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5th Jan, Monday, Sunny

First day in lab in 2009 (after a long 'holiday' mode, now have to resume to 'research' mode). Am officially a second year PhD student now! Could feel the stress level rising. I have to submit a conference abstract by the end of this month, an annual progress report in Feb and a manuscript draft mid March (suppose to hand this in before CNY, but my supervisor is kind enough to push the dateline later after I wrote him an email explaining my current condition). I hope I could finish the design of my array and send it out before CNY. Analyses to be done, PCRs to be performed so that I could have sufficient data to make it for the conference in May. The good news is the antibodies that I ordered arrived on the last day of 2008, meaning I could start cell culture work and Western Blot anytime I want.

Sunday dharma school will start this coming sunday. I need to figure out how to teach those young kids. There will be quite some activities for KBSteens this year. I need to keep reminding myself that my priority is RESEARCH, that my research topic is 'cancer' and not 'KBSteens'. Don't get distracted. It is all about research! Eat research, sleep research, dream research! (What my boss used to say, about passion in doing research but I doubt myself being able to achieve that kind of 'research state')

NO blogging too often! Glad that I decided to keep dancing as a form of exercise and entertainment but not a commitment (though I still think I spend most of the time saved for KBSteens activities rather than research, hehe). Stay focus! In order to progress further, I need to.