tReaSuRed MemoRieS~*

christmas?

2005-12-19T07:15:00.000-08:00

hahaz.. haven't written for more than a mth!! :) yupp.. down to the FINAL SEMESTER! hahaz.. dunno if it's supposed to be a happy or sad thing now that all of us are gonna graduate and all.. definately gonna miss each and everyone of u guys tons! :) yup yupp.. all the memories will definately be kept close to my heart! :) esp our makan sessions.. hahahaz.. :)

yeahh.. and i've got this entire list of stuff to complete! let's see..
1: to study for my cell comm test - dec 22
2: to finish writing christmas cards.. hopefully i'll be able to send em out in time!
3: to finish my christmas shopping!
4: to finish up on dd tut - dec 23
5: to finish up on SFG prac - dec 23
6: ICA1 - jan 3
7: to finish slides for proteomics presentation (qn 4)- week 12/13
8: proteomics yeast-two hybrid presentation - week 14, monday, 6pm
9: to answer all questions in proteomics lab manual - week 14
10: to finish slides for drug development (SARS) - week 7/8
11: to research for my SCTE assignment (OCt4, Sox2, Nanog) - week 12
12: PCT project?
13: MBID project?
14: week 9 - MBID test
15: week 10 - common tests :(

hopefully that's it! but i seriously doubt it.. hahahz.. i'm determined to enjoy this CHRiSTmAS! :)

Your Birthdate: July 7

You are an island. You don't need anyone else to make you happy.
And though you see yourself as a loner, people are drawn to you.
Deep and sensitive, you tend to impress others with your insights.
You also tend to be psychic - so listen to that inner voice!

Your strength: Your self sufficiency

Your weakness: You despise authority

Your power color: Maroon

Your power symbol: Hammer

Your power month: July

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

gatherings before school starts!

2005-11-04T07:10:00.000-08:00

hahaz.. had been lazy again :) but i guess i better do one now before school officially starts on monday! hahaz.. yupp.. the hols are finally coming to an end.. and as always.. it's a mixed feeling kinda thing.. hahaz.. am dreading the lectures we have to go through soon.. PLUS the reports AND journals to get through.. ahha.. but the upside? hahaz... there's gonna be proteomics and drug development!! :) hahaz.. and it's back to the craziness!! :) yupp.. and i've always wanted to do something related to medicinal chemistry.. hahaz.. so hopefully i'll get an insight with the drug development module! :)

speaking of which.. i know it's time to think abt unis already.. hahaz.. it's hard.. especially when it comes to the various majors offered at all the diff unis.. be it locally or overseas.. i reallie dunno.. hahaz.. still can't come to a proper decision! hahaz.. :)

on a lighter note.. managed to catch up with the rest! hahaz.. met up with ame, rs, jw & wy last thurs.. and ended up going over to the place where ed was working for dinner! :) hahaz.. it was pretty cool i guess.. at least we more or less and an idea what was worth trying and what wasn't hahaz.. thks to ed's recommendations! :) and ame kept finishing her water so ed had a chance to come over and fill it up.. hahaz.. quite hilarious reallie.. :) but suprisingly.. we weren't that noisy i think.. haha.. guess it's cuz the place was quite quiet to begin with.. hehe.. or that cuz there were too few of us! hahaz.. but yeahh.. ed & jw said the brownies are a must-try so we gotta go back for tt some time yup? :)

hahaz.. went out again last wed as well.. this time there were a little more pple! :) hahaz.. met up with py, ga, chris, rs, jw, joey & wy.. went over to bedok to makan this time round.. and it was raining! hahaz.. but thankfully it was a slight drizzle.. so it wasn't that bad.. :) the food was quite alright.. and like ga said, it's like chomp chomp but at a lower price.. hahaz.. the dessert at chomp chomp's still better though! :) hahaz.. chris then gave all of us a lift back.. and ga ended up sitting on jw's lap.. hahaa :) but yupp.. thks for the lift again chris!

oohh yes.. and before i forget.. HAPPY BIRTHDAE AGAIN GIM ANN!!! :)

melbourne uni visit :)

2005-10-23T08:11:00.000-07:00

hahaz.. went over to the uni of melbourne open day yesterday.. together with ame, yz & jw.. it turned out quite fun.. hahaz.. the talk on genetics for example was rather refreshing.. and even though some of the points she mentioned were familiar to us.. it was hard not to keep up with her throughout the talk.. and amazingly enough.. despite being away from lectures for the past 6 months.. we didn't fall asleep! :) well.. maybe except for jw.. hahaha..

but yeahh.. saw a few familiar faces! met shiqi and wenhuey there! hahaz.. was nice to see them again after being away from school for ages! hahaz.. realized i missed out quite a bit.. but yupp.. school's starting soon so hopefully i'll still be able to see some of them around before everyone graduates! hmmz.. not looking forward to that day btw! but ahh.. who is right? hahaz.. :)

went over to nydc for lunch after that.. had the usual :) hahaz.. and managed to talk over lunch and stuff.. found out more abt each other.. hahaz.. how we were like being little kids and all.. hilarious! :) it did bring back alot of memories i suppose.. at least for me it did.. hahaz.. i never got to sit through k2 and put on that graduation attire!! but hahaz.. but the prep-year over at MG was definately unforgetable.. hahaz.. being restless through assembly.. having macaroni for recess.. hahaz.. and yeahh.. being punished by my lao shi for not doing my homework by having to stand outside class.. hahaz.. :)

but yupp.. fastforward that to 13 yrs later and i'll be graduating from NYP (hopefully.. hahaz.. and i better!) in abt 6 months time.. hahaz.. i feel old already :( i'm feeling a little apprehensive.. i don't know for sure where i will be a few yrs down the road.. what i'll become, what i'll be doing with my life.. it's a scary thought.. hahaz.. :)

attended a relative's wedding last night as well.. my cousin's actually.. (i hope i got this right.. hahaz.. didn't know my grandma's family was quite extended till last night!) hahaz.. it's embarrassing.. i think i need to do a family tree soon.. hehhehh.. but yeahh haven't seen her for ages cuz she went overseas on a scholarship.. but yeahh.. my other cousins whom i also haven't met for ages were there as well.. and it was a little weird seeing them again.. hahaz.. it's like the only recollection i had was playing with them when i was really really little.. and almost all of them went overseas.. but other than that.. it was nice catching up with them again.. :)

it's like u see how everyone has grown up to be young ladies! but the ambience was nice so it made conversations easier :) the food wasn't too bad.. but the company was definately a lot better! hahaz.. and i was most prob the blurest there yest.. haha.. cuz there'll be pple who i'm supposed to know but i don't.. yahh.. it was major paiseh.. haha.. so all i did was smile, smile and just smile.. hahaz.. couldn't do anything else right?? :)

hahaz.. on a separate note.. attended service today and thought the sermon today was rather interesting.. the topic? on the "anatomy of envy".. the pastor cited the definition from webster's dictionary.. "to being painful or resentful and another's success or advantage.." and the thing was.. he told us the difference between "envy" and "greed", where "envy" eliminates competition, while "greed" doesn't.. which is what makes it even scarier.. but yupp.. it was definately an eye-opener for me.. hahaz.. :)

also, i've have started on my driving lessons! hahaz.. yeahh.. finally!! hahaz.. had my fifth lesson today.. stalled the engine 3 or 4 times.. (oops) hahaha.. must have been the lack of sleepp.. but yeahh.. started off slow but i'm actually beginning to enjoy it i guess.. see how it goes! :)

hols!

2005-10-09T08:21:00.000-07:00

hahaz.. haven't been blogging for ages again :) think it has been abt a month by now.. but yupp.. been pretty lazy.. hahahaz.. am enjoying my hols for now! :) yupp.. results are gonna be out in abt 2 days.. not really looking forward to it as usual.. but i'm hoping i did alright this sem! hahaz.. :)

but there's something that i must say.. for someone who has never worked in almost my entire life (with the exception of my attachment at NCC).. cuz i've never quite liked the idea of working.. hahaz.. i must say i do miss waking up late and rushing off to work.. :) perharps it's cuz i'm getting pretty bored staying at home nowadays.. hahaz.. and i actually have like a hundred and one things to do or settle and i will.. soon :) hahaz.. but yupp.. as of now.. i'm missing going back to work over at NCC! it's just this weird feeling.. i'm actually missing my weekly meetings :(

but yupp.. i guess one of the things i'll definately miss would be the company i had over at NCC.. :) everyone was just so fun to be with! hahaz.. i remember i was initially worried when i first started.. cuz i thought "hmmz.. being adults and all.. surely they're perception of certain things would be different?" but i was pleasantly surprised! :) hahaz.. some of them have this childlike innocence and they've given me one of the bestest (if there's such a word) advice! not to mention the gossips and endless stories shared :) hahaz.. n we always had this 'store' of cholcolates and tidbits.. even though it's supposedly banned from the lab.. hahaz.. everyone was always in this smiley mood :) n yeahh.. although i know they most prob won't be seeing this.. i still gotta thank them for all the help they've given me all these while.. hahaz.. i've truly benefitted from it and i guess i've also learnt to grow as a person :) also.. thank you so much for the lunch treat, the lovely card and the incredibly sweet one-of-a-kind present! hahaz.. i've placed it on my shelf so i'll always remember u every single one of you guys! :)

having said that... i'm gonna start on my driving lessons soon.. hahahaz.. once i call the guy up.. hahaz.. keep forgetting.. and a week has passed already! :) met up with the rest of them last wednesday too.. to sort of celebrate yissue's and soon sim's belated birthday! hahaz.. we ate at swenson's this time round.. after a pretty large debate.. hahaz.. it always happens! so i guess next time, we'd better settle on the venue before meeting up.. hahahaz.. :) but it was pretty nice.. didn't get to take that many photos though.. n yeahh.. quite paiseh in a way too.. we didn't get yissue or soon sim anything :( i think it was a case of we all thought someone else was getting it.. really sorry! we'll do better next yr! :)

weekendz!

2005-09-09T09:01:00.000-07:00

WEEKENDS!! hahaz.. been looking forward to it.. finally got to do something substantial today.. hahaz.. yupp.. cell culture! it still seems fun.. :) can't believe it's the second time i'm blogging this week too.. hahaz.. most prob gonna be the last one for this month cuz the report's coming up! i've started.. but everything seems to be in a bit of a mess.. hahaz.. i guess the only section's that organized is the appendix! :) really gotta start getting it together or i'll never be done.. :) not forgeting AES.. hahaz.. n the second presentation!

but yupp.. i'll get through it! hahaz.. saw this card thingy on Doris' noticeboard yesterday too.. on character.. "people are like teabags.. you have to put them in hot water to discover how strong they are" :) pretty true huhz?

n yes!! not forgetting that it was Prof Kon's birthday yesterday! :) She gave us a treat at Straits Kitchen.. :) loved the ambience.. hahaz.. it was kinda like a lab outing.. hahahz.. n yupp.. it was definately nice that everyone in the lab got to eat out together n all.. n we took quite a bit of pics too!! :)

ohh.. n just heard this song from LaunchCast.. "One in Love" by A1.. hahaz.. don't know why the tune seemed rather familiar.. but yupp.. got the lyrics down anyway.. :) the world will smile again.. hopefully :)

One In Love-A1

Have you seen your sunset,
Fade beneath a rain cloud
Have you ever chased your dreams away
Did you ever think that,
Life was just a highway
A never ending road of lonely days

There are times we cry
And reach out to the sky
For the strength we need
To hold our head up high

All we have to do now,
Is love one another
Sisters and brothers,
Can all live as one
And all we have to do now,
Is show one another
We all need each other,
To live as one in love

Have you seen a sunrise,
Promising you daylight
When all you need is shelter from the storm
did you ever feel like,
Love was just an island
You can't survive on love all on your own

There are times when i,
Need to reach inside
For the strength I need,
To hold my head up high

All we have to do now,
Is love one another
Sisters and brothers,
Can all live as one
And all we have to do now,
Is show one another
We all need each other,
To live as one in love

If we push aside the blame,
For the tears and the pain
You know love can reign,
And the world will smile again

If we push aside the blame,
For the tears and the pain
You know love can reign,
And the world will smile again
The world will smile again

2005-09-07T08:44:00.000-07:00

hahaz.. gonna do a short post before i go to bed.. yupp.. haven't been updating.. hehez.. haven't been that busy this week.. have actually been quite free... hahaz.. just tt i've been lazy to blog.. hahaz.. also, i'm waiting for the radioimmunoassay results since i can't come into contact with the radioisotopes myself :) hahaz.. guess i can only hope that everything goes well! :)

hahaz.. n yeahhz.. quite a lot happened over the last month.. :) from birthdays to presentations to tests to visits to pple leaving the lab.. yup yuppz.. n met up with the rest of them to celebrate ruishen's birthday on the 1st of Sept.. Jeff suggested "Changing Appetites" at Marina Square.. wasn't too bad.. hahaz.. cuz when i actually heard from ame over the phone i was telling her how it didn't sound appetizing.. hahahaz.. n yes!! finally got to catch up with yz after a month i believe! hahaz.. i owe u a letter now :) hahaz.. n for joe.. haven't seen him ever since attachments started.. saw soonsim at NCC the other day so it was alright.. n as usual.. hahaz.. guess we were as noisy as ever.. but i must say i missed the craziness the most! :)

As for my presentation.. don't think i did well.. hahaz.. i dunno.. even though i prepared n all.. guess i did terribly for my Q&A.. mentioned stuff i shouldn't mention.. n ended up not being able to answer it.. hahaz.. but i guess there's still presentation 2.. along with the webpage thingy n report.. :) speaking of which.. i have yet to start on my AES cuz i have yet to look for solutions to some of the problems.. n realised my report's in a mess.. a lot is repetitive.. so i have to remove those that aren't that necessary..

n yupp.. Mr Alvin came over to NCC too.. n as usual.. i had my PCR problem.. my negative turned out positive for that particular gene! hahaz.. n i was asking him for help n all.. like i did the last time when the clones didn't cut.. which worked after! :)

n i've come to realise that as my project's drawing to an end.. i don't really want to leave NCC after all.. i've become rather attached to the lab.. n i've been pretty happy there.. even though i fill tip boxes too.. hahaz.. but yeahh.. i've learnt a lot :) from safety to trouble-shooting to learning the proper techniques.. not forgetting the fire drill we had.. hahaz.. gonna miss the place we lunch at "across the road".. ahhz.. shall take it a day at a time then! :) n for now.. shall look forward to our lab lunch tmr! :)

long overdue

2005-08-08T08:14:00.000-07:00

hahaz.. yuppz.. this post is long overdue.. hahaz.. have been busy with project.. yuppz! to the extent that i can't even find the time to blog anymore.. which is quite sad.. but yeahhz.. will try to do short posts in between.. cuz i wanna get stuff down before i forget :) stuff i would definately want to remember :) hahaz..

