Bionanotechnology Class

I have never been thought before that I will attend this kind of class. Very futuristic and unimaginable lesson. What the lecturer say is about the combination of the two main technology that is biotechnology and nanotechnology. Sometimes during the class I just can’t stop thinking (with absolutely imaginative mind!) how could that stuff be real??

Anyway, today is the last lecture, and the lecturer tell us about the future of bionanotechnology. I think this is the peak of several lesson before, that explain us about the DNA origami (This is the first time I heard that we can make origami from DNA!), DNA combining semiconductor, Nanorobot for medical therapy, gene therapy, gecko’s feet for everlasting glue tape, etc. Very interesting I think. And the nice one is : the lecturer isn’t a Japanese, so he can speak in English very very very well.. hehe

Here are some nanotechnology from nature: The idea is mimicking the nature.

The Gecko and Its Feet. Gecko has feet that covered by 500.000 setae/ foot, and each setae contain 100-1000 spatula in nanostructure. The structure can make gecko attach the wall tightly using van der waals interaction and capillary forces. So that, in theory, a single gecko can support more than 2 Kg weight hanging despite gecko have only 40g in weight. That’s why then people mimicking the feet nanostructure to make a everlasting glue tape. A glue tape that no need a glue anymore because of van der waals interaction and capillary forces. And the tape can be used over and over.

Spider Silk. Did you know that spider silk is very tough and much lighter than steel?! That nanostructure make it have extra properties in toughness, strength, and flexibility. So that people trying to mimic it to make a high quality surgical thread.

Lotus Effect. The nanostructure of lotus make it hydrophobic and let water on it always fall down and never make it wet. The always-falling-down water make the leaves always clean. That is because the lotus leaves have wax hydrophobic crystal around 1 nm in diameter. Then, what people mimic from the lotus is to make a wall paint that can wash its self when the rain come.

Then,let’s go to biotechnology inside! what the scientist still researching and developing about is

Jilbabku Sayang

Menjadi muslimah berjilbab di Jepang ternyata sangat menyenangkan! Hehehehe.. Aku telah merasakannya, ada beberapa kasus yang membuatku terharu, tertawa, dan bersyukur melihat reaksi para orang-orang Jepang itu atas keberadaan jilbab kesayanganku ini.

Alkisah si sebuah supermarket Everyday Low Price OK Store di Nagatsuta, aku membeli 2 bungkus Mie Ramen Instan (hhmm..tak ada Indomie disini), M Ramen Instan yang kubeli adalah yang halal version menurut seorang teman yang bisa membaca komposisi Mi Instan tersebut. Nah saat itu aku tengah asik berbelanja, tiba-tiba serang ibu tergopoh-gopoh dengan muka penuh kekhawatiran (bayangkan reaksi lebay orang Jepang kaya di dorama,hehe) menghampiriku dan menunjuk mi ramenku lantas bilang “Butaniku desu… eee…eyqftvgwibxhuwnh dxcvvbneyobnlieonlp” (kata yang berhasil kutangkap hanya “butaniku” artinya babi, sementara beliau terus bergumam dengan bahasa Jepang tingkat tinggi yang tak kumengerti). Dari bahasa tubuhnya aku menerjemahkan bahwa dia sangat khawatir kalau aku makan sesuatu yang mengandung babi, lantas dia mengambil mi ramen instan itu dan mengecek komposisinya..dan bergumam-gumam lagi (dengan bahasa Jepang tingkat tinggi yang tak kumengerti)..lantas dari bahasa tubuhnya aku menerjemahkan nampaknya dia bilang “perasaan ada babinya deh..” tapi akhirnya dia mengangguk-angguk dan bilang “Ah, daijobu desu.. gomennosai..” sambil nyengir dan beranjak pergi. Aku sangat terharu dan gak bisa berkata apa-apa lagi kecuali arigatou gozaimasu..arigatou gozaimasu.. ibu muda itu tersenyum dan mengangguk. Dia hanya menghampiriku dan memastikan bahwa aku memakan makanan yang tak mengandung babi, bersyukur tak terkira aku saat itu, jilbab ini menyelamatkanku.

Kisah kedua, Di kantin Kampus Tokyo Tech Suzukakedai. Ketika

Curhat of Today

Bangun pagi.., beres2 nyuci piring, jemur baju, minum susu, mandi..dandan.. lari ke stasiun.. ngejar kereta, kuliah jam 10.40 teng!

Nyampe kereta, ngeliat pemandangan seperti biasanya, orang jepang masuk kereta dan langsung baca buku. Ada seorang ibu bersama anaknya masuk kereta langsung buka buku, baca! Rasanya hati ini semakin tergerak untuk belajar.. akhirnya kubuka Minna no Nihongo ku.. dan kubaca penuh kepura-puraan.. biar gaya. Hehe, dungdung!

