Archive for August, 2005

一則心情

Friday, August 26th, 2005

得先說抱歉﹐因為這則將會純粹是我發的牢騷。

心情懶懶的。有點鬱悶。

生活在變。生活腳步在變。生活裡頭的人來人往也是變化的一種﹐不是嗎﹖

有個我敬愛的她走了。不是徹底的走了那種﹐卻是走出了我生活﹐我熟悉的工作atmosphere.她是Louise Hetherington,一位資深的lab research assistant.她看著我從一個傻呼呼不懂“research"的 黃毛丫頭﹐變成開始能站穩崗位知道自己在干嘛的傢伙。她曾經那麼不厭其煩的一次又一次的糾正我silly 的mistakes﹔她總是能很耐性的解答我的thousands questions﹔她一定會面帶笑容聽我說著煩惱﹐complain著哪個experiments又不work了﹔她喜歡disturb正在鎖緊眉頭腦袋saturated的我﹐好讓我輕鬆些。

她是Louise Hetherington。她是兩個teenage孩子的媽﹐卻也是個保有teenage心態的大小孩。她總是在我闖了禍後﹐從容的對我說﹕”don’t worry, i’ll fix it up for ya";她總是很認真的跟我說一些讓我眼睛大大的話﹐然後得逞的說:" Yun, it’s not true. I was just being naughty!"

心情依舊懶懶的﹐因為知道此後working的atmosphere會少了很多fun, for sure.得知她會離開這兒時﹐我心裡很納悶﹐但沒說什麼﹐就是大家都沒說什麼。沒有人說什麼。沒有一個人。大家依舊開心的工作﹐lab裡依然充滿著笑聲及匆忙的腳步聲。

然後最後的第二天﹐我忍不住對她說﹕”second last day, Louise. I’m sad".只見她有點傷感﹐卻認真的說﹕“Yun, we don’t ever talk about this, not mention about this, ok?" 我點點頭。是的﹐大家都想享受我們最原始不受干擾的lab moment。好好的記著這一切。

星期五。最後一天。我9am-5pm都teaching。我肯定會miss掉大家為Louise搞的farewell party,所以我一大早就進lab﹐說再見﹐ 然後送上我自制的小禮物。

‘Louise, may I give you a hug﹖‘

將禮物送上時﹐她說﹕“oh, I’m not reading the card now, or else I’ll cry"。 也其實她已在流淚。”Thanks Louise for everything".

我有一個遺憾﹐沒能參與farewell party。聽說大家都一一對她說了發自內心的感謝﹐回憶著lab裡的歡樂﹐趣事。你能感覺嗎﹖一個能讓整個research group多達40人都喜歡都敬愛的Louise﹐會是個多棒的人嗎﹖

也聽說她哭了﹐也聽說其他人也哭了。她帶著我們滿滿的祝福離開了﹐祝福她新環境裡一切都好。也因為有她﹐我們的回憶是富有的。

To our mum Louise, thanks for everything, for your friendship, and for your kindness. Thanks for putting up with my grumpy mood, thanks for tolerating my laziness (for not doing the lab cleaning duties), thanks for your assistance, helping me getting through up and down in my research path. Thanks for your supports and advices, as a research senior, and perhaps more like a parent. Thanks~!

然後我知道﹐今天以後﹐lab裡我隔壁的bench將會是空的了。又或許會被填上﹐但一切都會不一樣了。這將會是個新的開始﹐to us, and to Louise too.

Do our best, and keep our fingers cross, wishing for the best!

塗鴉

Friday, August 19th, 2005

我有一本塗鴉簿﹐裡面有我隨性作的畫﹐還有記載著我當下心情的字。本子有點舊。閑時來回翻閱著﹐想像自己是下一個幾米還是阿保美代﹐確是另一番滋味。

科技發達的今天﹐電腦出來的效果還是能打動人心麼﹖

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W01603_s_2 漂流在海浬的每一個瓶子都載著一個希望。

是誰開始了這個神話﹖將自己的夢想裝進玻璃瓶子裡﹐讓海水把夢想送到遠方的烏托邦﹖

那天我把心情塞進瓶子裡﹐想著﹐海水會送它到什麼地方呢﹖

後來我發現﹐海水最終會吞沒掉我的心思﹐因為它霸道地認為﹐只有無情的它才讀懂我的思緒。

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Watch out, gals~!

Monday, August 1st, 2005

Sorry, I think I’m going to write this in English.

If you are in my msn group, you might realise that my nick name is a bit funny this round:

"變態無恥的暴露狂﹐你很閑啊﹖-讓我再遇見﹐我就抓你去做實驗﹗我念生物的﹐誰怕誰﹗﹖"

Yea, it stated pretty clearly that, I was flashed by this idiot!

It was around 7.30pm, and it was dark. I was on my way home alone, walking down this path. Bushes around, and I didn’t even notice this guy’s hiding behind one of the bushes. He made a sound, sort of dry coughing, which I then realised that he might be purposely done so to draw my attention. I turned back to the direction where the sound’s from, and saw a beam of light. I first thought someone with the mobile, or someone just on the light maybe searching things in the bag kind of. I paused, and took the second look, just to make sure. That’s when I saw a clear image of a guy, standing straight (not bending down to look for something), and it’s just too dark, where the light will be your focus for sure. The light, was actually touchlight, and he was spotted the light source to his thingy, of course, with some motions involved. That is disgusting~!! Yuck~!!

I felt annoyed and anger filled in. I walked really quick down the path, to get to the busy roundabout, which sits on the main road next to the uni. Not feeling scary, but feeling relief and lucky that the pyscho’s not attacking people, but most likely just enjoying the attention from people.

At that very moment, what’s in my mind was: "Alright, since you are so free doing this nonsense, why don’t you just come to our lab, donate your sperm for our research purpose, and perhaps CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMMUNITY~!!" But too bad, I dared not to voice out on his face. Otherwise, who know he might be saying YES~!

That’s what happen in our lab, where everyone’s so dedicated to work,  wanting to get results on time, and will be staying really late. But I do wish that after this incidence, people around will be more aware of their own security, cause you can never predict what’s in the pyscho’s mind.  Don’t feel shameful or feeling ugly when you come across this, but share with others to actually alert the public. "Uni is not as safe as you think".

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Hi All,

One of our female students was flashed last night on the way home.  It
happened at around 7.30pm in Carpark Number 1.  Security have been
informed of this.

Please take care when leaving the lab at night, especially the female
members of the lab.  If you have to stay back late, maybe try to
organise somebody to walk with you or catch the security shuttle
wherever possible.

Cheers,

Ben

Dr Benjamin Curry
Laboratory Manager
Reproductive Science Group
School of Environmental and Life Science
University of Newcastle
University Drive
Callaghan NSW 2308
Ph: +61 (02) 49216806
Fx: +61 (02) 49216308
Email: ben.curry@newcastle.edu.au

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This is the email that sent to all in our research group after I told Ben. And as expected, this is the topic of the day!

Let’s put our finger cross, and may we all have a peaceful life.