shall start with our mini-gathering last monday.. over at marina bay.. :) it was raining heavily.. hahaz.. but thankfully we managed to get transport.. so it wasn't too bad.. :) everyone seemed the same.. hahaz.. n as usual.. we made tons of noise.. although it was just us girls against ruishen.. with dennis joining in occasionally.. it was still fun.. hahaz.. managed to catch up here n there.. n yuppz.. it's great that everyone's finally back!! :) hahaz.. n yup.. before i forget.. thks to ame n yz for the really lovely present! hahaz.. i know a lot of effort went into it! :) it's on my study desk now! :)

went back really late after dinner.. hahaz.. cuz we decided to walk instead of taking the bus back since everyone was so full n all.. hahaz.. n us girls were worried about the cockroaches but thank goodness there wasn't any.. despite a rainy day.. hmmz :) yupp.. n then we got lost.. hahaz.. had no idea how.. n the guys even went to the toilet :( hahaz.. but yuppz.. we managed to finish writing junwei's belated card on the way back n got souvenirs from ame n py.. hahaz.. thks! :)

went out again the next day.. this time wtih vivien! hahaz.. haven't seen her for ages! n she's already going over to US!! gonna miss u loads k.. hahaz.. n thks for catching up n all.. hahaz.. oh oh n the silly pics over at istana park.. hahaz.. it was hilarious.. thank goodness there weren't tt many pple there! hahahz.. :)

and as for the rest of the week.. wellz, was still sick on thurs.. so got to take friday off.. hehhehz :) had BTT on sat.. then went over to py's place to bake.. hahaz.. n it was raining so heavily we got soaked through! hahaz.. the preparation n all was really funny cuz we didn't have enough of certain ingredients to start with.. n we simply dumped stuff in.. well.. actually whatever that made us happy really.. hahaz.. n everything was done by hand! the whisking of the cream was the hardest.. haha.. py n i were like "is this considered a peak?" "but it's not a firm peak.." "nvm.. we'll continue.." hahaz..

we prepared pasta as well.. ahhaz.. the process n all was really fun.. n i guess it seemed like we were playing cuz i guess we made an awful lots of noise.. n messed up py's kitchen.. sorry py! hahaz.. :)

as for this week.. finally felt the load of my project.. maybe cuz i was enjoying myself so much the previous week! hahaz.. but yeahh.. DNA sequencing is a torture if u're tired.. comparing nucleotides base by base is exhausting.. hahaz.. but i guess the thing is once u've established the right sequence to compare with.. it'll be a lot easier.. hahaz.. :)

been required to read up on stuff as well.. it's terrifying at times.. when u're asked questions n u're like "huh? what's she saying?" or like "ohh.. i think i know that but i can't seem to remember.." n then u get that look.. hahaz.. wellz.. tmr's national day already!! hahaz.. not intending to miss the fireworks display this time round.. but i gotta finish my stack of papers.. :( well.. at least a couple of them.. hahaz.. so much for a holiday!

weekends!

2005-07-23T09:11:00.000-07:00

hahaz.. yuppz! the weekends are finally here :) hahaz.. was really looking forward to it.. cuz i haven't fully recovered.. it's actually worse.. my flu's coming back.. hahaz.. most prob due to the lack of sleep.. but yupz! at least i get to rest more for these 2 days.. haha.. hopefully :)

wellz.. for the past week.. hahaz.. didn't do loads in the lab.. yupp.. cuz the cells were growing really slowly.. haha.. n the ones that have grown up look really ugly! hahaz.. but at least the electroporation was successful.. n will be extracting RNA on monday! haha.. yayyz.. :) hahaz..

had a meeting as well on thurs.. was pretty scary to tell the truth cuz it was just my my PI, mentor n i.. so yupp.. hahaz.. wasn't tt prepared.. n wrote white field instead of bright field for my confocal pics.. haha.. v embarrassing.. hahaz.. but hopefully i don't make such mistakes in my report or presentation! :) other that tt.. my PI provided lots of advice.. :) n i knoe i gotta try my best.. hahaz.. cuz she has high standards.. hmmz.. just hope i won't disappoint her or my mentor i guess.. cuz they've been helping me loads in their own way.. :)

went out for dinner later that day too.. hahaz.. over at sakae sushi! :) had the dinner buffet at oub centre.. haha.. it wasn't too bad.. but maybe cuz i was too hungry by then.. hahaz.. was quite surprising.. was having a really bad throat that morning.. n yet was able to talk more than ever.. hahaz.. did lots of catching up.. but we were still as silly as ever.. hahaz.. :) missed that..

but just felt that it was quite weird in a way.. cuz there were just the few of us.. although we were still chatty n all.. hahaz.. but hmmz.. i gotta say i don't know what exactly happened so far.. n have only been able to make wild guesses.. n yeah.. they don't help much.. cuz i'm most probabaly wrong going ard guessing like tt.. but hopefully everything will be back to how it was in yr 2 sem 1.. that was one of the best times i've had over at nyp.. :) n i really miss tt.. all the birthday celebrations.. eat-out sessions.. talking as if we were the only ones at the place.. :)

i guess i can only hope that as young adults.. (don't really like tt cuz it means we're getting older :( ) haha.. but yeah.. i hope tt differences would be settled hmmz.. professionally? cuz we're not little kids anymore.. still remember tt was when i was at kindergaten.. was quite funny really.. hahaz.. we had little groups of friends we loved to hang out with.. where the girls would be together n the guys in another group.. n if the girls ever got bullied.. we'll tell the guys that "we don't want to friend them anymore".. haha.. but yet when everyone came back the next day.. it was as if nothing ever happened.. hahaz.. we were really innocent kids then yeah? :)

hahaz.. hmmz.. well.. shall move on i guess.. hahaz.. went back at abt 7 yesterday.. cuz i was waiting for mum to get off work.. hahaz.. so went to see how sectioning was done.. was quite cool really.. hahaz.. watching how the processed tissue gets shaved, wet, then dried on microscope slides.. hahaz.. :)

made another friend at ncc too.. from another lab.. yupp.. n the amazing thing was that he's actually my cousin's classmate.. didn't know that till yesterday.. hahaz.. n the pay for temp staff seemed quite alright.. :) but yeah.. the pple at ncc have been really nice.. hahaz.. always smiley.. except for the more serious ones but i guess those are the phd or PI pple.. hahaz.. :) but my PI's still nice.. :) hahaz.. n i realised something.. the pple in the science field seemed to know one another n everything.. or maybe it's just tt everyone's just friendly.. hahaz.. cuz even the sales pple that come to our labs happen to either be my collegues' ex-classmate or friend.. hahaz.. can't help wondering if we'll ever be like tt too.. :) i guess so? haha.. that'll be in a few yrs time! :)

ohh yeah.. n it's chloe's first month todae... hahaz.. went over to swissotel for the high tea buffet.. haha.. n saw brandon there with his family.. hahaz.. the food was quite alright.. n all the adults were catching up n all.. hahaz.. n my parents n their classmates were planning to celebrate their graduation anniversary.. to think that they've remained so close all these years.. even having kids that grow up together.. hahahz.. my mum n her friends were even planning on what they'll be doing when they retire.. hahaz.. maybe growing old isn't that bad afterall? :)

junwei's birthdae

2005-07-19T08:13:00.000-07:00

hahaz.. hmmz... lots happened todae! but firstly.. happy birthday to Junwei! :) hahaz.. yupp.. kinda felt bad we didn't have a celebration n all.. kinda brought the little tradition thingy.. hahaz.. but we will when we settle for a common date n time! :)

had napfa today too.. didn't take it though cuz i was on MC.. yupp.. viral influenza.. sounds serious ritez.. hahaz.. but it isn't too bad i hope? :) my PI was down with flu for 4 days too.. n it's spreading amongst the pple in the lab.. hahaz.. it's like everyone's simply taking turns! which is scary in a way.. but yeahh.. hahaz.. :) n yeahh.. after all the cheering.. or rather screaming or shouting or whatever u call it.. hahaz.. i think my throat's worse.. my flu's back too.. thks to the rain i guess.. but yeah.. hope i don't have to put e mask on at work tmr!! :)

hahaz.. it felt nice to be back in school today.. haha.. yeah.. it's been a while for me.. was wondering if anything would have changed.. like new faces.. nicer atmosphere n all.. haha.. but guess it was pretty much the same.. didn't get to explore much.. but the queue at the photocopy shop was still as long as ever! haha.. the poor aunties were super busy! hahaz.. didn't have a chance to meet up with my lecturers too.. but at least i got to meet up with friends.. classmates n all.. hahaz.. the little catch-up session was nice.. :) we definately need a longer one yupz? :)

hahaz.. but at least i managed to catch up with yizhen! hahaz.. over at gelare's.. we were pretty blur today actually.. haha.. or rather i was most of the time.. i couldn't even see yz on the train.. hahaz.. n we actually missed our stop at dhoby gauht.. ended up taking the train back from somerset.. hahaz.. n yeahh.. we didn't realise it was tuesday.. which meant offers for waffles! hahaz.. which reminds me.. i still owe yizhen money! hahaz.. gotta settle tt soon.. hehhehz :) pls remind me? hahaz..

miss school tons.. really.

birthdae! :)

2005-07-08T22:44:00.000-07:00

hahaz.. yuppz.. i have to admit i haven't been blogging as often as i used to already! :) been busy.. yuppz.. n even though attachment's supposedly officially over.. there's still the FYP tt some of us gotta work on now! :) and it's july already!! n just like tt.. it's like the second half of 2005.. couldn't help wondering how i actually spent my first half of the year.. :)

but yeahh.. now that like choy said.. i'm "one yr older, one yr wiser" hahaz.. i don't know how i'm ever gonna handle all the resposibilities that will be coming my way.. hahaz.. i guess it just doesn't feel nice to be a yr older anymore! :) but nonetheles.. i gotta say my thank yous! hahaz.. to all who wished me personally, through sms, cards, ecards, even through a testimonial! hahaz.. a big big thankew! :) it was definately much appreciated! really! hahaz.. it was definately one of those birthdays worth remembering :) n even more so now that it's the last year i'm gonna be a "teen" till i turn 20.. :(

but yup yupz.. i got to make more wishes this year too! hahahz.. :) thks to louise and waihar who got me this oreo cheesecake from prima deli at sgh.. hahaz.. thankew for the mini celebration at "cafe lima"! hahaz.. although it was rather embarrassing i must say.. to have pple older than u are singing u a birthday song.. hahaz.. but yeahh.. it was really sweet of them n all.. :) i guess that's one of the nicest things abt the lab i'm attached to at ncc.. birthdays are never forgotten.. there has been 3 celebrations so far! n there's always this chat session with everyone in the lab after tt.. like some sort of tea party.. hahaha.. :) n now.. looking back.. i'm kinda glad i chose to stay on for my final yr proj.. hahaz.. cuz i don't know how i'm ever gonna leave this bunch of amazing pple! hahaz.. i'm even going to the zoo with louise n waihar next week! :)

i got to go off earlier than usual too.. hahaz.. cuz i had to get my yoghurt home before meeting yz n linglee for dinner.. :) we eventually settled for nydc again.. cuz big O didn't seem to have nice desserts n fish n co seemed so posh n QUIET.. didn't seem like a place for us to talk n all.. hahaz.. so yuppz.. :) n i gotta say it was really wonderful catching up with both of them! hahaz.. n forgetting the little bits of gossip in between.. hahahaz.. :) went home at about 10 and mum actually got a cake for me! hahaz.. so i got another wish.. hahahaz.. :)

hmmz.. as for my project.. i'm getting on ok with it.. hahaz.. although i've been doing somewhat repetitive stuff for the past 11 weeks.. i learnt alot along the way! nevermind tt it hasn't been a smooth journey.. cuz it has actually been fun at the same time! haha.. guess that's what pple mean when they say that learning can be fun? :)

father's day!

2005-06-19T08:00:00.000-07:00

hahaz.. firstly.. HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to my daddy!! :) hahaz.. had a wonderful day todae.. hahaz.. finally got too spend time with my entire family this week.. cuz i've been coming home late after work.. so has mum.. haha.. so yupz!! had jap food which was yummy!! :) but the place was packed!! so we didn't get to sit in those compy cushions in the rooms.. haha.. but nonetheless.. it was a slightly different experience.. everyone's all super enthu today.. yupzz.. they kept saying welcome n bye n smiled loads.. hahaz.. :)

hahaz.. yuppz.. n just went to read gim ann's blog.. did the quiz below! hahaz.. visioning n experimenting.. hmmmmz.. hahahz :)

Your Dominant Thinking Style:

Visioning
You are very insightful and tend to make decisions based on your insights.You focus on how things should be - even if you haven't worked out the details.
An idealist, thinking of the future helps you guide your path.You tend to give others long-term direction and momentum.

Your Secondary Thinking Style:

Experimenting
You're all about looking at the facts, and you could always use more of them.You see life as your lab - and you're always trying out new things, people, and ideas.
The master of mix and match, you're always coming up with unique combinations.You are good at getting a group to reach consensus.

What's" Your Thinking Style?

long overdue!!

2005-06-18T08:51:00.000-07:00

hahaz.. yuppz.. this post is long overdue!! :) haven't had the time to update... but yes.. i've been lazy too.. haha.. :) was reading gim ann's blog so i thought i should post an entry myself.. after ages! hahaz.. was thinking abt tt post he had.. abt coming up with excuses when u dun feel like going out.. abt not knowing what we're busy with.. it's just this feeling where u actually wanna stay home.. u want to spend time with your family.. :) i dunno.. it's just been some random thoughts.. tmr's father's day and i want to make it special for my dad.. hahaz.. yuppz.. it's like so far it's been just normal.. mother's day has always seemed to be a larger affair.. :)

but yuppz.. a lot has happened for the past month.. haha.. emma's birthday.. choy's birthday.. tt was a blast!! went for a chocolate buffet at fullerton!! i still need to send u the video n get the pics from u choy! hahaz :) then there was viven's birthday!! :)

attachment-wise.. i've decided to stay on at NCC for my final year project.. hmmz.. although the decision wasn't an easy one.. after "consulting" quite a number of pple.. my dad & mum.. mr alvin.. my lao ban ("boss" just seems too serious.. haha) waihar, louise, junwei, gim ann.. yupp.. thks :) hahaz..

went to the dentist yesterday too.. n had bad news.. my wisdom teeth are growing sideways!!! urghz.. n the dentist said that 90% of the time all FOUR will grom sideways.. the solution? i gotta operate per side during the hols cuz if a nerve is affected i won't be able to talk for a few days.. but the upside of this? haha.. the dentist, my dad's ex-classmate.. is known to give u the worst case scenario possible to prepare u for the worst.. haha.. so hopefully it won't ever be that bad.. :) i'm hoping!!

hahaz.. but other than tt.. been hearing abt overseas education nearly everyday.. heard a lot of it.. different pple with different views, giving different advices... n the fact that the cost of education is increasing isn't helping.. hahahz.. there are tons of pros n cons as usual.. n i dunno.. i feel as if i'm faced with so many decisions lately.. it's like since i'm old enough to make my own decisions i have to now.. n all at one go! :( it's like i'm suddenly forced to grow up extra quickly.. i'm suddenly thrown with a lot more responsibility.. hahaz.. ooh wellz.. i'm sure i'll be able to handle it.. haha.. i really hope i do :)

ame's birthdae!

