.Sunday, November 29, 2009 ' 6:43 PM Y
I'm back again with another post...
This time it didnt take too long for me to update again. Hahas..
Well.. Lets see what have I been doing in this week.
Mon - Lab, left at ard 8pm.
Tues - Lab, left at ard 8pm again.
Wed - Lab, left at 7pm
Thurs - Lab, left at 7.3opm
Fri - TGIF!! Had TGIF party, cheese, crackers, alcohol and juice. =)
For my weekends, I have been doing on my ethics essay which is due tomorrow! 400 more words to go! Then next monday is deadline for my 5-10 pages of introduction for my thesis! Sharks! I have yet to start on that! I'm soooooooo dead!
Busy doing my experiments + procastination = last minute work and panic!
Well.. After 7th Dec, I'll be slightly relieved and finally I can go to the beach!! Cant wait to soak myself under the warmth of the sun. Sylvia will be organising it and hopefully the weather would be perfect. Hehe..
Christmas is coming soon and i'm not going back to sg this time round. Guess i'll be experiencing xmas alone? Unless my friends are free to 'entertain' me. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the sales on Boxing day! All the major stores and branded labels like Guess, Nine West, Burberry etc would be having more than 70% sales!!! How great is that! My parents have told me to buy anything I want for xmas since I've been working so hard. Hahas.. I love my parents to bits!
And and and..... My sis-in-law's colleague would be gg to U.S and my mum asked me if I wanted to buy any coach bags. The colleague can get a further discount of 20-30%.. Wahaha.. Double happiness. =) I have chosen 3 bags but i cant decide which one to buy. I cant possibly buy all 3. That would be too much.
I cant wait for CNY to come... More good things coming.. =)
Okay. Back to my ethics essay..
Paranormal activity next week. =D
.Wednesday, November 25, 2009 ' 8:03 PM Y
Okay. I'm back with another post..
Finally the wait is over! Ever since I knew that New Moon was coming out on 19 Nov, I've been counting down to that day. I was so excited that I think practically everyone in the lab knew abt it. So I dated Sylvia for the movie last Sat. The company was great. We had lunch at Block M, indonesia cuisine. Food was pretty good. Then we went for coffee-hot chocolate at Max brenner. We talked quite alot and it was fun reminisicing the past. And Pey chee, we do miss you! Faster come back here! =D
We bought the tix for 6.45pm show. We reached the cinema at ard 6.40pm and it was alr swarmed with lots of ppl. They were anxiously waiting for the door to be opened. Haven't seen this kinda scene for quite some time. Hahas. Anyway, it was good that we managed to get good seats in the theatre. We wouldn't wanna watch it if we were to sit at the front rows.
The movie was pretty good. Well.. There were alot more mentioned in the book that wasnt shown in the movie but i guess this is usually what happens when someone makes a movie based on a book. I'll just hope that they wont cut too much on the final one, cause that's where all the actions are.
Right now, I cant wait for Eclipse to be out, which is on 30 Jun 2010. Oh man! That's like 268days of waiting!! =S
Some photos of the day!
Sylvia
Me!
Sylvia with her banana chocolate frappe
Me, with my dark chocolate mocha frappe
Us! =)
.Monday, November 09, 2009 ' 8:10 PM Y
Okay.. I realised I haven been updating my blog nowadays. Well... I guess there's nth much for me to say coz everyday is pretty mundane for me.
So everyday i try to wake up at 7.45am, but in the end I always snooze till 8.30am, then wash up, reached lab by 9.30am. Then it's doing my blood smear, or experiments. Sometimes ard 10.30am, ppl in my lab will go for morning tea. Yeap. You heard me right. Morning tea. Hahas.. So if I'm not busy, I'll join them. Then it's lunchtime. Sometimes it's early, other times it's late, or I just work thru lunch.
Right now, I feel the pressure and stress. Sometimes it's so frustrating when my experiments don work. But wad choice do I have? It's all part and parcel of the research. I just pray that I'll be able to get my results asap to put in my thesis. Oh man.
To add on, the weather in melbourne is freaking burning hot! Last yr during this period, the weather was still rather cooling, with unexpected showers. But look at the situation now.. The temperatures are soaring up to 34degrees! It's so much worse than sg. I need more sunblock!!
It would be great to go to the beach or botanical gardens for picnic, but it's the exam period and all my Uni friends are mugging for it. Anyway, I wouldnt be free this weekend coz I have to prepare my presentation for next mon. Damn.. Should have started it long time ago. All thanks to my laziness. =(
Okay. Better head back to work...
.Wednesday, October 07, 2009 ' 6:41 PM Y
I know I havent been updating for ages.
Daylight saving has started. So now Melbourne is 3hrs ahead of singapore. Somehow it's a good thing coz I've been staying in the lab for the past few weeks till 7pm plus and the sky was always alr dark by 6.30pm. So with DST, the sun would still be up to 7.30pm.
Anyway, life is pretty much mundane right now. Everyday I'll reach lab ard 9.30am and end work by 6pm. Sometimes it might be earlier or later, but 75% of the time I end late. Right now, I can feel the stress and work load piling up. It's like an invisible force that's sitting on my shoulder, and it's getting heavier each day. In addition, my meals are screwed up. I eat like 1 or 2 meals per day and I hardly have the time to cook nowadays. Damn it. My meat and fish have been frozen in my fridge for 2wks. And I just cooked a proper meal for myself today becoz I went home early due to my painful and horrible cramps.
