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
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.
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...
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 :)
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!!
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!
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...
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
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)
7 Random Things About Me 1. I'm eating kiwi chocolate from AiHui :) 2. i'm now worrying abt my first assignment for Experimental genetics >.< 3. wishing that i can celebrate my bday in melb (well, doesn't have to be surprise lar.. but.. hehe)!! (being 'thick skin' here) 4. wish to have a piano (or even a digital one) here in melb. 5. i think i'm a boring person, especially if we're not in the 'same channel'. but my 'frequency' is pretty limited. 6. i'm in my final sem now 7. wish to find cure for some genetic disease!!
7 Random Songs At The Moment 1. 侧田 - 决战二世祖 2. 侧田 - 美丽之景 3. 许志安&许慧欣 - 恋爱频率 4. 我等着你回来 5. Michael Buble - Home 6. 侧田 - You'll shine again 7. 林宇中 - 靠岸
7 Things I Like The Most 1. surprise!! 2. laze around at home doin nothing except MSN :D 3. cooking or baking and then have ppl who appreciate it. of course, feedback is important! 4. black or blue stuff coz they look stylish and classy 5. my toy dog :D 6. uni holidays!!! 7. travelling
7 Things That Scare Me 1. when my results are not what i expected 2. when i have dreams abt bad things that happen to ppl whom i know 3. my short-sightedness become worse (which is happening now! :( ) 4. eerie movie 5. the thought abt everyone will leave the world one day 6. dont have enough time to finish my hw or study for test/exam 7. that melb street is not safe at nite.
7 Things I Say The Most 1. Oh... (which means ok) 2. Erm... (when i'm thinking) 3. ok la 4. really?? 5. 'dang kiu' (which means thank you) 6. har?! (means unbelievable!) 7. oh yes ar?!
7 People To Do This 1. AiHui 2. WanYen 3. SiaoWen 4. Hari 5. Anthony 6. James 7. Shelvin
CTG CAMP 2006 one and half week of intensive preparation for the camp, which contains arguements, disagreement, unhappie-ness, sleepless, brain death.....it is all over, it is all worth back!!!all these arguements, disagreements make us understand each others better.... everyone seemed to enjoy the camp......n as the camp committee, that is really what we want to hear...
at first, we did worry about whether the campers will find these games interesting or not, if they dun wan to play then how?? but it's proven that we think too much!!! although there were 2 or 3 ppl who do not want to play certain game, but from this, it makes everyone realised something......putting in effort does not means those will be recognised by all. but i know, some really do realised! thx for those ppl.... Matt matt, u gave a really good speech!!!!
been lacked of sleep pre-camp n during the camp.....first day of camp only slept an hour (erm... well, i slept for almost 3 hours)....playing Killer in the cold morning after all planned activities end, when most of the campers slept...we r crazy ppl...but dun play that time, play when??!!! then the second day, i was really really tired.....though i so want to play...end up sleping at 3am n woke up at 8am.....
DAY 1- 21 JUL 06 highlights 1. ice breaking game- it was quite messy due to someone not coming to camp , n some juz join the camp....make our pre-prepare name list become messy....newspapers game was ok.......their team name n slogan r funny... * Triple C * Tempura, Sushi, Sashimi * Whatever is Whatever * We r f^cking bananas * (and station games!! --> there were 6 stations: spider web, 'crossing the river', hoola hoop, card standing, cans and pens, 8 ppl 7 legs)
2. Da Vinci Code --> treasure hunt.....guess most of them found it difficult...mainly because they dun really know the camp well n it was so dark at night..... (and i'm the devil who always lead u to the wrong direction when they came to ask me question)
* clue of " Only drivers care" leads them to car park instead of the slow down sign near the entrance of the campsite. * "Pig run before king kong" make them headache...dunno where izzit....it meant Ping Pong= table tennis (2 teams asked me abt this one... and i made them think it's something to do with food... sorry guys... >.<) * "Behind the scene" cause the most trouble..cause it should be behind the recreation room. It was my mistake, put the next clue inside the recreation room...but then dunno who, not the comittee members, put it outside the recreation room..make few groups cannot find it... * "Kitty's bed" should be the easiest one....which is in my room, under my hello kitty pillow, i purposely bring my kitty pillow so that they can find it. But still, got teams go to look under my car...Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting * "Fishnet on the ring", which is the basketball court...still many ppl missed it... * "Tweety house"- the bird house, many ppl not even know there is this bird house.
