my first article

Sunday December 11, 2011

Commercial collagen

By KATHERINA MARIE
educate@thestar.com.my

STEAMED with chili and garlic, the tilapia fish makes for a delicious meal, but a Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) researcher has discovered that the spiny-finned freshwater fish is a rich source of collagen.

The discovery offers consumers a halal alternative for the important protein, which is traditionally obtained from pigs and cows.

The collagen was discovered by UPM Faculty of Food and Science Technology lecturer and researcher Prof Dr Jamilah Bakar.

She then introduced it to biotech company Bionic Lifesciences, which included the ingredient in its bird’s nest product.

The improved final product was displayed at the Biomalaysia 2011 Conference and Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur recently. Bionic Lifesciences director Prof Mohd Saleh Yahya and UPM deputy vice-chancellor (Research and Innovation) Prof Mohd Saleh Jaafar signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to seal the collaboration between the company and varsity to commercialise the product.

Prof Mohd Saleh said UPM’s objective for the collaboration is to enhance research and development for the biotechnological processes.

“This collaboration will help to provide technical assistance and knowledge and will be beneficial for UPM students to further their research on collagen,” he said.

Prof Jamilah shared that she had spent 12 years on the research.

“I actually started my research with gelatine which is used in almost all the food products and from there, I discovered that gelatine is obtained from collagen by hydrolysis,” she said.

“Collagen is used widely in the food industry as a food supplement in capsule, beverage and tablet forms.

Students and visitors looking at the raw collagen sample and the range of products it could be used for at the signing ceremony.

“Society is starting to realise the importance of collagen in maintaining skin health, improving immunity, activating muscles and treating joint pain,” she said.

She added that prior to this, collagen had to be imported from China and Korea as there was no local source.

“We are the first in the region to produce halal aquatic collagen.

“The cosmetics industry can use it for its anti-ageing properties and include it into facemasks, hair products, nail products, creams and even directly into beverages because it is halal,” she added.

http://thestar.com.my/education/story.asp?sec=ed&file=/2011/12/11/education/9966464

The feelings of falling and failing

I realise one thing today,that this 3 words with different meaning can ctually relate to each other in a wierd way. Anybody almost everybody have this feelings in them, which sometimes that feelings is really hard to figure out.
These words strike my head when i was sending a fowarded msg and got a reply that made me wonder. Falling can be a fall in life that causes failing...falling can also be falling, or having feelings for some1...the reason this word sounds almost similiar because there is something we dont see or dont wish too, that can direct us to something.
The feeling of not sure will only happen wen you allow yourself to fail and take that fall as a lesson. By putting that feeling of failing and not allowing yourself to fall again. I actually realise that feeling is the best feeling that one can have which can be complicated. The failing feeling is a falling feeling that will give you a goog feeling.

Goal Quotes

A goal without a plan is just a wish. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

- Robert Heinlein

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

– Donald Curtis

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

- Charles C. Noble

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

- Arnold H. Glasgow

Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land amongst the stars.

- Les Brown

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

- Lawrence J. Peter

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.

- J.M. Power

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to

- Anthony Robbins

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

- C.S Lewis

Making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

– from The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped

– Anthony Robbins

Nothing happens unless first a dream

– Carl Sandburg

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

- Jimmy Dean

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

- Winston Churchill

cruelty in life

Everyone wants something in life, love, money, success, recognition ... Yet too many people fail to realize their desires, and nearly all of them for the same reason. They seem to go whichever way the wheel turns, as if they have no control over their situation. If their vehicle takes them to places they never intended to be, or crashes into the brickwall of utter despair, that's just the cruelty of fate....but sometimes the cruelty in life teach u to be stronger to wake up and move forward..