Time passes really fast when we're busy. Without realising it, I have been in melbourne for over a year. Living away from home, my family, has taught me quite alot of things. I know it sounds cliche but I have been living in my comfort zone for the past 20yrs of my life. Ever since I was borned, my parents have always been there for me. I was treated like a princess as I am the only daughter in the family. I was also the cry-baby of the family. I would cry over the smallest matter and wouldnt stop unless my parents promised to buy stuffs that I wanted. When my younger brother was borned, everything changed. My parents began to focus their attention on him coz he was still a infant. As a usual I grew jealous of him and started to be nasty to him. We practically grew up fighting, like any other siblings, yet we still had moments of joy and fun. When I looked at our childhood photos, I would unknowningly smile to myself. This is because my younger brother looked so adorable when he was a child. I've never noticed it till a few yrs back when I was re-organizing my photos. Now thinking back of all the things I've done to him, I feel so guilty. I feel that I havent done my part as a sister. Now as both of us have our own world to deal with, the r/s seems to be drifting apart. Well. It has never been strong in the first place, so it's difficult for me now to connect with him. Nonetheless, I still have faith in myself and my brother that our r/s would improve and we can have the best sis-brother r/s ever.
I still have more to write but my cramp is giving me hell lots of pain now. So I'll just stop here and hopefully it wont be long for my next post.
.Sunday, August 16, 2009 ' 6:00 PM Y
I'm sick and tired of everything.
I try to organize my time so that I can attend to other important matters, but what do i get in return?
Since u're so busy, then don bother coming back. Wtf. So much for my effort and time. Everyday I reach lab at abt 9.15am and work for the entire day, sometimes ending work at 7.30pm. I spend almost 9hrs in the lab everyday. I try to get my work done so that I can come back w/o worrying abt my experiments.
Do you understand all these? No. You dont.
Yes, I admit I have a temper. But have you considered all the stuffs I have to go through so that I can make it back? I'm constantly under lots of stressed but you dont care. All you care is whether I'm coming back! Hey! Wake up! You think I can come back as I wish! I need to prove that I'm capable of handling my work! I need to prove to my supervisor that I'm worthy of him accepting me as his honours student!
You have no idea how much stress I am handling.
FYI, I love working in my lab! Though I have to spend most of my time in the lab, I enjoy what I am doing right now.
Dont force me to make the decision.
.Monday, August 03, 2009 ' 7:51 PM Y
It's been a week since Honours started.
1st week was rather busy, ending work around 6 plus everyday except on Fri. Apparently, thereis a TGIF party once every 2month on the last friday. There'll be booze and snacks for us to enjoy. Hahas. Everyone that I've met in the department is friendly and nice. Got to know a few people who're working in other labs.
Michaela, my co-supervisor, is a extremely nice lady. She's currently doing her post-doc in RMH. Although she's busy, she's still very patient with Melvin and I and explained everything that we're uncertain.
My supervisor, Mike, is also another friendly fellow. At least now I feel comfortable in the lab and I'm starting to enjoy my research, though it's stressful and I'll have to spend long hours in sch. I guess I'll just have to learn to handle with this stress and strive to perform my best.
Anyway, I forsee that the subsequent weeks would be very hectic for me. I've already started designing primers for my expt, with Mike's help and growing my parasite culture. There'll be cloning expt, immunoprecipitation, western blot etc etc. Not forgetting 14 journals that I have to read. Oh ya! I forgot to mention what my research is about. I'll try to summarise it in layman terms so that most people would understand what I'm talking abt. Hahas..
Basically, I'm researching on Plasmodium falciparum, the cause of malaria. Specifically, i'll be focusing on the epigenetic of malaria. The parasite is able to undergo antigenic variation such that it can escape the human immune detection, hence people are suspectible to malaria infections even after a primary infection. I'll be looking at histones that are thought to control the transcription of certain important genes such as PfEMP1. The regulation of transciption in this case is through epigenetic,referring to changes in phenotype (appearance) or gene expression without changing the underlying DNA sequence.
Okay... I still think it's pretty technical for some people to understand. Hahas..
National Day is this Sunday.. Still wondering if I shld go for the pre-celebration event at Seven and the NDP celebration on sunday....
.Friday, July 24, 2009 ' 9:15 AM Y
School is starting next monday. Feeling kinda excited yet afraid. Afraid because I dont know what's in stall for me.
Anyway, this week has been a busy one for me. I had to settle my visa renewal, go for medical checkup, settle enrolment etc etc. Janet, Kelly and I went to k-box ytd and we had lotsa fun. After that Janet and I went to watch 'Drag me to Hell' while kelly went to her friend's place for dinner.. The movie was okay. Probably because the old woman kept appearing out of nowhere and with her mouth wide open. What's with her mouth anyway? It seems that everytime she's out, she wants to put her mouth into Christine's mouth. Christine, by the way, is the main actress in the movie. I find it amusing and disgusting, rather than horrifying. Lolx.
Next movie that I'm going to watch is Harry Potter. Yes, I know it's been out for 1wk plus and I guess most of my friends have watched it. Well. Not guess, but certainly they have watched it. Luckily, cinema nova is showing the movie and it's only $6 if i watch before 4pm on monday. Gonna watch this movie by myself. I have always wanted to watch a movie by myself. To know how it feels like to be watching it alone. Hopefully I dont have to do much in the lab on monday. =D
