Honey Bee......Mini Asean..........MNS AGM Meeting

Last weekend (24 August 2008) , I brought my family to 'visit' Malacca, not for a holiday but for a meeting at  Seri Malaysia Hotel, Ayer Keroh. I had to attend the Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) Annual General Meeting that I was one of the candidate for the MNS Council Member for 2008/2010. However, after the ballot process, I was not the selected one as there are only 6 seats and the candidates were 12. I took this opportunity to thanks to Prof. Madya Dr. Sulong of University Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) for proposed me as candidate, and for those who had voted me for that post, thanks a lot. I'll proceed with my volunteering work as MNS Education  Coordinator as usual. 

For my family members, thanks for your supports and patience while you were at the hotel. Hope our 'visit' to Malacca that day is not the first and last for you. I promise to bring you all again to visit the historical city of Malacca next time, yes, in a real visit.

Workshop for Teachers on Plant Tissue Culture Techniques

A sweet memory at FRIM ..................

Curriculum Development Division officers with Dr. Kodi of FRIM & Ms Mahaletchumy of MABIC


Acacia hybrid planting session


Briefing on culture media by Dr. Kodi


The preparing of tissue culture media bottles


The Flame Beauty plant

At the GreenHouse






En. Aziz Saad, our Department Head is giving his speech




I am planting the Acacia hybrid plants

Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM), Ministry of Education Malaysia (MOE) and Malaysian Biotechnology Information Centre (MABIC) organized a fruitful workshop for Biology and Science teachers within Klang Valley regarding the Plant Tissue Culture Techniques on 26 August 2008 at FRIM Auditorium, FRIM Tissue Culture Laboratory and FRIM Tissue Culture GreenHouse.

The workshop was officially opened by the Y.Bhg Dato' Timbalan Ketua Pengarah Penyelidikan FRIM. Together with the teachers were the officers from Science and Mathematics Department, Curriculum Development Division, Ministry of Education Malaysia, lead by En. Aziz Saad, the Department Head.

In this workshop, the participants were given a fruitful information on the topic of plant tissue culture by FRIM tissue culture expert, Dr. Kodi Isparan Kandasamy through his presentation entitled "Plant Tissue Culture and Its Application in Forest Biotechnology".

We then continue the workshop with practical sessions on tissue culture techniques that being held at tissue culture laboratory. We managed to learn and experience the tissue culture work with the help of several researchers and research assistants. We were given the opportunities to do the plant tissue culture work by using Flaming Beauty (Carphalea kirondron)  and Acacia hybrid tissues. I got a special request from Dr. Nor Hasnida Hassan, a Senior Research Officer to do the tissue culture on Tongkat Ali / Long Jack (Eurycoma longifolia) and I do not know either my cultures are succesful or not. (I can't upload the photos while we were at the laboratory as taking  photograph is prohibited here).

The final event for this hands-on activities was the replanting session of the provided tissue cultured Acacia hybrid  plants at the tissue culture greenhouse. We managed to plant five young plants per person and we planted for about 150 young plants. Yes, we had support the 'planting tree campaign'. Dr. Kodi also gave a tissue cultured Wild Ginger plant (Zingiber malaysianum) for all participants as souvenir.

At the end of the workshop, the participants then received their attendance certificate after the official closing ceremony. 

I take this opportunity to thanks Mr. Anandan of Curriculum Development Division, Dr. Kodi, Dr. Nor Hasnida and all tissue culture unit staf, Ms. Maha of MABIC, teachers and CDD officers for the fruitful event. Thank you....... and please remember this, "teacher is the forefront to dissiminate information".

ALAMI ALAMKU

Alami Alamku .....begitulah tajuk sebuah buku modul program Kem Kesedaran Alam Sekitra (KeKAS) yang akan diterbitkan oleh Jabatan Alam Sekitar, Kementerian Sumber Asli dan Alam Sekitar Malaysia. Buku modul ini adalah di peringkat pengujian untuk segala aktiviti yang dicadangkan di dalam buku modul tersebut.

Untuk menjayakan pengujian itu, Jabatan Alam Sekitar Putrajaya telah menjalankan satu program Kem Kesedaran Alam Sekitar (KeKAS) 2008 bertempat di Unit Latihan Perhutanan, Institut Penyelidikan Perhutanan Malaysia (FRIM) di Kepong. Program ini bermula pada 19 Ogos 2008 dan berakhir pada 21 Ogos 2008 dengan melibatkan pelajar-pelajar dari SMK Presint 9 (1) Putrajaya dan pegawai-pegawai Jabatan Alam Sekitar dari beberapa negeri serta wakil FRIM.

Perjalanan program ini dikendalikan oleh fasilitator yang dilantik khas oleh pihak penganjur iaitu En. Harun Abu Bakar, En. Ahmad Salihin Mat Saat dan En. Hashimi Ismail (sayalah tu....). Kami telah menguji rintis beberapa aktiviti yang dicadangkan di dalam buku modul tersebut antaranya adalah berkaitan udara, air, tanah, 3R, kompos, permainan alam sekitar dan biodiversiti.

Terima kasih kepada semua peserta yang memberikan komitmen sepenuhnya semasa program ini dijalankan. Jutaan terima kasih ditintakan buat penganjur (Pn. Putri Shazlia dan rakan-rakan setugas dari Jabatan Alam Sekitar Putrajaya) serta untuk Yang Mulia Pn. Raja Aminah, KPP Jabatan Alam Sekitar di atas peluang yang diberikan untuk saya bersama-sama dalam program ini. Untuk En.Harun dan En. Ahmad Salihin, terima kasih di atas perkongsian ilmu yang kita usahakan. 

Kem Briged Alam Sekitar