where oxygen, carbon dioxide, and chlorine was discovered!! in this normal looking white building
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many famous people worked here before.
in fact, was talking to someone in industry and he said that right now, Uppsala U is drawing more governement reserach dollars as compared to any other university in Sweden. Its not only a historical significant place for science, its still a strong force now.
things about my lab:
cupboards well stocked
no need to make your own sterile water and PBS
Huge tables and plenty of Macs (i like the table part, but not so much the mac part)
Door code to each lab, which sometimes gets confusing because you need to remember so many codes.
Coffee machine, free flow of caffeine!
Free flow of consumables and media.
no need to fill tips!
huge autoclave machine, and autoclaving service, just leave your stuff in the tray and it will come back tomorrow autoclaved and dried. nice.
whatever media you need!
anyone noticed the new weird media bottles?
Shared labcoats, no hogging for coats, just choose the size that fits and
Cool hood!
my corridormate, Vivi 'the french girl' left sweden after 6 months here on attachment. She's actually training in France to get her diploma in engineering but worked in Stockholm in a biological lab. So it was a totally new experience for her.
so lots of people came, corridor mates, hostel mates from other floors, French friends, and work friends.
some girls got together to give her a Söder beanie. its a private joke.
pretty maids in a row
The Italians: Pronto!!!
More Italians
The Iraqi
Germans jumping about.
photos taken about a month ago.
i realized that real winter is really in febuary and march
december is not that cold, its just dark
but feb is the month of snow, the month of chills.
the river outside my hostel froze over, and so we went to visit it.
so solid you could run around on it
sitting on water
crazy ducks
crazy dogs running around
went grocery shopping today and found the milk cartons discoloured!
all black? what the heck is happening?
its an awareness program by Arla, the Swedish milk company. Not to worry, the milk here doenst come from China.
To celebrate Earth day next Saturday night, you are welcomed to off all electrical appliances from 830 to 930PM (not AM, duhh) to experience what life will be like without electricity. So hence the black boxes for milk with an electric switch on the front set to 'off'.
quite cool i think, its very eye catching after being so familiar with the green boxes.
what the milk used to look like.
100 sek for one movie ticket!!! ack.
first world country, first world price!
but the seats are larger than the ones in singapore, and the temp is not so cold.
the sound is pretty decent but the halls are tiny, maybe 100 people in a room. so the screen is abit small, but still a good experience.
Go again?
nah, watch on my 22" with a pair of good headphones is good enough.
watched this one because one indian guy in the lab said it was good, and anyway, supposedly it got nomainated for quite a number of awards.
for those of you who think i am dead and thus the absence of posts here, i'm sorry to disappoint you.
this is what i was at for the past two weeks, alot of work in the lab, tons of blood samples to process, got to entertain a pretty lady who came to visit, and DEADlines.
one mac to run the special scientific software, the desktop for number crunching (the lousy mac is only 12", already getting blind trying tosquint at it.), and the other laptop for facebook and msn.
now, thats what i call multitasking!
