8th-10th Day (15-17/1)
Helped Ms Loo with her samples. We did gel with 50 plus samples. Next day we did DNA extraction using patients' blood samples. It was quite a busy day as we did around 8-9 blood samples using her newly arrived kit. We used 15ml tubes instead of the 0.2ul and 0.5ul tubes we used before. Dealing with patients' blood is quite dangerous, as we don't know what the blood contains, so we kept on changing our gloves every time we realized that there's blood on it, even if it's just a drop. In the end, Ms Loo's newly opened glove box was reduced to nearly half of it's original content, which made Pong and I quite speechless. We had our lunch quite late that day as we need to incubate the samples for an hour and centrifuged it for a few times. As busy as it seems, Pong and I were glad because our time was well spent.
11th Day (18/1)
Ms Loo went back to her hometown today, therefore we were put under the cyto lab. Unfortunately, the audit came that day, so the lab was really busy and the staffs do not have time to deal with us. So we were left alone. Luckily Kak Fiza, a staff from the molecular lab (we actually thought that she was a student at first!), gave us a little briefing on the identification of SMA gene, plus a little chit chatting. She was really friendly, and beautiful too =)
However, our session only last for an hour, so Pong and I were left to spend the rest of the time day-dreaming.
Before we went back, we have decided that we are going to take a leave the next day, for we do not want to day dream the whole day again. By the way, that in turns lengthens our CNY holiday. XD
