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Dereliction of predation
Just thinking about mosquito larvae cos I need to email a Plasmodium guy to ask him to be on my academic committee… Back in Singapore I kept dwarf pufferfish for a while. They’re really cute and funny little fish, smaller than a marble. They’re also quite aggressive going after any live food that piques their…
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Trogdor the Burninator
My parents and the Mouse (recently finished her Master’s and is going to be a Teach for Malaysia fellow) are down in Singapore for a visit so we had dinner together with our cousins Judoka and Spiderman, and my housemate and Mouse’s classmate Dormouse. I don’t know if other people think we’re just weirdoes, but…
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Really terrible original jokes
These are some bad puns I made up. (not saying nobody else could have come up with them independently so don’t get mad at me if you heard them from a friend) Why is gambling addiction such a serious social problem in Singapore? Because it was founded by Raffles. (a friend who’s a curator at…
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How to explain stuff to Malaysians
My teammate who’s from a Chinese private school background was talking about one of the QC department scientists at our CMO, who likes to ask for a half a dozen more experiments than it would take to make anyone else happy with a point. “Stefan is going to keep buggering us for more data…” My…
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CMC
We’re supposed to be validating some plaque and immunofocus assays from our USA side soon, and hopefully streamlining them as well as the overlay media sound like they’re from 1950s virology (yeast extract, WTH?). My supervisor found himself at a loose end the other day and decided to try cooking up different concentrations of carboxymethylcellulose…