1st day of honours life

started at 9am
met supervisor, and other ppl in the lab. they are all very nice and friendly :) erm... 1 PhD student, 2 RAs (research assistants), 3 RAs (i think they are called RA) at diagnostic lab, 1 postdoc (my co-supervisor who's currently on leave till next monday)
got my own desk in the office area, although it's not a 'leng' spot coz my back is facing the door of the office. but... well, i'm thinking that i'll spend most of my time in the lab, so nvm lor.
supervisor brought me to the lab, showed me my spot in the lab :) yay! i hv my own spot in the lab! the lab is quite spacious. on the 10th floor! good view! can see the 'Balti' Bridge. :D
a bit disappointed coz i dont hv my own comp. i'll hv to share with other ppl in the office (most of them are sharing one comp among the 2 of them) or in the lab (there're 2 comps there).
started reading piles of papers at 930am.
went for lab safety induction session at 10am, happily met 3 other ppl i know who are doin hons there. before this, I thought Li Jeen is the only person i'll know there. took photos for our ID badge (ready to pick up from the HR officer tmr morning).
then went back to lab, Simone brought me around for a tour.
then went lunch with the lab ppl. this really makes me happy coz when i did summer studentship, i usually go lunch alone, or with another summer student before he finished his summer studentship 2 weeks earlier than mine. so.. yay! i hv ppl to go lunch with this time. :D
then went back office, read again... left for home at 5.40pm. i know it's only the first day... but... want to finish taht ppr before i leave mar.

so... yea.. tmr hv to be there at 8.30 for course introduction session >.<
then 9am - 11am lecture, our first lecture! imagine a lecture with only 9 students?! haha! more like a tute
i'm goin to bring lunch tmr :D
gtg sleep looo....

sien

aih... monday start honours liao
so not ready for it yet. just started to read through some basic stuff abt my project few days ago. i just finished reading my research plan.
hv been doin nothing today. felt so wasted! i wanted to play hard, enjoy hard my this last weekend before hons starts. but it turned out to be.... a CTG meeting in the afternoon, then at home whole day watching some taiwanese drama series, then reading at nite. how boring is that!!!

but then, tmr will be out with a fren :) hvn't catch up with her since she came back from KL.

last day of summer studentship

it was my last day of summer studentship at PeterMac today
15 of us went out for lunch together, coz it's my last day. aww... feel so special abt myself :)
we went to Kimchi Grandma at 1pm. everyone was hungry but we still hv to wait for quite awhile until our food comes.

before i left for home at 5pm, went around to the fly labs and the other 'neighbouring' lab to say bye to them. although it's only 6 weeks there, and i didn't really know them well, but still felt a bit 不舍得 when i had to say bye and all the best to them. dont know when will see them again, or mayb i'll never see them anymore in my entire life?!
and in the morning, when i was turning my flies, i was saying 'be good k!' to the flies deep in my heart. and Louis was telling me during lunch that i'll miss the flies. and yea.. i guess so. i missed them already. >.<

two more days before honours starts on monday!!
ppl was asking me whether i'm feeling excited to finish my summer studentship. well, i am happy that i finished that, but on the other hand, i'm worried, nervous, with a little excited abt the honours project. it'll be another start of a new chapter for my 'uni life' (since i wont be in uni as much for classes or watever, can't be saying that it's a uni life, it's more like working life).

really want to spend my weekend well. but dunno how... hmm....
stay at home watching drama series? wat a waste!
but this weekend will be really hot out there! where can i go?

Get to know yourself better

a quiz i saw from frens' blogs: http://www.quizbox.com/personality/test82.aspx

Your view on yourself:
You are intelligent, honest and sweet. You are friendly to everybody and don't like conflict. Because you're so cheerful and fun people are naturally attracted to you and like to talk to you.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:
You like serious, smart and determined people. You don't judge a book by its cover, so good-looking people aren't necessarily your style. This makes you an attractive person in many people's eyes.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:
You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship.

The seriousness of your love:
Your have very sensible tactics when approaching the opposite sex. In many ways people find your straightforwardness attractive, so you will find yourself with plenty of dates.

Your views on education
Education is very important in life. You want to study hard and learn as much as you can.

The right job for you:
You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.

How do you view success:
You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous.

What are you most afraid of:
You are afraid of things that you cannot control. Sometimes you show your anger to cover up how you feel.

Who is your true self:
You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve.


hmm... quite true... wat do u think?

gosh! it's 10.30am and i'm sitting here in the office doing nothing. >.<
everyone else in this lab has gone to some complusory lab safety seminar which will go on till an hour later. ppl from the lab next door all went for their lab meeting. so i'm really bored, nothing to do! wish i can go home then come in again at 4pm to finish up some stuff which i can't do right now.

two more days to go and that's the end of my summer studenthip.
was doing some reading last night for my honours project. seems more and more interesting to me. :) kind of looking fwd to it now but not the work load.

well, it's going to be a really challenging year ahead for me, with this 9 month intensive honours project and 4 months of CTG which can be fun and also stressful.
wish me luck! :)

i'm thinking of changing my blog address. any suggestion?

mum just told me on msn that... the taiwanese actress 徐瑋倫 had just passed away coz of car accident, she's only 28 years old.
life is short......

靠近一點點 - Lara

Australia Day

yday was a good day for me :)
it was Australia Day. although i'm still not very sure wat's the history behind this day, but some ppl said it's a day when Australia was declared as a country, some ppl said it's a day for ppl to celebrate for Australia.
anyways, me, SuangSuang, ChorTeck, HweeNgee and Alan went to the ppl's march in the morning at Swanston St. not many organisation took part, but it's quite interesting to see the different culture in Aus, Melb.
then we walked down towards Alexandra Gardens, de tour to the food court at South Yarra for lunch. watched a street performance there after lunch, when bird poo dropped on my arm! >.<
and I stepped on the muddy grass outside National Art Gallery with my slippers on (luckily i didnt' wear my near shoe!).

Activities at Alexandra Gardens are mostly for kids. eg rock climbing for kids, playground for kids, kite drawing, Melbourne Fire Brigade (MFB = My F***ing Balloon says ChorTeck! haha! MFB were giving out balloons, posters and wristband that day)

we all went home for some rest before meeting up again (without Alan) for dinner and fireworks.
So i went home to reinstall english version of win and it works :) so now this new cpu is pretty much set up. except that i couldn't get my songs back from the old HD :( and good that i burned my photos onto the cd before i left for home in dec.

the fireworks were at Alexandra Gardens, Fed Sq and Eureka tower. we were at the princess bridge (i think it's called) watching the fireworks. Not as spectacular as Commonwealth games (of course lar) but quite nice also. :)


watched a bit of the Australia Open women's single final just now.
Serena Williams won the match. i teared when she's giving her speech at the presentation. I hope that one day i can also be on a big stage thanking my parents, and make my parents feel proud of me. :)

and those interviews after each tennis match are actually my fav part of these tennis matches :)

aih...

S**t! such a headache with my winXP!
hate this! hate not being able to do things i want to do for some other reason. >.<
i want my old cpu back! should hv just spend that $450 to get it fixed, and everyone's happy again.
when i was putting the old cpu into the box... i felt like i was putting someone close to me into the coffin! *touchwood!

felt dumb again

I did something wrong in the lab today. :(
it was a mistake that a person with 'common sense' shouldn't make!
i pippetted 850uL of water into the mixture instead of the 85uL that i need in a staining process. my supervisor found out about that after 45 mins of heating the mixture in 37C
so had to redo the thing. hope it wont affect the staining. so much effort had been put in to do the dissection, staining, overnight staining...

and yday, i had to ask my supervisor to show me how to calculate the volume i need to make up a solution. felt so dumb abt this! i learned it in first year uni. and now i've graduated from my ugrad. i should know how to do it! >.<
well, i learned from my mistakes.

and finally, i got my new cpu and everything's up and running. can online liao.
BUT i'm using a chinese version winXP that i managed to borrow from a fren.
so i'm looking for an english version winXP so i have to unistall and reinstall it again.
i guess i shouldn't pick on whether the version i'm using is genuine or not? but imitated version restricts me from upgrading my software.
but then i'm not sure if i'm able to activate and upgrade stuff when i'm using a genuine cd since the owner of that cd had installed it into his/her own comp.

my suckkie weekend!

my compie broke down on fri nite :(
that's why i'm sad, misrable and depressed since then (not 24 hours lar... but on and off lor)
aih.... that is how important my compie to me. i knew abt that since first year, when my laptop broke down one night. gosh! they all happened at nite!! >.<
but this time, i handle my sadness in a more mature way i guess. at least i din cry this time :P
so i brought my compie to a comp shop along latrobe and they'll only check on it on Monday!! >.< pray hard nothing major happen to it and it'll be home on monday.

luckily my dad's fren came to pick up something from me so they drove me to the shop on sat morning. and since it's on latrobe st, it's not that hard to carry it back next time i guess.
the prob with my compie is... some dunno wat 'resolution prob', something to do with the display card my bro said.
i rang the Compaq technical support on sat morning. they can try to troubleshoot it for me through the phone for $46, but with no guarantee to fix the prob. so i decided to bring it to the shop instead.

