A Butterfly and Biotechnology

How cool it would be if we have an easy technique for preserving our friendship! No fights and breakups for silly reasons. No betrayals, nothing would go wrong then. But, unfortunately we don't have any such easy technique.  The technique is too hard for most people. To preserve your friendship, Guide your friend to a right path when HE/SHE goes wrong. Stay with them even when HE/SHE has tough times. Never feel jealous on your friend's victory! ( this is a much important thing to follow, but, most times, the evil part of us tend to be jealous , but, we won't show this jealousy feel  out ) Money - this sometimes could create a problem - so, have to be careful! "Love your friends as you love love yourself!" :P    This would probably preserve your friendship to the maximum.  But, I need not follow any of the above mentioned techniques to preserve my friendship with my friends :) I'm much lucky that my friends would never leave me alone, even i...

Sorry, If it hurts you.  We love, no, we are eager and thrilled to do things which could hurt ourselves or others. For instance, the smokers and drunkards never mind about the warning statements over the labels. Why i explained this instance? because, Dictionary says about "the F word" --> "it is a rude and offensive word which you should avoid using!" ; But, most people use this "F" word as a style or fashion to express their anger! It's too rude to use this "F" word! but, still people do. I use to read only tamil books most times. English, I read only in my text books and newspapers. Recently, I found all my friends reading a story book which had " Love.Corruption.Ambition" as the main theme. The book was full of this "F" word. I felt a bit different to read that word again and again. But, managed to finish the book.  I had come across this "f" word, many times before reading that book too. When I...

Hii...!! This time I'm gonna share my colorful  valentine search! For the valentine's day, we use to wear some specific colors which has specific means. Let me explain you, how my valentine was. I wore a grey colored costume :) (because that was not in the list of valentine). And, I went in search  of  purple & pink & black! purple (blue)  ----> not in love! Pink ----> Gonna propose! Black ---> hates love! :) :) Why i was searching these colors?? Any guesses???  Kindly tolerate with me & proceed further reading! After a good search, I found a lovely purple, pink and black! :) Let me explain you the situation! We had first three hours of theory class on the valentine's day. After the theory hours, I was much excited and eager to go to our lab! Because , our lab hours are the most happy, enjoyable times! okay, let me come to the point now, why i searched for those colors?? Not only myself, all my class mates  searched for these...

"Acting in good faith", this becomes more difficult, when we grow older day by day! Even for a silly thing, we start worrying. We start crying!  But, in those days, when we were a kid??? Everything was felt as a blossom, even  it was a thorn!  How innocent she is! Sweet childhood!  Some sweet moments of my child hood which I miss a lot now :  1) My favorite snack ---> Slate pencil :P (Yummy) 2) My favorite English songs ---> Twinkle twinkle little star.., Baa Baa black sheep! ( a long list of nursery rhymes )  3) My favorite time pass ---> Kitchen set & gossiping about back bench girl's new water bottle! :)  4) My favorite TV shows : Tom & Jerry , Baby looney tunes, The mask! :)  5) Most Sad situation : Getting punishment ( standing on the bench )  for talking in the class room! :((((  6) Happiest moments : Getting a "SHAKTI MAAN" sticker - free with Parle-G biscuit. :))))   The list contin...

(Dedicated to the five star guys of my class! :P :P)  The department which is isolated   from all the departments! The department which smells like a hospital! The department which sounds like a jungle! The department is "BIOTECH" department. We are isolated from the whole college!  The reason is we handle lots of microbes in our lab; To avoid infection to other department students, our department is separated and placed far away from the college at a corner inside forest! All other department students from our college, use to comment on us as " STUDENTS OF JUNGLE" :P The department has lots of butterflies! ( I mean the students) I'm one such butterfly from the jungle! Still I didn't come to the point. Let me start with, like this " girl dominant  department !" . Ya, girls dominate here in biotech. In our college we have only 30 seats for biotech. Out of 30, in our batch, 25 are girls. Only the remaining 5 are guys.  But the fun we h...

Veeeeeee... It worked , it worked!!! My streaks were perfect this time! As I mentioned in my previous posts ( My streaks ) &  Isolated I loved it!  , we didn't get a better result for our streaking experiment. Our agar plates were torn! The reason we guessed for the failure was insufficient agar amount . We used 1.8g/100ml agar concentration. This time , we rectified and increased our concentration of agar to 2.5g/100ml . We used SPECTRUM agar. For this brand of agar, 2.5g/100ml worked well for streaking. My streaks didn't tear my plates. :))))) I'm sooooooo happy that I streaked my plates too good. When I tried streaking my petri plates for the first time, I was little bit afraid that I couldn't do well. But, this time , I did a good job. Sure to get isolated colonies of my microbes. An Agar recipe! :P My lab hours are too good like this colorful recipe! Image courtesy: http://nodessert.wordpress.com/   Cultures we streaked : 1) Escherchia coli ...

I always love the way my mam teaches me. Today we did "Estimation of Sulphate ions by nephlometry". Mam started with a question "Why to estimate sulphate ion?". The question is so simple. But., as usual most members of the class blinked. Here we go and get to know why? : Estimation of sulphate ions is important for two  reasons: 1) Sulphate ions causes SCALING in boilers, fermenters etc., 2) Must be in a limited amount in drinking water. Notes:  Aim: To determine the amount of sulphate ions present in the given sample. Principle:  Sulphates occur in water naturally as a result of leaching from gypsum and other common minerals. In addition, sulphate may be added to water by waste water treatment plant. The presence of sulphate is limited to 250ppm. Sulphate ions are precipitated as various sulphate crystal in acid medium. Light scattered by the solution is proportional to the concentration of sulphate ions which is measured in a nephlo turbidity meter. ...

   When your isolated from people, you will feel bad. But., I'm happy with isolation :D. Yeah., don't wonder! Quadrant Continuous I did STREAKING in my lab as I mentioned in my yesterday's lab ( MY STREAKS ). I went to my incubator and checked for the growth. I streaked  E.coli & Lacto bacillus.  I thought my streaking was too bad to get isolated colonies. But., to my surprise I got isolated colonies. Showed my plates with enthu to mam. She said, " mm good, you got isolated colonies". I felt too happy. What I know about streaking : Purpose of streaking :  Why to Streak? 1) To get isolated colonies. ( mostly bacteria ) 2) To check the presence of microbes in a sample ( sometimes) Types: 1) Quadrant streaking: The plate is divided into 4 quadrants and streaking is done. 2) Continuous streaking: Continuous streak made from top to bottom. As I mentioned we are going to do streaking with 2g/100ml and 2.5g/100ml agar in  next lab. My ...