Chem-is-try

Before graduate I've tried some chance for applying scholarships to Japan and Korea (U2U mode) but I failed, maybe it cause by my preparation aren't good enough and I kept in my mind "next year i should try again". But the reality isn't going like what we've planned.

After graduate, I've applied for job (I thought it was normally, as the first child in my family I've to help my parents for the financial- Welcome to the real world).

September 06, 2014 was my first day to become a trainee in PT. Astidama Adhimukti located in Samsam Village, Tabanan, Bali. It was an industry of beverage, one of subsidiary of Orang Tua Group which produce Tango, Oops, etc), that produce some kind of drunk (Whisky "Drum", Vodka "Iceland", and kind like wine "Orang Tua"). 6 months as a trainee in logistic position, first time I thought "why I stayed in this position" but after several months I enjoyed that and I felt more comfort than other position I thought good one before.

After 7 months here, my mind still can't erased the memory of "how to continue my study to get master degree with scholarship"... But the other side I still keep my mind, after my mother passed away, I should stay to beg my family especially my sister (Ratih) and my father of course. Ahh... these two minds making me so confused..

In the end of April 2015 (I forgot, CMIIW) I got information about one kind of scholarship that I've targeted from 2013/2014, the name is PMDSU scholarship.

The story will be continued in next page.... The Adventure of Me....

Salam untuk para Laskar Beasiswa!!!

Toward the ending of June or the beginning of July, all applicant of MEXT Scholarship via University will have sensation of pounding to wait the final result. May too earlier, but congratulation for the applicant who pass the MEXT final selection and enjoy your experience in Japan for 2-6 years.

Okay, now I'll explain to you there 2 types of MEXT scholarship that you can apply (you can apply the both of scholarship depend on the final information from the  destination university) 1) via embassy recommendation is always open on March/April each year, check on the japan embassy website and 2) via university recommendation (special pathway) is always open in the end of year, from my experience in Kyoto University the application of scholarship is available on the end of December, the schedule of  this scholarship depend on the university.

From my experience (I apply this scholarship via university recommendation) from July to October in last year, I contacted some Professor from several University in Japan to ask the available of position as research student in their lab (tip: don't contact the professor directly, but contacted their associated professor, why?  Please remember, the Professor in Japan are very busy, some of them don't have time to read YOUR email, as my experience it was to long to wait for the reply and the reply came to my inbox that was from their secretary).

And may you will ask to me, how to get their contact?

1) Open the university website > choose your graduate school/department > choose the member/Lab. member > in here you'll find the professor that suitable with your research topic and generally on the website contains some information of Professor profile include with his email.

2) Find some journals that relevant with your topic and generally in the first page of journal there an email address of the Professor or associate professor.

I think it will be enough information for you to get Professor contact.

After you get acceptance from the professor, he will send some file of application to your email when it available (so you need to be patient). When it come to your Inbox, please fill it with right information and in the application 2 (about study plan, discuss it with your professor earlier don't wait to discuss it after you get the application, if you lucky this application sometimes will be created by your associated professor, so you don't need to worry about your study plan).

Okay after you have complete the application form, you need to do medical checkup (the format of medical checkup can you download on japan embassy website) and print all your application, also please translate your documents like birth certificate, graduate certificate, transcript and other to japan or english and issued by notary. After all document complete send it directly to your professor.

Wait for the administration result, if you pass this stage, your professor will contact you and invite to do interview (e-mail, chat, skype and or phone). Prepare yourself about your topic research and also the argument why you choose their university and lab. The interview taken 20-30 minutes.

And after you done the interview you need to wait until June/July for the final result.

What the difference from 2 type of scholarship? 

The scholars who pass via embassy don't need to prepare for ticket of airfare to Japan, it's directly prepared by embassy including VISA and the other document. And for scholars who pass via university you need to prepare some money of ticket to Japan and spend the free time to prepare your VISA and the other document.

May this year I can apply and pass until the final stage without any disturbing like now.

