Sunday, April 27, 2008

woohoo! i LOVE my new sandals!

yup, thats right. i finally succumbed to temptation and bought the sandals in gold colour. they are so comfortable~ i can wear them to bangkok now. lol... i'm loving it!

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Ny, happy birthday and jiayou for your last paper!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
on a sidenote, i've been catching up with watching 'they kiss again' and i quite like this song sung by ariel lin. it sounds sad to me though.



风轻轻 我听见你声音

你对着我叮咛


要注意自己的心情

雨轻轻 我听见你声音

你拿着伞靠近

为我遮着风挡着雨

一点点想哭泣 一点点想着你

你的爱很珍惜

我总依赖着你的记忆

你就像风在说话 顺着我方向

你就像海中的波浪 堆着我成长

我明白你的回答 温柔的对话

爱情其实没有办法 不被感动吧

我不说谎

went back to the lab yesterday to show prof my poster draft. found out that its too brief, thats why i have so much space for big font and pictures. prof said that my cells would probably look like dinosaur cells at that size. he's becoming more and more lame lately. -.-... leo is going to take over my project! i wish i could continue it myself though. its a relatively new project in the lab and could be exciting. going through my thesis with him, i realized that many things were not clearly put across since he didnt understand some things. hai... dr khan introduced us to the new fyp student from ntu, a girl from BMS starting the week of our poster. this lab is relatively good and prof is a very nice person but he can also be very forgetful sometimes and having no mentor means we also have to be thick-skinned and independent. having angela around really helped us alot but she's finishing her phd soon. cant imagine what it'll be like if she isnt around to teach new students.
went home for dinner and my parents wanted to try the bbq seafood stall that was featured in channel 8's 'qiang tan da xing dong' in the market near our house. it had scored the full 30 votes by customers in the show so we thought it was worth a try. reaching there, we saw many customers and were told that we had to wait for 45 mins to 1 hr. there were about 5 workers helping out in the stall but the boss (the guy learning in the show) just sat or walked around outside in a bo chap manner. definitely not a good sign. after the long long wait, our food finally came and i was terribly disappointed. we ordered the bbq stingray, la la shellfish and a plate of vegetables. everything down to the rice and chilli failed to meet my expectations. the chilli on the stingray was not enough and not spicy. the vegetables were oily and tasteless. i dont like shellfish so i didnt eat it but it lacked the chilli padi as seen in the show. even the rice is hard and lumpy. i'm never going back.

Friday, April 25, 2008

met up with sw yesterday to study. told her i saw the slippers in Novo that she was talking about. turned out that the slippers we liked were the same. i had seen the gisele bundchen sandels in royal sporting house a long time ago and really liked them but didnt try them cos its a freaking $40 for a pair of sandels. its so expensive but i really liked them. now sw says her bf is going to sponser her and she's going to get them. argh... she's so tempting me. $40 for a pair of sandels? what should i do?

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

What's wrong with my blog? why only the coloured words can be seen??
wow, its been almost a month since i updated. the past month have been somewhat busy and chaotic rushing to complete my thesis. i've been going through cycles of being depressed on some days when i get my results and alright on others. though i went to lab 6 days a week, i think i had it better than many others who had to stay late everyday. wasnt really satisfied with my work but finally, its all over. almost anyway. i learnt alot from this lab experience, technically and personally about the images people portray in front of different people. the people in the lab are generally good, if you dont look too deep or think too much. its expected in any workplace i guess. but i still cant get used to it. now that the thesis is complete, i'm left with the poster day before my 4 years of studies in university ends. it feels kind of surreal that time passed so fast. i'm going to miss school. now the big question is What do I want to do in future?? i really dont know. dr khan has offered to help me find a scholarship should i wish to continue studying. i was hoping to start working in his lab first but he is not employing any more people. its useless to continue studying unless i really want to work in research right? i'm not sure thats what i want to do in the long term though i'm relatively comfortable with it now. i dont want to waste time and money. or should i study something else like business part time? if i find a job, should i find one in the industry or out?? so many questions which probably i can answer. but i dont have any answers. i dont know what i want and i never will. what should i do??

Thursday, March 27, 2008

haiz...today is not a good day for me. made so many stupid mistakes that wasted all my time this week. feel so tired already... when can i stop my fyp?? dont have successful results for my experiments yet. think i'll have to do till the end...

