在咖啡因和赶thesis双重刺激下，我又度过了一个漫长的无眠夜。陪伴我的就只有我忠实的电脑、恼人的thesis、还有24小时不眠不休的爱FM。自从第一次试过整晚不睡后，感觉自己对这件事越来越得心应手，而这绝对不是件好事。健康受影响不说，我待会儿一整天的情绪也会比较差、比较情绪化，然后上课自然不能专心，对外来刺激的反应也肯定慢很多。
大家常说要早睡早起，身体才会健康。这边指的是晚上12点之前入睡，早上7点就起身了。而我所谓的“早睡早起”定义呢，就是早上睡，早上起，身体会健康…………才怪！！！
唉，虽然我知道这样不好，但心里总有个不好的预感：这样的日子应该还会持续一段时间咯！！！至少在完成thesis之前，都会这样度过我的夜晚吧！！！
一句话：欲哭无泪…
今天正月十五，元宵节。我这儿怎么可能少了鞭炮和烟花呢？那一轮狂炸后，现在总算恢复了一些些的平静了。
今年元宵老实说挺没有意义的，对我来说啦。一大早就被舞狮声吵醒了，楼下的舞狮团不分昼夜的练习，当然会趁着这个时候好好表演一番了。宁静的早晨就这样没了，睡意也被锣鼓声驱散了，唉。。。
然后就是连续不停地面对很多很多数字了，现在才发现analyze result这份工作真的是费神又费力啊！！！这么多数据要一一分析，虽然运用的是最简单的加减乘除，但我觉得比做add math还麻烦啊！折腾了大半天，终于把这么一大堆数据给分析完毕了（但愿如此吧…）。看看时间，也不早了，也懒得吃午餐咯，就随随便便吃几块饼干解决了一餐。
晚上也再看看书，处理一些慈青干训营的事情，倒也过得不错的。直到鞭炮烟花开始前吧！！！
元宵节就这样过了，期待明年的新年吧…
Today went to Kampar again with FYP team members.The purpose is as usual,to meet with our co-supervisor Dr. Gideon…
We start our journey early as usual and I spent most of the time sleeping.The journey is as dull as usual and we are lucky to reach quite fast.We decided to take a little tour around,nothing much to see actually.The only difference compared to our last visit is there are juniors around.We didn’t make any contact,we acted as cool seniors…Everyone was such obedient as most of them are wearing their lanyard…Wow…We in Setapak never worn ours even when we are required to do so.I remember the last time I use it is during our dull trip to National Public Health Lab.(p/s:and we were literally forced to put it on…)
Then we had a simple brunch at the cafeteria.The food is better compared to our campus (Personally I think there are no cafeteria worse than ours) and it is slightly cheaper.Plus,the owner of the stall is much more polite and beautiful…Grins…
Nothing much special about our meeting…There are a number of corrections and analysis we still need to do.Anyway,thanks Dr. Gideon for ur guidance…
After that,we head back.No lunch, a little disappointment actually.But I am not the driver so nothing I can say…I think that is all about the trip this time.No photos taken either and well I sleep most of the time too.Dull trip I guess…
When should I start my thesis???It seems like everyone had started at least a small portion of it and some had even completed the 1st draft…
Me???I haven’t even write a word…OMG!!!I am totally domed…But I really had no mood to even think about it.The whole thesis writing stuff is just so depressing and torturing...
I know if I didn’t start it as soon as possible,I will probably be super regret when the due date is closer…I know I will be awake whole night for many nights to complete it…I know I will be nagged for not starting it earlier…But I just don’t have the mood and motivation to do it…
Maybe I will start it after meeting Dr.Gideon…I really hope so!!!
Going back to my beloved hometown tomorrow!!!
Yahoo!!!Finally after spending around 3 months in KL doing my FYP,I can go back now…Pretty excited as I will be spending the next 3 weeks in my new home,having my own room and spending some quality times with my family…Furthermore,I wont be worrying about what to eat for my meals and save lots of money!!!