2005-05-14T05:06:00.000-07:00

hahaz.. yeah!! it was ame's birthday yesterday! hahaz.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIRL!!! :) hahaz.. the guys at china were really sweet abt it cuz they remembered! hahaz.. n got her a chocolate cake.. ruishen was saying it might not be much of a surprise but i'm sure ame appreciated it nonetheless.. hahaz.. could tell how happy she is! hahaz.. :)

hahaz.. yeahh.. n got to talk to all of em briefly too.. which was nice in a way.. :) hahaz.. they sounded the same! py was complaining abt how she was getting bullied over there.. being blackmailed by jw n all.. hahaz.. ed, jeff n jy were telling me abt their proj.. hahaz.. esp ed.. he was so excited doing hplc.. which sounded really fun!! hahaz.. rs was being naggy in the background.. n yupz.. he hasn't lost his ever famous "ya.. my fault again la.." hahaz! jw was telling me abt how violent py actually is.. n tt he has videos to prove it.. hahaz.. yeahz.. n i couldn't tell the diff between jy n jw.. haha! sorriez.. :) n ame's still ame.. haha! so yupz :) hahaz.. really glad she's enjoying herself over there.. :)

as for work this week.. finally got round to doing transformation for the cells.. grew them on amp plates, cultured them overnight, followed by the screening of the colonies, which included restriction digestion and separation by gel electrophoresis! sounds like a whole lot of stuff rite? ahaz.. but it was managable.. though i had to do 10 samples in all.. n i don't think i got the desired results this time round too.. cuz the smaller fragment in my samples ran over into the other wells at the bottom.. so yeah.. gotta repeat the process on mondae! hahaz.. :) n we're on our own next week cuz my supervisor's on leave.. hahaz.. will see how it goes! hahaz.. till thenz~*

miss em

2005-05-09T06:57:00.000-07:00

work's been alrite todae.. hahaz.. actually i didn't do much.. except to attend a seminar at NUS.. it was chim.. hahaz.. but it was a pleasant experience :) was nearly bored to tears for the rest of the dae though.. yup yupz... we didn't get to do ligation cuz we didn't have e cells to start with.. but yeahhz.. hopefully we'll get to do it tmr :) hahaz.. there seriously isn't much left to do ard the lab.. all the boxes for the pipette tips have been filled and sent for autoclaving!! :)
hahaz.. hmmz.. n was just talking to gim ann.. yeahh.. miss the guys at CHINA! Nine weeks seem like ages.. yupz.. it is.. although 2 weeks has already passed.. hahaz.. i dunnoz.. :) gim ann's missing the noise.. the fun.. yupz.. from the endless chatter over msn, in between lectures, during practicals, even during lectures.. to simply passing sweets n chocolates :)
but yeah.. something that i'm definately missing is how we'll have our get-togethers.. espeially when we eat out.. hahaz.. the noise, the laughter, the delectation.. :) how we're always talking as if no one else is ard.. :) how we never fail to run out of stuff to say.. hmmz.. maybe except ruishen when he gets picked on :) hmmz.. but pick's not exactly the right word too.. haha.. but ahhz.. :) how we occupy the entire breadth of the walkway to the mrt station :) how we look silly in pics at times.. :)

sighz.. i genuinely miss that.. all of it!! especially when i called ame tt dae.. hahaz.. it's like u start missing em all over again... hahahz.. n now it's yz's turn to go over to darwin for TEN days! representing singapore! hahahz.. all the best yz! hahaz.. oh wellz.. i shall count down to the day u guys get back! hahaz.. take carez~*

mother's day

2005-05-08T07:06:00.000-07:00

hahaz.. firstly, wanna say HAPPY MOTHER'S DAEto my mummy! :) hahaz.. yupz.. felt kinda guilty.. cuz i woke up later then she did this morn.. which is the first since i can remember.. hahaz.. set e alarm but my hp batt died.. so yeahz.. sorry mumz! heez..

yup yupz.. thks to labour day last sunday, monday was a public holidae.. shortening our second week of attachment to just 4 days.. which was sort of a relief for me in a way.. hahaz.. but yupz.. ran gel the entire week.. hahaz.. using 2 diff protocols, loading diff amts of sample, adjusting the voltage n time.. before i finally "succeeded".. hahaz.. so yupz.. i'm happy! hahaz :)

got to call ame on friday too.. hahaz.. didn't talk much though.. but hahaz.. found out that she has additions to her "family".. n yupz! everyone sounded really happy n all.. hahaz.. could tell from e noise in e bkgrd.. hahaz! :) yup yupz.. glad to know they're getting used to living at their apartment le.. hahaz.. enjoying each other's company n finding out more abt one another :) it's truly a diff experience yeah? hahaz.. must share with the rest of us when u guys get back! not forgetting e pics too! :)

first week of attachment down

2005-04-30T08:49:00.000-07:00

hahaz.... yupz! the first week of attachment's down.. :) i'm happy.. hahaz... have a long weekend! gonna enjoy it.. :) hahaz... before i get my journals next week.. ahahz... yeahz... have seen the files.. those super huge ones? yupz.... they even have one just for a particular cell type!

hmmz... attachment's been pretty alright so far.. hahaz.... must say it's been interesting in a way.. except for the safety manual.. n hahaz... it was so so thick! yeah.. i know it's necessary.. hahaz.... n i'm glad i'm done with it! phew :) hahaz... but yupz... apart from tt.. learnt to handle lab mice properly le.. :)

was talking to the rest todae.. the pple at ss's lab seemed rather strict n all.. n have super high expectations! n yeah.. been emailing e guys over at china! so glad they're doing fine.. :) hahaz.. like wad gim ann said.. it was just last sat we went to e airport to see em off n a week has passed already! hahaz.. but yeah.. made some discoveries.. hahahaz... :) miss em loads already~*

airport

2005-04-23T06:44:00.000-07:00

yuppz.. the day i've been dreading since before the exams has arrived... ame, py, ed, rs, jw, jy & jeff left at 11.50.. but yeahhz.. was pretty amazed at how everything happened.. had this immense rush and mix of feelings.. it's like on one hand i'm glad cuz i know they'll enjoy themselves over at China.. n yet on the other hand it's like wow.. they're gonna be away for 3 months..

yeahz.. n eventually i couldn't hold back my tears.. n it's funny tt once u start u can't exactly stop.. hahaz.. n yuppz.. was telling ame, yz & jw i won't cry de n hmmz.. sadly it turned out otherwise :( i dunnoz.. there was just this sadness? i don't know if it's e correct word.. but yeahz.. it was rather embarrassing..

we headed to e viewing hall after tt.. along with ruishen's parents n jiang yuan's mum.. n initially we didn't know where e plane was n all.. so it's like e entire grp of us were going up n down.. hahaz.. n yeahz.. everyone was pretty much calling, smsing n all.. before the plane subsequently made a full turn round the back before taking off.. yupz.. it was sad seeing e plane leave.. but yeahhz.. all we could do was to wish them all e best :)

went for lunch after.. at tampines mall.. before yz n i settled for ice cream at gelaré.. shared some thoughts.. was saying if i'm all teary now.. being 3 mths n all.. can't imagine what's gonna happen when we graduate.. hahaz.. not looking forward to tt.. :( the guys would be going for NS.. pple going overseas to study.. some staying back locally.. hmmz.. but yeahhz.. yz was telling me abt this korean show she watched too.. hahaz.. not the usually ones which make u cry.. this one turned out to be really funny :)

attachment

2005-04-20T08:36:00.000-07:00

went back to school today.. felt kinda weird.. hahaz.. i dunno why.. maybe cuz i won't be back for the next 3 months.. but it does feel weird missing school.. hahaz :) was on e way.. at amk station in fact.. when i realised mr new smsed.. saying he'll only be free at 2pm.. but already told gim ann i'll meet him in school at 12 le.. was a little late.. n brandon was there too.. for some thailand trip thingy.. hahaz.. n this junior came along after.. n she was kinda funny la.. super crappy :)

but yupz.. finally met mr new at abt 1pm.. n although i found out from gim ann yesterdae tt i was posted to ncc.. was kinda worried i'll be dealing with the diabetes project.. cuz was rather apprehensive at the thought of having to deal with the pigs.. but i guess i'm lucky in way cuz i got into the gastric cancer one.. n i'm thankful for tt.. n although i know it isn't gonna be easy.. n i don't exactly noe what i'm getting myself into.. i'll give it my best shot.. 107% hahaz.. :)

gim ann's posted to ava le.. n clement's at science park.. yizhen's at TLL.. dennis' at some jap company.. congrats to u guys! may we give off our best yupz? n fully make e time spent worthwhile :) all the best! :)

change

2005-04-19T02:14:00.000-07:00

hahaz.. settled for a change in blogskin.. :) have been looking for ones for our combined blog but haven't found a suitable one still.. :( hahaz.. firstly.. had a bbq over at my place on sunday.. hahaz.. it was fun :) thks to u guys! hahaz.. it was actually ame's bdae celebration cum potluck cum bbq cum farewell party.. yeahhz.. with ys n his strawberry pie.. dennis n his sardine puff.. ed n his spaghetti, banana choco n wine tt made us all woozy! (esp ruishen.. haha!) gim ann who got ame's cake & brought e tongs n such n tt idea abt cutting e styrofoam packet into 2! getting a bowl n a plate.. hahaz.. creative!! ruishen for helping out with e charcoal.. gim ann too! ame n her ribena.. n yz n py for being there! :) oh.. n junwei didn't come in e end cuz he was busy or something.. but yeahhz.. it was fun nonetheless! :)

secondly... i heard from ame tt they're flight has been confirmed.. 23rd April at 11.30am... n yeahz.. i gotta say i'm NOT looking forward to it.. it's wellz.. i dunno.. i am gonna miss em.. as much as i say i won't.. hahaz.. shall say a little something here thenz.. :)

to ame: hahaz.. gonna miss ya the most i guess.. no more crap buddy le :) hahaz.. u've been one of the first i've known in 05.. (act nyp cuz i met u during orientation!) hahaz.. along with yz! n yuppz.. from working together in presenations, projects, lab reports n all.. to just hanging out having mini crap sessions n more private chats (u noe wad i mean.. hahaz!) i've got to know u much better :) n even though there's been ups n downs through the 2 yrs i've known u.. it has only strengthen e friendship tt we have n i really treasure it :) take care of urself in china k? *hugz*

to peiye: hahaz.. though i've only gotten to know u this year.. u've been really fun to crap with! hahaz.. n thks for introducing cantonese songs to me.. hahaz.. n it's rather embarrasing i suppose.. although i'm cantonese i really dunno how e lyrics go! hahaz.. but yeahhz.. guess i've got to know u better since tt "incident with e train" speaking in codes n what not.. hahaz.. oohz.. n talking back to e guys.. esp ruishen! hahaz.. u've mastered it le!! yayz! :) take care of urself in china too k? *hugz*

to edmond: hahaz.. wellz.. for one.. i know u're e pro st' john's guy! hahaz.. n like peiye.. only got to know you this year.. hahaz.. n u're one super talkative guy manz! hahaz.. maybe cuz u have 2 sisters i guess? hahaz.. but yeahhz.. i'll always remember tt place we went to for a haircut.. recommended by u somemore.. hahaz.. it was scary.. hahahz.. n yeahhz.. ur idea of going over to e breakwater n shouting out to the planes overhead.. hahaz.. dun do tt in china yeahh? hahahaz.. but i gotta say it was fun.. though i got all wet.. hahaz :) wellz.. take care of urself in china too k? *hugz*

to ruishen: hahaz.. hmmz.. one less person to pick on n bully le.. especially in school.. hahhaz.. must come up with a different line by the time u come back from china k! hahaz.. n cannot bully py and ame horz! :) hahaz.. thks for helping out with my revision n all in e past semesters.. really appreciate it! hahaz.. oh oh.. n dun drink in china k.. or u're gonna start blabbering again le.. hahaz.. take care of urself over there too yupz? *hugz*

to junwei: hahaz.. last one! hahaz.. wellz... like ruishen.. cannot pick on u for 3 mths le.. hahaz.. but i'll leave it to ame to do tt :) hahahz... but u cannot bully py and ame yeahz? :) hahahz.. thks for helping out with my revision too.. by nagging.. haha! :) k den.. take care of urself in china too yupz? *hugz*

class chalet

2005-04-14T20:28:00.000-07:00

yayyz! exams are finally over! :) a lot has happened over e past 2 days.. had a last minute interview at ncc.. wasn't prepared.. n couldn't find my formal skirt.. think it was at e laundry's.. haha.. but by the time i realized they were closed.. so met my mum at raffles city.. hahaz.. ended up being rather unprepared for my abc paper.. but thank goodness it was quite alrite :)

hahaz.. as for the interview.. it turned out to be a mini discussion! hahaz.. so felt kinda silly being formal n all.. but thankfully the shoes didn't hurt! :) but yeahh... we didn't get to do FISH.. was rather disappointed i guess.. was looking forward to using the fluorescence microscope! n noe wad? hahaz... we were brought to the animal holding area... cuz we were told we would be working with PIGS.. yupp.. oink oink pigs.. hahahz.. they were kinda skinny.. n yuppz.. i wasn't really prepared to work with em.. though diabetes did sound interesting initially.. but yeahhz.. before i forget.. the lady in charge was act my sec school's principal's sister!! was really surprised cuz they're kinda diff in terms of character.. hahaz.. prof kon's so much nicer :) hehhz.. so yeahhz.. our attachments aren't fixed still.. n we're starting in slightly over a week! not really looking forward to it.. hahaz.. :)

had a mini post-exam celebration after.. sorry abt being late n all.. hahaz.. we were starving too :) heez.. there were 12 of us.. yz, dennis, ys, chris, joe, jiang yuan, junwei, ed, rs, gim ann, ame, n me.. hahahz.. but thankfully we managed to get seats :) ate at some jap place at tiong bahru... which served dishes based on the intensity of chilli u wanted.. 1, 2, 4, 6 or 10.. hahaz.. i took 1 :) cuz wasn't feeling tt well by then.. jw took 1 too i think.. rs took 2.. ame, dennis n gim ann too 4!! hahaz.. ame was so so red!! we took this fried chicken thingy... n ame had to remove e corns n all.. hahaz.. but i must say it was a first for me.. n as usual, couldn't finish up my noodles.. hahaz.. but thks to dennis i sort of finished.. hahaha :)

hahaz... n we had a class chalet yesterdae! :) hahaz.. was kinda fun.. just tt i've got a bruise on my foot n 2 scratches.. hahaz.. but yeahhz.. we took toks of pics on e breakwater.. with ed yelling at the planes tt flew past.. us guessing what airline it was n all. .hahaz.. n i got my jeans n top wet.. hahaz.. it was pure madness :) but it was kinda sad as well.. cuz it was the last time we could act be as a class.. well, maybe not really.. but come next yr, when we're done with our projs n stuff... yuppz.. we'll only see each other during common lectures n presentations.. :(

hmmz.. n yeahhz.. it's also more or less confirmed tt all 7 of em are going off in about nine days on a morning flight! either 12.30am or 8.35am.. cuz py juz showed me e size comparisons between the planes.. china southern airline's so so small!! hahaz.. but yuppz.. i'll definately go over to see u guys off yuppz.. 3 mths is really long! *sobz*

4 more to goo! :)

