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It's another long and tiring day~~
First week in PR lab... sianz..
the SP guy took 2 day off day.. Ytd is his last day..
This means that I am alone in the lab today..
haiz.. being the only attachment student in the lab, I was asked to do all those stuff alone..
I am still trying to learn how to operate GC machine..
I feel sux in operating GC/LC and GPC machine.. I feel as though I am a engineerer.. lols
Well, i NEVER learn how to operate that kind of machine in sch before.. not just press start...
still nid to do calibration.. And also nid to change the linear using all those screw driver and etc. I simply dont like to operate those equipment. lols..
my theory is totally sux. zzz.. I really regreted that I nv study hard for my analytical method...
although i managed to get a B in the end..
But it seems that I have forgotten all those stuff that i have learned in sch..
perhaps, I dont have a very strong foundation in chemistry..
I dont understand those theory they explained to me.. the column, the injector, the detector such as flame ionization detector (FID), thermal conductivity detector (TCD or hot wire detector), electron capture detector (ECD), photoionization detector (PID), flame photometric detector (FPD) and all those..
I am totally blur.. lols.. until now then I know how to see the retention time for GC.
I AM WORRIED about the test that I need to take 2 week later..
I cant imagine that my superviser is going to test me on all those basic theory test like CS2..
zzz.. I am going to fail for sure..
Basically, i nid to operate the GC machine everyday so as to determine the dithiocarbamate fungicides as carbon disulphide in vegetables and fruits.
Every morning, i need to do sampling..
weight vegetables, fruits, etc.. I just simply hate to weigh chilli.. lol..
the smell of chilli, make me feel like coughing.. lols..
To run the CS2 test, 2,2,4 trimethyl pentane and acid added.
Then, it was placed in the water bath and cool
After that the 2,2,4-trimethyl pentane layer was extracted.. lol..
lols.. sianz..
well, MS Sze come to visit me today.. But it was only... like my 4th day in PR lab? not even 1 wk.
of course I am not familiar with all those stuff.. haiz..
Anyway, I will be graded by two superviser.. one in micro lab and one in PR..
my grade will be average by both of them..
Who cares? =P

I was on my way to work this morning..
When i was going to alight at cck, my train suddenly break and stopped.
Some people in the platform screamed.
well, I saw some blood outside e train..
I was told by someone tt e train knock and hit on someone..
and they annouched that due to some incident the train will be delayed.. zzz
damn scary.. I was stuck inside the train..
all of us wasnt very sure what have happen.
I reach cck already.. but the door didnt open.. I cant alight. lols
I started to feel scared.. cause I am going to late for work..
if i miss my company bus, I will nid to cab all the way there...
And there will surely be massive traffic jam due to the train services from JE to yew tee unavailable.. zzz
I dont wanna be late.. especially on my first day of work at the national pesticides centre in singapore..
It wasnt very good to be late on the first day.. zzz
lucky they open the door of the train manual one by one..
I heard e arrival of ambulance and a annoucement tt the train service will be unavailable for 55min.. I was damn lucky tt i board this train.. cause if i took e next train i will be stuck inside.
well, I was rushing all e way ... as i still nid to walk some distance to the pick up point of company bus..
Lucky, the bus driver waited longer.. if not, i gotta miss tt bus..
ok.. my first day in pesticides residues.. stress..
I totally dont understand all those chemical..zz my theory really sux..
already forgotten..
haiz..
gotta learn all again...

-min-

last day of work in the micro lab..
my superviser dun wan to assign me any station this week...
since boss wanted me to help on doing a project on antibiotics..
haha.. so my superviser allows me to go any station tt i wanted to learn..
Although everyday i am sort of 'free and easy'.. but i will still try to find different things for me to do. In this way, i learned more different things everyday.. more different kinds of microbiolgoical testing for pathogen. and antibiotics such as vancomycin which is one of the strongest antibiotics. running all around the lab.. from oyster sampling, sampling room, the general lab, the pathogen lab, media room to virology lab.
Despite my stay in the micro department is short. but this few weeks i have really learn alot..
all of them are willing to teach me..
at least i have learn most of the stuff in the lab..
from S auaeus, vibrio, listeria, campy, Shigella, Ecoli and others organism testing..
Although the pathogen is damn smelly.. but i am happy working there with 4 other attachment students... it have been fun there. lols..
well, the whole micro lab went out to eat lunch together.
lol.. we went out to eat lunch at 12 pm..
initially, we went sungei buloh natural reserve there as we intend to eat our lunch there..
but the menu dont seems to be appealing. lols.. so they decided to bring us to go other place to eat. lols. they drove us to the kranji country club nearby to eat lunch.. quite ps.. let them treat us.. since today is my last day of attachment in the micro lab.. and the sp and nus student is leaving one after another.. sad..
sad that i am leaving.. going to pesticides residues department all alone..
I will be the one and only attachment student in tt department..
I afraid.. cause i am not good in chemistry part..
especially in terms of operating those gas chromatography and HPLC machine.
Well, there is still more to go.. more to learn..
I will miss them..

min <3