 

Pertama kali buka website ASUS pada bulan ini, langsung disajikan dengan Program Blog Contest Asus. Setelah baca keseluruhannya, Admin dibuat ileran lihat hadiah-hadiahnya. Syaratnya cukup mudah kita cukup review tentang produk notebook ASUS kita dan jelaskan poin-poin yang telah ditentukan dari pihak ASUS. Kalau begitu mari simak tulisan tentang laptop :

Tahun 2011 atau lebih tepatnya saat itu sedang liburan menyambut tahun ajaran baru dan tentunya langkah awal untuk menginjakkan kaki menuju gerbang semester 3. Yap, saat ini Admin sedang berkuliah di Jurusan Kimia Universitas Udayana (jangan langsung komentar: pasti nanti mau bikin bom dan lainnya). Sedari Admin duduk dibangku SMP kelas 1 hingga menyelesaikan perkuliahan semester 2, dalam mengerjakan tugas, laporan, dan sebagainya Admin selalu ditemani oleh PC kesayangan (walaupun sangat rewel, setahun bisa 2-3 kali di angkut untuk service), tentunya dengan menggunakan PC dalam mengerjakan tugas sangatlah tidak nyaman, karena Admin juga harus bergantian dengan adik Admin untuk menggunakan PC. Sempat ngiri juga lihat teman-teman waktu masih duduk di bangku SMA dan awal perkuliahan pada bawa laptop (kebanyakan kurang bermanfaat pada bawa laptop, ujung-ujungnya hanya dimanfaatkan untuk download).

Oleh karena pemikiran tugas yang akan semakin menumpuk dan lainnya, tepatnya Juli 2011 Admin mulai berselancar di Om Google untuk mencari laptop dengan harga yang terjangkau dan memiliki spesifikasi yang cukup untuk mengerjakan tugas-tugas di kampus nantinya. Awalnya sangat bingung harus memilih notebook atau netbook, mengingat budget yang Admin miliki tidak seberapa. Sempat buka beberapa situs jual beli online dan yang pertama kali Admin lirik adalah merk notebook/netbook yang saat itu menjadi primadona sejak di SMA dan di bangku kuliah AC*R, COMP*Q, T*SHIBA. Setelah Admin amati semua produk yang ada di situ JB tersebut, ada 1 produk yang bikin Admin kecantol tapi satu masalahnya harganya tidak ketulungan. Mulai setelah itu Admin melirik produk lainnya, salah satunya adalah produk yang Admin gunakan saat ini. Produk yang Admin amati tersebut berasal dari pabrikan ASUS tergolong dalam tipe Versatile dan sepertinya saat ini produk yang Admin gunakan sudah tidak diproduksi lagi dan mungkin sudah digantikan dengan seri X.

Notebook yang Admin gunakan saat ini adalah seri K43U-VX..... yang bikin Admin kecantol dengan notebook ini adalah harganya yang terjangkau tepatnya sesuai dengan jumlah budget yang Admin miliki saat itu. Selain harga, saat memantau situs JB, admin kagum dengan desain dan warna dari produk ini dan setelah barang Admin terima, desain dan warna produk sesuai dengan harapan Admin. Selain berpatokan dengan review yang terdapat di situs JB tersebut, Admin juga memantau situs  ASUS dan beberapa forum lainnya dan ada satu postingan yang menampilkan nilai benchmark bahwa prosesor yang dimiliki oleh ASUS K43U dapat dikatakan setara dengan prosesor dari I*NTEL saat itu, padahal menurut beberapa review yang Admin baca prosesor jenis ini lebih tepat untuk dimanfaatkan untuk netbook dan bukan notebook. Oleh karena ada postingan tersebutlah yang menyebabkan Admin pada saat itu langsung memilih produk ini.

Maret 2014, hampir memasuki tahun ke-3 yang tepatnya pada bulan Agustus nanti. Hampir 2,5 tahun Admin menggunakan produk K43U ini, sangatlah puas karena Admin bisa sedikit bersombong kepada teman-teman Admin yang memiliki notebook dengan usia yang hampir sama namun sudah banyak mengalami gangguan khususnya pada keyboard dan baterai (untuk keyboard mungkin tergantung dari jenis pemakaian), Admin rasakan baterai K43U dapat bertahan selama 3-4 jam tergantung pada seberapa berat pemakaian mungkin hal ini didukung pula oleh teknologi yang diterapkan oleh ASUS untuk mengatur pemakaian baterai dan tentunya dapat mengurangi panas pada telapak tangan saat menyentuh area touchpad.

