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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Bagaimana seorang graduan kimia boleh membantu kezaliman atau menegakkan keadilan

Berikut merupakan komen dari pembaca Malaysiakini setelah selesai pakar DNA dari Australia memberi keterangan di mahkamah tinggi dalam pendakwaan kes liwat II anwar ibrahim.
Chemistry Dept put through the wringer
9:41AM Aug 27, 2011
"The forensic division of the Chemistry Department is still on probation. Better re-visit all past cases where the department has given evidence in court"
Expert: Saiful's sperm in own anus can't be ruled out
Komen pembaca Malaysiakini
FellowMalaysian: This is like reading a Frederick Forsyth's fiction novel but the difference is this is for real. Chemists Lim Kong Boon and Dr Seah Lay Hong should be sacked for dereliction of duties of the highest order.
Defence witness Dr Brian McDonald has pointed out much disparities and ambiguities between what has been done and what the experts would do.
Why do we not have DNA experts like McDonald and Wells in our country considering that it is only nine years left before we become a first world country.
Makorang: I read Khairy Jamaluddin's tweet about Bill Clinton's DNA on Monica Lewinsky's blue dress. I did some reading.
FBI did the DNA profiling. There were matches of six loci. The maximum number of loci tested is 13. It is good to remember that a dress is not the same as a rectum. I assume the Oval Office was fully air-conditioned, so the semen to a degree was air-dried.
The fact that there were 6 out of 13 matches (46 percent), showed that degradation had occurred. Now we are told that after 56 hours, the samples taken from Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan gave pristine DNAs.
Wira: Of course DNA can be detected in dry dress. DNA can also be detected, as shown earlier, on towels and toothbrushes.
The thing is, if the sperm cell had not been isolated and the DNA in it tested, then the DNA result obtained cannot be attributed as coming from the sperm. It can be from other cells in the surrounding, such as that from Saiful's body or another person who leave some cells (eg. from his skin) in the sample.
In this case, Dr Seah did not isolate the sperm cell from other cells found in the semen. She simply assumed that the DNA found in the semen sample, since it contained Anwar's DNA, must be from Anwar.
Saiful's DNA found was brushed off as a contaminant since the semen was taken from his anus. Such assumption is wrong because the same DNA result would have been obtained if someone takes Saiful's semen, sprinkles Anwar's cells on it, and later reinserts the semen back into Saiful anus.
Kgen: Of course, High Court judge Mohamad Zabidin Diah doesn't need any physical evidence to convict Anwar Ibrahim. He can convict based on the words of Saiful alone, whom he has already declared a "truthful witness".
In 1998, the late Augustine Paul was forced to expunge the DNA evidence which was shredded to pieces by the defence.
He went on to convict Anwar based on his accuser's testimony which he said was "solid as the Rock of Gibraltar" although he had scolded Azizan Abu Bakar for being inconsistent.
This is Malaysia, after all. But the world is watching.
Paul Warren: The prosecution is not worried. After all, the judge only needs to consider if he believes Saiful is truthful without having to provide a basis for it. After all, that was what Ariffin Jaka (the judge in Sodomy I) did, didn't he? The precedent was already set.
No doubt, the Federal Court later threw out Ariffin's verdict. But never mind, at least they can put Anwar away for a couple of years before the apex court once again does its act to showcase to the world that the judiciary works in Malaysia.
Mighty Bear: I would like to see the Chemistry Department give a scientific explanation to how the sperm of an old man, that was kept outside preservation conditions for around 100 hours, not degrade.
Otherwise, it is a scientific certainty that sperm is in fact fresh. Then it becomes a mathematical certainty, that this specimen is invalid to this case, and it becomes a legal certainty that the prosecution's case had sunk.
Justice Pao: All the samples - lower rectal and high rectal - shows no sign of degradation, which meant that the sample cannot be more than the 100 hours that the samples were to have been Saiful's rectum after the sodomy.
In countries around the world, the case would have been thrown out immediately, but I guess only in Malaysia, the judge will continue to hear the case.
Ferdtan: What do you expect from Dr Seah Lay Hong, a doctorate who has the infamous boss, Lim Kong Boon, who is not qualified in the field of DNA. As pointed out in Sodomy I, Lim got a 'C' for chemistry in his degree.
As I have pointed out earlier, the old 'boys' from Sodomy l are totally in this second sodomy plot.
