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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Again, I am here sitting in the middle of the uni lab abusing the internet connection provided. It's good that today's a holiday, Anzac day or some sort like that, I do know what exactly it is, and why the aussies are celebrating it.. but nope, i am not gonna explain it here.. :P

Oh well.. I am in the middle of my assignment, trying to finish off the 1,500 words essay that have been haunting me for weeks.. it's nothing complicated, i am just a lil bit too slugged off to begin with, and the topic which i've chosen and did a presentation based on that.. was just.. a lil bit too dull for me to pick back up my fighting spirit to give it a final blow.

So, right here, I am taking a lil break here, keeping the promise that i've made.. updating my blog that i should have been updated sooner than today.. haha.. alright, now cut the crap and go straight in to the point of writing this post. Right, so about 2-3 weeks ago, I was having a chat with Andrew (tan) and found out that a small research group under the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) are currently running some medical-related experiments and they are still looking for more people to "volunteer" themselves as part of the experiments. It's still an on-going thing, though Andrew had already gone through like 2-3 sessions of it.. and you can only participate once in every 1-3 months i think (not too sure bout that), and payment for the participation is by way of an honorarium at a rate of 18aud per hour for time spent in the laboratory (!!!). According to the info i've gathered, each session would require time being spent for approximately.. 4-5 hours, that means.. 4x18 = 72aud?!

Alright, 18aud per hour is definitely tempting.. however the nature of the experiment is indeed important as well.. i wouldnt want to earn some quick cash and then find myself being transformed into some mutants.. worstly, a WEAK mutant.. that will invite nothing but disaster.. oh well, i think there's nothing more for me to worry about, since Andrew seemed to be fine to me.. though he reacted a lil bit blurer than usual sometimes.. hmmmm......

Now, i've read through the information sheet provided by the research group.. it's quite a long piece.. i wont want to type it all out here.. a very brief summary should be sufficient for this post..

So, what is the purpose of this experiment? it's to basically determine how comsumption of different forms of dietary fat influence the function of the stomach (hmm.... interesting), and the researcher will infuse the fat in 2 forms (by using a nasogastic tube and plunge it directly into my stomach through my nostril hole.. urgh..) - a triglyceride (wtf?) and as a free fatty acid. It sounds alright till this stage, cept for the fact that.. "these fats will be labelled with some radioactivity, which enables us to determine the rate at which the fats empty from your stomach". Hmm... and during each session, 110ml of blood samples will be taken, followed by consumption of few mms of nasogastric feeding anaesthetic.. and for every 15-20 minutes.. i will be needed to stand in front of a x-ray machine and they will then "look through" my body to determine the movement of the fatty acids (with the aid of the radioactive induction), and that will be carried on for 5 hours... hmmm... hmmm...

I've been thinking of it for bout a week or so.. thinking of whether should i sign myself up and be part of the guinea pigs of these australian researchers. There has been many imaginations happened in my rain of thoughts.. picturing the best (which nothing else happened cept for my happy face with some extra cash i earned at the end of the experiment) and the worst (where the induction of radiaoactivity proves to be fatal and results on me getting mutated or changes that might affect my healthy body).. after spending some time worrying for nothing.. i decided to call them up and enquire more info and clarify with them upon the questions that came across my worries... At the end of the day.. i signed up..
the meeting for the screening will be on this thursday.. i dunno whether due to their persuasion or because of their assurance to me that it's nothing to be worried about.. but 1 thing for sure, i do know that i always have this vivid imagination or fantasy you would say of me being transformed into some superhero or some sort through some involvements with some laboratory and so on... haha.. silly it might be, but oh well to think that just by sitting there for 5 hours while quietly digesting the substance that has been induced into me will earned me 18aud per hour, it's just something that I MUST experience it at least once..

p.s - i wonder whether the nasogastric feeding part would hurt me much or not...

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