Do you know what's worth fighting for
When it's not worth dying for?
Does it take your breath away
And you feel yourself suffocating
Does the pain weigh out the pride?
And you look for a place to hide
Did someone break your heart inside
You're in ruins

the yellow magic that changed the world

careless - accidental discovery
the benefit of seemingly chance observation - in a trash

the yellow magic that changed the world - by myrasya munira.

sir. alexander fleming, a scottish researcher at Queen Mary Hospital had discovered penicillin in 1928 after his discovery of lysozymes, an enzyme which has antibacterial properties that is found in tears and mucous.

sir fleming works with group of bacteria staphylococci had frequent contamination from airborne mold. in one incident upon returning from holiday, he found that most of his works were contaminated and discarded them in a tray of lysol. he later realised that there were unusual inhibition zone around the fungus on the cultures that were not submerged in the lysol. from then on, he began investigation and subsequently isolated the extract from the mold and continued working on its antibacterial properties.  he named it penicillin.

penicillin is yellowish in color and called the yellow magic due to its bright yellow color in the culture. the crude extract of penicillin is far more powerful antibacterial compound compared to lysozymes, as it works effectively even at 1,000 times dilution. (tears won't kill bacteria as much - but maybe soothe broken heart)

the discovery of penicillin was the pinnacle of british success in world war II as it saved many comrades from infections related to battlefield wounds. in pre-penicillin world war I, many comrades died from pneumonia and menigitis caused by bacterial infections. it also helped to reduce amputations and death during the war.

according to record, even with 400 million units of penicillin produced in the first five months of 1943, the supply were not enough to treat the patients at that time. therefore by the end of world war II, pharmaceutical companies in the u.s made about 650 billion units per month and this changed the world of medicine tremendously.

senior year

kids, today i have to give a presentation to final year students on literature review and their final year project. they all have in minds that this is going to be mundane, lame talk and full of yadda yadda. to them, attendance is compulsory, listening is just waiting for the lecturer to shut up her mouth. their attitude of college cool and i know enough what i will be doing during the semester will be the things that i will be facing throughout the semester. may God bless my soul.

i wish they realise that their cool is a little different than what i had in mind. and generation gap is actually, the best thing. just like friendster and instagram, nintendo and angry bird (i like flap bird too), or dial up internet to 4G wifi. it may be slower, but we watched FRIENDS not reruns, and giggled all day after watching the fresh prince of bel air. although i am old, alas marshall matters still matters. and still king.

many students cringe when i imposed strict only email policy for work and assignment. i have a life too. you can keep your watsapp to your cool friends and my watsapp is not for you to complain about anything or giving me excuses to be late to class. i.am.not.your.mother.

i too have feelings when it comes to students' email. sometimes i wish i could laugh and die happily looking at the email IDs with flattering, cuties and mind blowing memes. can you just write your name properly for an email, please?

bro, wearing flip flop doesnt make you any cool. you just mark yourself to flop in my class. statistically speaking, there is a reason why slippers is called flip flop.

when people say that nobody cares how you look at school, they lied. i have to read university's policy on dressing code to all students before my first lecture. you are doomed and now i've becoming Gandalf, thou shall not pass.

for today's class on literature review, there is a template that is ready to be downloaded. failure to comply with the formatting will result with i am not going to read your thesis. welcome to real world where my time is precious like diamond.

if this appear on iium confessions, or any confessional dashboard/websites/pintrest i will find you, the way liam neeson did.

30 seconds to mars

the kill (bury me)

my first run

10 years have passed since cheju marathon

of songs

dear daisy,
songs are great metaphors of human's expression and throughgoing nonsense.

time of your life by greenday.

and how broken clock is a comfort to me, when time stand still and frozen everything. 

from where you are.

the song: lifehouse, from where you are.

this is perhaps the best summer since 2006