Some songs

Some nice songs, done maple story style :)

[MMV]Truly, Madly, Deeply, - Cascada

MMV: Miracle

MMV: Famous Last Words

MMV - My Love

MMV - I don't wanna be in love

Toybox- Best Friends mmv

Toybox- Best Friends mmv

MMV : Boom Boom Boom Boom

new year is coming

back from holiday in china! photos coming up when i'm not feeling lazy. lol.

sch timetable n results still not out et... grrrrr.... its getting me on the edge not knowing how well (or badly) i've done...

new favourite song of mine. found it when browsing videos on you tube.

"Everytime We Touch"
Artist: Cascada

I still hear your voice, when you sleep next to me.
I still feel your touch in my dreams.
Forgive me my weakness, but I don't know why
Without you it's hard to survive.

'Cause everytime we touch, I get this feeling.
And everytime we kiss I swear I could fly.
Can't you feel my heart beat fast, I want this to last.
Need you by my side.
'Cause everytime we touch, I feel the static.
And everytime we kiss, I reach for the sky.
Can't you hear my heart beat so...
I can't let you go.
Want you in my life.

Your arms are my castle, your heart is my sky.
They wipe away tears that I cry.
The good and the bad times, we've been through them all.
You make me rise when I fall.

'Cause everytime we touch, I get this feeling.
And everytime we kiss I swear I could fly.
Can't you feel my heart beat fast, I want this to last.
Need you by my side.
'Cause everytime we touch, I feel the static.
And everytime we kiss, I reach for the sky.
Can't you hear my heart beat so...
I can't let you go.
Want you in my life.

'Cause everytime we touch, I get this feeling.
And everytime we kiss I swear I could fly.
Can't you feel my heart beat fast, I want this to last.
Need you by my side.

Original version:

Maple MMV: "Everytime We Touch"


Remix:

MMV - Everytime We Touch

hmmm

did i say that exams are over? yes exams are over long ago and wedn is the day to pick our next sem's timetable.

i decided on taking jap 1 and some psycology course for my electives. 2 electives this time round. hope i wont be so bored.

off to shanghai, nanjing n suzhou on sunday... sighz. its supposed to be a holiday, but i aint quite looking forward to it. sighz.

troop outing again!

lol, i meant to blog abt it right after we go out, but as usual i forgot. -.-'''

so the troopers went out last thursday, me ash sandra mich n joy to suntec swensens for dinner :) it was really fun catching up and gossiping on ms nair's bf LOL then we went to sit ard the fountain of weath n watch the laser lights display with loud loud music n ppl walking ard the fountains in the middle (after the laser light display ended) for *weath*. lol ash says it looks like some cult activity LOL. suntec city cult! with people walking ard the fountain religously. the laser light display i found it rather normal, but i like the ending part where they light up the whole fountain in pink/blue/watever colour u have, and there's lights on the floor showing yellow. i thought that effect was great, too bad i forgot to br my cam. took a picture with my hp though.

maybe i shd make a seperate blog for putting all the random pictures i took. next time i guess, and if i have enough pics. ;)

*Gasp* Its an Update!!!

haha! an update!

the story thus far...:

its the exams period now. 3 papers down n two more to go. 1st up was intro bio n econs, both of which were doable. then was org chem yest. arghs stupid me made like 3 or 4 careless mistakes already and cos the huge slacker didnt study the reactions properly she couldnt do parts of the synthesis qns. synthesis as in like... making of chemicals.

sound new songs i got addicted to:
(new as in, not new out in the market, but songs i just discovered, i.e. new to me)

Pictures of You
by The Last Goodnight
Album: Poison Kiss

This is the clock up on the wall
This is the story of us all
This is the first sound of a newborn child,
Before he starts to crawl

This is the war that’s never won
This is a soldier and his gun
This is the mother waiting by the phone,
Praying for her son


(Chorus)
Pictures of you, pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
Pictures of you, pictures of me
Remind us all of what we used to be


There is a drug that cures it all
Blocked by the governmental wall
We are the scientists inside the lab,
Just waiting for the call


This earthquake weather has got me shaking inside
I'm high up and dry


Pictures of you, pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
Pictures of you, pictures of me
Remind us all of what we used to be


Confess to me, every secret moment
Every stolen promise you believed
Confess to me, all that lies between us
All that lies between you and me


We are the boxers in the ring
We are the bells that never sing
There is a title we can't win no matter
How hard we might swing


Pictures of you, pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
Pictures of you, pictures of me
Remind us all of what we used to be


Pictures of you, pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
Pictures of you, pictures of me
Remind us all of what we could have been






Shadow Of The Day
By Linkin Park

I close both locks below the window
I close both blinds and turn away
Sometimes solutions aren't so simple
Sometimes good bye's the only way


[Chorus]
And the sun will set for you
The sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you
[End Chorus]



In cards and flowers on your window
Your friends all plead for you to stay
Sometimes beginnings aren't so simple
Sometimes good bye's the only way
[Chorus]

And the sun will set for you
The sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you

And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you



And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you
[End Chorus]



Both songs are rather slow, which is kinda contary to what usually go for. well pictures of you is not that slow lah, but shadow of the day is a really really slow song, and soft at the beginning too. esp slow n soft at the beginning. i downloaded the song long ago but never got past the 1st 20 seconds of the song. it was only the other day they were playing it in sch i think (playing the the canteen, got no choice cant change song) that i actually listened to the entire song. went back home and randomly played some songs when i was bored and kinda forced myself to listen to the entire song, and surprisingly realised that the music got louder and kinda darker as the time passed. pictures of you is the song that is currently stuck in my head and refusing to leave tho. chanced upon it while randomly playing all the songs in my comp. my sis downloaded it but i never listened to the song before till abt a week ago. lol. both songs are like uber outdated now i bet, but who cares? i dont like listening to the radio for new songs, ever since that time i spent like 2-3 hours listening for any songs that sounds nice and didnt find ANY. lol.

(i shd paragraph all my text better, makes things easier to read doesnt it?)

speaking of songs, some CDs they are advertising for on TV has some nice songs i know, esp this CD with all the oldies (the one with carpenters on top of the world). next time i go to the bookshop i gotta checkout the song titles on the CD. also, anyone knows what's the music for the Central (the shopping center) advert? i like that song/music! lol. hmm shd go google it, i'm sure someone would have asked it somehwere...

ok, i shd sleep soon. the cough syrup i took is making me drowzy.

troop outing to ikea!

yupz the troops finally met up today! been soooo long since i last seen mich, and soooo long since we last meet up 2gether. the last troop meeting was during wx's farewell... really long long ago sia...

went ikea... cos mich got craving for chocolate moose at ikea! haha, we all ate chocolate moose but ikea's cheese cake is good too... that's for next time haha. sadly mich got lect after that :( bloody lect literally and figuratively. lol. then sandra needed to get some halloween custume stuff, so went (me ash n sandra) trooped down to far east to look for halloween outfits! wahaha! the shoppping part was blah tho... not many shops + not much choices + way over priced. like this cheap cardboard hat is like wat... 15 bucks and this piece of pvc vest going for 12bucks??? daylight robbery sia. somemore the quality sux i bet i can make smthing much better at half to cost -.-|||

nice long weekend ahead. but exams are looming. the term here is too short... 12 weeks of lect/tuts... total of 17 weeks per term including term break. wow. rest of the time? slack during hols. hmm.

GAH!!!

