The mid-term holidays (Easter holiday) is coming to the end. I have did nothing at all but to procrastinate every single day. No revisions were done. No follow-ups. Nothing. Absolutely 0.
I've wasted 8 days of my life just like that, for nothing.
(excluding the day we went traveling along the Great Ocean Road)
T.T
WS aka king of procrastinaters
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Hot hot chicken shit
Just came back from the gym, thought of writing something before I start my never ending cycle of eating and washing up again. Today is my chest day. As usual, I went there, grabbed a pairs of dumbbells and start doing bench press. After warming up, I gradually increase the weight between sets and finally to 27.5kgs (2.5kgs more than my usual max weight) without much difficulties. Maybe I should consider 30 for the next time.. Anyway, after 3 sets, my left shoulder was starting to signal me that it is still in the recovery period. So, I decided to switch to cardio exercise for the rest of the day.
While I was resting at the side, I noticed one of my friend was teaming up with his buddy again to spot each other's workout. It was kind of funny cause whenever my friend is working out, his buddy would spot and gave him lots of motivation like : 'come on', 'push', 'you're doing great', 'one more, one more', 'easy, easy', 'you can do it', 'dont give up', 'two more to go' and then keep on repeating the same thing for like 30 times in less than a minute. Wah, if I have such a 'motivating' spotter, I would have pulled out a gun and shoot him to oblivion even before I start my workout. Bising bangor. That's why I still prefer to workout alone with the earphones on.
Anyway, what I wanna blog today is actually my genetics lab session which I had yesterday. Ever wonder what a genetic student do in the fire-prone lab? First, we put on our lab coat which protect us from the potentially harmful chemicals and in the same time, make us easier to catch on fire. Most of the fire incidents start from the students hit and spill the alcohol unintentionally onto their long sleeves, then go near the bunsen burner and poof.... Jackpot.
The first thing we dealt with is the drosophila (fruit fly) that I mentioned in my last post. This is how it looks like when we got the specimens. They are still alive.
Yup, those tiny dots are the flies. The yellow medium at the base is made out of some banana + some basic nutrients that flies need to grow.
This is how we observe them. Put them on the white platform to get a clearer view on their eye colours, wing shapes and so on. No, we are not killers and the flies are still alive. We dont kill them just to observe their features. Then you might want to ask why arent they flying around? This is the reason.
We made them inactive first by giving them CO2... See the pipe? It is connected to the tap that leads to CO2 source. We get the CO2 gas just like how people get the gas for bunsen burner. The flies will be active again after they are removed from the CO2. But usually before that happens, we would discard them into the fly morgue and they will be dead. Muahahahaha.... there is another way of making the flies sleep, its by exposing them to ether. But this is not usually done especially by the novices, cause ether + fire will result explosion which is a lot worse than just catching fire.
This is aspergillus. A kind of fungi which we use to study the genes interaction and complementation... bla bla bla so on so forth. They got very distinguishable features which enable us to identify them easily. To grow them, you just need very little amount of spores and stab them into an agar plate with some nutrients, then they can grow and poliferate after incubation. Due to the fact that aspergillus need to be incubated, therefore experiment involving aspergillus need more than one week to be completed.
The plate above is actually provided to us by our demonstator. Thats the reason why every colony is nicely organised and there's no contamination between colonies. We do need to learn how to inoculate the aspergillus into new plates and it is really not an easy job cause the spores are too tiny and a little mistake will cause contamination everywhere in the plate.
This is also the time when fire accidents usually occur. Cause in order to inoculate aspergillus, we first sterilized the pen with metal wire attached on it by soaking it with alcohol and pass it through the flame for a brief moment. Then, we take some spores from the colony with the tip of a wire and stab it into a new agar plate. We stab the wire upwards with the agar plate facing downward to prevent the spores from spreading everywhere but still error can happens sometimes.
Our demonstrators always talk as if fire accident is no big deal. They said it does happens from time to time and when it happens in the alcohol petri dish, instead of panicking and watching the lab from burning down, please take the lid and cover the petri dish so the fire will stop. Wah, easier talk than do ler, do you think how many people can actually think of doing that when the alcohol is burning?
This is the plate that I did last week and it turned out to be quite nice. See how pro I am... Muahahaha... (ignoring the huge band of contamination across the plate) Very pro dy la, ok? Who want to comment banyak banyak one, gi la buat sendiri... cis...
