Flame of the Forest

For the next practical, look out for the Flame of the Forest tree. Some of them might been blooming with flowers.

The 12 Metals

Potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, aluminium, zinc, ferum, stanum, plumbum, cuprum, argentum and aurum.......
Remember them oh my F3 students!
Can you count how many metals in the table on the right?

Rat Dissection - Final Destiny

Today marks the final day of the rat killing activity by the biology students.
Life had been taken by all of you.
May the rat blessed you with success in your STPM.
Hopefully they did not died in vain so that you may succeed.
Should any of you fail, you may have to answer to your peril in the Rat Kingdom in later years.....hee hee hee! I no longer care, yes!

Happy Teacher's Day

Thank you to all students of UB1 and UB2 2009 for the largest card ever received so far.

To my overseas students, Shin Ying, Yi Hua, Suo Yee aka Pet Pet and Jing Tsong, lovely cake that will fulfill my ego .... Thank you.

Rat Dissection D-day

U6B1 students undergoing the gruesome exercise of dissecting the rats. The reason they are not in uniform is that today is suppose to be JS Teacher's Day Celebration. They had to torture me and the rats during this auspicious day... but never mind, we shall let them pay for it..... ha ha ha Newton 2nd law of motion.

Rat Dissection D-day

U6B1 students undergoing the gruesome exercise of dissecting the rats.
The reason they are not in uniform is that today is suppose to be JS Teacher's Day Celebration.
They had to torture me and the rats during this auspicious day... but never mind, we shall let them pay for it..... ha ha ha Newton 2nd law of motion.

Congratulations

My sincere congratulations to all the going-to-be undergraduates for getting your first choice and if not get into the uni. Please comment to let me know what you get.

Practical Drawing for Rat Dissection

For the rat dissection drawing, here are the following guidelines

1. Experiment 8 (Practical No. 12) (3 drawings) - Fig 7 (choose the right one ) page 13; Fig. 9 page 15; and Fig. 12 page 18)
   
2. Experiment 9 (Practical No. 15) (only one drawing) - fig 38 page 37
   
3. Experiment 11 (Practical No. 17) (3 drawings) - Fig. 30 page 30 (do not draw the forceps); Fig. 28 page 29; and fig 40 page 37 (only the heart)

Experiment 8 will be carry out on the 17th June so the drawings will have to be done before that.
Happy drawing...

For clearer pictures of rat anatomy please go to this link.

Rat Dissection UB1

Another day another rat... oh what a start hoh! Alright, let's see .... everybody get their mickey and minnie mouse. Mine was a better one than yesterday, beautiful abdominal organs and blood vessels. So we start at 10.00 am (not sharp-lah... holiday mah) and ends at about 4.oo pm.

Well, it is over for me that is for this year, but not for you guys/gals. June 18 and 25 will be the D-day (Dead day...hee hee)

Rat Dissection UB2

First dissection of the year 2009. This year we are using the preserved rats which were ordered from a company in Malacca. I do not find the rats to be suitable for dissection of the abdomen as the preservation causes the rats' intestines to be rigid. Finding Harry Porter Vein is easy but the display is not good.

We managed to find the arteries, ant. mesenteric and coelic arteries but again the arteries cannot be displayed well. Some rats are totally undissected as some the organs are decaying. Female rats have babies in them thus causing the intestinal organs to be squashed or pushed against the wall.

Hopefully the thoracic dissection can be better. We are going to start at 2 pm and let see what time it finishes. We actually ended our session almost at 4 pm. Thoracic veins and arteries are easier to do and I think I am satisfied with the preserved rat for this part of dissection.