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Saturday, November 05, 2005
Hello hello! (Tribute to Russell as to the source of the greeting.) Had been some time since I blogged about my work, time to bore you guys with more chemistry! =D Been pretty busy (Though not as busy as you guys! I can choose not to go back to the lab on Saturday.), with all the reactions and column chromatography.
Got to work with the cryobath, a machine which allows me to run a reaction at down to -78 degress celsius (I have a couple of reactions which require that condition.), using pure hydrogen gas for a hydrogenation reaction (In case you forgot, hydrogen gas is highly explosive.), more of the chiral HPLC (High Pressure/Performance Liquid Chromatography) and hydrogen-1 and carbon-13 NMRs (Nuclear Magnetic Resonnace). Got my internal licence to use the NMR machine, quite glad that I can anaylse my own compounds without having to wait for my mentor.
Dr. Joel, Dr. Donny and Dr. Lim came to NTU to have a meeting with my supervisor on 4th of November, Friday. Got to talk to Dr. Lim a little regarding my project and what to present for my upcoming presentation on the 17th of November.
More busy days await for me, with the possibility of running 3 reactions on Monday alone, which means 3 column chromatography on Tuesday. *Shudders* Don't worry guys, I'll soon join all of you in suffering on Saturdays, with all the reactions coming up, I need to stay extra in order to complete them.
Just hang in there, for those who are getting all the stick in your work. Life's like that out there, most people out there think for themselves, that is the sad fact of hummanity. The most important thing for us is to learn. For those who are suffering (Because of work politics or bad "boss"), just a lesson for us to learn that when we become senior enough to have people under us, treat them nicer! For they are human beings, just like the rest of us.
Hello Miss Ang! Welcome back! Did you manage to bring some sand from the Carribean to give us? ;) How is the weather there? Seen a real Jamaican?
Regards,
Terence Seah
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