I heaved with relieve that the weightage for Mother Tongue language was not reduce. I think it would be a very wrong move if it was indeed reduced.
Moving on, there is, again, this inertia to get on with work. This time, its Project Final Fantasy. If I did well, science research will be my future. If not, well... I supposed it is time to sought other employment. That explains "Final"
Why "Fantasy"? The way I see it, it is a fantasy because I finally get to handle virus. I have been reading about infectious agents for some time. None excites me more than viruses --- Very tiny bags of nucleic acids and proteins, some highly capable of mutating and causing pandemics. Think Spanish Flu of 1918 or more recently SARS of 2003, H5N1 of 1997 (still ongoing) and H1N1 of 2009. I have been wanting to work in CDC (either Communicable Disease Center of TTSH, or Center for Disease Control and Prevention) or even WHO (The Fatal Strain by Alan Sipress).
Somehow, I cringe at starting. The horrors of working day after day, but not generating any results is very scary, nevermind depressing. I am speaking from experience of course. Then again, I am probably a bit differently now --- Less likely to repeat the mistake of old. I am very happy to get the chance to decide what kind of project I want.
In Tumour Biology, there was an assignment which I have to design experiments to show p53 induced transcription-independent apoptosis. Similar to now, I was given free reign of choosing what kind of hypothesis to test. I choose one which I think was not done before and so had to design my own experiments. I came up with half of the experiments. No paper to consult whatsoever. It was lots of fun then, perhaps because I knew that I did not have to carry out the experiments.
Now, I am back in the same situation (adapted from Tumour Biology assignment instruction): Virus induced cytoplasmic membrane formation. Based on existing literature results, provide ONE reasonable hypothesis. Design 3-4 experiments to test for it (with justification).
Ok. Now that I have framed it in a more familiar way, it is really time to start working. Time to see how much I have improved.
Moving on, there is, again, this inertia to get on with work. This time, its Project Final Fantasy. If I did well, science research will be my future. If not, well... I supposed it is time to sought other employment. That explains "Final"
Why "Fantasy"? The way I see it, it is a fantasy because I finally get to handle virus. I have been reading about infectious agents for some time. None excites me more than viruses --- Very tiny bags of nucleic acids and proteins, some highly capable of mutating and causing pandemics. Think Spanish Flu of 1918 or more recently SARS of 2003, H5N1 of 1997 (still ongoing) and H1N1 of 2009. I have been wanting to work in CDC (either Communicable Disease Center of TTSH, or Center for Disease Control and Prevention) or even WHO (The Fatal Strain by Alan Sipress).
Somehow, I cringe at starting. The horrors of working day after day, but not generating any results is very scary, nevermind depressing. I am speaking from experience of course. Then again, I am probably a bit differently now --- Less likely to repeat the mistake of old. I am very happy to get the chance to decide what kind of project I want.
In Tumour Biology, there was an assignment which I have to design experiments to show p53 induced transcription-independent apoptosis. Similar to now, I was given free reign of choosing what kind of hypothesis to test. I choose one which I think was not done before and so had to design my own experiments. I came up with half of the experiments. No paper to consult whatsoever. It was lots of fun then, perhaps because I knew that I did not have to carry out the experiments.
Now, I am back in the same situation (adapted from Tumour Biology assignment instruction): Virus induced cytoplasmic membrane formation. Based on existing literature results, provide ONE reasonable hypothesis. Design 3-4 experiments to test for it (with justification).
Ok. Now that I have framed it in a more familiar way, it is really time to start working. Time to see how much I have improved.
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