Falling asleep...

falling asleep doing SEM work in the basement of S2.. yawns.. lousy internet connection.. boring work.. SEM works very very slowly..

it takes like abt 1 min to take one picture...

and i'm taking pictures of spiders' legs..

1 leg = about 70 shots...

spiders have 8 legs.. so total = 70 X 8 = 560 shots..

1 shot = 1 min...

560 shots = 560 mins = ~9 hours...


wow.. 9 hours of taking SEM photos.. staring at the irritating small green flickering screen...

my eyes are gonna go real bad real soon...

wait.. it's not just ~9 hours!! there's more!!...

1 spider = ~9 hours..

i have about 12 spiders to do...

12 spiders = 9 x 12 = 98 hours...

98 hours = ~4 days..


woah.. sound so simple hor..


spend 4 WHOLE DAYS staring at the SEM.. then count the hairs and measure area of slit sensilla.. then HALF of my FYP is done le...


-cries-


it's crazy!!!!!


bleahs..


oh well.. at least the SEM is coorperating these days.. i get nice pictures... come.. let me show case my spiders' legs at 500 times magnification