mice & tilapia.

lab practicals are so alive this semster. because there's mice & tilapia to be taken care of.
it's so much better than operating spectrophotometer again and again, GLC, HPLC and not to forget centrifuging e.coli cells again and again.

1) immunology: lab mice! the mice are all so cute lah! my group's mouse is really damn active, i remembered trying to grab it by its tail and i placed it on my palm, then it struggled and tried to run...but in the end, it fell into the sink! but not to worry, nothing's wrong with it. and i called my group's mouse, "feefee". now to think of it, it kept shitting and peeing on my hand when i handle it, so i think the name "feefee" makes alot of sense. faeces+pee=feefee. anyway, i think lab mice are all so poor things, because blood is needed to be drawn out from them through their cheeks, and it's not just one drop...it's a small tube of it. it may seem really little to humans, but to the mice, it's alot of blood. the mice also need to be injected too. and in the end, all the mice are gonna be killed and their spleen would be taken out for experiment. it's really damn saddenning.

2) aquaculture: tilapias! today was the official start of the tilapia growth project. 3 tanks, 30 tilapias, 3 different types of feed. for the first time, i actually caught a fish (duh!), and measured its length, width and weight. the feeling was funny at first, the fish were slimy, wet and fishy, not to forget, jumpy! but i think it's damn fun measuring them. got a few fish kept jumping about, then i got so fed up measuring them until i scold them,"knn! stay still lah!" it's also really nice seeing the fish swimming around, grabbing their food. i hope not many fish die, because already got 1 fish like going to die in 1 of the tanks, and i think it is the 1 that kok soon dropped on the floor.

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3) MMB: pretty alright! practical is really fun with dr zaman teaching us. she's really nice and hilarious. the only thing that i really dread doing is...serial dilution! that means i got to keep on pipetting and diluting e.coli+nutrient broth with water. it can really make your thumb go so tired that you wouldn't mind taking the micropipette and stab someone you really hate. ok, i was joking about the stabbing of someone with a micropipette.

4) CCTA: i really hate CCTA practicals. first, i don't understand a single thing during lectures, and practicals really emphasize alot on sterilization, contamination and blah blah blah. i remember my group panicking like mad, while steph was right beside us doing everything like a professional with all the stuffs nicely placed inside the hood. but seriously, i think the practical manual needs to be more specific, instructions are not very clear, thus causing loads of confusion.

ok, so my point is, feefee & fish kinda brighten up my practical lessons. it's so much better than operating machines.

2 more weeks?!

it's been days since i last blogged.

i've coming back real late ever since school started, like about 10,11,12 plus.

mainly because of the GLs dance practices, NRA and also GL training.

that's also why i've not been updating, because i'd be too tired to do so when i get back.

and mum's not happy with me coming back home late and money from her more often than usual.

on wednesday, i came home so late that i had no mode of transport other than taxi to get me home. and what's worst is that i had only $1 with me.

so i had to call her to help me pay the taxi fare.

felt pretty bad about it.

anyway, while walking back home with my mum, first, i dropped my phone AGAIN! this time, right in front of her. and seriously, this is the don't know how many times i dropped my new samsung phone. it has only been a month since i got it and there are already scratches on the edges. my mum was like saying how careless i was.

then just when we were about to reach the lift, abe called me. and she told me that i forgot to bring home my laptop!!!

i went, "OH SHIT!"

of all things, i forgot to bring home my laptop! lucky abe found out and helped me bring home, phew. thanks again, abe!!! =)

and i told my mum about the laptop thing, and she said, "if you can forget to bring home your laptop, i'd rather you forget to bring yourself home."

that's double the carelessness. i was complaining to my mum that my desk was so empty that night...LOL!

thursday, SAB class again. lesson was kinda boring again but good thing that there was this short little presentation to make our brains think and talk. other than that, it was all about the lecturer going through her slides.

so after SAB class, nikki, wenxin, eddy and me went town. jeremiah, the loser tagged along too, after heading all the way back to tampines.

and my main reason for going town: to NOT go home so early & window shop abit.

now it feels really awkward going home early.

and anyway, it has been quite some time since i last went town to walk around.

so we walked from shop to shop, lookng at stuffs like clothes, caps, jackets, etc. while wenxin was finding a present for jianming.

after everything, wenxin headed home and the rest of us went to coffee bean to have a drink. it was then that i realised how much i spent for the entire day, JUST ON FOOD.

lunch: $3

dinner: $4

ice blended belgium choc: $5.80

1 can of 'Anything': $1

total: $13.80!!!

rahhh!!! i really hate this. i guess it's time to really save abit more.

let's forget about everything i've just blogged about.