so sat... hving nothing to do at home, after watching Power Rangers and another kiddie show in the morning, and falling asleep when watching tennis on tv after coming back from vic mart, went out SheeChien the whole afternoon till after dinner.
we went to dfo on Spencer, then Smith Street, then back to the city Melb central, then dinner, then asian grocery shopping, then safeway, then home...
so sad and reluctant to go home. coz i'll see that empty slot which is where my CPU suppose to be.
watched some tv shows, and 1 JayChow's concert vcd (thank goodness i hv that vcd!!), went to bed.
coz without comp, i can't watch my drama series, no music to listen to (currently only hv less than 10 songs in my mp3 player), so wat else can i do?!
i dont like to read, and i dont read.
i dont feel like reading the paper for my honours project (yet).
no digital piano to play! yes!! that's also one thing i've thought of since this 'incident'... i really want a digital piano! :P

today... sunday... watched some tv in the morning, went to city, smith street (got a pair of shoes at last), back to city (bought shoe laces and really nice photo frames! :) ). all these did cheer me up a bit until.... after taking passport size photos for my visa application in a photo machine in melb central. >.< that really ruin my mood!
1) the photos came out still wet! so one of the sides of the photos are out of shape coz it was still wet when i held it with my fingers.
2) the colours are super pale
3) i wasn't prepared yet for the first shot (there are 4 shots altogether) so that one look really bad
so my $7 and effort all gone for nothing!

now i'm in the 24 hours comp lab in uni. wish i stay really near uni so that i can stay in this comp lab till before bedtime.
i'm goin to transfer more songs to the mp3 player from the external hard disk (luckily i hv them in there!)

aih....
weekends suppose to be happy,
weekend is wat i've been looking fwd to since monday!
but this weekend really sux! >.<

congrats!

a high school class mate is getting married in feb 2007!!!
i was really shocked when her husband-to-be told me that on msn. :D now i understand why wedding invitation card is also called the 'pink bomb' in chinese.
really want to congrat them! too bad i can't be there for their wedding, and also my very first: fren's wedding. they're together for 6 years (or more?) since high school. so happy for them :)

hm... for a girl, getting married at 22 years old is too early lor i think. dont ask me when will be the right time... i dunno...

today, learned a new thing in the lab. :)
that is... taking picture of the flies' eyes with the microscope that has camera with it.
but then, i think most of the pics i took are not in focus enough :( hope i dont hv to redo them tomorrow.

oh well.. time for bed lar. wanted to sleep before 11pm today but now.. .it's 11.41pm :P

2nd day back to work

i'm back in melb again... after only 2 weeks home. :(
so sad and reluctant to come back here.
miss home now...
but wat to do? can only 'blame' myself for applying this summer job.

and guess wat?
today, i talked most among the 2 weeks of my working life in PeterMac , well, conversation with the other summer student in the same lab doesn't count lar.
coz today, met 3 new ppl. they're not new in the lab but they are new to me.
the first person is the girl who works part time as a research assistant in the same lab i'm working in,
the 2nd person is a taiwanese guy (but he can't really speak mandarin) who is a RA in another lab,
the 3rd person is a girl who is also working as an RA in a cancer immunology lab whom I met during lunch time in the tea room up stairs. :)
among this 3 person, the last 2 was biomed student from melb uni. after honours, they've been working in Peter Mac for like 2 or 3 years. one of them is planning to move on to do PhD.
so here i thought.... what am I going to do after my hons? be an RA like them for the rest of my life? or do a PhD after working a few years as an RA? or do a PhD straight after my hons? seems like those are the only 3 possibilities so far. and they all depends on whether i can get a scholarship to do PhD or not, and also if i like doing it.

and today, learned some new stuff in the lab. :) but i'm still dealing with flies >.<

on my way home from work, got SheeChien's sms, so went to her place for dinner. :)
yummy! they cooked crab, pineapple fried rice, chicken salad with a peanut dressing, stirfried broccolli with beaf, and for dessert - black glutinous rice with mango! :P

so... working life is like this can be very boring.
wake up at 7.30am,
9am - 5pm work,
go home for dinner, maybe hang around in the city for awhile before going home?
online, msn, check emails,
watch drama series or watever,
sleep before 12pm.
the cycle just goes round and round for 5 days in a week.

so... those who are still studying in uni, u better enjoy ur uni life as much as you can!

:)

wah! as soon as i pressed 'publish post' for the previous entry, the international admissions office called me and said she'll email the letter to me now. and rupa-rupanya the letter should hv been sent to my melb address before new year.
so anyhow, now, i can't do anything including my body check up which is like 10 times more expensive in melb. i have to apply my visa while i'm back in melb now. :( sien....

argh!!!

ARGH!!! I'm very frustrated abt this comp at home!!
always hang,
cannot sign in to MSN, e-Buddy also cant,
sometimes will restart by itself,
then after pressing that restart button, it can't connect to the hard disk, so the whole comp can't start! >.<

stupid computer!!!

and i still havn't receive my offer letter!!! stupid international office phone line always busy busy busy!!!

unlucky December!!

was in the car involved in car accident x 3.5 this month!!
even today.. last day of Dec also kena one! >.<>.<
the owner wasn't there, we just went buy stuff.
by the time we came to get the car, that car was gone.
a few witnesses, ppl in the coffee shop nearby and a hawker stall owner saw the incident
dunno wat that person will do even though he/she left.
felt so bad!! coz it's my fault

hope everything will turn good 2007!!

just now a fren asked me abt my new year resolution.. hahaha
i hv too many lar!!
1st, no more car accident!
save more money for digital piano!
want to go on holiday at the end of 2007!
and of course, work hard, study hard and play hard! :D

back from Penang

went to penang for few days. just came back today
ate a lot of yummy hawker stall food
eg. 'mua-chee', asam laksa, ice kacang, cuttle fish, air tebu, loh bak, cuttle fish panggang, poh piah, chee cheong fan, nonya kuih, mee rebus...

aunt brought me for korean bbq buffet at Gurney Plaza. quite nice lar.. but not really authentic

din get to meet all my cousins in penang, either working, studying, or away for holiday
and i'm not goin to be back for Chinese New Year next yr :(
eldest bro also not goin back for CNY :(
dunno how is it like CNY in melb

sigh... will be leaving soon...
din meet up with any frens yet
sigh...

Back at home

arrived KL on Thurs night.
was quite tired, had a headache that night. probably coz lack of sleep from the previous night. :P

friday was 'dong1 zhi4'. good timing! i can be home for mum's home-made 'tang1 yuan2' :D yumm!
went to get my air tix... so i'm leaving for Melb on 5th Jan, arriving on 6th Jan morning. :( such a short short time here this time. i'm sure i'll miss home when i go back there.

went to prescribe a new pair of glasses in the afternoon, and bought new contact lenses too. $$$ gone...
this time back, i decided to spend my own 'hard-earn' money from the summer studentship.
but i din expect i'll spend so much on my glasses and contact lenses. :(

today went shopping at MidValley :D from 10am till 4pm.
had lunch, bro's treat. Penang food! i love the asam laksa there. but this time, i found that it's not as nice as before. but i tried the black glutinous rice dessert this time, which is really good!
met YeeFei there at Vincci. so ngam!
then not long after that, met my uncle there. so ngam!
dinner was on grandma :D she insisted on treating us dinner for my graduation
we had a nice dinner at PJ, our neighbour is one of the owners + cook.
food was good. i love the honey pork ribs especially. :D
and me and bro was saying that our grandma was so funny. when dad took some fish for her, she said she's full and doesnt' want anymore. but after she tried that piece of honey pork which was already on her plate, she went for a 2nd piece of the pork. haha! and the mango too... she kept saying she's full but she still eat when she found that they are good. our grandma is just so cute XD

sigh... i'll really miss KL this time! :(


i want to watch movie here!!
Jay Chow's movie is out already in m'sia.

my yesterday started off a bit boring, but it turned out pretty good and i got 3 surprises yday. :)

the first little surprise was at the Flylab's christmas party at Carlton gardens.
yup, everyone from the flylab (abt 3 labs that are doing fly stuff) left work by 12pm, except me left at 1230 coz i did some biochem stuff before i checked my flies. we all had a bbq picnic party at Carlton Gardens. As I went to the gardens from the lab alone, by city circle tram, i'm so tempted to just go home straight with the tram. But i've promise many ppl that i'll be goin to the party and also i shouldn't be anti-social since i already missed out the other PeterMac christmas party last Friday. So despite the hazy smokey weather, i walked a big round in the gardens and finally found their picnic spot.
it was quite boring at first coz i dunno many ppl there and there are only a few (less than 5?) ppl that i can actually talk to (and they actually talk to me). ppl sat around on the rug, playing with babies (my supervisor and a lady from other lab brought their daughters), chatting or played cricket. so thankful to Louis (another summer student in the same lab i'm working in) that he kept me company most of the time yday.
me and Louis kind of had this conversation day before yday at the tea room, saying that we thought some, or most ppl in the other labs are not really friendly. It surprised me when i heard him saying that coz i thought it's just me, coz i'm asian and he's a local.

