*Munch Munch Munch!*

The big eating sound is to show how delicious our lab tea break was this afternoon! But before that i want to talk about my day on Wednesday, so sucky! I'm really glad that PI was happy to teach me how to section my fish embryos...first thing we did was to book the machine. The morning slots were taken up so we could only take the afternoon ones. We went back to the lab station and his wife was also showing her student the sectioning process. So PI wanted me to follow them. Everything is really interesting, its good to have new stuff to learn every now and then. Anyway i thought PI would not show me the whole process again, but he did la. A bit tired by then. Then there's another student who also wanted to learn, so PI showed him the ropes first while i looked on from beside. So can you imagine? By the time its my turn, its already the third time i had seen it...wah...was really feeling drained. I think it was also because i woke up damn early that day in order to reach the lab before 8am just to add one reagent....mood was pretty foul since the start of the day.



This is the sectioning machine, my samples are the white white thing on the left. Place the sample on the black round holder for sectioning. The "spinning wheel" is by the side of the machine that controls the blade to move up and down, like sewing machine actually. This was the first time doing it and i realised it is mudderfarking tedious and cold! The area inside is kept at -30 degree, i can't stand cold so the process was tormenting. By the time i was done, its already 7pm, fingers numbed and brain drained. Because i overshot the time to fix the embryos, the reagent i added in the early morning was wasted argh!! Stayed in the lab for almost 12h and only did one experiment, i thought to myself not very productive lay...Learned one lesson that day, next time i would plan the whole day for sectioning, without other experiment to worry about.



Enough of complaining, sounded very grumpy =.=". My lab had tea break today for two reasons, to celebrate my mentor Steven's birthday and farewell party for ZR. See how funny they are, standing on chairs as to hold an important ceremony hahaa! The food was oolala~

Birthday cake is pandan flavor, which is very special and i seldom get to eat. The pastries were bought from a bakery shop in holland v, although many said the bun-like pastry is famous, i prefer the fruit tarts because of their crunchy bits. Then here comes the ultimate maker for a super duper tea break, chocolates from ROYCE!! OMG I couldn't take my eyes off it ever since it made its appearance on the table. Lucky to have Christmas while just started working, so many chocolates to eat and so little stomach space.