3. Suprisingly, our photo taking game was fun n the campers luv it!!! make our efforts of preparation for this game worth back -- 3 hrs of photo taking (at my place and with the help of my 2 frens and 1 former CTG ppl. thanx guys!!), which need to think of the pose for different level ....the "makeup" flour......make us do the cleanning like hell... (good that many ppl helped lar)
(for photos, pls refer to Sam's blog :D)
DAY 2- 22 JUL 06 highlights
1. Play ground + water bomb game--it was quite a mess for these games at first. cause a few of the campers refused to play it as they said they dun wan to get wet. Because of this, it make all of the committee members realised that putting in effort does not means those will be recognised by all. But as i said before, i know there r lots of them who recognised it!!!n Matt Matt, i have to say that......u gave a really good speech!!! We, the committee members were quite unhappy that time...hence, the instruction given for the playground game was unclear....but then the water bomb game afterward was great!!without those who refused to play!!!!
3 teams were required to stand together on a square wood, then me n Sze Chern take turn to ask questions. then they need to be the fastest to shout out their team slogan to get the chance to asnwer. If answer correct, the other 2 teams will be poured water by other 4 committee members. If answer incorrect, they will be poured water. At the last question, all the committee members chose to stand in front of any teams. They get wet, we get wet as well!!!!Fair right??!! Here is the video that the camper (Eric) put on YouTube!! Water bombs in the camp
(aiks... ya.. i admit that i ran down in that first round.. but the 2nd round, i din... so erm... hehe)
c matt matt already get so wet for the first turn...as all the "pourers" poured at him although the team answered correctly.
2. X-men --> they were given scripts that were pre-written by us. They need to act according to the scripts. There were 4 different scenes(mission) to complete. If they failed, they need to restart again from the first mission although they already completed that mission before. They seem to enjoy it as well!!!
one of the mission- adapted from "Journey to the West" Journey to the West
3. Wasabi Acting game-- the last game for the camp....Each team r required to eat something in front of everyone n act as they like so that other teams cannot guess who had eat the "nice" food.
* 9 vegemitte breads Vs 1 nutella bread * 9 wasabi sushi Vs 1 non-wasabi sushi * 9 lemon juice Vs 1 water * 9 2tsp of coffee powder Vs 1 2tsp of milo * 9 vinegar Vs 1 water
6 of us also acting by eating vegemitte breads n JP ate the nutella breads. omg!!vegemite suck!!!!!!dunno who will like to eat it!!!when i smell also wan to vomit.....dun say eat.... (erm well, i'm quite ok with it mayb coz i used to had marmite with porridge or soup when i was really young)
That the offical activities for Day 2....after that...most campers do their own stuffs, play around..while 6 poor committees got to wash all the dishes used for the acting game...omg...at least 200 glasses lor...luckily have dishwasher....
DAY 3- 23 JUL 06 highlights
last morning of the camp.....least ppl having breakfast...everyone rather sleep than eat....after packing up n cleaning around the campsite..we had our prize giving n group photo taking session before heading back to city.
First day of uni today for my final semester... had a 9am lec just now, 1 hr break now. no where to go, dunno what to do, so here i am in the comp lab in union house. 18 contact hours for me this sem, my timetable was quite nice... except a 4 hours break on tuesday before my prac which ends at 6pm :S
came back from CTG camp yday around 4pm and went to bed at 5pm till this morning 7am. with my eyes half closed, brain not functioning in full mode, got 2 sms (thnx, so sweet of you 2) and a phonecall from my mum. can't really recall what i said to my mum now. haha! It was tiring but definitely a fun camp!! the 'after camp feeling' of being in the camp comittee is really different from a camp participant. felt relieved that everthing went fine this time. and glad that everyone (at least most ppl lar) enjoyed the camp. during this 3 days 2 nights camp, i only slept for not more than 8 hours. and i;m sure most of us did, well especially those who were at the ground floor. :P
sigh.. now.. back to uni days again... will work hard and play hard this final sem!! and cherish every moment while being a undergrad :) alright, time for my 2nd lec... ciao!
sigh... final week of uni holidays la!! few more days left :( many things yet to be done now that uni starts next monday, that reminds me that i hvn't choose/change my subject, hvn't check timetable :(
these few days since i came back from syd, sleeping time is abnormal. slept for 4 hours per day, or even 14 hours per day.