after the food and drinks, everyone sat down, and start the little game called 'christ cringle' (not sure how to spell exactly :P), where few weeks ago (before i started working), each person pulled out a name from the hat and you had to buy a funny present for that person without letting he/she knows that you are the one who's is getting the present.
so i sat there, like other ppl, looking at them getting their presents one by one, and you had to have 3 guesses abt who bought u present. and when it comes to the last 5 presents to be given out, i got a present too! But since they picked the name before i joined the lab, i didn't buy any present for anyone. But is till got a present. :) obviuosly, it's from my own supervisor :) can also tell by the handwriting on my present. i got a little box of 'ginger bread christmas trees'.
so yea.. that was my first little surprise yday. :)


2nd surprise was at night... around 10 something. the few of us, me, Sam, Jess, Alfred, Raymond, Eric Wang, Bobby and Doris went to K-box. most of us were there since 8.45pm.
so around 10 something, Jess asked me to go to the washroom with her, so i followed. we chat abit in the washroom and then Doris came in too.
a little while later, Sam came in, 'signalling' to Doris to go out of the washroom and she was a bit shocked when she saw me behind the door. but yea... i didn't suspect anything at all lar Sam.
after i waited for Jess to come out from the toilet, we went back into the k-room and they were singing bday song, with 6 custard puff stacked together (as cake) and 16 candles (no reason for the 16) on the 'cake'. and it's for me!! :D
thanks guys! and thanks to sam that planned all those coz i'm leaving tmr and she wont be here celebrating on my real bday in Jan, and she knew that i really really like a surprise bday. thanks Sam!! really touched! *hugs* i nearly cry u know!!


the 3 surprise was after i reached home.
i continue packing after i had my shower. i ended up sleeping at 7am this morning and woke up at 10am.
before i went to bed, i checked my bank account and found that i've got my first week salary from my summer work! yay!! :D
so hmm... i can spend some of (or mayb all of them?) the first week salary in KL for shopping! muahaha!


oh well, 10.37am now... i'll leave home for airport at abt 12.10pm. taking skybus this time. not many luggages, so it's still alright.

bye now! dunno if i'll update this blog when i'm in kl :P
but anyway, i'll be back in Melb really soon... if nothing else happened, it'll be in two weeks time.

How? How? How?

3 how's in my mind lately...

how #1:
my offer letter for honours!
i still hvn't got it altho they said it'll be sent to me by christmas.
i emailed my supervisor to ask abt that yday but he's on christmas leave till early jan (i got an autoreply email), so might not be able to read that email.
coz i need that letter and the following documents and procedures to apply for next yr's student visa. or else, i dunno if i'll hv any prob with my plans of coming back to melb in early jan.
my current student visa expires mid march next yr, so should be able to enter aus again early jan, but then dunno if i'm allowed to buy a 1 year open return tix.

how #2:
well, i'm goin home on thurs... so less than 4 days left ... need to pack lar, clean/tidy up the apartment a bit lar, catch up with some frens before i go back lar, and luckily not much shopping to do coz already done that when parents were here.
hv time or not?!

how #3:
i still hv a bit of 遗憾 with my graduation photos. the studio photos, to be exact.
sorry guys... being 'long gas' (means keep repeating the same thing) here but... really lor...
until now, on and off, i still go to my photo folders and look at those photos :P
that's why i was kept reminded abt that 'hood incident'


oh and.. .anyone who's still in melb wants to watch movie, Borat? :P

My Graduation Day

that's it! my graduation day... it's finished. Hope i'll hv another one at the end of next year for honours :P

the excitement started when a lady called me yday 6 something in the evening, asking me how to pronounce my name. it's hard for her to get the middle word 'sze' but wat she could pronounce is close enough :P but anyway, today when they call out my name, it's diffr from yday

this morning i still went to work for 1.5 hours. need to check out the flies lar and luckily i went coz i managed to do a cross today! :)
when i was half way checking for any virgin female flies, i suddenly remember that i hvn't charge my camera!!! so i called home to ask my mum to do it for me.
and then the excitement increased when i was abt to leave work, i told ppl in the fly lab at that time that i'm going off to hv my graduation in the afternoon. and they said to me like... 'enjoy ur graduation!' bla bla bla. and my supervisor said that too before i left.

seeing my parents dressing up for my 'big day' make me feel really happy :)
coz they usually wont dress up mar,
dad was wearing a long sleeve shirt (bro bought for him, he told me) and mum wore a red blouse and white pants :)
then in the lift, dad was 'practising' his smile. haha! and we think his smile looks a bit funny :)

arrived in union hs at 12.45pm. went up to 2nd floor, queue up for the regalia. there were not more than 5 ppl there when i first arrived. then met a fren who did science so we were chatting while queueing up
after putting on the gown and the hood, picked up the tix for our guests.
went down to ground floor, met SuangSuang, then Hari and Jason.
after that me and my parents went to take those studio photos.
then saw HweeNgee, then LeeXin and KengSeng (thnx for the flowers!)
After the photos, TzeChien, HweeNgee, and Jeanette also came along. so we all went outside union hs to take photos. luckily it wasn't as hot as it was in the mid-day. :)

we went to the 'old harry-potter-like corridor' took a few photos there, then Charlotte came too. she's another biomed ppl who's graduating today. and i met Jill (a good teacher in my sem2 Experimental Genetics project) who walked pass us, so drag her for photo too of coz :)
then saw dad's fren, his son graduating today too. photo photo...
that old building near south lawn is really nice for photos!!
then Benson came, met WingYan too (another biomed ppl graduating today, altogether there's us 3 girls and another guy whom i dunno)
then SamSam and Elaine came (thnx for the flowers and the bearbear!! it's sharing my bed with me tonite :P)

then we went to Genetics building to take photo with the word 'genetics' plus the melb uni logo
while we're on the way back to Wilson Hall at 3pm, met Jocelyn (graduating today as Bach. in Optom.) and then Alvin came too.

the ceremony in Wilson Hall wasn't that boring. i was sitting next to Charlotte and another biomed guy (whom i dunno). i was a bit hungry but luckily my stomach behaved well :)
before we 'went up the stage to shake hand with the Chancellor, receive our cert, then nod with the Dean, come down from the stage', a mother-ly lady was there 'tidy-ing up' our look. from hats (for those masters ppl), ties (for guys), to the gown and hood.
and when it's my turn, i only realise that my hood is 'inside-out' all the time!!!!!!
which means my studio photos are stuffed up! >.<
blame the guy in 2nd floor union hs who helped me wear the hood!!!!! :(

the ceremony started at 3.30pm, finished at 5.15pm
each of us got our cert plus a melb uni logo pin. :)
after it finished, the Chancellor, Deans and all those 'big ppl' left the hall first, walking down the middle aisle, followed by us graduates when all the guests had to stand up. felt so proud!! :D but too bad when a fren tried to take photo of me walking down the middle aisle, i was coughing, so couldnt see my face clearly :(

then, outside Wilson Hall was crowded with ppl, all looking for our own parents, frens...
JeePing was outside the hall waiting for me
and saw KahWai too
after we found my parents (camera is with them), took photos with JeePing,
while still waiting to take photo with KahWai n JingYi (thnx for the melb uni koala) (and their fren joined in too), took a few photos with my cert :P

before returning the gown at 6pm, Alfred came just on time (thnx for the flowers).
after taking a few more photos, of myself also, returned the gown at 2nd floor.
met Fabian there. he graduated today too.

went home, put down the stuff, went out for dinner with my parents and my dad's fren and his son's hsmate+family
it was raining not too heavily.
after the dinner, i was soo soo sleepy. i can hardly open both of my eyes at the same time when i came home >.<
spent like 20mins (or more?) to fix up the flowers... put them into jars, bottles...
so now, my whole living room smells like flowers :P
i hv one 'jar' of flowers on the dining table, the other 'jar' in the toilet (no offence to the flowers wat so ever)

after shower, uploaded the photos looo... and to msn space too :P

time to sleep now.. :)
once again, thnx everyone for coming!!! i had a great day today :)

to be honest, i was worried if noone ever turned up! :$

First day of summer studentship

yup! first day at work today
woke up at 7.30am, reached there at abt 8.50am. still early so kind of walked around on the ground floor, found the cafeteria and a gift shop there :P
so went up to 2nd floor, ask at reception for the HR ppl who's suppose to bring me to get my swipe card, but she's not here yet (and turned out to be... she's not there the whole day today). and my supervisor wasn't there yet too.
almost 9.10, supervisor came (rupa-rupanya he had to drop his daughter at the day-care centre, that's why he's a bit late), brought me to meet ppl in the lab then explain to me things related to wat i'll be doing. then gave me the ppr he and another guy in the lab just published. so i spent my time before lunch time (i had my lunch ALONE at 12.30 :() reading pprs, including those photocopied from another summer student in the lab.
there are another 2 guys in the lab (not sure if they are postdocs or PhD students)

lunch time was a bit of an adventure. :P
i had to borrow the swipe card from my supervisor since i hvn't got one for myself.
went up to 3rd floor (where the tea room is) through the stairs (wow.. thought i'm able to get there myself coz the lab manager showed me around during orientation few weeks ago) but i couldn't find the tea room on 3rd floor!
so i went down to ground floor with the lift, thinking that i'll just hv my lunch at the cafeteria (since i've found where it is this morning) but there're many ppl there and i'm hving my own sandwiches (yup.. mum prepared them this morning! while i put the bread and the stuff altogether :) long time never had mum making lunch box and breakfast for me!!)
so, i went all up to 3rd floor (again) with the lift. then saw someone walking pass, i asked the lady where's the tearoom but she had no idea and asked me to go ask 3rd floor reception.
so when i was heading to the receptionist, i saw the familiar corridor! the corridor to the tea room! muahaha! so happy i was. but still, i had lunch with the newspaper that i was reading. there are ppl there in the tearoom but i dunno any of them. so....
Christina!! can't wait to hv lunch with u at petermac in jan!! haha! (too bad u're not reading this)

so around 1.30pm, he showed me the flies that i'll be working on and taught me how to differentiate virgin females from the normal ones coz for the rest of the day and will cont tmr, i'll be doing that under the microscope >.<

