Week : 11

Date : May 11, 2015 ; May 14, 2015 ; May 15, 2015

Topic :Food Spoilage & Waste water Treatment

Activities, Notes & Reflection :

On Monday, we learnt about the microorganisms that cause the spoilage of food. Generally, there are many factor that promote the growth of microbes on food including the extrinsic and intrinsic factors. Extrinsic factors include the temperature while intrinsic factors are moisture, pH and nutrient content. From what I understand, intrinsic is more to the condition of the food whereas extrinsic is referring to the surrounding condition of that food. During the next class, Dr Wan taught us the new topic which is waste water treatment. All of my male classmate also had been asked by Dr Wan to present in front of the class. They were so funny as usual. Next, on Thursday, Dr Wan asked us to do the crossword puzzle about about the waste water treatment. The questions were quite challenging for I didn't remember some of the term. But, it is okay because it can train us to remember what we had learnt and read. 

Overall, the topic of food spoilage is irresistible and I can practice what I had learnt from this topic in my daily life. Perhaps, before this I was not aware with the presence of microbes on food but after learning this topic I become more concern about what I might eat. (Microbes are all around us, beware !!). To add up, I realized learning is not only restricted in class, we can use that knowledge in our daily life. Always have the thought that everything that we learn is the lifelong learning including this learning about microbes. So, stay calm and enjoy your life :)

Microbes on cheese.. nyumm nyumm

Oh my strawberries !

Microbes are everywhere on and in our body ..

Week : 10

Date :
 May 7, 2015 & May 8, 2015

Topic :
Human Microbiome

Activities, Notes & Reflection :

We finished our lesson on topic human microbiome. Dr Wan shared some interesting stories to us regarding this topic. Dr Wan also shared the tips and topic that will come up in test 2. After learning this topic, I knew new things about the microbes on and in our body whether they are transient or resident microbes. I also got the new knowledge about the microbes that cause infections to human. Before this, I might knew the name of disease based on my experience or else, but now I knew the specific microbes that cause the specific disease.

On Friday, we had test 2. The objective questions were quite confusing and challenging as we need the skill to relate the topic from one to another. On the other hand, the structure questions were much easier than the objective question. I’m so sorry Dr if I can’t perform well in this test. I had tried my best to answer all the questions.

Week : 9

Date :
 April 27, 2015 

Topic :
Human Microbiome

Activities, Notes & Reflection :
We continued our lecture about the human microbiome. Dr Wan gave a lot of new information that I didn't know before about the microorganisms that reside in our body. The pathogenicity and virulency of those microbes are different from each other. Besides that, we also can differentiate between infection and disease. Infection occurs when the microbes grow on host but not necessary they can cause disease. Disease occurrs when the microbes impared the host function. I learnt a lot of new terms from this lecture. It was an interesting topic and so the lecture as it was really related with our daily life. The way Dr wan taught us was also attracted me to learn this topic as Dr Wan only focused on the lecture and no online activities during that day.