps with improving our health, our digestive systems, it is basically an 'extra' help to our already present bacterias that exist in the gut. After her talk, she lead us to the 'backstage' of the yakult factory and we can see how they produce all the yakult. She showed so many rooms, and then their products. There are actually mana products that yakult produce and not just their drink. They also manufactured cosmetic products which is derived from the by product of all the shirota strain fermentations.

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Bila nak 14th week? Haha at this point it has been almost a month and of course, like any normal student, I want a break. A 6 month break, twice a year. Just kidding. Maybe. So in the fourth week, the lessons is about fungi. To be honest, i am prejudiced towards fungi. I mean, they scares me. All the spores. I absolutely become the most paranoid person when we experimented with fungi in the lab. I don't even know how many times I sprayed alcohol on my hands and my things. Eventhough it will pointless for the spores but well, safety in knowing that at least I've tried. Haha. So we still learn the basics about fungi. About their types, groups. The characteristics which make them different from other organisms. Which is they are saprophytic. Nevertheless, eventhough I kinda not like them, cannot live without them. I mean, penicillin? Yeah. You know what I'm trying to say fellow future microbiologists.

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For the third week, we've started our rhythm and activities and lessons has started. So we've learned about bacterias and archaea. Bacteria based on their characteristics which is the gram positive ones, the gram negatives, the bacterias that lack cell walls and of course, archaea. So, in order to make us more familiar and have a better understanding on the subject, Dr Wan assigned sub-topics to each group and my group got phyla crenarchaeaota and basically, each group can use what ever way they want such as presentations, mind maps and etc. to make the whole class to understand about the sub topics a little much easier. So archaea. Well. I find it a very fantastic thing. I mean. Wow. Idk why I'm so intrigued by it and I made a little bit of research and all and well, it's interesting when I found about its characteristics which makes it different from others.

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The second week is a bit anti climatic because we only have a one hour class because poor Dr Wan, a very busy woman. Well, I remembered that at this time Dr Wan is a little bit frustrated because during our lessons, she asked a question and no one can answer. She talks and talk and talk and she thinks that we needed a push, to be more passionate and more curious people! So long story short, she recommended us to watch Temple Grandin. A movie about a woman, idk much but I think Dr said the movie, the woman is very inspiring. Oh and Dr also wants us to get more familiar with journals so she assigned us a task to find any journal that is related with any topic that we choose. Well. Thats all

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Ooookay let's see how much I remembered all those activities we've done in these past weeks. Sorry, months. Haha so for the first week, it is just what as expected for any first class. Of course it is filled mostly with discussions and briefings for what we will learn in this course for this semester and not to forget, what activities we will be doing also. With Dr Wan, a semester without lotsa activities? Impossibruhhh. So, the first thing I remember is that Dr Wan said we will do the Virtual Microbe. Again. Not a suprise actually and I kind off didn't mind. It's fun for me because I can actually meet new people from other universities and learn to work with many different people. Of course, didn't hurt when they're being nice and cooperative and friendlyy. Oh, and I'm stoked we will be collaborating with foreign universities also. Helloooo Lafayette. So my expectation for this semester is that it will be no doubt, hectic and tiring. But with these kind of microbe people, my friends, at least I will be miserable with them by my side and I'm positive it will be filled with laughter and craziness.