2005-04-06T22:45:00.000-07:00

hahaz.. yeahhz.. i'm supposed to be studying!! but just had lunch so thot i'll take a much-needed break :) mbt was yest.. n i'm quite disappointed actually cuz the qn act came out in e past yr paper... word for word.. mark allocations n all! n the structured qns came as a surprise... n to think they carry e same weightage as an essay qn! hahaz.. but it's over... down to 4 now! can't wait.. n hahaz.. feel i'm can't memorise anymore already! :)

but hmmz.. come to think of it.. i dun exactly want our week's break to come.. it's short.. n a bunch of em will be going over to CHINA! even though it's just for 3 mths.. hahaz.. THREE.. they're gonna be missed :) n yuppz.. it isn't exactly a break from school.. we'll be working.. well, sort of.. hahaz.. it's gonna be a whole new experience, yes.. but i dunno.. it just feels scary thinking abt it.. oh! n chua's already at baltimore for her attachment... doing food pathogens i think.. haha.. but yeahhz.. it sounds fun!! :) really hope she's enjoying herself over there.. hahahz.. :)

yuppz.. guess tt's abt it for now.. hahaz... :) shall leave with a song i just saw over at mtv.. haven't heard of e singer before though.. but yuppz.. although i didn't manage to watch e entire thing.. the kids were cute!! hahaz.. :)

Dress Rehersal - Carolyn Dawn Johnson

Days pass me by just like moments
They're here and then they're gone for good, for good
I work so hard at where I'm going
I wonder what I've missed
I can't remember the last time
I picked up the phone just to talk for hours on end
I've sent a birthday card unbelated
Maybe I should slow it down

Life doesn't wait for us
To get it right day after night
It just goes on when it goes wrong
It goes and then it's gone
So I'm gonna do my best to make the most of it
Avoid regrets
Take a breath
Realize
Time is irreversable
This ain't no dress rehearsal

I've always got a big to do list
Oh but there's so much more to do, to see
I want to know that I didn't leave I love you's
Trapped within my heart
There won't always be another day to
Say all the things you wanna say, so don't
Don't wait for the perfect situation
It will never come around

(Repeat Chorus)

When the show is over
And they lay me down
I wanna be remembered
For the love I spread around

(Repeat Chorus)

This ain't no dress rehearsal

easter

2005-03-27T05:59:00.000-08:00

hahaz.. woke up really early todae :) cuz i had to attend service at 6.30! hahaz.. but yeahz... even though on normal sundays i definately won't be up that early.. haha.. wellz, unless it's some cooking programs by jamie oliver! hahaz.. :) but i'm happy todae :) very. :) sermon was really inspiring.. made me think abt lots of stuff.. hahaz.. n yuppz.. my dad was telling me this morn that sunrise-services were usually attended by the older "uncles n aunties".. :) but i thought the sermon today reached out to pple of all ages.. :) n the funny thing was.. even though teh story behind easter was kinda familiar n all.. it still felt nice listening to it again :)

went to my maternal grandma's place for lunch.. was taking to my cousin abt uni educaton in general.. she's a yr older n in biomed science at TP... hahaz.. :) n she's interested in cell bio n anatomy! haha.. but i'm interested in med chem.. yet we both feel uni of syd's nice! haha.. although it's super pricey.. :) but yuppz.. she has applied for local unis.. n yeah.. wanna wish her all the best!! :)

went over to cold storage laterz.. n hahaz.. we got ingredients for my mum's cheesecake! :) it turned out as a family thing... diff pple helping out in diff areas.. n according to my mum.. we finished in abt half e time? hahahz.. :) n yuppz.. just had it :) yummiez! :)

hahaz.. well, shall leave with a quote i found... abt stained-glass windows... n i can't help think abt the ones at church.. :)

"People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if
there is a light from within."
-- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

Have a BLESSED EASTER!!!! :)

short week :)

2005-03-24T06:48:00.000-08:00

hahaz.. yayyz.. :) finally got the presentation over and done with! :) it was rather nerve-wrecking for some of us.. but yeahhz.. glad we got through it! :) the Q&A session was pretty scary too.. but ahz.. it's over already.. shall concentrate on HACCP now.. hahahz :) wellz.. other than that.. it was quite busy todae... started school at 8am! followed by pracs n even more lecs! but at least we've got a longer weekend.. so guess that should more or less cover up for that.. hahaz.. :)

hmmz.. haven't blogged since.. 18th.. oohh.. hahahz.. :) brief recap then! sat.. went over to the idp thingy at suntec... australian universities exhibition.. there were more pple than i expect.. n we even saw so many familiar faces (even some we didn't quite want to meet)! but yeah.. the most surprising thing? hahaz.. saw auntie rohayah, daniel n sarah :) hahaz.. n she was enquiring abt e courses n stuff.. n just happened, we were at opposite booths.. :) found out from daniel that he wants to pursue either medicine or dentistry (woowz.. haha.. like his dad) & charlotte's back from uk for 3 weeks! hahaz.. can't believe we actually kinda grew up together.. n now she's all the way there.. going to wales n all! :) hmmz.. got more catching up to do le.. hahaz.. tt's if i manage to meet up with her n all.. cuz she'll most prob be helping her dad out at e clinic :)

n wellz.. back to the exhibition thingy.. hahahz.. there were 7 of us in total.. ame, yz, rs, jw, ga, ed & me.. py didn't manage to join us us though.. but hmmz.. it turned out quite alrite this time round.. n ed found his dream course in hotel management! hahaz.. go for it manz! :) n realized tt u can't judge a uni simply by the staff in charge.. although it does leave quite an impression.. the pple were quite bubbly n helpful tt dae :) well except for the last one.. where tt idp staff was bragging abt ANU, being the first n tt if u wanna apply, u got to have 4 As n 2S papers, cuz their students are future nobel laureates in the making.. n being poly students we dun quite fit tt category??

but ah.. we took tons of course brochures nonetheless.. n even huge bags to go along.. haha.. n if it didn't have idp n all written all over it, u'll think we act came back from some sale or something! :) but hahaz.. thks to jw.. cuz he helped carry mine for nearly the entire time there.. n ooh.. rs too.. from suntec to city hall.. haha.. thks :) hahaz.. overall it was quite alrite i guess... i'm thinking uni of Melbourne, Sydney, Monash or Adelaide... but tt's if i ever get e chance to go over cuz they have courses that i'm rather interested in! :) hahaz.. any kind souls? hehhehhz :)

n yeahh! finally settled on e proj le! first choice's ms lim's... anticancer properties in fungus extracts... second.. dr lim's on syntheses of cancer drugs.. n lastly, a zebrafish de.. kinda wanted to settle for the osteo one.. but was worried abt it being chim.. yet it's interesting in e sense i won't get a chance to get to do it ever.. oh wellz.. maybe when i get to uni bah.. haha.. might decide to go into nanotech instead.. who knows?? :)

as for tue.. cell tech test.. i think i'll do ok.. haha.. hopfully! *fingers crossed* n wed's abc prac test? hahaz.. not much confidence for it though.. i'll be happy if i pass.. haha.. hope dr cha's lenient! :) i actually forgot how to calculate molarity :( hahaz.. yeah.. but my mole concept's always been bad.. but not an excuse yeah? found out from jw that molarity = conc.. okiee.. i'll remember tt.. i better.. hahaz.. since mole concept's like the basic of all calculations in chem? yup yuppz.. :)

yeahz :)

2005-03-18T07:11:00.000-08:00

hahahaz.. shall blog todae! :) since there aren't many pple online n all.. heez :) hahaz... took pics again! this time just outside our lec theatre.. over at e engineering block.. hahaz.. n we even took with tasnim, linglee, shuhui & thiva this time ard! :) n yes! besides tt... we had our baby photos todae!! hahaz.. sorrie ame.. really thot ur mum was u!! :) hahaz.. n u learnt the"art of staring" at 5? hahaz.. :) but the one on the yacht was really cute! hehhez :) n yz!! hahahaz.. u look pretty much de same!! heeez.. except for the baby pic.. but look close enough can tell! hahaz.. u've grown from tan to not so tan... n so many diff hairstyles huhz? :)

hahaz.. let's see.. for the guys? gim ann! hahaz.. had a couple with this impish kinda grin.. hahaz.. n couldn't spot ya in ur kindergarten pic! hahaz.. :) dennis! hahaz.. ur kindergarten graduation pic's so cute! hahaz.. i always wanted to try on tt gown thingy.. :) ruishen! hahaz.. let's see.. i really couldn't spot u in ur kindergarten pic! hahaz.. but if i look closer can tell bah.. :) hahaz.. need another front view de pic yeahz? :)

hahaz.. well.. as for the rest of the dae? hmmz.. had a little misunderstanding.. but glad it was resolved quickly :) guess it's always best to find out what happens from the pple involved themselves... n not simply listen to hearsay? yeahz.. but i'm really glad it's settled.. always better to have it sorted out early i guess :) n on this note.. to u.. sorriez :)

hahaz.. n yeahz.. was talking to dennis yest.. n realized tt girls n guys do indeed think differently.. stuff tt might seem normal to them might seem totally strange, senseless or even shocking to us girls.. n yuppz.. diff pple have diff views n reactions to various issues.. n everyone of us has our own limits.. yes, we might be temperamental at times.. but we're learning :) hahaz.. hmmz.. i think i'm beginning to feel that i'm actually growing up :)

ed's place

2005-03-15T08:57:00.000-08:00

ahahaz.. todae was quite unusual.. :) went over to ed's place for our biofilm proj.. hahaz.. yeah.. n we managed to do something! yayz.. haha :) he suggested we go over at 10.05 at first... but was pushed to 11 cuz ame wanted to study i guess.. she had her driving test todae! all the best girl! :) haha.. n yeahz.. ed only woke up at 11 lo.. n gim ann had to shop for groceries for him.. lazy bones!! hahaz.. yeah.. gim got sour cream n bacon bits! to go along with baked/boiled potatoes.. it was quite yummy.. hahaz.. :)

n yeah.. ed cooked e spaghetti... yz n i made the sauce.. yah.. it was ready-made.. but yuppz.. we added stuff like garlic... oh! which reminds me... ed added so little at first... n we made him add more... so much tt he accidentally emptied e entire contents into the pot! n we took e upper layers n placed em back into the little tupperware thingy.. hahaz.. hope ur mum won't find out! :) n yeah... the entire process was really funny.. the sausages were huge so we had to re-slice em... n yz sliced em so finely it was like yu pian! hahaz.. :) we used up 1 n a half bottles of sauce.. added ham n tomatoes too.. not forgetting the salt, herbs n black pepper! :) it turned out quite edible.. hahahz :) we even helped with the washing up laterz... ed rinsing, while py & me took turns scrubbing n rinsing...

yeah.. n after all that... we finally started on IM! hahaz.. admist the eating, laughing, pillow-fighting.. even tempting gim ann with chocs n snacks.. u've got great self control! hahaz.. n ed almost attempted murder with his chili tuna sandwich.. hahaz.. :)

ohoh n before i forget... we looked through ed's photo albums! even his year book! hahah.. n it's cool seeing how u've grown up to who u are n all.. n yeah.. we spotted ruishen.. whahaz.. he had the same hairstyle if i'm not wrong.. haha.. n ed even had one like tt too.. :) n ed's sis.. edith even joined in the fun.. hahaz.. oh yeah... n before we left.. clement was fooling ard with the toilet door when ed was showering... n his mum came in soon after! tt was e worst thing tt happened... we didn't noe how to react n all.. haha.. didn't noe if we shud pretend not to bother or made sure she didn't attempt to open e door.. hahaz.. dun do it again yeah clement? :)

alritez then.. think i'll go off le.. have an hr of lec tmr :)

why?

2005-03-14T08:24:00.000-08:00

hmmz... was quite alrite todae... had the ups n the downs.. had the usual CT lec at 8am tt was really boring.. hahaz.. plus i came a little late.. so didn't quite understand him.. was something along glycolysis n TCA cycle.. :) but yeahz.. had a super long break after... meant to study.. but ended up doing 2/3s of a chapter? hahaz.. spent the rest of the time over brunch (cuz the guys were going to e gym) n lunch.. n yeah.. just chatting.. :) even had this crazy talk session with ame.. found out lots.. stuff tt came as a surprise.. but mostly left me with a different impression i suppose? i dunno.. i guess cuz i'm brought up in a christian environment.. i've always been sheltered & protected.. n no.. i dun quite like the idea of pple ard getting exposed to such stuff.. it's just.. weird. awkward. abnormal?

but ahhz.. we're going over to ed's place tmr.. to work on the biofilm proj.. haha.. n he's gonna prepare lunch :) will continue this tmr thenz..

lab

2005-03-11T07:18:00.000-08:00

whoohoo! :) hahahz.. lovely day todae! except for the weather.. hahahz.. but i had tons of fun! :) started off with lab at 9am.. hahhz.. okie.. it wasn't as bad as i thought it'll be... maybe the killing of e mice using carbon dioxide was terrible.. but yeahz.. thank goodness i didn't get a full view of it.. u could see 'em scuttering around before they finally died.. it was a horrible sight.. yes.. n yeah.. hopefully i'll get over tt for now.. :) haha.. but yeahz.. thks to clement! :) he helped deskin it n removed e spleen really well! u've got steady hands clement.. hahaz.. might want to consider being a surgeon or something? :)

i got to mash e spleen up.. which is the next step.. hahaz.. was supposed to puncture it with a syringe... but i didn't quite cuz ms tham asked me to squirt some liq in first.. n it flew! thankfully just to the side of e petri dish or clement's work would have been wasted! hahaz.. :) n yeahz.. it didn't quite work cuz it was rather small.. so i ended up scraping it with the blade before smashing it to bits with the rubbered portion of a tiny syringe.. it finally worked.. n clement said i was violent.. & tt it looked like i was pounding blachan... thks ah... hahaz.. :) ahahz.. the rest of e expt was pretty much normal.. :)

wellz.. n as usual.. we took tons of pics! hahah.. we literally went crazy i guess... i took a video clip of clement working on e mouse... haha.. super huge file.. still like a third through to gim ann! n still crawling... sorry it's so huge! hahahz.. n yeahz.. we haven't exactly took pics in labcoats so i've got some here todae!! :) lab finally ended at 1.30pm.. haha.. so u can imagine how tired, sleepy & hungry all of us were... :)

n yeah.. had lunch after tt... n headed over for IM lec.. hahahz.. tt was e best part of the day! we took even more pics! hahahz.. timer modes n all... from formal to informal to totally wacky.. we tried em all! oh oh.. n we got to bully rs! py n i had so much fun pulling at his ear.. hahaz.. n py even said must pull outwards not upwards.. hahahz.. yeahz.. we're meanies! hehehez.... but thks for being a real sport rs! :) lalalaz~*

edmond, clement & gim ann :)

yz, me & ame... finally got one with us in lab coats!! :)

ame, yz, py & me... at e tut cum lec room at e engineering block, just b4 IM :)

relatively normal one of all 8 of us.. hahaz.. gim, dennis, rs, clement, ame, yz, py & me:)

hahaz.. this one's something diff yupz? hahaz.. :)

me & peiye :)

me, yz, ame & ga :)

me & peiye being mean? hahahz.. rs in e center & dennis' n ga's foot :)

the men in black.. hahaz :)

another of our shoe-starry thingy!! :)

lalala

2005-03-09T00:55:00.000-08:00

hahaz.. todae was a better dae :) thankew.. hahaz.. realised i haven't be blogging abt my upsides... shall do so laterz :)

international women's day

2005-03-08T08:43:00.000-08:00

it's international women's day todae.. first time i've heard of it.. hmmz.. 8th march.. wellz, i'm done with abc.. finally... & as usual.. spent a long time at it.. IM's still where i left it.. it takes up way too much of my time already... yupz.. having time constrains.. n frankly.. i dun like any of it.. i dun like to be rushed.. a little push is gd.. but having to finish all this.. i don't fell that it's gonna be a job well done.. nope... i'm not a perfectionist.. i just want to do my best.. n yeah.. i'm STRESSED.. n i wanna get out of this.. fast. i'm getting bouts of mood swings.. n i can be happy one moment n totally crap the next.. n to rs.. i'm sorry i snapped at u tt day.. yup.. just didn't like the way u wanted to say something yet not at the same time.. n yeah.. u were just saying the wrong thing using the wrong tone at the wrong time.. so yeah.. i'm sorry.. :)

i don't understand y lecturers have to find sometime just so they can torture us altogether.. take todae for example.. we've got another proj.. HACCP.. n yeah.. it's diff cuz u really gotta be involved in it.. think actively, participate. that's the key.. participation.. and even with the first meeting.. it was lacking... n yupz.. as hard as i'll try.. guess i can only pray tt everything will turn out alrite eventually.. :)

n yeah.. was talking to dennis earlier.. n got to understand more abt how he felt abt tt issue.. yupz... i agree with u tt it's hard to forget. but it's lessons like these that make u become a better person ultimately, cuz u've grown from it.. :)

n yup.. this entry's rather choppy.. i guess i'm not in the mood to blog too.. tired.. it's accumulated.. n exams are coming in a mths' time.. i haven't started studying. n i noe i have to soon.. i just need the time.

shall leave with a quote by Oprah Winfrey.. "Lots of pple want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

hope tmr will be a better day~* :)

jae duty!

