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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Missing micropipette (Eppendorf 20-200ul)


Dear UKM friends,

The micropipette (Eppendorf 20-200ul) as shown above had been taken without permission from lab 1126 on 27/1/2010 (Wed morning). It belongs to Prof A. If anyone had seen it around, please inform me immediately. Thank you.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

网络爱情故事

老公啊,我们什么时候能结婚啊?”女人一脸好奇的问,从声音分辨,她是很轻快的询问!他们在一起时间不久,两年而已,相处两年的情侣到处都是,随便就能抓出一大把,而现在的人,能有几个在交往的时候考虑结婚的?

“现在工作上也没什么突破,过两年吧!”男人轻轻柔柔道!
“哦!”没有失落亦没有兴奋,似乎预料中!
“老公啊,那假如有孩子了怎么办?”
“你有了?”男人严肃的握住女人的手,眼神犀利的盯住她!
“你抓痛我了啦!”女人喊了出来,“我是问问而已,有了我会告诉你的!”
“老婆,你记得,以我们现在并不适合要孩子,经济上也许可以不用顾忌但是心理上还无法接受,养育一个孩子不是养育一只小宠物那么简单;如果有了要告诉我,我会陪你去医院的,明白吗?”听了女人的话,男人放下心来,也柔下声音来对女人说着自己的观点!
“你放心好了啦,我不会那么不注意的,即便是有了也不会瞒你的,嘿嘿!”女人清爽的声音再度响起!但在心底,女人不知道是否该赞同男人的话,彼此工作其实 都不错也算稳定;已经多次思考过,男人只是交往初期提到过结婚,而当彼此交往变得稳定后就没有涉及过婚姻;女人虽然大大咧咧但不是真的傻!其实真不知道他 们之间的问题到底出在哪?是不爱吗?虽然感觉不到爱却也没感觉到哪不爱,也许是时间让彼此都沉静了!现在他们住的房子,一半是女人出钱按揭的;她习惯平 衡!平日逛街,他也从来没有陪过她,她从来不觉得有什么不舒服,毕竟习惯自娱是最容易快乐的方式,这时候却想到这个动作是否也能衡量他的感情。

“老公啊,今天你陪我逛街好不好?你还从来没陪我上过街呢!”女人撒娇的说。
“忙呢!乖,怎么今天想到要我陪了?”男人漫不经心的问!
“那你要不要嘛?”
“自己去吧,要买什么自己去提款就是!”男人的眼光始终专注在文件上!

“老公,我突然想嫁给你了,怎么办?”清纯美丽的小脸上闪亮的大眼无辜的望着男人;这句话把男人的注意力拉回到她身上。男人望着眼前这个没被现实的残忍划下太多痕迹的女子,隐隐的不耐与无力!
“那张纸对你来说是什么意义?”男人放下手上的工作打算和女人好好的谈一次!
“不知道!想和你结婚跟那张纸有牵连吗?”
“你想结婚不就是想要那张纸吗?”男人牵动了下眉。
“如果你那样想也可以啦,你有没有想过和我结婚?其实也是在问你的未来有没有把我算在内!”依然是轻快的声音。
“从一开始我就是打算和你一直走下去的,你不会不明白。”男人间接的回答。
“你从来没有直接的回答过我的问题耶,不管是怎样的问题都好!”女人把声音放到很嗲;“好了啦,不跟你讨论了,免得气死我自己!嘻嘻,那我自己去逛街啦,不要你陪,哼!”话音一落,她拿起包以轻快的姿态走出房间!

身后的门一关上,原本笑意盈盈的脸瞬间沉下来,换上一脸苍白与哀愁,眸底有着让人捕捉不住的幽晦迷离!迈出脚步,缓缓的走在人潮拥挤的路上,脑子里一片空 白却也塞满了思绪,一直都以为自己是很快就能过渡伤害放大欢乐的开心着,这次用尽了力气,却做不到;泪水直流!有的时候不甘愿输给命运却不得不屈服于宿 命!快乐的妖精这会,不快乐!哭够了,收起眼泪扬起笑脸,冲到步行街给心爱的他选了十套西服十件衬衣十条领带十个胸针十双袜子十双鞋子,信用卡几乎被刷 暴,但是她笑得看不到眼!这时候的她,又是一个精灵,能感染人的精灵!

东西太多扛不了,只好打车回去!得意洋洋的向他炫耀自己的战绩,他看到那么多的衣服,最角边隐隐的抽搐,看着身旁这个做事向来一鸣惊人的她不知做何反应!

