old

And I thought I had been here like forever in this lab.


1988!!!
The grandmother of all paraffin liquids for spectroscopy.
Quick call Ahh-Ma!

Rare sight

If you know my lab, you will know that this is a rare sight, so enjoy it here while it lasts:


There are actually bottles on the shelves! When I saw that i was so shocked, the only time I last saw this was about half a year ago. Then it dawned upon me this great revelation: it's exam week!


Quite a nice geometric, honey-comb like picture of the bottles seemingly stacked vertically in a crate and the shot taken from the top down. But no, its stacked horizontally as the following picture proves :



(photos by Littlefroggie)

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New shaking incubator!

The shaking incubator when stationary:


The shaking incubator when shaking:


This ones is very the powderful man, dontch pray pray ah. Can the shake until you is heen.

Dept lunch

Last Friday two profs in the department got a farewell. Going on to another position in another university in another country. So all the staff said goodbye as well as had their year end lunch meet thingy. Here are some pics:



HOD going stright for the curry. The man knows what's good.


"For my going off party, I expect a buffet table as long as this room, ok?"


The spoils. Mee Siam looking bee hoon, curry chicken with lots of potatoes, fried fish, brocolli with mushrooms, fried won ton, and this oily fiber thingy that is actually chicken floss.


The table only has one line, so the queue snakes around the room.


Going off present. Need a hand tearing away the wrapper?


You gave me a slide box? what the...


I'm going to kill whoever gave me this stupid thing and stuff the black boxes down his throat!!

more pond

Went to the pond again but this time in the evening. the Lily was already shutting down for the day.


The lotus was shutting down forever. Will catch it in action the next time it blooms.


Water from the rock.


Behind the water feature, there is this garden thingy that was interesting so me and Littlefroggie investigated it. We found tomatoes, beans, lady's fingers, corn, papaya, pandan, and some other unidentified plants. All at our backyard! Somebody must be really free.




Can you spot the corn? This is not a corny joke, there really is one there.


Flowering corn. Corny flowers!


Closeup of the tomatoes. Totally organic, no insecticide. Makes good salad. *hint hint*

warren

Uni taking over Warren golf course!
http://www.nus.edu.sg/oed/residentialcolleges/
GL1101 (Introduction to Golf 1101):
Shoot hole-in-one means A+, eagle means A-, Bogey means B+
But of course must always be one shot behind the course lecturer, if beat him means sure to get D-. You have been warned.
On the way to the golf course got bridge. On bridge got shop selling golf ball, golf club and also this outlet sell insurance. This all students play golf, the ball pak here, pak there don't know fly until where liau, better buy insurance wait kena your lecturer car glass window break, you ownself go home cry. Now got promotion, buy insurance, free golf ball. But this golf ball is special one. the ball is make of sponge. Kena hit liau beh pain one. The only problem is the ball sink in the water hazard. After hit the water, it will soak up the water and sink to the bottom. If got many many ball sink, the pond will dry up because the sponge soak up all the water. So if the ball sink, better quickly go fish it out. But fish out liau leh must squeeze the water out of the ball. Then because you squeeze it, the ball kiew chui and become smaller. Because smaller, it is easier to enter the hole. So many students use this as a cheat in the final exams.