What's my age now? o.o

got my fb wall spammed with bday wishes yesterday... the amazing things abt social media lol... ppl whom i'm not meet in ages... ppl whom i've not talked to in ages... its nice to have a reminder like this saying that they hopefully do remember you. than there are also those ppl who just saw the notification that XXX bday is today and they just join in the fun and wishh you happy bday too. thks, even tho i dont know who you are... i was quite surprised that even my jc teacher wished me haha. guess she's quite a fb addict, happily sharing pics of her newborn on fb all the time :)

lunch yest = crab, as expected :) but ah the crab was fantastic yesterday... my dad will buy from the stall at tiong bahru... nvr haggle price... heck, he dont even ask stuff like how much per kg etc... its like just a mutual understanding btw stall holder and customer - he knows that we know about crabs, and we want the good ones. we dont care abt the price, just give us the good ones. the uncle will always dig out the crabs from the boxes hidden at the back of his stall for us... other ppl just get the lousier ones on display at the front of the stall. my parents always say those he's hiding are probably for sale to restaurants and all. *shrugs* i'm just happy we get the nice crabs XD. steamed... that's how crabs ought to be eaten XD not butter or chilli or pepper crabs....

ah.... bday present... my sis obviously didnt get my anything. she just pulled an all nighter last thurs over PW... and her promos are starting tmr. my parents got me... they got me two shirts, and a mouse. i was really quite surprised that my dad bought me a mouse... i guess it cos he just got one at the IT show, and found the logitech wireless mouse to be very good, so he got me one as well DESPITE me constantly saying that i do not like wireless mouse (and mouse with at least an additional back and forward button). so he did get me a mouse with back and forward buttons... but its wireless.... logitech + the battery life is supposed to last 3 years... quite pricey too... i'll take their word for it when they say the batteries will last... but i'm not too keen to use the mouse cos... its freaking heavy! the wired mouse that i just bought a few months back is super light, so i'm kind of used to the light weight already... plus the logitech mouse is SUPER heavy, esp with two AA batteries stuffed in. previously all the wireless mouse i came across uses two AAA, smaller, lighter batteries... this logitech mouse uses the big ones... -.-''' no wonder its so heavy!

response is also a bit jerky at times, doesnt feel as good... i wish there was an option to change the dpi too... still, the main issue is the weight. my dad loves heavy stuff so yeah... he wont quite understand... but my wrist started aching after a few hours of using the new mouse last night T.T so much so that i switched back to the old mouse. bah. i really dont like finding fault about gifts from others, esp when it costs so much (like i could have bought 3 of the wired mouse i'm using now!)... but i really wont be using the new mouse much cos of the supreme weight! T.T haiz. wat to do?

1 week recess break starts today... muscles test coming up on monday haiz...

What's my age again?

i'm seriously living in the past. last night at 12midnight my sis talked to me on msn and wished me happy bday. i was like seriously wth? she blur blur and talk to the wrong person isit? cos previously my mum keep complaining that my sis very blur these days and send smses to my mum's friend instead of whoever my sis wanted to sms to. than it slowly dawned upon me that it's probably the 25th of sept already. wth! time pass by so fast! i nvr really look at the dates these day cos there's barely any written assignments so i dont have to like, look at my watch and write down the date on my worksheets... i remember the last time i took note of the date was at the start of the week and i was looking at the SBS time table... but i only remember it say from 19th sept to XXX week. so yeah... guess i was still thinking its 1X of sept or smthing. totally... didnt realise time passed by so fast.

