Monday, January 22, 2007

HP4155A Parameter Analyzer

At last, my spoilt Parameter Analyzer is replaced. It had been down for about 3 weeks?! An awfully long time considering that you have fyp stuff to rush. Hell am i gonna treat this one with extra care! I can't believe that that ancient looking box cost $17,000 in repairs the last time it broke down! $17k!!!! I bet that machine cost more than my BEng if you count in monetary terms.

This is the 3rd week of school and i am still in a vacation mood with a vacation daily schedule. I am currently having 8 hours of sleep everyday, about 3 hours of tv/movies and 2 hours of gaming per day. Well, how about the rest of the 24 hours? Ok sadly to say, it is being spent at CICFAR (my fyp lab) For the record, for every 2 hours spent in cicfar, there is maybe about 20mins of productive work. The rest of the time is spent waiting for equipment, kpohing, surfing the net and well... failing experiments. Maybe thats why everybody in cicfar is so helpful. Not sure about something? Someone is there to help u. Why???? Ohhhhh maybe because there is nothing else to do anyway.......

So go figure....

Some morbid thoughts....

There seemed to be many ways to get killed in cicfar.

1. Vaccuum chamber implosion
2. Kena burned by HF acid... (very deadly, someone died of this some years ago)
3. Fluorine or chlorine gas leak....
4. Furnace exploding due to overpressure...
5. Hydrogen gas accidentally mixing with oxygen gas.... boom!!!
6. You giving a karate kick to the thermal evaporator and Mrs Ho sees you.. (ok jus kidding)

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