The Shrimp (shim*) Boat

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

work work work!

OOh...we have a new member in the lab! :) another student! haha. She's an honours student from NUS and she seems like a really nice person :):) haha. YAY!:)

Anyway, I think i'll have a crazy week! I foresee that i'll be doing lots on cloning, like 6 maxipreps per day and miniprep and stuff, apart from the usual western blots :) Though it'll be busy, but it's good to have an exciting week before i leave. :) Oh today I ended work at 10pm!! WOW! it's a record! it's 13+ hour of work for a day!! haha. I think i'm mad, can't believe i actually stayed in that place for soo long. Oh anyway i spilled one entire tube when doing maxiprep today. :( sigh, have to redo it. But at least no major damage done! haha. that's the good thing about cloning, there's always backups coz u can always grow more bacteria! :) This is probably the only instance where i'll find bacteria lovable. HAHA they're such accomodating organisms. Haha

Hmm, I think i should go have some rest, need to wake up early tomorrow to send my parents off to the airport coz they're going taiwan. This is the 3rd time i;m going to the airport within a week. Hhaha

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
12:29 AM

Saturday, May 27, 2006

Purposeful Day.

hmm, my title sounds funny, reminds me of the 40 days of purpose. HAHA. But today i had a wonderful day doinf quite alot of stuff...hehe. actually it's really not alot, but it filled my whole day! haha.

In the morning, we had covenant discipleship group at westmall macs. And as usual, i was LATE again ! :( so sorry fio and meng! haha. It's always the 2 of you waiting for us. haha. But today we didnt have full attendance again:( but at least there's an improvement! we had 5 ple today! instead of the usual 4 :):):) but we didnt have bible study :(

Then in the afternoon, i went with my school friends to help out at this nursing home at sembawang. They had Dragonboat festival celebration today. :) But coz ziyan had her yoga and i had cdg, we both went late.Oh and we met Andy on the train. haha. what a coincidence!When we stepped into the home, i felt quite sad for the residents there, because the atmosphere there is just so grey. Though the sight of volunteers helping out was quite heart warming. :) Today we were supposed to help wheel the people around and help giving out food . They also put up music perormances -- flute and cello, erhu, and guitar+singing(more of a singalong).The response was quite good, tho there was this indian uncle who kept shouting "I'M SO BORED".I think he's quite poor thing . I wanted to go talk to him but i was afraid tt he would complain more and disrupt the performance. OH! then there was this cute uncle who sat beside him who reprimanded him for shouting. haha. so cute! they're just like kids :) haha. Oh then i wheeled this old lady and sort of took charge of her for today. Everything was ok except for the fact tt we were comunicating using in entirely different dialects! HAHA. At first i thought she was hainanese then i realised she's cantonese. But my dialects are so lousy and mixed up that i was talking to her in a teochew-hokkien hybrid kind of dialect. wow. And we could sort of underatnd each other! HAHA amazing. I think they really don't mind if u can speak well or not, but what matters is that they have someone with them, willing to talk to them.:) However, i think it's time to learn some dialects. haha. Oh and i realised that she doesnt like mushrooms. haha. coz she didnt like haveing tt in her pao. haha. After the meal they had some games but some of them wanted to go back so i whelled them back. Then, i faced a situation. I wheeled 4 of them into the lift and realised there was no one there to help me! :S and the lift door kept closing and the uncle which was in the innermost part of the lift insisted on getting out first, which was quite impossible. So, in the end, by the time i wheeled one of them out, the lift door closed and the 3 other to a tour to the 3rd floor before coming down again. haha. oops. But in the end i managed to wheel them out! YAY! :) happy

OOH, then after that, i met my parents for dinner and shopping! haha. i bought this sling bag from MEXX at 50 % discount! yay! :)

And that concludes ,my fruitful day! :)

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
11:35 PM

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

work

Yay! so happy! I did confocal stuff today!! HAha it's something new and very interesting.:) I;m happy.

But recently *ahem* just got from bad to worse.He has finally started attacking us attachment students. Today, he said that we are ACTING busy at work. ACTING. hello? who in the right mind will want to act busy by staying 12 hrs in the lab a day? while he goes home at5 plus 6 and comes in late in the morning. We aren't even permanent staff and it's not like we get paid doing over time or something. (and the permanent staff dont either) On monday, the first day of the week, in the morning, he scolded the post docs and pHD student in the lab, followed by the lab biologists. He scolded this post doc because his computer died on him while he was typing his usual lengthy and naggy reply to that post doc's report.And today, he attacked the students as well!!! SMART! he has just offended the entire lab! He has officially completed the entire cycle, which i presume will start very soon. argh. Ithink the permanent staff are so poor thing.