There are Musa Hasan, ex-inspector general of police, Lim Kong Boon (now Chemistry Department director-general), SAC II Mohd Rodwan Mohd Yusof (who was later promoted to Malacca police chief) who met Saiful in a hotel room (in Sodomy I, Rodwan was involved with allegedly placing Anwar's semen on a mattress), and of course the attorney-general, Abdul Gani Patail.
Cala: Remember chemist Lim? He was involved in Sodomy I, and claimed he had collected Anwar's semen from a 6'0''x 6'0'' mattress which was carried in and out of the court day in and day out for maximum exposure.
Guess what? When challenged by Anwar Ibrahim's team of lawyers on the authenticity of the semen, chemist Lim said he had thrown away all the samples. Can you imagine that?
Tailek: What a joke. The forensic division of the Chemistry Department is still on probation. Better re-visit all past cases where the department has given evidence in court.
Maybe innocent persons have been convicted or guilty ones let off based on evidence from a department which does not meet internationally accepted standards.
Pemerhati: The long adjournment of almost a month is puzzling and suspicious. Are PM Najib Razak and his henchmen, who seem to have masterminded the trumped-up sodomy charges, disturbed by the testimony given by McDonald?
Perhaps they need the time to look for another expert from Europe, US or elsewhere who can contradict McDonald as was done in the Teoh Beng Hock case when a pathologist from UK was flown in.
Danny Lazaroo: Of course, it's possible for sperm to in one's own anus. Seriously. I don't really want to be graphic about it, but think about it.
I mean, there were multiple strains of DNA found up his anus - I wouldn't be surprised if he practiced these kind of sexual acts.
Regardless, the fact that the chemist has not determined the presence of sperm or semen is insanely deficient.
Good Men: "Saiful's sperm in own anus can't be ruled out". Hmmm... is 'self-sodomy' considered a crime in Malaysia.
Wallahu'alam
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Peluang buat Master dan PhD bagi sesiapa yang berminat atau tidak mempunyai pekerjaan tetap
YBhg. Datuk/Dato'/Prof./Dr./Tuan/Puan,
PROGRAM MYBRAIN15
Dengan segala hormatnya saya merujuk kepada perkara di atas.
2. Dimaklumkan bahawa Program MyBrain15 merupakan satu program pembiayaan bagi mencapai sasaran 60,000 orang pemegang PhD dari kalangan rakyat Malaysia menjelang tahun 2023. Program MyBrain15 terdiri daripada Skim Latihan Akademik Bumiputera (SLAB) dan Skim Latihan Akademik IPTA (SLAI) yang diteruskan daripada Rancangan Malaysia yang terdahulu dan tiga program baru di bawah Rancangan Malaysia Kesepuluh (RMKe-10) iaitu MyMaster, MyPhD dan PhD Industri. Tiga program baru ini mula dilaksanakan pada bulan Disember 2010,
3. Berbeza dengan program SLAB dan SLAI yang memfokuskan kepada tenaga akademik, tutor dan pensyarah institusi pengajian tinggi awam (IPTA) sebagai kumpulan sasaran, program MyPhD dan MyMaster masing-masing merupakan pembiayaan pengajian di peringkat Ijazah PhD dan Ijazah Sarjana yang menjadikan graduan yang belum bekerja dan tidak berpendapatan tetap, kakitangan sektor swasta dan pensyarah institusi pengajian tinggi swasta (IPTS) sebagai kumpulan sasaran.
4. Sepanjang pelaksanaan RMKe-10, Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi (KPT) mensasarkan untuk menaja seramai 5,000 pelajar bagi melanjutkan pengajian di peringkat PhD melalui program MyPhd dan 40,000 pelajar di peringkat Sarjana di bawah program MyMaster. Bagi tahun 2011, KPT mensasarkan untuk menaja seramai 650 pelajar di bawah MyPhD dan seramai 8,000 pelajar di bawah MyMaster. Dari segi elemen pembiayaan, pelajar tajaan MyMaster adalah layak untuk menerima yuran pengajian maksimum RM10,000 bagi tempoh pembiayaan tidak melebihi 24 bulan. Manakala pelajar tajaan MyPhD pula adalah layak untuk menerima penajaan yuran pengajian maksimum RM24,000 bagi tempoh pembiayaan tidak melebihi 48 bulan. Selain itu, pelajar tajaan MyPhD kategori graduan yang belum bekerja dan tidak berpendapatan tetap juga adalah layak untuk menerima elaun sara hidup RM2,300 sebulan. Pengajian adalah secara sepenuh masa. Bagi kedua-dua program MyPhD dan MyMaster, permohonan perlu dibuat secara atas talian melalui laman web https://www.mohe.gov.my/MyBrain15 .