Nyampe Hutan Suzukakedai (Kampus maksudnya), kuliah, tumben ada dosen telat.. sesuatu yang luar biasa nih! Ada apakah gerangan? Ternyata tu dosen pada saat yang sama mengajar di dua university yang berbeda. Haha, jadinya telat dan cuma menyampaikan syllabus kuliah doang, dan kabar menyenangkannya adalah:

Rihlah di Musim Gugur

Hari ini aku bertemu rekan-rekan muslim dan muslimah Indonesia. Mengesankan..! kangenn.. kangen sholat berjamaah.. kangen di-tausiyah-in.. ujung-ujungnya..kangen nulis pake bahasa Indonesia lagi.

Yup! Hari ini ada acara rihlah ke showa kinen park (kalo gak salah), very nice garden.. with the yellow-orange-red leaves around.. very auntum.

Dan yang membuatku lebih terkesan adalah, anak-anak itu. Anak-anak Indonesia—yang mukanya Indonesia banget, yang mereka terlahir, bersekolah, dan tinggal di Jepang. Yang teman-teman sekelasnya jarang punya agama, yang tak ada rohis di sekolah mereka, yang hanya mendengar alquran dari orangtuanya. Kenyataannya adalah : Mereka sanggup menghafal Al Quran!!!!

Honjo Safety Learning Center

This is the first YSEP Factory Study Tour. We went to Honjo Safety Learning Center. The aim of this tour is to let us know about how to safe our live if there is a disaster for example thypoon, earthquake, smoke in the building, and fire. This knowledge is very needed since we never know when and where the disaster will attack. So if we prepare it well, our life will be safe.

First of all, we wellcomed by the instructors and informed that we will have a simulations. They give us a translator earphone and 3D glass and then we watching the 3D move about strong earthquake in Tokyo.The movie tell us about how strong the earthquake so that just in a few minutes a big city like Tokyo become broken. There are so many victims and so many buildings ruined because of it. So many activities collapsed because of suddenly earthquake.

Then we go to the main activity of this training, that is : Disaster Simulation! This training is not only educating but also

“Tari Indang” Performance ^_^

Yeah, this is our performance on Koudasai Festival 2009 in Tokyo Tech.

Surprisingly, my host family come to this performace, also the other YSEP students. Thank you very much ^_^

This is the traditional Padang Dance. Padang is one of area in Indonesia that struck by earthquake one month ago. This dance is specially dedicated to our friends, brothers and sisters in Padang Indonesia. Outside this performance we also make a charity concert. Trying to help them as long as we can, even we are far away from Indonesia. Trust us, we love Indonesia anyway.

Arara no Jumon by Chibi Maruko-chan

I love this song very much, hahahaha

Actually I just wanna learn about Japanese language, but I found this song, so I play it and laughing my self.. hehehe

I love this cartoon and never missed it on television  , hehe..

the text lyrics is below

Homestay Program : My day with Kiky’s family

Homestay Program is one of activity for International Student of Tokyo Tech that want to know more about Japan by living in Japanese family’s house. Lucky me that I’m in Japan now, of course I didn’t missed it!!

 After finishing the registration process, finally I meet my Host Family at the gathering in campus. It is very surprissed!! They give me a purezento covered beautifully and a postcard that contain her hope for this program, she and her family are very happy to make a friend with me.

 And then we go to their home. She said to me “Ayo kita pergi ke rumah saya..” hehehe very nice. Evidently, She lived with the other friend that be the host family of my friends. So we get the wellcoming party together with the other friends that lived in the same area, in Tokyo. Before it does, we should make some meal to share in the party, so we cook together in the top of the mansion where the host family of Risvan lived. So I, laras, and Risvan make a onigiri, tuna karoke, and the other Japanese delicious food. Yummy..yummmy.. but we are not allowed to eat much after cook, because we will don’t have any appetite at the party then. So we eat as much as possible at the party!!! Hahaha.

My host fam house is in the first floor, so we should get the stair until fift floor where we cook. Kiky’s son named Dang Go Ri, 6 years old, lead me to the stair and when we arrive at the fift stair, he showing something outside! TOKYO TOWER!!!! Whooaaa… very glorious..

And then we get the party, and meet my Indonesian friends that have a host fam in Tokyo too. They are Risi and Awan. So we are 5 Indonesian now. We want to surprise the Japanese people there, by singing doraemon song together in Indonesian Language! Haha.. Succesfully, they know it and they just follow us singging a doraemon song but in Japanese language. What a nice party.. and I found my favorite food here: Takoyaki!!! Hwaa.. delicious.. .And then as the Japanese party, they never let the room dirty and messy after party. Yeah, we cook our meal by our self, arrange the party room by our self, and clean the room (and bring the garbage go home) by our self.

 And then I stay at Kiky’s house. She lived very happy with two son : Dang Go Ri and Kurori, but they have a korean name Kyu and Mino. And Mino is very very very cuuutee… he is just 3 years old. Cute so much, he talk and ask—just like a baby that start to talk so much (in Japanese), and of course I don’t know what is that mean.. but they just laugh and laugh.. very funny kids! And Kiky’s husband can speak english well, Kiky an her husband are quite well in English. We talk so much, I share about tari Indang, and we search on youtube, and they very impressed! They like it so much and they said that they will come to our performance in tke Koudaisai Festival, one of annual culture festival in Tokyo Tech. Anyway, it is very impressive to get homestay program with them.    