did i say this before? i think i did blog abt it sometime earlier. i totally fail at keeping track of bdays. even my own apparently. its just another day to me... just that i know my parents would go buy crab since its the crab season during my bday + my whole family loves crabs. crabs on my/my dad's bday is kind of a tradition i guess. <3 crabs :)

went lunch with my friend on fri, and my parents were like asking if its for somebody's bday or wat... and i was thinking 'heh, tbh i dont even know when's my friend's bday!' i dont think she knows mine either tho, she nvr asked and why would i mention it? you dont really go ard announcing ur bday do u? embarrassing but true... tho we went on a trip to world expo together last year... i nvr bothered to ask her bday haha. i'll forget abt it anyway, so it makes my less guilty if i just dont know abt it. i dont even know when's the bday of any of my (uni) classmates. ><

hmm... since its my bday today, that means ash's is coming next sun! me n ash are really cool, our bdays are exactly a week apart... and her IC no. if just right after mine! haha, wat a coincidence! unlike me tho, ash always remembers my bday and she'd sms me right after midnight and is almost always the 1st to wish me! she got beaten to by my sis last night tho... not cos she forgot, but cos her relatives stayed in her house till super late! so she only sms me when they left... still  i <3 u gal! when are you ever omg free to meet up???? YOU ARE FOREVER BUSY! ITS BEEN HALF A SEMESTER AND I ONLY GOT TO CATCH A GLIMPSE OF YOU YESTERDAY! MY SIS WANTS AN OUTING AFTER HER PROMOS ON THE 3RD OCT OK! WE DEMAND TO SEE YOU! WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME WE EVEN TALKED????

went to disturb ash in sch yest and got the biz law tb from her... cmi lah... presentation after recess week so need the tb to find the case laws and stuff... i would have gone to raid her hse if she wasnt in sch yest haha. i totally didnt recognise her cos she plaited her hair... -.- was so extra + embarressing for me to walk in an out of the LT so many times ><.

hmm... on the other hand... my writing wise... its really pathetic, very limited sentence structures... always writing/saying the same thing over and over. plus i think i'm too long winded.... and too many details and kinks in the story that i need to work out. my sis drew a nice picture for my story last night... the drawing is still incomplete though, cos my story is incomplete! still have not introduced all my characters yet... and totally clueless abt how to bring in the last character... than i still need to formulate the background for each of them before i can proceed on properly with my main story.... i think now its 10+ pages long and i've still not actually STARTED the action. just character background, and intro to the whole story. gosh, at this rate it'll really become a book... IF i can get enough ideas to continue writing. the thing about it is that there's too much stuff that i have to fabricate... too much details to take care of for this novice writer to handle properly. i need a lot more time and inspiration to come up with ideas...

i came up with another story that's modified from my long time bed-time dream/story... that one has the skeleton completed from start to finish, but when i attempt to start writing that 1st the other day, i was stumped at how to began. having a skeleton/outline =/= having a story... still have quite some bit of details that i need to firm up... than there's the choice of scenario, the chose of style and words (tho its quite limited by my lack of writing prowess in my case)... loads of things to consider when you having start typing...

ok, time for lunch. till next time.

Holidays are never long enough, exams always comes too fast

As per title... Next week is recess week already gosh! And then I've got a test coming up the week after! Too fast too furious! Doesn't help that I'm feeling totally lost in class gosh.

This sem is just whizzing by without me even noticing. I still have 3 more presentations coming up. One is just a casual presentation in tut, but the other two are more formal lecture presentations. Got more group work coming up for cell bio, as well as an individual report for mol evo due on 4th Nov. Dateline s are still far for now, but before I realise everything would be due already.

oh wells, I've not been very good at updating this blog of mine... But its not to bad right? At least I didn't leave the blog to rot for months haha.

tried my hand at writing some fanfiction. My lack of vocab and poor sentence construction skills really sticks out like a sore thumb. Doesn't help that the last time I wrote fiction was like when I was in pri sch or lower sec. I always prefer to write argumentative, and my sch stopped giving us fiction for English essays really soon. Then in the recent years I've sort of changed my writing style to something more like scientific writing(except say when I'm blogging, than I'll just write watever that comes to mind). especially after the class on scientific writing, I prefer to keep my sentences short and sweet, something that doesn't go really well when you can writing fiction... In either case, I'm writing the story really slowly... It'll be going through tons of edits before I can finally call it decent. Right now it's still in bits and pieces, and I guess not even 5% of the final story has been written so far. Talk abt procrastination haha.

