Monday, 27th October 2014
Since tomorrow we are having the long-awaited exhibition to present our long-awaited posters and videos. A replacement class was held today. But we didn't get to learn anything today because, since we will be viewing our videos tomorrow using the Aurasma application that we have installed on our devices, Dr Wan wanted to make sure everybody's Aurasma is working well and all the videos can be played. Andddd it actually took the whole two hours to settle this. Dr Wan was worried too as to how will we cover the subjects in order to finish it before the final examination.
Tuesday, 28th October 2014, "Day Of The Exhibition!!"
Our group's morning wasn't having a good start because our video suddenly couldn't be played on Aurasma. Hence, we had to put the video in Aurasma Studio all over again. And the internet at the faculty was not helping us at all x'D It took about 1 hour and a half for our video to be uploaded into the web. Thank you to some of my classmates that have helped us!! For 'lending' us their internet huddle and also Chew!! Helping us solve the problem with Aurasma because we had trouble saving the video.
Firstly, Dr Wan wants us to present our poster in front of her while she recorded us all. The actual exhibition with real judges will be held in the evening at 2pm. And our group is the last group to present due to the problem with the Aurasma that I have stated earlier~
It was sort of like a warming up for me though. And nerve-wrecking too since all of our classmates were watching us while we were presenting (Dr Wan ordered us to listen to the groups presenting and our names will be randomly called afterwards to be asked a question on the microbe that was presented by the current group. And also in order to have a quiet background while the recording is being done. Hehe)
And when the actual exhibition was being held. We had two judges judging us. The first judge asked us a LOT of questions x'D and even told us the answers when we couldn't answer it. She even asked us something because she was wondering about it but we are also wondering about it too. x'D I mean, we didn't thought about that too in the first place. And since we were keep being asked questions that we didn't know the answers, it somehow made us feet down. And confidence level goes down down. Head goes down down. Hahaha. At some point, she even told us to not feel.... I don't remember the word but it was something along bad or disappointed? I don't remember! She said that overall we had done a good job but it's just that there are a lot of things that she wanted to know. AND makes us wonder that happened to be resting at that time. We asked her about how.... B. longum which is known to be abundant in the intestine are able to be transferred into the breast milk. Even when I think about it is a bit confusing.
And she explained to us that actually in our body, there are a lot of microbes. Not only B. longum but there are also other probiotics too, all over of our body. So, the answer is B. longum is in the environment/everywhere/surrounding. Hence, their presence in the breast milk. A-Ha! :D
As the exhibition went on. The second judge came. And listened to our presentation without asking much. When we have finished presenting the characteristics, classification, metabolism, nutrition as well as the impacts and applications of B. longum. He prepared us a question. It's a question regarding the breast milk again! Good thing we have searched on the Net and asked the previous lecturer I told you about about this! Hehe.
He asked us, since we said that the B. longum is transferable from the mother to the infants via breast feeding. Are there any lactic acid inside the breast milk? And we answered yes. Since B. longum are able to ferment lactic acid using many type of different sugars even if there is very little amount of sugar present. Hence, the presence of lactic acid in breast milk~~
And! The exhibition ends!
The conclusion is... Ah. Dr Wan told us to not make a summary about this exhibition but instead tell all the juicy details. Haha.