Finishing up my stup!d @#$%#$ biophysical chem lab report... This is the stupidest report i've ever seen!!!! either the report is stup!d or i am, and i am incline to believe that it is the former. format of report: intro - standard, although its like copying the intro they gave up in the lab ws, but ok at least you can TRY to add in smthing new/diff

tables of results - duh its needed

disccussion of results - erm okies...

answer qns - NOW HERE COMES THE BIG BIG PROBLEM. the qns they ask are the only few things are can discuss abt in the discussion section!!!!!! Plus the qns itself would require u to repeat the same concepts over and over and over again!!!! wat kind of lab report is this? a testing of you r english skills to see how you can present the same thing in multiple different ways WHILE meaning its scientific accuracy??? with the qns they have asked, the discussion section becomes completely redundant! GAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lab reports are really crappy in uni... like seriously man. involves of a lot using your own words to summarise from their handout kinda thing. -.-'''

wat's the point???

I need a new blog skin!

Yes, i need a new blog skin, this one is just CMI, plus ahem i'm studying bio not chem...

sighz. loads of undone lab reports, exams from 12-27th nov... hopefully u guys will see a new blog skin b4 CNY next year :D hehe... or anyone free want to volunteer? :D :D

I'm from RJC, not RI(JC)!!! - A tribute to RGS

I'm from RJC, not RI(JC)!!!

lol... i'm real gald rgs hasnt joined in. it would have been really hard to merge all 3 schools currently anyways. one is in the north, the other in the south... but really rgs is way too different from the to be merged, from rj especially, since i ahem did not attend lessons at ri b4. totally diff uniform and sch badge, diff sch song (yes rgs has a sch SONG NOT an ANTHEM) and a really diff education system from rjc. seamless through train program? lol. it really wasnt that way during my time - which was just a year ago. topics that were covered in rg were completely retaught in rj. this is unlike nj whereby they teach the ip and non-ip students seperately and thus make it more seamless for the ip students (however it created a huge ip vs non-ip divide). a truly INTEGRATED program? i think its not possible... teaching styles have to change from a project based, hands on learning, to one that is more on drilling exam techniques, disecting/following the syllabus word for word... you name it... not to say that rjc down right sux, though i do not approve of their style of education, its just that the reality is such that they need to prepare students for this monster known as the GCE A lvls, and they only have a measily 1.5 years++ to do so. All that hype abt the 6 year program and so on, but still, Reality Hits. i wish rjc could have done things differently, but they chose those methods to prepare their students, and they do have their success stories to be proud of... that's just the way things are, nothing can suit everybody and sometimes u just end up being those that arent suited for somehting

for all those currently in rg/rj (well maybe it'll help those in ri too), here's some differences in their education system from what i have experienced... things are constantly changing of cos, but heres some word of advice i can give (*wonders if yinyi's friends still read my blog, else this will just help no one i guess*)

answering techniques: rgs does stress on it, esp in upper sec bio, but it becomes especially impt in rj/for As - use KEYWORDS. they are called KEYwords cos w/o those KEYwords, the door to marks for that qn wont open (i.e. u get zero)

in rgs, always elaborate, no elaboration = low/no marks.
come rj? just answer the qn. and by that, i mean JUST ANSWER THE QN!

e.g. :
Qn: Do you like to eat apples?
Answer needed in rgs: Yes, i love to eat apples because they are crucnhy, have a lot of vitamins, and are good for your health etc etc
RJ: Yes.

see the difference?
writing anymore than wat the qn requires of you means that you are just WASTING your time, and time management is very important in exams, just as the promotional exams, premlimenary exams, and A lvls.


teaching/learning methods
rgs: as long as you are willing to learn, they will teach as much as they can. (how much they CAN teach varies greatly from teacher to teacher, but generally they are all very nice and helpful. well. Generally that is... -.-''' there are always exceptions.) and even if there seems to be more exceptions than the norm we will still call them exceptions ok?

rj: anything out of the syllabus = dont teach or dont know

i found learning a lot more fun in rg... i was really struggling to maintain my interest in rj. well my advice is: try to find out wat you like... e.g. whether you like arts more, or sci that kinda thing. then stick with it and ENJOY the subject as much as you can in rgs. learning is supposed to be FUN, esp in rg. learn to love the subject and it will help u pass that 2 years. read as much as you can, there is NO SYLLABUS, EVER! read widely, build up your interest in rgs, better still read the A lvl syllabus ahead so that next time you have at least an inkling of wat they are teaching and it'll make things easier for you. of cos that !#$@#$@ A lvl monster would limit most of us from reading much extra stuff in jc, but try to keep the flames and passion for the 'love' of ur life burning. its a great dismay when someone comes and put out the flames like they did to mine... nvrmind i shant talk abt such sad things now. but i know a lot of ppl who cant figure out what they like... either they like everything or they hate everything. sry i dont have much advice on what to do if u are those sort of ppl, but try to feel which subject you like. are you happier when reading abt a particular subject? do you enjoy doing the hw from a particular sub better? or do you enjoy a particular lesson more?*** identify wat u like more as early as possible (just like how u identified wat NOT to take in sec 3)... of cos tastes and preferences changes, but still it makes things easier when u are liking smthing, so why not take the easy way out?

***its a bit misleading at times, cos teacher influence whether a lesson is enjoyable or not. teachers can make you love the subject to death, yet they can also change the love of your life into your most hated subject... beware of the 'evil' teachers lol...

ok. i think i rambled a lot, now for something more useful: rgs goes by the modular system. learn a few topics, test, and forget abt the topics FOREVER...! (or is it really FOREVER???) when test comes, we always ask: sa or fa? (summative or formative accessment?) summative? must study!!! formative? aiya heck lah, go do hw/study for SAs

in rjc, difference no.:
1) topics taught MUST be remembered till the end of jc2 (or die a horrible death, u choose)
2) topics that you learn from sec sch (and hapily forgot) are needed in jc! OUCH! e.g. math! remember ur differenciation, intergration, indices, log etc etc? ALL needed in jc also! unless u dont take math lah!
e.g. 2 for those taking bio: sec 4 (at least i did) learn mitosis and meiosis, than happily forgot 95% of it? heh, those 2 topics in the A lvl syllabus sia, hope u didnt throw away ur rgs notes!
3) SA/FA??? eh? ????? all tests are counted leh, dont think its a formative and dun study for ur common test!

as the pionior batch of choo choo train ppl, we (as a batch) made the following mistakes (evident from our 1st common test):
1) think/treat it as FA, never study - die loh
2) think its not very important, dont leave enough time to study, end up cannot finish studying - also die loh
3) study! but then study and forget! cos of brain capacity only got enough space of 3 months worth of work, not half a year! OUCH! study last few topics, then forget the 1st few topics...
4) as term progress, learn one topic and forget the previous, overwhelmed by the amt of things that need to remember in common test....

then of cos a lot of us cant answer qns properly - no exam technique...*we can crap a report out of thin air, make high class presentations w/o scripts, and finish a fabulous, shiny looking power point complete with graphics, animation, sound effects and not have a single bullet point/textbox even 1 pixie out of line in 1hr but wat???? u are asking us to answer qns??? wat the @#$%#$%* you get what i mean... plus a lot of us are just not very used to mugging.

okok, that's as much as i can tink of now...

conclusions: rgs is great, we all complained abt pts (performance tasks) but i remember what i did in my pts, and not wat i mugged for exams. plus, no matter wat it was still more fun than mugging! and hey, it was cool too (some cool pts i did: 1) make fermented food, my grp made sour doughbread, others made yougert, kim chi etc. 2) make a toy using a motor - huge headache, mine was down right lousy, but some of my class/sch mates made cool looking toys that WORKED 3) make an electrophoresis kit and come up with adverts, was fun, rushed like siao but still.... 4) made perfumes in RS. extracted our own essential oil from spices - 1st grp ever to do that in rgs. downright COOL. 5) make a model on DNA packaging 6) 7) 8) lol a million and one things we did that brings back great memories...)