Anw, that aside. Today was one of the post doc's birthday!! :) and cheryl and I made jelly for him and the entire lab. HAHA. actually it wasnt especially for him but we just had the crazy idea if making an edible agarose gel using normal agar agar. haha. So we made this rectangular agar(with cocktail fruits in it) and cut wells in it, filling them with blue coloured 7-up as the fake" DNA samples". it's so cute! haha. and of course we made a normal peach agar agar too.So we went to work extra early today and made it in the pantry. People there were wondering what are these 2 girls doing with containers and spoons and canned fruits early in the morning in a pantry! ahha so embarassing. YAY! they liked it alot.:):) though that post doc still didnt believe that the "gel" is edible. He keep questioning if the blue thign was bromophenol blue. haha. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
12:33 AM

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

ankle.

hehe. updates on my ankle! haha. thanks for your concern ple! haha really appreciate it :) haha my ankle's fine! just abit swollen. Accordimg to meng i'll need to ice everyday. oops. i didnt. hehe. THANK YOU!:):)

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
11:14 PM

UNIVERSITY APPLICATION!

An hour ago, i came back from church and my mum decided to open the mailbox to check for THE letter. :S So we went to check the mailbox and guess wat? I saw a big brown thick envelope with NUS printed on it. IT is finally here. sigh. I don't know what to feel. I feel nothing. Excited? not really. nervous? maybe not also not quite. but just a okay-it's-here kind of feeling.

So i opened the envelope and it was written :

Congratulations! I am pease to offer you admission to the National University of Singapore(NUS) in academic year 2006-2007 for a course in:
PHARMACY...

I am not exactly sad or anything, maybe a little bit of dissapointment but I know that it is still part of His plan. :) BUT! it means that now i need to choose! sigh. here are my following choices.

choice #1:
Take pharmacy in NUS
Basically i'm fine with this and it's a direct honours course,but the Ntu offer seems quite attractive too. sigh. I don't really know what i'kk study there so it's time for me to read up!!! and wt, i;m stuck with you. haha not that i dont want la.

choice#2:
Take Biomed and Traditional Chinese medicine. It's a DOUBLE DEGREE!!! i want double degree :( but it's at NTU! sorry, but i'm biased against NTU. hehe. And it's still a new course, i'll be the second batch so i don't now what i'll be studying. Sounds risky.

Choice #3:
Appeal. If i choose this, i will have to think whether i want to appeal to medicine or dentistry and guess what, I DONT KNOW. (as usual). Should I? Will i be able to take back pharmacy if i do appeal? i need to find out.

Datelines:
Appealling for NUS is between 1 to 14 june.
Reply to NTU by 5 june.
Reply to NUS by 5 june.

Sigh. So many datelines so little time to decide!!!Today is 23. So i;ve got a week's time to decide. The decision seems so apparent to me but yet it is not. sigh. I'm undecided. But i really thank God that in times like this i am comforted knowing that He is still guiding and leading me. I need divine intervention. :) Shall pray about it and be submissive to Him :) I need to remember that He is my shepherd. The good Shepherd.:)

I am also thankful that He has blessed me with so many people who care about me. Thanks peep! for all the stuff you guys said. :) really appreciate it :) i'm touched :)

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
10:35 PM

liangying sent me a nice verse:

Show me your ways,
O lord, teach me your paths;
guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are my God my saviour,
and my hope in you all day long
Psalms 45:4-5

even though i am uncertain about my future, i know it lies in His hands and I have hope in Him :) thanks, liangying!

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
1:51 AM

shimmie's pig trotters.

yay! my ankle's recovering! :) Anyway, according to fio, it's twisted , not sprained( though i don't know whats the difference. haha--guess twisted is less serious). Now, i can run, walk jump as usual but it's twice it's original size.hmm. i've got a weird ankle. It feels alright unless i turn it at a weird ankle then i'll feel the strain. But anyway, it's on it's road to recovery! :)

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
1:31 AM

Sunday, May 21, 2006

Big mouth

There are some things that you just shouldn't say, it might just happen to you. This afternoon i went shopping for a message board with meng and lunch with xinyi and meng. At first it was just meng and i going to get message boards together(those cork ones which u can pin stuff up). Then we realised that Xinyi was going town too! So, on the bus we asked her to join us for lunch. We went yoshinoya for lunch and i ate some set meal on promotion.( their chawanmushi is not nice, it's tasteless).

Then on the bus ride back to church, i was telling meng that my ankles became strong after going through the periodic spraining in touch rugby. Then later in the afternoon, i went for sports, and guess what happened? I sprained my ankle. wow.Me and my big mouth. thank you.
I thought my ankle was quite ok since it had already been used to being twisted and tortured so i went shopping with my mum after that. But i think all that shopping aggravated it. Now it's swollen :( i should have iced it! ME AND MY BIG MOUTH.