The only things I will miss at KL are my friends(but we still can communicate through MSN),Tzu Chi (looking forward to meeting those who went back to Taiwan) and also the Mamak here(the Mamak here is the best!!!)…
Will start to pack my stuff later and clean my room tomorrow morning…Then will be heading to KLCC for Sherlock Holmes before taking the train…A nice Sunday ahead…
Woke up quite early today because I thought that we are going to have a meeting with Kar Loon,Bluey and Dr. Alan in Semenyih.But it was cancel because Dr. Alan is on leave and there goes my morning sleep.
I end up watching some drama and do a little cleaning.Then later meet up with Fui Ling to give her the BBQ money for tomorrow.There will be around 15 people coming for the gathering and hope it will be fun.This is my 1st BBQ in KL and I pretty much looking forward to it.Maybe I will blog about it tomorrow with some photos…
Had dinner with Ken at KFC because he insist it.As a caring and good friend,I say YES…Furthermore it had been some times since I last went to KFC… While eating in KFC,I suddenly come upon a strange question.Do we consume chicken too much???I remember that there are chickens in almost all my meals for the past few months…Wonder why???I love vegetables too but it seems that all the vegetables I get here are just plain cabbage and occasionally some celery…And once again I wonder why???
Anyway I know when I am going home this time I will stuff myself with lot of vege to compensate my loss…BTW,6 more days before heading back TM…Horray!!!
Yesterday we finally end the Stage 2 and Stage 3 of our FYP.This means that we had done the experiment part and now we need to focus on analyzing our data and complete the thesis.
Since this is the last day we will be working at Semenyih, we decided to treat the abang who help us a lot during our experiment.We had bought a packet of Nugget and Hot Dog as a token of appreciation.
The final stage of the experiment involve collect samples for the fatty acid analysis.We had to collect 10ml of moina from each enrichment as well as 10ml of fish fed with different enriched moina.The moina that we collected is sufficient for two 10ml tubes.But unfortunately,we had to use up all our kitten fishes to collect three tubes.We had to drain out the water from each trays and scoop our beloved kitten fishes into the collection tubes.Then we freeze them in a box packed with ice so that we can transport them back to the Uni without damaging their fatty acid content.At Uni, we will then kept them into a –20 Celsius freezer.
A sad way to end their life and I really feel kinda sad.We had owned them for the past 2 weeks,fed and see them everyday.Now we had to killed them off for the sake of Science.Cruel but what else can we do?The sample in each tubes must be at least 10ml otherwise the fatty acid analysis cannot done.Goodbye,my kitten fishes…May u all go peacefully and become something more “not prone”to experiment at ur next life.It is really good and a pleasure to meet u all.Hope that the moina we fed u before we collect all of you will cheer you up…
Anyway we will go to Sememyih again on next Monday to summarize everything and also bring back our equipment to the Uni.
Here are some photos we took at the last day of FYP’s experimental stage:
Our fish trays…
A closer view on our kitten fishes…
Inserting the moina into the collection tube…
Rinsing the enriched moina before feeding them to our kitten fishes…
Another look at our kitten fishes…
Enriched moina ready for rinsing and to be fed…
If our kitten fishes are to be kept and fed for a few more years,they will grow as big as their mom…
Part of our equipment which help us a lot during the experiment…
Kettle to boil water and blender to emulsify the oil used for enrichment…
Good news!!!
Dr. Alan had agreed!!!Now we may can end our FYP next week and go back home!!!As long as our fish length show significant difference in the ANOVA!!!If everything goes smoothly,I can be home before 31st December,maybe will take the 26th or 27th train back…So guys if u are all still in TM,gathering is on!!!
Plus, all our kitten fishes had grown a lot since we last saw them.It is just a pleasure to see them grow so healthy and big.Its length is much more longer compared to the 1st time and the mortality rate significantly drop after we change the water everyday.Even my kitten fishes was much longer compared to the 1st batch (although they are still the shortest among all,but I love u all anyway!!!).
Hope everything will keep on going smoothly for the next few days!!!Yahoo!!!
Or I shall call it “What I expect from my FYP later today”…
1st,kinda miss my kitten fishes…Havent seen them since Friday and it had been a long long 3 days.Really hope that they are still in shape,keep growing,stay healthy and ALIVE!!!