5pm!! can't wait till it's 5pm!! well, i finished a bit late ~5.10pm coz had to finish up wat i was doing mar. can't just leave like that.
so happy i'm home. mum cooked dinner :)
wonder how it's goin to be in Jan when mum's not around :( aww....

well, it's only 10.37pm now but i really want to go to bed. need to wake up at 7.30am tmr again.
really looking fwd to thursday!! coz of 2 reasons: my grad ceremony, and i'll be off from work! muahaha!
it's at 3.30pm but hopefully ppl turn out so that i can take photos with.
for those whom i know, only me, wingyan, charlotte and a son of my dad's fren are graduating on that day. :(
and you guys who are reading this, mostly are those not in melb. too bad... :(
not hving high hope that many of my biomed frens will turn up lor. they are either working, or just dunno how lar.

NZ: South Island

travel time in hours:mins

Kiwiland Adventure 25 Nov - 5th Dec

mum, dad, eldest bro, me
car driver - dad and bro
navigator - me!
photographer - bro and me (most photos i took with my camear are on msn space)
cook (in some days) - mum, with some little help from me and bro

25th Nov - Melb:Christchurch
woke up at 4.30am,
5.55am, skybus to airport
had my breakfast at the airport
8.40am jetstar, after we board the plane, delayed 50mins! i took a nap and when i woke up, still find myself in the plane still on the ground. -_-
slept in the plane, hv some chat with the lady sitting next to me (she's on the plane with her husband and their cute 9-months old son), and ate a whole packet of timtam balls (bought that from a duty free shop when i was reminded by another passenger that there're no food served on the plane unless u pay for it)
that flight was not very stable... bad landing too! jetstar... aih...
2.30pm reach Christchurch
the first thing i saw from the plane after we touched down = sheep!! haha
mum, dad and bro already arrived at Chch from Syd.
bro's frens took us for early dinner in the city. we had some western food. and water here taste good! :P
then they brought us around the city, botanical garden, cathedral square, mona vale (a nice rose garden), then went buy stuff from a 24hrs supermarket (Countdown)
u know wat: the tallest building in Chch city is their police station, not very tall after all (sorry... din take photo of that :P but turst me, no more taller than where i stay in melb)

26th Nov - Christchurch:Hanmer Springs
rain
quite cold leh... i had to wear my winter jacket i wore in melb
picked up rented car at 9.30am
bought a vodafone prepaid card
went to Hanmer Springs (1.5-2hr drive from city), famous for their open air thermal pools and sulphur pools (those sulphur pools really stinks! smells like rotten eggs)
we only went in for a walk, bro 'accidentally' found the way through the back gate, so we entered without paying few dollars each
had lunch at Hanmer Springs
on our way back to the city, went to New Brighton (it's a beach side area), saw rainbow there :P
went to woolworth (the supermarket that we call safeway in melb)
went to casino in Chch, Bridge of Remembrance

27th Nov - Chch:Lyttleton:Arthur's Pass:Greymouth
(still) rain
check out from the motel
Scenic drive to Lyttleton, a small historic town/ harbour
~12pm set off to Greymouth
abt 4 hours drive
through Arthur's Pass, fantastic scenery, moutains, snowy mountains, rivers, sheeps. and it snowed! :)
checked into our accomodation - a holiday park near the seaside (the whole Greymouth is by the sea anyway)
drove up to Greymouth lookout, seaside
bought this ice cream - hokey pokey flavour, it's like... milky smooth vanilla with honey crystals ball (a bit smaller than those pearls in bubble tea)
that flavour is only available in NZ

28th Nov - Greymouth:Hokitika:Franz Joseph:Fox Glacier
rain (again)
cold!!
we actually booked for a half-day glacier hiking at Franz Joseph Glacier. but after found out that Fox Glacier is less physically challenging, we changed our mind and cancelled that one. so we went on a half-day glacier hiking (~1.45 - 6pm) at Fox Glacier! 4 of us joined the guided hiking. met LeeYen, SinNeng and their frens there! they also went on holiday in NZ, also joining the glacier hiking. we ended up in the same team. abt 17 ppl in one team. they supplied us all the equipment, boots, rain jackets, rain pants, and crampons (things that u put around/under ur boots so that u can walk on ice)
when we are 45mins from the glacier, mum couldn't tahan, she's afraid of heights and physically not fit enough too. so dad and mum turned back down to the car park:(
before reaching the glacier, we had to walk through the trees, waterfall, slopes... although they're well pathed, but it's actually quite dangerous if u're not careful
when we reach the glacier.. walau!! so cool! it is cold there, my ears went numb so i had to put on my beanie. we were really stepping on ice (glacier)! and each of us had a walking stick too. it rained on and off throughout the journey.
so so so tiring man!! esp my leg. and my heel hurts coz of the boots. but it's worth the all the sweat. :)
checked into our Franz Joseph YHA, it's a really nice place to stay. shared kitchen and dining hall with others
during dinner time, everyone came to the kitchen to cook, u can see all the diffr food ppl cook :P quite fun

29th Nov - Franz Joseph:Haast:Wanaka:Queenstown
Rain (and again)
max temperature is less than 13C i think.
Haast: nothing much, jungle treking
stopped to see waterfall while we're on our way to Queenstown
before we reach Wanaka, our car nearly break down coz ran out of petrol!! the warning signal came out 3 times already
so when we saw petrol station at Wanaka (a small town), it's like seeing gold! phew...
had Subway at Wanaka hehe... Subway there are slightly diffr from those in Melb, some diffr 'flavour' and diffr dressing too. and the guy making our bread was so patient... slowly and neatly 'put and arrange' all the fillings on the bread nicely, unlike those in melb, 'rushing and stuffing' everything in only.
then went to Wanaka Puzzle World :) spent one hour there. really fun! althought it's small, that's why mum and dad doesn't want to go in coz they think it's not worth the money (altho it's $7 per entry). so me and my bro went in while our parents were 'outside' playing those puzzles blocks.
first there's Hologram Hall, with all the 3D Hologram photos
then the Hall of Following faces,
The Ames Illusion room - where Giants & Dwafts are created!
The Tilted House - water flowing uphill, monorail go from floor to ceiling... that room really make u dizzy! coz the floor is actually not horizontal on 'normal water level' but the things inside are on the 'normal water level' erm... dunno how to explain but we took a few videos with my camera. for photos, see my msn space lar. :P
we didn't go to the maze as it's raining out there
and the toilet... the toilet bowls are so beautiful haha! (again, see my msn space lar)
reach Queenstown late evening, it's a really nice beautiful place.
the houses (mostly are accomodation for tourists lar) are so beautiful!
it's the next biggest city we came to after Chch.
we had pizza at Pizza hut. we ordered 1 large pizza + garlic bread for $16, but we ended up hving 2 large pizzas + chicken wings! coz we still din get our garlic bread after we finished that pizza, so i asked the waitress and she said we can hv any pizza instead. so she gave us another large pizza and chicken wings for no extra charge! coz it's almost 9pm, so they want to clear their food gua.
we stayed at an Alpine hotel, which is like 15 mins drive from Queenstown 'city' :( bit dissapointed with the location of the accomodation coz queenstown 'city' is still busy at night and we could hv hand around in the city if we're stayin in the city. coz it's not very safe to drive from the city to where we stay at nite. no lights all the way and we had to cross 1 (or 2?) single-lane bridge.

