After reading numerous recent threads started by you, I am under the impression that this thread was created for yourself to find the express way to your PhD. Even so, there is nothing wrong in collecting your ideas and developing your writing process, or constructing your first draft and completing your final manuscript. More importantly, what is your purpose of studying for a doctorate?

On the whole, you are a noble student with the pride of a Doctor's daughter. And at the same time, you are on your lonely path when you see your lab mates in white coats under attack by the microbes. But to you, perhaps they are not lab mates at all. They may be mere strangers accidentally brought together in the same lab. Without any hesitation, you plunges into battle to obtain your doctorate.

As an experienced postdoc in biological science, I'm sure you have lots of valuable advices to prevent some impending pitfalls. Since Madonna Britney has to learn to publish papers, her concern is probably back to square one, “How to publish research papers quickly?” Perhaps you can tell what needs to happen for publishing papers quickly.

Hi Tanji,

(1) How many postgraduate students (by research) in Malaysia? Suddenly, I've got an idea.

(2) I noticed that you have been consistently giving lots of practical and valuable advices to the research students. Not to mention that you are also Dr Notebook.

(3) If you write a 100~150-page self-help book in this topic and this book is priced under RM 20.00, most of them will benefit from your Midas touch in a lot of areas, i.e. academic, time management, communication skills, research skills, software & equipment, ethics, publications, working with RTM2, traveling, etc.

(4) Plant a tree, write a book, and have a child... that's what Jose Marti said when he was asked what every man ought to do before he dies. You worked on seaweeds (Kappaphycus and Eucheuma Sea Bird's Nests), didn't you? Because writing a thesis is not the same as writing a book, therefore, please consider the idea seriously.

(5) After publishing the book, you can get married to your girlfriend and have a child then.

Don't mention it, buddy! You really deserve better. Correct me if I'm wrong, you specialize in Molecular Systematics and Taxonomy or Aquaculture, don't you? I'm not sure if seaweed cultivation in Malaysia is in its infancy but I heard National Seaweed Research Institute is going to be set up in Tawau. When you complete your postdoc research in Institute of Biological Sciences, then what's your next meaningful plan?

By the way, is it safe to eat roasted seaweed (small pack) everyday?

Whether someone agrees with us or not, the very first thing most of them do in response to other people is usually the very last thing we care about: They defend themselves like Dr. Jekyll and Hyde. What's the best reaction to Dr. Jekyll and Hyde Syndrome? Could you share some kind of riposte responses you learned from OB, please?

MANAGER: “This issue wouldn’t have become a problem if you had paid attention to it.”

COLLEAGUE: “The problem is that we are understaffed here!”

By anyway, are you teaching any specific course as an assistant professor in University of Malaya?

So is that how you think the Assistant Professor is same as Associate Professor?

It really isn't about age; it is about an invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men... Not everyone can swim across the lake.

Maybe you can tell us a little bit about your doctorate life at Europe as a computational biologist, the ongoing project you are focusing, as well as the girl you are dating?

Hi Tanji,

Will red tide toxin in Sabah make seaweed unsafe to eat?