Thursday, July 9
this is from the ntu website. wow. now boss is rich. maybe we'll be able to buy more glass plates and other lab equipment now.. right... like that will ever happen...XDNTU receives S$30 million Competitive Research Programme grants
07-Jul-2009
Three proposals from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have won up to S$30 million in research fund from the National Research Foundation (NRF) following its fourth call for proposals under its Competitive Research Programme (CRP) Funding Scheme. Since the inaugural CRP grant call was launched on 16 April 2007, NTU has received some S$90 million grants from NRF. This underscores the significant role that the university plays in fuelling Singapore’s drive for research and innovation.
One of the winning proposals is led by Associate Professor Jaume Torres, which aims to develop “tools for rational discovery of novel therapeutics and diagnostics targeting integral membrane proteins”.
Commenting on receiving the funding, Assoc Professor Torres says, “With this funding, we will develop our proposal on membrane proteins, which is one of the most exciting areas of research in biological systems. We do foresee that this will be one of the hottest topics in biomedicine and biotechnology for the next 10 years. We envisage this project will help to position Singapore at the forefront of membrane protein research.”
The other winning project “Interface Science and Technology (IS-Tech)” is led by Associate Professor Christos Panagopoulos.
Commenting on the proposal, Associate Professor Panagopoulos says, “We propose to engineer and investigate novel materials with functionalities beyond the current state of technology. This approach opens up new perspectives for the emergence and exploration of interface properties that are driven by electron interactions in reduced dimensions – a true example of innovative technology, with inventions and applications originating from seminal scientific advances.”
The proposal “Nanonets: New Materials, Devices for Integrated Energy Harnessing & Storage” by Professor Subodh Mhaisalkar and his team focuses on novel nanomaterials that will bring new functionalities to applications in green energy systems such as solar cells for energy generation and batteries for electrical energy storage.
“It is indeed an honour to receive the grant from the National Research Foundation. It is an acknowledgement that the project proposed by our team is of the highest scientific standard and is well aligned with the national research agenda. We look forward to develop the project to address global climate change concerns and the critical need for alternative energy solutions,” says Professor Mhaisalkar.
The CRP Funding Scheme offers substantial funding support of up to S$10 million per proposal, over three to five years. The grant funds a broad base of research programmes through a competitive bottom-up (investigator-led) approach, with submissions assessed by international scientific reviews.
Posted by alalsil at Thursday, July 09, 2009
Monday, May 11
yea, so not looking forward to going back to school for fyp tomorrow. am utterly clueless as to what im supposed to do and what is expected of me. ok, maybe not utterly but still, bad enough. been following two people and doing bits and pieces of.. er, scientific stuff too bothersome to describe here. wasnt until last friday that i realized why nothing made much sense. cos the things i had been doing were sort of like the start and end of a, erm, process. finally saw the link after 5 days in the lab. so does not bode well for me. am doomed to bad fyp grade.on another matter, wonder if i really should spend two years, nott to mention the money on something that i may not actually put to use in the future. honestly speaking, i have no freaking idea what i want to do in the future. what i would love to do is probably something that will never happen, or at least not very realistic to achieve anyway. really dont want to be stuck in a damn lab for the rest of my life. especially after having had a taste of it already, can most definitely say that lab sucks. is dry and boring, and have been eating suppers instead of dinners for the past few days, not counting the weekend of course.
blah, am bound to be a useless leech on society. am envious of people who know what they want to do too. is so lucky. bleah.
Posted by alalsil at Monday, May 11, 2009
Saturday, April 18
yeah yeah supposed to be studying for 各家学说. whatever. so sian.ok not whatever. i will get to continuing... eventually. so not feeling motivated at all to study. exams this time around has been weird. no sense of urgency at all until pretty much when its in my face. even then, still not much motivation. must be because we have exams (and i dont mean like tests, they are real exams) every half a semester, its difficult not to get sick and bored of cramming for exams. blah blah. damn sian.
anyway, currently very hooked on this song. its called フレンズ― and its the second ending theme for gundam 00, not like anyone i know would know since no one seems to watch anime but me... anyhow, its by a relatively new singer from japan who can sing insanely high. and who happens to be smart and pretty too. i quote, my best friend wiki,
"Stephanie (ステファニー ,Sutefanī?, born August 5, 1987) is a Japanese singer and actress. Currently residing in Tokyo, she is signed onto Sony Music Japan and is a student at Aoyama Gakuin University's school of law.