Ok, can't think of anything else to type now so I'll just end here.

lol..and it drags on

wanted to make on post on mon abt the mooncake festival, but got tired and didn’t finish my post... and now its wedn!

haven celebrated mooncake festival since we shifted house when i was ine like pri 5. last time i used to go through TONS of candles, like 10-20 packs still aren't enough during mooncake festival. all i do the whole night is light and set up the candles on rocks in the park in front of my old house. contributing to environmental pollution yeah... but of cos i didn’t know better than.

having a cool class on pheromones now. the module is supposed to be on clinical applications of omics... but the guest lecturer seems to have gone a bit off track with all the talk abt pheromones and insect behaviour... but im really enjoying the lect anyway, who cares if its off topic? wonder what our lecturer who's sitting right in front of me right now thinks abt it tho... is it thinking abt how it's kinda going off track too or? idk... but i do like the topic.

she showed us this cool video earlier on the bolas spider. COOL. didn’t think of looking for these kind of videos on youtube. it’s the same guy who narrated in all the plant videos that i've seen in class in like sec, jc, and uni... didn’t know he did other documentaries too... all the stuff he did is really interesting/cool IMO. pardon my severe lack of vocab....

i hate it when the video adding and photo adding keeps malfunctioning in firefox! forces me to open up the site in chrome just to add the photo/vid! zzzzzzzz

didn’t really celebrate my dad's bday last fri, tho we had a nice family day together. my dad took leave and he fetched me to sch, and cos my class on fri ends before lunch, he fetch me and we went to orchard where my sis had been having a sept hol 1 week math crash course... had lunch at hot tomato at somerset 313. good food, and at a great price too. the sirlion steak was super good, very jucy. we asked for it cooked medium rare and we GOT medium rare. many of the restaurants give u like medium well or smthing when you ask for medium rare -.-''' like hey dude, why bother asking when you're gonna over cook it anyway -.-'''. the last time i had nice medium rare beef outside was at some restaurant in vivo city really long ago. can't rem the name of the shop already... but the beef was very juicy too. i ordered whipped potatoe side (i think you can pick like rice also) to go with it and the combi was just great... you can use the whip potatoe to mop up the juice that's oozing out from the beef.

gave my dad the pen me n my sis got from bugis after dinner... he likes the color... which is good. he got all excited and brought out the pens he bought over the years... and we had fun writing with the pens. after a while it turned onto a 'guess the tradition chinese character' game... like my dad n mum would write some traditional chineses character and than become absolutely amazed when me or my sis (actually most of the time its my sis, i don't watch as much taiwanese programs/read taiwan stuff as much as her, and my chinese has always been poorer than her, plus i got slow reaction) knows the word. some words are actually quite natural to me, probably cos i've been watching too much japanese stuff (and i completely don't read the chinese newspapers or anything else in chinese). like i'd recognise the word in trad chinese straight away, w/o realising that its actually NOT the simplified chinese... like some words i erm.. forgot what it looks like in simplified chinese even. bravo... >< haiz.

dad got an ipad loan from his sch cos they wanted him to develop some method to use the device for teaching... will be an experimental thing next sem but man... the sch sure is stingy. they'll only get to use the device for 1 month, after which the same few devices will be taken from the lecturers and put in the classrooms for the students to use. so when they are teaching, they wont have an ipad to show the students with. o.o. than 3-4 students will have to share 1 cos the sch bought very few of the devices... very stingy even for a trial teaching method. still, i had to spend a few days teaching my dad how to use stuff like the app store, how to check his mail etc... setting up some apps... how to sync with itunes etc... yeah... was quite lengthy and he always manages to ask qns which i nvr cross my mind when i used my itoy... his way of thinking is just quite diff from mine at time.

oh... i went daiso the other day and managed to find a sleek looking and slim ALUMINUM casing mechanical pencil. immediately grabbed two of it to use as casing to make my idevice stylus... been searching for writing utensils with metal casing in popular (in various locations) for quite a long time to no avail. they all come in plastic these days... totally didn’t expect to find it in Daiso... (^.^)V

here's the finished product...

