AHHHH

3 more hours before my exam starts!!! ><
it's worth 50% of the subj's marks for this sem. it's a prac subj
might sound easy huh... but i'm not goin to let them slip through this time
all the questions are like problem solving type... so even there's not much materials to go through (1 lecture + a 3 hour prac per week), it can be tough too.

okok... better get going now... last minute glance through, shower, lunch, go!

2 more to go...

Can't believe that this is the final week of sem 1 exam period!!
and it's tuesday today, which means my paper will be on the day after tmr and last ppr on the following day!!!
feel excited about goin to end sem 1 exam so soon but also worried abt the last 2 pprs. :S
after my 2nd ppr, which was last tuesday, i've already lost half of the motivation to keep up my study mood. but after yday's study group, my study mood came back again. hope it'll stay with me till friday!!
wish me luck!!

感人的故事

虽然这不是我第一次在网上读到这个故事，但我还是哭了...
http://www.keyweb.com.tw/11/01/

How lucky are you?

Your Luck Quotient: 53%

You have an average luck quotient. There's been times when you've been extremely lucky... but also times when you've been very unlucky. You probably know that you can make your own luck in life, if you're open to it. So listen to your intuition as much as you can. It's right more often than you might expect.

How Lucky Are You?

What do you think?

What do you ppl think abt lending your notes to other ppl?
The only question that make me think about my answer is whether that person is 'worth helping'. as in, If that person had worked hard enough but still don't understand the material, i'm very happy to lend it to him/her.
But if that person wants to borrow because he/she always skip lectures without good reasons (anyway, what good reason will that be for a STUDENT to skip classes?), i will say no.
I might sound very selfish but honestly, that's what i think.

so if a person came to u 6 days before the final exam for that subject, asking you for your notes,
should i say that he/she just don't bother to catch up when he/she was left behind weeks (or even months?) before that day?
or should i think that he/she simply need your help on some of the stuff that is bothering him/her?

Pls correct me if my attitude is wrong
and PLS don't say that i refused to lend my notes becoz i don't want you to do better than me!! that really hurts!!

Autumn 

still in SWOT vac

Went to an extra swot vac tute today. really worried for not able to answer/understand 90% of the things mentioned in the tute!! the exam for taht ppr is on 23rd, my last ppr. but remembering that during the first lecture for that subject (genetic analysis), the lecturer said half of us will fail this subj. ><

hate myself for being sleepy when i really need to concentrate on my studies.
anyone has any suggestion to keep me awake?
coffee - not effective
other junk food - can't concentrate on studies while eating
music - me can only study in complete silence
how how how??!!!

没有粽子的端午节

today (as in.. yesterday?) is 端午节, in case u're wondering wat that is, it's a chinese festival where ppl will eat the 粽子(err... can call that rice dumplings?) and the festival is to commemorate a chinese warrior (gosh.. my translation is bad!!)
well, after the extra tute today (10am till 4pm staight), went down to city to look for 粽子. thinking that after having biscuits for lunch during the tute, can have a nice 粽子for dinner, but couldn't get the one with pork that i want! all left was the sweet one. :(
so that's today... 没有粽子的端午节 (the rice dumpling festival without rice dumplings)

~end of sem 1~

Last day of the semester...
finally.. all the assignments, reports are cleared!
went to hand in the 1500 words ABP report today after my classes. a big relief for that one... spent so much time on the project and report but the report only worth 10%.. hmm.. hopefully it is worth all the effort. stayed up till 5.15am this morning to finish the printing. the 2 copies of 19 pages work took me hours to print them all!! i've wasted 16 pages printed with errors, so had to print those pages over again. Well, perhaps it's because me who wants them to be as perfect as possible so that's the price paid.
yday, i had been awake since 7am (for the 8am lecture) till 5am this morning. had a 5 hour sleep and here i am now, still quite energetic. :D

met a fren today in uni, haven't seen her for weeks? months?
we talked abt a few trinity friends who are goin overseas exchange next semester. seems that a few ppl around me are goin away next sem, either for 1 sem or 1 yr, so propably won't see them for some time till next yr.
wonder how it will be next yr... when many of my friends will be finishing their uni degree, including me. will we all still be in melb? will we still see each other?

uni is different from high school, that uni friends came from many different places, even around the world whereas most high school friends came from the same state, well or at least the same country. although my high school friends are now in kl, s'pore, some in taiwan, uk, aus... as long as we're still studying, we are pretty much in contact, hving the 'similar wavelength'.
once we're out in the working world, it'll be so different. can't imagine how it'll be.

well, this semester is a very colourful one to me. i can feel that i didn't waste my semester at all. really looking fwd to the next sem and hope that it'll be a great final sem!!

for now, hv to study for the exams lar!
still behind many of the lectures, especially molecular genetics :S
happy studying to those who are hving exam soon!!

Final week of sem

It's been almost a month since i last updated my blog
this will be the last week of the semester in uni. but the final 2 weeks of the sem is my busiest weeks which i have 6 assignments, reports, essays and presentation.
but now, i have a report and a 1500 words essay yet to be done.
no time to catch up my far left behind lectures. really worry abt my exams! 8, 13, 22, 23 June
just can't wait to finish my exams.

had my applied bioinformatics project (ABP) presentation on friday. well, it wasn't too bad i should say. but i'm sure we can do better than that. anyway, we're all happy with that. and to be honest, the marks we got is better than what i've expected.

alright then, hv to start writing my ABP essay now... at least to start reading the articles. :S

~end of easter break~

10 days of easter break is going to end soon... :( still hv lots of work to do... this hol isn't really a break for me, and it's too short!! sigh...
well, other than my uncle, aunt and szesze's visit, dun hv much 'entertainment' liao.
ooh.. ya, i also consider CTG rehearsals and meeting as my entertainment. haha! as long as i'm out of my studies.