WS
While I was resting at the side, I noticed one of my friend was teaming up with his buddy again to spot each other's workout. It was kind of funny cause whenever my friend is working out, his buddy would spot and gave him lots of motivation like : 'come on', 'push', 'you're doing great', 'one more, one more', 'easy, easy', 'you can do it', 'dont give up', 'two more to go' and then keep on repeating the same thing for like 30 times in less than a minute. Wah, if I have such a 'motivating' spotter, I would have pulled out a gun and shoot him to oblivion even before I start my workout. Bising bangor. That's why I still prefer to workout alone with the earphones on.
Anyway, what I wanna blog today is actually my genetics lab session which I had yesterday. Ever wonder what a genetic student do in the fire-prone lab? First, we put on our lab coat which protect us from the potentially harmful chemicals and in the same time, make us easier to catch on fire. Most of the fire incidents start from the students hit and spill the alcohol unintentionally onto their long sleeves, then go near the bunsen burner and poof.... Jackpot.
The first thing we dealt with is the drosophila (fruit fly) that I mentioned in my last post. This is how it looks like when we got the specimens. They are still alive.
Yup, those tiny dots are the flies. The yellow medium at the base is made out of some banana + some basic nutrients that flies need to grow.
This is how we observe them. Put them on the white platform to get a clearer view on their eye colours, wing shapes and so on. No, we are not killers and the flies are still alive. We dont kill them just to observe their features. Then you might want to ask why arent they flying around? This is the reason.
We made them inactive first by giving them CO2... See the pipe? It is connected to the tap that leads to CO2 source. We get the CO2 gas just like how people get the gas for bunsen burner. The flies will be active again after they are removed from the CO2. But usually before that happens, we would discard them into the fly morgue and they will be dead. Muahahahaha.... there is another way of making the flies sleep, its by exposing them to ether. But this is not usually done especially by the novices, cause ether + fire will result explosion which is a lot worse than just catching fire.
This is aspergillus. A kind of fungi which we use to study the genes interaction and complementation... bla bla bla so on so forth. They got very distinguishable features which enable us to identify them easily. To grow them, you just need very little amount of spores and stab them into an agar plate with some nutrients, then they can grow and poliferate after incubation. Due to the fact that aspergillus need to be incubated, therefore experiment involving aspergillus need more than one week to be completed.
The plate above is actually provided to us by our demonstator. Thats the reason why every colony is nicely organised and there's no contamination between colonies. We do need to learn how to inoculate the aspergillus into new plates and it is really not an easy job cause the spores are too tiny and a little mistake will cause contamination everywhere in the plate.
This is also the time when fire accidents usually occur. Cause in order to inoculate aspergillus, we first sterilized the pen with metal wire attached on it by soaking it with alcohol and pass it through the flame for a brief moment. Then, we take some spores from the colony with the tip of a wire and stab it into a new agar plate. We stab the wire upwards with the agar plate facing downward to prevent the spores from spreading everywhere but still error can happens sometimes.
Our demonstrators always talk as if fire accident is no big deal. They said it does happens from time to time and when it happens in the alcohol petri dish, instead of panicking and watching the lab from burning down, please take the lid and cover the petri dish so the fire will stop. Wah, easier talk than do ler, do you think how many people can actually think of doing that when the alcohol is burning?
This is the plate that I did last week and it turned out to be quite nice. See how pro I am... Muahahaha... (ignoring the huge band of contamination across the plate) Very pro dy la, ok? Who want to comment banyak banyak one, gi la buat sendiri... cis...
WS
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Hello, everyone
It has been a long time since I wrote something here.. Anyone miss me? Guess not.. Oh well nevermind. Nobody cares...
After the long holidays, I am back to Melbourne which does not has lots of major changes. Only a small amount of restaurants got replaced with the better one (This is purely an assumption). As for me, I moved out from that horrible apartment to a new accommodation which is slightly nearer to the uni. So, starting now, you all wont be able to hear my rants anymore about that organism. Haha... this should be quite a disappointment for those who cares for my sluggish EX-housemate, or the so called 'wei-siang-curse-non-stop-drama' !!
The same state library where people still sit on the grass patches where the sunlight reaches. Arent they suppose to lookout for over-exposure to UV rays?
I am staying with another guy now. A Malaysian whom I dunno comes from which state but I know his mother is a Kemaman-ians. He is a rather nice guy and currently taking his masters in RMIT. I dont have his pictures but I can tell you that he always remind me of CTZ. He is somehow similar to chen either the physical appearance (except the unique feature that make CTZ special) or the styles. The only thing that I cna complaint about him right now is probably his extra loud singings/shoutings... (he is a rocker)...
