First Week of Lab
Friday, June 08, 2012 11:49 pm
Oh wow. Lab has been exciting so far.
Tiring, but exciting. Haha! I realised I have a fondness of anything involving DNA. Probably because it's so easy. XD Anyway, I dissected 2 mice today! Whoo!
Haha! I literally beheaded them, as I needed their brains for IHC. XD The first mouse, I was so scared I would cut the brain and all, and well... Let's just say I made a mess of everything, though I did get my brain. XD It's so soft and squishy. Like jelly. ^^"
The second mouse was much better. I just sniped the skull apart and ripped it open and carefully pried out the brain. XD Haha! That's... The most exciting I did today. ^^"
And yesterday, I just did more embedding. And waxing of cells. XD I'm not excellent at it though. I'm too slow. The embedding technique is actually quite simple. But I need to be really fast and efficient. And for a second-timer, I'm not too bad. But still not fast enough. Zzz. Haha! My mentor isn't all that good at it either, but my other mentor (the most senior one) is amazing.
Ooo! And the day before, we saw the prof and mentors cutting up sleeve tissues. Basically, when a superbly obsese person wants to go for surgery for stomach reduction, the stomach that is cut out is known as sleeve. And yeah, they were cutting it up for research and experimentation purposes, and God-knows-what-else. It was so cool!
A little bloody, but cool! XD I think Kitty thinks I'm really weird and probably off my rockers. ^^"
Oh well... My weekend is gonna be a really long LONG one. XD I have some check-up to go to tomorrow. Hopefully, some specialist can figure out the source of the pain in my side when my meal becomes irregular. And it's not constantly irregular. Like, if I just eat brunch one day, instead of my usual breakfast, lunch and dinner, I'd be in agonising pain... So yeah... It may just be gastric. It may be something worse. I don't know. Hence, the check-up.
Oh! And I realise that my BJ trip medical check-up is on my birthday. XD Maybe I can "celebrate:" my birthday with lunch with the guys. XD
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