I was looking for images to associate with toilets in my post regarding more cubicles in female toilets and I stumbled upon some interesting pictures in my computer.
Back then, I work for a company that has quite interesting toilet signs.
(The male toilet sign at Biopolis buildings.)
I am not a pervert that goes around take images of toilets, I took all sorts of pictures around my work place’s environment before I left to keep it as a memory. Yes, I want to remember the toilet sign I guess.
(The female toilet sign at Biopolis buildings.)
The above image is the one you see in the limited//cubicles post.
(The handicap toilet sign at Biopolis buildings.)
The handicap toilet sign is quite artistically done too. And you wonder why these shapes and colors are chosen.
(The map of the Biopolis buildings.)
Notice the shapes and color denotations of the buildings actually form the toilet signs. I thought that was creative. (more…)
My internship is over. I have many plans but too little time to fulfil. Unfortunately, even before I go into fulfilling these tasks during my holiday. I need to finish some stuff from my internship. I have lots of files and need to do housekeeping and return them to my company. It’s a responsibility kinda thing. I am willing to help out my supervisor to do this.
Anyway, my plans are quite ambitious and I doubt that I have to time to fulfil. First of all, it’s something to do with my blog. I plan to roll out an update in the design. I plan to code my own custom plugin to fit a particular function that I shan’t mention at the moment. I can’t find it anywhere you see.
And I agreed to help my friend put up a web site, it’s joint project. I won’t give the details on that though. Not that it is supposed to be a secret – well, nothing is finalized in the project. I can’t speak much except that it is a portal for Ragnarok Online and is likely to use ASP.NET engine and coded in Visual Basic .NET.
I’ll talk about Excel and share a good news with you guy soon. I am probably going to share experiences regarding Excel with some of my polytechnic’s lecturers. It would be done with Desmond if it is agreed upon. I really have no idea how to do this, frankly speaking.
I am going to learn Java. I haven’t gotten the compiler and stuff but I’ll be getting it soon. The reason why I choose to learn Java is due to it’s popularity. I heard much about it and wish to understand more about Java. I hope it’d be beneficial for my work in future too.
And of course, needless to mention, it’s anime. I am going to watch anime. I have quite a lot of anime to watch. I borrowed some DVDs too. I gotten myself Mary Poppins which I’ll watch tomorrow (that’s not an anime by the way).
This is sad — I actually have to go to work today (a beautiful, rainy, gone-is-the-haze Saturday) as I can’t finish my report.
I need to hand in a report on coming Monday. I work on reports too slowly I guess. I wish I can write these stuff faster.
One portion of my introduction is to be axed. I wasn’t please about it because I like that portion of the introduction. I’ll post it online for memory’s sake. Damn, I thought that was good.
Enzymes and metabolism
Life is a chemical process involving thousands of different reactions occurring in an organized manner. These are called metabolic reactions and collectively known as metabolism.
The products of metabolism are called metabolites. Metabolites are usually small molecules or protein ligands. Such metabolites can be catalyzed by enzymes. An enzyme is a compound which brings about one particular chemical reaction but itself remains unchanged at the end of the reaction. Enzymes are the mediators of metabolism, responsible for virtually every reaction that occurs in the cell. Without enzymes, metabolic reactions would proceed so slowly as to be imperceptible.
Upon food intake, the body breaks it down into carbohydrates, and then glucose. Glucose then undergoes a metabolic pathway called glycolysis . In glycolysis, enzymes are present to break down glucose into smaller units.
That’s like my favorite section and it has got to be axed due to un-necessity.
Anyway, my internship is ending. I really got to rush already. I wish to complete my discussion by today and work on my methods section of the report. I am worried that I can’t finish, at the same time, I am lazy to do it. I am in a state where I have ideas of doing blogging, reading, listening to music, going out and more constantly. It’s hard to concentrate this way. And my deadline is near. (more…)
Yesterday, I participated in a symposium, it’s like the one I went previously, just that this time – I actually participated…
…As the usher. 
Not that usher that sings, I’m that usher that hands out programme sheets.
It turns out that being the usher isn’t that bad. I get 30 people to thank me for distributing them the programme sheet. It felt good to be thanked even though it’s just a simple act of handing them the programme sheet.
Well, I am bored while waiting. I walked around the 4th floor of Matrix building. I paced to the lift and stared at the digital display. And when I see a lift is preparing to go up to the 4th floor, I went back to the door and prepare. And chances are high that people would come to the symposium.
I was helping out my supervisor to usher a symposium that he organized. It’s a biomarkers discovery symposium and it’s more like an interactive session. The lipoprotein part is very informative – at least to me – and I jotted down quite a lot of things that may be relevant to my report.
I thought his talk is a little rough in the beginning, but it gets much better at the lipoprotein section. It’s well delivered in the end and I hope he can get interested parties to collaborate with him. His project is worth to be collaborated with in my opinion. It’s about verifying if phosphofructokinase is the rate limiting step in glycolysis. That may just be incorrect and may be changed in all biochemistry textbooks.
I am feeling down for about an hour. My industrial training program (ITP) is ending. I am not sad for that, nor am I happy. It’s okay that it is ending.
I need to submit a report at the end of this ITP. I have been working on lipoprotein metabolism. I don’t understand most parts of it. I am doing the manual work type of things. Basically, I’ll take the values and play around until the model predicts the right result.
It seemed like an easy job. But it takes a lot of time. My only regret through this project is that I made poor use of time. I have a lot of extra time. I use it on the wrong things. I have read many articles. I could have selected them better.
Let me give you an example.
As you know, I am working on lipoprotein. I use FORTRAN to aid in the testing of the models. Instead of reading more about lipoprotein, I spend time learning FORTRAN and reading articles related to FORTRAN. And I over-read it. That is unnecessary and I suffer with the problem that I don’t know much things about the relations of high density lipoprotein with – say – insulin resistance now.
What I am supposed to do a to tweak the variables and attempt to archieve a better fit for the lipoprotein subfractions HDL3, HDL2, VLDL1, VLDL2, LDL-I and LCL-III that can correspond to that of a normal human being. After archieving that, I am to tweak specific variables that I don’t remember to archieve a good fit that represents an insulin-resistance patient.
My problem is with the report. I don’t know how to start it. At the end of the first half of the day, I typed less than five hundred words. I look at the monitor and the monitor just stares back into my tired eyes.
It’s just not working out right. I need to do the report badly. I have no idea how to start.
[By the way, this is not a secret project or anything and I have consulted my supervisor regarding this. I can speak to anyone regarding what I do for this project. No IP involved.]
(Biopolis Matrix Building, the building that I work at for my internship.)
This morning when I walk towards my work place, I decided to snap a picture of how my building look like. In my opinion, it is the nicest looking building in Biopolis, lol
I work for Bioinformatics Institute as my internship which is part of my polytechnic (Singapore Polytechnic) requirement. Bioinformatics Institute is located in the Matrix building and when I first got there I can’t find where Bioinformatics Institute is. It turns out that it is in Matrix itself and it is not clearly labeled that Bioinformatics Institute is in Matrix.
Pecilius and Shawn are working at the building in the background, the brown one. They work in Genome Institute of Singapore and their building is cleverly labeled ‘Genome’. Well, at least theirs made more sense.
Question: Why can’t I concentrate in my work?
(My table – it is too messy. I will have to clean this shit real soon.)
A picture speaks a thousand words.