I'm in S'pore

Hi all! long time no updates from me right?
now, here i am ... in s'pore since 31st Dec 2004... and it's 2005 now! so fast man!

Ok, so.. for now, i'll be working here till end of the month. Will be goin back to KL on the 30th Jan.
I work from 9am to 5pm, Mon to Fri. but not really ends at 5pm everyday, coz have to clean up and stuff... and we have unfixed lunch time everyday as well... coz it depends on the things we're doin.
At first, I was working in this lab... doing soil analysing... like... find out is there certain different bacteria in certain soil that affect the growth of the vegetation or wat.... There are also 4 other polytechnic students who are on their attachment in that lab. Polytechnic in S'pore is like... college in M'sia i think... at the end of the course, u'll not get degree but only a diploma. My first day of work (3rd Jan) is super sien!! just help them to fill empty bikar (dunno how to spell in english) with disposable pipet tips so that can be brought to the autoclave machine to be sterilised. Anyway, i went there first day after my lunch... so first day of work wasn't that long.

My second day was not too bad... got to know them better....there are..... few ppl in that lab... one PhDstudent (who is basically the 'head' in the lab, besides her supervisor who is the proff that i got my job from), and the 4 attachment students, and another master student. They are all friendly, especially the 4 attachment students. well, the PhD person is a bit... well, not that fun lar..haha! But later one... I found out that... she's not that bad to get along with...anyway, learned quite many things there... see how they prepare the gel for electrophoresis (err.. means... the gel to run the DNA on... know what i mean? saw those strips on a film on tv? that's a 'photo' taken on the gel after running the DNA on the gel).... and found out that they can actually search the posibilities of organisms (bacteria or watever) by entering the DNA sequence into the net (a specific one lar) and click 'Blast'... then there wil be a list of those possiblities. haha! Hope it doesn't sound too confusing.

But 3rd day onwards... I moved to another lab... a molecular genetic lab.
There're only 3 ppl (including me) working in this lab. one is the PhD student, and another guy who is like me... on holiday, so come to do 'volunteer work' in the lab.
Well, wat we doin here is ... orchids, and lettuce.. haha! for the passed 2 days, I did tissue culture, which is went into a tissue culture room, and transfer the small little tiny orchids from their flask into another flask. Ohya... before that, have to prepare the medium for the to grow on in the conical flask. It's called the banana media.. haah! obviously, ya.. u're right... the medium contains banana. interesting right?! haha! and today, din do much things before lunch time, just helped to put back the cleaned, dried conical flasks... cut the foils (for wrapping purposes in the future use). then after lunch, grined the lettuce and add methanol (an alcohol).. blah blah .... as a part of some extraction (or abstract?) to be done tomorrow. So, basically, that's it in the lab for the time being. Although there're only 3 of us in this lab, i'm quite happy with it.. coz the PhD lady here is more friendly..haha!
And since 3 of us are or used to study in Australia, we had some common topic during lunch time.
And yesterday.... there's another new (well... he's new to me) guy came (came back) to work in the lab. Plus today, 2 ppl from the first lab i worked in came over to use the stuff here... so today, our lab is quite crowded...haha
and the 'new guy' is trying to find males whose sir name is Tan to do some research. so, anyone (male) willing to 'donate' some of their cells? pls inform me...haha!

And..ya... abt my fren (SinYee).... she actually thought that she met the wrong person that day when I saw her (and she saw me) in NIE. haha...
aih... should have went to her room on Monday (her b'day) and give her a big surprise. well, I din do that... i just sms her at 12 plus on sunday midnite and said that i'm here in s'pore...aih.... ruined all my 'hard work' haha!
anyway, went to her hall and met her on Monday after my dinner... chat a bit... then came back to my aunt's place with the last internal bus in NTU.

k, till here... my eyes are half closed now...
nite...