The Many Topics of Talk That Dr. JB Lim Can Deliver

Dr. Lim Ju Boo

The blogger’s most-learned e-buddy the “Great Sifu” Dr. JB Lim is really a talented person of many interests and also a compulsive orator.  His response to the blogger’s suggestion can testify the above statement.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:21 PM, Lautaionn wrote:

Dear Great Sifu,

When we met last Saturday and watched the Aladdin Musical Comedy starring Dato' Flyer's G-daughter, you mentioned to me during the show about wanting to talk about ASTRONOMY, something different from the usual nutrition and medicine stuff.

Pic from right: Dr. JB Lim, Lara Alyssa, the blogger

May I suggest that you talk on this subject which you have great passion and are also an expert to the Rotary Club organized by Dato' Flyer? If this talk takes place on a weekend, I'll surely attend to show my support for you!

Thank you.

Regards,

Lau

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Wednesday, 25 November, 2015 10:54 PM

From: Lim Juboo

To: Lautaionn

Dear Sifu Ir. TO Lau

Thank you for your interest in my proposed talks for 2016.

The interest I got from others so far varied.

Some asked for Molecular Medicine, others on Nanotechnology in Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Another asked for The Therapy of Choice: Synthetic Drugs vs. Botanical Medicine, and yourself on Astronomy.

I like to talk about Music, Mathematics, Science and the Bible, but none has asked for them so far.

As for your request on astronomy, I have highlighted below in bold areas a title I may be able to deliver depending on the size of the audience and venue.

“The Blinking Beacons to the Galaxies” may be an interesting one on how astronomers initially begins to measure the distance to the stars, then expand their yardsticks to fathom the size of our Milky Way, then to the nearest galaxy – the Andromeda galaxy, and then onward further to the horrendous distances of thousand of millions of light years towards the edge of the Universe.  Is there an end?

But this talk will take at least 2 hours, and can never be explained in just 30 minutes as normally allocated in Rotary Club luncheon meetings where I have been invited to give on numerous occasions in past years

Many of my thoughts are under preparations, and I need a few months to sort out how to deliver them in simple language reachable to all, and have them all translated into illustrative slides. This can be very difficult, but where there is a will, there is a way.

Two which are already ready for delivery even tomorrow are:

1.         The Therapy of Choice: Synthetic Drugs versus Botanical Medicine

2.         The Biology of Aging: Why all Living Creatures need to Grow Old and Die

The rest are under preparation. They are:

·         The Therapy of Choice: Synthetic Drugs versus Botanical Medicine (192 slides)

·         A Journey through Molecular Medicine (136 slides)

·         Avenues for A Change: Pragmatic Shifts in Medicine. Past, Present and into The Future (306 slides)

·         New Frontiers in Nutritional Sciences and Medicine (under preparation)

·         Space travel within 6 light-hours in the Solar System

·         Can we reach for the stars?

·         The Blinking Beacons to the Galaxies

·    Discord in natural melodic harmonics: Is it an accidental measure in music composition? (meant for those who can read musical score and with music education)

·         Mathematics is the Queen of Science. Physical and Biomedical. Is this true?

·         Newton or Einstein: The way the Universe begins and modeled

·         The Height of it All: In Chemistry and Physics

·         Nanotechnology in Medicine and Pharmaceuticals

·         Robotics and Artificial Intelligence towards the end of 21st Century

·         Serendipity: "Accidents in Discoveries” Are they for hidden genius?

lim ju boo
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The blogger wishes to share the following exchanges of emails with the Great Sifu Dr. Lim in consequence of the above posting.

From:Lim Juboo

To:Tai Onn Lau

Why do you want to put the list of my proposed talk into your blog? I haven’t even delivered them, and it will benefit no one if the goods have not been conveyed. Only some of them are ready, the rest under preparation.  Even for the “The Blinking Beacons to the Galaxies” that short note was just a very fleeting glimpse of the content. I don’t even know when I will be able to talk about it. But if you wish, I shall write out a more decent and more detailed account to replace it.

I don’t even bother to write anything into my own blog which has remained stagnant for years. I only like to write short  e-mails and stories to friends to occupy some spare time.

jb

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Lautaionn wrote:

Hi Great Sifu,

Just to clarify that the subject of my blog post is "....Talks That Dr. JB Lim Can Deliver". Not "....Has Delivered" or "....Is Going To Deliver".

After all, you have spent so much time and effort in churning out the synopses of the various topics irrespective of whether you have already prepared the materials / slides or not, and you should let the world know what you can talk about!

Who knows if certain organizations after reading this post may approach you to deliver talks that may be of interest to their members?

So I have not done anything wrong in my blog-posting, or have I?

Have a great weekend, Doc, and wish you all the success in your coming public talk to AUTORR this Sunday!

Regards,

Lau

Saturday, 28 November, 2015 1:29 AM

From: Lim Juboo

To:  Lautaionn

Thank you Great Sifu for your confidence in me. Now you make me even more unworthy. My aim of writing or delivering talks on simple popular science is just to spend my time usefully sharing whatever I know by reading and learning from other great scientists. Science is advancing so fast that I found many of the things I learn in the university are getting outdated. I have a lot to catch up especially in research which I left behind years ago.

Popular science for lay readers are much easier to write or talk about because of the much simpler language needed, unlike highly technical papers; the language researchers used in their publications in journals. The problem is how do we bring all the hundreds of papers together in one down-to-earth wholesome piece reachable to the public? That is my problem, and I am real scared.

Besides medicine, medical research and nutritional sciences, physiology and chemistry, I just happen to like popular astronomy and music (I play the violin) as my hobbies - no formal education in these areas. But these are very simple hobbies which tens of thousands of young students past and present have also picked up as part of their past time, or forced into them by their parents. So there is no great deal about this, since anyone, including your good-self with your engineering background can tackle better than myself.

Just about 20 % of the subjects I intend to talk or write are already ready even now or tomorrow. It is a matter of putting the thoughts down in points form and elaborate them orally during a talk. What's so 'wonderful' about this idiotic presentation?

Maybe I have a lever advantage from other speakers from my nature as being talkative - a character I acquired since school days. But of course being talkative can also cause me to churn out a lot of rubbish, and I am more than sure I have done that many, many times in the past

That's me!

jb lim