to all BioMEd FiRst Year

To all Biomedical Science first Year colleagues:

There will be an activity, Biomedical Symposium 2010 held at 13 and 14 March 2010.
We would like to invite all of our first year members to participate in this event.
This would be a great chance for all of you to learn social skills, handling an event, preparing proposal and etc.

Please divide among yourself into 5 people in each group. Each group will have a booth conducting or presenting a science fact. (Or any interesting thing relate to science)
All of you are free in choosing your group members and title of science fact that you are going to present.
Please give yee wuen or Shakila your group members' name and group name.
dateline: 30th december 2009 (wednesday)

feel free to ask for more infor from Yee wueN or shakila.

there's some interesting and yet funny video:

( feel free to check it out)**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVIoqBZRVRU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC-KOYQsIvU&feature=related

Biomed Buka Puasa Dinner

I must admit, the club has been rather dormant lately, as compared to last semester. Throughout the month of August, there was Faculty Night, followed by First Test and a joint event called Intellectual Discussion (co-organized with Kelab Bimbingan Mahasiswa). Next, the Ramadhan month has begun. And when you thought we gonna be dormant, well you thought wrong.

In this holy month, we held a Buka Puasa dinner, in conjunction with the fasting season. As this is a month that promotes the values of forgiveness and moderation, this event of ours is just that. With 3 tutorial rooms for dining and 3 others for prayers, our event went smoothly without any fuss. And what is interesting, all members Muslims or non-Muslims alike sat together for a simple opening delight of dates and jelly, followed by a feast after prayers.

Everything was just plain and usual, honestly. But one thing about organizing a dinner event, as long as everyone went back with stomachs full, it is a successful event already.

Biomed BBQ Dinner

Congratulation to all lecturers who got promoted and also to all first year biomedic students who has been selected to be in UPM.

Biomed Odyssey Orientation Week

After months of discussion, weeks of preparation and a couple of sleepless nights, the Biomed Odyssey finally draws to a close.

What may seem like an endless orientation for the juniors, is actually a unique way from us seniors, of welcoming all juniors as part of our big family in UPM. Here I would like to thank all the seniors who worked as committee members to ensure the realization and smooth running of all events during orientation week. Next, I would like to give a special acknowledgment to lecturers and staffs of Biomedical Science Department, who gave support in our activities.

Last but not least, from the bottom of my heart, I thanked and congratulate all the juniors who made this orientation worth 'wild' and unlike any other. I represent the organizing committee to apologize for any misbehavior and misconduct from us, and hope that any offensive action may never remain as a torn in our relationship.

OK enough writing. As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Now I have a video to summarize what our orientation has been. Enjoy!!

Proclamation of UPM FPSK Biomedicine Club Constitution

"It is necessary that with one hand and one voice the colonist should use their best energies to launch the ship of State in deep waters. I trust that every good wish that I am now addressing for the future progress of this colony will be amply realized ..."

Sir William Robinson, Governor of Western Australia, 1890

Biomedicine students welcome the dawn of student self governance in Fakulti Sains Bioperubatan UPM, in 1997 where students established what would be the blueprint of Biomedicine Club FPSK UPM now. After more than ten years of establishment, I as Club President, emboldened by a sense of civic pride and entrusted by democracy of people, celebrate the proclamation of the Perlembagaan Kelab Bioperubatan (Biomedicine Club Constitution).

Proclamation of the new constitution will be an important symbolic episode in club history. Not only did it herald a real change in the form and composition of club governance, but it would also be contrived as the moment when the club finally come of age.

Biomed Badge

Thank you to all club members for your support on our club badge sales orientation week edition. We will be glad to promote more club merchandises for members' collection in future.

Shawn Keng

Lifelossophobia....dissected

lifelossaphobia
by JS














Everybody wants to "live the life"... lately this has got me thinking.
what does that really mean? For Jeff the teenager, living the life would be playing computer games till dawn, bumming out, having fun with friends, partying etc etc...Tim on the other hand is the man who fills every second of his life with activity , sometimes, all he wants is rest. Remember these two characters for they bear great importance in this literature.

I have to admit, on most days, I'm Tim. I spend every hour doing something....anything..everything. This disease i shall coin as "lifelossophobia". Allow me to explain.

Ever get the feeling that life is not satisfying? Like when you wake up and suddenly you see that all you were doing in the past was just wasting time. Where has the past 10 years gone to? Fleeting images of parties, blur faces, and a few pinpoints of bright moments float lazily across you mind.

"Oh God , Im a loser...." ( eyes widely opened and stunned )

then suddenly, it hits you, a most astounding cognitive revelation has occured,

"angels blowing horns and rays of light appear"

No more shall i waste precious minutes in lethargic bliss. I shall conquer. I shall DO and BE.

Thisis the point of time in history that the syndrome known as lifelossophobia began. This disease is prone to affect intellectuals, active lifestyled, go-getting, high-on-confidence people but sometimes the average bum(me...)

And so the suddenly the lifeless dweeb becomes a full time Life-a-holic.

we(i) as humans tend to have a flaw. We over do things. And who am I to blatantly flout the norms of the majority? A week? A month? These durations are bearable. but after a year, things get hazy. Suddenly everything seems to slam into a big wall. The last noteworthy progress that i have made in my life was 60 days behind.

In the movies, this point is the insert-your-lifechanging-event segment where the protagonist suddently has an "aha" moment. Sadly we mortals have no such help from life. Most of the time we never change and continue spinning down the road to oblivion.

This syndrome called lifelossophobia causes a high level of stress on the nervous system. After a certain amount of time, Things start misfiring. Symptoms that are exhibited are : loss of friends, extreme fatigue, jerk-ism(a disturbing behavior displayed by .... jerks) and being downright mediocre in all pursuits.


The key to overcoming lifelossophobia is actually recognizing that you are currently suffering from it. As they say, to kill a deer, first you need to know what a deer is or else the family is gonna be feasting on badger, bear, or the occasional writer. You never know what you will find in a forest these days.

The correct drug to battle this disease is called "Survival of the fittest/ culling of the weak". As individuals in this vast world, our choices are unlimited,pleasures to be discovered are infinite and our destiny has a million different endings. Then arrives the ultimate party pooper, time, which effectively castrates all our dreams and leaves them as unfertile rabbits in a sea of hot sexy bunnies ; useless. We mortals simply do not have enough time to do everything. ( hearing a big DUUUH from the audience now)

Next it comes to the pick and roll stage. No its not a basketball strategy. What this means is that we pick our best skills, our forte, our prime kahoona of abillities and roll on with life holding them tightly to our bosom. Be forewarned, this is not as easy as it seems. After going through this stage, i solemnly tell you "leaving part of you to rot and die really hurts". It feels like you're actually LEAVING A PART OF YOU TO ROT AND DIE!.

If you are not suicidal and dead by now, look on the bright side. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Little by little, i notice that this time I'm not Tim.(for reference, see first paragraph) Under certain circumstances, suddenly i become Jeff. On this note i stress that Jeff is more sociable, fun, and confident than Tim. Life looks livable again. Armed with a bevy of tricked out,glamorous distilled skills and abundant time, i leave my dying old self behind and take the reins of my own life back from the dust.


Pick and roll, fight lifelossophobia....