This is My Life......

Yeah... finally made it through my first week in A*-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology(IMCB) as an attachee....

my entry pass to biopolis(IMCB)-- without this, the security uncle will not let me into IMCB...

My colleagues are super nice... always very willing to teach me all the theories and different lab techniques for PCR and gel electrophoresis.... In addition, they also shared their working experience in this lab with our Japanese boss... The dos and donts that I should do in front of our boss...

My trusty notebook which i jot down all the impt info and lab procedures.. hahaha... my horrible handwriting..

For the first 4 days, i've been observing and learning all the steps to run all the tests... then yesterday, my colleagues had to rush some tests due to our boss having to do some presentation at TTSH on monday... Then my very nice colleague, bao yue let me do her PCR job on a patient sample for her... she trusted me and had confidence in me... she didnt even stand behind me to ensure that i do every step correctly... i was super scare that i'll screw up the sample as there is only one patient sample... if i contaminate it... then it's all gone.... luckily, i had another colleague that supervise me during the whole process... i'm so grateful to have such wonderful colleagues...

as for my boss, he's a traditional Japanese man, who is very meticulous... and likes to talk alot.. which most of the time, i dun understand half of his sentences.... hahaha... just nod and laugh whenever required(learn from my colleagues)... after 1 week, i find that he's ok except that he likes to order us to perform some lab test when it's abt lunch time or 6pm.... so we will either have late lunch or go home late....

21 weeks more to go....

YueN signing off... stary stary nitez....