Lucky for this semester I didnt kena any weird location like SP, Management house or NAFA. Just plain o' HQ and CC. *thank god*
So for this sem, I had a pretty maths-free modules. Biomaterials and Artificial Organ Tech. Both open-booked, both theory-based, both taught by same two lecturers.
One is my old basic chem tight-shirt-tight-pants latino-dancer-outfit-alike lecturer. The other is new but he's a pretty young chap. An engineer. Ita says he's charming. lol. Ya lah, given the pattern of all our old uncle engineers teaching, he's the cream lah.
Ya, charming young lecturer but he really thinks a lot. He talk and talk and then, look at the sky direction...
... then remember his next word and then continue. So the many (many) moments where he looked at heaven, our minds are away in la-la land also.
Still, thanks for the 2 jokes that made the lecture more 'exciting'.
So yesterday were talking about artificial kidney and thus talking about glomerular filter rate. The higher the GFR, the more prone the kidney is to total renal failure. And he gave us an example.
This patient's GFR is very high on the day he admitted. The next day, GFR was half. Then from day 2 to day 10 it was stabilised at slightly higher than day 1. So what's the patient diagnose?
We said answers like 'drug influence' lah, 'renal failure lah'...
In the end, he himself said that the answer was lame. It's...
The patient got one kidney removed.
DOHZ...
The other one was when he drew the cross-section of the hollow fibre which is like a cylinder, then he points to the middle of the cylinder diagram and says,
the particles will come out of the whiteboard.
lol. Yes. I understand that now.