Bio lab was pretty interesting for once this week... we were supposed to view our own blood under the microscope so we got to get our fingers pricked. Cool shit.
For some reason, I had to get mine pricked twice coz nothin came out the first time... And the second time, there was so little blood that the lecturer asked whether my weight was above 40kg or not... like, yo i look 30something kg?! Now, THAT's news!
So anyway, after smearing a tiny blob on the slide, I put whatever extra we managed to salvage in a capillary tube into a centrifuge. Then I sat, and waited, and messed around, and waited somemore, for the stain on my slide to dry and all that other stuff before finally being able to view my slide under the microscope.
I slipped my slide onto the stage, and then proceeded to focus by turning whatever knobs there are on the microscope... and turned... and turned... for AGES! And I still couldn't see anything! So I made like a basic D.I.D (Dipwad In Distress) and looked around for a member of the Dipwad Rescue Team and cried out, "Bang~uh-BENG!!! I can't see my blood! Come help me see my blood!"
So good ol' Beng, in the midst of drawing his blood cells, came to the rescue!
... and spent just as much time trying to focus and in the end managed to get a very blurry image at 400x magnification, while we were supposed to view the slides under a magnification of 1000x, but for some reason everything disappears when we switch to 1000x... Why is it just my blood?!
So it's good ol' lecturer to the rescue!
So she takes over like the taiko of the bio lab that she is and continues focusing and I really thought she was gonna get something when she looked up and asked me, "Did you put the slide upside-down? *touches slide*"
...... Like, do I LOOK like I'm capable of doing that?!
Don't answer.
So, satisfied that it was not upside-down, she switched microscopes, thinkin that it was the fault of the old one. Well, maybe, maybe not... coz she she managed to focus on somethin after another long wait and handed it over to me.
Happily, I focused it, with pencil and paper at hand already, and when I got a clear image I saw that my blood was... it was... it was spiky!
It didn't make me feel any better about this, with Siow Junior's occasional, random accusations of:
"Alien blood"
"Abnormal blood."
"Drink too much alcohol."
...and the like.
This time, he took extra interest and came over to look when I told him that my blood was spiky and that I saw some that were longish, not unlike a somewhat sickled shape.
Then he started laughing. and then Beng came over and Sangleng came over and the girl beside me came over...
And then Junior exclaimed, "AIYOH! SICKLE-CELL ANEMIA!"
Like, anemia?! No way!!!
But it was enough to scare me anyway so I called out for the bio lab taiko again for consultation...
Taiko: "Well, it's spiky probably because you didn't shake the stain before putting it onto your slide so the cells absorbed the water etc and as for the longish cells, it could be because your cell is lying this way *puts hand 90degrees on palm of the other* instead of this way *places hand flat down*... but of course it wouldn't hurt to do a test."
Right.
Thanks a lot.
Why do bio ppl love giving ambiguous answers?