ANYWAY...the sudden thought of how fast time flew came across my mind.

and i was and still am quite shocked to see that time has flew so fast that 2007 is ending soon.

why do i say so?

just 2 months ago, i thought of 7 Nov and i thought to myself, "it's still 2 months away."

BUT NOW, the date 7 Nov is in 2 weeks time. 2 WEEKS!

and i'll really throw a big pot of curry on your face on you still don't know what 7 Nov means...

yes, it's my birthday. (reminder)

and yes, it would be the day that i can officially buy alcoholic drinks, 4D, TOTO, buying movie tickets rated M18 (although i've entered M18 theatres before).

it also means i can go clubbing...but i'm not into clubbing. so i don't give a heck about that.

anyway, i saw this 1 thing that i came across in the internet.

BAPE hoodie!!! and it's orange, and i think it's so nice lah!

here's the link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thesforce/sets/72157602528987379/

i like the blue, grey and red ones too!

er herm, you know what i want for my birthday present now, don't you?

oscar turns 3, botanic gardens event & horrible reveal.

Happy Birthday to Oscar!!!
he turned 3 yesterday.
sadly, i can't celebrate his birthday...because of the botanic gardens event.
by the time we reached back to amk mrt station, i couldn't make it back on time for his celebration.
anyway, i heard from my sister that he got a nice huge heart shaped cake. actually his cakes need not have any shapes, because he doesn't bother about it. he just loves cakes.

about the botanic gardens event. it was kinda cool.
i felt that i didn't interact much with the kids.
not that i don't want to, i don't know how...
the kids were not what we expected them to be, they were actually quite alright. just that they were more playful and rough when playing.
using apples as a ball to throw, kick and catch. it's actually a really smart idea. the only thing i was afraid of was that the apple may land on someone else's head.
i wouldn't call them vulgar, because for the entire afternoon, i only heard words like 'bastard' and 'bitch'.
'but aren't those still counted as vulgarities?', you may ask.
but come on, kids these days scold hell lot of vulgarities behind their parents' backs. 'bastard' and 'bitch' are just at level 1. even students from the best classes do scold vulgarities too.
and controlling them was a challenge. even asking them to sit in a circle, took us like about 10 minutes. but can't blame them for being like that, i mean...why should they listen to us? they don't know us at all.
but overall, i seriously think that they are nice kids.

anyway, after the event, went for dinner.
i had my pork chop hor fun. quite alright, the gravy alot, i like. but the hor fun itself needs more flavour.
went AMKhub walk walk. and yes! something horrible happened! all of us went to take photo and reveal our looks when we turn 60. and mine looked seriously horribly gross!!!
i'm not gonna post it up or something, because i got to take it out from my bag, scan it, and look at it on my laptop. it's so gross and scary!!!
i look like a zombie or something.
and everyone knows the revealing of your future is not real. it's really exaggerating lah. they make you look as if you would look damn ugly when you grow old.
when i grow old, i want to look really cute. you know those kind of cute old man, not cheeky, CUTE!

worst IS module ever!

Starting A Business (SAB).

this IS module sucks to the core!
it's even worse than IAC with a banshee teacher ( i don't want to mention her name, because i've heard that IS teachers love to search for blogs by just typing their names in some search engine, and...walah! a new blog found with all the horrid things about him/her being blogged about.)
and there are only 7 students in SAB class...and ALL are from LSCT.
i was expecting a mix of students from other faculty.
and the number is somewhat pathetic, only 7. but it's kinda good, presentations would be short and sweet. imagine having like 5 groups to present whatever slides they have and all of their slides are long and draggy. that would take up like, close to 3 hours.

anyway, me and steph and a few others were like kinda worried that we entered a wrong class. the classroom was totally empty with people when we entered. and finally at about 1.05pm, the teacher entered the classroom, and wasted like 10 mins smsing someone and making that 'tsk' sound. it's like really irritating for a student to actually come to class early and in the end have to wait for the teacher to arrive late and wasting even more time by smsing someone.

i seriously got no interest in starting a business at all.
really, not in my life.
1) the passion is not there.
2) i'm not much of a risk taker.
3) the higher you climb, the harder you fall.
4) i just want a stable, ordinary job in a company in future, with a salary about $3000.

ok, what i'm really trying to say is that...business, is not my type.

anyway, after the dumb class...we had to go for a stupid talk by Cheers. which was totally dumb and stupid and a waste of time.
but the class of 7 agreed to attend the talk, all because of week 4! because if we attended the talk yesterday, week 4 would be a free day.
me and steph sat inside for like 1 hour 20 mins...and then left the talk as the speaker was really killing us.
i think the speaker should go for com toolkit which was one of the IS modules taken on the 1st semester. it's like so obvious that he wasn't familiar with his slides, he had to keep referring back to them and read the words out. eye contact seriously sucked.

