Christmas Lunch

Lab's annual event, sponsored by the boss.
We went to a local buffet at the Grand Hyatt at Orchard Road. 12 people, one table, lots of food.

Here are some pictures for you to oogle over.



There's this wall just stacked full of wine bottles. Quite a sight to behold. Very nice.


Amazing roasted chicken and duck. and the pastries are not bad at all.


Fresh fish, oyster omelette, etc etc etc...


Small talk while waiting for some others to arrive.


Someone found a worm in the cheng t'ng. We showed it to the waiter and all he said was thanks for pointing that out, I will go remove the whole pot of cheng t'ng. We were hoping for a 10% discount or a free cake or something.


After the worm thing, I found an ant on a piece of papadum. Makes you wonder actually how clean the place really is.


A toast; to remember a good 2005 and to usher in a hopefully equally amazing (if not more amazing) 2006.


Group shot. Taken with the cam's autotimer. Asked a waiter before this to take a shot but it came out blur.


The entry to Straits Kitchen. Very good ambience and deco.


A round fixture on a square wall. The whole place very nice deco. Quite overwhelmed by it.

Cool tap

Don't know what else to call it. The sink fixture like thingy at the hospital food court. You press the black thing on the floor and water like a waterfall comes out of the glass thing. The waste water drains out at the back of the 'sink' by the slit there. Thus, please dont throw anything bigger than 1.26cm x 2.04cm into the sink as it will get stuck.

bohliauness

Was 'free' the other day, no, more like bored the other day while sectioning some blocks, so had some fun:


After a few days, was 'free', no, 'bored' again. Behold, all you earthlings, kau-tau now to The Supreme Lord Boh-Liau Flaviguy, henceforth shall be refered to as Revereed Boh-Liau.


Hey, and you there, stop gigging in front of your monitor.

Fumigation

No idea why they call it such but this is the first time I've seen people doing a safety check for the biosafety cabinet. So, this is what you need to do.
1. Come with lots of sticky tape and big plastic bags.
2. Stick the plastic bags over the hood, wrap it up like you are Santa Claws.
3. Use lots of tapes, use as if your father owns the factory.

4. Please remember to forget to put in the smelly ammonium thingy into the hood so you can (after using lots of tape to secure the plastic bags in place) make a mess out of the whole thing by trying to put this tupperware of thing into the hood right after you sealed it moments ago.

5. Do also stick platic bags and sticky tape on the top of the cabinet. But remember that you forgot to put the ammonia thingy till just now? Enjoy the whiffs of scented air now.

6. Leave the lab to the rightful owners overnight. Dont hog the ammonia for yourself.

7. Come back the next morning with a smell-o-sensor and a big vacuum cleaner.

8. Take readings (or at least act like you are taking readings) from the sensor like thing (you forgot the batteries right?)
9. You can also take readings while the vacuum cleaner is on. If pentiums can multitask, so can you! I'm sure the air suction thing will NOT influence the readings of your dead sensor. How stupid of me to ill judge your skills.
10. Oh yeah, forgot to tell you to wear gloves when working in the lab.