If anyone is in need of a very good laugh (this is in view of the numerous white hair-inducing, academically-obligatory activities), do watch the British comedy "Death at a Funeral". It's hilarious. And there's yummy eye candy too, if you're inclined to the masculine species.

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It's over!

*throws confetti in the air*

*runs round in circles*

*grins madly at everything and everyone*

*whee*

"This phenomenon remains unexplained."---FYP thesis 2007.

This afternoon I heard the neighbours' kids playing. My immediate thought was: Kor, I miss you.

Then I told my mom and she claims that as children, we were never that noisy.

*Ego-boost*

Somehow the conversation retreated from my childhood to my babyhood. Then she said that I was a particularly quiet baby. All I wanted to do was to drink milk and sleep.

Then I realised, nothing much has changed. These days, all I want to do is to sleep with a happy stomach.

Have I not evolved at all?

*Ego-flattened*

Hello dear reader of my sorely neglected blog,

This message is to reassure you of my existence in the living world. I am still breathing. Today I survived the first of many CAs. I am really very glad, rather pleased also although I did make one huge blunder. HUGE. To fellow BS413 pple, thank you for all the feedback and support. Your words have spurred my decision to continue taking the subject and I hope we'll have a fruitful time studying it together. And please please remember this: IEDB has an ontology. It has. It has. It has. Got it? It has.

Dear reader, good luck. I hope you wish me the same.

Sincerely,
the bummer

Lactobacilli are lazy.

Klebsiella pneumoniae have "mini-me"s.

Enterococcus faecalis misled me.

Escherichia coli are greedy.

It's a love-hate relationship.

The theme of this year's FOC is Ancient Egypt. While they were having fun and games out in the sun, I was building my very own pyramid in lab. Ta-da!!
I wonder if any pharoahs are hiring now.

After that exhausting day of agar plates, I've had pretty slack days. The calm after the storm. Something along those lines. Well until today that is. Just had a big load of work dumped on me. I've figured out two-thirds of it so far and I'm gonna abuse my brain a little further with the remaining one-third, just so that I can sleep peacefully tonight. The calm between the storms has just passed.

So I'm really really glad that I went ahead to watch Oceans Thirteen today. Sorry Angie, never wait for you. Paiseh paiseh.

Before the show started, there was an ad about Sentosa. I wonder if anyone in the audience ever noticed that the lady in the ad accidentally flashed her undies. I do know one person who noticed. The producer of the ad. That microglimpse of underwear was blurred. Probably detected post-production, otherwise the scene should have been NG-ed.

Anyway, I really enjoyed the show. It's my kind of humour. I totally agree with and believe in revenge. And they do it with so much style! Although I think it is highly unlikely that an Oceans Fourteen will pop up, one can still hope. I definitely hope to see more of this gang of charming con-men/thieves/whatever-else-in-between. Heh.

Spreading 420 agar plates wasn't that bad.

The 3 cryptic messages of the day:

1. Today, our lab made 713 plates of agar.

2. Autoclaving had never been so exciting.

3. Many glass bottles had a jolly time rolling on ice.

Ok, the first one is a give-away. As for the rest, I'm too tired to explain myself. Today's ordeal is only the first of two parts. Stay tuned for my update next wk.

There's something about meeting people from the not-so-recent past that sets me into a contemplative mood. Just yesterday, Jyang and I met 1SG XY at La Senza. Hee. It's been awhile since I last saw her and of all places, we had to bump into one another at a lingerie boutique. I'm very glad to see her in good health and cheer. And she gave me some good advice too. 2 weeks ago, I met a primary school classmate in NTU. Like wow. I totally lost contact with that bunch of classmates, esp the guys cos I entered a girls' school after PSLE.

There are acquaintances, old friends that I don't see, old friends that I regularly see and present friends. Some friendships I had lapsed into "stranger-hood", perhaps some part due to neglect. Such is life I guess. Life changes, I change, people around me change too. I walk the path that I've set upon. Inadvertently, it brings me closer to some and further away from others. The distance adds a certain fondness and curiosity when I bump into these friends or hear news about them. That doesn't mean I'm not fond of my present friends. In fact I cherish them very much because they are currently part of my life, actively adding to my life experiences.

Just my two-cent's worth on the topic of friendship. I blame this piece on The Alchemist, a partly fictional and partly inspirational book I'm reading now. I'm usually not so introspective.

Lannie tagged me.

*glare*

This is what you are supposed to do. Cut and paste if you decide to participate in the tagging game. Each player of this game starts off by giving 6 weird things about themselves. People who get tagged need to write in a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state the rules clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. After you do that, leave them each a comment letting them know you tagged them and to read your blog.

Weird thingy no. 1:
I've been educated in Singapore all my life but I speak Mandarin with a Malaysian accent.

Weird thingy no. 2:
I am the younger sibling but my neighbours think I'm the older.

Weird thingy no. 3:
Technically, I can play 4 kinds of musical instruments. I just don't play them well.

Weird thingy no. 4:
I was a goody two-shoes in my childhood but now I'm a menace to other people's sanity.

