Today...

...i weighed out my crystals
...i officially start my antimicrobial tests :)

i din have the weight of the vial the other day...so i had to redissolve the crystals and transfer them to a new bottle...i came today to find fine tree-like branching of crystals... may not mean anything to anyone else... but i'm ecstatic :) ...i wouldn't really have felt this way if i hadn't gone thru my industrial training though... the pain staking hours of drying the raw samples, grinding them, extracting and then purifying the compounds really makes the sight of those crystals all worth while... imagine with me a 1kg starting sample... ending up with only about 0.2g of the pure compound that we really want... and the whole process takes up to 2-3 months... full 5days working hours that is...

My sample. Just beautiful...

The funny looking orange colour crystals are the pure compounds of my sample. This bottle was sent off for further tests to identify the structure of the compound

you noe... i din noe my skinny-ness was that bad... went to meet up with the head of science today together with two other friends... to complain about a certain lecturer... went well... but at the end of it he said:

"You noe...you shud eat more..."

* no i dun noe...i look myself in the mirror everyday and tell myself i'm fat...-_-" * "Its just high metabolism"

"You better not skip meals...you can't afford to diet"

that of all things...

anyway... was FORCED to skip lunch today... coz of my project... not that i purposely duwana eat... i'm out of time... several of them have already finished their project... and its nearing the end... i'm just hoping this antimicrobial test goes fine so that i can do the replicates without having to recalculate the concentration and mass of sample i have to add...