Admin merasakan kombinasi dari prosesor E350 dengan RAM 2 GB DDR3 merupakan kombinasi yang sesuai karena pada saat multitasking tidak terjadi lag (menonton video, download, dan update windows). Saat ini Admin menggunakan windows 8.1, sebelumnya Admin menggunakan windows 8, karena Admin merasakan performa dari notebook Admin menurun (Admin pikir karena RAM yang kurang besar), maka Admin mencoba untuk menggantikan RAM 2 GB dengan RAM 4 GB DDR3, namun setelah proses penggantian tidak ada perubahan yang signifikan. Admin teringat mungkin saja ini dikarenakan virus dari FD teman (karena Admin tidak menginstal antivirus, selain bawaan dari windows), Admin coba scan dengan windows defender ternyata benar saja terdapat sejumlah virus, yah untungnya tidak terlalu parah dampaknya. Tapi hal itu bukanlah suatu masalah, karena Admin memiliki pengalaman untuk membongkar pasang RAM dari ASUS K43U, ternyata tidak susah dan sangatlah mudah.

If the preview not work, you still can download the file by right click on the preview an choose download a copy.

This is e-book about "Organic Synthesis Strategy and Control" by Paul Wyatt-Stuart Warren. This e-book may useful for the 5th semester students in Chemistry Department of Udayana University. 

Grab It Guys!!

On Friday, September 06, 2013 Chemistry department had done a lecturer by a student or may be a lecturer too there in UIBK. The lecture about Computational Chemistry the future way to explain all problems undissolved using conventional theory.

He gave some example of the application of computational chemistry, e.g. on physic chemistry (related to structure dimensional of molecule, mechanism of catalysis, mechanism of active surface area, etc) and the application on medicinal chemistry (related to construct drug/medicine molecule, design of the compatible drug to receptor).

All participant was very interesting about the 1,5 hour of the lecturer. 

May you interest to computational chemistry? Here I've uploaded some journals that you can access for free.

Related to Physical Chemistry

Some files that embed here were upload to Skydrive, and may have difference touch with the file embed using google upload. And may some user feel confuse, how to make a copy of that file or how to download it. It is so easy. Just follow these instructions:

There an information for who have access to sciencedirect.com by using account that registered on ristek.go.id. For about two weeks ago sciencedirect server has changed the method for login and access journals there. If on old version you just need to log in on pustaka.ristek.go.id after that done you can access all journal database like sciencedirect, proquest, and the other providers whom has signed contract with ristek.go.id.

But with new system from the sciencedirect server, to access that one you just need click on sciencedirect icon. Then you will direct to new tab on your browser, you will go to a proxy system that created by sciencedirect (may it for make more secure) and you will get message alert to input your username and password. 

After that all done you can access all document on sciencedirect (except books and some version that release under year of 2000) and download them.

This method just for members of ristek.go.id. And for some student in Indonesia also can access sciencedirect for free if their university has signed contract, some of them are UGM, Unair, Undip, and other popular university.

Did you a windows user? If yes, you've common use microsoft office that published by Microsoft. One of the popular product of microsoft office software are version 2007 and version 2010. But in this post, I'll explain you step by step to rearm to extend the inactive license of your office 2010 only for six months.

But for the science project competition in this year totally different with last year, because for this year the science project are divide into 4 categories like Geo-Science, Software application, Building Architecture, and Research Product. And the all categories topic are Energy, Environment, and Health.

To know details about this competition please go to OSNPertamina homepage and to join the competition please go to register page.

DIKTI has announced about the guidance of PKM (Program Kreativitas Mahasiswa) for 2013/2014. Like the year of 2012/2013, it was divided into seven groups, e.g. PKM-P, K, M, KC, T, GT, and AI.

For five groups except GT and AI, for the fund allocation DIKTI has give the minimum and maximum number of money will be transfer to the group with the proposal whom pass the selection, it is around 2,5 to 12,5 millions rupiah.

This is the preview of the guidance of PKM 2013/2014 and be the success applicant, never give up cause knowledge never end and always growth.

Hi, are one of you a scholarship hunter and J-lovers? I'll give an information to you about two scholarships, there are provide by INPEX and Todai by MEXT U to U for program year 2014. And the deadline of these application on November, 2014. The important keys to get one of this scholarship is you must have/create a good relation/communication with your Professor future.

INPEX application

and the other requirement

Todai (Tokyo University, especially Graduate School of Science) application

Good luck to you who will be the scholarship hunter and be the elected scholars.

