Day 2

Mostly reviewed yesterday's work with Jinkai.

First, went to get a daily dose of our hot chocolate, in the side room of the computer lab.

Jinkai then brought us to his office (yeah PhD students get offices, with their partitions to boot) and introduced us to his colleagues, some of whom we had met yesterday.

He then went through the data he had collected from his experiments, and and ran it through his Excel software, to get averages and plot a general trend for his research.

Then he brought us to the basement, to the specialised lab, where there were specialised equipment for material analysis. This is a paranomic shot of the lab.

Yeap, lots of expensive equipment. At the entrance, had to wear some dosimeters to make sure that we were not overexposed to X-rays.

The machine we operated read the orientation of the crystals of the material Jinkai put in. It needs the material's atoms/molecules to be arranged in a crystal formation in order to do so. There was a bit of confusion at the start, and this is all of us trying to get a peek to see what happened.

We resolved the matter early on, and got down to business, with Jinkai powering through.

This is what the machine looks like, with the samples in the foreground.

After all this, we went to have lunch (food is always at the forefront of one's mind, ESPECIALLY if you live in the lion city).

Then, went to the lab to do some further research and work on the cell samples. Jinkai showed us the different types of cells; muscle cells etc. 

After this, we ended off the day with a trip back to his office.