Your average anime/manga junkie, I'm one sadistic and cynical bastard who will make your life hell(behind you anyway)if you get on the wrong side of me. grumpy and emo at times, i can be a real bitch but a pretty good friend(i suppose) and brother. meow.
I've been pretty inconsistent with my blogging as of late haven't I? Kind of lost the touch of updating every two to three days, although I'm not too sure why- but I came out with a fair bit of excuses, so hear me out:
Poor internet. Yea. My internet fluctuates even more than my weight used to. Not very useful when I want to upload and post photos. Even before I begin posting I already get pissed at the internet- hence neglecting everything that has to do with it.
Laziness? Haha. I suppose you COULD grill me for being lazy.
Work. During the holidays I was working 9-5/6, 5 days a week- forgive me for not posting or making the effort=P
Anyway. Instead of coming up with more excuses, I suppose I could post a proper entry. I've been wanting to post this entry for quite some time now, but I never got around to doing it..an entry about my workplace in MUST.
After attending the microbiology labs in the new semester, I really feel the difference between the two. I was really unfamiliar with the amount of space i had to work with, and the ever-lack of equipment in our Monash labs. Look at that. If you peeked to the top right corner of the picture, you would notice that there are FIVE micropipettes for me to use. FIVE! As compared to the ONE micropipette allocated to two/four students in Monash.
If you observe the white container with a translucent cover, you would see that it contains pipette tips. Pipette tips that should be used just once before throwing them away, as compared to the one pipette tip we are allocated in Monash for several hundred cycles.
Nope, nothing to complain about here. The three microcentrifuge tubes at the bottom are bacterial E. Coli cultures i prepared with an inserted vector for storage in the -80 fridge, something they call 'stock keeping' since the cultures are taken out to be grown when the inserts are needed. That yellowish liquid in the beaker is LB broth.
See! pipette tips of different size( the blue ones in the blue container) all MINE to use too. Neutralization solution- that is used in one of the plasmid extraction procedures. The three empty bottles were bacterial cultures.
Centrifuge machines! Both can be configured to centrifuge microcentrifuge tubes or falcon tubes for large cultures. The one on the left can have its temperature configured to present a favourable environment during centrifuging. The one on the right is a normal centrifuging machine.
Haha. I suppose scientists still retain some sense of humour after all.
It has just occurred to me how much of a nerd I am. While people post elaborate pictures about their escapades to various clubs with hot girls and smoky surroundings, I muse and post pictures of labs, and talk about how wonderful they are. Oh Yea. This will do wonders to attract the opposite sex all right.
