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Monday, March 21, 2005

Just give me a normal cow tongue

I give up trying to find anything useful and relevant to my studies on the Internet nowadays. Like for the past half hour I was attempting to search for a decent photograph of a normal cow tongue. All I got was ONE cow photo, with hundreds of other links pertaining to recipes for cow tongue, and the cow-tongue cactus species. I wonder if the Chinese eat cow's tongues, because I certainly haven't been thinking of food ever since we were given the diseased cow tongue picture for assignment, not till Mayu informed few days back that yea, the Japanese eat cows' tongues, so yum yum for her. I suppose its texture should be really bouncy or crunchy, knowing how muscle there is in the tongue. The poor animals. I won't be surprised if parts like the cows' eyes become some sort of a delicacy in certain countries as well. Why not? After all, eating the eyes is definitely more hygienic than eating the intestines.

Despite these frustrations I get from trying to figure out what is wrong with animal organs/tissues, I have to admit that I am beginning to find it really exciting to look at histological slides of animal parts in the microscope. It's kind of like a treasure hunt. Before the assignment is due, nobody knows what exactly is the problem or disease that give rise to the weird looking cells and tissues. This makes it all the challenging to try to figure it out before others do (oops, competitive streak exposed). And then we would be comparing the pathological slide with the normal histological slide, which reminds me of playing the "find the difference between 2 similar pictures" game...

Back to writing 'intelligent' crap about the fibrous cow tongue. I 'm glad it doesn't look at all appetising in its current state.

3 Comments:

  • At 10:31 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Ever searched using the scientific search engine www.scirus.com ? May give you less crappy links.

    Anyway I have nothing to say about cows tongues. Except that they probably will make me feel like being a vegetarian. heh...

    And I miss playing find the difference on photo hunt. I recall Beaver is real good at tat! -NoKoSo

     
  • At 4:28 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Didnt expect you to find the tab so soon...
    but, yeah, you're right about the similarity of concept in the songs. But I suppose you can find similarities in many other songs. Btw, I don't blame ur fren for crying after listening to 'Fly Away'. It's a real tear-jerker. Not saying that I did... heh heh =P

     
  • At 9:56 PM, Blogger Min said…

    NoKoSo: don't u eat, for e.g. ducks' tongues? i thought it would be quite common to eat that, after seeing my family members crunching away at it. will check out scirus.com, didn't know about it!

    Nonsense: what can i say? I'm especially bored when it comes to preparing for tests (and I had one today) ;) I got the rest of the songs in case you haven't downloaded the full collection!

     

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