HaPpY nEW yEar 2009!!!

363...364...365 days of Year 2008 has used up!

Here is another 365 days of year 2009 to use...

Happy New Year 2009!!!

May the year 2009 be a wonderful, meaningful and useful year to come for all of us.

Wish All The Best and Seize The Year 2009!!!


31 December 2008 (Wed), 15.38

Christmas Wish!!!

Wishing all of us:



May Christmas bring us unexpected oppurtunities
to be a blessing to someone who need it most.

MeRry ChRisTmAs!!

24 December 2008 (Thurs), 16.25

Announcement (1):

Here the announcements:

We can check our result for Semester 1, Session 2008/2009 at smp.ums.edu.my, your own smp account. Take it easy…

Besides, anyone that wanted/ supposed to register as Non-resident but have not do so, please SMS your full name, matrix number and contact number to me before 26 December 2008 (Friday). Christopher will help you to apply manually to the Seksyen Perumahan dan Perkhidmatan Pelajar, HEP. Any name later then that will not be entertained.

Enjoy your holiday before the start of LI!

By: Jian Ming; 23 december 2008 (Tues); 17.15

Categories of Information ( Important)

To reduce the cost of sending short message of your leader, categories of information is introduced as following:

Categories of information and methods of delivering information:

Important and Urgent (IU) : by sending message, blog and email
Important but Not Urgent (INU) : by blog and email only
Casual and Sharing (CS) : by email only

Explanation of categories:

Important and Urgent means information that need to be reached to everyone and action is needed to be taken by all of us within a week. For example, need to register for certain things in a week.

Important but Not Urgent means information that need to be known by all of us but action need to be taken after a week or more. For example, the release of our result in SMP. We can check the result after a week or more also does not matter. Hence it is considered Important but Not Urgent.

Casual and Sharing is information that wanted to be shared among all of us. For example, I shared my experience of My First Week of LI on this blog.


Hope by introducing these categories of information, the FoodStep system will work better and favor all people. Besides, by introducing these categories of information, we all need to update ourselves regularly (at least once in a week) by visiting the foodstep06.blogspot.com and checking your email at least once o week.

All the Best and Seize the Day!

By: Jian Ming; 23 December 2008 (Tuesday); 10.52

My First Week of Latihan Industri...

My First Week Of Latihan Industri (LI)

It was been a week of Latihan Industri ( LI)(as i started my LI earlier) in my company, Danisco Malaysia Sdn Bhd in Seberang Prai, Penang, an emulsifier production company based in Denmark( if you want to know more, please visit http://www.danisco.com/ ). It actually is a rush for me to start my LI as I just reached Penang on 12 December 2008 (Friday) and had a visit to my factory on the 14 December (Sunday) for the first time. Then the next day, I already started my LI.

15 December, it was my first day of LI. I started my journey from Penang island as early as 6.45am to avoid traffic jam. Hence I reached my factory quite early, 7.25am. I waited near the guard house roughly 15 minutes then another trainee from UPM reached at the guard house too. We had a short conversation till the guard asked us to take a Temporary tag and went into the factory lobby. Then we waited again at the lobby until 8.30am. Then I continued the conversation with another trainee. She is a forth year student, studying Food Study and all of the Food Study students also do their LI at final semester.

At 8.30am, the Security Department person-in-charge, En Muny, gave us a briefing for half and hour. En Muny was nice and funny during the security briefing session. After that, our supervisor who is also the Quality System Manager, Ms Ng took over the session. She gave us a short brief about what two of us will handle in this half year and I was being appointed to do something regarding Near Infrared (NIR) instrument. For the UPM friend, she will help in the certification of Global Standard.

After the briefing, she took us for a tour to the factory. We were given a new safety helmet (bright yellow in colour) and a pair of safety boot. The factory is huge and has a lot of plants like Ester plant, Spray plant and etc..It was my first time to walk inside a factory that has so much huge machines (much bigger than the Gardenia factory we visited in Sabah) and most of them are at outdoor. Although the factory is big, the employees inside it just have less than 150 people.

After the tour around the factory, we went back the building and a place to sit was given by my supervisor. People sitting around me were all managers like Human Resource Manager, Safety and Health Manager and even our supervisor is sitting in the same room with us. Like I mentioned before the employees here are not much so the space needed for employees is reduced.

Then we were given material by our supervisor to read once we sat down and that was all I did after that until today, READING. We both had been reading different reading materials like the NIR manual, the certification standard manual, the total quality system... This condition will last until when is what we both are concerned as we feel very boring just reading stuff. But we do understood that they are not free to guide us as they at this period of time have a lot audit like certification audit, audited by their customer company. Hopefully once the auditing finished, our practical life will change. But, there was no deny that I learned a lot from this few days of reading as a lot of stuff I do not know and I can search online on the spot as I am provided with a computer on my desk.

How will my Latihan Industri be for the next six months?

By: Jian Ming, 22 December 2008( Monday), 14.52

Hai, everyone!

Hai, everyone of SSMP 3rd friends.

With this FoodStep blog, the hope is that we all can stay connected.

We can share a lot of stuff here, like our experience during our Latihan Industri, our thought, our photo, our...
Just write anything on the comment, then it will be posted as an Achieve of the blog.
Or your can email to foodstep.yahoo.com. together with some photo. But must remember to write your full name, matrix number ( no need lah), the date you write and the time.ok?

Besides, if have posts but nobody visit, what is the purpose? So so visit this blog when online!

Please vote at the Poll on the right of the page.

Happy Birthday to FoodStep Blog!

BY: Jian Ming, 16 december 2008(Tues), 22.38

The Beginning of The FoodStep Blog

Welcome to this FoodStep blog. The establishment of this blog is to add one more choice to connect all of us, UMS SSMP 3rd students, and stay connected although we are all in different places in the whole Malaysia!

"Here have some announcement to all:"

1) Register as an NR issue

According to the Ketua Seksyen Perumahan HEP, En. Mat Usup, those that are doing their Latihan Industri and do no need to stay in UMS kolej kediaman, please do so to register as
Non-Resident at smp.ums.edu.my before 17 December 2008. The address just put your home address or simply put as the "Sabah" part cannot change.

For those that doing Latihan Industri in Sabah and need to stay in the kolej kediaman, please no need to register as Non-resident, but to check in like normal when semester start.

2) Fee

According to the Bendahari, for those that are not under PTPTN, they can pay their fee through e-CIMB. Or they also can pay after they are back from their Latihan Industri which is in July.

3) Thesis

According to Dr. Sharifudin, our thesis result will be post in the UMS website under SSMP news part. But the actual date has not been told. Just be patience.

4) Check your email

By this Friday, everyone will get an email in their email (which written in the FoodStep network). The email will include the list of member in the same group of FoodStep. Please do check again. That time you can sms your group leader to greet her/him or remind her/him to pass info to you.

Besides, if anyone has any problem can contact me or the new SSMP’s MPP, Ooi Christopher. If you want to contact any department or any lecturers of UMS, please do so by checking the extension number in UMS website.

Enjoy your holiday!

Happy "LI"ing!

BY: Jian Ming, 16 December 2008 (Tues), 21.50