“Sawasdee ka...”
“Swasdee krub..”
Sapaan itu tenu tak asing ditelingaku kala itu. Ya, sapaan
ala-Thailand dengan suara yang khas merdunya.
“Excuse me, Sir. Would you help me to tell me about the procedure
to use this one?”, pintaku pada teknisi Lab yang sangat baik hati.
“Ya..ya.. Chai....chai”, dengan wajah sumringah Khun
Songkla atau yang lebih akrab dipanggil Phi Tha langsung
mejelaskannya satu persatu sambil mempraktekan. Awesome!! Proud
of you, Khun. You help us in full heart.
There
are some equipments which I learned before,but I still need to learn
some more. The familiar ones are autoclave, laminar flow, incubator,
fermentor, centrifuge, spectrophotometer, hot air oven, shaker,
microscope, etc. It is easy to understand that's operating. How about
unfamiliar ones; RVA, color meter, texture analysis? ah..it's not to
much difficult, I think.
“How about this one Sir, should I use distilled water to fill out
the chamber?”
“Ya.. distilled water”
“Ok, Sir. Thank you so much”
“If you have problem in operating them.. please feel free to
contact me”
“Chai... khun... khob khun ka..”
“Krub..”
The only knowledge is not enough for working well in the Lab.
Sometime we are confuse with the real equipments in which there is
some different devices from general theory. So, manual technical
guidance is absolutely needed. The only experince is also not enough.
Sometime, we just follow the seniors experience without confirmation
with theoritical method. That can let us to the wrong results. (I
don't mention that that experince was wrong, but we need to comfirm
to the theory because each sampel.. each work item has
different characteristic). Both of knowledge and
experinece are important.
Hemm.... bercerita mengenai laboratorium, serasa membuat laporan
praktikum saja. Padahal, laporan sudah selesai dan berlalu. Hehe..
Well,let we see to Lab crew. We are from different countries,
guys. Certainly I am from lovely Indonesia, so do my friend,
Zjahra.
“Hi.. I'm Pick.. what's your name?”
“I'm Iis”
“Pardon? I...?”
“i-i-s.. or.. I-is”
“Oh... ok,.. I call you is”
“Ah.. it's ok. Sorry for the difficult pronounsation”
“And you?”, Pick ask to my friend
“I'm Zjahra”
The same problem.. our friends from other countries can't spell
Indonesian name clearly. Just about pronounsation, no problem.
Phi Tassana (secretary of FEBT department) let me and Zjahra to the
class and Pick is the first friend who we met.
“How about others, Pick”
“I think they will come soon”
“So you are the first person come here. That's great!! what a
dilligent student”
“No.. no.. I just... em..”
“That's right, Pick. Dilligent..”
“Haahaha...”, we are laughing then.
Pick is a nice girl from Thai. Actually her hometown is Bangkok, near
to our campuss. But she stay at AIT dorm because need to use bus foe
1 hr to go to Bangkok. There are three Thai students in our
classmeets; PP(puan pantaree) and Kard. They are so kind friends I
meet.
“I-is.. where will you go?”, ask PP to me. She is a sweety Khun
Thai.
“Library. And you?”
“Ya.. I also want to go there”
“That's good. Lets go together na..”
Bycicle is the main transprtation in AIT. Motorcycle is not permitted
there, so I like AIT with its eco-transportation. PP and I bike to
the library. It's not far, just 400 m from FEBT building.
“I-is. How you learn about Food Processing? It is difficult for me”
“Em.. actually I had learned in ITS, my previous campuss. It's more
detail there because Food Processing was divided in many subjects in
ITS”
“Oh.. really, so that you look expert”
“No.. I'm not expert. Just because of habit. But, I'm poor in Foos
science so sometime I need to search in google about many terms used
in Functional Food subjects”
“Em.. what term you still confuse?”
“I still don't understand about nutrigenomic, primary, secondary,
tertiary functional value, and other terms”
“Oh... don't worry... it's easy”
“But.. remembering is difficult for me, PP”
“You can ask me if you don't understand na..”
“Ok,.. thank you PP”
“welcome.. we learn together”
Ah... senang sekali rasanya punya teman yang baik-baik semua, peduli,
ramah. Terima kasih ya Allah. Alhamdulillah... *feeling happy