 

The Nice Japanese Habits

Yeah..!! it is very great that I’m in Japan now. This is auntum.
Tokyo is very coooooooold (colder than Bandung), even when I’m say it people will answer “the winter will be the coldest!!”. Oh my God.. I just can’t imagine how cold there will be. I think I will eat a lot here to warm my body. Haha.
Anyway, as I’m 2 weeks lived here, I have seen there are some habits of the Japanese that I think everyone should do these. Here they are :
1. They didn’t eat on the road
It is so impolite if they eat on the train or subway. Japanese people eat only in the right place : home, restaurant, garden, etc. No eating on the road, even by walking. If you get on the train, you will see that there is no one eat there, so all around is very clean, quiet, and neat.
2. If they cross the road they will obey the traffic light very well.
Even when there is no car pass the road! (as you know, the main transportation in Japan is train and subway, there is no crowded road by car) Even when they just alone, they will across only when the green light is on. And day after day, I usually follow them to run across caught the green light. Trying to go across as the green light on.
3. They read, read, and read wherever they are.
You will see inside the train is like a library! Very quiet even there are so many people. They just enjoy with their book so much! It doesn’t matter young or old, they just enjoy the books, magazine, newspaper, textbook, comics. But sometimes they are busy by the cell phone or iPhone with the game in them. It doesn’t polite to make a call loudly on the train. No problem they sit or stand up in the train, one of their hand always hold a book.
4. They do very respect to everyone
They very polite to everyone, it doesn’t matter you know him/her or not, it doesn’t matter what are you wear. It is happens in several times in station and on the train, a women wondering my veil, my hijab clothes, and they just say that is so elegant and look nice. She is very kind, she try to ask me and talk a lot as she wonder my veil motif and the batik bag that I hold, but all the Japanese word that can I hear is just “nihongo…blablabla…muzukashi… ne?” and then I just say “haik..” and smile as warm as possible. They choose to silent and just smile if they can’t speak in English well. Or if they so nervous, they will just across their hand and say “sumimasen..sumimasen..” they so sorry that they don’t understand what do you mean.
5. They very care to the babies and old people so much
Even inside the train, there is a special space for mom and her baby and also for old people. So the mom with her babies and old people can go everywhere conveniently.
6. And They work very hard!
Obviously! They do as perfect as possible.

image source: www.spaciousplanet.com , blog.livedoor.jp

 

Laptop baru :)

Alhamdulillah aku telah membeli laptop baru. Terima kasih Ya Allah. Imut dan lucu. hehe. Thanks for SATO International Scholarship for the 50.000 yen purezento, and Thanks for Baharu and Isa for all your help.

artinya, aku bisa mengupdate blog lagi sekarang

16 hari berada di Jepang
sudah kangen kampung halaman..
kangen bapak dan ibuk di Ngawi yang tiap hari menelfon setelah subuh, kemudian kami bertele-conference dengan adikku di Malang sana. Setiap hari! namun sekarang tak pernah lagi. Selain karena tarif telefon mahal, tentu saja karena perbedaan waktu dua jam. Di sini jam 5 pagi, di sana masih jam 3 pagi. Ba`da subuhnya aku adalah qabla subuhnya keluargaku.

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Shibuya Shibuya Shibuya..!
aku membeli laptop ini di Yamada-Labi di Shibuya. Nampaknya ini Shibuya adalah daerah paling ramai d Tokyo. Shibuya katanya adalah the greatest place for hang out in Tokyo. hehe. Profesorku -sambil bercanda-bilang “There’s so many crazy people in Shibuya, so you must be carefull”. Banyak banget orang-orang berpakaian aneh-aneh, anehnya tuh aneeeeehh bgt. ga jelash lah. Ada juga orang-orang yang ber-cosplay-ria. Memakai kostum-kostum tokoh kartun, dari Saint Seiya, Cardcaptor Sakura, Sailormoon, tokoh-tokoh yang di Final Fantasy yang rambutnya berdiri semua kaya dragon ball, dan banyak banget tokoh2 lain yang aku tak mengetahuinya.

Sebenarnya tak sengaja kami ke Shibuya. Sejujurnya adalah karena pagi sebelumnya kami, anak-anak YSEP 09, diminta bantuannya (baca: diperdaya, hehe) untuk latihan Tari Indang untuk Festival Koudasai tanggal 25 nanti. Yang rencananya di acara itu juga akan diadakan penggalangan dana untuk gempa Padang.

Aku dan teman-temanku ini : fafa, laras, dita,risi, chandra, ipul, dan risvan, bertujuh kami sampai di Jepang dan langsung diajak bergabung dengan PPI (Persatuan Pelajar Indonesia) Tokodai. Rekan-rekan PPI Tokodai inilah yang menjelaskan dan menerjemahkan segala hal tentang Jepang pada kami. Memberitahu mana makanan2 halal dan murah di Jepang dan memberi banyak sekali panduan dan bantuan, asik lah. Terima kasih semuanya.

Bersyukur (untuk kesekian kalinya) bisa berada di Jepang.