Some Thoughts about the Lab Coat

I miss those days when I was a Biotechnology student,wearing AIMST lab coat, walked around the lab and busying with my lab works.Although we wore the same coat as MBBS, pharmacy  and faundation students,but for Biotech students,we ONLY wear the lab coats when we are in the LABORATORY.This is because for us, lab coat is the major part of our PPE aka Personal Protective Equipments, that protect us from chemicals and level 1-2 biohazards. Therefore,we DO NOT wear it outside the lab. 

One thing that I could not tolerate during my university time was seeing the students walking around the cafeteria with their lab coat on.Gosh,what are they trying to show?The weather was hot and that was during tea time/ lunch time and they are hanging around with the lab coat on?!Are they trying to bring all those contamination from the lab to the environment?  Can you imagine that while the guy was taking rice,those E.coli,Bacillus sp., Staphylococcus or some fungi that attached on his coat dropped into the rice container at the same time? You might argue that most of the microorganism strains and chemicals that were used in a university lab is non-hazardous so why am I complaint about this ?

From the point of view of a future scientist, self-discipline is an essential for future scientific research works!If  one do not have such awareness from student time, what will happen when they conduct the experiments with higher risks in future? In addition, most of the students in my university are those who are going to expose in the environment that is full of infectious virus which can cause fatal.And yet,they still walk around with the lab coat outside the working places!  Don`t they have the awareness? This phenomenon is not only seen among the students but also the lecturers,professors and even the professionals! Is it really that important to show the identity through the lab coat when one is not at his/her working place? My question is, environmental safety is more important or showing identity through the white coat,that suppose to act as PPE? 

Rethink about it.And for those AIMSTers,do not feel offended as you read this post.As I know this might cause uncomfortable in some of you but I`m just pointing out the fact.I think this phenomenon should be noted and the use of lab coat should only be restricted at the working places.To become a professionals you have to have this kind of discipline because a small detail that we missed can sometimes cause some unsolvable problems.

Anyway.I suddenly feel like want to wear my uni`s lab coat tonight.It`s been a while since I last wore it and I knew won`t have much chance to wear a lab coat with such design.As you know,working in an animal lab  has different design of lab coat that suits our daily works better and their design is totally different from the one I used to wear during my uni time.That`s why I took some pictures for myself on the lab coat =) It will be in a clean plastic bag for a long time until I feel like want to take it out and recall my uni times.Oh,by the way,I miss those time during my final years,when I worked day and night in order to complete my works.I had a wonderful time with my batch mates,seniors and also PCR! 

“是什么让我遇见这样的你”

单看歌词，就令人有种想听听这首歌在唱些什么的冲动。白安的歌声很好，歌词和旋律的意境也很搭。令人有种莫名的感觉。是什么让我遇见这样的你，说到底，就是一个 “缘” 字。缘分，让原本不相干的人们相遇，然后，有了情感上的羁绊。当一方了无牵挂地离开时，那一个在乎对方的，却还在原地，慢慢的。。学习适应遇见对方之前的生活，学习。。不再依赖另一方的好。。。

“若時間注定要讓你離開
   我又該怎麼學會不依賴”  

---《是什么让我遇见这样的你》 白安

美好的一天

我很喜欢今天，因为我终于煮了我最爱的ABC汤。这是我人生中第一次煮这个汤，我不禁在汤的香味中思考着，如果我今天还在美里，我想我应该一辈子都不会亲手煮出这么美味的汤吧。在外头的生活虽然很辛苦，事无大小都得亲自出马，钱财的管理方面更要兢兢业业。。但是，也只有这样，才能成长。这应该是我选择在待在外面生活的其中一个小小原因吧。

午餐过后，读报纸，看看书。。在没有互联网的那几个小时，我又找回了儿时的乐趣。对于大部分的人来水阅读是件很沉闷的事，可是对我来说，这是种乐趣。除了音乐，书本是让我和世界联系的其中一个途径。而我在很小的时候就已经开始在享年受着浩瀚书海所给我的养分。自从上了大学后，我已经越来越少阅读。但是，我希望在往后的日子里，可以重拾从小就培养起来的阅读习惯。


这个新年独自一人在槟城。我的结论是，这样的新年，并没有想象中的糟。因为，我真的很享受一个人的空间。就像现在，在绵绵细雨又有点冷的夜晚，听着Yiruma的钢琴曲，和久违的朋友在fb聊聊天。对我来说，这就是种乐趣。

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