green stars in the sky....

waited for months!! for manganate to arrive in the lab.... christian (1 of my 2 sup) says he ordered it 6 months ago.... sheesh, wad took them so long... apparently they got some orders mixed up... think they haf some silicon components(..blah blah etc...) in the order that came some time ago.... *shrugz*

anyway....i went ahead and try to get some from my contacts... friends who were also doing their fyp this semester... hehe...lucky got one doing in a chemistry lab nearby... managed to got 0.5g of it from him.... (miser?? no lah...0.5g i can make 1 litre of the solution le!!)

anyway... managed to tried out the staining that i meant to do in the prj proper, so tat i know it works properly and with the correct amount.... i.e. optimisation...

and i got....

this!!










wild type expression...




and this!!











transgenic expression

not bad huh....? haha.... dunno if readers here can appreciate anot.... hehh....

bernard (fellow colleague here) was commenting that one if the images looks very beautiful... like lying down on the ground and watching stars in the sky like tat... then i juz laugh to myself... i wonder wad ppl who deals with engineering or computing stuffs will think abt the conversation we had at the microscope room... but i guess in their own field of work, there're also certain "beauty" that they can appreciate and we on the other hand will juz find them weird...(like how smooth the pulleys are turning... how nice and crisp were the cutting done... yaya???) haha....

anyway i'll show u the pic...

here!!














how?? can appreciate? beautiful isn't it? hahahaaa.......
oh it'll be better if u click on the pic to see the larger image...