5 more weeks and SAB would be OVER! or make it 4 more weeks instead...
i want SAB to be over really soon.

oscar's back and school begins.

great news! Oscar's finally back on monday.
it's great to see him back at home.
he was like so happy to be home. i remembered when i entered my house, straight away i heard his barks...downstairs! then i knew he was finally coming back, so i left the door open.
he entered the house and started running about and barking to show that he's happy to be back home.
not having him at home may be kind of a saddening thing for me.
but to him, it's a stressful thing, because for that entire weekend, he had to adapt to the vet's environment right on the spot.
right now, he got lots of pills to eat. orange, pink, red and white.
he hates eating pills and if you try to force him to eat by opening his mouth and putting the pill in, he may SNAP your finger.
so my mum came up with a brilliant idea which would trick him. stuffing the pills inside watermelon chunks! we tried it, and it worked.
anyway, right now...his skin condition is getting better. and i hope it improves alot more.

anyway, a new semester has begun. level 2.1.
so far so good i guess.
aquaculture & immunology are so interesting! so looking forward to future practicals because we're gonna deal with both fish and mice.
MMB is not bad, but dr new's teaching is so hypnotic...it almost put me to sleep during the 2nd half of his lecture.
CCTA is alright, but i'm still kinda blur about some stuffs.
eg. what are cell lines?
guess i've got to read up more...
bioinfomatics is such a boring and dry module, i totally didn't understand what rekha was teaching on the 1st lecture.
so far, all the lecturers i've met are nice and friendly.

went for this charity training that was held yesterday by this organisation called CARE.
it's to help youths that are at risk...
this saturday, there's gonna be this event where we will try to help students( mostly from Normal Technical stream ) that not only academically weak, but also at risk, eg. drugs, gangs, smoking, depression, behaviour problem, basically matters that would really affect the youth and that most youths in singapore are so lucky to not experience such things.
the trainer has 'trained' those who were at the lecture hall about what is expected from us and also how we should act if problems arise.
i hope this saturday, i would be ready and like kinda make the student that i'm gonna be paired up with, be inspired to succeed in life, and prove to others that he/she is really something not to be looked down at.
but on the other hand, i'm kinda scared.
the best thing to do, is to be myself on that day.
i really learnt quite alot from that training. every youth will be at risk at some point in their lives. and it's how they cope with it, but at the same time, it's up to the parents, school, even the public/community to help them in any ways they can.
and i missed dance practise because of the training. i must really stop missing dance practise, it's gonna be bad for me.
and it's really high time to train my fundamentals. there are still stuffs that i can't do properly while my other friends can. i must really practise and do it well! what xl told me today was so correct, "you can't avoid the things that you hate to do, you just got to face it and do it."
something like that.

i want to make it workkk...

kaihua is GODLY!!!

Dua Dua Long John / Dua Dua Lan Jiao.

in short,


DDLJ!

actually, it's just 4 guys...

donald, davin, lendl, joel.



what we do: it's all about the entertainment.
how: being sexy, doing sexy moves.
why: just for the fun out of it, entertainment.




other than that, it's just 4 guys who have dua dua lan jiaos.


hehehe...



oh ya, so we asked kaihua to draw DDLJ because he can really draw damn well.

and when i received the picture from him, i was amazed!

it's GODLY!!! really.











this is a photograph of us at kota tinggi.

this is the drawing...NICE RIGHT?!

the great thing about his drawing is that, the whole thing looks so damn real!

plus, the DDLJ looks like some kind of chinese character. i feel so chinese =D

not to forget, how he drew me in this drawing, i am so happy!!!

my teeth!!! he drew them really straight!!!

and my eyes, so SEXY!!!

really touching can...

1000 thank yous to law kaihua!!!

his drawing skills are so damn good.

i can only draw little doodles either on paper/computer...

hahaha. yes, i drew this 2D piece of lizard with an optical mouse.

it's not easy controlling the mouse when drawing on computer k.

everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses.

that's what make us so unique!

anyway, school's starting tomorrow. i kinda look forward to it, but then again, i'm also not looking forward to it.

what the hell am i talking man?

think most of ya should be able to understand this contradicting feeling. i hope.

2 modules that i'm looking forward to, immunology & aquaculture. not sure about MMB and CCTA, but i don't like the sound of bioinfomatics...

whatever the case, i must strive hard this semester! oh ya, my dear friends, please whack/slam/clobber/chop/crack my head real hard if you see me really slacking or getting really bad grades.

anyway, Oscar's coming home tomorrow! actually it's supposed to be today but then the vet is closed on sundays. heard from my sister that he's kinda depressed...but at least it's good news to hear that he's alright. now i can worry less.....phew.

a whole weekend without Oscar at home sure is quiet and weird.

missing Oscar, timetable rant and school.

