Tuesday, October 5, 2010

另类禅堂

真的真的,不只一次这么觉得,实验室是我的禅堂来的....

平时,无论带着什么伤心的隔夜气上班,也很少说在实验室里闹情绪的。最多是,被分了心。
做实验的时候,必须金睛火眼,秒铢必争,一个步骤和下一个步骤之间,了了分明。这和专心在呼吸上是异曲同工的。唯一的分别,就是禅堂里,是受保护的,总有监香筹委照顾着。

而且,禅堂里,如果分了心,也不见后果,只是蹉跎了青春在瞌睡和掉举。实验室里的分心,就可以很严重了。尤其是当我在handle一些很敏感的仪器的时候。
比如那天因为关上bioanalyser时分了心,忘记像行禅一样,仔细清楚动作放轻。结果,reading 无法出来;结果后的结果,浪费了chip;再结果的结果的结果,我必须为这个ordering而疲于奔命.... (本来已经很多东西做了)。一切的结果,只为那个分了心的一秒里。

实验室也比禅堂考验,因为效果很容易就看见,而且可以很惨重。
禅堂里,我到底懈怠了多少光阴了?

2 comments:

lulu_ma said...

can't agree more. u've written up what i've always wanted to say. to add some points, u have to face ur deepest inner fear, and also fear of unknown when doing experiments in lab,learn to not expect too much from what u do...

ringo said...

Agree!
I started to get 'numb' whenever i repeat an exp liao, repeat罢了,没有什么大不了.Just that sometimes feeling I am wasting money... haha, thats why, guilty burst whenever i did a careless mistakes.

Haha, I remember also, I did my glcerol stock slightly late when the clone is almost dying. Boss asked me why? I told her that that time I didnt know my sequence was right. Haha, the right thing sometimes happened without you even expected it....