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!