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...