As for me, I am doing my second year now and the subjects I took are so ... erm.. specific. Principles in Genetics, Experiment in Genetics, Molecular biology and Gene, Health & Society as the breadth (junk) subject.
For Principles in Genetics and molecular biology, they are all about normal biology studies where you need to read and memorize before you enter the exam hall. And then, Experiment in Genetics should the most boring science experiment ever. This is because the living things that we would deal with are actually 3 - E.Coli, Drosophila and Aspergillus where 2 out of 3 are hardly visible things. E.Coli is some stupid bacteria that you can only observe it after it poliferates and form a colony. Meanwhile, Aspergillus is a fungi which also only visible after it grows into a colony. The biggest organism- Drosophila is actually a fruit fly aka lalat aka 'chang ying' aka 'wu ying'. In the case of Drosophila, we need to identify the males and females and then look for the mutated features like curly wing, smaller eye, different eye colours, shorter abdoment, absent of hairs on the legs and many more stupid physical features (without using any instruments like microscope). As for the junk subject, its a junk... self explainable..hahaha
I write till hungry lagi... bencinya... Hungry = eat = wash dishes/cutleries... and then after washing = hungry = eat again ... Argh.. my neverending house chores and no matter how I cleanup my room, it will be still messy everytime I come back from outside... Grrrrrr...
I guess my next post should be somewhere near Easter dy.. hahaha =P
p/s : I changed my mascot and yes, it is a pokemon and I dont need any coments about its ugliness yata yata so dont any of you dare to bug me with those stupid comments or questions.
WS
After the long holidays, I am back to Melbourne which does not has lots of major changes. Only a small amount of restaurants got replaced with the better one (This is purely an assumption). As for me, I moved out from that horrible apartment to a new accommodation which is slightly nearer to the uni. So, starting now, you all wont be able to hear my rants anymore about that organism. Haha... this should be quite a disappointment for those who cares for my sluggish EX-housemate, or the so called 'wei-siang-curse-non-stop-drama' !!
The same state library where people still sit on the grass patches where the sunlight reaches. Arent they suppose to lookout for over-exposure to UV rays?
I am staying with another guy now. A Malaysian whom I dunno comes from which state but I know his mother is a Kemaman-ians. He is a rather nice guy and currently taking his masters in RMIT. I dont have his pictures but I can tell you that he always remind me of CTZ. He is somehow similar to chen either the physical appearance (except the unique feature that make CTZ special) or the styles. The only thing that I cna complaint about him right now is probably his extra loud singings/shoutings... (he is a rocker)...
As for me, I am doing my second year now and the subjects I took are so ... erm.. specific. Principles in Genetics, Experiment in Genetics, Molecular biology and Gene, Health & Society as the breadth (junk) subject.
For Principles in Genetics and molecular biology, they are all about normal biology studies where you need to read and memorize before you enter the exam hall. And then, Experiment in Genetics should the most boring science experiment ever. This is because the living things that we would deal with are actually 3 - E.Coli, Drosophila and Aspergillus where 2 out of 3 are hardly visible things. E.Coli is some stupid bacteria that you can only observe it after it poliferates and form a colony. Meanwhile, Aspergillus is a fungi which also only visible after it grows into a colony. The biggest organism- Drosophila is actually a fruit fly aka lalat aka 'chang ying' aka 'wu ying'. In the case of Drosophila, we need to identify the males and females and then look for the mutated features like curly wing, smaller eye, different eye colours, shorter abdoment, absent of hairs on the legs and many more stupid physical features (without using any instruments like microscope). As for the junk subject, its a junk... self explainable..hahaha
I write till hungry lagi... bencinya... Hungry = eat = wash dishes/cutleries... and then after washing = hungry = eat again ... Argh.. my neverending house chores and no matter how I cleanup my room, it will be still messy everytime I come back from outside... Grrrrrr...
I guess my next post should be somewhere near Easter dy.. hahaha =P
p/s : I changed my mascot and yes, it is a pokemon and I dont need any coments about its ugliness yata yata so dont any of you dare to bug me with those stupid comments or questions.
WS
Monday, March 23, 2009
I'll be back...
Hopefully tomorrow... I am suppose to post my blog two days before since I have promised it to myself but I was really busy for the last few days (on some not very important stuffs) and today was exceptionally busy busy busy....
So I have to delay it again. Hopefully tomorrow I will have the right time and the right mood to sit down and write something... Haha..
WS
So I have to delay it again. Hopefully tomorrow I will have the right time and the right mood to sit down and write something... Haha..
WS
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