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

have been feeling very sian recently...my experiment has failed yet AGAIN. one week's work all dependent on the moment of truth when i expose my western blot membrane. hai... but i think i'm still more slack than many of my friends. all the regular bloggers havent been blogging recently too.

went to impresario the week before and it was superb! many of them are so talented. the spoof video was also hilarious. its really different sitting and watching compared to being backstage last year. feel that backstage is more fun though. we went for supper at the nearby thomson road prata house. it was ok but i think it was better the first time i went there.

talking about eating, i found a new eating place that is CHEAP and GOOD. we went to Just Acia at dhoby ghaut mrt xchange last saturday. they have set meals from $5.90+. i tried the chicken karaage set and the chicken and egg were good. the plus point is, the set meals come with free flow of soft drinks, coffee and ice cream! it was such a fufilling dinner and we only paid $12+ for 2 people. really a good bargain.

the third thing is the most exciting of all. i finally get to go on a grad trip! had wanted to go somewhere further like taiwan but i couldnt find company. so now i'm going bangkok with a few friends. bangkok isnt my ideal destination but i'm looking forward to it. hope it'll be fun!

Friday, February 22, 2008

last wednesday, i lost my handphone.

if only i hadn't been lazy and walked instead of taking shuttle bus,
if only i didnt go for the seminar,
if only i had been more careful,
i wouldnt have lost it.

now all my photos and contacts are gone! so sad lah. hai...went for primary school gathering on sunday and many of them have lost their phone recently too. i called my phone 2 minutes after i got down the bus. it had a dialing tone but no one picked it up. throughout the day many people called my phone and it was still dialing. if someone stole it, he/she would probably switch off the phone right? i spent the afternoon taking the different shuttle buses and talking to many bus drivers to find the bus that i took. finally found out his next shift and got up the bus but i still couldnt find it. wondered if someone really stole it.
i went by 2 days without my phone. so not used to it. people couldnt contact me and i didnt have a sense of time at all. i've become so reliant on my phone.

on a sidenote, i went to the nus career fair today. found alot of companies with management trainee programmes. but i'm not sure if being a manager is really for me. always end up feeling depressed after attending career fairs. dont know if i should find a lab based job first or just go into something different. alot of the jobs seem to have very stringent interview selection processes. just an SIA administration officer has to go through 3 rounds of interview including a english essay and math test. they have some funny booths too, like the library association and mc donalds. the most special would be Louis Vuitton. they are the only booth with sofas and all the representatives were decked out in LV clothes and accessories from head to toe. their opening was a retail executive trainee where you will aim to be a store manager after 1.5 years training. but it just seems to be like a high class retail assistant to me. 1 year of the training would be on the shop front.
what should i apply for?? headache...

Monday, January 14, 2008

saturday was the most fruitful shopping trip for me. met sw and mz to shop for new year clothes. our first stop - far east. didnt buy much there except a pair of jeans and my formal clothes. thought i would go home without clothes as most of the clothes seem pretty retro and unlike my style. alot of the clothes this year are very baggy and i think i'll probably look like a clown swimming in the big clothes. lol...
after dinner at coffee club, we decided to digest our food walking down to OG. someone insisted that she saw an amazing offer for a guess bag but when we got there, we found that the bag has 'shrunk'. haha...it was actually just a pouch when it was assumed to be a shoulder bag from the magazine pictures.
and a further night walk down to bugis started our shopping! bought a dress at the first shop we came to. thought it was a bargain at first but walking on, i found many other similar but cheaper dresses. but mine is nicer. haha...
so the record spending for today: $150+! so rare for me. but i still wanna shop! if only i have more money. and the amazing thing is mz and i bought similar clothes at all the shops! haha...i think we can be twins le.

Friday, January 11, 2008

finally, the first week at lab is over. i havent had much to do yet except for bacteria work which is probably making my face condition worse. we have to do our culture in an open fume hood. then my senior say "actually, the wind will be blowing towards you. the hood protects the samples but not the users.". so dirty lah! all the bacteria blowing towards my face. hai... i've been ordering things for the first 5 days and i've already spent $2k plus of the lab's money. so easy to earn money for bio business. one bottle of 0.75ml transfection reagent costs $600+ le. and the prof dont even look at the price quotation when signing.
but my things wont arrive till 2 weeks later. what am i suppose to do now? i'm really worried that i wont be able to finish the project or even get to the main point of it. the prof change the direction of my project that its now totally different from what i did before. hope i dont have to spend many weekends or late nights in the lab.
another thing i dont like about going to nus is getting there. its such a fustration. i hate waiting for buses as i cant plan my time. every morning and evening i'll get so fustrated and in a bad mood cos the bus is almost impossible to get up as it is packed to the door. the frequency is also not very high and unfixed. and going on the train after that is an equally 'packing like sardines' affair. i think i'll be in a bad mood more often after school opens for nus students.

i will no longer complain about the journey from my home to ntu...
and neither will i need to. hee...