2005-03-05T08:17:00.000-08:00

hahaz.. it's the weekend!! yeahz.. supposed to be happy ritez.. hahaz.. but okie bahz.. have reports again :( hahaz... had my results back on fri... i'm pretty happy... cuz i usually dun do as well for CTs.. yeahz.. thks to all who helped in one way or another! :) let's all work hard for e exams yahz? even with the seminar n all.. we'll get through it!! :)

yuppz.. n we wanted to look for mr khaw too.. but he was busy in e morn.. shooed us away after gim ann accidentally banged against e wall.. hahaz.. but yeahz.. the 4 of us will be going for the NCC thingy! yuppz.. all 4 of us from 05! heez.. our clique :) gimann, junwei, clement n me.. haha.. n junwei's still undecided btw china or NCC... hahaz.. ur turn le :)

wellz, i'm normally allowed to wake up at 10 on saturdays... but not todae.. hahaz.. cuz of jae duty.. was quite last min.. but yahz.. had to wake up at 7! *sleepy* hahaz.. but i'm quite happy i went.. it turned out to be pretty fun.. hahaz.. :) n thks to choy for ur help! hahaz.. really sorry i had to wake u up n all! :) n yeahhz.. there were the blur blur students... the students with kiasu parents.. the 'know what i want' students, students who came with their entire family.. parents who were really demanding.. oh oh n this guy from rjc who wanted to go over to e sports n wellness course.. yeahhz.. rjc!! after a year? yahh.. cuz he wanted to concentrate on swimming or something.. can't remember if he was a national swimmer cuz i didn't hear tt.. the lecturer-in-charge did.. n went on saying how silly the guy's father was.. shud just let him stay on n do his 'A's a yr later if he was in sea games or something.. hmmz.. ooh well... but the father was quite serious n all so we just brought him the the business lecturers instead.. hahaz..

oh n there was this parent who came in requesting for forms for the sports n wellness course (seems pretty popular!) hahaz.. cuz it was stated in the papers... but over at e registration counter we didn't have it.. n the lecturer said she could act sign up online n thre was no need for her to make a trip down personally.. n tt was when she started getting pissed.. stating tt it was printed on Straits Times... she even showed us the clipping.. hahaz.. n again we directed em over to the business pple.. n yeahz.. think they're gonna be quite pissed with us le.. hahaz.. cuz they didn't have the forms either.. n the lady was clearly irritated while the lecturers were in a state of frenzy.. hahaz.. quite funny laaz.. :)

oh.... n there was this other lady with her daughter.. she kept asking her daughter's chances of getting in.. n that was a qn we couldn't answer cuz it depended on the cohort ritez? :) n yeahz.. she asked what happened if her daughter couldn't get in n stuff.. n asked which course i was in.. sounds normal rite? but noo.. she was talking to me in chinese!! i nearly died.. haha.. but i managed thru it :) qutie pleased with myself.. hahaz.. but i used bits of english la.. hahaz.. can't be helped :) hehez..

oh yes!! the most hilarious thing i heard todae too!! i was talking to tt lecturer-in-charge of our booth rite.. he spoke a lot.. n some made lots of sense... but there was this time when he asked which sec sch i was from.. so i said MGS... n he's like 'ohh... at blakmore drive right? ur principal's stella kon right?' n i was like wad?? since when was ms kon a stella?? hahahha.. then i said i dunno. i only knew her as kon mei leen.. which was true wad... tt's how it was in our report books, letters, testimonials.. everything! :) n for a moment i actually thot he was her like ex bf or something cuz they looked the same age.. hahahaz! :) oopz.. heeez.. but yah.. i asked how he knew her as stella n he said something abt him going ard for school visits n stuff... but hmmz.. i still couldn't help wondering how he knew her as stella.. hahahaz.. :D

yuppz.. so tt pretty much rounded up my day :) which turned out funnier than expected.. hahaz.. learnt a lot.. so was quite happy.. hahaz.. n the faces on our future nyp students faces when they've had their questions answered... a smile.. it pretty much brightened up our day :) n yuppz.. i'm in a good mood.. hahaz.. so much tt i can't even ans my mbt qns.. ahaz.. gotta leave em for tmr! heeez.. oohh yes.. n my grandma got discharged todae! n tt nutty doc act wanted her to stay longer cuz he said she had flu blah blah.. but i didn't even hear her sneeze todae! ahahz.. but yuppz.. she's staying with us for now :) she's getting better.. just tt she has water retention.. so her feet's kinda swollen.. but it's subsiding.. :) n grandpa came over for dinner.. hahaz.. it was nice to have dinner as a family again :) n yuppz.. he can't hear tt well anymore.. so we had to talk louder than usual.. hahaz.. but yahhz.. i noticed one thing :) even with the numerous times my grandparents quarrel.. esp when they cook this vegetarian dish for CNY.. hahaz.. they're actually very loving :) hahahz.. the little things my grandpa will do.. hahah! very sweet... :) n tt's prob y my grandma's so pampered.. hahahaz... :)

ooh.. n the pics taken at e lib on fri! working on our seminar thing.. on BIOFILM! sound's diff? haha.. yup! tt's y research was required :) our definition of research are as follows..

a) us trying to look studious.. :) notice gim ann grinning n peiye attempting to control her laughter? not forgeting how serious edmond looks.. he never looks tt serious.. hahahaha.. :) ame looking blur n yz pulling on her hair.. heez :)

b) edmond willingly allowed me to get this pic.. being squashed btw 2 books by ame n gim ann... hahaz.. but he didn't know i was gonna post it here :D

c) ed & ga.. future scientists cum authors in the making? :)

d) ga hidden behing e tower of books.. hahaz.. the ones we used for our research! hahaz.. but notice e story books in btw... hahaz :)

e) last but not least.. clement.. who loves himself loads! :)

thurs

2005-03-03T00:14:00.000-08:00

wellz.. decided to blog earlier todae since i've nothing much to do anyway.. yuppz.. this morning was kind of weird for me.. had mixed feelings.. had loads to think abt.. u noe the kind that bugs u so much u just don't even want to bother abt it anymore?? :) well yuppz.. i dun even want to go thru that ever again... it's been bad enough le.. so yuppz.. i shall move on.. since i'm feeling much happier already.. :) thks to those who helped lift my spirits up.. yeahz.. :)

finally... i think i've settled my attachment.. yuppz.. NCC.. was talking to mr richard abt it.. what was involved.. blah blah.. highly stressed... hahaz.. but yeahz.. i dun mind taking e challenge :) it seems like a gd opportunity so i guess i should go for it.. :) but yeahz.. i asked him what will happen if i dun get shortlisted after the interview n all.. n he said i'll do my attachment in sg.. which i'm quite worried abt cuz it'll be 6mths rite.. ohoh.. n the NCC is 3mths kinda thing.. cuz it's still relatively new.. well yahh.. so i was afraid i'll get posted to some wu-lu company doing paperwork or simply hanging ard making coffee.. i dun want.. no thankew :) hahaz.. so i asked him if tt was the case.. would i ever get the chance to go overseas.. n he said i did.. but i'll have to do my project first.. hmmz.. n i didn't know he actually called parents up.. he said he called this guy's dad (03) n supposedly his dad isn't keen so he ain't going anymore.. but dunno ehz... i can't imagine my dad talking to mr khaw.. hahahaz :)

yuppz.. n having tt more or less settled *fingers crossed* ms leong came in during hbd prac todae.. yeahz.. did some glucose tolerance test thingy... gim ann, ruishen n andy had to drink 2 cups of this 25% glucose drink... smelt like blackcurrent? but u could tell how sweet it was from e smell... n they even had to get their fingers pricked 3 times i think? thks guys :) hahaz.. but yeahz.. ms leong came in to ask us to settle on the track we wanna take.. i can't believe it's so soon already.. i mean yeahhz.. we're graduating in yr's time.. but still! so yuppz.. couldn't make a decision then.. the rest of the class managed to hand their's in though.. yupz... the more popular ones are of course R&D and bio-enterprise.. who wants to do manufacturing rite? after the horror we went through slogging for bioprocess... even hy doesn't want to!

but yuppz.. i'm worried i'll have to whether i like it or not... cuz if let's say R&D's gonna be my first choice... n i dun get in due to the competition within our class n 03.. there's 20 spaces btw.. then i'll have to go to my 2nd choice, which is bio-enterprise rite? well... den what if those who have placed tt as their first choice have their 'application' granted.. won't i be posted to manufacturing then?? hahaz.. yuppz.. i'm most prob thinking too much as usual.. gotta discuss this with my dad tonight then :)

family & friendship?

2005-03-02T08:28:00.000-08:00

i don't know if i should blog today.. hmmz.. maybe i should.. considering the other one i did yest.. well.. yuppz.. been thinking a lot the past few days.. yup.. even with CTs over.. the results will be out soon.. dr chooi said fri.. same as when e those who are gonna get their 'A' levels.. all e best u guys! hahaz.. esp viv n sanmei! :) yuppz.. but funniez.. just heard from brandon it might be out tmr... hmmz.. i hope i did alrite :)

yuppz.. a lot has happened over this short span of 3 days.. one thing's for sure.. i value my family more than ever before now.. :) n yeahz.. thank god my grandma's alrite :) been to the hospital earlier.. n they've removed the tubey stuff.. *smilez* she'll be able to be discharged soon i hope :) yeahz.. became a part time dentist too.. had to wash her dentures.. hahaz.. my first time ever.. but yeahz.. i didn't mind :) just dun like how unpredictable n fragile life is..

yuppz.. n tt's most prob gonna affect my decision for IAP (industrial attachment programme).. yeahz.. i wanna go aus.. i reallie wanted to.. after talking to ms leong the other day.. yuppz.. she was saying if i were planning to go over for uni.. den y not? n given the chance i shud.. n abt being homesick.. if i can't even take 3mths away.. talk abt 3 yrs or more rite? :) but yeahz.. the NCC thingy sounded interesting.. i don't know why i'm so interested in cancer research.. even with the risk involved... the long hours... even my cousin's girlfriend suggested that i shouldn't go into research n "face the test tubes all day" as she put it... n even my dad thinks i should go into another field... branch out into teaching.. dun go work in e lab next time.. hmmz.. okie.. den why am i here in the first place?? slogging thru reports every week.. not tt i'm strongly against it.. i know it's beneficial.. i get to practice now.. :) but i reallie wanna go into research.. yeah.. i might get bored of it.. but at least i got to try it :) tt's what impt isn't it?

like say the attachment in aus is dealing with cancer cell lines as well.. the closest would be cell tech.. n i really enjoyed it.. thankew yz :) n yeah.. over at NCC too.. working with FISH.. not fish as in those u rare... it's some fluorescence hybridization thingy :) n i doubt i'll even get to work in an NCC lab.. n yeah.. even with the interview.. i dun mind.. cuz at least.. i got to try :)

n yeah.. the next thing tt's bugging me? the partnering of the project.. yupz.. there's a lot of factors to consider.. cuz pple have preference working with pple that they want to.. esp since it's graded.. ur decision came as a surprise.. i only found out u were really going to china when everyone went to look for mr khaw tt day.. n yup.. since u're happy with the decision made.. then i'm happy for u too.. :) but if i could say something.. i just didn't like the way u jumped into it then started looking for a partner for ur project.. it got me thinking on quite a bit of stuff.. but i shall not backtrack, nor continue on.. or i'll most prob gonna let it affect me again cuz i'm quite disappointed by the way things are turning out.. so yeah.. i shall leave it as tt..

sometimes.. i really wish things wouldn't have changed so much.... n honestly.. if this is a part of growing up... i'll rather remain as a child.. cuz faith shines brightest in a childlike heart... :)

CTs are over!

