Tuesday, October 31, 2006

pressure is on!!

wah.. now only i really realise that results is very important when comes to applying stuff like honours project and as ur first impression for ur 'potential supervisors'. not that before this i always thought that results are not important, although good results do not give you a place in UROP or summer studentship (eg in PeterMac), but the impression of being a good uni student (in terms of results) is really important in this realistic world!
as some of you who read my previous blogs will know what happened in UROP. but why would i say that good result doesn't guarantee you a place in petermac summer studenship? coz for me, this time i got this studentship, a big part is coz of my luck. coz applicants are given (i dunno how they choose lar) to supervisors to be interviewed. and i'm luckiy enough to get interviewed by a supervisor who thinks i'm suitable for his project. coz like one of my frens, although her results is very good, she didn't get her project becoz there's someone else (also one of our frens) who is more suitable and experience in that particular aspect that the supervisor is looking for.
and now i'm looking for honours projects. one of the supervisors that i emailed to for making appointment to see him, actually replied my email by only asking me: 'if possible, can you pls send me your CV and academic transcript.'
and the other supervisor that i had made appointment to see him, well, i met him (and he still remembers me) from the honours open day. but he still asked me to send him my academic transcript before i went to see him. and today, another supervisor in MCRI, well this one's better haha. coz he still sees me and explains a lot to me and only ask for my academic transcript at the end of our meeting. :)
so far, i like the project that i just went to meet the supervisor at mcri. he is so nice lor... and according to his PhD student that i met there, his style of supervision sounds good to me. but still, options are open coz i'm seeing another 2 supervisors later this week.

pressure is on coz...
the fact that i only hv 2 papers and is well-spread out means i have no reason to not do well in the exams!!
and i really need to get good results to get the honours project i want.
dun want to screw up my effort in other semester and throughout this semester. well, there's nothing i can do for the other 2 subjects now coz the assesments are all done by now. 7 best 3rd year subj results are taken into consideration when applying honours. so, i need at least 3 good results this semester!!

Saturday, October 28, 2006

End of ugrad

There goes my final day in uni!!
We had a 25% test yday and tht was the only 'class' i went yday coz i had skipped the earlier lec to do my assignments and some last minute revision for the test.
After finishing the test, before handing in the ppr, our core subj coordinator who was there to conduct the exam gave a few words abt us finishing our 3 yrs course. i was so touched lor... trying hard to hold back the tears. then after we left the lec theatre, saw other ppl taking pics. well, i had taken some pics with some of my biomed frens before the test started. then had to rush to the library (1st floor comp lab in bailieu) to finish up my assignment which is due 2 hours later.

I never used that comp lab before in my entire uni life before last week! haha! should have found that place earlier!

this week had been my crazy week... presentation, assignment, project report and test. my biological clock had been working up-side-down. had been sleeping at 4 or 5 in the morning for few days this week. well, last week of uni... work as hard as i can lor (not that i wont do that if it's not the final week of uni).

after handing in the assignment and report, went to meet up with my biomed frens at maxbrenner.

at nite... k-box time!! muahaha!!
we started at 10 something. just me and SW, haha! so syok!
then later on SY came, then Elaine, then LeeYen (with her sister-LeePop), then SamSam. we had 1 special guest and 1 'guest singer' - Alice and Alfred :P.
we sang till 4 something in the morning. thnx to a fren who works there, gave us some really good deal!! unlimited drinks!! how nice of him!!

after k, we went to Doncaster Pancake Parlour that opens 24 hours. we reach there at 5am, had breakfast there!
ya.. my first time there. nice place, nice food, nice frens to chat with.
when i was back at home, it's already almost 7 i think.
wat a happening day. :)
so in holiday mood!!

today woke up at 1 something in the afternoon. went to this Fiesta M'sia at City Square. It's an event for Deepavali and Hari Raya. food stalls, performances and games stalls. when we went there, there was nothin much left. it's almost the end of the event already.
then lepak-lepak in the city to buy fren's bday pressie.

how nice if we had finished our exams!! BUT if we really had finished our exams, most ppl would be either going home or went somewhere else for holiday lar.

oh ya... not to forget mentioning abt this...
my graduation date!! 14th Dec 3.30pm! muahaha!!
that's the date i wanted coz my parents are flying home on the 16th and they couldn't get their flights postponed coz it's all fully-booked.
so now it's all good. :)

Monday, October 23, 2006

光良_-_如果你还爱我(LIVE)

Saturday, October 21, 2006

5 days left

ya... 5 days left for my undergrad uni life. :(
dunno how should i do to leave no regrets.
that day, first time ever i went to the comp lab in first floor bailieu lib to book a comp for the discussion of our functional genomics presentation group. feel so 'sua ku' when i failed to scan my own student card. haha!
thought of having lunch in union house every single day coz i think i'll miss having lunch in union hs. but... noone to eat with :( next week ctg have no table during lunch time liao...

