 Hi Wayne, so supposedly this is going to be a surprise for you but I'm not sure where in your list of surprises this is going to fall because you've had a number of pleasant surprises by way of number of achievements that you've made in your last year and I think it all started with us putting in a paper for the Philippine Crop Science Society best paper competition to which you made it as a finalist and if you had just a few bits and pieces more of the data you would have probably won that also and then you came back from there to finish off your MSC in flying colors. I still remember your comprehensive exam that you took and also the presentation you made for your thesis which then obviously was recognized as the best thesis by the Department of Science and Technology and it came with a very prestigious certificate and a lot of cash award and you're already happy for you for that. And I think the next thing to follow was your two papers from your earlier work that you got in the last year and these were very good papers in the Journal of Experimental Botany and Plain Cell Reports so these were very good achievements as well and then again you won the best paper competition in the Society for Developmental Biologists when you presented your work again so there was surely a string of achievements for you and I think this award that you've got today of the outstanding scientific achievements is a great icing on the cake and you'd surely deserve this because you've also had a lot number of nasty surprises last year mainly relating to your own health and a couple of times to your family's health so all this has not come very easily to you we are all very aware of that and I know as a person with so many additional responsibilities at a personal level as a wife as a mother and as a person of faith I know you make a lot of time for that I think it is commendable that you have been very conscientiously been able to put extra time back into your work and achieve all that you have achieved in the last one year so I personally and from the entire group commend you for that congratulate you for that I think this award is a testimony to your hard work, to your determination, to your conscientiousness and you well deserve this and I do want to take an opportunity to say it once again as I have said to you in a number of meetings that you've always had that you have a tendency to start a number of things and finish just a few of them but you have great ideas in fact your MSc was based on one of your own ideas and we were able to validate those ideas and get a number of awards based on that you do tend to sort of drift away from some very interesting aspects and I'm aware that even before I joined you accumulated a lot of data which is very relevant for publications if certain gaps are filled and surely I'll take it on myself to ensure that those gaps are filled in the next year and we get some more good publications and you keep winning such awards but for now I think you should bask in the glory of your achievements you deserve this award better than anyone else and I just congratulate you once again from my side and from the entire group who is also very happy for you because as a senior member in the group you have you have been very supportive I still remember when I came here I think having you in my group made my life easy here at Erie by you facilitating a number of small bits and pieces for me by the fact that you've been at Erie for such a long time so I think I should stop now and let you get on with enjoying this whole atmosphere and take it all in and congratulations once again