Tuesday, November 19, 2013

LAB section 2


 “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


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