Happy Diwali 2009!

தீபாவளி

As the title stated, I wish all the Indian friends and visitors, Happy Deepavali this year and hopefully, the light festival is an exciting moments for us in the world.

Beauty Of Sunset

Before my finals, I came back from shopping at Tesco Kampar. When I was almost reach home, I saw a beauty of nature. The sunset is marvelous and astonishing. I saw the moments few times before in Kampar but can't really catch up it with my camera.

This time, I've also recorded the 1 minute session of sunset. Enjoy the moment...

A bientot!

Crocs "Works"

A few days ago, I spent my time with my parents for shopping at Kinta City Jusco, Ipoh. After a few walks, me and my dad sat on a bench which is just an opposite to Crocs shoes store. Crocs is quite a famous shoes retailler because of its design and function which gives a super comfort to the wearer.

Talking about its almost perfect shoe design, it comes with a hefty price. If not mistaken, a pair of regular Crocs shoe cost about RM 80... When I saw this price, my brain straightly inform me to walk out from the store. Not only me will act so because most of the visitors (cannot call them customers where they haven't purchase a thing yet) just stop by, have a view on the shop and doze off to other stores.

I'm attracted on this babe~ :P

In order to attract shoppers to come in the spot, they design a 5 feet Crocs shoe and display it outside the store. Kinda attracting because it looks abnormal. My story ain't talking about how special the gigantic shoe is. Instead, I recorded a video which is quite amusing where most of the shopper act as I said just now.



Attractive enough? I don't think so unless the store said, "80% discount for all items!". I'm sure the store will be emptied in a day with such promotion.

A bientot!

I miss it!

Due to my last hectic semester of Chemistry degree in UTAR Kampar, I can't blog so much but still I kept pictures and blog them now while I have 3 months semester break. Cool eh?

So, after my final exams for Year 2 Semester 1, I miss my lab sessions so much. The feeling of discovering things and analyzing them in your brain and not forgetting the stress of finishing up lab reports at eleventh hour (means last minute la) and in the end, get (or not in my case in UTAR) the unexpected report marks. Actually, I don't care how many marks I got in every lab reports. As long as I gain the experiences and skills, that's all I need...

I REALLY MISS MY LAB SESSION AT BLOCK D, UTAR KAMPAR.

Here's some few shots during my previous lab session. This is how we (young chemists) work in real time lab. Might boring you with my words but it's interesting to do them... Pure fun!
I forgot what's this experiment about but I remember what compound I'm producing here...
See the white clumps? They are aspirin. It's just one of the compound in your paracetamols' medicine so, in here, it's inedible...
My teammate... Isn't she look professional?
This is another experiment called "Oxidation of borneol to camphor by chromic acid". The green colour is exhibited by the chromium salts. Camphor is the white solid crystal which is mostly used as insect repellant and religious ceremonies mainly for Indians in Malaysia.
This is easier to understand right? Not to forget, cooling balm like Vicks Vapor Rub contains camphor due to their cooling effect, anesthetic and anti-microbial properties.
In order to get camphor, cooling process like ice bath (above) is required.
Seperating funnel is used to seperate the aqueous (water-dissolved) phase and organic (nonwater-dissolved/oil-based) phase. See the white crystals at the bottom of the funnel? They are camphor.
See the clear layer? That's the organic layer which we don't want in the end of the experiment.
Almost there...
I'm not the only person who is likes to take photos. Taking photo during lab might help the team in future discussion for lab reports.
Tada! End of experiment!
(She like her pose in this photo by the way! :P)

That's the part of my lab session which last 2 1/2 hours per session in a week. For science students, we think that lab session is either fun or tiring. Sometimes, we might feel disappointed on failure and mishaps during practicals and abnormal results and we need to start over fast when the time is short. Therefore, the team must work together and know what they are doing is the priority and main goal to achieve standard (I shouldn't say perfect because there's no perfect situation in lab experiment or else we are in PhDs) results.

A bientot!