5. Program PhD Industri sebaliknya memberi tumpuan kepada para profesional dan pengamal industri dalam menghasilkan inovasi dan meningkatkan daya saing melalui penyelidikan berasaskan industri. Sepanjang pelaksanaan RMKe-10, KPT mensasarkan untuk menaja seramai 500 pelajar bagi program Phd Industri dan seramai 100 orang akan ditaja pada tahun 2011. KPT akan membiayai yuran pelajar yang terdiri daripada kos penyeliaan, kos pengajian, kos latihan penyeliaan, kos pemeriksaan panel dan penganugerahan ijazah maksimum sebanyak RM50,000 sepanjang tempoh pengajian. Manakala kos penyelidikan projek perlu ditanggung oleh pihak industri. Permohonan perlu dikemukakan oleh pelajar ke Bahagian Biasiswa KPT melalui industri dan universiti. Justeru, kejayaan program ini amat bergantung kepada komitmen dan kesungguhan pihak industri dan universiti.
6. Seperti yang telah dimaklumkan oleh YB Menteri Pengajian Tinggi semasa merasmikan Majlis Inovasi@MOHE pada 25 April 2011 di Pusat Konvensyen Antarabangsa Putrajaya (PICC), sehingga 25 Mac 2011, KPT baru meluluskan sebanyak 329 permohonan MyPhD, 1,755 MyMaster dan 38 PhD Industri. Sehubungan itu, Bahagian Biasiswa KPT amat memerlukan kerjasama daripada semua pihak termasuk pihak YBhg. Datuk/Dato'/Prof./Dr./Tuan/Puan untuk menghebahkan program MyBrain15 kepada kumpulan sasaran. Maklumat berhubung program ini termasuk bidang-bidang tajaan, syarat permohonan dan tempat pengajian boleh didapati di laman web https://www.mohe.gov.my/MyBrain15 dan sebarang pertanyaan boleh hubungi pegawai terlibat melalui emel myphd@mohe.gov.my, mymaster@mohe.gov.my, phdindustri@mohe.gov.my atau di talian 03-88881616.
7. Segala perhatian dan kerjasama pihak YBhg. Datuk/Dato'/Prof./Dr./Tuan/Puan dalam menjayakan Program MyBrain15 amat dihargai dan didahului dengan ucapan terima kasih.
Sekian.
"BERKHIDMAT UNTUK NEGARA"
Saya yang menurut perintah,
(SUHARMI BIN ISMAIL)
Bahagian Biasiswa
Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi
Friday, May 6, 2011
Vacancy for research assistant at University Malaya
Sila hubungi Dr. Tee Kok Keng, dari Universiti Malaya berkenaan jawatan kosong ini melalui k2tee@yahoo.com.
Peluang PhD in Natural Biodegradable Polymer
Monday, December 27, 2010
Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms | Video on TED.com
Friday, November 26, 2010
Bahasa Bayi! : Adakah benar Bayi Berkomunikasi melalui Tangisan?
Sebenarnya, lapar bukanlah satu-satunya sebab bayi menangis.
Selain dari lapar, bayi akan menangis bila menghadapi keadaan-keadaan seperti penat,
kembung perut, tidak selesa, perlu sendawa dan beberapa sebab lagi.
Seorang ibu mendakwa bahawa beliau boleh berkomunikasi dengan bayinya
dan faham apa kehendak-kehendak si comel bila mereka menangis.
Pendek kata, beliau boleh faham 'bahasa bayi'.
Dengan meneliti bunyi tangisan bayi, beliau boleh bezakan sama ada bayi tersebut,
penat, letih, tidak selesa, perlu sendawa atau sebab-sebab lain.
Kalaulah seseorang ibu itu faham sebab-sebab bayi menangis,
tidak akan timbul masalah bayi tersebut menangis berpanjangan
kerana apabila kehendak bayi itu dipenuhi, sudah pasti dia akan berhenti menangis.
