Celebrating over 100,000 views

Today, my Webshots photo website crossed 100,000 views with 2,321 downloads since I joined as a member on 21 March, 2006.

Thank you for your viewership and downloads. Looking back on my 73 albums, my photography skill has improved in these four years. Initially, I had joined to upload my pictures onto a server as a backup. Never had I imagined that any of my pictures would be featured as Picture Of The Day (POTD) since I was an amateur photographer nor a premium Webshots member.

I still prefer to take landscape or still pictures. My next venture will likely be night scene. Taking people is not my forte but no harm trying out.

You can enjoy my work at Littlesaul.

Reflection

I had thought of closing my blog this year since I had been penning my thoughts for almost 5 years. But after reading my previous postings, they brought back good memories of the many adventures I had taken, places visited, and things accomplished and yet done.

Postings, henceforth, maybe few and far between, but will highlight crucial events.

After my last publication on influenza A, entitled "Conservation and Diversity of Influenza A H1N1 HLA-Restricted T Cell Epitope Candidates for Epitope-Based Vaccines", I was invited to write a peer review on T cell epitope-based vaccines which I believe is the next frontier in vaccine development.

I consulted with my boss, Prof. August and we agreed to go ahead. Reading through over 100 research articles was tough. I also under-estimated the huge amount of time needed to write.

The four-month period leading to submission in July was a trying period for me which explained the absence of postings. I felt liberated after my submission.

Today, a month later, I got the answer back from the reviewers. As usual, we had to revise or rebut the reviewers' comments. With something to work on, it will be easier than writing from scratch.