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

PPS

才刚说完觉得自己(还)没有感觉到对produciton 的不舍,没有PPS (post-production syndrome),
在看完朋友的blog, 再想到今天在学校和朋友提起说她年底毕业后就不要留在澳洲了,眼泪不知不觉地就掉了下来。
再过一个多星期,就是学期结束了。
就不会再像以前那样和coursemates 一起上课,去做 prac, 去library;
不会再像今年以来,在lunch time the table 和他们哈拉一番。
虽然我还会在继续念 honours, 将来的日子会是怎样,真的不知道。
虽然我们都说毕业后还可以约出来见个面,但当大家有各自的生活,各自的忙碌时,真的不知道会怎样了。

Sunday, October 15, 2006

散 band 了...

昨晚,我们又为一个CTG production 画上了句点。
虽然不能说是一个完美的句点,但也可说是一个最美的句点。

昨晚的bump-out supper 对我而言,没有像以往的‘好’,感觉就好像平时show 完了以后大家一起去吃个宵夜,只不过人比较多,时间比较晚,大家忙着写booklet。
主要是因为我们那桌是个别叫自己的吃,而不像大家叫菜吃饭的比较有'feel'。
然后我们那桌也没有大家一起的共同话题,
再加上我和我的leader 迟到,当同桌的人都吃完了,我们只吃了一半。

but anyhow, 不知不觉地,这个production 是我再uni的第6个production了(haha!Alice remind me 的)!这个production 是让我最能感觉到我是part of the big family 的。not that 以前的没有,but 这次认识的人比较多,可以说是几乎每一个人,从admin 到 production team 到 casts 都认识了。

well, 现在又是时候回到assignments, tests and presentation 了。
接下来的两个星期又要拼了!
17th Oct Functional Genomics test (5%)
20th Functional Genomics presentation (10%)
24th Experimental genetics project presentation
27th Experimental genetics project report (altogether 40%)
Genes to Phenotype exam (25%)
G & Evolution assignment (10%)

Saturday, October 14, 2006

FINAL SHOW of mousetrap

mwahaha!! so happy!!
i fixed up the internet connection just now by trial-and-error. and it works!!
well, after the tpg technical support ppl told me the correct 'incapsulation' although he couldn't help me do the configuration, i try try then mana tahu it works!

well, today... our FINAL SHOW!!
oh no!! that means after today, we'll be back to our study-unilife.
was reading some of the comment that other production/admin ppl wrote for me in my booklet. well, in case you dont know, each production will have a production booklet, which is the same as those for the audience. but we in the production or admin team will pass around our own booklet to write some short msg or comment on each other's booklet.
and it's always funny ones and touching ones written in the booklets. really enjoy reading those when i get my booklet back at the end of the day. and reading back those comments after some time or even years will be a really enjoyable thing to do.

i'm now thinking whether i should join the cantonese production which is in april next year. not sure if i'm ablt to juggle my time between honours and the production.
it's like.. i'll miss the fun of these productions but i really want to do well in my honours. no play play man!!


and this morning, i moved the only pot of plant i have from the balcony to the living room. why??
because the pigeons are back again!!
they came here to 'check out' the place for a few times already and they also started to shift some twigs and plastic 'twigs' into the pot. so i better move the pot away before they lay their eggs there! i dont want to have the mess they left me last year again!

Sunday, October 08, 2006

东方神起

wow!! so many 东方神起 video clips here!!
i'm not to the extent that i'm obsessed with them yet haha!
i know them last year but couldn't find their songs...
then as i was watching this korean entertainment show called X-man, they were in the show so it reminded me of their songs. yea.. went to search and manage to find quite a few.
i like their slow songs, too bad i dont understand a single word. they do have some of the songs in chinese version, and jap songs too. hope i wont get sick of them lar coz korean songs all sound quite similar to me. but i can still tell their songs apart lar, like i can tell they are different songs. haha!

i have been sitting infront of the comp searching through the net abt them since... 2something? haha!

woke up at 1pm today.. had the most sleep today! :)
was so tired for the past few days...

our first 2 shows are succesful. so far so good :)
although something hit us for the past few days, we managed to fix them up.
really wierd and was pissed that one of the props went missing the day before our first show!! how can that be except someone did it on purpose?! coz that thing is not worth any money so wat's the reason of it got stolen other than a prank?!!!
anyway, alvar and meiqi had it done over again. thanks!!
one week left and we'll be back to our study study life again :(
hope everything goes smooth for the following week and hope everyone is enjoying the whole process!!
东方神起 Believe


another fav song :)
this is in their latest album
东方神起 Drive
东方神起-SKY
东方神起 - My Little Princess (Chinese Version)
HUG 东方神起

my new fav song :)