Menurut ibu tersebut, tangisan bayi bukanlah satu bunyi yang dihasilkan secara rawak,
tetapi ia adalah satu bentuk komunikasi oleh bayi bagi menyampaikan keinginan mereka.
Tangisan adalah merupakan 'bahasa universal' bagi bayi. Buktinya, teknik ini telah
diaplikasikan oleh lebih dari 1000 bayi dari 30+ bangsa seluruh dunia.
9 daripada 10 ibu-ibu memberikan respons yang positif terhadap teknik ini.
70% ibu-ibu melaporkan bahawa mereka lebih yakin dan selesa setelah berjaya
mengenalpasti teknik ini.
2 daripada 3 bapa melaporkan bahawa tekanan emosi yang mereka hadapi berkurangan
dan hubungan rumahtangga yang lebih harmoni.
Anda tak percaya?
Salah seorang dari ibu tersebut telah membuktikan
fakta ini dengan menggunakan rakaman video anaknya sendiri.
Nak tengok? KLIK SINI
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Berita baru mengenai Ikatan Hidrogen!
Chemists re-define hydrogen bond - November 03, 2010
The hydrogen bond is a wondrous thing. It helps give snowflakes their hexagonal symmetry; binds DNA into a double helix; shapes the three-dimensional forms of proteins; and even raises water's boiling point high enough to make a decent cup of tea.
This ubiquitous bond is now getting a makeover, thanks to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
The latest definition of the hydrogen bond that appears in IUPAC's Gold Book – the bible of chemical nomenclature – dates from 1997, and is remarkably similar to that laid out by double-Nobel-Prize-winner Linus Pauling in his classic work of 1931, The Nature of the Chemical Bond.
Hydrogen atoms, armed with a lone electron, generally form a single bond with one other atom. For example, hydrogen can form a pretty strong covalent bond – made of a shared pair of electrons - with a carbon atom. The bond is found in every organic compound, from petrol to paraquat. In contrast, other atoms that are willing to loosely share their electrons with a hydrogen atom can sometimes form a weaker 'hydrogen bond' with it – as though the hydrogen atom forms a bridge between two other atoms (see picture).
But over recent years, chemists have found lots of examples of hydrogen bonding that don't quite fit the classic Pauling definition, and the Gold Book has long been due an update, says Gautam Desiraju, a chemist at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. He was on a task force established by IUPAC in 2005 to revise the current, conservative definition.
| Current definition (extract) | Proposed definition (extract) |
| A form of association between an electronegative atom and a hydrogen atom attached to a second, relatively electronegative atom. It is best considered as an electrostatic interaction, heightened by the small size of hydrogen, which permits proximity of the interacting dipoles or charges. | The hydrogen bond is an attractive interaction between a hydrogen atom from a molecule or a molecular fragment X–H in which X is more electronegative than H, and an atom or a group of atoms in the same or a different molecule, in which there is evidence of bond formation. |
While the previous definition stated that the hydrogen bond's "associated energies are less than 5–6 kcal per mol”, the new definition encompasses much weaker interactions, ranging from 0.5 to 40 kcal per mol - such as the bond between a hydrogen attached to a carbon atom and a nearby oxygen atom.
“What has really happened in the last 10 years is instrumental techniques and computational techniques have reached to the point where we can measure some of these effects,” Desiraju says.
Previously, the definition suggested hydrogen bonds were ‘electrostatic interactions’, where hydrogen atoms bear a slight positive charge that is attracted by a slightly negatively-charged bonding partner. The new definition allows there to be some element of covalent bonding involved, where electrons are formally shared between the atoms.
The proposed new definition from the task force has now been released, and is out for public consultation until March. Desiraju expects it to be incorporated into the Gold Book shortly after. This is, he says, a matter of some personal satisfaction: “It's very hard in science to say we’ve reached the end of something, but I think this definition is going to hang around for a long time.”
SUBHANA-ALLAH!
Sumber dpetik dari http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2010/11/chemists_redefine_hydrogen_bon.html (21 November 2010).
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Kemalangan makmal yang meragut nyawa di UCLA
t-BuLi digunakan sebagai flame-thrower
mangsa kejadianWednesday, November 3, 2010
China's scientist Yuan Longping creates hybrid rice to feed the world - What's On Xiamen

Saintis negara China, Yuan Longping yang menemui padi yang dapat menyelesaikan sekurang-kurangnya 1/4 kekurangan makanan di dunia pada masa ini.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Hari Keluarga Jubli Perak IPU 2010
Alhamdulillah...