“老公啊,这些都我挑的,不错吧?”看着自己挑的西服她自我陶醉,对自己的眼光她向来自信!
“老公啊,这些衣服记得已经慢慢穿哦,今天看到好看的心血来潮就帮你买了!哼,你要敢说一个不喜欢的字眼,我就让你吃不了兜着走,听到没?”插着腰威胁,故意板起那张娇滴滴的脸!

“好!我不说不喜欢,但是你买这么干什么?你怎么总是那么浪费!”男人语带指责。
“哎呀啦,老公,反正都已经买了你骂我也没用啊!你就多疼我一点也喜欢上这些衣服吧,好不好嘛?”撒娇的摇着他的手,一脸的委屈状!他回她一个无奈的眼神,揉揉她的头发;
“好好好!你呀,以后记得别这样了听到没?否则就算你撒娇我一样不饶哦!”
“恩恩恩恩!”拼命的摇晃着脑袋!
“嘿嘿...西西...”女人一直在咧着嘴傻笑个不停,男人见状亦拉开嘴笑了出来,他的女人太可爱了,和个孩子一样无忧,也有成熟女人的知性;有“妻”如 她,还有什么不满足?他在心里也在琢磨着见家长的事,一直都不再提起结婚的事只是想给她一个惊喜,当初在一起的时候,他就下定决心娶她!

“老公啊,我这个月回家去陪我妈妈好不好?毕业到现在我都没有在家好好呆过呢,妈妈好想我了,我怕弟弟娶到的老婆欺负我妈,我要回去好好‘教育’弟弟去!”晚上的时候她楼着他,手在他身上挠着痒痒,他边逃开他的魔爪,边取笑:“你终于有良心记起妈妈啦?”


“西西,人家我可是乖乖女咧!老公,我买了明天中午的机票,这段时间你可要好好照顾自己哦!”
“原来你是有计谋的啊,我说你怎么忽然对我那么好!”男人假装凶神恶煞!
“哈哈,你装的都不像了啦!讨厌~。。。”

笑声溢满整个世界!

半个月过去,男人耐不住没有女人在身边的空寂,思念她的调皮,想念她的体温;拨通她电话,男人细声细语的磨女人赶快买票回来!电话里她清爽如银铃般的笑声回荡在整个脑海里令他眼圈犯红!

“老婆,你回来好不好?我们结婚吧!”
电话另一头刹那静如死寂!“你,不是不想娶我的吗?”沉默过后,女人轻轻的问!

“我不是不想,我是想在适当的时候给你一个惊喜,只是还是熬不过思念先说了!”男人解释着!
“西西,好啊,你等我回去好不好?”女人恢复精灵样!似乎得到了全世界一样!

继续半个月过去了,男人见女人迟迟不归,再次拨通电话;这回电话响了好久才被接起,却是女人的弟弟接的,男人询问他女人怎么还没回来,弟弟说她那里还需要处理点事,还没那么快能走开,告知很快就回,请他别挂心!
再半个月后,男人接到来自女人弟弟的电话,电话里,弟弟让他马上过他们家去,说女人有事!男人吓到了,定好机票如箭般飞奔机场!

到了x市,女人的弟弟接机,弟弟一眼就认出男人,一路沉默的把男人领到医院;不祥的预感笼罩着男人,病房门开,女人瘦弱苍白的脸震撼住男人,心猛的被狠狠 的揪了一把,绞痛难耐!拖着软无力的腿,迈到紧闭双眼的女人身边,用手,轻轻的抚着那熟悉的脸颊,一下一下的抚摸着!
“姐姐胃癌晚期,拖了两个月了!”弟弟在一旁轻轻说着,女人的父母眼圈瞬间又泛红!

这个意外,真的太意外了,意外到连怎么回事都弄不清楚,意外到他感觉自己是在云端!胃癌,原来女人总是说没胃口总是不吃东西,说减肥是女人的终身事业,这一切都是借口,他责怪自己怎么就没用心去观察过;怪自己那么大意让女人独自撑着这最难熬的日子!