Do you know about biopolymer chitosan?

Before we touch chitosan, for the first I will give explanation about bioploymer.

Biopolymer consists of two words such as bio and polymer. The meaning of bio refer to organism/natural and the word of polymer have meaning the supramacromolecule that construct from a variant of monomer or combine of two or more monomer and it can have biggest weight of molecular. So, we can redefine biopolymer with the two words before, it have means naturally supramacromolecule (can be collect from organism/microorganism) that construct from a variant of monomer or combine of two or more monomer and it can have biggest weight of molecular.

Chitosan is the second most abundant natural polymer and has many useful applications in the area of biomedical engineering, including gene delivery, due to its cationic character at physiological conditions. Chitosan shows limited solubility at neutral pH, and forms polyelectrolyte complexes with polyanions, often resulting in precipitation. Chitosan  also has  been  used  as  a  support  for  enzyme  immobilization  (Klein  et  al.,  2012;  Kuo  et  al.,  2012;  Li,  Cai,  Zhong,  &  Du, 2012;  Muzzarelli,  1980;  Orrego  et  al.,  2010).  Chitosan,  isolated from  chitin,  is  the  linear  and  partly  acetylated  (1–4)-2-amino-2-deoxy--d-glucan  (Muzzarelli,  1977,  2012;  Muzzarelli  et  al.,  2012). Chitosan is a cationic natural copolymer of glucosamine and biodegradable mucoadhesive polysaccharide derived from crustacean shells. Chitosan particles have been shown to increase transcellular and paracellular transport of macromolecules across the intestinal epithelial monolayer andused successfully todeliver adrugorally toenterocytes, Peyer’s patches and mesenteric lymph nodes (Desai et al., 1996; vanderLubbenet al., 2001;Ouji et al., 2002). Chitosan has been used widely for the production of biodegradable and biocompatible micro- and nanoparticles.

Or

To play this flash object, right click on it and choose play (only if there is no mark sign on play)

Even the technology and globalization always growth up every second and not all person have a chance to try or learn that. Why they not have a chance to learn or try it? Do they lazy? Nope, I think. Because of they have several job that make have no time to learn or cause by they have no hardwares or tools to practice of try. 

An example of this case not all matures or adults can operate computer, is it?

Okay back to the topic, in this post I'll give you all tips how to call/open program without using mouse, we can open the program without mouse, just using keyboard only we can open it. Do you believe to me? Yes it must.  May you have saw your friend or the other professional operate PC or notebook, just within keyboard they can open program (e.g. MS Word) no mouse or no touch pad. Do you want to try it?

Lets try (this screenshot took on Windows 8, you still can try it on Windows 7, Vista or XP).

1. For the first just open the metro screen of windows 8



2. Right Click on a Program you wanted for a Shortcut and choose  "Open File Location"

Udayana University is one of two state university in Bali province, which there two mainly building located at Kampus Sudirman in Denpasar and Kampus Bukit in Bukit, Jimbaran.

My faculty, Math and Natural Science is the one that located in Bukit, Jimbaran. My faculty was consisted with six department, there are Chemistry, Physic, Math, Biology, IT, and Pharmacy. Chemistry and Physic are the oldest department in this faculty and chemistry especially as my focus major of study have merged with Agriculture Faculty for some years before became the part of Math and Natural Science Faculty, that's a short history of my Department.

And now I'll tell you a little bit of process study on this department. For new comers student of 2013/2014 year study will face with new curriculum. What the different? With new curriculum, our dean have target for the students to focus for study and pass graduate within 3 years 6 months (this short time to pass than with old curriculum need 4 years, even there are 1-3 student can pass within 3 years 8 months). What on your minds now? May your perception will be variants, like "that's amaze" or "that's madly". Keep it on yours cause that yours.

Within new curriculum student are divide into 5 focus study by their own capability. What they are? The new focus study are Biochemistry, Inorganic chemistry, Organic chemistry, Physical chemistry, and Analytic chemistry. Those focus study are growth from the 2 focus study from last curriculum, its change cause by other reason that focus to the soft and hard skill of the graduated student when they face to job worlds.

Wow there's a lot of words that I've typed, but I didn't have to introduce myself. My name is Mahendra intake 2010 in Department Chemistry, that means know I'm a student that stay in last year of study and have a wish can pass graduate on May or August of 2014.