30th Nov - Queenstown:Arrowtown:Queenstown
cold! raining too!
Arrowtown, abt 30 mins drive from Queenstown. a beautiful small town, with a historic chinese settlement there.
met Leeyen and her frens back in the city. they went for bungy jumping!! wow! !
had Thai food for lunch, Indian food for dinner

1st Dec - Queenstown:Te Anau:Milford Sound
sunny :) but still it's cold
on our way from Queenstown to Te Anau, along the road are sheeps, sheeps and sheeps. haha! oh and snowy mountains too
had lunch in Te Anau, a small place with a glow worm cave (which we didn't go)
then from there to Milford Sound, which we'll be staying for the night, it's a 2.5 hour drive but it took us 4hr coz of the waterfall, creeks, mirror lakes, Homer Tunnel along the way. :) the water of rivers and lakes in NZ are crystal clear!!
Milford Sound Lodge is the only accomodation for us there. the other accomodation is only for ppl goin for hiking. :S
there's no electricity in the lodge from 11pm - 6.30am :S
we went to bed before 9pm (and yup the sky was still bright) and woke up before 8am the next day

2nd Dec - Milford Sound:Te Anau
Milford Sound cruise!! was really excited abt that but after the cruise, i found it... not that great afterall.
the ~1.5 hours cruise... wat we saw was those cliff/mountains along the river (which will lead to Tasman Sea)
the most beautiful/ spectacular thing i think was the waterfall. the really huge fall! the water splashing down on the river was so beautiful, the huge white splash.
we stayed at Te Anau YHA for the night. i think it's not as nice as Franz Joseph YHA.
overall, not worth overnight at Te Anau. should have gone straight to Dunedin after the cruise.
went to bed before 10pm

3rd Dec - Te Anau:Gore:Dunedin
on our way to Dunedin (prounouced as 'Dhe-nee-din'), abt 40mins from Dunedin, our car got hit by a small Holden truck
our car was seriously damaged on the front right side, the lamp, indicator lamp smashed (but the indicator was still working), and i can't even open my door (i was sitting next to the driver seat) properly, not even half open.
bro was trying to turn right at the junction to see something (many shoes were hanging on the fence). he likes to take photos
and the other car came from behind us, was trying to overtake us but bro din see it, so.. bang! until now, i can still remember the huge bang soud when it hit us.
that guy called police, his car not as badly damaged: a flat right front tyre and some damage on the left front door.
luckily noone got hurt. but my mum was really traumatised
and luckily we got the car insured when we rented the car.
bro slowly drove the car to Dunedin after the police report (bro got fine NZD150 for that). so ppl watching our car when we passed by... so paiseh man! :$
Dunedin is a nice city. i love it. Apparently there are many students in Dunedin (there's Otago uni there)
the city is less than half the size of melb city.
so happen that there's a Santa Parade that day, 3pm-4pm in the city, George Street
there are only 2 straight, long main roads in the city
so many childrens are out there for the parade, both participating in the parade and watching the parade. those kids are so cute! :P
again, see msn space for pic :)
after dinner, the car rental company changed for us another car.
then we went to visit the Otago Uni, railway station, then Baldwin Road, which is the steepest road in the world (abt thirty degree at the steepest part of the road), Botanical Gardens

4th Dec - Dunedin:Otago Peninsula:Christchurch
9.30am Cadbury factory tour! it lasts for 75 mins, it's more 'tourist-ish yet 'not as many choc for u to have compared to that in Tasmania :P
then to Otago Peninsula, abt 50mins to reach the very end of the peninsula from Dunedin city
in Otago Peninsula, there's Penguin Place (which we din go), Larnach Castle (which we turned back at the guard house), Albatross Colony...
then, we drove back to Christchurch
well, Chch is also a nice city :)
slept at ~10.45pm

5th Dec - Christchurch:Melbourne
woke up at 3.20am, our flight back to melb is at 6.20am
had to pay NZD25 per person for the tax at the airport.
with AirNZ :) hv breakky served on the plane, and more smooth stable flight too. but the air-hostess, they walked like elephant in the plane :P footsteps too heavy or they themselves are too heavy? oops! :D
reach melb at almost 9am melb time.
wow.. relieved to be back in melb altho it's a really hot and stuffy day
missed the cool weather in NZ, and their water too!

1 day left...

sienzzzz...
tmr is sunday already!! >.<

yer... sometimes very >.< with my mum...
coz she always misunderstood what ppl told her, always dont remember things i said/mentioned, and sometimes her way of handling things
sometimes those things made me really -_-, and >.<**!!!

coz i already expected wat my parents's reactions will be, that's why some stuff (or mayb most stuff) i dont like to tell/share with them. coz i know that they wont agree/understand, so i just dont bother to tell them :( aih...

monday goin to start work already... so 不甘愿 lar me
yday nite, watch korean series alone in my room till this early morning. i wanted to watch more but then when i heard dad and mum woke up and ask why i'm still awake (they were sleeping on the sofa bed in the living room)... i quickly switch off my lights (comp still left on) and go to bed (i'd brushed my teeth hours ago lar!)
things like watching movie series till early morning next day are things that i'm 'not able to' do when i start working or start uni. :(
somemore... next day also nothing to do, no need to wake up early mar... sleep late also nvm wat :(
i guess that's generation gap...

hvn't done my homework for my internship... suppose to read the published papers that my supervisor sent me but i hvn't even print them out.
well, i did try to print them today but found printer ran out of ink. so... tmr lar :P

still waiting...

argh!!
still hasn't got my full results yet
by saying full i mean.. the exact score i got for each of the 4 subjects
i sort of know wat's my highest and lowest score liao coz yday (Wed), my hons supervisor (yup.. he IS my supervisor next year) called me on my mobile phone to offer me the honours project in his lab. and that is my first choice of hons project :) and he roughly told me my higest and lowest score and my average faculty score.
but still.. i'm curious!! i want to know each of the scores for each of the subj!!

3 more days of my holiday...
and yup.. i'm still lazy to blog abt my kiwiland adventure :P
but i've uploaded 'selected photos' that i have from my camera to my msn space.
there're more from my bro's cam.. much nicer ones. haha!
i think those... need to wait till he pass me the CD ONE DAY lar... dunno when will that be >.<

Back from Kiwiland!

yup... 'back' in melb this morning... early morning! reached melb airport around 9am.
quite tired now actually... feel like sleeping tho it's only 10.18pm (NZ time 12.18am). I had to wake up at 3.20am this morning coz the flight is at abt 6.25am (yea.. around that time... u know lar.. i'm bad with numbers :P).
as soon as i stepped out of melb airport... wah... melb is so hot!!
today's weather is hot and stuffy. feel that melb air is dirty and hot... miss those clean cool fresh air in NZ. haha! ya.. NZ is cold! eventho it's summer there. it's like winter in melb! most places we went are even colder that i had to wear a Tshirt + a jumper (that i usually wear in autumn or spring) + my winter jacket!
will update my Day1 - Day11 'Kiwiland Adventure' here soon.. er.. mayb tmr? or day after? haha! hvn't upload all the pics into the comp yet.. except that pic of the little sheep soft toy that i bought from NZ. we (me and bro) bought 3... one for each of us (me and bro and another bro in KL) :). i think that's the only thing the 3 of us have exactly the same one, same size (except that we hv the same family, same relatives.. bla bla bla) haha.. hv to mention same size coz i remember that we hv a same Tshirt when we were small but diffr size of course. oh well, the 3 sheeps aren't EXACTLY the same... they hv diffr eyes, diffr hair... hehe

aih.. came back here.. so many things to do, hvn't been online for 10 days. many emails (incld junk of course) to clear (and few blogs to catch up haha!), need to reply to some of them :S (must think how to write properly one u know! esp those 'serious' ones.)

this afternoon, saw casio digital pianos on promotion in melb central. again... tempted to buy one. but... failed to convince my parents to let me buy. :( sienzzzz...

sigh... few more days (holidays) before my first day of work on monday for the summer studentship. wonder how will it be like :P which means i need to read all 3 pprs that my supervisor sent me months ago before monday. lazy lazy lazy.

went to pay $55 for hiring the academic gown for my graduation this afternoon. results will be out this fri (well, actually we can get the results on thurs evening lar) and then i'll know if i can graduate :P the lady at the office told me that there is NO AIR CON IN WILSON HALL!! wat der!!! imagine this hot summer melbourne day, 3.30pm, so many ppl in wilson hall (luckily the ceiling of wilson hall is high up.. so.. more air circulation hopefully. haha). so i think it's better to wear a short-sleeve shirt for the ceremony

tmr, mum's fren coming over
day after, dinner with frens
fri, dinner with dad's fren
left with sat and sun. :(
I WANT MY HOLIDAYSSSS!!

the 3 bad things i see in myself

Being picky is really bad!
u'll get irritated easily.. too easily. even by a small action (eg. forgot to switch off the light) done by other ppl.
and ur mood will be affected
then ppl around u will be wondering wat happened to u

Being too 'logical' is bad too!
u'll think and consider things from many different aspects and u'll make everything complicated.

