went to change my term address on the uni website, clicked 'UPDATE', then
in red, a receipt number came out, and also a note saying that an email will be sent to my unimail to notify me the changes i made. then my uni email address was shown in red... @pgrad.unimelb.edu
this is not the first time i realise that my uni email has been changed from @ugrad to @pgrad. but seeing it still made me feel so 'grown-up' (a better word for 'old')

gg back to KL tmr... from Sg
which means gg back to Melb in less than 1 week time...

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am annoyed when ppl behaves 'un-civilised-ly'
(not that i'm very civilised... but... o well)
am annoyed when i'm feeling unsafe
am annoyed when i dont have my freedom to do wat i want to
am annoyed when the weather is too hot

therefore u might think that i always get annoyed in KL (and probably in SG as well)
but...
I actually spend most of my time at home
or rather.. mayb that's why i spend most of my time at home
>wu2 nai4<

Just found out that my high school classmate has got a baby, who is 5 months old already!
but i'm still studying and will be studying for the next 3 or so years

the news of her getting married shocked me last year

anyhow, as long as she is happy and xin4 fu2 :)

i hate lizards!
there're quite a few of them in our kitchen and dining room
one of them just 'ate' my tauge today when i was having problem fixing my webcam.
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a song by a biotech company, for their new PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction, ghee i still remember them!) machine:



lyrics:

The PCR Song
There was a time when to amplify DNA,
You had to grow tons and tons of tiny cells.
Then along came a guy named Dr. Kary Mullis,
Said you can amplify in vitro just as well.
Just mix your template with a buffer and some primers,
Nucleotides and polymerases, too.
Denaturing, annealing, and extending.
Well it’s amazing what heating and cooling and heating will do.
PCR, when you need to detect mutations.
PCR, when you need to recombine.
PCR, when you need to find out who the daddy is.
PCR, when you need to solve a crime.
(repeat chorus)

Happy birthday to me

it's my birthday today
and it's still my birthday now
so?

My dream car

I was driving this red Alfa Romeo in my dream last nite... :)

I'm proud of my high school classmate :D

http://www.chinapress.com.my/topic/school05/default.asp?dt=upeople&art=20080103people.txt

finally i'm back online :D

have spent the most money this holiday...
spent 600 for my retainer today :S
ya... after so many years without retainer, i finally decided to make a new one. i wore braces when i was in high school. but din put on the retainer ever since i go to melb. really really regret but it's already too late. my teeth is not perfect anymore :( but at least now i'm doing something to prevent it from getting worse.

looking fwd to the hk trip next weekend.
but more looking fwd to sg trip next month.
wahaha

原来吉隆坡市中心的夜景也可以很美
原来开快车真的很爽

I miss my plant in melb, everytime i pour away unfinished water from my cup.
I miss my bed and all the stuff i have on my bed in melb, every night before i sleep.
sounds like I miss melbourne... or rather... i miss the apartment...

my longest holiday

this is my longest break since trinity. and also my longest 'stay' at home since trinity.

i'm home for more than 1 week now.
sort of feeling boring at home, so far i've been watching drama series, play computer game, online, eat. din go out much. only been to klcc (coz of pc fair), pasar malam, the hairdresser nearby, 2 restaurants, the dentist, the optometrist, oh and Penang for 3 days.
looking fwd to wed, going to midvalley, meeting up with yf, and hopefully can do some shopping there.

seems like the HK trip is going to be on.
end of jan. hope that i'll enjoy the trip with my aunt. mum MIGHT go.

dont feel like going home... how arr?? :(

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光良 卫兰 - 童梦 (Live)

There's also a mandarin version of this song.

less than one more month, i'll be home...
that's faster than i expected. used to think that i'll hv heaps of time here chillin in melb before goin home, but now it seems like 3 weeks is too short for me.
well, not that i wont come back here again, but it'll be a different 'stage' next year. either i'll be still a student or i'll be looking for a job.

i'm hving a second thought now whether to do a phd next year. mainly becoz of the other colleagues, or should say 'potential colleagues' in the lab. din get along too well with them, as in dont hv much common topics for conversation, dont 'bitch abt other ppl' with them.
but they did show good moral support for me this year, with my talks, thesis, experiments. i'm getting mix messages here. or it's probably my communication problems, or my poor english?

on the other hand, i have a really good primary supervisor and a good project.

finally finished my talk today!!! which means, that's the end of my honours!!!!! woohoo!!

erm... well, i wasn't feeling as excited as the day i handed in my thesis. mayb i was too excited then, so now dont feel as much already.
or mayb it's sad coz noone's there to 'celebrate' with me :(

There are 4 things you cannot recover...
the stone after the throw,
the word after it's said,
the occasion after the loss,
the time after it's gone.

sigh... i'm here, thinking and feeling regret of wat i said 4 hours ago.

wed is my final presentation, the last 'task' for my honours. and i've had 3 practice runs already so far since last wed, and today's the last one. my supervisor finally said that he's happy with my presentation. But i know that i still dont do well in answering questions from the audience. he threw a number of questions to me and i couldn't answer them confidently and well enough, and i know that.
he asked if i want to practice that, by throwing more questions to me tmr, he also said that it's more helpful to hv ppl asking u questions to practice, rather than trying to answer it or practice by urself. but i didnt want to practice anymore tmr. mainly becoz i'm lazy to go all the way (not very far tho, i know) to RCH. :( it's a very bad reason. so now i regret. :(

and even if tmr morning i said i want to practice, it's not very nice lar.. as if he's there 24hr standby for me. so... sigh... my supervisor is really concern abt my presentation, that's why i had 3 practice runs in less than a week!!!
and wat's worse is... i said i'll give him a call tmr morning if i want to practice!! can't belive i said that! tsk tsk tsk :$ :$ :$ :$

now can't do anything to change it le, can i?


and i'm not goin to strawberry picking anymore on thurs :(

woohoo!! Jay's new songs are good
he's hving his concert in s'pore in jan!!
and this is his new movie coming in 2008 灌篮, directed by 曾志伟

that's the 3 copies of my thermal-bound, 12955 words, 93 pages (incld 5 pgs of references and 8 pgs of appendices), single-sided, single spacing, 2.5cm margin.
worth 60% of my whole honours mark!
my 10 months of hard work!!
well, abt 8 months of lab work + 4 weeks writing up
hv been sleeping for less than 6 hours each day in average for the past 2 or 3 weeks (except the previous weekend :P)
almost forgot abt my bro's bday until i saw the expiry date on my bread;
almost missed my aunt's bday which is tmr when i usually send her card one week before;
totally forgot on which date am i goin home.
it's all over now!!! well, almost... one more presentation to go!