Oscar has been boarded at the vet for treatment.
2 nights already.
i don't know why, but i'm getting worried.
not because that i don't have faith in the vet...
but i don't know why.
i just feel worried.
it sure feels different without him at home for the past 2 days.
it's so quiet...
i hope he comes back real soon.

anyway, school starts in 2 days time.
i've went through my timetable.
and i really hate it.
let's see...

monday: long hours in school, filled with loads of lectures and a practical.

tuesday: i just don't like the idea of having a lecture at 8am in the morning at LT59? (where's LT59?)

wednesday: i seriously hate this day...especially during odd weeks. i've got a freaking tutorial at 9am, and then 3 hours of break before another lecture. tell me, what am i supposed to do during that 3 hours?

thursday: IS day, nothing much to say.

friday: 2 practicals and 1 lecture...can die man.

my timetable is packed. rahhhh!
hope i can survive every single week.
this semester would be a killer, but then i still got to work extra extra hard.
i need to pull up my GPA badly.
my average GPA right now is like 2?
really pathetic.
so that explains why i really need to do well this coming semester.
time management really plays a huge role, that was what i really lacked last semester.
and not to forget the self motivation and etc.

signed off.

edited at 1pm*

ok, now i know where LT59 is.

a week after.

1 week past so quickly.
last thursday was staying over night at school because of kota tinggi trip.
seriously, time passes so fast.
and i miss kota tinggi...
i miss mt panti...
i miss the sky at night, filled with loads of stars...
i miss that peaceful feeling i get when i'm over there...

the last week of the long holidays.
next week would be the start of a new semester.
last few days of relaxation.
should start preparing myself for a upcoming hectic semester.
wouldn't want to be like last semester, started unprepared and slacky, in the end struggling like mad.

anyway, yesterday was group 4 games.
felicia and i are so proud of group 4.
they did a really good job, despite their numbers.
5 GLs running their own group games isn't easy at all.
well done!
and lucky yesterday never rain...just a little drizzle.
if not i would be damn sad, cause last year my group 5 games rain like crazy, in the end only got 45 mins to run the games.
at least now i can say phew.
no need to feel so worried, and make felicia worried and in the end, start a chain of worry.

....

ok, i don't know what i am typing.

wabisuke.

i didn't know i've hurt so many.
i really didn't mean it at all.
i didn't know that my actions could do so much damage.
but at least, now i know what i did was wrong.
i'll change.

wabisuke.
侘助


yea, i'm back from camp.
going back to kota tinggi the 2nd time sure brings back memories.
i miss montuwed.
guacamole was a different experience.
aphrodite was the most unique group i had.
i love aphrodite!!

the trek up to mt panti was alright.
but different.
the 1st trek up, which was last year was a great achievement for me.
but the 2nd time was just...different loh.
and no leeches came up to me and feast on my blood...the 2nd time!
the power of leg hair.

it was great to see the GLs in aphrodite getting bonded.
getting themselves involved in discussions, working together, supporting one another.
aphrodite shocked me during campfire night.
i knew that they were not ready to perform, but during their performance, they did the best they could do and had fun.
big round of applause!

all in all, i'm really proud of aphrodite!!!

days before camp.

it's been a few days since i last blogged.
so just before camp starts, which is tomorrow, i shall just blog.
=)

anyway, remember the time i said the lady from Mark's & Spencer never call me?
after 2 weeks...SHE FINALLY CALLED ME!
yup, about my shifts...
and she offered me friday and saturday.
but then i didn't want it, i wanted weekends...saturday and sunday.
so too bad loh, but anyway, now i don't feel like even working.
holidays are ending, school is starting, the lady made me wait for so long.
the feeling, the eagerness to start work is no longer there...

ok, camp is tomorrow.
and i am so excited.
back to kota tinggi!!!
and my knees hurt now...

i really am a pig.

i've been really lazy these few days.
and i do is just eat, sleep and slack.
and what's worst is that, i can sleep for like the whole day!
ok, not really, but i remembered on friday...
i slept at 1+am...woke up at 1pm, went back to sleep at 2pm and woke up at 4pm.
and then i went back to sleep at 11+pm.
what a pig!
and i'm so lazy, i don't feel like doing anything.
but if i really do have to go out, i would be glad to...
other than that, it's home and sleep and food and fats.
goddamnit!
i'm too free.
and that makes me lazy...

oh, happy childrens' day...
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