woa... 1 week to go for the Awards night!!! XD after the awards night, i'm back to my own time again! but i'll miss them ... aih.. that always happen after every production. especially those shows that last for 1 or 2 weeks. coz everyday after uni, will go to the theatre and spend the whole night there with the production team around u. then after the last show, everything 'back to normal', won't see those ppl that often anymore. will feel the emptiness at least for a few days. although this sem, it's not a big production, we always see each other during the 4 weeks of workshop, meetings and rehearsals. so i'll still miss all those days and all of them. but good that i can still see some of them at the ctg table during lunch time.. hehe actually, that's the place where i usually hv my lunch this sem. :D aih... now already start to miss them lar...~~

clubs and societies in the uni really make my life more colourful!
without them, i won't know many ppl other than my own trinity, biomed frens and i'll be study study and study everyday... no fun!
and i've learnt alot from those activities. time management, handling relationship with frens... i can feel that i'm in the uni, instead of just i'm in biomed. get wat i mean?
final yr in uni really makes me think of alot of stuff...

till here this time, better study for midsemtest now... ciao...

Awards Night 29th April!!

the 4 days of workshop finally over...
but the Awards night is yet to come
really feel greatful to all the ppl who had helped out for the workshop
I've learned a lot from this workshop... from organizing stuff, time management to managing with ppl. it's a good experience for me
hope everything goes well for the awards night!

well, although i don't think many ppl actually see this blog, i still wanna let you all know...

~CTG Awards Night: 29th april (sat) 6.50pm @ Open Stage Theatre~
Cgroup member $5
non member $7
come support lar!!! only 130 tix for sale, so be quick! :)


went to watch Alice in Wonderland in uni... a musical by the Fishnet production
the production team took 6 weeks to get everything done... that was really good for 6 weeks of effort! it was a ~2 hour show
and to be honest, it was better than what i've expected

and last nite's Night market was fun!!
so many food stalls. i hvn't really been to the night market in uni before although muoss has it every year. and this year, many of my friends were selling stuff so it's very fun for me.
erm... but feel pai seh for ctg and momu coz actually i was suppose to help selling herbal tea eggs for ctg from 8pm onwards. but they were all sold out before 8pm. so i din help out much for ctg. and momu also... din help anything when i'd promise to help for 1 hour.

aih... mid sem test for genome science coming ar!! next thurs!!
better study lar... but still can't find shoes for the ball on thurs!

I want a digital piano!

I miss my piano again....
This morning's 9am Genome Sc lecture was very boring. I wasn't concetrating and my brain was full of piano scores.
This is not the first time i miss playing piano in melb.
Really want to buy myself a digital piano over here. But a new one costs abt $950! Dunno where to find a 2nd hand one. kept telling myself that i'll save money for that but so far... still a long way to go. haha!

x??!!

I'm sure everyone has this sort of experience:
There's something, x that you really don't like,
but due to some other circumstances, u can't change it anymore and hv to use it,
the big prob is... x will affect the image of Y.
and now, all i can do is...
to hope that the ppl who came up with the idea x will realise this prob (which is unlikely to happen), OR
to hope those who are using x now will realise the prob and try to improve x.

i keep thinking abt this on and off since everything happened 2 days ago...

other than hoping this hoping that, should i just tell the ppl who came up with that idea??!!

Commonwealth Games opening ceremony 

Commonwealth Games opening ceremony 

Commonwealth Games opening ceremony 

Commonwealth Games in Melb

Commonwealth games started on Wed!
The fireworks are so nice!!!!
those who were in melb city that night, should hv gone to see the live version!
Hope to go watch the closing ceremony fireworks if there's one. the closing ceremony is on next sunday.
during the CG period, there're some events around melb city.

Yesterday was the first day of CTG workshop!
well, to be honest, it turned out better than what i've expected.
But there were still some problems (which are unavoidable) during the workshop. and there are still more to be improved. and i hv more to learn too! :)
Hope everything's smooth till the end of the Awards night!!!

updates

woa... 2 weeks already since uni started!
how hv i been?

went to the night market at vic mart on Wed with a bunch of frens. the danish pancakes are sooo nice!!!

well, lecs are ok... as in... still very blur but i think should be able to catch up IF i do the readings. haha! But i still need help from ppl who did 215 to do my assignments!!! :(
that's so not fair! Biomed ppl can't do 215 (a genetics subject) in 2nd sem 2nd yr. and now in 3rd year, they expect us to know stuff from 215!

CTG workshop is goin to start next sat.
hmm... hope that everything will be fine.

*yawn* so sleepy now but i know i should finish my prac hw and assignment before i go to bed.
Played tennis for 2 hours today.... that's why i'm so tired now.

and ya... Ai Hui (my primary classmate who is studying in NZ) is visiting melb, end of june! thinking of goin to syd with her in early july. :D
hmm.... this winter holiday, i want to go skiing and go sydney. :P

start of 3rd year

uni starts for almost a week now...
feeling a little miserable...

coz hv to work hard dee... it's my final yr u know?!
and this week i'm still quite free, but others seem to be busy so ... :(
beginning of my 2nd year was even worse... i was so very miserable and sad.. coz i came back to melb quite late... haven't got the time to tune myself back into the uni mood.

and also... 3rd year biomed ppl are in different streams now... :(
so we seldom see each other in classes.
from 1st year, we see each other at least 12 hours a week;
2nd year.... at least 6 hours a week;
3rd year.... abt 2 hours a week?

we used to walk from one lecture theatre to the other together...
we used to sit together during lectures...

really miss those days!!