glass

Josie asked me to go over to EM with my camera, dont know why. But i went anyway and then she ask me to take a pic of her block through the eyepiece. This was what i saw, but could not understand.


Then she explained to me that someone ask her to cut that block and halfway cutting she found that there was this chunk of glass embedded in the middle of the block, so she was angry and wanted to take a pic of it, for dont know why.


So because it was hard to see through the bino, she puts up light for me and asks me to macro in

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So i macro in and you could see a little of the glass jutting out of the block. Siau fella dont know how to embed stuff properly.

new phone

Got a new phone for the next door lab, from another lab somewhere upstairs whose prof retired not too long ago.


Then my microscope tissues came, to clean the objective lenses. All the way from Japan! Hi quality tissues, sit aeroplane come one, donch pray pray ah. This stack will probably last me till the next decade or so...

new CO2 incubator

For the new designated BSLII room. One more coming soon to stack on top.

invitrogen's folly

Invitrogen last month had a promotion, just trade in your old kit box for a free sample one, no restriction number. So we sent in 9 minipreps, 2 midi, 5 maxi, 1 mammalian RNA and 3 gel elution. And the free kits really came! the mini ones were for 50 reactions, the midi 15, and the maxi 10, the gel is 50 rxn.
Dont buy Invitrogen stock this year, they are running at a loss, with people like me around...
Oh, we had to 'clear' stock and so bought many kits to store for 'rainy days', which explains the obscene number of kits we have at the moment.

lousy card

My staff card broke today. Yeah, it really broke. Cant access the lab now because some metal thing that runs through the card is snapped. Low quality cheap plastic.

sending off

Some girl in the UK is gonna be quite happy when this reaches her.