i had been lazy writing/posting some chemical stuff for a while that's why this blog had been growing some moss and organisms particular to stagnation.
anyways, despite the [pseudo]writer's writers' block, this year had been motivatingly dynamic, well, at least, chemistry-wise. :)
well, i almost got started with my masters in soil science, but, fortunately, i underwent a very drastic career turn. i am now endowed to aroma in rice and my job also calls for my contribution in the quality evaluation program in rice. everything is exciting that i almost got no time to write my adventures in chemistry.
last may, i started with my new group doing research on rice grain quality. t'was a sudden shift from environmental aspect of rice research to the 'more direct' aspect, i.e. cereal chemistry rice chemistry.
i was also given the chance to continue some aroma research on rice and to plant aromatic lines in our experiment station's quarantine plot.
last august, i was able to participate in the 3rd INQR Symposium. See http://irri.org/news-events/irri-news/thailand-international-network-for-quality-rice-meets-in-bangkok. meeting and interacting with other scientists and getting to know what cool stuff they are doing is simply amazing! every member of the network was generous enough to share their knowledge and humble enough to listen to comments and other ideas on how they could improve their experiments.
well, so far, i had been learning more stuff from my colleagues on gas chromatography, laboratory management, rice chemistry and more more on rice.
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