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Thursday, December 22, 2005
8:16 PM
to finally blog something, finally. it has been awhile now! and i actually have a semi-excuse: i was ill for the past 2 weeks, yes 2, with strep throat (acute tonsillitis for those who don't recognize the streptoccocal bacteria name). thankfully, i am now well, after a week of daily trips to the hospital (morning and night) for antibiotic treatment via I.V. - all i can say is that the japanese system is slightly maddening, though terribly amiable and polite. go figure!
so now it is christmas' eve's eve, and tomorrow i am off to osaka to meet the family! yes, my mum, sister charlotte and 5 family friends are about to board a plane for a japanese christmas. i am so lucky. and especially excited. the first week will be spent touring japan's famous kansai region, notably kyoto, koyasan and osaka. then we all come back to my island for another week. it is bound to be fun, albeit in a circus-y kind of way!
i hope that everyone is doing well and is happy in their respective homes and lives. here's to wishing you and yours a peaceful and humourous holiday season.
may you be filled with spirited creative energy and love in 2006.
xo julia
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Thursday, December 01, 2005
3:21 PM
the following passage is from a report on the prize-winning water strategy solution for miyako island developed by the teachers and students of miyako agriculture and forestry highschool. last week the swedish ambassador paid us a visit in recognition of last year`s first place win at the sweden world water forum: photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bombilladeluz/sets/1461967/
i am meant to be checking the english of the report. hmmm. chemistry class would have come in handy here. too bad i was never an ace at it-
2.2 Isolation, selection and mass culturing of phosphate-solubilization bacteria
In isolating phosphate-solubilization bacteria, we applied the soil dilution flat plate method and used soil composed of weathered Ryukyu limestone for the bacterial source. We placed 10g of the soil into 90 mL of distilled and autoclaved water contained in a 200mL Erlenmeyer flask, and mixed it for ten minutes. We inoculated 1 mL of the supernatant of the resulting mixture using a pipette into a sterilized plate containing hydroxyl apatite, and incubated it for ten days at the 28℃ in darkness11). We counted the colonies that formed a clear zone and converted the number into 1 g of dry soil12). We indicate phosphate-solubilization bacteria as bacteria that has the ability to solubilize phosphorus that had combined with positive iron and became non-soluble. Three roughly classified types such as hydrogen sulfide generating bacteria, sulfur oxidized bacteria, and organic acid generating bacteria are recognized12) 13).
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