rgs really gave me a lot of opportunities. the chance to make presentations and become a slightly less shy, and slightly better speaker, the chance to hold a leadership position (who knew such a shy person like me would ever hold any leadership position???) a chance to challenge myself intellectually, a chance to shine, a chance to enjoy the subjects i really love (e.g. in RS, sec 4 options etc).... etc... sec sch life is the best ever, i wished things will never change when i was in sec 4, and now i still wish i'm in sec 4... really, rgs has a lot of resources that we take for granted during our stay there. we made crepes and lansangna whereas ppl from other schs only made boring stuff like fried rice and wat not... we got centrifudges, pcr machines, autoclave machines, uv-vis spectrometer, incubators, tons of micropipettes etc etc... really fantastic lab facillities if you ask me. personally i didnt see a single micropipette in rj (and the burette in rj dont have a tap, its the ultra old fasion type that uses a clip!) let alone the other high tech stuff. probably rj has them, but i didnt even get to see (let alone use) them. our library and comp labs are very well equiped with loads of computers and iBooks omg! (in rj its hard to even find a comp to use) and we have comps in every classroom, and a very cool CLCLC (Cammee Lim Cyber Learning Center) lol.

rgs prepares us more for life skills rather than exams, and i loved that


rj aint too bad lah, they did teach us a lot and tried their best to prepare us for the As. we learnt a lot - u'll appreciate it in uni, still i wish things could be done differently. maybe when they get rid of A lvls lol, which is unlikely to happen i guess... oh wells...

i <3 rgs!

bored

in sch, computer lab, waiting for teacher to start... think they screwed up and didnt upload the prac ws b4hand on the sch website for us to download. okies. now he starting to intro the prac session liaos. 20mins gone.

they go photocopy the ws for us. so nice... haiz a lot of lab reports not done. got one due this fri, and got one due on 25th, and one on 24th. of this month of cos...

and got 3 quizes coming up too. this thurs org chem quiz. next thurs is intro bio quiz, next nex wedn is econs quiz. totally gonna heck abt econs. the econs only 20mcq in 40 mins.....

arghs this prac is like arghs... kk, no more blogging liaoz, need to finis the prac!

By michelle's request

ok fine... i'll update a bit

this week is my recess (i.e. holiday) week! yay!

spent the whole week slacking and playing! haha!

whee.... went cycling this morn, weather was sooo hot i'm like burnt now... well mostly my arms only lah... so not that bad...

school's ok... shudders to think that time passes so fast... like the exams are coming up way too soon! half the sem is gone already!@#!!@#!#@! seriously... where the heck did all the time go???? speaking of which i've wasted 19 years already! lol! getting old....

time flies

yes, its like, half the sem gone already. and its like i just started out in uni! time really flies!

We will meet again!

school's been good... haha but i haven blogged in a while again. ok since the title is named as such, i'll start with wx's farewell on sun instead... erm well... wat to say abt it? shopped with ash on fri for a prezzie. at jurong point... cos we went in the morn b4 our lessons. just nice - me at ntu, she from home at boon lay... so i thought jp would be convienient. in the end it turns out that i have no lab tho so i wasted my time going to sch from jp but oh wells... met at like 9? well i was late... it was more like... i woke up close to 9 -.-''' my bad... but then... realised later that the shops dont open that early!!! so like me n ash were hungry so we went to buy old chang kee and went to the food court and sat down and talked and ate old chang kee + some drinks we got until like.. cant remember... but quite late... maybe almost 11! :D haha... then i wanted to get some assesories for wx but like couldnt find anything that looks like wx's style. not glittery enough, not the type for her body... just not her... realised jp was a bad place to shop than... but like... no other choice now? -.- but b4 that darling ash remembered... wx's favourite body shop haha... so we went to our backup plan and walked ard and ard the small shop trying to decide wat to get for her. settled with the lip butter 1st... cos it'll be rather dry over there in winter... (actually ithink its dry in winter anywhere???) so it'll be practical... chose a funky smell... that's quite strong... fruity kind... we both like it... so gald that wx was thrilled with wat we chose haha :D then we walked ard the shop somemore trying to decide wat else to get her. we tried the perfume but ash say its too strong. so we tried the body mist but cant really tell the diff btw 2 of the scents... in the end i picked according to color w/o reading the words on the bottle... so that's how we ended but buying the bottle that says wat seductive scent or watever that wx was reading out LOL. oh man... next time we shd read the bottle as well as smell wat's inside :S

after that... shopping over... lunch! went to haha... sakae sushi for lunch whee!!!!!!!!!! apparently they have offer for like lunch buffet in some outlets, but got time limit of one hour... just nice for us since ash only got 1 hour b4 class! cannot waaste food else pay extra... no probs man... we like devoured the sushis lol... ate like 14 plates or smthing... on top of the two complementary red plates haha... wah ash we must do it again!!!! somehow just feel that i shd give wx my fav metal puzzles too... so we met a bit earlier on sun to go imm to buy them :D haha... wonder if wx really played with em on the flight.... but 18 hours long flight sia... 18 long long long hours! wat to do? i will die sia... play comp game maybe... shd have power point on the flight one... dont think got internet tho... or watch movies lol... but i'm not a fan of movies as you know... hm... was quite a big turnout at the farewell party... a lot of her church friends came and wx was like running all over the place... wah i suck big time at doing stuff like hosting! haha:P catered dinner... but the food her mum, grandpa and friend made were really good... was the best part i guess. esp the cheesecake her friend made... damn cool, very cheesy with choc bits!!! her friend made it again specially for her yest cos she didnt get to eat on sunday... real sweet of her:) then we watched the ping pong match in which sg didnt even bother to put up a fight... gah... oh and haha we took funky funky pictures after that :D - uploading in progress.. 10 left to upload...

skipped econs lect yest to go airport... lol shdnt have bothered to go for tut too... like didnt learn anything new like dat. lol. took like 1h 40mins+++ to reach there from sch... managed to finish 70% of a tut on the train... i was quite surprise that in the end i was the only one from rj there tho... like everyone wanted to go but sadly cldnt make it... ash last min say got bio test, mich got library tour, sandra got grounded :(, joanna went mia (dunnoe she got, but i thought she'll go) luckily a no. of her church friends went else it'll be a bit weird if its just me, her, her sis and her relatives+mum's friend like dat... as in.. no other teens... wah wx damn cool sia... was wearing black, rather tight fitting jeans and shiny sliver shoes with shiny black watch. HEY WAIT!!!! i just realised its the FIRST TIME i see wx wear JEANS omg!!!! haha cos she needs to wear long pants cos over there its abt 15 degrees or so... wahahahahah!!!! didnt take any pics with my cam tho... wx u better post those pics up soon! :D haha.

wahahaha... kk i'll stop her for the wx part... i think wx shd fill up the rest!!! haha.