Opps. Wanted to post this on wedn, but didn't have the pic. Now I'm posting it with the pic from the iPhone blogger app...

hmmm

its my dad's bday tmr! went out with my sis yest and we got him a pen... that's like the 1st time i got my dad anything in... years... its like the bdays would  just roll ard and i wouldn’t even notice it till... the day itself. i just suck at keeping track of bdays. be if my sis's, my dad's, my mum's or my friends... i happily remembered abt mich's bday a few days before the actual date... but the next time i remembered abt it was erm... a few days AFTER her bday... sighz. i know i suck. its like... all these little things will just slip my mind. just like how my mum would call and ask me to buy newspaper or something on my way back. i'd forget more than half the time...

Installing XP on Lion and more...

hmmm... quite a lot of things happened over the past... 2 weeks?

last weekend we had a nice long 4 day weekend break... i took the opportunity to reinstall XP on my mac and allocated more space this time round. It took me a freaking 1 and a half days to get things right... party because i forgot that to install the bootcamp drivers on XP you have to basically insert the snow leopard disk into the disk drive when erm... you are logged in to windows -.-''' stupidest thing ever of me to forget that... and i spent a long time trying to figure that out. also... it turns out that to get the entire bootcamp driver to work, you just have to keep reinstalling the drivers from the disk. so i've managed to get ALL the bootcamp drivers to work... like i can use all the function keys, i can see my files on the mac drive, i can use 2 finger scrolling, 2 finger tapping as double click etc.... previously it worked only for a day or so, before the bootcamp drivers just went burst... now its been a week and still working fine *nods*

another thing which wasted a lot of my time was the realisation that Lion no longer supports XP. i.e. bootcamp 4.0 only supports Win 7 now. I tried to find ways to downgrade bootcamp... to no avail. well you still can use bootcamp to partition a space for windows, and you still can use bootcamp to delete the partition. the thing is that to actually INSTALL XP, you have to reboot, hold down the option key at startup, and select the disk and do the installation from there. the side effect to using this walkabout is that when you start up to windows, it asks you which OS you want to use... the XP, or an unknown. I Guess the unknown is for the Win 7 which they expect you to install... anyway... the XP is working fine for me, so i don't really care about the screen asking you to pick the OS each time. I'm NOT gonna fork out $$$ for an OS just to erm.... play my games.... until the day those games no longer support XP... but maybe i'll stop playing by then. However, if you DO NOT have the Snow Leopard disk, than its.... not quite possible to get XP working, since you need the bootcamp drivers... else you can't even use the wifi...


went IT show today... yest dad went during his lunch break and got a new router. The downside is that... our home doesn’t yet have optic fiber cables, so we still need a modem -.-'''... and the router my dad got is erm... w/o modem. sighz. so now the router is hooked up to our old router + modem. Already the internet speed is much better, and the wifi signal is no longer intermittent. Went and got a new lappy for my sis today. Her old acer is gonna die any day now, so my dad decided to get her the asus lappy on offer... less than 800bucks. A super good deal really. We got it from the digital arts ASUS store on lvl 4... from my dad's 'research' on fri, that store gives the best offer. Dad also got himself a wireless logitech mouse... his colleague claims that he used his for more than half a year w/o needing to change the battery so... yeah... my dad decided to give it a go too. For me... i still prefer wired mouse... plus i require my mouse to have 'back' and 'forward' buttons - i.e. they must have at least 5 buttons. My mouse all seems to spoil rather fast tho, each one lasting about a year... so i just get a decent priced, 5 button mouse and be done with it... apart from the 5 buttons... yeah... the shape is impt... its gonna fit my hand snugly and be comfortable to hold. Other than that... i'm not toooo picky. i don't need a super good mouse like those Razors mouse for gaming... since i get a bad headache from playing those 3D games ><

My dad's been talking abt getting a macbook/iMac for ages already... in the end he decided to hold (once more)... oh wells... that's how he is. It'll take him forever to buy smthing for himself, but an instant to buy smthing for us. <3 u dad! speaking of which... his bday is next fri, and i still have no idea wat to do for him... maybe try n cook smthing nice? hmm but wat... ><