2005-02-25T07:20:00.000-08:00

hahaz.. yayness! :) hahahz.. the dreaded CTs are finally over! hahaz.. first, gotta thank ame for helping fill me in on the blanks i spotted really last min (cell tech notes) hahaz... :) xie xie! hahaz.. wellz, thoughts abt e CT? hahaz.. studying thru the CNY week was complete madness! did nothing really.. hahahz.. was busy collecting hong paos! hahahz.. no lahz.. just went visiting.. eating.. n more visiting.. hehez :) oh oh! we even went to peiye's house.. the fourth day (chu si).. yupppz.. went over with ame, yz, gim ann, ruishen, soon sim.. hahahz.. n ended up playing mahjong.. hohoz.. :)

yeahz.. was pretty fun.. we played using py's dining table.. hahaz.. but she said it was alrite.. hahaz.. yuppz.. it was a glass one so u can imagine e noise coming from her unit.. hahahaz.. think gim ann was the overall winner? yeahhz.. he took ame's place after she left.. hahaz.. n we played till we completed all 4 rounds.. the last was e best! hahahz.. gim ann n rs had big tiles.. n yeahz.. they were getting very jumpy :) hahhaz.. n i had both of e tiles gim ann wanted.. heez.. sorry! :)

oopz.. went a little too far off.. hahaz.. supposed to be talking abt CTs.. hahaz.. where was i? :) ooh yess.. i think i'll rank my papers this way.. starting from e one i have the most confidence in doing well in.. hahaz.. hbd! cuz i spent the week after CNY on this.. even rs didn't believe me.. hahahz.. but reallie.. i did.. maybe two chapps of mbt n im.. but tt was it... :) next.. mbt! ahahz.. todae's paper... yuppz.. the mcqs were mostly from e tuts.. managed to flip thru it just minutes b4 e papers.. so yahhz.. think i should be able to get a b? *crosses fingers* hahaz.. unless i shaded wrongly.. :) then it shud be abc, im then cell tech? hahahhaz.. i screwed up my cell tech paper.. was so busy laughing at the HAT media's qn i think i answered it wrongly... ahhz.. but oh wellz.. it's over so no use brooding over it rite? hahahz.. :)

n yeahhz! we went out to celebrate todae :) hahaz.. venue? j8's cafe cartel :) hahahz.. had reservations cuz there were 10 of us :) let's see.. hahaz.. ame, yz, py, ed, dennis, yissue, junwei, ruishen, gim, n me! hahahz.. but dennis left early cuz of some taekwondo thingy back in school... yuppz.. he has a competition tmr so all e best yeah! :) hahaz.. the rest of us? we ate loads.. hoooz.. i had a hard time wrestling with e pork ribs.. e sauce was a tad sweet for me.. n i chewed till my jaws hurt.. but tt wasn't all.. e portion was so huge! my goodnes.. hahahz.. had to ask ame, yz, jw n rs to help me out.. hahahhz.. it was madness.. from getting e bread to just sitting ard yakking.. hahahz.. yuppz.. we were reallie loud.. as usual :) hahahz.. but ahhz.. it was fun manz.. must definately have another of this before we go off for our attachment k! :)

speaking of tt.. it's time for us to decide.. yeahhz.. after e dinner we had todae.. yeahz... i'm tempted to go to china.. yuppz.. i dun think we'll ever have this opportunity again.. to travel overseas as a grp.. esp china.. hahaz.. n for attachment too! but yuppz.. then again.. i really wanna do e "cell tech-ish" project at uwa.. it seems reallie cool... but e disadvantage would be tt i'll be pretty much alone.. yahhz... n 3 mths is a long time... even though we say time flies n all tt... it's usually cuz it 'flies' when u're enjoying it most.. i have questions i need answers to.. n yeah.. i guess some can be answered now, some not.. n some maybe never? i don't know.. maybe deep down, i don't want to leave sg in e first place.. maybe i should just apply for the 6mth one at imcb.. maybe i shoud go over to china.. see how it's like n stuff... maybe i shud go over to uwa n learn to make proper decisions n to look after myself.. be independent :) maybe... but what would really make me happy?

e pics we took todae :) hahaz.. not many.. but they still count! :)

the girls :)

the guys :)

presenting.. ed n his dessert! hahaz.. :)

CTs!

2005-02-23T01:37:00.000-08:00

hahaz.. just finished my third paper a while ago.. :) ABC.. ehz.. tt's analytical biochem.. hahaz.. yepz.. diagrams!! n i got my limitations mixed up.. but yeah.. couldn't think of anything else to write.. so started crapping thru.. hopefully it won't be tt bad.. hahaz.. hmmz.. so far.. i think i have e most confidence for hbd i guess? cuz i've spent my study week on it.. yuppz.. IM was horrid.. felt so cheated!! didn't have a choice.. i had to do those 4 qns.. excluding ethanol of course.. hahaz.. ooh wellz.. at least i hope it won't come out ever.. den i won't have to remember e steps n stuff.. :) ahhz.. 2 more papers to go anywayz! hahahz..

oh yeah.. n before i forget.. a huge thankew to yz for helping me out on biofilm... to tas & gim ann for updating me on topics.. to jw for nagging for the past week.. hahaz! oh n to rs for helping me clear most of my doubts.. :) hmmz.. hope i didn't leave anyone out... hahaz..

yup yupz.. as for attachment.. i've decided.. i hope. wish. think so. :) n yeahz.. it's most prob confirmed unless something crops up.. yeahz.. but yeahz... going all e way there... for 3 mths.. i dunno how i'll ever get used to the idea... three months isn't like a week... the max i've ever been away would be 4 days? yeahz.. i'll definately miss my family... my friends.. yuppz.. wellz, see how it goes then! :)

Valentine's Day :)

2005-02-14T08:39:00.000-08:00

WHoo HoOZ! hahahz.. it's Valentine's Dae todae!! :) haha.. yeahz.. it was pretty alrite.. started off by meeting gim at e station to go over to rs' place to wrap e flowers.. was late.. hahaz.. sorriez.. n yeah.. we forgot to get e scotch tape n stuff.. ribbons too! sorry e flowers looked a bit 'bare' hahaz.. n yeahz.. when we got over to rs' place.. he told us to wait a while cuz his mum was at home.. so we waited for her to leave b4 going up.. hahaz.. can't remember what time it was by then.. 8.20?? but yeahz.. ended up rushing.. hahaz.. popped by to rs' room.. hohoz.. :) n jw came in so quietly right after.. hahaz.. gave me a fright manz.. dun do that again k! hahaz.. :)

hahaz.. so yeahz.. we kinda messed up his place even more... water, soil, thorns, cotton, tissue, foil, scotch tape, leaves, more water, more soil... a lot a lot of leaves n stem cuttings.. hahaz.. we had a bag full of rubbish at e end.. but it was pretty fun... admist the screaming n yelling... n jw was working on his reports! hahaz.. but he did come in now n then.. to help deal with e scotch tape n foil.. hahaz.. but yeahz.. think the roses were the hardest to 'prepare'... n gim ann n rs got poked quite a number of times... sorry guys! :)

but yeahz.. we managed to finish at 9am exactly! :) even with rs cleaning e floor n gim ann vacuuming.. hahaz.. wellz, wanted to take e cab then cuz i was in my slippers.. hahaz.. n it was pretty hot.. but yeah.. we ended up walking instead.. hahaz.. while gim n jw helped carry e flowers.. thankew.. :) reached at abt 9.15-9.20 for lec? hahaz.. but yeah.. right after tt.. we distrubuted n all.. hahaz.. ame gave me these pastel looking daisy lookalikes... :) ed gave me a peachy-yellowy tulip :) (how come it's larger than mine?)... gim ann gave me the chrome yellow daisy lookalikes.. hahaz.. i shall call em that officially.. daisy lookalikes :) they're in full bloom already.. :) n rs n jw gave me 3 roses :) hahaz.. n i bought purple n whie tulips for some of e girls in class... :) act i didn't go down n all.. but yeahz.. ga, ed, ame, rs n jw were there so they helped me get em.. thks guys.. :) hahaz.. linglee wasn't in sg so i brought it home to add to my collection.. hahaz.. which is in some old bottle cuz all e vases are used up by my mum.. yeahz.. kept 3 for my dad.. hohoz.. :) yeahz.. was so afraid it'll topple.. heez.. :)

oh ohz.. n yz printed this photo cum postcard thingy! reallie sweet! with a mini photo album attached!! hahaz.. know it took up a lot of ur time n effort.. thankew!! :) n the chocos from all of u.. hahaz.. n the cards.. yeahz.. u guys know who u are.. thks a mil! :) n last but not least... HAPPY BIRTHDAE to KRYS n my cousin SULING! :) hope ur day was filled with laughter like mine was :) may all ur wishes n dreams come true n God bless!! *huGz*

group pic :)

me, ame & yz :)

py, me, ame & yz.. hahaz :)

just us girls! :)

at e stairs outside our usual lecture theatre! :)

py plucking e daisy look alike.. hahaz.. what's it called again ga? "he'll msg me, he won't... he'll msg me!" :)

ed, py & gim :)

flowers! thks once again to ame, ed, gim, jw & rs! :)

mum's birthdae..

2005-02-11T06:53:00.000-08:00

yayz... it's e 11th of feb todae... my mum's b'dae! hahaz.. HapPY biRtHdaE MuM!! love ya! :) hahaz.. we didn't exactly have an elaborate celebration.. heez.. guess it's cuz of CNY.. we're really tired out! but yeahz.. she went out for lunch with dad todae... n they asked me along.. but hahaz.. i didn't want to be e 'extra' one.. so yeahz.. opted for take-away instead.. :) yuppz.. but when my siblings got back from school.. we had to go over to my grandma's place for dinner.. before heading for swenson's at 9! hahaz.. it was funny i guess.. pple were leaving n all n we were making our way there.. hahaz.. but surprisingly.. we had to queue! hahaz..

yeah.. n cuz of this.. wasn't able to go over to ahloisius' bdae thingy at downtown east todae too.. really sorry abt it ahloisius! hope u enjoyed e celebration anywayz! hahaz.. chris sounded funny over e phone e other day... so yeahz.. dunno what u guys have been up to.. hmmz..

yeahz.. i'm supposed to be working on my reports now! ahaz.. but i'm half-chatting, half-typing this.. heez :) i'm still in e CNY mood... going over to py's place tmr.. heez.. n another dinner at my fourth uncle's place.. yeahz.. they always have yummy food!! :) so yeahz.. hahahahz.. i think i've put on quite a bit of weight.. arhhz.. :) first day of CNY was great.. :) collected hong paos.. hahaz.. n got to serve my grandparents tea! :) hahaz.. yup yuppz.. :)

but yuppz.. was doing some randon reading todae.. n yeah.. started thinking too much again i guess... thks to junwei's probing! hahaz.. but yeah.. was talking to gim ann too n he said quite a bit of stuff tt made a lot of sense too... maybe we girls are sensitive.. perhaps sometimes even overly-sensitive... but u can't really blame us on that can u? :)

mondae.. :)

2005-02-07T02:16:00.000-08:00

hahaz.. been online for almost the entire day.. haha.. yeahz.. except for my 'lunch break'... needed to be away from the com for a while.. n yeahz.. finally packed my cupboard.. hohoz.. found tons of little bits n pieces here n there... :) nice ones of course.. let me see... some pictures taken way back in secondary school.. but yeah.. come to think of it.. it wasn't that long ago.. 3 yrs only.. hehe.. yuppz.. n my huge photo album with the captions n all.. my autograph books.. yeah.. books.. hahah... i dunno y i ended up with so many back in sec school :) but yuppz.. have a current one.. hehez.. yeahz.. decided to have one cuz yeah.. think i've said b4.. it's most prob the last time we'll be together as a class.. well, even though some pple left 2 sems ago.. but yeah.. at least we still have the current mb0305.. n i do want to treasure the friendships made and pleasures shared.. yeahz.. sounds familiar choy? hahaz.. our school song :) yup yupz.. i do want it to be as special as it has been back in MG.. though that will hold a special place in my heart forever... :)

yuppz.. well, found the presents i've gotten.. christmas n bdaes n all... choy's & krys' waterbottle :) hairbands from san mei :) bag from vivien :) photoframe.. hand painted by ame! thankew! hai she bu de yong... hehe.. :) letter n mouse pad from yz :) spongy rose from shiqi :) me-to-you bear key chain.. also from shiqi :) this cute jap/korean bu dao wong thingy from xiaoyu :) letters... cards... everything! :) hahaz...

yahz.. i'm feeling better already.. thankew :) hahaz.. yeah.. decided not to let it bug me n all.. hahaz.. n yuppz.. i'm getting into the CNY mood already.. must be e reunion dinner last nite.. hahahz... :) wellz, was taking to gim ann this morn.. n he was sharing some stuff from his previous blog entries... n yeah.. even he couldn't quite get em.. hahaz.. but yeahz... from those he copied into the convi.. abt 'needs' and 'wants'.... abt friendship... it was pretty cool.. hahaz.. n yeah.. i told him it sounded like some posh english text or something... lit text! gotta look for e hidden meaning.. hahahz.. :) yeah.. n i found this little exerpt from his blog too.. nice :)

Autobiography in FIVE SHORT CHAPTERS From There's a Hole in My Sidewalk
by Portia Nelson

I
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost... I am helpless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.

II
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend i don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I am in the same place.
But, it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.

III
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in. It's a habit.
My eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault. I get out immediately.

IV
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

V
I walk down another street.

welcome to my life lyrics..

2005-02-06T08:41:00.000-08:00

wellz, had my reunion dinner thingy todae... can't believe CNY's on wed.. this wed.. i mean.. i'm not in the mood or anything.. even with all the new yr goodies i have at home.. the love letters, pineapple tarts, shrimp rolls.. u noe... the usual.. plus.. the new additions.. plants.. pumpkin, narcissus, pussy willows.. n some other one (dunno how u call it in english).. but yeahz.. i'm feeling better.. thks to all who were concerned n stuff... maybe.. like one of my friends told me.. i'm thinking too much.. yuppz.. this is bad.. haha.. i'm such a worry wart.. gotta change that.. hmmz..

listening to sens.. wish.. it's so dreary n sad! arhz.. yeahz.. oh wellz.. i'm not in e mood to blog.. yet it seems to be part of my daily routine now.. hmmz.. is that a good thing? was talking to jw earlier abt overseas attachment n stuff.. guess it's bugging me too.. yuppz.. i'm torn btw going over to aus or staying here at sg.. i noe going to aus has been on my wishlist.. but frankly.. i'm afraid.. i dunno what to expect.. i noe u learn to be independent n stuff.. i believe i'm able to look after myself.. it's just the feeling of being away from ur family.. n yeah.. can't remember who told me this... but he/she said that if i couldn't even live 3 months away from my family.. how am i supposed to go overseas to study next time? which is true.. i need to grow-up.. to be independent... i'm not a little girl anymore.. though i wish to be.. (right peiye?) but yeah.. growing up comes with responsibilities.. it's share of problems... it's portion of decision-making n stuff.. i noe i'm 18 going on 19 this yr.. but yeah.. can't time just slow down for a little bit?

hmmz.. realised i haven't really been doing upsides for a while.. so yeah.. shall do it in a diff way todae.. random thankews n stuff to all.. hahaz.. went on some blog-reading thingy :) n yupz.. tt helped keep my spirits up.. thks loads! to ame.. thks for all tt u've written.. u've been a wonderful friend too :) to yz.. yeah.. u gotta wear tt dress girl! :) to gim ann.. glad u're writting less ambigious blogs.. hahaz.. at least i'm getting better at understanding :) (thks for explaining along e way) i'm thankful tt u've got it all sorted out.. yayz! :) to py.. muz update hor.. with ur wonderfully cute blogskin! :) to choy... hahaz.. seen e new photos u uploaded.. so sweet :) to vivien.. like ur new blogskin.. haha.. dunno y.. but it's just so u.. :) to sanmei.. ur entries has always been a joy to read! :) to sam.. for her upbeat entries... alwayz :)

well yeahz.. decided to leave e lyrics here.. it's 'welcome to my life' by simple plan.. i dunno if it reflects how i'm feeling.. but hahaz.. maybe just the radio turned up loud part.. i gotta try tt some day :)

Do you ever feel like breaking down?
Do you ever feel out of place?
Like somehow you just don't belong
And no one understands you
Do you ever wanna runaway?
Do you lock yourself in your room?
With the radio on turned up so loud
That no one hears you screaming

No you don't know what it's like
When nothing feels all right
You don't know what it's like
To be like me

To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked when you're down
To feel like you've been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one's there to save you
No you don't know what it's like
Welcome to my life