now i go on to talk abt me myself and i :D

3rd week of uni so far. 1st lab session tmr. loving it so far. some lects are really cool... really enjoying myself at times... i'm so gald that i was a crazy girl reading all that extra stuff in sec sch. didnt help me than, but some of it helped me in jc, and now its STILL helping me in uni. cant believe it man, that some stuff i read soooo long ago is useful now. its like the stuff i learn soooo long ago is wat they are teaching now, some with added on knowledge of cos, but some like newman and fisher projection... there's nothing much to add on. those jc stuff are coming in useful too of cos... :D like today we learn abt the phase diagrams... at 1st look i didnt understand wat it was all abt... then i took a 2nd look and i was like... HEY I READ IT B4 IN SEC SCH!!!! somewhere... i think it was in a a lvl text or smthing... but that realy helped me understand the 1st part of the lecture, which is really helpful cos in this biophysical chem lecture... the past 2 lects took me really really long to understand and i only understood the lecture better after the tutorial... so today that was k inda like a breakthrough lol. and with stuff like biochem... gosh the stuff we are learning now is just so interesting... its wat i've wanted to learn abt all along... :D so yeah, on the whole i'm really happy with uni life right now. really slack too. yeah you have to study hard, read the lect notes, do tuts... but still, i've got so much more free time compared to jc. like there's a lot of free time in btw lects and tuts so i'll do my tuts during that time. and then lect notes? i'll glance through when printing them out and read them again b4 (and of cos during) lecture. guess i shd start doing extra work like reading the textbook etc soon... but basically so far its like quite slack... i find the whole system more like rgs than in jc... esp like the rgs sec 4options timetable wise. like you can pick which class u want to go to that sort of thing (yes wx, u're not the only one who gets to plan ur own timetable haha) in short, i'm loving uni so far, and loving my course a lot a lot... let's hope things stay nice and happy this way, hope that no one will ever come along and disrupt my love for science again :D :) :D

but yeah, haha i feel that i chose to perfect course for me. cos, i love chem a lot... but in jc i realised that i dont quite like inorg chem and phy chem. and org chem which gets too complicated... is well simply too complicated and not that easy to do. so in my course... we have org chem module (just talking abt the core modules here), but only in the 1st year, so we'l only be touching on the basic org chem stuff... and then we have biophysical chemistry. which i've realised is like... low lvl physical chem for little kids like me who hates it when it gets hard with too much math and phy calculations involved. basically we only learn the parts of phy chem that is relevant in bio, and we only learn the simple part becos that all you need to know to apply it in biological systems. cool man. cool stuff. :D was looking through the tuts more carefully and realised all the qns, however complicated looking at 1st, were actually very simple. only involves the choosing of the correct eqn (and remember which ones to use in exams too i guess) and doing calculations which is like primary school math plus we use a calculator. not that hard. probably need more practise tho. but yeah. loving it :D love it when the lecturers talk a lot of extra stuff... which some of them do quite often... all those lovely tibits of extra information... just like wat we had in sec sch (which is totally unlike rjc's policy of 'we dont teach if its not in the syllabus')... loved that, and am still loving it now... wah... feeling all the excitement when the lecturer talks abt smthing i read/studied b4, the kind of estacy i have not felt in a looong looong looong time... falling in love with science all over again... this feeling is great man, its just so great. and cos my friends didnt study a lot of the stuff which i did, they are always asking me qns... like the two of them, taking turns to ask me qns none stop... lol... loved that too... man... the more i speak, the more this feels like rgs, the better this feels! gosh! pure estacy. FINALLY!

Thanks for the memories, welcome to the end of the beginning.

So it was a hectic last week at ibn. my mentor was rushing to finish off his experiments, and i was busy wiht the last of the experiments PLUS making of my exit presentation. the presentation went well in the end... well at least i didnt stumble too much and could answer the qns they asked.

It was a great 6 months at ibn. 6 months wow. time flies. in all i've been in ibn for ard 9 months already. so much that i learnt there. all the watching of the safety videos lol. now at ntu sbs, they made us watch some videos too... the same ones that i watched at ibn! lol. luckily they tell us to watch at our own time, so i skipped the ones that i watched for 4 times already... maybe if i'm realy bored i'll watch it again... but then again, watching it for the 5th time would make my REAL bored! LOL.

Thanks for the memories... learning how to use the mircopipette properly. that was most likely the 1st thing i learn under the electric fan. yeah. the legendary pipetter. LOL... something that requires care and attention when doing, smthing that still lets me down at times. ew. then i learnt how to use the multi channel pipette. lol... u can call this... erm.. upgrading? haha. learnt to use loads of equipment too... like the UV-Vis machine, freeze dryer... k i cant really load the sample properly onto the freeze dryer... scared the thing will fall off and break but nvm... and of cos my favourite, beloved rheology machine... cant stand it when ppl from other labs come and make a mess on the machine and never clean up, and i dont understand how, within the span of a few months, ppl can use the machine in such a careless manner as to leave TONS of scratches on the dear sensor... when after 3 years of using the sensor by me and fan, and some other students, the sensor didnt so much as to sustain a single scratch! those ppl.... really! sheesh!

i gotta thank fan loads for teaching me so much stuff tho. he took my power point making skills to a new lvl... we made good ppt in sch for pts (performance task). but the problem with those are that.... they are sch projects. we put loads of graphics, animations etc... stuff totally unecesary in working arena. and after 2 whole years of not doing a single pt, i really have to thk him for being so nice and editing my ppt, adding in content, coming up with a good title for me... really i dont think any other mentor does that. at least not the ones in my lab. actually, i dont think he edited his other student's exit presentation... didnt see him do it at least? dont know. but yeah he took good care of me... lol spoilt me a lil with the constant tea breaks and always thinking for me. but that's the problem with me doing his project i guess. and i have no idea i'm truely really to do my own project... know too lil and slack too much. !#$@#$@ i shd finish this post soon and read tmrs lect notes!!!!!!!!!!! but yeah, thks for teaching me so much, patiently showing me how to do cell culture, telling me your mental processes when planning experiments. i'll put them to good use :D

and for my friends out there who has been teasing me all the time... i admire this guy for his maturity - the way he carrys himself during work and how he plans out experiments and stuff. granted he has 4 years worth of experience as of now, but he didnt seem less confident/mature etc 2 years ago... i really wonder if i can match up to him. when i'm as old as him/with as much working experience, would i been as discipline, and mature as him? would i be able to plan and carry out my experiments as well as he does? partly, his discipline and hardworkingness is what motivates me to work hard now, and his love for science and research... seeing him smile through his eyes when he talks abt his love and passion... i know that doing research can be a great, rewarding job. i know i can do it, and i cant possibly loss out to him :) and so its time to study!


Thanks for the memories!

last week left - the end of the beginning

its the end of the beginning. i phrase i coined myself... how apt. now that ibn attachment is ending, and uni life will very soon begin. study hard... an advice i've hear constantly. i will try my best!

i hope that the end of the ibn attachment will but be a beginning of my love affair with science. tho i had been in love with science in sec sch (and b4 that), jc life has made everything uninteresting for me, and ended my flair for science. thks to this attachement, i very much hope that the flame can be relighted again, and be left to burn till eternity, and may the fuel never run out, and may the wood be dry and easy to light... it's time i start working hard again. i've been lazing around for way too many years. time to start work. its now or never.

whee

went swimming on sat and sun, haha, kinda felt like i did do smthing more useful this weekend.

on another note, i need to get new earphones again. spoilt my old ones yet again. like the nth on i've spoilt lah. dun ask me why. and i dont yank it ard or anything like that. sucks man. grrrrr.

on a happier note, there'll be a troop meeting smtime soon. as a belated bday celebration for our dear michelle! happy belated bday darling! you are now 19!

