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Print & Print & Print
19 July 2007

Lots of Printing right now at this very moment.
Yeah, this is a LIVE reporting from SNGS primary computer lab 2.
A few hours earlier received a request from Mdm Tan YJ if she can get us to help her, no, is help Suan Choo from Sec Side to print 3800 sticker labels.

Well, since we are all very helpful person so I agreed. Haha. (so BHB... )
Right now am listening to the 12nn Prayer of the day but I do not understand a single word of it. I guess it cant be helped huh? Afterall this is not my religion...

Had a last minute appointment with Aizza @ 1:30pm (oh, prayer just ended) but am now stuck in this cold pc lab here doing printing job. Hey Printer Chan u better do a fast job for me!! Opps, just a moment ago one of the chinese teacher came... he need to use the lab 2 for his class but then both labs are in used... (only the main pc for teacher). And Bobby isnt ard in lab 1... is the printing job over his place done? I'm not sure... anyway the teacher have to use the whiteboard for now...

I have 150 pieces (10 labels each piece) left to print... will be going over to lab 1 to check things out once done with the job here. Lab 2 Printer Chan, Ganbatte Ne!!

P.S: I'm so sick today... sore throat, coughing and runny nose (regular visitor)...
Time 12:10 PM

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I'm still kicking & alive...
17 July 2007

Yo ppl out there....

Lately i have been blogging about knowledge stuffs up here. It's good to share interesting things. After the June holiday, I have been rather busy with work. Teachers are all 'booking' me to help them with our EduLearn portal.
Then one thing that make me uncomfortable is Mr Ahmad told me to wrote my email address (company email do doesnt matter) and handphone number on the notice board in the staff room for teachers to contact me when they need help.

I left my number on the board for a week and the more i think abt it the more i don feel good. Then i erased it. Haha... Christina Tan wants me to help her copy all the files from the Maths Teacher's Resource CD into the sch network drive call RDMC. But then due to the 'autorun' file, i am not able to help her. Then i went to the Bobby the TA. He sent in request to the MOE. And he told me that Ahmad is a selfish man becos last time he put bobby's hp no. on stickers and paste it on all the pc in the computer lab. =.= OMG!! Of cos Ahmad wont put his own number for sales huh?

The longer i work here the more i see... well, the students are bad... really horrible and so are their parents (most of them). The sch itself maybe a good sch but the culture has been invaded and twisted sia... the only good thing is the canteen? But then its price is considered really expensive for primary sch students... hmm... since their parents are so rich so i guess its not a problem for the primary sch girls.

Had early lunch with Joaquim today and we chat. She was asking stuffs abt our ANL... when i told her that we will only have a 1 year contract with a school and change to the other sch once the contract ends, she asked if we are allowed to request to stay in the same sch. Well... i'm not sure abt this but i wouldnt make such request. Because i do not like the students...

In the afternn i went back to NYP... most prob the last time i go there. Just to collect my Diploma cert, and it doesnt look very good... infact it looked too plain. I thought diploma would look nice?!! Well... pay so much sch fees for such plain cert... feel kind of =.= After getting my dip i went to Shuting's lab and saw that E6 Rocky Guy... (I think i remember his name but i don noe how to spell it LOLX). Then we went to the bird cage to find HH. Haha... at first i didnt saw her cos she's been 'covered' by monitor. LOLX

Saw HL's blog today and there's this person call 'Devil' commenting on her entry... hey, is this person out to set me up? Cos i'm Ire.Devil and this donnoe he/she oso used the word 'Devil'. =.= If this person is among our fren and had read my blog here better own up to me, or else... Abt frenship i am still trying to catch hold of it. Becos i have had very bad impression on this thing call frenship due to my sec sch life. -_-

HH complaint that i nv blog... now then i realised i start to have this 'post once in a month' practise for my ire blog. Haha... well... becos i dont like no response frm readers.... feel like taking away my chat box but then wasted cos alr got the acc and i sign up specially for this blog one. So i don feel like blogging le loh... I am bias to other blogs... haha. =X Shuting mentioned that she think she knows who is the 449 alr... then i told her that actually i alr forgotten that i have had asked 449 for his msn b4!! Why do i remember? Becos Piggy ZH once asked where i got the courage to hit on him. Then that's how he bring back my bad memory. =.=

Anyway i am starting to forget things.... i am trying to forget this guy call SH... becos when it comes to him i will get kind of soft-hearted. Deleted his msn and hp number but if i still remember it i will add him again. This is not good for health. I want to forget abt alot of things... especially all those bad things and NYP is one of them... ruin ppl's future. WT#. I am lost when think abt my future... seriously lost... not everyone can get what they want... how to even make our dreams come true? I dont like it.

Sianz....

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Study: Twins form after embryo collapses
16 July 2007

Scientists proposed a new theory this week for how identical twins are formed as embryos, in a discovery that may improve a broad range of artificial reproduction techniques.

Using specialized computer software to take photos every two minutes of 33 embryos growing in a laboratory, Dr. Dianna Payne, a visiting research fellow at the Mio Fertility Clinic in Japan, and colleagues documented for the first time the early days of twin development.

The research was presented Monday at a meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology in Lyon, France.

Payne and colleagues found that identical twins are formed after an embryo essentially collapses, splitting the progenitor cells those that contain the body's fundamental genetic material in half. That leaves the same genetic material divided in two on opposite sides of the embryo. Eventually, two separate fetuses develop.

"This is very exciting because it explains the principle of how we get twins," said Dr. Soren Ziebe, an artificial reproduction expert at the University of Copenhagen, who was not connected to Payne's research.

"Until now, we have assumed that at some point when the embryo breaks out of its shell to adhere to the uterus, it somehow gets divided into two," Ziebe said. Payne's theory presents a plausible explanation of how that division occurs, according to Ziebe.

"This is an exciting paper because by watching the embryo growing continuously, it has given a new insight into the processes by which the embryo divides," said Dr. Alison Murdoch, a professor of reproductive medicine at Newcastle University's Fertility Centre. Murdoch was not connected to Payne's research.

While conducting the research, Payne also found a possible explanation for why in-vitro fertilization techniques are more likely to create twins. Only about three pairs of twins per thousand deliveries occur as a result of natural conception. But for IVF deliveries, there are nearly 21 pairs of twins for every thousand.

To date, scientists have been at a loss to explain the discrepancy. Payne suggests that the laboratory conditions in which embryos are grown in solutions that attempt to reproduce the uterus environment are different enough to somehow provoke the development of twins.

"There are a lot of very subtle effects in the body, like different gas concentrations, enzymes or salt solutions," said Payne. While scientists attempt to replicate an embryo's natural environment, they are still far off. "The difference between the lab conditions and what's present in the body is probably resulting in more twins," she said.

"We need to take careful account of this new information," Murdoch said, adding that growing embryos for longer periods in the laboratory may be adding to the likelihood of having twins.

Payne suggested that with more research, doctors could potentially devise a test to predict which embryos might be inclined to produce identical twins. Because carrying twins is more risky than carrying a single baby, experts think the success rates of artificial reproduction would increase if twins could be avoided.

In the photos from Payne's research, scientists were able to observe two distinct "inner cell masses" in the embryos that developed twins. Of the 26 embryos that developed enough for them to observe, two had these distinct internal cell masses that scientists think are characteristic of twins.

Experts think that Payne's discovery could be applied to a number of artificial reproduction techniques.

"If we can improve the laboratory conditions for embryos to minimize the development of twins, then we can optimize the conditions for all eggs and embryos in artificial reproduction," said Ziebe. "This research has the potential to help all IVF procedures."

Credits: Associated Press

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