my new motto

I will set my goals as high, and promise i won't stop trying till i get there.
I will not say i have fail bit i will tell that i have discovered 1000 ways that can cause failure.
I must consciously design my goals to direct myself to success by self improving myself in everything i do by giving it extra effort to work harder and be a better person.
I will, I can, I must

letting things out.. over stress...how do i feel...n y understnding me is difficult

letting things out.. over stress...how do i feel...n y understnding me is difficultShare

ME>33
Just because i have been quiet all this while, dosen't mean i dont have anything to say, its just that i don't want to waste my time saying it because no wont will ever understand. If I do judge people from my first impression on them, well that is how everybody will judge. I do rather wait forever for the perfect somebody to show me the perfect life, than settle for anybody who don't really have an idea who I am now. i have been unpredictable and spontaneous at times but it has help me to understand life better. In a way, i thoght I am a forgiving person but i realise its hard to forgive and forget and i have finally understand why is that now.
If i just enjoy being unique or wired dosen't make me childish because it makes me happy to go on. I do rather look immatured or over matured and just have fun than rather care what other people think about me or what they are going to say about me.Sometimes i can really be over confident, other times i just feel really insecure but for me its normal and isn't a crime to feel such a way.
My family, friends and my student means everything to me but some times i just want to be alone just to figure out myself who I want to be. i sometimes envy to see people who can fit in so easily n have an easy life without even working hard to be somewhere, when i have been trying with all my strengh to just help out my love ones to make life better. i really hope that sometimes these people who i care so much can just understand mefor why i do this.
I am opinionated and stubborn, but i am loyal, sincere and caring at times because i dont like showing feeling because it is not necessary. But i have promise myself to be the best if i choose to be in something in my life and whoeva who comes in to my life should want the best for me. Even if i can be the most annoying person.
just please stop making me fel guilty. I really hate it when someone makes me feel guilty to get their way in things, just give me a chance because i m really trying hard to not let anybody down. As who i am, i will always be the same person who i was eventhough things has change and i will still be there if you need me, i will listen if i have too, i will let out problems in me to make you understand, i will be as understanding as i can for thats all i can do, and maybe stick up for anything which comes in my way no matter what happen.

MAkiNg cHoiCes....

people might think i m going mad. but i jt dunno why there are so many of choices in this world.i never knew making one will be so difficult. i never had problems choosing and making a decision when it came to shopping buying shoes or my food or even my ice cream flavour but i now it is making me stress to actually make decision in work.. is it because the money is blinding me..but in a way i am not doing anything wrong..i m using it for all good purpose to give a helping hand to my family and to pay up myself without being too dependent on parents cause i m 21..for me 21 is abt taking responsibilities of yourself like my expense, my studies, my entertaiment n blah blah...

Waking up in the morning today with my mind so unpeacefull cause of un made decision running thrugh my head. I couldn't even stop thinking of it when i was brushing my teeth. i was figuring n calculating on my mindwhat i m gonna do, how much i will get n how m i gonna fit in with classes n tuition n all other things. Thinking about last night and the choices i hv to make today morning is stressful cause i m not able to think right on what to do and what to say to my teacher at work and see the importance of it specially my studies because both means a lot to me. i wish someone can make decision for me like how when i was small my parents did but now all my parents say is "ur big enough to know what is right ma"

i was still wondering what i need to do till lunch time but something jt help me to think more like a fantasy story said by some1wise to help people, this is mayb jt a small decision to be made from other bigger decision that i hv to make in the future. it can be stressfull with problems occuring in you making you feel guilty or however but its maybe jt a test to from god to see how you manage it.. though i dont believe so much in god but mayb this is how it works..n there is solution to it..it depends how u gonna take a step foward to solve it face it.

i discovered one thing today, that our lives are made up of choices that we hv to make, sometimes you make the right 1 n sometime the wrong 1 but remember to always stay POSITIVE, because no matter how bad things are now, life can always change for the BETTER, though its difficult to chosse because there are many choices, but it has to be done because there are bigger decision out there compared to mine.. and if they can make one, so can i, all i hv to do is do it n dont regret