Being too sensitive on what other ppl thinks about urself is bad too!
u'll worry abt the impression of u in other ppl's mind
and if u THINK things aren't right, u'll be very 烦 and keep thinking/tracking back wat had happened, keep 'analysing' wat might went wrong. bla bla bla...

wat der!!

ish!!!
kena ffk (means 'put aeroplane' by ppl) this morning!
i only had 3 hours sleep and had to wake up at 8am for the stupid orientation for my summer studentship. My orientation was suppose to be at 10am, but the letter says i have to be there at 9.30am to settle my paperwork. So i reach there at 9.25am sharp. the person who arranged my orientation (Beryl) told me to come back at 1.30pm because the lab manager (Michelle) who is suppose to brief me had arranged for my orientation at 1.30pm in her diary! and for 10am, i'm the only student, for 1.30pm, there's another student coming in as well. Beryl was very polite and said sorry a few times about that while for Michelle, not at all! i have the impression that she doesnt think it's her (or their) mistake and i have to come back in 3 and a half hours time for her convinience. she doesn't seem to have other important stuff to do and can't take me alone for orientation in the morning because she did say that it's better for me to join the other student together at 1.30pm. :S

so now, i'm in union house comp lab, filling up my honours application forms while on msn and now blogging.
sien... my grand plan for today was actually.... after orientation, go uni hand in my honours application form for genetics department (closing date is today) and the go home and sleep (instead of goin to Bridge Rd shopping with a fren)! but now... 'half day hanging', dont want to go home coz hv to come back soon so can't really sleep also. noone to kacau in uni...
sigh... think i might end up lepak-ing in the city until it's time to go to the orientation. >.<
and my lunch too! planned to go home eat my leftover pasta (since day before yday) but now...!!

Childhood memories

wah!! spent more than 7 hours scanning more than 240 childhood photos of me and my bros (well, mostly are mine lar) into the comp and then putting the original hard copies into new photo albums.
really thankful to my parents that they took so many photos of us when we were young. all the memories are in the photos. without the photos, i dont remember a thing!
i brought them over to melb becoz some of the photos we had at home started to 发霉! so i want to have a soft copy at least to keep... forever.
looking at those photos... only know that i was so cute when i was really small. :P
but after entering primary school, i dont look cute anymore lor. haha!
and looking at the photos of my grandparents made me a bit teary. and also found that my dad dont usually smile when taking photos. that was back then. now he has improvement :)

photos are really good as memory of things that had happened.
that's why i love taking pics, with and without ppl. we only have limited 'memory space'. can't remember every single thing, place or ppl.
digital camera is really a good invention! :P

exam finished. but...

although i've finished my exams, but most of my friends are still hving theirs. so... aih... how to enjoy?! noone to 'play' with. :(

yday after finish exam, wanted to msg ppl to say how relieved i was but think think... ppl are still hving exam so not really nice to msg them telling how happy you are :(

yday's ppr was tough! after i finished the paper, i was there calculating the scores whether i can pass the ppr. sad case... i dont usually sit there during exams, adding up the marks and stuff. and this time, really scared for not passing the subject!
then, went to city, bought bday card for my wai po. i love cards. i love looking through cards, choosing the best card for the person. and i saw this nice bday card and i just bought it coz it looks nice. :)
yday's weather was crazy, rain, hail, rain, stop, rain, stop...
my exam was at wilson hall, i was sitting at the 2nd row from the door. as ppl opened the door, can feel the cold wind from outside.
went to see myer window. the characters are quite cute but some of them are a bit 'cacat', needs to be fixed up.

was looking at the honours applications last night...
it's either i think too much or really i'm having a problem here.
especially after that last ppr, i dont hv much confident in getting the project i want. which is the one at mcri. i wanted to apply for 3 from pediatrics dep (MCRI), 1 from pathology dep (petermac) and 1 from genetics dep (petermac+genetics co-supervision). then looking at the blanks on the forms (we're allowed to put in more than 3 projects on one departmental application form). filling only one for patho and genetics is risky. means if i dont get that one means dont get at all from that department. so how if i can't get any from MCRI, not even 1 of the 3? how?! mcri is the hardest one to get in... highest required marks.
so i was a bit panick that time, read through other projects in genetics dep, found 2 quite inetersted ones. after all the hesitation, i emailed that supervisor to ask for appointment to ask him things abt his projects. but until now he din reply me :( it's either
he din check email (unlikely hor) or
he thinks this student is so last minute (closing date for genetics dep is on monday) so just ignore. :(
sigh... how how how?! should i just call his office tmr?
or just go: fine... i'll just apply only 1 project for that department. :S
sien...

and choosing between doin hons in uni vs research institutions outside uni is also an espect to think of.
and also need to consider how the supervisor is.. whether he's a considerate person or he's a 'make u work like hell' type of supervisor?
and also other ppl in the labs, whether they are nice ppl etc...
and whether the project is 'workable'. as in... whether will hv result at the end of the 10 months.
and also the coursework.

am i thinking too much? should i just pick the topic i'm interested in and think... i need to learn to deal with different kinds of ppl in the society and just give it a go?


and yup.. it's holiday for me now. which means i need to do some '亲善大使' work which is to call my uncle (who is in melb) and say hello, update him a bit etc...
aih....
i dont like to call him coz i dunno wat to say to him. adult world is complicated. sometimes some things shouldn't be said...
sometimes ppl back home will ask if i call him once in a while... but i'll think... why dont he call me? or his sons (my cousins) call me or even a hello at msn?!

even another uncle and aunty in melbourne, although we're not related (they're just frens of my other uncle), they'll email me sometimes to say hi and stuff, they even called me out for dinner when their son who is working in HK came to melb. they emailed me to let me know and say bye before they go to HK and Msia for holiday for 1 month. i was really touched when they treated me well although they dont really know me.

i'm really tired of 'acting' in front of them, every words need to go through my brain for a few times before said.
i hvn't been talking to my uncle for more than half a year liao. last year, and the years before i still call him once each semester, which is during uni holidays. so when uni holidays start, i'll be like... 'aih... need to call uncle liao'

mum and dad are flying off KL to sydney now. ya.. they're in KLIA now. and i dont think my uncle knows they're coming and our holiday plan to NZ and my summer studentship stuff too. i want him to know before my parents come, before we leave for NZ.
hmm...
wanted to call him last nite. but was watching 'smile pasta' until i remember, it was 12am already.
okok.. i'll call tmr... after mum and dad arrive in the morning, then at least i hv things to say like... 'my parents just arrived in syd this morning' (hope it wont be too surprising for him).

:P

oh.. a note to add here... in the series, 张栋梁 and the other guy are brothers. YeeFei thought the mv of 北极星的眼泪 is gayish! (coz she doesn't know the storyline :P)

張棟樑 - 就微笑了

another nice one.. :)

王心凌 - 黄昏晓

another nice song from the drama series.

motivation! come back!!

lack of motivation now... :(
this one last subj is hard... and the fact that it contributes 50% (not 55% as i mentioned before) to the sibj makes me lose motivation to study as hard as i did for other subj.
sien sien sien...
this year's exam question format will be different from the past. so dunno what type of questions to expect :(
AHHHHH!!!
2 more days before wed!!
scared!!

张栋梁 - 北极星的眼泪

got to know this song from a taiwanese series - 微笑pasta. the drama series was actually recommeded to me by my mum! haha!

oh.. a note to add here... in the series, that 2 guys are brothers. YeeFei thought the mv is gayish! (coz she doesn't know the storyline :P)

第17届金曲奖孙燕姿表演

saw this from a fren's blog. quite nice

1 to go!!

whee... one more ppr to go!! yesh!!
cant wait for holidays to come!!
just got email from my aunt and she's inviting me and my bro to visit her in s'pore during christmas. hopefully bro wants to go then i can go too :D

wah.. .so many things to do during this coming holiday...
first thing is... fill up and hand in my honours application lar... so many forms to fill in coz i'm applying for a few departments. well, honours in science (yea.. too bad no honours in biomed) works like this... each departments have diffr projects, and we can submit application to as many departments as we want. then wait for their offer and accept the offer.
after that, enjoy holiday before my parents come. haha!
hopefully ppl out there after finish their exams still remember me har.. :D
then to NZ on 25th Nov.. oh ya... reminds me of doing research abt place to visit in NZ, plan the trip. can't leave that for my bro. he hasn't even book the car rental yet! that's his job as i've booked all the accomodation and get all flight tix settled.
then come back from NZ on the 5th, spend time with my parents for a few days... then start work lor... on 8th Dec.
then grad on 14th Dec. :D
oh .. before that... uni results will be out in early dec.
then go back to m'sia on 21st dec.
hope to go to s'pore during christmas (hmm .. but that means i wont be in kl for grace's bday :S)
then come back melb early jan, start work again.... till end of first week of feb.
then depends which honours project i get, either start honours straight away (5th Feb) or mid feb.
so that's my GRAND PLAN for my summer 'holiday'

okok... enough day-dreaming... study study...
need to clear my table first. ya.. during exams, i like to write notes on my table (which is white colour) with pencil of course. then i'll put away all the stuff for funcitonal genomics.
it's time for EVOLUTION!! yup... my next exam is on Genomes and Evolution. sounds very theory hor... ya... it is. quite interesting if you get it. but the thing is i still dont get it! :S
55% of the marks on this exam. dont think i'll get H1 for this subj d coz my assignments (45% of the subj marks) is not as good. :( anyway, fingers crossed! if i do well in the exam, there's still hope :D

How smart am I!! haha!!

haha... recieved this email from a friend (i shall not name him here) with a link abt 'crush calculator' the email goes like this:

http://www.crushcalculator.com/content/love/592887179
omg you guys have to try this....its real good....

so i went on to click that link and it brought me to this page, asking me to type in my name and the name(s) of my crush (can enter up to 3). I did not type in anything as i feel something fishy is going on. so i cut the front bit of the url and paste to a new window then press enter.
and... ta daa... BINGO! it IS a prank!! from a fren (of course i know who is he)
apparently it's a 'test' you can use on your friends or even your bf/gf (says on that website) to see if they are really true to you. u'll get to know what are the names they put in when you log into their 'members' page'. they'll notify you when ur frens are fooled. 'dooing' -_-

hmm...

