Change is in the air

Finally. Moved lab benches to the smaller molecular lab. Much less crowded there and I finally have my own, official, bench. Last time I was assigned one, but it was full of stuff so I just continued using the sup's space which I cleared and cleaned up. Now the project last long ended, and he's starting to do experiments too and needs his bench... it just won't do to keep hogging his bench anymore. Adding on to that, I'm sick of my test tube racks going missing all the time. Seriously. Ice box too... and the PhD student also takng my autoclaved tips AND using new boxes before even finishing the old one AND leaving boxes OPEN. That just sucks and pisses me off! And then he used the icebox... and the styrofoam box cameback with a freaking chip. GRRR! That sucks cos I always fill up the ice to the top so that I can see the plate clearly!

Seems like there's new people coming in and I'll have a seat mate too. The name tag has already been put in. Hope that guy will be alright. I don't request for much, just someone who keeps to his own business. We don't do small talk in the office.... it's always as slient as a pin drop here, save for typing and clicking noises... and footsteps + the door opening and closing... since my seat is right next to the door. Not the no. 1 closest to the door seat though. But the no. 2 closest. Whoever will be my seat mate will be the no. 1 closest. In a way I'm looking forward to him coming... hopefully he's a nice guy and will go get the door whever someone knocks. Which happens REALLY often lol.

I'm really happy to have my own bench. Wanted to move for some time now but my 5ml pippette going missing + the constantly disappearing labracks was the last straw. Mass email sent out, but the pippette still has not shown up. I really think it's the FYP students who took it. Sheesh. They took a lot of pippettes from my old group. Talked to some other researcher and she can't stand the students too. They are constantly leaving their stuff all over the place, not cleaning up, hogging machines and lab benches.... terrible. Worst still their freaking mentor protects them! Hopefully my stuff won't go missing again now!

This is just hilarious!

I think this is my first time sharing stuff like this on LJ... but this article is just too hilarious to ignore. I particularly liked no. 19!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/annaneyman/will-will-smith-smith?bffb&utm_term=4ldqpgp#.jf11k8RMQM

Stickers!

Just love these stickers. So cute!

Cycling! Gosh! It’s been so long since I last got to cycle. I bought this for my dad actually. He loves cycling… not sure what he can possibly use this sticker for though? ><

Most people are just normal. Then there are those blazing successes. And incredulous failures. Sometimes, it’s just a small line between success and failure. Other times… the difference is so great I can’t even comprehend. 

Try me… Really. It’s not being egoistic as much as it is just striving to be the best. Because that’s what we have to do. To give it our all, put in all the best efforts. 

And it’s not about how much you achieve compared to others, but how much you achieve compared to yourself. In religious classes we were always taught to always try our best. God knows if we aren’t trying our best. Even if you already ‘win’ but you aren’t giving your all, you are more flawed then someone who gave it their all and ‘lost’. 

It’s a matter of beliefs and values too. Work ethics maybe? If something matters to me then I’ll give it the very best I got. 

Hot hot hot

Gosh. It’s such a freaking hot day today. Really. Moving my stuff to a lab with the aircon spoilt. Cleaning up the bench too. Then the train had to break down and I was kept waiting in the train for a freaking 30 mins. Hot hot hot.

Weather is turning hot too, and it’s gonna be dry weather for at least another 2 weeks or something. So warned the meteorologists. Gah! Already turned on my fan to the second speed and I’m not feeling any wind! Gah! I miss the cold weather. The weather is really getting more extreme now. Global warming! Climate change! Gah! 

This sucks!