.the gpb kids.

Mother of Thousands

Posted by Jules - November 25, 2008 at 01:11:59 pm

So I acquired a baby  plantelet from Kalenchoe (Mother of Thousands) from one of my classmates several months ago. It’s a cool plant that they often use for tumor research. I used to have one in undergrad. It’s currently growing on the window sill right next to my desk in lab. It is now producing little plantelets along the leaf margins. Soon they will ring each leaf, with little dangling roots. These will soon drop off into the soil to sprout up into new Kalenchoe clones. Woot. It’s pretty nifty.

What Does Your Name Mean?

Posted by Jules - November 18, 2008 at 11:11:33 pm

I’ve been slacking on improving my chinese, but I’m determined to get back to that. Today, mike showed me that my macbook had a built in ability to type chinese. Woot. I’ll have to show it to my parents. In the mean time, I used my trusty resources to piece together what Mike’s name means. I used it to figure out the cantonese pronunciation as well, since he always pronounces it in mandarin. Cuz I’m biased like that. I’m pretty happy that I finally got around to figuring out how to pronounce his name though… hehe.. now I can use his chinese name when I’m mad. Right? Right?

The characters in parantheses signify verb, adjective and noun forms, respectively. Cantonese pronunciation is bracketed; mandarin pronunciation is not.  So Mike is a vibrating honor filled person? Or maybe he restores honor and glory? Hmmm.. what a bright and shiny name.

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