Why ppl seems to be so free today? Is it a public holiday today?
went to uni for past year exam ppr discussion with some friends. then we went to Marks for lunch. ya... as usual, their survice is not as good but their tangy chicken supreme pizza is the best pizza! today we tried their dip and it's nice too!
ok, then i went to the city to do some grocery shopping. and so many ppl are on the street today! not just students, but older ppl and also mothers with their young kids... feels like today's a weekend or a public holiday! or is melbourne cup today? thought it's tmr? hm...

Another challenge before the other starts

Just came back from interviewing ppl for next yr's canto production.
yup.. that's one of the job for assistant production manmager
i dunno if i'm killing myself for applying and getting that position coz next yr i'm doin honours.
but haih... suan le lar... just take it and 拼 to the max lar!
and the fact that the other APM is fred and the PM is JingYing does motivate me up a bit, this combination seems 'workable' :) finger crossed!!

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!!

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. :)

光良_-_如果你还爱我(LIVE)

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...

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。

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%)

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!

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 :)

>隐形人<

昨天晚上，决定把自己变成隐形人，在MSN消失几天，也不想听电话 （not that 整天有很多电话进来）。但是凌晨一点多就收到一封很长的SMS from AD，不得不处理一下。然后今天早上又不放心，就打了电话给她要把事情做好。她应该还没睡醒吧。

每次心情不好就会把薯片当一餐。
或许是功课还有不少的stress吧，才会想要‘与世隔绝’一下。
真的有太多的事情还没做完，眼看假期就要完了。
这个星期六、日有ctg的事要忙。
很怕啊！

本来和一班coursemates 讲好今年要一起去ski, 从去年底讲到今年winter break，过后就没有人再提了。
之后讲要在这星期weekday 去royal melbourne show。结果他们前天去了，我是星期六才知道他们决定隔天去，因为他们这个week 要做工，不得空。而我早在一星期前就说好我sunday 有 rehearsal。罢...

可能我expect too much from 这班朋友，失望了。越来越觉得和他们在一起时，很left-out。他们开心enjoy，我并没有他们那样开心。罢... sien...

陶喆ft,蔡依林---今天你要嫁给我MV

nice song nice mv :)

CTG Mouse Trap 等著你回來

Melbourne Uni Chinese Theatre Group (CTG) mandarin production 2006

MOBILE phone!!

Wat's the point of having a mobile phone when ppl can't reach you by calling ur mobile phone?!
very sien with this fren coz everytime i call her, 9 out of the 10 times, can't get her. it's either she's sleeping (ya.. even 10pm she is sleeping), or she's busy or she didn't hear the phone ring. ><
very 无奈 arrr!!

today is wednesday liao... i seriously know i have so much work to do and i really need to speed up my pace liao!!

okok.. my target for tonite is... finish Belinda's lectures!! muahaha... doubt that i can make it but i'll try my best... coz i'm a bit sleepy liao now... hmm... mayb i should eat some fruits to keep me awake :D

stressful mid-sem break

slept at almost 5am. but now, 9.30am i'm awake already, not able to continue my sleep becoz of the stress!
as i thought of how much work i need to do, uni work, ctg work, personal stuff... so much to do! and i'm so reluctant to do any of them!! i'm just tired to go through all these. >.<

2 weeks mid-sem break just started.
i have been looking fwd to this break since few weeks ago when all my assignments and tests piled up on me. but now, i'm not happy to hv this break.

how un-malaysian am I?

Congratulations Sze Chern, you are 40% not Malaysian.

That means you're as Malaysian as...

Michelle Yeoh!

How Un-Malaysian Are You?

Whee!! :D

Yay!!
Got offered the summer student scholarship from PeterMac on monday.
was soooo excited when i checked the email at 8pm. and immediately picked up the phone and called my best fren. well, i know i should be calling my parents first. but... haha.. i called them at almost 12.
and i had accepted the offer that night after getting the email for abt 5 hours
then started to realise this potential clash of the summer work with my 'potential' honours project. coz the honours at MCRI (the murdoch children research institute at royal children's hosp) starts in 5th Feb. and i really like some of the projects there. so, after being worried about that and after discussing with a lecturer/my referee and another lecturer, and then i came up with the solution! :)
that is, work for 2 weeks in dec, which means go back m'sia later lor... then come back in early jan to continue. that will be able to let me clear the 6 weeks work by feb. hopefully get some break before starting the honours.
and this morning, got email from the supervisor and he's ok with that. so, everything's good now :D

i woke up at 8.17am this morning and missed my 8am lecture >.<
mayb i didn't set my alarm clocks (ya.. i hv 2 alarms, one radio alarm and one on my handphone) or i woke up and turn them off (but i dont remember me doin that wor)?!

tonite goin to a fren's 21st, yday nite a fren's bday too...
thurs go rehersal, friday ball!!
yay!! this week is so fun :D
after the stressfull 3 previous weeks, i can finally play play and play until term break starts, i hv to do assignments, and study for test and keep up with my lectures again. :(
well, so, let me enjoy first lar!! :D
gtg... go ball shopping with fren now...

Phew...

my crazy week 7 is over!! finally!!
now looking fwd to holiday! ooh.. and the M'sian ball on friday :)
oh ya... din update abt the petermac application... i got into the interview. and it was on wed. well, i was quite nervous abt it. and just after the interview, i can't tahan myself and called yf to tell her all abt the interview! haha!! will know the result early next week lar... he said if i din hear from him this week, email him wor.. will do it tmr lar. fingers crossed!!

after the interview on tues, went home to prepare my presentation which was on thurs.
and i took me till the next morning, 5am only i went to sleep. i hand-written all my 5 slides but have another 4 with the figures had to photocopy onto it. then woke up at 9am to go uni photocopy my OHP slides.
i think i'm a bit kelam-kabut during the presentation, missed a few points i realised after the presentation. and luckily one of the lecturer, who always ask difficult questions didn't ask me anything haha!! mayb coz my paper was quite simple, nothing to critise abt? 3 ppl presented that day, i was the last one for the day and for the whole class too coz that's the last day of the series of presentation. 29 ppl in the subject, each person do 1 paper.

few things i'm 'proud' abt my presentation is...
i'm the only one who edited (with OHP marker pen) the figures from the paper. those figures are like graphs, or gel photos, or any results that the ppl had done and published together with the paper.
and i did a small demonstration abt this 'supercoiling theory' with my mp3 player's earphone wires. :) and a girl in the class said 'cool' when she saw the demo. :D
well, i heard her said that before to another person when he has this clever idea of the way he uses his slides.
and after the class ended, the lecturer who is the subject coordinator came to me to ask where i got some of my points i presented from. coz he can't find them on the paper. haha... of course lar... coz it's not from the paper. it's some extra research i did :) coz nowadays when u look for a scientific paper from the internet, some of them will have links saying which other papers had referred to this particular paper. so there's where i got the extra stuff from. they are like the more latest info abt that topic coz the papaer i presented was published in 2002.
and then he also said to me and another fren who also presented that day, that we did a very good job :)

after that, went home for awhile then went to royal children's hosp for the honours open day in murdoch children research institute. love the atmosphere, like the ppl there, like their projects too!!
but i have to enrol my hons trhough the dep of pediatrics in uni. dunno if there's any difference coz i always wanted to do hons in genetics. but then the projects there that i'm interseted in are still genetics stuff wat. hmm...
and the hons in mcri starts in early feb next yr. which means IF i got petermac scholarship, i won't be able to work full 6 weeks wor. dunno hv prob or not leh?
anyway, see how lar... better not be too confident yet. things wont always turn out to be wat we want it to be. and there's another open day for genetics dep in uni on tues. the hons in the dep starts mid feb. well, there are pros and cons to do hons in uni and in outside (other research institutions). so... see how it goes...

so after the open day, went home... do assignment, friday due.
and that took me till the next morning 10am baru can sleep. >.<
slept till 12.15pm, that's luckily yeefei sms me abt hving lunch together with another fren too!! if not, i'll sleep until miss the 1pm lec.
after lec, went to hand in my assignment. well, i think i din do well for that assignment too. seems like i'm really not an assignment person. i'm more of a test/exam person. hmm... now only i know!! in my final semester!! -_-|||
a fren's 21st party at nite...
then after that, went home, straight into my bed after my shower at 12am.

slept till this afternoon 12.30pm. ahh... so nice!!
and i finally have a weekend where i can really enjoy, have a break from the uni days. :)
next week, 1 prac assignment to hand in on monday and that's it for the week! :D
yay!! v^-^V

tmr our first full run. quite nervous abt it actually. coz the casts never practice with props before. and tmr will be the first time we'll use it. so actually i should check through all the props tonite since most of the stuff are with me now. but i'm so sleepy liao.. *yawn*
ok lar, i'll go check check first... dun want anything wrong to happen tmr :)

Why?!