Do you wanna be somebody else?
Are you sick of feeling so left out?
Are you desperate to find something more?
Before your life is over
Are you stuck inside a world you hate?
Are you sick of everyone around?
With their big fake smiles and stupid lies
While deep inside you're bleeding

No you don't know what it's like
When nothing feels all right
You don't know what it's like
To be like me

To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked when you're down
To feel like you've been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one's there to save you
No you don't know what it's like
Welcome to my life

No one ever lied straight to your face
No one ever stabbed you in the back
You might think I'm happy but I'm not gonna be okay
Everybody always gave you what you wanted
Never had to work it was always there
You don't know what it's like, what it's like

To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked when you're down
To feel like you've been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one's there to save you
No you don't know what it's like (what it's like)

To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked when you're down
To feel like you've been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one's there to save you
No you don't know what it's like
Welcome to my life
Welcome to my life
Welcome to my life

pictures

2005-02-05T07:49:00.000-08:00

yeah.. forgot to upload the pics we took last week... from dennis' birthdae, to lab to neoprints.. :) yeah.. its bugging me still.. but yeah.. i'll be able to get thru it... i noe i'm worrying to much.. guess that's one of my worse traits.. but yah.. it's not that i dun wanna share with u guys.. i just find it hard to.. n like what someone told me todae... what i noe so far.. i heard abt it.. i can't be sure till i've seen it.. it's true.. but i'm just afraid that when it happens.. it'll be too late....

here are the pics anywayz.. :) had a hard time uploading em.. so hopefully they turn out.. :)

stressed out

2005-02-05T04:26:00.000-08:00

wellz, had a haircut on thursday... yuppz.. it was pretty a last minute decision.. haha.. i never went off for stuff like tt without consulting my mum.. n yeah.. naturally.. she got angry.. but yuppz.. at least she's more open abt it now.. talked to her n stuff... yupp.. it was pretty scary act... we went to this place at uob centre? i think so.. well yeah.. n it's like some academy thingy.. .so we had students cutting for us.. well.. for me.. i had the shock of my life... she was pretty fast n all... n i thot i would be the first to finish or something.. but nope.. when my hair was blowed dry... it looked alrite from the front.. but from the back... half was thin n short, the other thicker n longer.. n it was really disconnected... haha.. but yeah.. thank goodness their shifu came along n she helped repair it.. so ended up with short, layered hair now.. yuppz.. well, just shorter than my usual... hmm.. yeah.. n joe was like 'u had 4 hair stylist crowded ard u...' wellz, must be some disaster or something.. felt i turned into an exhibit or teaching tool.. haha.. but yeah.. two hair stylists ended up blowing my hair, while another helped clipped it n stuff... but tt's cuz the rest of them (dennis, gim ann, peiye, amelia, edmond, chris, joe) were done n were waiting outside by then... sorry guys! :)

gim ann had the biggest change... went from normal to funky.. haha.. n yeah.. went to bugis after tt to shop n stuff... py's friend came along.. n yuppz.. yz bought a dress.. it was pretty nice... must wear it k? hahaz.. the guys bought shirts... n yeah.. it was quite alrite too... hahaz.. well, then friday came.. cell tech prac in e morn.. did freezing down of cells.. n tt marked the end of our ethanol sessions! yeah.. we had a little chat with py tt day too... n a lot happened after that... after lecture, my midnight chats n stuff... sighz..

yeah... it's saturday... n i haven't gotten anything done yetz... let's see.. done zero revision, barely started on my reports... n yeah.. i dun feel like it at all.. i'm upset, stressed.. simply bogged down by it all... yeah.. it is affecting me... a lot.. n yet it doesn't involve me directly.. seriously, i'm worried.. i want to help.. but i feel as if i can't do or say anything.. n things weren't as simple as we thought out to be... we initially thought it was settled.. but nopez.. y did it have to come back again?

this semester has had it's ups n downs... n frankly.. a lot has happened... n it's just the beginning of feb?? it's as if we're re-enacting some soap drama serial or something... u've got relationship problems, friendships that are strained.. u want to settle it all... but u just can't... u need to let it all out.. to tell it to someone.. anyone... but it's difficult.. cuz u dun want them to worry too.. so u end up keeping it all to urself.. n in e end? u feel emotionally n mentally drained. yup.. tt's wad i'm feeling right now.. n i dun noe how else to let it all out rather than blogging.. i noe i'm not the kind who does this.. but yeah.. i think i'm getting influenced by gim ann le.. hahaz.. his art of ambiguity...

n y am i this stressed out? hmmz.. it concerns pple from class... pple i see everyday.. pple i spend more time with... perhaps even more than i do with my family... n the one that's bugging me the most? btw a good friend n a classmate that i was pretty close with b4... yup.. b4 all this happened.. cuz it's weird now.. it's so diff just to talk.. n yeah... i seriously dun want this to blow up n be all serious n cuz unhappiness n awkwardness to more.. yes.. it has to stop... but the question is... how? i don't want my good friend to worry... she has had enough on her mind already... n its the same for another... she has commitments.. n yeah.. i really don't know.. the CTs are near.. n it isn't exactly the best time to break news like tt...

n for the classmate at the other end.. he's too rushed, too driven, too eager, too possessive, too headstrong, too persistant.. i think i'm using words with similar meanings n stuff.. but i need to emphasize this.. he just doesn't seem to get it.. i know it's hard n stuff.. but really... it's always better to maintain firm friendships first before jumping into stuff like that... cuz u dun only loose that friendship.. it affects ur close friends as well... n really.. i dun want that to happen... so yeah.. just thot i'll leave with a quote... "All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand." :)

i got cheated!

2005-02-02T07:12:00.000-08:00

OMG... i feel cheated!! i got cheated by the AUNTIE at bishan! hahahz.. wellz, went to get a top 2 days before.. with ame n yz.. to shop for cny clothes! haha.. wellz, it's those kimono-ish tops! was pretty cool act.. just didn't exactly like e sleeves.. but i've always liked wrap-ard stuff.. so yeah.. haha.. n i dunnoz.. been liking jap stuff lately.. oh oh! n i saw this mini room sets at mini toons!! there was the jap one which was so so cute!! came with an umbrella n all! :) haha.. so yeah.. as i was saying.. haha.. we went back to that shop again yest.. this time with py... n ame both the blue one.. n py bought another pinkish one.. hehe.. so all 3 of us got it.. hahaz.. ed n gim ann were being funny lo.. said so cartoon.. cannot wear to school.. this that.. haha.. n ed made yz & py try like tons.. like.. 'hmm.. nono.. this one instead!' hahaz.. n they were like 'cannot wear with jeans.. very funny.. must wear with skirts' hahahz.. n we were practically hogging e rooms :) hehehz.. but yah.. despite being nice pple.. helped her to fold em or hang it back properly k! she overcharged us! cuz gim ann was at chinatown todae.. with ed n rs i suppose.. n they saw it there too.. at half the price! but gim ann was saying maybe it's like imitation n all.. haha.. but i'm tempted to go check it out.. just put off by the crowd :)

haha.. oh yes! n it was dennis' birthdae yesterdae... hahahz.. it was really messy at first... it kinda started with me.. cuz it's like we didn't quite plan.. n everyone was leaving n stuff... it was usually just me n gim ann.. occasionally ed too.. but yeah.. i said i'll ask dennis if he would be free tt dae.. which i did... but i forgot to tell him tt if he had taekwondo lessons... to bring his stuff along so he won't have to head back home.. n gim ann kinda said.. can tell him la.. but think was doing report tt time so it really slipped my mind.. n yeah.. so dennis came to school without his stuff.. and he had taekwondo... so everyone was all flustered n some were telling him not to go for taekwondo n all.. but iguess being president.. u do have this 'feeling' of having to be there.. but yuppz.. thankfully, he decided not to go.. n yeah.. we had more time to play ard with.. as in.. yah.. hahahz.. but tt wasn't all.. we didn't have anything for him! it was like we were so unprepared... n we had more pple joining us quite last min.. so yeah.. we had like 'camps'... mini discussion.. it was just weird... but we managed to settle that... n the guys accompanied him for some com game or something.. while the rest of us (ed, gim ann, py, yz, me.. ame was out with her friends.. while jimmy came later..)

so yuppz.. we got two prezzies in the end! this forbidden thingy?? some gundam figurine.. the box was super light! n the guy at popular was like.. 'u sure there's something inside? seems empty to me..' hahahz.. speaking of which.. his skills were horrid! he like smooshed it on the table.. n the wrapped got squashed... but thank goodness it was n't crumbled.. n the scotch-tape wasn't super stick.. cuz jimmy ended up re-wrapping it.. turned out a lot better.. yuppz.. with the help of gim ann n py of course.. hahaz :) n yz n i were wrapping e other prezzie... haha.. since this was like childish.. thot we shud get something to balance it out.. haha.. so got this bean thingy from mini toons (i'm sorry i sound like i'm giving free advertisements.. hahaz..) it's really cool! it lasts for a year.. n has the word 'happy birthday' on the bean itself! nice ritez.. hahaha.. we got it cuz we thot we got to get him to be more 'nurturing'.. can i use tt? hahah.. more 'gentle'? in the sense not so rowdy n loud.. hahaz.. n jimmy was saying it would be broken even before he brought it home.. haha.. so dennis will have to prove him wrong!

ahahz.. so yuppz! we spent e afternoon at pastamania! was really fun.. but we were loud... very loud... but it's a celebration.. so yeah! :) hahaz.. oh oh.. n the card!! we went to like 3 different shops.. looking for cards n wrappers n all that... think we went to popular three times!! hehe.. but yuppz.. even got a tiramisu cake! n my cam kept running out of memory space... so irritating... cuz i brought e wrong card size!! the smallest... cuz was playing with it before.. den forgot all abt it.. haha.. but at least we still managed to get some pics!! :)

esp the one outside after our late lunch thingy at pastamania... hahah.. we had a group pic... n after which.. rs n joey started using the snow spray on dennis.. yuppz.. snow spray... haha.. if started out fun.. till yeah.. we got scolded by this person.. hmmz.. yupp.. she was pissed.. but yeah.. maybe cuz we were straying off the open area.. so yeah.. rs n jw pretended walking away in an orderly fashion even... haha.. but it was fun :) hehe.. cuz most of the guys kena-ed... dennis, rs, jimmy, n ed! haha.. jy too i think.. maybe jw? hahaz.. but yuppz... to sum it up... we had a great time :) hahahz...

saturdae le..

2005-01-29T07:33:00.000-08:00

heyz! just thot i'll have a short entry before i go off to sleep :) hehez.. hmmz.. haven't been bloggin about my upsides.. so shall do so now.. finally managed to sign up for my basic theory test.. yes.. i'm still there.. after all e nagging from my dad.. hahaz.. gonna be my first.. so yeah.. hopefully it won't be scary or anything.. hahaz.. :)

ooh.. mandy moore's a walk to remember's on... haha.. yuppz.. school's been alrite... had a hbd test.. tt's human biology n disease.. has anatomy n physiology n stuff... tissues, muscles, skeleton.. blah blah.. haha.. but suprisingly.. it turned out quite alrite.. though i've made a couple of mistakes already! i wrote smooth muscle as voluntary.. but chris & dennis said it should be involuntary.. haha.. but ahz.. see how it goes :)

what else.. hmmz.. lab's been alrite.. nothing too special... the usual ethanol 'showers'... n our cells are still growing well!! haha.. in fact they grew so well tt we had to throw some away... which was pretty sad.. but it'll be tedious to maintain... besides.. if everyone were to keep theirs we would have filled out e incubator by now! :) haha.. must ask yz how many passage n generations we're at by now.. haha! :)

ooh.. not forgetting we went over to NTU on wed.. just before the hbd test.. hahaz.. it was rather chim.. that guy just kept going on n on abt the scanning electron microscope.. which is like super high-tech n stuff.. n supposedly can go up to 65k magnification.. eh.. hope i got that right.. well, it's just huge! haha.. n ms leong asked e most questions.. hehe... but the guy assumed a lot n his explanation still left us quite blur n all... haha.. but no.. that wasn't the worst bit.. the lab report was in CHINESE! yes.. chinese... it was horrible.. an entire page! with a couple of chinese-english dictionaries on e table... some bottles with chinese labelling in the fume hood... urghhz!

haha.. but thank goodness it was the physics lab... so yeah.. phew.. :) hehhehhz.. ooh.. n we popped in to DNAC later on... tt place was cool... it's set up by NIE.. a collaboration with cold spring harbour! just to teach sec sch teachers how to teach life sciences to their students... they're pipettes were really stylish though.. it was colourful n had this special stand.. hahaz.. but the guy said it wasn't as good in terms of accuracy.. compared to eppendorf.. which we're currently using... so we're supposedly really lucky! :) hahaz.. ooh.. n their prep room was so clean n nice! had autoclave machines in another... n they had milliQ water too... oohz.. n their tissue culture labs... dindn't get to go in cuz it's a class II lab... n u had to change into cleaner shoes or something!

wellz, week 6's over n i'm currently considering if i should go overseas for my attachment... i dunno really.. i could always stay in singapore n get some extra cash or do something really fun! or simple go oversease for the exposure n experience.. be independent n try it out on my own... n if so.. i still gotta choose between china n aus... uk's definately out.. cuz it's so ex! haha.. but yeah... i dun mind aus cuz my dad wanted me to have a feel of how it's like over there... but it's like the rest of my close friends would be in china.. yuppz.. n my dad's not set on china yetz... i've tried convincing him though... cuz i guess it'll be fun to rent an apartment or something.. but like ruishen said.. living with us for 3 months would drive him mad.. haha.. well, i suppose :) but u guys know where level of written n oral chinese lies.. so yeah.. haha.. i think i'll most prob be super lost there.. hahaz.. though my classmates think otherwise.. that there won't be as much chinese-y stuff as i'm expecting.. hahaz :)

n yeah.. going to aus all by myself in winter isn't exactly ideal either... considering my tolerance for the cold.. haha.. i'll most prob freeze n spend all my money on tissue or something! ok.. maybe tt's a bit far-fetched.. but u know what i mean... haha.. :) but i guess i won't be alone alone... since my dad has friends in perth n all.. but it'll be diff.. n if i get homesick or something.. i dun think i can simply fly back to singapore rite.. hahaz.. edmond was being funny e last time we had this discussion thingy on the way back... if all of use were to rent an apartment in china.. n if ever we missed home or anything.. we'll have this crying session altogether.. like therapy... haha.. yeahz.. it sounds weird.. but hmmz.. at least u have friends with u ritez? oh wellz... think i've written long enough... hahaz.. didn't do much on upsides.. but will soon.. n tt wasn't exactly short too.. haha! :)

Open House 2005!