IPU yang kita sayangi telah mencecah usia 25 tahun. marilah kita hangatkan sambutannya dengan program kemuncaknya iaitu:
Hari Keluarga Sambutan Jubli Perak IPU!!!Tarikh: 17,18 & 19 hb Disember 2010 (Jumaat, Sabtu, Ahad)
Tempat: Nur Laman Bestari, Hulu Yam, Selangor.
Sila 'book' tarikh ini untuk program yang julung-julung kalinya ini.
Walau di mana anda berada, sangat-sangat dialukan hadir.
Ya,
# nun Perlis al Isa Sabu...
# Kedah al ustaz Azizan...
# Pulau Pinang al-Lim Guan Eng...
# Perak az-zambri...
# Kelantan al tok Guru Nik Aziz...
# Terengganu al-Mat Said...
# Pahang al Adnan yaakobi...
# Johor al Ghani Othman...
# Nogori al Mohammad Hassan...
# Selangor al Khalid Ibrahim...
# KL al Dato' Bandari
# Sarawak al Mahmud Taib
# Sabah al Musa Aman...
# Termasuk semua yang berada di seantero dunia
Inilah masa dan ketikanya....
* melepaskan rindu dendam terhadap sahabat-sahabat tercinta...
* menghangatkan kembali kasih sayang yang disemai suatu ketika dulu...
* Menunaikan janji-janji yang belum terlunas...
* Membayar segala hutang2 top up, minyak motor, potostat nota kuliah, dan pelbagai jenis hutang yang masih belum dibayar...
* hatta mencari calon menantu untuk anak teruna atau gadis masing-masing...
Siapa pun anda sekarang,
YB
Dato'
Datin,
Prof Emiratus,
Yang masih bermukim di UKM (student, tutor, pensyarah dll)
Ya, ia terbuka kepada semua ahli IPU sejak ia mula ditubuhkan 25 tahun dahulu...
Sila sahkan kehadiran anda segera... Sila hubungi :
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Ucapan tahniah!


Mungkin tidak terlambat untuk mengucapkan setinggi-tinggi tahniah kepada Dr. Azwan Lazim dan Dr. Farah Harun atas kejayaan dalam menamatkan pengajian di peringkat PhD dalam bidang kimia pada bulan September 2010.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Tidak wujud sakit kanser di zaman Firaun

Friday, October 15, 2010
Kajian Air Kristal Terhadap Doa

Thursday, October 14, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010 - Press Release
Hikmah Disebalik Peristiwa
Dengan tertatih-tatih si ibu berdiri di pinggir jalan mencoba menyetop kendaraan yang lewat. Setelah mendapatkan tumpangan dan berjalan beberapa kilometer, tiba-tiba jalanan macet luar biasa. Rupanya ada kecelakaan maut yang merenggut nyawa seluruh penumpang sebuah bus di depan. Ketika kendaraan yang dinaiki ibu itu melewati bus maut tersebut, terkesiaplah dia. Rupanya bus yang hancur dan penumpangnya tewas itu adalah bus yang tadi dinaikinya dimana dia diturunkan oleh awak bus itu di tengah jalan gara-gara tangis bayinya. Rupanya Allah SWT memberi kasih sayangnya lewat tangisan bayinya dan melepaskannya dari maut. Tak henti-hentinya dia bersykur kepada Allah SWT. Apa jadinya bila dia tadi masih tetap ada di bus itu ?
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Sahabat, Bisa saja Anda kecewa dan marah-marah dengan orang yang menyakiti Anda. Tapi siapa tahu justru dengan kejadian tersebut Anda telah diselamatkan oleh Allah SWT dari musibah yang jauh lebih berat yang Anda belum tahu. Semua hal mungkin saja terjadi.
Karena itu pandai-pandailah mencari hikmah di balik sebuah musibah dan jangan lupa bersabar. Kecewa itu manusiawi, tapi putus asa adalah dosa. Ketahuilah bahwa Allah SWT itu Maha Adil. Dia tidak akan menyia-nyiakan hamba-Nya yang beriman dan bertaqwa kepada-Nya. Yakinlah pada Allah SWT yang telah mengatur kehidupan ini dengan sempurna.
Wallahu a'lam



