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| 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.
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| 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.
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.
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