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

today was our first day back at ori for fyp. holidays are over so fast...not used to waking up early and i'm so tired. we spent most of the day cleaning up the radio-isotope room as that would be our work place - a room isolated away from the main lab cos there's no more space. its going to be so inconvenient cos we still have to go back to the main lab frequently to do some stuff or ask questions. and they say they'll try to squeeze out 1 access card for the 3 of us to share. grr...what's the point of recruiting so many staff when there's not enough access cards? just make more lah! hai... i'm going to do drugs again. i just hope it will be successful. dr khan already warned us that 4 months may be too short a time to produce reasults. just dont keep changing what i'm supposed to do can le

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

last week was the festive and birthday season! i've been having good food for 6 days straight, meeting with different friends and tried many new places. its burned a big hole in my wallet and left me lots of fats to burn.

last thursday, i met mz and sw for dinner at bugis MOF. i liked it alot. it serves japanese food and quite reasonably priced. i tried their soba and it was delicious! their bento looks good too and is cheaper than the soba. though it looked a little small. their desserts menu looked very tempting and we ordered strawberry and black sesame ice cream. they came with a waffle biscuit that i thought was very nice. the dumplings were a little hard and tasteless though.

fri, met hui, ling and yun for dinner at sketches. i think its the worst place i ate for the past week. the pasta was reasonably priced but the jumbo platter was definitely disappointing with the not so jumbo serving but jumbo pricetag. i ordered linguini with fried chicken and sweet and spicy thai sauce. i thought the sauce was on the chicken but it was in the pasta instead. i didnt like sweet pasta and the chicken was too dry.


sat ate at waraku with my family. good japanese food that's worth the price! the tempura ice cream is very nice! worth a try...


sun was my actual birthday and i celebrated with ny. went vivocity where we tried earl's swensons. the main course we ordered included a salad bar buffet. it was good but we had to rush and ended up being late for our movie.


mon played badminton with sw and hb. our last game of the year and probably till hb comes back again in may. havent played for so long and my legs were so tired after that. we were supposed to meet hui for dinner at "raffles city bakerz'in" but after walking around the basement and first floor, me and ny couldnt find it. we checked the directory and it wasnt on the list. there was no bakerz'in at raffles city! we ended up eating at ding tai fung whuch i didnt mind cos i missed the xiao long bao. hee...we went bakerz'in for desserts but the whole process was very rushed. we were the last customers and had to leave within half hour. i tried the chocolate warm cake. it was very nice with warm chocolate flowing inside and vanilla ice cream on top. i preferred hui's waffles with cheese ice cream and strawberry sauce. very nice! i think the desserts are overpriced though. its even more expensive than our dinner. i still miss chocz chocolate cake.

tue went to have toast box breakfast with sw and mz. call us crazy but its still nice. hee...went to watch alvin and the chipmunks. we bought the tickets the night before from a different cinema and there's only the front 3 rows left. why so many people watching an old show?? didnt know that can buy tickets in advance and from different cinema too. me and ny went seperate ways from sw and hb after that. last minute decided to eat at marche and so coincidental that sw was outside marche too! haha...the rosti is so nice. think i havent ate at marche for a long time. but this pre-dinner 'snack' at 5pm was too filling. haha...


thanks to my friends for the company and presents!

Friday, December 28, 2007

got the results for my final exam today. my results improved but still abit disappointed cos i think everybody did much better. but well, at least it improved. no more chance to improve again le. should have studied harder before...
i'll be starting fyp next week! have been slacking and enjoying my holidays that i dont feel like starting. hope i'll be able to get results.
241207

my internet connection was unstable for the past few days so couldnt blog about christmas. i went to my first ever christmas party on xmas eve organized by my coursemates. its goin to be our last gathering for a long time and it was super fun! our guest list kept growing. luckily it was a potluck. we ordered pizza, turkey, log cake and people brought cookies, brownies, mifen, curry chicken, sushi... most people were dressed to the nines. suyin's dad organized a game called connectivity where we were split into 3 teams to form a circle and keep the balloon in the air. it reminded me of entrepreneurship where they kept emphasizing on team spirit. haha...but most of us knew each other already so it wasnt much of a problem.
the most exciting part was the gift exchange and countdown. we all had to poke balloons filled with confetti to see what present we got. then at midnight, we got ready our party poppers to countdown and enjoyed the chocolate fondue prepared by weizhi after that. yum!
thanks for the birthday surprise too!