Born to a Japanese mother from Yamaguchi Prefecture and an Armenian-American father, she is a Japanese citizen. She is able to sing five octaves and use the whistle register."
and she's my age and a leo too, how cool is that?
同じ笑顔してた
そんな僕らも幾年も重ねすぎて
すれ違う景色を
受け入れられずにもがいてる
無駄なプライド捨て去り
この世界に優しさを
Ｉ Ｇｏｔｔａ Ｓａｙ
勇気を見せつけても 強がっても
一人では生きられない
あの日の約束なら
心の深くに残っているよ 今でも
別れてまた出会い
新たな道に 光見つけ歩き出す
生まれてからずっと
繰り返すことで 繋がってく
いつの間に君と僕も
それぞれ未来を手にして
Ｉ Ｇｏｔｔａ Ｓａｙ
遠く離れていても 会えなくても
強い絆はあるから
「夢が叶いますように」
心の底から祈っているよ
Ｗｅ’ｒｅ ｆｒｉｅｎｄｓ ｆｏｒｅｖｅｒ
また会うことを誓い
ゆびきりして
僕らは歩き出したね
見えない行先へと
迷いながらでも
進んでいるよ
いつでも
変わりゆく季節と
瞬間（とき）の中
懐かしいｍｅｌｏｄｉｅｓ
大人になっても
色褪せはしないよ
僕達のｐｒｅｃｉｏｕｓ ｍｅｍｏｒｉｅｓ
Ｉ Ｇｏｔｔａ Ｓａｙ
勇気を見せつけても 強がっても
一人では生きられない
あの日の約束なら
心の深くに残っているよ
Ａｓ ｌｉｆｅ ｇｏｅｓ ｏｎ．．．
忘れちゃいけないからＹｅａｈ
Ｄｏｎ’ｔ ｌｅｔ ｉｔ ｇｏ．．．
この広い大地と仲間達のこと
Translated and transliterated by DarkMirage
http://lyrics.darkmirage.com
Posted by alalsil at Saturday, April 18, 2009
Wednesday, March 25
鲁兆麟my 老师 is “中南海御医”!!! so cool right? hahaha XD
Posted by alalsil at Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Sunday, March 15
i cannot believe man u lost 1-4 to liverpool. this is humiliating. granted torres and gerrard were good, but isnt man u supposed to be at the top of their form as well? this is not good... to liverpool of all teams too.Posted by alalsil at Sunday, March 15, 2009
Monday, March 9
this, i kopped from chimpanjee's blog. its damn hilarious lah. cause of stupid fyp, am currently emailing lots of profs and have to figure out where they are from and what's their surname and yadda. so the first convo is between me and chimpanjee, the rest i have no idea who, but man, this is damn frigging hilarious lah. my mum thinks im crazy, sitting in front of my lappie and laughing like mad. so the excerpt:Conversation 1
Me: zbynek bozdech is wat kind of ppl?
J: wat's that?
Me: SHIT YOU. that is a person's name?
J: ?
i have no idea
J: you serious
Me: a homo japien just like my dear fren you
J: are you telling me that this is a person's name?
zbynek bozdech
this?
Conversation 2
Me: zbynek bozdech is wat kind of ppl?
A: what talking you?
Me: ehh
y u all so bad
wait let me continue asking ppl
A: haha i really duno what you're talking about
is it a joke or riddle those kind?
Conversation 3
Me: zbynek bozdech is wat kind of ppl?
N: eeehZ
wad zyynek
is it my msn got some problem?
or ur msn?
Me: huh
N: u just msn mi some weird thing leh
Me: that's the name of a prof!
N: u mean where is the prof from?
no idea man
like seriously. XD
Posted by alalsil at Monday, March 09, 2009
Monday, March 2
just watched this show today because it turned out that the 各家学说 hasnt arrived in singapore yet. or something like that. the main point is ntu-sbs admin sucks. as usual. yeah, whatever. what's new. so anyway, havent watched a movie in ages.. XD not too bad, this show. its funny. wouldnt be bad to have a male friend like justin long's character, alex, in the show. very insightful indeed.. haha XD the main female character, gigi, for most part of the show, is damn bloody annoying and pathetic. and jennifer connelly make a real scary wife with some serious neurosis man. XD
and scarlett johansson is waaay waaay hot. yepp. XD
walked around vivo abit after that. have been living in a cave recently cos i didnt even know about the national geographic shop at vivo. very very cool/ great photos they sell there. duh, taken by national geographic photographers, cos they'd be good． hope i'll have the moolah to buy that kind of photos next time. totally cool. :D