女人去天堂后的半个月!从女人住的那个城市寄来一封信,男人看着熟悉的字体,浑身颤抖:

亲爱的老公:

一定在想我了,是吗?一定是的,我在天堂都感觉到了呢! 老公啊,你说想和我结婚,真的好感动哦!原本以为你只是想和我在一起并 没有和我共度一生的想法!老公,谢谢你的爱! 和你在一起啊,真的是世上最幸福的事呢!每天早上醒来你都会喊手麻,西西,知道吗?老公,这是最最感动最最记忆犹新的片刻,在家的这些日子我都睡不着,没 有你的手臂当枕头没有你的怀抱当港湾;但是我不后悔,我不愿意你看到我被病魔折磨的不成人形的样子,我相信换你你也不会让我看到自己痛苦的一面!老公,原 谅我,以后只能在天上笑给你听了!老公啊,一年前,我是多么希望时间能够定格,多么想永远永远都把你铭记于心底,但是发现怎么看你都看不够,我不知道要怎 么做才能让心里舒服点,我知道你爱听我笑的声音,其实我自己也好喜欢自己的笑呢,所以就天天笑,让你永远都记得我,是不是好自私?我怕我走了之后你把我的 一切都尘封进一个连碰都不会去触碰的角落里,我好怕,怕在那里我会冷,所以就用爱让你对我刻骨铭心!我把每天当成最后一天来过,所以,够了,今生有你,够 了!

上次帮你买的衣服袜子鞋子,你每年在我离开的那天穿上一套去看我好不好?十套,那就是十年,十年里,你只能用十天的时间想我,在特定的那天里,你才可以想 起我也不准不想我,你知道我喜欢紫色玫瑰花,记得去找到哦,我对我老公可是很有信心的呢!记得,一年就是那一天能穿,别的时候不要去碰那些服装,如果你忘 记了,那么在你老之后看到那些衣服,也许能想起我的这个要求呢!西西,以后你娶老婆了,记得在那天的时候带来给 我看,但是不要告诉她我是谁,是女人都会介意的,就说...呃...就说我是你的青梅竹马好不好?我好羡慕那些青梅竹马长大的人哦!以后你娶老婆了,那她 就是“咱老婆”,你要对咱老婆好哦,就像对我这样,因为我在天上看着呢;虽然我会哭会吃醋,但是我更不舍得女孩子伤心;你下辈子欠我一生,好不好?下辈子 我会是一个好健康好健康的宝宝呢,到时候我会用力用力的缠你一辈子,直到老去!

老公,我不想告诉你我爱你这个事实了,怕你哭!我只看过你哭一次,那次我任性和你提分手;但是现在的你一定也是在哭,对吗?不只是眼睛哭,心也在流着泪!老公啊,不要让心停格在那凄楚哀怆的瞬间,笑着面对人生,帮我笑完今生,好吗?

从现在开始,不要悲哀不要消沉;想我只要用十年里的十天;十年后把我从生命里彻底清除,我自私,但是我怕我的自私让你恨我;所以我就赖你十年,就十年好不好?十年,我们就真的忘记彼此,期待来生!

已经在履行约定的傻孩子


泪滴湿了信纸,男人痛哭失声!天渐渐的暗了,黑了,窗外灯光斜射了进来,男人整理好情绪;“老婆,我记得你十年,想你用十天,来生还你一辈子!”轻轻的,对着天际呢喃!

Thursday, January 21, 2010

可惜她看不见我的汗水

我昨天有了些领悟。
面对某些人,你不能毫无准备去见他。
有些人,你只能报喜不报忧。

论文的实验材料花了不少钱,要向大学claim钱,必须获得教授的签名批准,而且必须在两个星期内,否则作废。昨天已是最后一天了,我务必立刻获得签名。

平时的我,在接见论文教授之前,都会先预约时间,让他有所准备,也让我自己先事先准备好要与她谈论的事项。但是昨天时间紧凑,我只是敲门就进去了。我只是很单纯的想要获得签名,而不是讨论我的实验结果,因此我并没有什么准备。

教授一贯笑脸迎人见我。但是他的第一句话,让我倒抽了一口凉气。

“How are you? You are working hard? I didn't see you around."

You are working hard ? 她每一次见到我都会问这句话。有时候是句号。有时候是问号。然而,他昨天这么问,让我有种被质疑的感觉。他显然在问我,你有没有勤力做实验?我怎么没撞见你做实验?

当下的感觉有点受伤。似乎,你不单是要有做事,有成绩,你还要让你的上司见到你在做事。问题是,你要让你的教授看见你做实验,这是需要机缘巧合的啊!虽然我的实验室与她的办公室是同一个走廊,但是他的门总是关上的。就算他出来走动,他也需要探头进入试验室,才会看到我。也就是说,要让他看见自己,必须要刚好两个人在走廊上碰面,还有自己的身上需要穿着实验室白袍。

我回答教授,“I have finished most of my lab work during the holidays. I am now focusing on sensory." 他说她前天有看见我在做Sensory。我当天并没有看见她,谢天谢地他有看见我。我抱着分享的心态,告诉教授要找到足够的人为我进行SENSORY 还真不容易哦。他问我用多少人,当我回答30人时,我猛地发现自己走错了一步。因为她是无法同理为什么找30个人有那么困难。他不会明白,别人没有义务要帮助你,朋友愿意帮助你吃那些难吃的青菜,一切都是在做人情。从朋友们的眼神流露出,他们不太想要吃,但是看你这么惨,帮你一把。

