before the party

Photos from the lab before the welcome tea last week.


Mickey made the sign


Prof, Bhu, Fio, SR made flowers from fruits


The boys making the MTV


I made bones


The stall before food


The stall while putting in the food


The fruit flower bunch


New lab mate making friends with Dragon


Admiring


The team


The team again.


Mickey's beautiful poster


Fio decorating with M&M


The stall done

Study break lah

candy from Taiwan

be afraid, be very afraid

coming to a blog near you!

yet another Lunch

Next to SAJC


4 seasons starter dish. The mayo is hiding prawns and the one in the middle is sea cucumber. Redish thing is baby octopus.


Shark fin soup


Scallops and prawns. Very fresh.


Lobigs, M. from OZ


Sea bass


Coffee flavour pork


Abalone with spinach


Trying to keep awake.


Black pepper noodles. ALOT of black pepper.


Sago with honey dew in coconut milk


Squeezed the wet towel and found that it contained at least 4ml of scented H2O. Alot of bubbles. May contain residual SDS.

abnormal

Normal


Abnormal



Get it?

Leaves and Locks

Although its nearly the end of October, autumn arrives slowly in Kyoto. The best time to observe koyo (紅葉), or the change of the autumn leaves, is in mid-November. Will post more pictures when that happens. Especially pretty is the momiji, Japanese Maple.

This is my first (and only) line of defence against winter and robbers. A flimsy sliding door that I have to be careful not to bang into when I walk in and out in case I smash it accidently. Thank god I have a heater for my room now.

This is my internal security system. When I am in the apartment and sleeping etc, this is the only lock I've got!

This is the external security measure. The metal bracket is attached to the wood by 2 small screws. I think an 8-year-old could pull it out of its socket.

Ok back to studying for me. Wish me luck eh!

lunch at Botak Jones

Damn good food at damn good price. Clementi outlet. Go google it out.


Fio's fish and chips


My double botak burger at $9


Meat! Very filling. Yummy.

pissed off by the people in this lab

gonna get this book

http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0040333

new bsc hood: the full story

Before. Had problems with the HEPA, the fan and the sealing, so traded it in for a new one. Anyway the model is obsolete, hard to get spare parts:


They brought in the new one before bringing out the old one.


Transfter from wooden trolley to metal one that can be jacked up


push across hood onto supporting frame. Requires 5 men to accomplish.


Interesting trolley


Pushing out the old one. Reverse process.


Push it from frame onto adjustable trolley and then from metal trolley onto wooden trolley


Goodbye


15 minutes of entertainment


After. Have this weird impresson that the new one is smaller than the old:

new bsc

New hood! Old one condemned. But not commissioned yet, must wait for Monday.
Suddenly got this urge to do plaque assay, dont know why.

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~Think about IT. Imagine it.~

haze all time high

PSI was in excess of 150 Saturday night 10pm. I thought I was in heaven but the smell brought me back down to earth, and maybe a little lower.