August is coming

yes, august is coming, meaning that, my attachment at ibn is coming to an end :( and that sch is starting.

that means soon i'll have to stop my crazy playing way, and start getting crazy over school work. a different form of craziness. still need to decide how much time to put into weiqi.

online matriculation is quite late sia, and i think i can only see the timetable after matriculation... so i still dunnoe how my week would go... buying books and stuff also have to wait till sch opens then see wat to buy and find seniors to buy from. then also need to explore the school. haven explore it yet..... hmm. all starting from 4 aug bah.

personalities

they say boys mature more slowly... now that i think abt it... its true... and maybe the fact that people claim i'm more mature for my age doesnt help too... how fast ppl mature will depend on your experiences and personality i guess. arghs boys seem sooooo immature. it really doesnt help when the bench mark i have seems to be too high (compared to other boys of the same age). i think my mentor is an exception bah. even when he is childish i still think its quite ok... whereas some ppl who is the same age as him are contstantly very childish. like maybe they are just the more talkative, gossip loving type... or watever. but really depends a lot on personality i think. a no. of boys i met are quite/very mature too. and yes i've actually met quite a no. of boys my age who are very mature, handle their responsiblities very well, are trustworthy... able to handle situations well. in chinese i would say they have good ban shi nen li, together with the fac that they are actually very mature. this is in contrast to some other guys... esp this guy whom as usual i will not mention the name or even make it obvious who he is. while he can be serious, i think he jokes too much... like adding too much lame jokes into what is supposed to be a rather serious occasion. and ban shi nen li cannot quite make it also. and he's not too young anymore, and more importantly his role requires him to be more serious.... really hope he improves..... otherwise...... shant say it and give his identity away.

other ppl have no sense of occasion... behaving noisly/childishly/distractingly when the situation calls for a more serious mood... of cos i must say that some girls can be quite/equally childish, just as some boys are also very mature. oh well. i've come to accept that my mentor is one of his kind... just as the numerous friends i met in jc. sad that they got NS so we wont really meet in uni... those guys i met in my cca are really nice boys i'd like to keep in touch with. hopefully someday we will meet again bah. okies that's all for today.

tired

yes i'm tired. had a long discussion at the swa yc thingy. in front was, in my opinion, mostly talking abt useless stuff. only point no. 13 seems more useful... same as the last meeting. zzz.

kk time to sleep.

whee

today had a rather enjoyable day. lunch was particulary funny. went out with all the students in my lab, plus my friend in the next lab, plus the new lab officer, plus my mentor. yeah he in ultra good mood today. had funny funny convos lah. then they asked my mentor what's there to do in taipei cos my friend going there for 5 days in aug. haha aug not a good time to go sia. apparently its hotter over there in aug compared to sg! :S

haha. ok. today was damn fun... but somehow i got nothing to write. or rather, i dunnoe how to write. oh wells.

busy busy busy

wah today is a busy + tiring day man! spent the whole day in the lab, save for lunch time and less than 20 mins from like 4+ to ard 4.20pm. no time to even take my comp out of my bag, or drink water!

went to work earlier today. reached b4 9. but as usual, my mentor was there already... and was already in the lab when i reach. but i think he just reached/went to the lab cos he haven even take out the materials from the freezer yet. in fact, he dont even have the experiment protocol cos he printed out one for me yest and he never print another one after that (being the nature/earth loving, save the environement person that he is...) then after that was... standing up the whole morn as he did the main part of the experiment. in the afternoon tho... i was the one doing everything... and that took quite long sia... only finish all the cell culture stuff at 5pm. and since my whole day was already gone, i decided to be nice and fill up all the glass pipettes and pipette tips etc... and that took until like 6.30pm. and that was with my friends help (tho she fill v slow and only joined later, but she still manged to fill like 3 boxes... tho i filled like twice as many in the same time period :P total i filled ard 10 boxes of pipette tips today... )

z. i'm tired!

haiz.

hmm let me see. today was quite an interesting day. yeah, quite a no. of things happened.

went to work, started off by doing imaging. yup, taking pics of cells and more cells. in 24 well plates. then i warmed up and change the medium for all my cells. 1 flask + the well plates one. while taking images there was suddenly a power outage, and the air con stopped working after that. started getting rather hot n stuffy in the cell culture room but then i was almost finishing. then i realise that cos normally the cell culture lab quite cold mah, but now no air con so the lens and other metal, cold parts started having water vapour condensing on them. couldnt see the image properly... had to wipe off all the water 1st. then just as i was finishing up (only lef the clearing up to do), got annoucement asking us to all evacuate nanos. decided to parafilm the medium n keep it in the fridge b4 going off. went back to main lab, take off lab coat, fan came rushing in to the lab asking everyone to leave, and check that no one left in the lab... so we all proceeded down... lol quite a while since we last evacuated the building liao. but happens quite often. i think the 3 or 4th during this current attachment liao. all false alarms. got once was cos the air in lvl 9 smell weird. they found later was due to some polluted air that got into the fresh air ducts at the top of the building... dunnoe how it happen/wat pollutant it was... but today... was cos the air con not working... and ppl complain v stuffy then they decided to evacuate everyone in case ppl start to faint... hmmm... air con went back on really soon after we came down tho. then i went to get the images and clean up, then went to look for fan... but then he was getting ready to go lunch with other lab officers... so joined them for lunch at ghim moh... haha good:D i more than 2week nvr go out for lunch liao (as in go holland v/drive/ghim moh, ok that day got treated at crystal jade but other than that v long nvr go out liao) haha finally see the char kway teow stall open... ok lah... waited abt 15 mins in line... food was ok lah... hmm... dunnoe. cant remember how nice one supposed to taste like liao.

showed kor the pics, no good... haiz. than later he came looking for me, quite happy... found some video abt the protocol, haha. put him in a good mood all day. was supposed to do assay for expt we did yest, but guess wat? some smart guy in my lab changed the speed of the orbital shaker from 25rpm to 200 rpm, and the caps came loss... dunnoe how much evaporated... in other words, we had no choice up to repeat... haiz. luckily he in a good mood.. else i dunnoe how loudly he'll be banging the table. and in part thks to the horrid ph adjusting time we had yest, things went much more smothly today. and he briefed me abt his project plans, smthing he hasnt done in ages. well in fact he hasnt talked properly to me in ages too... haiz. hmm thinking back, i think i know why he so moody these few days liao... but not sure if its also why he has been so moody the psat few weeks? oh wells. this guy is a big puzzle/mystery to figure out... lol. i said exactly the same thing abt hhx. yeah anyways that's how my day went... quite interesting maybe? oh wells. cya tmr...

free today!

wahaha, i'm so free today that i can even blog at work. only have to take photos and change medium today. and then helped my mentor out with stuff like changing water bath water, labeling the chemical waste, changing the oil for the vacum pump etc. really quite slack arh? but still that took the whole morn and half the afternoon. so maybe its not that slack after all... lol. anyways, kor kor is in a gd mood today so all's well. no awarkward slience can le. haha

one less student in the student room

haha, someone was in a GOOOOOD mood yesterday. a nice change from his moodiness in the start of the week. his good mood not only lasted from the dinner since wedn night, but he was even happier than one thurs. only that we didnt have any expt to do so i barely saw him the whole day, else things would have been grand. out of all the days at ibn... i can only count a handful of days when he's so happy.

and we got a treat for lunch too. by the mentor of the student who is leaving. at crystal jade in holland village. pretty good lah... to thank us for all being their slaves and doing stuff like passaging 32 flasks of cells and filling pipette tips etc etc. tsk tsk... that's smthing my mentor can learn from her............ LOL. wah damn good sia, she gave her student kino vouchers lah! dunnoe how much... but still... ahem somebody didnt do anything of that sort when i left last time... *ahem* she gave her mentor a mug too... haha cos she saw that her mug damn dirty liao... got all the brown coffee stains that cant be washed off. hmm i think wind's mug still damn clean. cos he swore off drinking coffee liao and only drinks it like once a month... mostly only drink milo with his mug. eh... cant think of wat to get him yet... harder to get stuff for guys sia? as in, hard to get stuff that's practical for guys, even made for someone like my mentor. hmm. lol the teddy bear n weiqi set i gave him last time still sitting in the office. the weiqi set stored somewhere in the cupboard. the teddy bear part of the happy bear house his colleges made with cardboxes. LOL. both QUITE useless loh. QUITE only lah. gotta see if i can find a book teaching the basics of weiqi. since he DOESNT know how to play weiqi. eh... nid to follow up on my previous gift lah. lol.