2005-01-20T22:00:00.000-08:00

hahaz.. changed e layout again.. hahaz.. cuz i liked e space n all.. yup yupz... open house started on wed :) hahaz.. been really busy... total lacked in e sleeping dept.. hahaz.. but yeahz.. finally got to rest cuz todae's a public hol! hahaz.. been in rather high spirits over e past few days.. dun exactly know y.. but had tons of upsides! haha.. so much that i might not be able to write em all at once.. haha.. but i'll try... :)

wellz.. was assigned to e exhibition dept again.. haha.. though i act wanted to try out e labs for a change.. :) but it was alrite.. had new exhibitions... Traditional Chinese Medicine... cuter mice this time ard.. even frogs, fruit flies n worms! ame, yz n i helped out making DNA models... just like last yr!! hahaz.. n we thot it would be rather boring.. but heez.. it actually turned out otherwise surprisingly... more pple came to visit too... n i actually met my uncle! hahaz.. couldn't quite believe it at first.. but yeahz.. he was blur too.. didn't even recognize me! :) hahaz.. he's actually in Anderson jc already! doing triple science... hahaz.. proud of him manz.. hehheh..

n of course there was thurs.. hehe.. had to rush thru our drawings for hbd but tt's ok.. cuz we did lots too! cell tech.. our cells grew well again! so we did subculturing! haha... yayz.. hehhez.. n oohz.. brought my cam so took quite a bit of pics :) n i did hena? tt indian thingy.. where u draw some motif stuff on ur hand? yuppz.. thks to thiva! :) it's really nice.. hehe.. thks again! hahaz.. but my mum was rather shocked... n she actually screamed when she saw it.. but hahaz.. know she'll get over it.. :) hehez.. yeahz.. ame , yz, jimmy, joey & andy had stuff drawn too.. yuppz... n i think thiva's 'booth' attracted more attention then the others! hehehez.. :)

but heyz.. even dr cha did it too.. n i have pics to prove it! hahaz.. she came up with this funny pose thingy... so yeah.. haha.. it was really funny! :) ohhz n we actually got to go up to level 6 yest! yup yupz.. to the games section... something CSI-ish.. really cool! but they had boards all over n it was rather embarrassing cuz i tripped over 2 of em! n ms ang n ruishen said i was destroying e crime scene.. hahaz! sorriez!! :) haha.. but the stuff was rather convincing this time ard... except for the murder weapon.. a really small knife.. haha! but they had e entire set! office, living room, machines.. it was really cool compared to the one last yr! n if they managed to figure out who the murderer was from the list of suspects... they get a choco! hahaz.. yeahz...

n the lab tour this yr was a little different! yup yupz... mr Charlie was on display.. but sadly we didn't manage to take a pic! yuppz.. i act left ame's n my diary behind too.. haha.. but yeahz.. n there was this model which was interchangable between male n female... n yuppz.. gim ann & edmond were happily transferring certain organs to mr Charlie too.. haha.. n i emphasize MR.. hahaz.. rs, gim ann n edmond shud know wad i mean! :)

yeahz... so it was basically bunches of fun!! considering if i shud go back tmr to get my diary back.. missing it already.. hahaz.. but ame n yz said they'll help me get it since they'll be back in school... :) dennis will be performing his taekwondo stunt too... chopping tiles! hahaz.. i wanna go catch tt... oh yeahz.. n wenyong perfomed yest too.. as part of e band... blowing e french horn... so it was really cool! hehe.. :) oh n so did linglee.. but we didn't manage to catch her performance cuz we were having lessons then.. yeahz.. but if i go back on sat i'll definately go catch it! hehez :)

ethanol showers!

2005-01-18T07:38:00.000-08:00

haha.. wellz.. kinda running out of stuff to write currently.. hehhez.. but first up.. it's gonna be nyp's open house tmr... hahaz.. think it's the same for the other polys.. but yeahz.. i dunno... not that enthu like i would be... i guess it's what ame n i saw at e labs today... our juniors.. hmmz..

yeahz.. they were having their onion expt again... hahaz.. n yeahz.. the lab smelt funny.. but tt wasn't exactly the point.. they had their hps out.. with e radio blasting across e lab.. running round.. tickling, giggling, pushing & shoving... n really.. it wasn't exactly the way a lab shud be.. not tt we've always been model students.. haha.. but hmmz.. i just din understand how e lecturer could just sit there n not do anything... i thot u needed a certain level of discipline especially in labs.. u'll be dealing with hazardous n carcinogenic chemicals.. surely like how mr alvin would put it.. "won't want mutants running ard" ritez.. hahaz.. n ame was rather put off by the entire incident too...

hmmz.. could it be because we've been thru this... n we've already started being more mature pple? well, at least i've learnt a lot from cell tech bah.. thks to my "laoshi".. haha.. yz! :) at least we have 'pass-worthy' aseptic techniques le bah? hehehe.. our cells grew super fast! so much tt we had to subculture again.. n i forgot abt the trypsinization todae... left it for 8 mins instead of 5... was busy squirting ethanol bah.. hahahaz.. but yeah.. yz got reallie worried! sorrie.. haha.. but yupz.. thankfully they didn't die on us!! :)

hahaz.. supposed to be researching for my industrial micro report.. but i'm feeling rather lazy... can't get much info off google too anywayz.. n it's a new topic... HPLC.. supposed to do an interpretation of our results n discuss abt it in general... n noe wad? our results are really tiny!! well, not just us, but the class.. haha.. so we're pretty much stuck too.. hmmz.. see how it goes tmr bah!! :)

ooh yes.. n my UPSIDE for today... hmmmz... let's see.. our cell lines grew well so tt's gd! :) ummz.. i got to try subculturing.. was pretty nervous.. but hope it'll turn out alrite.. hehe.. we'll see tmr :) oohz.. n yeah.. we didn't have to boost or clean up e fume hood!! haha.. tt was one e best part of e prac.. hahahaz.. :) n as usual.. our rounds of ethanol showers! *smilez*

Memories..

2005-01-17T07:48:00.000-08:00

Your Element Is Air

You dislike conflict, and you've been able to rise above the angst of the world.
And when things don't go your way, you know they'll blow over quickly.

Easygoing, you tend to find joy from the simple things in life.
You roll with the punches, and as a result, your life is light and cheerful.

You find it easy to adapt to most situations, and you're an open person.
With you, what you see is what you get... and people love that!

What's Your Element?

got that from ame's blog! yup yup.. week 5! :) haha.. dunno if tt's good or bad... but yeahz.. today's been a relatively good day i suppose... had fun squirting ethanol during cell tech lab.. heheh.. made clement's, yz's n ame's skin dry.. but haha! it was fun mah.. :)

hahaz.. wellz, decided i shud bring my cam along with me from now on... take whatever catches my eye.. anything interesting tt happens n stuff... cuz i noe i'm gonna miss this when the sem ends.. hmmz, in fact i'm already starting to miss it... i dunno... it's like.. we've never really got to treasure it when we seemed to "have it all"... n all these have become a familiar part of my life, my routine.. it's really hard just to give it all up when next march comes ard... :(

like what dennis said when ame asked him y he seemed quiet these days.. his reply? cuz he wanted to "act his age"... n somehow.. i wished we all won't have to grow up.. that we could always remain as it was.. being well, if i could say carefree, happy pple not having to worry abt stuff like reports or when e next deadline for our project's gonna be.. :) hmmz, well, that sounds dreary.. haha.. need my upsides for the day! :)

hahaz.. wellz, hmm.. wad else happened todae? nuthing much reallie.. but haha.. got to bully edmond first thing in the morning though :) didn't play basketball with the rest cuz my little toe was hurting from that 'accident' yesterday.. haha.. but yuppz.. hope it gets better :) n oohz.. managed to flip thru my hbd notes.. haha.. but can never flip as well as yz de.. she's the pro :) haha.. wellz, den met jimmy at the tut room.. n noe wad? i actually need an 'A' level physics to take radiography?? haha.. i act thot it was cool looking at the x-ray films n stuff.. but physics? hahahah.. i gotta think abt this again! oh yeah.. the talk on nanotech! it was pretty cool.. n i might just consider tt.. haha.. dunno y eh.. it just sounded fun.. though i'll definately keep med chem in mind still!! :) hehez..

n overseas attachment! yuupz! hope it'll be fun... planning to go over to aus but haha.. see how it goes.. :) want to get e experience n stuff.. n hopefully it'll be less taxing compared back here in singapore! hehe.. :) gotta settle for project locally though.. n so far... mr anand's project seems interesting.. abt TCM n its reaction to cancer... hehe.. ms lim's on fungus.. n u get to pick mushrooms n stuff.. haha.. but i can't imagine myself going out on a mushroom trip :) hahaz.. yepz.. gonna have another round of cell culture tmr!! cell counting to be exact... heheh.. ethanol time!! *smilez*

quiz!

2005-01-15T08:42:00.000-08:00

got this one from ame &/or gim ann's blog...

You Are the Individualist

4
You are sensitive and intuitive, with others and yourself.
You are creative and dreamy... plus dramatic and unpredictable.
You're emotionally honest, real, and easily hurt.
Totally expressive, others always know exactly how you feel.

What number are you?

and this one.. hmmz.. doesn't seem right.. i cannot speak well.. haha.. hmmz.. maybe it's just the teacher portion tt is rite.. hahaz..

Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence

You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well.An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly.You are also good at remembering information and convicing someone of your point of view.A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary.
You would make a fantastic poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, or translator.

Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?

last one! haha.. must admit it was a pretty retarded quiz.. haha.. but hmmz.. at 00.58? oh wellz!! :)

You are "Face with Glasses"

What Japanese Smiley Are You?

Happiness... :)

2005-01-15T05:07:00.000-08:00

"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember." stumbled upon this quote todae.. n yupz.. thot it was pretty nice.. :) n yuppz.. spent an afternoon changing e layout again.. hahaz... tatty bear this time ard... feel the blue is a little on the bright side.. but yeahz.. did wanna waste too much time so yuppz.. settled for this! :) guess it'll stay for a while till i find time to change it again! next week's gonna be pretty bad... open house's coming up! yeahz.. n hbd test on week 6.. haven't touched it yetz.. n yuppz.. hopefully i will soon.. once i've started on my reports.. hahaz..

oh.. n i got a couple of this from jan's issue of Cosmogirl... hahaz.. n decided to note one upside of my day from now on... haha.. to focus on the POSITIVE, no matter how minuscule... to make any crappy day better! :) yuppz.. n if possible.. i'll note em down here... ya.. felt as if i've neglected my diaryland one a lot.. but yeahz.. hahaz.. hope this doesn't happen again! :) n.. when u've had a bad dae.. be it a quarrel with a close friend or just something tt happened that was rather upsetting.. write it down on a piece of paper.. then tear it up & throw away those feelings! hahaz.. think i shud try tt out huhz.. see if it helps.. haha! :) oh.. n the idea i liked best... create a silly scrapbook! with the goofiest pictures of people at they're craziest n most ridiculous moments... so u'll have tons to laugh abt laterz! :)

think the scrapbook idea's the best.. :) hmmz.. yup.. was talking to yz over Macs yesterdae... counting the months till we graduate... not very far away... next March!! n how this sem was actually the last time everyone could be in this class... MB0305.. yup.. even though 4 pple left last sem... but we've made 4 new friends.. clement, edmond, gim ann and peiye! yuppz.. but we'll be having out attachments in april... before going into our respective tracks for the last sem in yr 3... n it's really sad.. yeah.. a lot has happened... n not everything has been smoothsailing as we thot it'll be... we've had our share of arguments, gossip, not forgetting birthday celebrations!! n yeah.. to think that b4 we know it.. we would be graduating.. carrying on with our lives n all that... it's like how it was back in sec sch too... everyone left for diff polys, jcs, some even overseas! n it's been hard to find time to meet up... ahhz..

okie then.. gotta get back to my reports.. oh yeah.. n before i forget.. :) my upside for today.. 2 actually.. hehe.. had a nice dinner with my family.. :) yupz... cuz my mum gets back pretty late a times.. n had a nice little chat with her today :) hehez.. God Bless~`*

Change of Layout

2005-01-14T08:39:00.000-08:00

yuppz.. decided to have a change of layout this time ard! hahaz.. hardly used this blog.. n just thot i shud now.. since the tagboard at diaryland's been giving me stoopid pop-up ads! i'm tired of waiting to post an entry over at diaryland... n i've got more choices for templates over at blogskin :) hehe.. so it's kinda like a change of environment... hahaz... wellz, a lot has happened! n more to come i guess... stuff i can't say either.. since blogspot dun provide e password feature.. act tt's the only thing i could think of tt is bad abt this.. but hahaz.. yeahz..

started playing badminton this sem.. haha.. n it's not me.. yupp... i was e one who would happily skipped p.e lessons back in sec school... was really lazy.. haha... n partly cuz there weren't proper showering facilities too.. but yeahz... it's been fun i gotta say... though it was rather embarrassing at the beginning... i either missed it completely... or didn't use enough force to get it over the net... :( hahaz.. n dennis or the rest would attempt to save it.. hahaz.. n yeahz.. the last session went pretty alright.. hehez.. think we played for 4hrs? or was it more? hmmz.. but yeahz.. had lessons from edmond n dennis.. ohhz.. n we played with our left hands too! :) tt was the best bit i guess... ame n yz were pros! haha.. they played as well as how i would with my right... hehehe.. n dennis successfully "kicked" a serve.. n i sustained a couple of minor injuries.. which was quite funny act... the shuttlecock literally went for my nose.. oh! n i got to hit ruishen! yup! :)

hahaz.. wellz, ended up aching the next dae.. heheez... :)

Tekong Visit

2004-09-15T07:26:00.000-07:00

hmmz.. it does seem funny writing here.. maybe cuz i'm not used to blogspot n all.. but yeahz.. i was tired of waiting at diaryland so decided on blogspot instead... hahaz.. just a minor disadvantage though... i can't opt for a "password protected" environment... so yeahz.. the privacy of having a diary kinda thing pretty much goes out the window.. hahaz.. :)

wellz... enough abt tt.. went over to Tekong today for our NE trip... yeahz.. took a coach to changi ferry? yeah.. think so... n headed for Tekong itself.. it was rather bumpy i must say.. but it was easier with the help of Ame, Edmond, Peiye, Gim Ann & Ruishen.. hahaz.. yeahz.. but it was slightly worse on e way back cuz it was raining.. but i'm sure it could have gotten worse so we were considered lucky pple i suppose.. hahaz.. :)

n yeahz.. the trip to Tekong.. hahaz... Chris was mean.. n YiZhen couldn't join us cuz she had netball.. and SHE WON!! yayz!! :) but surprisingly.. the trip didn't turn out too bad after all... u could call it torture.. oh my.. the combat rations.. the so-called satay noodles Ame n I took from Yissue tasted rubbery & flour-like.. n the rice looked more like biscuits.. hahaz! well, the dessert was supposedly the most-popular too.. but i liked the biscuits n fruit bars better.. :) but yeahz... it was edible overall.. hehehe.. just tt i was reminded of how it was like back in sec sch where we girl guides had outdoor cooking! yepz.. in mesh tins too... just tt we had to gather our own "fuel" of dried branches n twigs.. but the bread was yummy! :)

the bunk beds were pretty neat.. yepz... it seemed spacious enough.. just that the little pail given assissted in the washing up, not for washing in! well, generally the facilities were pretty okie.. hahz.. n the guys will survive yepz? hahahz.. but hmmz. can't imagine em with starched uniforms, squeaky clean boots, helmet & camo cream... going thru the obstacle courses n treking thru e jungle... n yepz.. i just can't help but wonder how much they'll change... hehez.. well yeahz... till e next time thenz! :)