Research Centre (?)

I've told my friends that it's in fact not a research centre. The dept/ unit I'm working at is a Vet Lab to check for the presence of bacteria and drug in meats, as well as the health of animals through regular blood check.

Monday boring. Tue dead boring though the thrill that happened (nothing to do with the procedures) excited the day a little bit. Wed I was half-dead. That's when I met these few people: Owen, Chee, Dayangku and Shirah. And they told me to go to the lab they're working at i.e. drug residue lab on the next Mon. Thur Sultan's bday. Sat Big makan for some reason hence I didn't go.

Monday again. In the morning, I spent my time with a lady named Surinah doing ELISA and she allowed me to do some pipetting. Then in the afternoon and Tue, I spent my time at drug residue. It was insanely awesome.

You know lab is actually very boring. Pipette 50 microlitres of this solution into this tube. Add the sample. Centrifudge it for 10 min. Incubate it for 1 hr. Cool it for 10 min. Add this and that and put it into a machine and take the readings then analyse it. Or pipette some microlitres of this into some microlitres of that then into it, add some microlitres of this bacteria solution. Vortex it. Swipe it on the agar. Incubate it for a few hrs. Count the colony or manipulate the colony with further pipetting experiments.

Same as all other jobs in the world, the tasks are awfully repetitive and hence the tormenting boredom. So the best lab is one that has enough work for you to do so you don't have to stare into the space or the machine in front of you AND also an awesome crew!! I have had that experience in that drug residue lab.

Shirah is the permanent staff of the lab. Chee and Dayangku are permanent staffs but still on a rotation basis till the 'boss' fixes them into one lab, because they are new. Owen belongs to the Halal and since they, whoever they are, are still building the lab, those so-called Halal people have to observe and help out in the labs here. These four people just cracked me up so badly.

Because of them, I was thinking of continuing working there for the rest of the week, which I'm supposed to do so but then after some thoughts, I then told the boss that I would like to leave today for good. They are working graduates who are earning money and I'm still a first year and I'll leave this place at the end of this week anyway. They will part their ways in a few weeks time too due to the rotation basis and they're well aware of that. A friendship that won't last. Why bother sacrificing my holiday?

But I've to tell you that these two days have been my greatest lab experience ever. I just kept on laughing!! In Oxford, labs were just urghh. Every second counts or you will get out of the lab after six hrs instead of four. Everyone, well most people, works as fast as possible and it's a huge pressure on us. We brought our tubes/plates/apparatus around the lab as quick as our legs could carry us without bumping onto someone doing the same thing. And the worst thing was seeing half of the lab gone and you.were.still.there.

You know, it's really fun to spend time with normal people who don't care about the truth behind everything-Theology, Science, Philosophy, Economics etc. Normal people who do work for the sake of doing it and have a laugh while doing it due to whatsoever reason. Something funny that has happened in the family, some stupid error, some office gossips. Gosh, I miss my old life that I've lost so so long ago, back when I'm still a normal boy.

I really hope I'll be working in a jolly lab like this, but it's incredibly rare I've to say. Fingers crossed.

'Kau syaitan!'

'Kau antu puchong!'

LOL. I nearly ROFLMAO.

Btw, I met a few attachers and had a few conversations with them, I felt bad for not knowing urm, many stuffs.

'So what're you doing now?'

'ND'

'What?'

'ND'

'???'

'National Diploma.'

'So what course are you doing?'

'Science.'

'In...'

'... Science.'