Saturday, September 17, 2005

New

Hello virus lovers
My friend just took back his camera and so I have nothing to shoot with, and thus nothing to upload. Words are just boring eh?
Anyway, since I detest blogs that are un-updated, I shall tell you that all the labs at level one just got new eye washes. green in colour and detachable with hand holders, it comes with a handy lever that when pressed, gives a bubbly gush of pure tapwater. But come to think of it, its not tapwater unless it passed through the tap huh? Fine. Pipewater; with a tinge of NeWater, and very soon - some processed seawater!
The sink below the Barnstead ddH2O filter has also been changed to stainless steel ones (which looks to me more like cheap die-cast aluminium) and the ddH2O filter is spoilt. So we have to go to level 4 to get it.
Precioussssssss water.
Anyway, Josephine got the dept to get a new one and the new Barnstead ddH2O filter has already came but is sitting in a box on the floor. Can't use it yet because only 'authorized personnel' are alowed to install it.

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

No more virus

MOH sent a letter to inform the lab that it has decided to allow the lab to continue using WN in experiments at BSL2 for the next 6 months, after which the lab will stop all experiments dealing with WN at BSL2 and should it want to continue such research, source for a BSL3 lab to work in. As such, the lab will be doing a lot of WN work in the next 6 months to complete crucial studies linked to ongoing work. After March when all live WN stocks must be destroyed, the lab will switch its focus to dengue.

"It's not the end of the world, it's just going to be inconvenient for us"