教授开始问我试验的结果。我大致上地向他报告。岂知,她越问越仔细。我告诉教授我还没有详细分析成绩。天呀,单是antioxidant result, 我总共有8个graphs,4种蔬菜,我怎么能够记得所有成绩呢?我记得我有打印了graphs收在我的file里面,可是匆忙间,在他的目光底下,该死的两张纸却无法立刻挖出来。他等了片刻,我躁急地寻找。找到一半,他说没关系,下一次吧。他的表情告诉我,他现在没时间等我了。

教授是个历练深厚的人,曾经是一个faculty 的Dean,自然懂得笑眯眯地对人说话。他越是如此深藏,我越是提心吊胆。我这天的表现太让自己失望了。我希望给予的印象,是清楚知道自己的实验成绩的。可是面对她那天的提问,我显然无法给予满意的答复。他表面上没有流露不悦,但是女人心,海底针呀!

从她房里出来,感觉不是很好。只能告诉自己,以后见他之前,必须准备好向他报告试验结果。还有报喜不报忧。

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Vege Vege I love you

I have been dealing with vegetables all these while for my thesis research :). My job is to compare the difference of total phenolic content and antioxidant activity between organic and conventional vegetables. As organic vegetables are usually more expensive, it is a wonder whether they are really more superior in term of taste, nutrition content and antioxidant content.

I rarely visit the market. Hehe but for my thesis research, I found myself frequenting the tesco vegetable section, selecting vegetables for lab work.


Freshly from the supermarket

Prof wanted me to measure the size of organic and conventional vegetables. It is amazing that organic vegetables are so much shorter! Well, without the aid of pesticide, these organic vege are under so much stress that their focus were shifted to phenolic acid production, thus less growth.


Okra


Choy Sum

Time to get the vege washed and cut :). They look yummy. What a waste, they will soon be blended.




Ready to be blended

The blended vege were then shaken with ethanol solution for 2 hours to extract out its antioxidant content. The extracts were such a lovely shade of green. Looks like some magic potion from Harry Potter's potion class.


Okra extracts

The vege residues formed clumps that floated around. They are unwanted. The extracts wer filtered to obtain clear solutions.






Lovely okra extract

The extracts are concentrated with Rotary Evaporator. It was a cute sight seeing the ball like flask rotating in the water bath.





Unlike okra, the extracts for choy sum is in a much darker shade of green. Looks really acidic:).



Choy Sum extract

These babies are really light sensitive. The antioxidant content within is easily affected by light. For this, I always have to off the light of the lab and work in the dark to protect these babies. Those who shared the lab with me had been very considerate, poor them, haha have to work in the dark as well.




Amber bottles



The test tubes need to be protected by aluminium foils

The extracts were reacted with Folin Ciocalteu's reagent in alkaline solution. They turned blue after 2 hours. The darker the blue, the happier I am because it represents higher content of total phenolics :).


Microplate is such a lovely invention ! It lessens the burden and allow numerous readings to be done simultaneously.



This is the DPPH test where antioxidant activity is measured. The control with no antioxidant activity would remain purple while those with activities would fade to a light yellow colour.

I am thankful that my research doesn't involve those tedious procedures involving high tech machines. Some of the friends have suffered trying to book the equipment or bullied by lab assistants. I am spared of those emotional encounters, but they do gain something too. At least they learn to use HPLC and some unheard machines.

Lab work could be rewarding, but it could turn you nuts too. There are dramas in the lab everyday, you could see the mood swings going up and down like roller coasters among fellow coursemates. A spoilt machine , a spilt sample, a rude lab assistant could make you miserable.

Good luck with my dear coursemates :). Hope we could all complete our lab work soon.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

梦想生活

有时候,日复一日地重复着同样的生活,难免产生乏闷的感觉。

生活有时候需要一些激情,一些新鲜的体验,或是有着令人憧憬的向往。这种带有憧憬的向往,往往能为生活注入一丝甜蜜,成为努力的动力。

我享受平静有诗意的生活。偶尔喜欢与朋友外出,交流交流,但却吃不消连续两三天都往外跑的生活。那很耗体力,也耗金钱。我不喜欢人太多的地方,也不喜欢油烟吵杂的地方。我比较喜欢在家看好书,偶尔逛街。我很少参与倒数活动,赛车、人多、辛苦。但是我不好意思告诉别人我不喜欢倒数活动,因为这显得我不太入格。