During the preparation of the posters, which both the judges asked us. How long did we took to finish this project? It tooks two weeks. I don't know about other groups but we started our project rather late but the outcome is satisfying. It doesn't look rushed in my opinion. Heee. And it gave me new experiences. Please note "experiences" with "s"!! Meaning I have gained many experience from this project. Really. :D
Firstly, in the making of the video. At first, it was Nadia and me who have to be in charge in compiling the separate videos that we had recorded. It was never my intention or ever crossed in my mind to volunteer myself to do that since I have never done it before ; edit videos. But somehow, fate came knocking on my door and gave me the chance to try it. I don't even have any software for video editing!! x'D But now I have it hehe. I downloaded it because of this project. Because of this project, I repeat. Haha. And in the end, I managed to compile the video together. And then I thought that somebody else is going to take over in editing/"decorating" the video but fate kept knocking on my door since semester break came and we weren't able to gather for one last group meet up to discuss about the video. Therefore, I had to finish editing the video at home. It was kind of a burden to me but not a "bad burden" though! It was cool too, having to be in charge for the video which I have zero experience to do one. Haha. In the end, after much trouble, the video was finished! And received good feedbacks from fellow groupmates. Yay~~ :D
However, in the making of the poster. I wasn't in charge of it. Other groupmates did it. And also, it's my first time seeing an A1 paper hehehe. I imagined it much smaller hehe. So, it was a new experience too because I was able to know other other sizes of paper x'D
For a bigger scope, which is the exhibition itself. I have never been in an exhibition before. I mean, to be the one who is presenting it. This! Is a really meaningful experience! :)) I am going to treasure this. "Having my first ever exhibition today~" This exhibition also helped in increasing my self-confidence. To a level higher. I always have this "stage fright" problem everytime I have to present anything in front of the class. So, this type of activity other than group presentation in class really helps me increasing my self-confidence when talking in front of other people. And since we are talking in front of a judge, it gave me a bigger range of people I have to talk to. Hee. Do you get what I mean? I mean before this, I have only talked in front of people which is... classmates, coursemates (classmates that are not from the same course), friends, teachers, "talk to the camera while other classmates listened to you presenting and being recorded" (hehe) and now added to the list is "Judges"! It's like an achievement. Challenges that I have to overcome when talking to other people.
And to be honest, I thought that the feeling when presenting in front of the judges is like talking to a "normal" citizen or stranger like how we talk to a teacher. But it was not like that at all!!! x'D The feeling was like talking to the whole class. I do not know why. x'D Maybe because I/we know that they definitely know more than us. And also anxious about what kind of questions that they have in mind. Eventhough we, students, sometimes throws random questions to the lecturer that's a bit out of the topic, but the lecturers always managed to answer it well. At least, that's what I have been observing since I have entered university, doing my Foundation in Science until now.
Judges have this different aura. I have to admit that. Haha.
Lastly, regarding the questions that was asked by the judges which I said earlier, it's not only make them wonder but make us wonder as well. In conclusion to that, it makes me realised that I haven't been exploring hard enough or thoroughly. I really thought that I have covered on all the applications and impacts (That's the part that I was assigned for). But there are a lot more to it. The judges like to connect this fact to that fact, or in other word implying the functions of the microbes with their applications. For example..... Like the question how do B. longum transferred from the intestine to the breast? Do they penetrate? Carried by blood? Ha! I caught you too right? I know. I didn't thought about that also. Hehe. Other example: B. longum is known to be a scavenger. So what do they eat? Generally, we know that a scavenger eats dead organism. But what do they eat? What do they actually eat from the dead organism? their cell wall? nutrients? Now you see it? They are a lot to be explored, yet we didn't do so~
This is a lesson to be learnt. To explore more on what you're going to present. Especially on big event like this (Yeah, I consider this as a big event :B) so that the individuals that will be listening to us can have lots of informations and also can have the answers to what they want to know.
Thus, eventhough I feel like I had made a thorough research. It seemed that I didn't. There are a lot more to know. And it sort of feel like a waste to not be able to describe or present what you wanted to present fully; with full explaination/clearly. If there is going to be any exhibition that I will be entering in the future, I will do a thorough research! :D
The real "lastly" (since I have used "lastly" in the previous sentence if you realised x'D) I would like to thank my groupmates who have really gave their best in preparing the poster and video!! A job well done, guys!! It was fun and challenging! :D And also to Dr Wan who gave us the chance to do the exhibition eventhough we're still first year students. This is good exposure. I agree with you Dr! Although at first I was honestly against the idea of having to present it in front of the judges and also in public x'D but it turned out that I had fun with my groupmates and classmates! :D
That's all from me; my thoughts on this project~~ ^^
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