Life in the Lab...

Life in the lab is pretty tiring from my experiences. It begins from 10am and ends at 5pm, but it always usually end at around 3-4pm so not too bad. Im beginning to get the hang of pipetting and inserting samples into the gel... but its the waiting part that im irrittated of. Normally there is always an incubation for 1-2 hr so in the end we spend most of the time talking cock or taking a lunch break downstairs where there is a so called common room (secret area!!!). Strangely, funny things have happened lately to me, i dunno why, but yesterday Sally somehow spilt her eluted unwanted protein sample onto my logbook!!! I was quite dulanz about it as the pages were all wet, not to mention a reddish stain at my last page from the cover. Selwin and me was also trying to scan the gel photos at the social science library cos he said his scanner image too lousy, but somehow there are always people using it.Its as if the students are too poor to afford a 3-in-1 printer or something (its only $70 for gods sake).. He said that normally no one will use it...but i think we suay....Anyway we juz manage to scan just one image cos the other 1 looks as bad as from his home scanner (also due partly to the spillage where it became crumpled..)

Todays joke of the day, i was doing the spectrophotometer reading where we have to record the absorbance every min interval for 5min. So i put a cuvette with the sample into the meter, then i was really shocked to see the absorbance reading at 0 for 5min!! Turns out that i put a blank cuvette instead of the one with the protein sample....so no wonder the reading is 0 (it was a control)....wahhahahah. The readings are normally recorded in the meter, but i wrote them down on my book as a backup, but somehow i can write the wrong reading on my book. Selwin was laughing like hell...

And when we leaving the lab, they commented about the power of my singlish. Whats wrong? im being unique anyway....they even critisise my prononuciation of or-lun-do.Duh...

So tomorrow is the last practical, just finialising everything up... Hopefully i can really begin writing my reports...