Hey guys, I don't know what's your job scope like in the company you're attached to, but I'm dying to hear what's it like for you.
As for me...

Third day at Proligo.
Tired of standing all day. Tired of making imperfect polyacrylamide gels. Tired of running and loading samples. Pretty sick of all the gels and photo taking. Plus, I'm spoiling my eyes becoz I've gotta shine UV light at those flimsy gels in order to have their picture taken.

I'm the amatuer in that lab. Along with three other apprentices from Singapore Polytechnic-
Terrence(in my opinion, he's feminine... *shrugs* i dont wanna use the word "gay")
and Daniel the magician are Biotech. students. Ryan's from Mechatronic. All of us were rather puzzled by Ryan's presence in the science lab. He's not a science student. Lucky him.
Lest you're wondering what he's doing there...
See, in the lab, there are many machines like the HPLC, Spectrophotometer, centrifuge.. tralala...
When something goes wrong, someone's gotta fix it. That's where Ryan might come in handy. Of coz, everything was alien to him. He'd never hrd of ATGC base pairs, OD reading, 3', 5'... rat-a-tattie-tat. Poor guy, he was pretty much in a daze the last time I saw him.


I have no idea what Terrence and Daniel are learning because I don't really speak to them. Daniel comes in very early and dismisses early too. Terrence is... feminine, friendly, but we havent time to talk. They're all leaving after 6 weeks. And I HAVE TO STAY ON till June 17th.
Nice. Mandy will have me rotate in the lab and learn all the diff steps in the production lab. Right now, I'm just doing all the testing, readings and quality control.

I'm glad that my 'master'- auntie weiya is a very patient lady. I've made millions of mistakes today. I dont wanna start listing them out. It's embarrassing. HEY! Don't laugh. It wasn't as bad as the last time at IPC lab. I didnt' break a whole basket full of apparatus.


Was rather on a lighter mood today despite all the ongoing mistakes...
I've learnt many new stuff today. So many that My notebook is full of my illegible scribblings that I cant read at all.
The only problem I had was that Auntie weiya speaks only chinese. It's kinda weird coz I've never had science lessons in chinese. Or verbal protocols in chinese. I wonder what it's like for Benjamin, Ricky or Val to be in my position.


My right forearm is having muscke cramp. It's like I've just played tennis. Only thing is that I didn't. All i did was do ALOT of pipetting. Mostly ONE micromilleter.
Ugh. It hurts man. I had to use my left hand to load sample onto the gels today. Can you imagine! The wells are so damn narrow and tiny. and I've to use my left hand.




Gdine isn't having a great time either I suppose. She has to do scavenger hunt every morning, and watch parasites oozing outta all the food samples. Nasty. Hehe!