Day 14

Our lesson start at 9.30am, we are quite tired as yesterday we went to ocean park. Today in sensory evaluation of food lesson, we learn about statistical analysis method - Binomial Distribution. In binomial distribution there are two kinds of analysis method, namely by formula and binomial probability table. We found out that probability table is much more easier then formula, formula require a lot of calculation and we still trying to understand it ( A-Maths sia !!).

Example Qns:
In a family of 4 children, what is the probability of having
(i) Exactly 2 boys
(ii) At most 2 boys
(iii) At least 2 boys

Using the the formula:

B(x) = (n,x) px (1-p)n-x

After our lesson Ms Isabella came to talk to us, she ask us to write a report (1000-1500 words) on the differences between Singapore Food Factories and Hong kong Food Factories and she will grade us according to our report. But we did not visit any of the food factory in HK? thus we ask Ms Isabella is it possible for us to visit some food factory in HK, coincidentally one of the class will be visiting a juice factory in HK and we will be joining them!

After lunch with HK classmates, we found out that they normally had their lunch at nearby shopping mall as they feel that the canteen food is not nice. And in HK they do not have foodcourt or coffeeshop like SG so they normally eat in restaurant or cafe, it is quite ex! ( But it is really nice) Soon we went to Food lab to do lab work.

When we reach the lab Ms Karen told us that she is quite busy this week and might not able to arrange Lab work for us to do, thus she ask another technician Mr Patrick who take care of the Food Technology Lab where all the equipment is localed to teach us how to operate the different machine. My Patrick teach us how to operate Spray Dryer, Can Sealer and retort. It is very interesting although we had studied in SG about all this machine but we did not operate this machine before as our lab are new and is not fully equipped yet. After some chat with Mr Patrick we found out that he had been working in IVE for more then 1o years! and he looks like 3o years old at most. And almost all the lecturer and technician worked in IVE for more than 10 Years!

End of today.