2008年3月20日星期四

有眼不识泰山 上午2:39

I never truly understood the meaning of that phrase above, I realize, until today. I am the walking example of that phrase.

And so the story goes. Recently, I've been seeing this old ah pek around Immunos. Friends I always have lunch with might vaguely remember hearing me comment about this ah pek. He's rather old. His hair had all gone white. He walks very slowly. And he always carries this shopping bag that looks like those bags scientific product sales reps carry around to put their products in. He always wears elastic banded pants, pulled all the way up to his chest. Very much like a grandfather wearing very comfortable home clothes, bringing his grandchildren to the playground. I used to think whichever company it is that hired such an old sales rep to run around Biopolis is really 缺德. (With the bag he's carrying, its really reasonable to assume that he's a sales rep!)

Until today, my mum was flipping thru the newspapers and I happened to walk past her when she flipped to that particular page... "EH! THAT AH PEK!" My mum was almost deafened by my amazed shriek.

MY GOD!!!!! This seemingly extremely grandfatherly ah pek is actually a world famous stem cell scientist who just moved to IMB this year to head a new lab!!!!! He and his wife actually discovered some very important stem cell marker and he used to work in Max Planck in Germany and Wistar at Philadelphia! WAH!!!!! I almost fell off the chair as I read on...

He and his wife jointly discovered some very important protein, and won hell of a lot of awards for that. Then I couldn't take the curiosity and went to google his name... OMG! He's an expert in the stem cell field and even Nature approached him to write a commentary/review article about some new stem cell discovery in 2007!



Haiz haiz haiz... Lim Kah Suan arh Lim Kah Suan... what have you learned today?! NEVER EVER judge a book by its cover k?? OK? *slaps myself for being so damn ignorant*

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