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Working in lab, apart from lab works, there’ll always be times where we are craving for snack or drink. Well, you know, most of biological labs are strictly prohibited from eating and drinking, it is killing for some of us especially after long hours staying in lab working hard on a work.

As a coffee addict, I usually have my coffee during lunch break. But most of the time, those “kopi tarik” or nescafe can be pretty s*ck by its less coffee powder and excessive condensed milk, though I had again and again asking for less sweet coffee, it will either turn out to be still the same or ‘coffee favor sky juice’ — tasteless!

To stop myself from walking back to the lab full with disappointment and stop spending monies (RM1.40/cup) on those unworth coffee, I finally bought myself some 3 in 1 nescafe which is much more cheaper, costing only about RM0.20~0.30/pack and giving me same aroma and taste. All I need is another mug of hot water, and it’s provided by water heater (not water bath) in another room.

I was surfing through internet one day searching for journals and protocols, I had a good laugh seeing this pics.

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I saw an interesting post at John Hawks Anthropology Weblog writing who he thinks are the top five scientists who made the modern world asked by James Randerson. In stead of giving the same old Newton and guys, he listed the following people:

1. R. A. Fisher
2. Louis Pasteur
3. Leo Szilárd
4. John von Neumann
5. ME!

I am going to list my own top five scientists here that makes my modern world, I gonna leave out the classical ones as well:

1. Thomas Alva Edison - without him, there will be no light. some say he’s just an inventor, not a scientist. There are also a lot of things he invented which are important in our modern world.
2. Julius Richard Petri - he created petri dish, and later his wife came up with the idea using agar to culture microorganisms. If there was no petri dish created, we might still be streaking our culture on some meats.
3. Rosalind Franklin - the woman always being forgotten in the structure of double helix. Without her X-ray diffraction images of DNA, Francis Crick and James D. Watson could not came up with the theory of double helical structure of DNA.
4. Louis Pasteur - a great man.
5. Clarence Cook Little - funny name, but he is the breeder of today’s modern laboratory mouse.

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