being HIS student, i'm gald i'm still (in my opinion) pretty good at reading emotions. now i gotta get better at reading ppl's minds too. lol. quite gd leh, both of us. we each can guess wat the other is talking abt b4 we speak finish many a times liao. like i'd be wanting to ask a qn and he goes yes yes b4 i even ask the qn. of cos it wasnt completely out of the context lah. but his mind wanders and jumps abt and smtimes after talking abt smthing completely unrelated he jumps back to talk abt work and stuff like dat... and i have to be quick to know what the heck his talking abt. helps that i kinda know his train of thought/way of thinking, so most of the time i can catch him:D haha. it'll be sad when i have to leave. and it'll come soon. even sadder when he leaves sg. after that i wonder if we'll even meet again. hmm... maybe when i'm doing my own phd? lol. gotta clear the degree step 1st. oh wells..... hard to find someone you get close enough to confine in. i realise a lot of ppl confine in me? maybe cos i aint the gossipy type and i'm a quiet person and i can just sit and listen to ppl talk. and maybe that's why me and my mentor click together so well. if he get a student like joanna i think he will die. well not die lah... since he did survive with a similar student like ashley. lol. but nah they aint gonna click at all. LOL. always arguing in fact. very funny to hear them argue. haha.

ok enough of that. lol.

dinner

went out for dinner with two fellow students today. our mentors get to go for the ibn 5th anniversay dinner, so its fitting that we too shd go out for dinner :P this week is one of the student's last week too, so thought we shd go out together b4 she leaves. haha loads of fun and laughter today, and loads of discussing abt our mentors too. talked abt how some mentors have particular pet phrases and stuff like that... lol... saying that my mentor is the most introverted person they've eer met... lol i said that thks to their presence, he has reverted back into being more introverted and much less talkative... sighz... my weeks of effort getting him to warm up a bit wasted. its v obvious. whenever other ppl are ard in the lab he becomes.... v quiet and like v uneasy. haiz. zhen shi de.

BUT when its jus the two of us, most of the time he's more relaxed and more talkative. i noticed that now he talks more in chinese. but ways lah. i talk to him more in chinese too. haha i like it when he speaks chinese... like that accent haha, only that my chinese has gone v rusty from lack of use and my chinese std was never as gd as his to began wif. hmm. getting to know him soooo well... i wonder if any other student knows him as well. in fact i think even his colleges dont know him as well as i do... maybe...

haha the other student was commenting that she realized my mentor lets me tag along a lot. yeah. absolutely. if i dont tag along/help him out, then i'll be doing NOTHING in ibn. cos i dont have my own project like they do. and with simple stuff yeah he'll leave me to do it myself, but with the experiments i'm not familiar with, or current experiments, he'll do it with me unless he's not ard or he's ultra busy... but basically we do the expts 2gether. so if i dont tag along, er that wat am i supposed to do? for the rest its diff, they do their own project/follow protocols given by their mentors. he asks me to plan experiments smtimes, but many a times he does the planning and i'm his assitant when he does the experiment. so i'm either playing a support role, or where possible, i'll do a part and he does another. either way with two person doing one thing we get things done faster and hopefully more efficiently. and of cos when it comes to menial tasks like shaking the cells every 20 mins, its my duty and he can happily do his stuff in the office...

but yeah. wat i like abt it in ibn is that i feel a sense of self worth. i know that the results from the experiments i carry out will be put to actual use, not like a project made up to entertain me or smthing like that. the data i got in my last attachment they use in a paper... makes me proud really... of cos i was 99% merely taking and carrying out orders. but it means that my results are reliable. my mentor taught me and trained me and made sure that my experimental skills are good, as good as he does it himself, and i really learn a lot in the process. unlike this student who came for only 2 weeks... its weird... his mentor didnt bother/supervise him much, but he spends an awful lot of time in the hood.... like the whole day... doing smthing that could be finished in much much lesser time... he prepared some culture medium but apperantly there are chunks in it, and now that he's left, his mentor asked the other student to prepare new medium, saying she doesnt dare to use the one prepared by him.
its strange... if i were her i would have at least watched him once to make sure he knows wat he is doing... dunnoe but that is completely diff from what my mentor does. really really the best mentor you can ever have. not becos he knows the most, but becos he willingly and wholehearted imparts information and knowledge to you. he told me abt his thinking process when he designed protocols the other day... i dont think anyother researcher in my grp taught their students that. yeah he has his mood swings and periods of time when he doesnt want to talk, but i can understand that... he's a quiet person by nature, somewhat like how i was last time, and still am. only that we are slightly diff. but when he's in a happier mood things can go real great and i'd be having a grand time. really enjoyable times, and thoes days would be more than sufficient to make spending my holidays at ibn worth the while. haha not to mention all that he has taught me. academic, experience, and many many other things, advice... no i'm not going to say them here. never will. haha. too bad for you reader. those lessons are mine to learn and keep :D

i'm considered a rather senior member in the lab lol. i really hope that this experience will help me greatly in the future. uni labwork shd be a breeze now. seriously hope so. haha. watch out guys, i'm gonna pawn u all!

my friend once called me a rock in the ocean, clam and unfazed by watever comes. i think my mentor beats me to it. ok maybe not always but i feel that generally he is clamer, cooler, and boy does he think a hell lot more, and way way (most of the time at least) ahead of me. yeah. he's good. not denying that. the best mentor you can ever half.

hmm ibn rocks

being there as a student at least...

haha wind maker in a good mood today:D

pretty busy today eh... tmr will be even worst! gotta wake up early tmr... and thurs too. no fair lah. got ibn 5th aniversay dinner but i'm 99.99% sure that students are completely forgotten n left out... my friend's last day this fri... after coming for 6 weeks... 6 weeks only... lol would have been a looooong time for me last year or even in jc1... but now it seems like its soooo short! haha. been in ibn too long as a student is like dat one. i'm the big senior there lol. even tho by age i'm the youngest. haha some stuff even the staff would ask me lol. got new lab officer in my lab. a star scholar serving one yr bond b4 doing phd. he was here last time as a student with me too... haha, when i went in june in jc one :P. now he lab officer liao. wah time flies! yeah, and there's this research scientist in my lab lah. with a student(the one who is leaving this fri). she never teach her student one lah. everything she will tell her student: anything ask wanyi. and : wanyi knows everything. wah?!?!?! i'm honored but still...? and fan also getting v smart. the last time my attachment i keep using this pheology machine. now got a lot of ppl want to use also... and ask fan to teach them how to use... and fan ask me to teach them how to use. wah... i shd get more pay!!!!!!!! and then on mon got ibn open hse... just nice during that time the staff got grp meeting wif prof ying... so they say: send a student to present! and who else knows the speech better than me who have listened to my mentor present for XXX times? wah....

and when the handy man in the lab went on leave wat happens? ask the student of Mr fix it + know it all + handyman! wah.... once again i'm honored, but then i was hoping i could slack during the few days my mentor wasnt ard! in the end i was even more busy than when he's ard! wah lao eh.... someone still owns me lunch for helping her present man.......... gotta remind her soon b4 she forgets.... tsk tsk.