2nd,meeting Dr. Alan later to discuss some matters regarding FYP.We are going to propose to shorten the period of Stage 3 from 27 days to 21 days.The main reason is the condition of Gary’s car is kinda poor and we really dont want to torture the little loyal Kancil anymore.Moreover shorter period means that we can go back home town earlier.We had been in here since early October and I miss my home so so much…So please please grant our wishes and allow us to shorten it!!!
3rd,we are submitting the draft for our 1st stage.All those calculation stuff about the moina we cultured:the fecundity,the life span etc…Hope that the data we collected and analyzed are under expectation and within the so call normal range.Then at least we accomplished 1/3 of our FYP successfully…
Hope that everything will go smoothly tomorrow!!!
It seems to be ages ago since the last time we had car’s problem(although in reality it had just been 8 months ago).That time it was just a small problem and we can fix it if we had a suitable spanner. But this time the problem is much more bigger and it is way beyond our level…The shaft broken!!!
At first no one realize anything until we are going to reach 1U,the brake started to act weirdly.We went down to check but none of know what the problem is.Anyhow we decide to head back to Setapak.The sound of cracking was getting louder and we checked the car again for the second time.This time we finally know what is wrong.One of the tyre nearly plunged out and the conclusion is the shaft had finally worn up after all those trips to Semenyih.With the shaft broken,it will be too risky to drive home so we called for the toll truck…
The toll truck arrived and luckily it was not the ordinary dragging type.It was actually a “high-tech” one and in no time,the car is safely loaded and tied on the truck,heading back to Setapak.The service will be cover in the insurance so we no need to pay anything.But to fix the shaft and return the car to a drivable state,that will need quite a lot of money…Well,the car had been use to take us to Semenyih for our FYP,so I think I had the duty to share the bills for fixing the car.
The new experience here is well, the toll truck.Seen many before but this will be the 1st using the service.Kinda interesting actually but not something that you will want to do it again and again.Feel a little lucky cause it happen today.Imagine what will happen if this happen on our way to Semenyih tomorrow. High speed driving plus the super lame road in Semenyih,it think the tyre will just separate itself from the car!!!
So,be grateful I guess…Hope the bill will be affordable…Hahahahaha….
Due to some overfeed problem,the tanks today are fill with clumps of pellet. Using a pipette, I suck out all the dirt until my fingers ache…And also due to the clumping,many of our kitten-fish get stuck and some of them unfortunately, are dead…So sad but luckily we manage to clean them up to a satisfying level and mortality hopefully can be avoided…
Most of them are eating moina and starting from tomorrow, we may need to provide them a little more moina.When they eat well, really hope that they will grow healthy and bigger…And after around 21 more days,we can successfully complete our FYP and head back to our home town.
SO KITTEN-FISH,GAMPATEH!!!
Kitten-fish is the baby of catfish…Obvious,right???
Today is Day 4 and all of them are doing well.They are growing longer constantly day by day.They are active and spend more time swimming around rather than “sleeping”at the bottom of the trays.Most important is that they are starting to consume the moina we gave them.For the previous few days,most of them will prefer to eat pellet as the moina are too big for them.But since yesterday the moina we gave them had mostly been consumed.It is a good news cos it means that they are really growing.Now my only wish is that everything will gone smoothly beyond this point.All I need is for them to grow steadily and can be sampled for the fatty acid analysis.
