Okay work has officially started (or was supposedly supposed to be..). After a night of fun at 206's BBQ (not forgetting the game of Taboo which resulted in me having a bit of dry throat now), had to force myself to wake up at 7am & rushed thru breakfast.. haven't ate so quickly in a long time. Poor Alexan started his morning shift today n had to be in office by 7am.. gosh.

Finally have a clearer picture of what my role entails. I'm attached to the process transfer and development (upstream) department. Here, we have to be the liaision between the customers and the manufacturing group. So whenever a customer comes with a proposal, we'd have to analyse and assess it, to see how we can transfer the "protocol" from the customer into Lonza's own manufacturing capacity. We will also be the ones to pen down the batch records/instructions for use in manufacuring, intiate changes to the processes so as to optimize yield etc. Since I'm in the upstream side, I'd only e concerned mainly with fermentation issues. The downstream guys will be in charge of the purification side. I can't seem to communicate with my sup though.. haha she's a bit too quiet.. I seem to be talking more to px's and celeste's sup instead.. which i dun think is very good... hmmmm..

Attended 3 meetings alone today. Was quite boring for me cos I din understand most of the things they were talking about, companies' names are identified in 4 digits.. so all sounded rather confusing to me. The worst came when a PhD guy came into one of the meetings to talk to us about carbohydrates.. goodness.. tt was when i simply bth, kept falling asleep. Anyway that aside, I realised they have a rather novel way of naming conference rooms.. they name it according to the mountains here in Mew Hampshire. Damn paiseh cos the person I was shadowing told me to get ready to attend an MTS meeting at Mt Washington, so I gave her the shocked look.. diaoz.. -_-"

Along the day, went to F3 once (& got to put on the gown.. yeeeeks) and the rest of the time was spent reading SOPs after SOPs. Feels like I'm back into uni days, reading journals everyday. Don't have a choice I guess cos the company has to be accountable to the customers and we won't be allowed oto perform any tasks independently until we are certified to be trained to do so officially. Yepz, and so the first step is to keep on reading the set o f SOPs pertaining to our respective depts. *counting down to the number of SOPs i'm left to read....*

On a lighter note, the working environment here seem to be rather relaxed. Meetings are conducted in an informal manner and everyone bothers to stop and present to u with a smile on the face, asking u about how life has been... and work still gets done the way they should be! Simply amazing.

Oh and we've (MTS side) been invited to go to Boston's 88 Market (the chinatown area if I'm not wrong) this coming Sunday with the rest of the MTS ppl! Finally can do some major oriental shopping.. *beams*.. Can't believe they arranged to meet ~ 8-9am though.. SO EARLY!!! Hope they'd change the meeting time.. haha..

Very very angry cos the big "bun sok tang" is still camping outside our garage, breeding the irritating mozzies which keep sucking my blood. And yes I still have no gas.. so still cannot cook and still bathing in the ICY cold water. I pray tt those gas ppl will keep their word & come turn the gas meter on.. can't wait to soak in the hot bath after one whole week.