今年中将要毕业了,该深造、该就业,仍在衡量中。我已经比私立学院生多读了两年了,开始有种厌倦,对于教授给予的功课,更是提不起劲。开始在想,当我经济上独立的时候,我要过怎样的生活呢。

之前去了间餐厅,它的摆设,简直是女孩子的梦想。白色原来可以营造出如此梦幻的效果。将来自己的窝也用白色为主要元素,那该多好。

白色优雅的大门

黄昏下的饮料

梦幻的四柱式床铺

欧式火炉

典雅的摆设

可爱温馨的餐桌

如果屋子旁边有空间,可以打造一个绿意怏然的角落。早晨起来,在这个角落来份我最爱的早餐-coffee, orange juice, pancake, bread, ham & sausage 。餐后在这阅读喜爱的书籍,听听轻音乐。啊,生活如此,夫复何求。







Friday, January 8, 2010

Decorating my room


I have finally gotten my very own room after all these years.

I didn't really mind about that previously, it had become a habit to me, after sharing a room with my brother for 10 years. The day I asked for a Double decker bed as my birthday present at 13 years old was the day I started having a downstair-neighbour. I liked the height, so I chose to slept on the upper bed while bro was contented with his lower bed. Though we are sharing a room, it didn't always feel that way to me, cause I can't SEE him from my upper bed. With the 7 years gap, we can't really be the best of buddies. But there were nights when we would chat to each other on our beds without seeing each other. The conversations roamed around the room, with him talking from his lower bed and me on the upper bed.

After dad cleared away his den, I have now my own room. The prospect of it got me excited. It is a tiny room with limited full walls. I was tested when it came to arranging the furnitures around the room. The little girl in me took over and I ended up decorating my room in a child like manner. It took me quite some time to decide on the wall colour. Secretly, I kinda wanted a princess-like room. I chose light purple for all the walls and pink for the wall beside my bed. I like the harmony contrast, the room looks like sweet candy.

I have got many stuffed animals and soft toys , they were gifts. I didn't know what got into me, but I pooled them into the corner and bought a white coloured garden fence to enclose them, it looks like a little farm. Grandma asked me how come I didn't find it 'zho deng' ? Personally, I found it kinda cute.

I love carpets. Especially those with soft thick furs. They are usually expensive and cost hundreds of ringgit. But I found 1 purple carpet at Jusco during sales, RM50+, not very furry to my liking, but satisfactory. I love sitting on the carpet while reading.

The walls look blank without pictures. I would like to have paintings on my wall, but I don't have the confidence to draw nice pictures on the wall. Afterall, I was pro at crayon art , but not murals. And God knows how much paint I would need for the wall. Thus I was overjoyed when I found wall stickers at shopping malls and night markets. They costed around RM2 for one big sticker, I bought nearly 10.






Mum got excited over the stickers as well. She said they would look good on her classroom's bulletin boards. She made me give her the sticker with sunflowers. Her argument being : There would be more than 50 ppl seeing the picture in my classroom, compared to yours which would only be admired by you alone. She ended up having her way, because my walls are full.

Friday, January 1, 2010

晚上勿开灯睡觉

褪黑激素是由松果體所分泌的,在正常情況下夜晚11:00到凌晨2:00為分泌最旺盛的時段,人們會因而想睡覺,之後分泌量慢慢降低,直到約清晨8:00當一睜開眼睛,松果體就停止分泌了。

松果體的分泌非常的非常規律, 只要有一天熬夜,次日褪黑激素分泌量就會減少,約要 11天才會恢復正常,因此在這段時間中會出現失眠、白天想睡、哈欠連連的不正常情況。

晚上睡覺時妳有開小燈的習慣嗎??深夜開燈睡覺者,免疫功能會下降喔。

根據一項研究顯示,深夜開燈將抑制人體分泌褪黑激素,會降低人體免疫功能,因此,挑燈夜戰後極易受病毒的威脅。

國外有研究顯示,常值夜班的小姐,乳癌的發生率將大幅成長二倍。

因為人腦中有一種稱為松果體的內分泌器官,於夜間睡眠時,會分泌大量褪黑激素,這個激素在夜間 11時,至隔日2時分泌最旺盛,到清晨(8) 止分泌。

褪黑激素的分泌,可以抑制人體交感神經的興奮性,使得血壓下降、心跳速率減慢,心臟得以喘息,具有加強免疫功能、毒殺癌細胞的效果,可是一旦眼球見到光,褪黑激素就會被抑制住,因此深夜開燈睡覺者,免疫功能會下降、也就比較容罹患癌症。

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