3rd time will be the charm.Hope that I can finish my FYP before the end of the year.Pray for me,guys…
And to all my kitten-fishes,stay strong and healthy…
何谓“背”呢？“背”就是黑，或俗称的倒霉咯！
FYP又要重做，今天又把鱼儿们倒回他们原来的家。原因：他们既然不领情，不吃我们喂他们的moina。。。唉，真是的！这么有营养，有高素质的食物，你们何必把它拒于千里之外呢？结果，今天又要在捉最新一批的鱼了。。。希望这次他们会乖乖的长大，不要再来个集体大死亡啦。要不然，我真的不用回TM了。。。
然后从Semenyih回家时又给我来个大迷路，我们应该绕了半个吉隆坡才到家。本来整个路程只会花费40分钟的。但在我们迷路和大塞车的“协助”下，我们花了1个小时半才回到。来点阿Q精神来辩解呢，就是至少我们多学会了几条新路段吧！
回到家，我以为既然已经“背”到贴地了，应该不会在“背”下去了吧！结果，我是错的！！！彻底的错了！！！回家后发现internet’s connection又有问题，webpage一直开不到！！！Facebook上不到，Yahoo上不到，Hotmail也上不到！！！真的是。。。最后我决定睡觉来度过我的下午。。。
现在想一想，其实也没什么啦。有谁不会有这么一天呢？有谁会每天都顺顺利利呢？有谁一生都没遇到障碍呢？既来之，则安之吧！问题来了，逃避也不能解决啊；以其一直埋怨，不如冷静下来想办法克服问题。就像今天这样，埋怨再多我还是需要重做FYP，还是会迷路，internet connection也会一直烂下去啊。所以我决定找更多journal以发现问题的根源，做个阿Q，学一些新路段，睡觉。这些何尝不是解决困难的方法之一呢？
人应该向前看啦，过去就让它过去吧，只要心存正念，愿意从失败中学习，明天一定会更好的，不是吗？？？
I need to redo the 2nd and 3rd stage of my FYP.Too many of our fishes died and the amount now is insufficient for fatty acid analysis. Thus, my plan to be back to TM at the mid December must be delay,hopefully I can be back before 2010…
Felt a little sad and disappointed actually. All my little fishy will be fed to other fishes (Hope they will go peacefully and I will remember them always…~sob~). We wasted our 20 days for nothing and everything will start from square 1 again. Luckily this time we are going to use only 200 fish larvae per tank so we only need around 2400 of them…
Hopefully everything will go well this time…No more sudden mass death,no more shortage of moina,no more blaming,no more disappointment and no more major troubles.If everything runs smoothly, at least I can be home before New Year and had at least 3 weeks holiday in my new house…Yippe…So this time I need to be more careful,more sensitive,more hardworking and I really need tons of luck!!!
So everyone plz pray for me so that I can complete my FYP smoothly!!!
A peaceful day in KL today. Less car,less people,less noise…Especially in the morning, the road is empty and I am basically strolling in the used to be busy road. The air is also fresher than usual except for the foul smell of the drainage system.
Everything went smoothly in Semenyih today and we reached Setapak before 11. Then I kept myself in my room, surfing around and listening to Norah Jones’ new album. Had a nap from 2 to 7 without any surrounding noise.The whole block seems to be deserted and it just feels so good.
The night is kinda peaceful as well.While dealing with my FYP data, I watch a few episodes of Monk.No one is at home and I had the Internet for my own,so nice!!!
Will go to bed soon cause going to Semenyih early tomorrow. Hope it will also be a good and relaxing day tomorrow…
My little fish babies are still the smallest among all.There are still many of them which are below or just around 10mm while others are slightly longer only.Squid oil oh squid oil, are u really so unsuitable for my fishy???
And they started to die in a high rate too.Yesterday, I think there are around 100++ die from each tray and it makes me so so sad.
What is the problem???Insufficient food???Dirty water???Sabotage???Or this is what it should be???
Fish ah fish,please stop dying and grow bigger lah…This Friday, we will give all of u something special so please ok…Let my FYP goes on smoothly so I can be back at mid December ya…
Love u guys o,fishy…
We did a lot at the fish farm today…Prepare enrichment and feed our lovely fish larvae as usual. Then we need to change the water and measure the length of our fish larvae. Also we need to do the water monitoring all by ourselves, thank you very much Mr. Master Student.
The water changing part is quite complicated as this is the 1st time we are handling so many trays at the same time. The fish larvae kept “falling down” from their trays, so we had to think of a way to prevent them from falling to the big fish tank beneath our tray and get eaten by the talipia… Plus, we had no help or advice, thanks to another person. Luckily we are smart enough to think of a way to stop the fish larvae from falling away and control the water flow…
Since there are so many jobs to be done, we must stay in Semenyih for a little longer. Although we start our job early, we only managed to finish it at around 2pm. But due to the super heavy rain, we are trapped there for another 30 minutes. Finally, we get fed up of waiting and decide to face the heavy rain bravely and drive home.
Heavy rain plus the lame draining system cause the road out to the highway flood terribly. Gary’s Kancil struggle the whole journey and we were like taking a rally race in the rain forest.And after facing many many unseen holes and avoiding many hidden water patches, we reached Setapak safely at around 3pm, not to mention tat we are all wet,cold,tired and hungry.
