Raining Catz n Dogz...

Showered by a torrential downpour last night...
Waking up only to see a complete mess in my room...
The wind was too strong, that the rain came splashing in,
and there goes everything on the table right next to the window, soaked in rain water...

Drying my notes...

After Drying... really become 咸菜...
Wuhong's 咸菜 Tissue

A lot of wiping & cleaning to do...

Broken Tree...Fallen branches n leaves everywhere...
NO!!!! my dragon fruit plant!!!

Now have to use toothpick to support... so poor thing...

Good News from the Sky

就在我在愁年尾 Vacation Stay 要找谁 squat 省钱，Office of Financial Service 突然寄来了封信


From: Financial Aid Sent: Tue 28/10/2008 16:04
Subject: IMPORTANT - Updates on Living Allowance commencing AY2008/2009

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Dear Student,

REVISION OF ASEAN UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP LIVING ALLOWANCE QUANTUM

We are pleased to inform you that the living allowance of your ASEAN Undergraduate Scholarship has been increased from $4,300 to $5,800 (up by 35%) per year starting from AY2008/09. Your scholarship sponsor, Ministry of Education (MOE) has decided to increase your living allowance in view of the increase in living and accommodation expenses.

The Office of Financial Services will credit your account with an additional $750 for Semester 1 of AY2008/2009 and you will receive the money by end of October 2008.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at financialaid@nus.edu.sg if you need further clarifications.

Best Regards,

Azizah b Zam Zam (Ms) :: Management Assistant Officer, Student Financial Aid Unit :: Registrar's Office :: National University of Singapore :: University Hall, Lee Kong Chian Wing, UHL #04-01, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119077 :: 65-6516 2870 (DID) :: 65-6778 6371 (Fax) :: financialaid@nus.edu.sg (E) :: http://www.nus.edu.sg/financialaid (W) :: Company Registration No: 200604346E

PS Current Undergraduates: You are reminded to read your NUS emails regularly as we do not correspond with you via your personal email account. For ease of correspondence, please retain the email history and sign-off with your full name and matric no. in future emails. Thank you.

Important: This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately; you should not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. Thank you.

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MOE当真是雪中送炭
新加坡真会讨我们这些外国学生的欢心

我国的Najib最近也好像比较会做人了 (Najib ready to end special privileges for Malays)
只是不知这个keris-waver是否真有此心，还是真的这样desperate到讨 non-bumi 的 votes.

树大招风…

哇......
是不是很像大耳窿追债用的大字报

“人言可畏”
“树大招风”
“若要人不知，除非己莫为”
“空穴来风必有因”

唉……
当真是…

春风吹兮户家晓，小树亦招风
情关难过英雄过，双燕筑爱巢

My Lab Space

A sneak peak into Lab #04-03 of TLL, the place where I do all my experiments.

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Usually at the beginning of the week, this is how my working area in my lab looks.
Before I start my experiments for the week...
Pipettes, Gloves, etc all nicely place at each corner.
Table wiped with 70% Ethanol to kill microbes, eg: bacteria.
My own set of pipettes placed at a side.
My 'sort of personal'* PCR machine switched off to save energy.

(*Note: it is too old that almost nobody wanna use it)

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But all these don't last long...
When I start to work,
you see used C-fold towel and gloves here n threre,
pipette tips sometime missing the autoclave bag and left lying on the workbench,
pipettes of different volume lying over the place,
all kind of solution (wash/elution buffer, LB, etc) accidentally dripping on the bench, or even worse on my lab log book..

And by the end of the week...
This is how my workbench looks
(*Note: picture does not show actual untidiness, because the things are squeezed to fit my camera. Actual situation can be 20-50% untidier...)

Then why the tidying and cleaning at the end of the week, when you gonna mess it up the following week?!?
Well.. I just want to feel as if someone had clean it for me, to welcome me back for another week of hectic lab life...
I guess it's the same as leaving a light on when you go to work, so that you can feel as if someone is waiting for you to welcome you when you are back...
Just a way of 自我安慰...

Rules of The Lab

A small booklet of stick notes from my mentor when he attend a seminar.
Looks pretty normal from the outside.
BUT inside holds the essence of many years of researches, the key to success in Lab...


Rules of The Lab
1. First draw your curves, then plot your data.
2. Experience is directly proportional to equipment ruined.
3. In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.
4. When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.
5. If nobody uses it, there's is a reason.
6. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you have tried.
7. Dangerous exercise: Jumping to conclusions.
8. Never replicate a successful experiment.
9. If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
10. Team work is essential. It allows you to blame someone else. ------------------------------------------------------------
Cant stop nodding & agreeing the rules...

原来在NUS也可以这么写意…

在路边写生…
一个从来只有在作文里才会出现的画面…