white is the new black

And yet another on the transience of life. Anyone can die anywhere, anytime. The thought of just dying on the spot whilst doing BLM actually crossed my mind. LOL.



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After 5 days, I finally got a signal! Just when I was about to give up on Friday evening. Decided to just give it a last shot, and viola, effort and patience pays off. I felt that my life hadn't been in vain when I saw signals shoot past 20pA. Jo and I were whooping in amazement. (Ya, we go mad in the lab at night when nobody's around and we're tired and hungry and on pseudo-high mode. You won't believe what we actually do. Or think about.) I hope I'll continue getting good signals next week onwards, cos I really cannot afford to wait 5 days anymore. Time is really running short. But I'm still procrastinating, not reading papers on all the stupid biophysics techniques we're using, and not progressing with my report. Good luck to me man. But I realised that I've done an awful lot of stuff in less than 2 months. Never thought it possible. Usually people will be like "Huh? What can you do in 3 months?!" I've expressed and purified >10mg of my protein (which is actually hell of a lot if you're in my field - shifu says I'm the richest in my lab now), done HPLC, started on BLM, am going to do AUC and FTIR...yea I've got to read year 2 biophysics lecture notes -.- Who ask my boss' boss to be the inventor of FTIR -.- Oh wells. I shall bury myself under the pile of research papers and get lost in the world of biophysics soon. Pray that my signals come before 7pm at night, then I don't have to camp in lab till past 10pm anymore.



I've realised that I can't bear to spend a whole day in the office in front of a computer, but I actually don't mind working in the lab from 9am-10pm daily! It is tiring of course, but enjoyable at times. Maybe it's the people, the environment, the type of work, the satisfaction when you get results after all the hard work...I'm not saying mine is the perfect combi, cos my lab is actually more of biophysics, and I didn't take that module, and boss isn't exactly nice and caring...but somehow, I'm happy to be where I am :) How else do you think I'd still be alive now? Hahaha. Speaking of boss, he's such a sneaky shiat. Friday night, me, shifu and jo were recording the long-awaited signals that finally came. Suddenly we heard a voice behind us. "So, it's working?" Ya, you guessed right. Boss actually managed to sneak up on us without any of us noticing. Wonder why we didn't detect his smell when he came into the room. Must be on stealth mode! Lucky we weren't talking bad about him heh. Anyway, we were all like super chua-dio, and he seemed so gleeful! "Oh, I scared you. HA HA." -.- What a crazy old man.



If all else fails, career-wise in future, I think I can become a professional gel caster. Will sell pre-cast gels to research labs, at a very competitive price of say $5 per gel? Sounds good eh? cos we ordered some precast gels, and they turned out more cui than the ones we cast ourselves. Must be expired. And each can cost as much as $20. Siao. Should have gone into biotech and sell multi-million dollar equipment to labs, or be the technician that repairs those machines. If I survived the course, I'd probably earn big bucks after that.