(p/s:to all my fish larvae, please grow faster ya cos we are a lot behind the others…Love ya…)
最近比较烦哦，还是应该说最近常常会被一些莫名其妙的小事烦…就像是我的小鱼们长的太小、FaceBook的网页load的比较慢、download的戏速度慢慢的、玩FIFA10时龙门被破（但最后还是赢啦！！！）、晚餐不好吃、睡不好等等等。。。
有时真的很沮丧啊，为什么会被这种不重要的事情搞到整天闷闷的。难道这是忧郁症的前兆！！！不是吧！！！⊙﹏⊙b汗
或许是因为最近的生活太燥闷了些吧；不是做做FYP，就是在家里做宅男，要不然就是睡得迟，醒得迟，废到。。。
还好还好，这个周末准备好好让自己释放释放。星期六会到Selayang送爱，跟很久不见的小朋友们相处相处。然后星期日约了老妹逛逛街，吃些好料的，然后看2012咯（别人应该早就看了吧。。。T.T)!!!所以很期待哦。。。
是时候找回那个开朗的我咯！！！
12.00am到1.30am: Looking for journal about moina enrichment and catfish larvae growth.I found out that no one really carry this sort of experiment before.Most of them are using Arthemia instead of moina so dunno whether to believe the facts or not…It is really depressing really, especially when the fish larvae fed with un-enriched moina is 2 times bigger than those fed with SELCO…Dont play play plz…I dont want to repeat the whole experiment again…
1.30am到2.30am: yam char lor…It had been a while since we last yam char cos we are kinda broke…
3.00am到7.30am : “Bones” Marathon, from Season 1 to Season 4.Now I know why everyone jerked the Season 4 finale…Honestly man,amnesia!!!After we were shown all the good things and presuming a good happy ending, at the final moment we were told that Booth had amnesia and was dreaming about everything…一场空！！！
8.30am到9.30am: Journey to Semenyih…太惨了！！！When everyone are still sleeping soundly at a Sunday morning, Gary and I are forced to continue our observation in Semenyih…The journey there is as boring and tiring as usual…Can hardly open my eyes…Luckily I had my Nescafe…
9.30am到12.00pm: Working in Semenyih…Doing the same thing over and over again…Catch moina, feed them to the fish larvae, prepare the enrichment oil, observe the condition of the fish larvae, recording everything down and still trying to understand what the workers is trying to say to us…鸡同鸭讲。。。
1.00pm: Reached Setapak after finishing Stage 1 at Uni…Tired and hungry…Ate a few pieces of biscuits and thinking of having a nap, but there will be a meeting regarding Selayang activity at 2…我忍，我忍，我忍忍忍！！！
2.00pm到4.20pm: Meeting on what are we going to teach the small kids at Selayang this week. The theme for this week is 别浪费，要惜福. Will be taking over the 静思语教学for the younger children this time, planning to play a drama so need to write down a simple script…Missing the children there since the last we went there was like ages ago…Looking forward for this Saturday…
4.45pm: I am officially awake for 24 hours AGAIN…
5.10pm到7.45pm: I cant stand it anymore…I am just so so so so tired and I cant barely open my eyes… Late evening nap to recharge my energy…If Ken havent call me for dinner, I think I sleep till tomorrow morning…
8.00pm到11.45pm: Went to PJ for dinner with the geng cos Gary wanna go to Digital Mall…Had dinner at Friendz at Millennium Square…The food is quite ok and the price is also quite reasonable…
12.00am: Worrying about the coming week…So many things to be done…FYP,Selayang and movie time with sis…Hope the next week will be going smoothly…加油咯！！！
从星期一起已经连续3天到Semenyih养鱼去了。不管精神上或者身体上都极度的疲劳；想想看，每天来回就得花1个半钟头，在那又要很费力气的煮油，观察只有5mm长的小鱼。。。真的是筋疲力尽啊！！！
还好今天轮到我休息了，终于可以好好睡一觉，不必担心会塞车，不必害怕会搞砸实验，人也轻松多了。今天整天窝在家里做宅男；看看书，看看戏，听听歌，睡睡午觉，喝喝咖啡，真是乐事啊！！！