How can you tell whether a person is ur true fren, or just fren or hi-bye fren?
does it always have to go through many 'tests' to tell them apart?!
just tired of guessing and be sceptical all the time. and feel 'cheated' at some time when i THINK the person is not being honest to me.
it's all about guessing and how good ur 'analyzing skills' are! >.<
i know that i can just stay away from them, and be hi-bye frens but i dont want that to happen coz all my analysis can be wrong! but i dont hv the gut to walk up to them and ask them on their face.
dont know why it turned out like this. or it's just me thinking too much?
but everything seems so obvious! and i think i shouldn't let myself trust the person at the first place. too late now...
Human beings are so complicated!!

FON

Enjoy taking my time walking back home half way from uni. Today on my way home, took a tram till latrobe st, just missed the last city circle tram, so i walked home.
While i was walking, i kept thinking and 'analysing' what had happened today so far.
well, today after class, went to volunteer for the Festival of Nations. felt so sorry for a fren coz i din take care of his chocolate properly. i know that's just a chocolate.. but... :(

then cabut at 330, went to help a fren with the preparation of her little performance :D

then went to fotoholics IGM at 5.15pm
i did a bad job as a returning officer (to conduct the election) for the IGM. after the meeting, i so want to find a hole to hide my face!!! >.<
i think i made the IGM so dodgy and inorganized. Feel so bad for that. :(

i think i'm having too many mood swings.
as in i feel bad easily, i feel down quite easily too.
no good right? hmm..
mayb i should be more forgetful? haha!

>Crazy week 5<

Finally can have a small break for some 'fresh air'!!
this week is a crazy week for me!!
it started on monday... had the genomes and evolution 'exam' (it's worth 20%!) which i only studied the day before. sad to did that sort of thing... that is so not me! before that, i started studying for all my tests or exams at least few days before the day. but this time.. sigh... anyway, can't blame anyone for that except myself...

then tuesday, annoyed by a friend... i know i shouldn't say she's annoying... but.. is this friend i knew from a subj last sem. although we are in the same course, i din know her until last sem. this sem, we have 3 common subjects. the annoying part is... well, i dont like her 'following' me around in between classes. even walking with her to another lecture when we have the same lectures continuously. i admit that i might not feel that way if it's not her. today is not the first time she hang around with me between classes. i know i shouldn't feel that way coz she did nothing wrong! and she is a nice person in the sense that she doesn't mind sharing things she know with u, and she taught me quite a lot lsat sem on one of my subjects. it's like.. i just dont have a good reason to dont like her. >.< i felt bad for myself. it's one of the 'bad thinking' that i hv... i'll be irritated/annoyed by some ppl just because the way they act, or the way they talk! and i have no other reason to not like them! the worse part is.. they're nice person, they're nice to me, but i just dont like them becoz of their 'style', their personality! and i shouldn't be like that coz i can't expect everyone in this world to act/talk like me, right?! sigh...
then at nite, went to the Genetics department dinner. it was at the University House in uni. It's a semi-formal dinner, where 306 and 304 students are invited, and also the lecturers, postgrad and honours students from the department. That was my first time going to this kind of 'serious' dinner. haha! well, good to experience though... had to say that most of the time i was listening instead of joining in the chat with other ppl on my table (as what i usually do even when goin out with a bunch of frens), mayb coz frequency not too similar? we were chatting abt some 'science-related stuff' and of course other casual stuff too. and the dinner started at 730pm, but when i got home, it was abt 1130 already..

wednesday... went to the open day at PeterMac at 5pm. before that, i quite like the place so was very looking fwd to the openday. well, not many ppl went though... only.. around 20 students? (well, they'll hv another open day in Sep) conclusion is.. the ppl there are more friendly that those at WEHI. (oops.. dont think any ppl from WEHI will be reading this... anyway, no offence!!) and the projects there interest me more than those at WEHI. then, reach home almost 730. then tried hard to stay concentrate on doing those after-lecture-notes for the exam on friday. but had to go to bed early coz can't concentrate at all... too tired..

Thurs morning... woke up early at 8am to continue last nite's work. went to uni for 11am class. met our supervisor of the project on experimental genetics. and we were given an assignment which comprise 25% marks of the project, due on 8th sep. :( yup, it's a project... mentioning abt that... i'm quite pissed when the fren i mentioned earlier abt tuesday... we were at the library during the break between lecs. i was doing my assignment for my bioinfo project. it's a group work and i'm meeting my group mate later that day so had to do my part of the work. so she asked me what was i doin... and i said that's the assignment for my bioinfo project. and u know wat, her reaction was like: 'u have a project?!' i'm like... why can't i have one?!!! many ppl have one this sem! super 'bu shuang' man!! i'm sensitive to the words 'project' and 'urop' these days coz ... aih... another long story...
at the mid of my second year, me and a few frens were applying for urop, which is like a research work for undergrad students. u get to work in a research lab and get paid for it. well, i dint get in, even for the interview. another fren, whose results are far far better than us also din get in for the interview. both of us were disappointed... until now, i'm still disappointed and still dunno why both of us got rejected. i know that results do not mean everything. but how can they just reject her based on that application letter and her brilliant results?! that is just not fair. i mentioned abt that to a lecturer last week and he said that... sometimes that's called networking... but but.. that's just not fair! we were still 2nd year, wat kind of networking u expect from us?! and then this year, 2 of our frens got the job. of course, congrats to them!! but i felt a bit down and really left out when they were talking abt the stuff they're doin in urop. and also with another fren who also has a project on for one of her subjects. whenever the 3 of them are talking abt their research stuff... i so want to run away. again, i know that there's no reason for them to avoid talking abt those stuff in front of me. and i shouldn't act that way. but i felt the gap between us... i feel that we are getting farther apart nowadays... :( it's our final semester together in uni now... and i really dun want to lose this group of frens. but ever since this sem, when 2 of them came back from exchange, i felt left out now... last 2 years, we (not just the 3 frens i mentioned, but more of the 1 of them plus another 2) were together most of them time in uni, having so much common topics to talk abt.
i think this happens coz i hv another new circle of frens in uni and they dont overlap with them in my course. and i dunno how to balance between them. so i tend to neglect them. :(

thurs nite... went for the open day at StVincent's. really like some of their projects. and the ppl there seems quite nice too.. will find out more after i clear most of my tests and assignemts. then, went for Sarah's graduation. yup... the last graduation i'm attending before my batch's coming up this dac. ahhh!!! time flies!!! then went home.. study like mad for today's exam (25% arr!!) scared and so worried abt the exam!

this morning, woke up at 8am, study study.. skip the 10am lec. yup.. this is my first time skipping my lecture 'consciously' haha! the exam is at 1pm, and i only hv that 10am lecture before that. so... yea... and i think it is absolutely worth it to skip it. :D
now... looking at the assignment on my desk... due on monday.. 500 words report for the bioinfo project.. yes! it's a PROJECT!!! and it says so on our sheet! >.<
sien... just now after class, i so dont feel like coming home.. coz need to do work when i come back. but anyway, need to do it lar...

i'm sure next week will be another crazy week for me...
helping out with festival of nation, Sam's 21st, oh.. and still thinking if i should apply for a summer work at Murdoch, closing on 1st Sep., then the following week will hv 1 test, 2 assignments and a presentation in that same week!! >.< die die lar... never been this busy in my entire uni life!!

talking abt summer work.. another disappointment from PeterMac summer scholarship :( it says we will be notified this week if are short-listed for the interview... sigh...

Yes i'm busy >.<

21st Aug - Genes and Evolutn test 20%
25th Aug - Genes to Pheno exam 25%
28th Aug - Exp genetics bioinfo assignment 500words 10%
4th Sep - Functional Genomics test 5% + Genes and Evol assignment 750words 10%
7th Sep - Exp genetics presentation (individual 20 mins) 10%

That's what i'm busy for up till mid-sem break >.<
really scared abt the coming tests and assignments!!

sigh... this sem is my busiest semester
October will be worse
altogether will have 4 assignments/reports due + 2 exams + 1 test + CTG production!!

bobby in matrix ctg camp 2006

ctg camp 2006 brokeback fred matthew

that was during last day of the camp

Week 3

Wow.. week 3 of the semester lor!!
Time flies!! haha
handed in my 1st assignment for this sem today. So now i have no reason to not study and follow up the lectures now. :( haha!!
and a 20% and a 25% tests are coming up soon! so better study liao.
well, hope i can study hard durin weekdays and then can relax more in weekends.

well, so far there are 2 surprise bday for my 2 frens for the past 2 weeks, anymore coming?
well, i dont mind planning surprise for ppl's bday. it can be fun and 'satisfying' when the person is really surprised. :D

Psycho.... the shower scream (Bobby's Version)

Well, the only way to 'preserve' videos from youtube is to put it here on my blog :)
so here's another crazy moment in CTG camp 06
Psycho.... the shower scream (Bobby's Version)