haha... but its nice getting to know my mentor. i feel privileged many a times. he went on leave and no one else but me (and i'm sure he'll have to tell our grp ldr) knows. like ppl were asking me, where's Mr handyman? he not here today? when is he coming back? no one else knows where he disappeared to. haha. i'm truely honored. (and no drawbacks or buts to this one lol) yeah. i really want to get to know him better. want to know how he thinks. how he comes up with all that ideas. and most importantly. he's self disappline motivates me. to do better, to be at least on par with him. many you can say that i take him as my competitor. as a role model. i gotta be as good as him, no less. that sorta thing. but i like it. finding back my motivation to study n suceed. well i hope i suceed, but we can but try. that guy's one h3ll lot of a daring and hardworking guy. he may not be the extremely smart, but he's more than willing to work hard for it. not following the crowd, following his heart, his ideas his own. nothing else. lame as can be, but like i said, he's funny enuff to make make laugh, just like hhx was. i'm liking him just like i liked hhx. and like how hhx lasted me through sec sch, i hope this will last me through uni and beyond.

gotta wake up earlier tmr. gotta reach ibn earlier to start experiment. lalala. work's gd. i love it. work's fun, lets hope it'll remind so even when i start work proper, and not as an attachment student.

wahahaha

hmm firefox is cool! this particular add on called snap links had better be upgraded to be compatible with the latest firefox SOON though, life suxs w/o it...

anyways i hope work would be ok tmr... in order words i hope the wind maker is out of his unapproachable, dont wanna talk to anybody mood... yeah. hope so.....

update at last!

hi all, been a long long long time since i last blogged yeah?

so i decided to go see if there are any firefox add ons that lets you blog easily... and bingo, i found scribefire.... haha

so maybe i'll be blogging more often from now on???

maybe.


anyways some updates

1. i'm still at ibn, just extended my attachment to 1 aug, heck abt orientation and wat not, ibn is fun, that's all that matters

2. ibn rocks. my mentor wasnt ard from mon to thurs and like... i've become the replacement lab officer.... man i get 4 days of salary!!!

3. i got into and chose ntu biological science. i like it much better than nus. really. i think nus have a great name but in reality aint as good as it sounds. too bad for all the nus followers out there.... i just dont agree with u guys.

so i went malaysia with my parents for a day trip on sun... follow tour grp again.... erm... meet an rgs teacher who taught me and my sis.... horrors of horrors man. yeah. a teacher who cant teach. (why is she still called a teacher man?) yeah. some really old teacher who knows nothing abt science (but somehow is teaching that subject) 'nuff said.

hmmmmmmmmm i think quite a lot of things happened since i last blog? now i've moved into a new room, rearranged the furniture too so now i got my table in this room and i'm no longer sleeping wif my sis.... hmmmmmm

wat else shd i talk abt?

work today was..... erm ok....... mentor went into the non-responsive, refuse to talk to you mood again. haiz. hope he'll switch back into the more talkative mood on mon, else my day would be quite miserable....

haiz. so much of how my day would go is dependent on his mood... gah.

BUT i must say that overall he is one very very nice boy... if only he had a younger sis, she would be the luckiest person on planet earth! lol, you can say that this kind of man is either extinct or married (or gay?!?!) lol.... watever.

i realise... this guy is pretty lame at times, when he is talkative that is... but despite his lameness, he makes me laugh, and makes me interested in science/research, and gives me, in a sense, a purpose and a goal in life. just like wat hhx/water gave me. wind and water. they go together... how apt n nice. yeah. of cos wind is his own unique person, but in many a ways (like how his lameness makes me laugh, how he forces you to think instead of just giving out the answer) he is just like water. wind and water goes together.... man, i'll miss him loads when my attachment ends. just like i still miss my water. yeah. he's really taught me a lot a lot during my attachments. both academic and otherwise. and now that he's taught me so so much, and given me a goal and the motivation to work/study hard once more, i want to keep at it and blast my way through uni. i dont want my uni days to be like i was in jc. i want it to be like it was in sec sch, where i had fun, read a lot, learnt watever i wanted to, and did well. i was almongst the top in class for sci, i was always known as the kid who was crazy abt sci, ppl acknowlegde that i was a sci pro, and in terms of results, i showed them i was good. esp in lower sec. in jc, nah it was diff, i lacked the motivation to study, didnt do a single thing right... no i dont want that to happen again. i want to go crazy all over again, go estatic over bio... that one thing that i love, and there's org chem too, yet another thing that i adore... i want to get on highs when reading my textbook, and i want to develop ways to remember stuff w/o having to memorize. i hate memorization. granted some stuff are pure memorization, but i want to keep it at minimum. want others memorize, i will remember. and i will do it, i will succeed.

lalala

haha, today i a happy day :D













tells a lot doesnt it? ;)

hmmm

today is a nice day

went out with my darling ash for dinner, at sakae cos her math lesson got cancelled. so like we happily sat there and talked and ate and talked and ate until like almost 10pm, and we were like the 2nd last customer to leave the place. haha we ate damn a lot lah, like 14 plates. all the cheap 1.99 plates tho... wanna save $ tho in the end still ended up spending like 18bucks cos we sat there for damn long and keep on eating :P

but yeah it was nice talking to my darling ash:P we shd do that again someday! haha, but not too soon lah, else my parents will nag and stuff... or maybe on a weekend.... or like fri or smthing.... like not on a day when i'm ultra busy... cos now i'm like uber supper tired and (yeah y am i still blogging?) i got work tmr...

haha yeah ultra busy today... cell culture... that's the way things are... like at 6.30+ we were still in lab doing experiment. u know like we are supposed to knock off at 6.... supposed to lah, not the 1st time i stayed in lab till 6.30 anyways... and my mentor last time he will stay in the lab till like 1-2am. wah...

yup but anyways wanted the blog cos today is a happy day. cos somebody is like in a gd mood and being rather talkative and not acting TOO weirdly today... not very talkative... but well, not bad today lah.. quite talkative.... not like total silence. well how abt slightly lesser periods of time with total silence? haha. just not so awkward lah. yeah. smthing like that. haha. some funny stuff happened today too. but nah i'm not gonna talk abt it. lol. gonna sleep soon. oh wait. i haven bathe :P

lol, i'm back, amazed?

haha, been a long time since i last bothered to blog. stopped blogging cos previously the work at rh was way too depressing to talk abt. like completey dumb, mindless, messy work. haha. yeah. didnt want to turn stupid so i quite after 2 n a half weeks. and went back to ibn where i still am now:D

same place, same mentor, diff project. of cos its still abt hydrogels. we are the hydrogel grp afterall. that part will never change, but now its a diff project. doing some cell culture work too, haha, was damn nervous at 1st, now i guess i'm not as clumsy working in the hood, but i haven had much chance to practise working in the hood with cells though, so its really hard to tell. but of cos, i still need loads of practise to get anywhere near a decent standard of doing cell culture work.

More pics!

More pics!

aint this doggy cute?


view of the mouzhou lake, i think this place has the best scenary compared to all the other places we visited!



more pics of the lake











cute cute foxes!







pics from the waterfall place:P

long time no blog!

hmm

let's see wat i've done so far.

went out with darling jlf that day! we went to bugis, then j8, ate sakea again haha! and i finally submitted application form for rh (which they called me back on fri, interview/meeting tmr)

wanted to meet up with mich for lunch but she got some talk... :(
yeah so in the end me and jlf went to eat lunch by ourselves... then we walked ard bugis n bugis street to look for some necklace for her to give her cousin n friend back in china... but sadly bugis street dosent really have the kind of necklace she is looking for lah:( but still we managed to find one nice one there.... then we went to the food junction for dinner, then cos she needed another necklace, we went to j8 mini toon and buy... dunnoe since when some mini toon outlets sold necklace and earring lah... and they are quite nice somemore... and not too ex...

haha so nice going out with jlf again! haha talking abt maple the whole way! and i introduced her to trickster:D and asked her to go try it! :D:D yay yay yay!

haha, another 4 member troop outing on tues night. meeting up for dinner:D

went shoppinh wif my mum at bugis on fri (yes, bugis again... and i went there again on sat, will be going there again on mon morn, and tues night... lol mich must be throughly sick of that place now?) and i got a pair of black pants that i can wear for work... (assuming i get to work at rh). anyways the pants was only like 18.90 and amazingly fits me very well... so like heck lah, just buy. the sewing not very good tho... hence the reason y its so cheap i guess.

gotta study for my sats which is like in less than 1 weeks time! wah!

