10th day

day ten was a tiring day

there were little spot around my face

from afar it's fine but when near, u can see little spot like rashes

it wasn't itchy but in the night, i became itchy

i remembered scene of myself waking up in the middle of night and scratching my face

haha

lab was normal, we mixture some chemical i dun remember the name as it was in chinese

then use the spectro to measure the abs readings

and then lunch came, i was released at about 12.30pm

then i went to feast on noodles and tak pau steam dumplings back to hostel

my senior said that he will be meeting me outside my hostel

i psp-ed and nap a while

at 2.30pm he called and pass me something and ask me to head back to the lab

it was a cool new equipment

althought he said that this equipment has phase out

it's something that is able to estimate molecular weight of a substance by measuring it's viscosity

it looked something like that except there a third inlet

haha

and in the process of using

we broke it

as we need to make it stand upright and i suggest a way and my senior tried it and opps, crack

i was really stunned, speechless

and i return to the lab in the night

and did more stuff

i helped to prepare some solution which need to be use the next day

honestly i dunno what i was doing

but i added some stuff every 3 mins

so i must be seated a my place with my stopwatch and add

it's not that bad, seriously

Kenn

9th day

today was the start of my first experiment in lab
it was calculation for the start and till the end
how exciting -_-!
what i did was dilute the chemicals till different conc.
(and again i couldn't calculate the conc. thank god, the senior helped me,haha)
then after a while we used the spectrophotometer to measure the absorbance
and then a curve was plotted
they say we need to use curve to estimate some values, which will be useful in a few days time
don't quite understand thought
but ya this is what i did today
and in the night which is about now
we went to wash our clothes
it's 3RMB per wash
we start the machine and leave it there and most likely, we'll go back down to check later haha
don't think anyone would steal our clothes.
yup that's all
hopefully tomorrow i'll get to do better stuff
see ya!!!

Kenn

8th day

i forgotten to blog yesterday
haha
as for yesterday, there are two new mates who joined us
samantha and dave
they're working within the same building with us but just different labs
in the night we went out to have dinner, i wanted to try china's macdonalds and KFC for some time
and we went
haha
it cost 18RMB which is about SGD 4
for 18RMB you get a extravaluemeal of nuggets
the fries taste the same as s'pore
nothing special
the nuggets maybe a little nicer
it ain't worth it i think
for 18RMB i could have gotten better food
so the next time i might try KFC instead, to see the difference
well that's all.

Kenn

7th day

today's saturday
like in singapore i slack the whole of today too
if i were to type whatever dumb boring stuff i did today, it'll bore you till death, for sure
in conclusion, i slept till 11am, went to lab and went to carrefour to buy some stuff and went back to hostel
interesting stuff for today that is, two NP students arrived today, and most probably they'll be staying in the same hostel with us!!!
we've new mates

that's all , see ya

Kenn

6th day - Photos

Dexter more pictures for you. And everyone!

one of the lake in tianjin university

my room

The lab i'll be working in

Our Friendly senior

Duty roster, i'm on monday, Darn it haha

Kenn

6th day

mmm, goodluck for the A levels dude, hope u'll get into a course of your choice in Uni

i always thought that slacking in the hostel was the best thing to do
it's appears to be the worst and most boring "favourite pastime"
so first thing at 8.30am in the morning, i went to the lab
it's takes about 15mins to walk to the lab, morning walk, i'll call it
my senior was away when i reached the lab, as he was away using a cool machine
the SEM (scanning electron microscope), i always imaged it as a cool machine, super high tech
i didn't know where my senior was, so i stayed in the lab looking at the other senior doing their experiment
it's was fun , just looking at what they're doing
so slacking in the lab seem not a bad idea too
we had lunch and went back to the lab for 'spring cleaning'
haha
so we cleared up some stuff in the lab
i was very happy to be cleaning the microscope, wasn't that happy when cleaning the window
after that they allow us to go back to hostel
in the night, after dinner, my partner need to head back to the lab to do his experiment
it's quite cool in the night
quite scary too
like silent hill
so after that i went back to hostel
and blog, like now.
so i will await another two person from NP to arrive tomorrow
they'll free me from my boredom

Kenn

5th day

in fact today was the same as yesterday
i went to the lab and the senior, lijian explain the research i'll be doing
so i got a full view or rather idea of it
it's a short process rather but it was cool
if the whole reaction would occur successfully, it'll still take 8 to 10 days to have the final product
so i stayed in the hostel to sum up my report
then pack dinner from a stall just nearby (as in 20 steps away) of the hostel
then kinda slack till the night
i hope that i'll be able to start the project by tomorrow

Kenn