Ah Fook working June2007

Hello, another week has passed by and I am getting better in cooking. It is part of my daily routine to cook and enjoy my meal.

Chinese Dumpling day has just passed, so went to NYC chinatown to get some "Zong Zi" for USD 2.99 I have to frozen dumplings. The taste is not as good as the one I tasted in San Fransico, but i guess it is nice enough. It is the typical cantonese dumplings with meat and beans.
Then I learn some new tricks to do rice last weekend from my mom. Hence, these are my new creations, bake rice!! I got loads of rice to clear stock before July. And I tried the tradiational method and the western cheeze melt verion.

Cooking vegetable is not as easy... did not taste well.... implies..... I need more practise.... haha... do not need to be a scientist to know that.


Here is a view of my working life:)

One of the group's student Marco Polin graduated... yappie!! Happy for him, their phd exams are more relax and the examiners are very friendly. Their discussion are nevertheless very demanding. And here, the advisers can help defend the thesis.... very interesting. My work here is going to be very similar (or should I say an extention) to this work. It is on 1-D phonon coupling due to hydrodynamic interaction.

And this is Macro and David after the exam. They are both extremely happy. Now we have one more "Doctor" in the group:)

Reminded me of my own PHd defends..... good old days.
My working environment is very nice. Below is the view of my lab.

Then this is the office space I have been given to work. Not alot of space, but cosy enough for me to spend hours in here.


My lab equipments
The next few photos are my babes.... I have to use them daily to work.
I introduce U to Maxwell, currently my slave.... haha.... which i am torturing with 20 hours of work last night. It is a standard optical tweezers setup with loads of optical equipment. Not easy to align. The optical train is control by the SLM link to a computer. Very cool tool.

Next, I have to share lorentz. It is another SLM optical tweezers system coupled with holographic imaging capability. It is the most hot machine in the lab. Everyone is fighting to have it.

The lasers used in both systems are very good, they are minimum 2.5W with fine control of the laser power. I am impressed and very happy with both tools. I will work them out really well in the coming few months.