Sunday, December 16, 2007

my business plan is finally done! last week was the entrepreneurship 'boot camp' as said by our lecturer. last week was a super long week with 4 presentations in 5 days. we had a crash course on industry analysis, marketing, finance and accounting etc... the lecturer basically left us on our own to do the marketing plan when we didnt know what were all those business terms. many groups had to stay back till late in school to finish up their presentations. its very amusing when we're in the resource room and you can hear all the business terms and financial numbers instead of the normal bio terms. luckily my group is very efficient. we didnt have to stay very late. and i think we work best under time pressure! our presentation grades were quite good. grey team rocks!
overall, this module although tiring and boliao at times, is a nice change from the bio modules that we normally take. the tight timelines really require us to have teamwork. in the process, i got to know new people as well. its a nice ending to the times of our lectures in sbs. *sniff*

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

we had our entrepreneurship orientation on saturday. first, we were divided into 7 coloured groups. i got into the same group with suyin again! we have too much affinity with each other. this orientation reminds me of foc (freshman orientation camp) games, just that there were lesser introductory ice-breakers as most of us should have known or seen each other before. we played mostly team building games, most of which were quite lame. i enjoyed the 'pass the marble' game at the end. but i only managed to play 2 rounds as my 'company' was 'closed down' due to 'lack of clients'. unfortunately i was manager of the team and i couldnt play the next 2 rounds as i was 'promoted to regional manager' and just had to observe other people or give them instructions. its was a fun game that required team work, speed and strategy. some groups were really amazing.

after a tiring day, we went to suyin's house for her birthday party cum bbq. it was really fun and we're planning another gathering for christmas eve! went to sleep over at hong's house for the night. first time i stayed over at a friend's house. nice having girl's talk till late at night. and i woke up to breakfast prepared by her!

today was the first day of entrepreneurship lessons. its such a long and intensive day! lessons are scheduled from 9am to 5pm this week, just like office hours. just that we'll probably have to do OT most of the days to prepare for the many presentations that we'll be having. we were only given 1 hour today to read a case study and prepare for presentation. now have to think of 2 business ideas incoporating technology by wednesday. help!

Friday, November 30, 2007

realised i didnt blog about post exam outings. after exam that wednesday, i met up with jh,wz, jv, vinc and daniel to go to the airport T3. Lz joined us there too. If there's one word for it, it would be HUGE! the halls are so spacious. we went for the self guided tour which allowed us to enter the transit hall. but we kinda tagged along some of the guided tours. there are going to be alot of shops in the transit hall but none were open that day. so actually there wasnt much to see. there's an indoor garden with a large pond that looks like a mini swimming pool. the amazing thing is that there are real trees inside the garden! i thought they were fake at first. the pond didnt have any koi at the moment, which was said by two guides. then a third guide came and said there were 6 small koi inside, orange and white colour. so everybody in the group was peering into the pond trying to find them. then the guide asked 'cannot find? maybe they are hiding around somewhere.' after more looking, she said 'actually i was just kidding. there's nothing in the pond.' grrr... there's going to be a butterfly garden too, with facilities like a powder room, shower and small theatre etc. but they made a common boarding longue for about 4 to 5 gates, with seating capacity of 1000. seems pretty small to me.

after that we looked around for a coffee place to rest and went down to b2. its so far walking down from one end to another! and we ended up going to mc cafe. everyone seems exhausted by then. so coincidental that all of us only slept 4 hrs the previous night although only 3 of us had exams. and those without exams seem to be even more tired than us. me and jh even went to novena to buy donuts after that. the queue there is quite fast actually. we got our donuts within half an hour.

yesterday was a super boring day, staying in hall with nothing to do. seems so weird suddenly dont have to study anything. this sem really passed by in a flash.
watched enchanted today and its really funny. the chipmunk is so cute! though eternal love may be just a fantasy but i think that is still what we all wish for. sometimes we have to remind ourselves what made us fall in love with the guy or girl we like in the first place. after being together for a certain time, its easy to forget why we even want to be together. believe in the true love's kiss! haha

i'm looking forward to tomorrow's bbq!

Thursday, November 29, 2007

whoo~ i had my last exam paper yesterday. the very last paper i'm taking for the rest of my life. as i put my pen down, i thought 'this is it. its all over now.' but i think i'm actually going to miss studying. i like exam periods actually, except for the exams itself. cos i always study outside with different people, i can actually get to see some friends more often during the exam period than any other time. and sometimes i'll get to know new people, like elton and daniel this sem. daniel was my coursemate but i only talked to him for the first time in the last week in sbs. and we got to sample cakes made by edward and yi liang, our technician! yi liang's tiramisu was good, it puts us girls to shame. its quite sad that our sbs school life has ended. i really enjoyed my time here and made many good friends. next sem, everybody will be doing their fyp in different places and i'll be going nus. its quite scary having to do everything on my own. for now, entrepreneurship is going to start on sat. its going to be an orientation. reminds me of foc with those ice-breaker games. hope it'll be fun and i can get a good group.