Friday, February 15, 2008

PhD@Dundee

It's been a while since my last post to this blog. To begin...2007 was a very strange and full of uncertainty year for me and family. It was a year that I had to decide whether to embark in PhD 'things' or being a stay home mom. And eventhough I decided to take the chances and go for PhD, finding the right place and the right project is not a fun thing to do and not the thing that I wanna do again..it's though..


Anyway, after endless discussion, thinking and rethinking..we finally decided that Dundee is the place to go. To be honest, I still don't really know whats really brought us here in this cold...not so cool corner of planet earth.

Well, here I'm...formally registered graduate student of Biomedical Research Centre, Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland. By rating (2007), University of Dundee 's Medical School ranked third in UK (Cambridge is fourth) and I guess this research centre is an excellent ones. I just never imagine myself in this kind of 'place' but I'm glad to be here. It's a greatest opportunity that God gave me, minggle around big brains from around the world. My group is very international. We have Helen from Manchester (post-doc fellow), Anne from German (PhD), Pai from Thailand(PhD), Maggie from Arberdeen, Scotland(PhD), Fred from Sweden(PhD), Malcom from Manchester(PhD), Jamie from London (Med) and my supervisor Prof Paul Clarke (not so sure, but UK). I'm the first malaysian ever...but there will be more to come.