Week of madness

Oh man...I'm so shack already...and I dun exactly have much time to rest this weekend too...

It's been madness...

Mon...in the lab all day...except that hour I went to attend a talk by Dr M. Foley on diversity oriented drug discovery...cool topic huh? Actually he's here to promote a very very cool training program in his company, Infinity Pharmaceutical in Boston, USA...an 18-month program to train chemist in drug discovery...sponsored by EDB!!
Found out I know a couple of ppl who are training there...Bee Man, fellow ex-NJ ASEAN scholar...and Chor Kian, pharmacy classmate...so cool!!!

Tue and Wed I had TA duty...they were supposed to be last week...but I had something on so I switched them...
So din do much in the lab...

Thur...animal handling course practical session...
Did I mentioned that I was taking an animal handling course...attended 2 half day session of lecture last wed and thur...this week is the practical session...
Learnt how to restrain, sex, inject and draw blood from various animals...mice, rats, rabbits, guinea pig...via video...
Methods were demonstrated by a vet at the animal handling unit...for all procedure on the mice and rats...for rabbits and guinea pigs, we were just shown how to handle them ;)
Then we also did hands-on for the mice, rats and rabbits...the ones my group handled were already sedated though...some were not...so I tried to learn to restrain a mice...which end up biting me :P
The mice and rats that we handled had to be sacrificed after the procedures we did on that...then we did a simple surgery on our sacrificed rats...open up the abdomen and stitch back...quite interesting :)
The guinea pigs were introduced for us to have a feel of handling it...no procedures done on them as they r really precious...anyway, all the injection and blood collection procedures are more or less the same for the different animals...

Dun think I'll be using any animals for my project though...at least not in the near future...boss just wants us to take the course anyway...

Fri...again...lab and also attended a seminar on virtual screening for drug discovery...very relevant to my work...but I was so tired...*yawn*

I also went for life-saving course on Mon and Wed...and worked at TBR on Tue nite...
So it's really been madness!!!

More madness to be expected this weekend...

Sat...morning...kena arrowed to help out in NUS open house...why why why am I arrowed...and more imptly...why can't that person who arrowed me have the courtesy to inform me? instead of letting me find out from a mass email informing everyone that there's a briefing...oh well...I'm just gg to be as slack as possible :P
Afternoon..I'm covering TSP...heng ah...otherwise kena arrowed to stay late somemore...

Sun...was supposed to go trekking to the tree top walk with a fren...but not anymore...wanted to go swim instead...but see how shack I'm first lah...
Afternoon...got lecture again...I'll probably go lab a bit earlier and get some work done...hopefully no more rat this time round!!

Plenty of events happening this weekend too...

NTU and SMU open house is also this weekend...
Sat...there is Biobiz at Biopolis which I would have attended if not for the NUS open house :P
Sun...2 events...NUS Legs and paddles at Kallang and NTU Vertical Marathon at Suntec..and..
A Famosa triathlon is over this weekend too...