Weird thingy no. 5:
I've had formal training in dance but I don't enjoy clubbing.

Weird thingy no. 6:
I'm addicted to pirates.

I'll stop this here. Too lazy to tag pple.

PS: No Lannie, I'm not angry. Don't fret :)

Back from Hong Kong with a sunburnt nose. Got cheated by the weather forecast, which predicted thunderstorms the week I was there. Turns out the thunderstorms only started after I left. Oh well.

The flight from Singapore arrived at Macau, where I got to see beautiful churches and enjoy delicious Portugese food like those yummy egg tarts.

After a day and a half in Macau, we (Jo, De & I) took a ferry over to Hong Kong. We went to Ocean Park...

... Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum up at Victoria Peak...
Aaron Kwok's not all that tall btw... I'm just too damn short!

I tried to help, really! But her skirt won't stop flying...

... Avenue of Stars and...

Disneyland!!

Captain Jack Sparrow! Must be the happiest day of my life *grin*

No I'm kidding. The happiest day of my life will be when I strike lottery and win $10 million. And before that happens, I shall keep this picture very close to my heart haha :)

Annual KTV with Buccaneers last night had a rocky start. Four of the six who went for KTV yesterday spent the day in NTU doing various lab-related tasks (e.g. refilling pipette tips and spreading agar plates). Thus it was logical to have a localised mode of transport to the KTV venue a.k.a. I drove the car to school. As we were leaving NTU, the tyre punctured.

My lovely models weren't the only ones pouting. I was pouting and of course suitably embarrassed as well bcos I didn't know how to change the tyre. (Which brings up the side discussion of how I'm glad to be a female. Our ignorance in such matters is perfectly acceptable and understandable. On the other hand, a male driver who doesn't know how to change a punctured tyre will be laughed at. I think la.) Anyway, the story ended with AAA coming to fix my problem. Thankew QQ for staying back with me and thankew Angie and Shunsheng for going ahead first. Thankew thankew.

Finally, at 7.45pm, I stepped into KTV for the first time in 9 months.*le gasp*. How did I survive so long without karaoke?! I had great fun guys and gals, thankew very much for the applause and let's do this (not tyre-puncturing) again another time yar?

Going to HK for a week, will be back on 16 May. Take care ppl :)

Just two things...

1. The good thing about an all-female lab is the gloves are all XS. Oh joy!

2. Today was so hot that birds fell out of trees due to heatstroke. Well okay, just one bird at least. This little yellow bird was lying on the walkway. After 5 minutes in an aircon building and several ml of water-cooler water, it revitalised and happily flew off.

Once upon a time, 2 classmates by the names of Lannie and Edward came across a publicity poster in the School of Biological Sciences, NTU. Upon close scrutiny, they discovered something that left Lannie very surprised and Edward very amused.

And that something was this little image that featured a bunch of their friends. No la, it was the fact that Edmund (bottom row, far right) made it onto a publicity poster!
Angie and QQ, you gals are in there too! Haha :) (but dun have me... *mutter grumble*)

Anyway.

JC class gathering on Fri night. I haven't seen some of them forever man. I'm glad I still remember their names unlike some people who kept stealing my calamari rings... shameless moocher. Unfortunately, the pic taken from the other end of the table where I was sitting didn't turn out too well. Anyway this is the bunch of classmates that I hardly see. Heh.

Then platoonmates gathering on Sat. And we land up in Sushi Tei again. But we took the annual picture at Ben and Jerry's this time to avoid repetition of backdrop. I just realised I look a bit dwarfed in the pic. Hmm.

Thus ends normalcy. Hello hell.

Can't seem to feel happy after the exams ended.

Reasons?

1. BS303 slaughtered me. Should have taken BS313. They got an easy paper!!
2. Insomnia. Yes, even last night when I didn't need to worry about studying.

Pfft.

It's gonna be a while before I blog again, simply because:

1. I doubt anyone is interested in how I spend Tue to Fri in school, and Sat to Mon at home trying to stardee.

2. Life now is bittersweet. Bitter because of the upcoming exams, but really sweet because it excuses me from all kinds of menial chores (coughsweepingthefloorcough).

I hope this celebration isn't premature but I am SOOOOO glad to be rid of my moronic partner. Now I just need to siam him during the finals and he'll be out of my life forever. Ka-pui.

A big THANK YOU to all my friends. Thank you for your well wishes, thank you for celebrating my birthday with me, thank you for everything!

Love,

me.

And here's the booty I collected for the day:

Now I have a new motivation for exercising, no prices for guessing what it is :)

What Is Your Battle Cry?

Lo! Who is that, striding across the mini-mall parking lot! It is The Bummer, hands clutching a reflective halberd! She grunts vengefully: "I'm going to clobber you beyond capacity, and then some!!"

Find out! Enter username: Are you a girl, or a guy ?

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Just a random thingy heh. Funny how it reflects my personality to some extent. So beware to those who offend me! Muahahahahah...

To Zing: I met BLin in school today!! It's amazing how small this world is :)