Some pics

Here are some random pics in no particular order


a view from the gardern of the 1st (and last) hotel we stayed in, hotel excel tokyu.


a scene of a street in tokyo


another tokyo street scenary, can see that the temp is 10 degrees:P


i found the architecture of this building rather interesting, so i took a snap from the bus...


This shot was taken at the Rusutsu Ski Resort on day 6. you can see some ppl playing on inflatable rubber tires in the background...


Also taken on day 6, a scene of the street across the sapporo morning fish market



sea urchin! oh man, i love it! the nice sweet taste and unique soft texture... simply melts in your mouth!



Raw crab and scallop at the sapporo fish port!


This shot was taken at the Sapporo Morning Fish Market, also on day 6... nice crabs eh?


Raw sea urchin! not a lot of flesh inside each one, but man they taste good!!!!!


our meal at sapporo seaport, the place where we chose our food n they prepared it right away for us! the best meal of da trip!


i love the winter scenery... esp of the snow of these evergreen trees! could only see them on the bus though... so yeah this pic is taken from the bus hence the image is a bit blurry... cos the bus windows aint that clean:P (cos of the water vapor turning into ice)

from last yr till now...

lets start from the cca open hse at rg i went to last yr... haha it was great fun meeting up with sw and hc! i swear hc got darker! not cos i haven see her in a long time! haha we talked for the longest time.... like at least 3 hrs? 3 hrs of talking non-stop! my throat felt soar afterwards haha! anyways thks for the bookmark sw! love ya two little ones:D the closest juniors i'll probably ever haf:D lol woke up on christmas morning to see smses wishing me merry xmas... it was like 6am jap time then... so like 7am sg time??? from the two of ya haha... didnt know hc sent me actually, cos i lost my phone n didnt put her name into my contacts... but somehow it came together with sw msg and i tot, must be from hc de! (and a check with my sis confrimed it!) wah, thks u two! *hugs*

then went out with my sis's friends on new year's day... was supposed to have a troop outing then... but erm... WHERE HAVE ALL MY TROOPERS GONE??? :(

anyways my sis n her 2 friends went to watch movie, they my parents went there and fetched me n them to east coast to cycle! yay for cycling! but then it wasnt TOO fun... as in the cycling... erm cos... erh... public holiday lah... SOOOOOOOO CROWDED! like even the fringes of the park which are normally deserted.... are FILLED with PPL! unbelievable! still managed to cycle fast anywaysXD haha.

so that day we smuggled wz to the park, then convinced her to stay with us for dinner:D XD yay! had dinner at swensens... at parkway parade... i tried this set meal they had on promotion... came with chicken soup and appo juice... loved the soup... and the main dish of chicken was great too! nicely cooked, not too hard or dry, juicy, tender, and the sauce was good too... it had a very interesting taste, not too sweet, but neither was it too salty. yeah i was a gd dinner...

been spending a lot lately.... keep going out with friends = spend lotsa money:S

then of cos there was thr troop outing on sun! yay! haha 1st we went to ramenten for... jap ramen... then we headed to espanade to look for joy... well we went raffles city 1st actually, tried ben and jerrys ice cream for the 1st time, its was gd! a bit ex lah so that's a place u shd only go with friends so u can order more favours and share the cost! plus who can eat so much ice cream anywaysXD?
oh and joanna got a new hair cut from taiwan... looks nice on her but NO it wont look nice on me thank you.

not bad sia, at last the 6 trooper reunite on one outing:D and of cos having joy there was an added bonus:D then joy had to go back to her volunteer work thingy so we headed off to esplanade lib... wondered around raffles city and such on the way... then we decided to plonk our butts on someplace in the lib... and then guess wat? we met joy again! another break for her:D yay! (oh and btw she's got the same phone as me, but my sis's colour!)

we headed to bugis after that, walked around a bit then we decided to go eat sakae sushi... lol more jap food...! yup, nice dinner... took lotsa pics... and they played around with some cam functions... oh and i forgot the price of the digi cam le... yay... even tho my dad got it like less than a month ago...wah... i rock.

yup... shared salmon n swordfish with wx... haha and i ate like a lot of salmon sushi! like A LOT!

then sandra, mich n ash headed home 1st... but it was kinda early (for me)... like 8.30pm onli... dun feel like going home... then joanna was asking me where bugis street was... then i suggested going there with her.. and of cos we dragged wx along:D

haha not bad sia... two of them got a dress each... and wx got a necklace... then they found a necklace that matches my outfit... and yeah... not bad lah actually... i was kinda eyeing that lighting shaped long chained necklace earlier on already... :X



still no reply from rh. i'm being such a lazy bum, i shd just go down and ask if they got vacancies... or i could apply to a star... or smthing. like i said, i'm being such a lazy bum...

went back to rj for cca feste yest, met up with joy there too! (yay i've got a lot of joy in my lifeXD) haha yeah met 3k, wenyu, zijun n of cos my dear sw... too bad i missed hc... oh n i met the rest too.... like tain fei.. and xuan ni... and who else> then went out with 3k, zijun n wenyu to lj for??? lunch + dinner.... at 3plus... yeah... had my usual grilled chicken... 3k ate a lot lah! like she always does... so it was her constant buying of food that allowed us to stay in lj for over 2 hrs waiting for sw to finish her meeting with the long winded and my most hated soooo funnny person... lol... we were talking abt random stuff... when suddenly our convo turned back to weiqi and kang lao shi and watever not... when i saw james, kaiwen, alvin and some other person that i know e face dunnoe e name walking into lj... LOL. yeah i said hi to them duh... they recognise me anyways.... nice timing man... when 3k n the lot was loudly exclaiming kang loa shi smthing smthing smthing... u know 3k with the ultra loud voice...

3k said she recognise kaiwen from somewhere... lol... comps lah... probably the nu zhi sai last yr... since it was the most recent that and i doubt kai wen appear in any of the other comps... sw came around that time too.. she dont know any of them though...

so we talked for a while more till sw finished her dinner... then yups, we headed home... yeah... nothing much hippening happening lah... yinster got a 3X3 rubiks cube... which is like sitting right in front of me now... cant finish it... can do the 1st layer easily enough... but not after that... :X blah... got all that ding shi they memorise for it too... mah... more ding shi??? i shd work on my weiqi ding shi 1st.

going out with jlf tmr! yay! go bugis again... and eat sakea sushi again... lol... oh wells... its nice to see her again tho... haven seen her in a while! missed her!

gotta study for sats too, dun wanna miss by 70 again... haiz...

had i bad dream that i got 3As and 3Bs... dunnoe where that 6th sub came from... h3? lol but h3 is graded diff... oh pw maybe... (which i already did get a B)... dreamt that 1 of those As came from gp... so in actual fact i got 2As, 2Bs... ouch... never gonna get an a star scholarship with that... :( oh man... i only hope that i dont get worst results than that. ouch!


blah.
dunnoe wat i shd do now. having 2nd thoughts abt working in rh... (like i'll even get a job there???) waah lao... i shd get to work...! like mich and ash! not slack around like some useless bum (which i am) and play com games every day (like i do).

help!

btw: @ wz, yinster = yin yi my sister:D