shattered

Was making some gels at the sink when there was this ear splitting thunderous sound that resembled a huge brass gong going off next to me. Turned around and realized that a piece of glass fell from heaven and crashed on the floor right next to me.


Where the heck did that came from? Got my answer from turning around and seeing the empty cupboard right in the middle of the picture.


I was just in front of the chair on the right of the first picture. Had I been one foot to the back or to the right of the chair, the glass would have hit me. Thank God I'm ok. We cleared up the mess and found a few pieces quite suited for EM cutting but decided not to use them. Boon is now having a phobia as the lab's pc is right underneath a few of those glass shelves.

Remember, change to stainless steel rivets as suggested by the government! It can save lives!


Today also, the new boxes and racks for the -80 came. Nice and colourful, with a little padlock. But frankly, if you wanted to steal something from the rack with a lock, you would just take the whole rack right? Well, MOE directive still remains MOE directive.

bmrc blunder

BMRC call for glants is around the corner, actually its end of this month, can consider pass the corner liau. They lots of mani to quickly prin and giv out shynee posters, but the real glant mani wait long long only can see one (provided u dont grow old meanwhile and loose your sight).



Then hor, I is look at the glossy pictures, wah, the microscope is very the good leh, me sees it before in the IMCB new building, the person is says its costs 700 thousand. More ex than the electron microscope i use. So for a few seconds i is a drooling at the microscope. Fully automated widefield inverted microscope, heated chamber with good filter set and deconvulation software. Can close eye do Z stack one. Olympus IX70 base, but lenses from Zeiss. Farne rite?
Then after finish drooling on picture one, naturally want to drool on picture two lah. So me sees picture two.
Got this ang moh with a 2B pencil poke at a slide and show a local guy how to poke a slide with a 2B pencil. Like very ho seh like that.
Then i is look closer, very close, like 5 cm close.
Then, eh! got something the rong leh.
Nolah, not the purple light, but the slide.
Can see or not?
If u got do paraffin sections before hor, you sure see this one, one.
The slide is not stained lah. they cut the block, never even heat the sections on the water properly to expand the wax, then fish out and put on the slide, then the slide also never warm up.
How i know?
aiyah, of course lah i know, my one whole year project last time is do this kind of nonsense one.

this one not even call bullshit man, this one only deserve call cowpee.
try bluff who? small kid ah?

you is see the slide, it is nice and square. means never heat up loh.


REAL slides hor, done the REAL way, looks like this:

warm

If the Japanese consider 103C as 'warm', I don't want to know what their 'hot' is.

the table: part n

OK, probably the last entry on the reno work on level 1. Kinda getting sick of it already. The interesting story is how the LAN points got about.

The cable guy came and asked where they should put up the boxes. The table guy refuse to come down to look at the place and told the cable guy to put it on the wall. Which he did.
Then the tables came in and they realized there was this metal covering in front of the bench. So it would cover up the cable point.
Stupid.

Oh by the way, we also asked to have the shelf higher than usual so that huge monitors like the one below can fit in, but did they hear their customer out? Noooo....
Double whammy when asked about the light power cords. The sales guy said the cords can hide between the backrests but when the technical guy came he said 'where got such thing one??' Then how? "Hang around like that lah."
Messy.


Some smart aleck thought that if we made holes in the boards, we can pass the cable through, which was what the table people did. Firstly they didnt do a good matching job, with some holes way off the cable junction. Secondly, they even drilled holes on the pieces of metal that had old LAN points that were above the table and not below. Then they come and show us the holes and ask 'how ah?'
How your head lah, how...


So the cable people had to call in one of their guys another day to fix the junction boxes onto the metal strip thingy.


He that day do work like not so happy leh, don't know why. But at last, everything done up nicely.