Life Sciences Symposium

Today was busy. I had to go to 4 different labs just to get the materials for the PCR. Rushing around the whole morning.

I was doing direct PCR technology with a commercial biotech company. Google for "direct PCR" to find out more.

Our team won the Life Sciences Symposium challenge for year three. It was about building a mini-generator. We won by 6 volts. Using just saltwater, zinc and copper. They gave the wrong trophy, so gotta go find the solar car people and exchange with them.

Oh yes, when I told Nicholas I need to be at two booths (generator also need to exhibit) and didn't know what to do,  he had the best reply ever:

"So tell them that you couldn't make up your mind which one to go to. And say "Then I was dizzy. So I sat down""

:) Nicholas always makes a situation happy

Daniel Shim and Jin Chong and a couple of other friends came to visit :) Thanks for coming!

Lee Zheng came like when I was packing up. :( Worse still I was out of the lab returning equipment when he came. :( We just said a quick hello and bye.

Packing up took like an hour, because cannot remember which stuff belongs to which lab. And also because we just chucked the micropipette heads through the holes of the sink cover, only to find that we need to used screwdriver to open that particular sink. There was a lot of jokes about Mdm Reena, and her grouchiness as lab tech. Someone did a very good impersonation. The jokes were about how she scolds people for anything, including returning stuff. Ms Ong wanted someone to return a lot of stuff to Mdm Reena, and he was like "do you want me to die or what? :)" lolz. We wanted to give her buffer solution as a present, because we couldn't remember where it came from.

Somehow I remember all the little things the clearest. The friends I make. The funny stuff we say. I remember these things so much more than the research itself. 

This makes it my third time doing symposium. I'll do it every year for as long as I am here. I always keep the "Official" tags. I keep stuff that reminds me of the funnest times of my life :)

I feel a little sad its over so soon. I look forward to it every year.

Thanks millions to Frederick Wijaja and Jonta Koga, because the exhibition would have gotten nowhere without you :)

Met Lee Zheng and someone I know from karate at roundabout and I said goodbye to both of them.