gah-brah......

was so happy and glad that day when i came up with a schedule to to complete my proj early... at least on time, leaving enough for proper report writing.... but i din realised that the "Autostainer" (Dako) requires so much time to prepare... not juz the machine, but the selecting of slides, labelling, dewaxing, antigen retrieving.... argh.... took me 2-3 hours juz to prepare the machine to stain my sildes....!!

that's juz the pre-staining prep.... still got the finishing up work... this is where i kokked up!! i think i left the slides in some solvent for too long...all the colour dropped off.... sigh... how i cant even find my tisue section on the slides.... die die.... waste time, wast effort, waste resources and money.....

and little did it occur to me that when i'm dionging autostaining, there's be a shortage of 1 worker for sectioning.... so it becomes slow too.....

how i wish i know "Kage Bunshi no Jutsu".... i can be everywhere....

i wish i haf more time....

another item on my plate..

in response to rockie's comment..

why in such hurry to find job? coz job vacancy waits for no one...haha... i means, if there' an opportunity that's avaiable now... why wait for it to slip by? it may no come back again.... furthermore, if i wait till i grad, hundreds and thousands of ppl will be vying with me!! and vacancies will be taken up le.... and regarding grad trip... no money where got grad trip?? thinking of postponing my grad trip till end of the yr... after i got come savings...

yes there's another dish in my plate to think abt now... juz got called up this afternoon that i got accepted into IBN....argh...this sucks.... i mean, being offered a job is great!! but being caught in a dilemma suck! i guess ppl now more or less now knows that im dying to join gsk (sounds too desperate huh? haha... ok mayb not "dying"... but prefered to...) juz had an interview at gsk yesterday and it seems like my hopes r high... but like i say.. nothin is confirmed till i see my name on the contract... like wad i see now, lying on my table...

going to ask my sups tml when will the results of the interview be out.... sigh....

help!!

questions questions.....

been thinking abt it for more than a week already... finally it's over... i even lost slp over it one of the nights last week... woke up 3 times because i dreamt of working in GSK.... haha... anayway, i juz had an interview at GSK.. with all the department heads...

not that im afraid of working there... but it's constantly on my mind last week of the possibility of working there.... so much that im so afraid that i'll be damn disappointed if i dun get the job... although everyone says that there is very high chance that i'll get the job, i've got no compeition, my bosses r happy with my performance etc etc... it's still not certain until i actually gets informed that i got the job, and signed the contract... haha... so now how ahz...? shld i carry on flipping Recruit every saturday? try to apply for each and every job vacancy which i meet up with the requirements? and even if i do get the job, when do i start? mayb i'll need to wait for abt 3-4 months b4 i start? then meanwhile how to look for job? where got ppl wanna employ when they know u r leavng in such short time...?

or shld i juz put everything on hold, concentrate on my proj and upcoming exams (argh exams.....why did i land myself into an exam again???)...?

time of the yr again...

to feel that i dun haf enough time....

3 weeks to exam...
5 weeks to handling in of proj report...

i think i need at least 2 weeks more to get all the tissues sectioned.... another 2 weeks or more to stain.... argh!! shit....

end of a series of interviews.... awaiting for call backs now.....

mended shoes

now im wearing the 4th pair of shoes i mended in the past 2 weeks... (actually 3 were mended by uncle at People's Park la... last one i did it myself....) and i love the feeling of wearing a nice pair comfortable shoes... no more "opened mouth", no more worrying abt trippings... somehow it beats buying new pair of shoes... 1stly, it might not fit that well, even if they fit when u tried them on... but after some time, who knows.... 2ndly, money, time, effort...to get a new pair....

i had this pair of track shoes for a couple of yrs already and they 1st "opened up" on me after i used them for an adventure race last june, ever since then i haben got down to fixing them.. the tear got bigger day by day, after more walking, running, climbing, cycling... and one session of mud-playing... soon the rubber sole is starting to come off... oh shit i better do sth abt this fast...

we allow small problems to slip thru our fingers while we deal with "more important" matters we haf on our hands.. little do we realised that when problem r small, they r usually very much solvable and it won't take up too much time, and perhaps juz a little bit of effort... however most fo the time we'll juz let the problem go, thinking that small things like these don't matter, forgetting that the point of weakness is made, and things will start to accumulate...

my teacher in college used to say tat i procrastinate a lot, that's the 1st time i heard of this word btw... she said i've great plans, good ideas... but slow in putting them into practice.... which boils down to not having any thoughts at all...ya? it sunk into me i guess... has become part of me... thou im still procrastinating once in a while, im conscious of it...

if things get really lousy, so much that u find that u cannot fix it anymore, perhaps it's time to get a new pair of shoes... u'll need to take some time to browse the shelves, try on some which u think may fit, and perhaps get disappointed a few times... get pekchek with cheaper prices elsewhere if u haf already bought them.... of course, unless u decided to walk everywhere with ya slippers.... play tennis with sandals... go marketing (market buy fish) in heels.... we haf to move on eh...

was on the phone with an ex-gf (while i was at yb's place!!).. she was juz rambling abt things at work and her life in general... wasn't having an excellent working relationship with her colleagues.. internal conflicts, misunderstandings... etc etc... perhaps bits of politics.... seems to me like things are getting kinda out of hand... and it's not going to be easy to "undo" wad has been done... so now it's either she juz sits in and wait for things to get better... or juz to move one... elsewhere... (wad can i do? afterall im juz a listening ear...)

oh lucky i nv buy new mp3 player from IT show ah!! my creative muvo tx fm gave me some problem in the past 3 days.. "file system error" showed up when i tried to power it up... managed to fixed it with numerous formatting and downloaded updates and firmware... finally got to the right solution... hehe... now it felt like i've got a brand new player in hand... of course...with a new playlist... well i did say formatted... lucky i nv jump into easy solution ah...

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...

dejected...

nope, there's nothn wrong between me and yb...we're fine...
was only dejected with an interviewee comnig for interview at GSk... argh... i wanna graduate soon and come back here for interview!! argh..........!!

drunkened pranksters, and policemen

was walking yb home the other day after joining her and ade (pronounced ah-de, thou she is actually quite skinny, but there're always skinny "de's" ard) for dinner...

we were walking towards her block when we heard a loud glass-crash coming from a playground ahead, and immediately we saw 3 figures running in different directions... the 1st thing that went thru my mind was that they broke a street lamp coz of playing ball or wad... but later on a man came to the scene and asked us "haf u seen some guys here juz now?"

apparently a guy of the 3 threw a glass bottle up to the 2nd floor and smashed 1 of their bedroom's window... the man asked if we can help look after the bike and an empty bottle that were left there as they can serve as an evidences....

a little moment later, a ard-20y/o guy, red in the face (red face) walked towards the bike and i thought he shld be here to retrieve the bike.... we walked towards the bike too and he detoured... later one he was brought back to the scene by the man (victim)... "i only passerby u wanna catch me....?!" blah blah blah.... groaning and making noise... like he's innocent (as if....)..

later on the lady of the house came down and the man asked her to guard Redface while he go make a report.... and Redface continued to make lots of noise.... and he started to walk off... "hey u got nothing to hide u can juz stay ah!" i shouted.... and he started to walk faster and faster... and the lady gave chase.....

she losed him....

(quite) some time later, the police came... they din take our statements lehz.... weird.... i also doubt they persue the matter with much effort... they took away the bike (bare hands handling the handle bar and frame??) and the bottle (with finger into the bottle.) after asking the couples and us some questions....

abt fingerprints and evidences.... will they actually go to the extend to trace down the 3 pranksters? i think they will be biased, depending on the seriousness of the crime, i think....