Jit Sin Express

First Rat Done; No Second One.
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First Day

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- Everyone waited for Mr Koay early in the morning. And he was late...excuse given? "Haiya, I purposely come late one lar, .. You all dunno meh? If i come earlier I would have to kill those rat...See now Mr.Jalil done it all for me already....Yea, I dont kill.".... Sounds like a "guru" :S None of us seemed to be afraid of the rat, and i think girls had managed their fear for the tiny creature in quite an "elegant" manner.. eg: holding the pity-o-rat using only finger tips, as if it is smelly and dirty. But to my surprise, the dead rats werent smelly at all..
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- Morning breeze with Dettol smell. Yep. After the rats had been killed, they were soaked in Dettol solution. Each and everyone of us got one white corpse. Some girls wanted small rat , and some prefered female rat... Reasons ? They said big rats are disgusting and female rats have no big testicles like the males... Thank goodness i got a giant male rat, and why? Coz those who got small ones found it difficult to see the abdoments and blood vessels in detail, and the most interesting prize goes to those who got pregnant female.......... MUAHAHA.....
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- Actually the procedure to dissect a rat is quite simple, at least it is compared to those docs who deal with human body. First, pin the rat on the dissecting board with their abdominal part facing upwards; Second, use forceps to pull their skin up; Third, use the blunt-head scissors to cut the rat's skin; Fourth,....... Am I gonna type all that here? Crazy !the procedures are pages long.

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- At first we thought that we're lucky coz the dead rat didnt smell bad. But, after around two hours, they started to stink. YUCKS......... they smell exactly like dead chicken..... Luckily we were able to get the first phase done before 12.30pm. Amazingly, most of us were able to maintain our appetite for lunch:P

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Second day

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- Nobody dared to open the rat's coffin. We stored all the dissected rats into formalin solution earlier that day. And for the second time, we'll have to operate on the same rats again but this time the target part is the thoracic region. Chun Keat was appointed as the undertaker, so he took out all the dead things and delivered to everybody. Although the rats were preserved with formalin, the unstopable smell ruined our nerves. YUCKS again. And this time I didnt get to wear a surgical mask coz there was no enough masks for each and everyone of us. The dissection continued.......

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- A group of girl yelled hysterically. I didnt know what was happening. But then i saw Koay Tian Soo was chopping down a rat's head. He looked desperate. This bloody secene reminded me of the video tape released by the Iraqis insurgents who beheaded a Korean. No comments. Humans shall always rule the beings on earth... this is what i knew....

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And yea, no more second rat for us to dissect as Koay Tian Soo had promised us earlier. The excuse? " ahaha.... i think most of you were doing good enough already... and most of you here can identify the blood vessels... ermmm... ermm... i dont think we will have to dissect the second one already lar......" What an excuse:P To me its a great loss for not being able to dissect a second one but to most of the girls, its a great relief...
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What a pity: 32 rats were being killed and soaked in Dettol.

Family Disaster : Father(top), Mother(middle) and Son(the bottom) of the rat's family laid dead on the lab's table.

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Rattus Expert : Lee Ing(first from left), Mr.Koay a。k。a 小郭，Li Qun and Woan Pyn. Mr.Koay is the one who claimed himself as an "enlightened guru" that never kills.

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Rat's anatomy: Abdomens and intestines of a dissected male rat.

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Displaying: Rat being pinned on a waxed board before furthur incisions.

Great job: Lee Showing off his perfectly dissected rat.

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Serious matter: Chin Yee is pulling out the intestine of the rat carefully. Nice work man!

Guru said we are qualified as true biology students only when we've dissected a rat. And here we've done it:P Congrats everyone! WOnderful experience with ya all in the lab!:P

C.Guevara