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
10:55 PM

Saturday, May 20, 2006

Da Vinci Code.

Hmm, the movie is out! but i hope people wont get misled by the movie. :( It's purely fictional!!!

there's this very cute link! go take a look! :)

http://www.syfc.org.sg/events/dvc/cinema.html

enjoy!

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
1:56 AM

ARGH..... now is the time to panic.

Today when i went online, boo shocked me with some really shocking news! ( really limited vocab eh?haha). THE NUS APPLICATION OUTCOME IS OUT! for him and wt at least.

Knowing that, I desperately wanted to log into my account to see what i got, but being really stressed up already, i suddenly forgot my pin no! So, i literally frantically rumaged through my files in search of my papers and eventually logged in.yay! So you would have thought that i finally saw the outcome right? NO! Being the usual computer idiot , and knowing how lousy i am with anything that deals with technology, i logged in and out afew times because i couldnt see my outcome and thought i went ot the wrong webby. haha. then when i calmed down abit, i finally saw sth. it says: PROCESSING APPLICATION. ie, the outcome is not out yet, for me at least. Boo says maybe it's bcoz they havent sent out the letter yet so i wont see it until i receive my letter. Meng says maybe it's bcoz they're still considering me and tubby said the same thing. but they all have the same conclusion, that is : i have to wait, longer.sigh.

Oh, but thanks guys(boo wt meng tubby)! For all the help.haha. thank you! =]

Anyway, whatever it is, I will accept whatever He plans for me. :) Lord, help me to be patient and strengthen my faith. I will trust in Him. I will. :)

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
1:38 AM

Thursday, May 18, 2006

hello hello :)

I realised i havent been online for days. haha. For the past few day's i've been enjoying the luxury of 8 hrs of sleep per day! yay! :) after such a long break, it feels weird blogging again.It's like i know i've got stuff to say, but at the same time also nothing to say. sigh. Today was a chaotic day.sigh. So many thoughts in my mind that i dont knowwhat to say.

Guess i'll start with work then. I am thankful that work isnt that monotonous anymore! yay! :) tt's something to be happy about. haha. Really thank God about that:) . Some lof the lab biologists are leaving the lab soon so they were teaching the new lab biologist some things about cloning and those kind souls taught me abt it too! haha.. thank you so much! And i finally can do something different, other than protein work.:) So the last few days i was doing some new stuff like miniprep, maxiprep and PCR. :) Compared to protein work, cloning is so much more fun to do! :) OH, in case some of u are thinking in terms of stem cells kind of cloning, don't worry, it's not. It's more of cloning bacteria and bacteria plasmids. So it's not those contoversial stuff.

Here comes the chaotic part. During their lab meeting, all the permanent staff will have to go, except us students. So, somehow today, most of my colleagues decided to ask me to help them do some stuff. Each of them gave me 1 or 2 things to do and it added up to 4 or 5 tasks to be done at the same time. it was crazy! haha. i wonder how cheryl does it.:) And the phone kept ringing and no one seems to want to pick up the phone, so i had to answer too. Anyway, i made a grave mistake today. sigh. It's partly due to the chaotic situation and miscommunication. I think there's a serious problem about how i comprehend stuff.BUT! it is still MY FAULT.:( I feel so bad, cause my colleague was already very busy so she asked me to help her but i think i made it worse for her. sigh. But she took it quite ok, and insisted that it isnt so bad. I hope it isnt. But i'm glad that she wasnt very affected by it, at least not as bad as me. I guess i need to learn from her, of how she continues to be positive and trust in Him:) Well i should continue to pray about my absent mindedness and also pray for her.

I suddenly realised that i'll be ending work in the lab in 2 week's time! It's so soon!!! I'm a little happy that it's will be over but at the same time, i think i'll miss it alot.:( Maybe not so much about the expriments and stuff, though it's also quite fun, but mainly the people there! In the past 3 and a half months, i've met so many people there, so many really friendly and warm people. I will miss them alot alot alot.sigh. I;ve made so many friends there!! There's the either-irritating-or-dead student who's at the same bench as me, and this v sweet girl ,cheryl,(whom i always go home with), and also my look-alike "sister"from another lab. haha. And of course there are the perm staff . I don't want to leave my friends. :( Should i extend my attachment? sigh.

On the way home today, i met my secondary school friend whom i havent seen for ages! haha. it's such a nice surprise:) and i;m happy to know that she's doing fine. :)

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
11:05 PM

Sunday, May 14, 2006

waiting with faith..

Today's Mothers' day! :) I went to my grandma's house to celebrate it with her and with all the aunts :) there was such alot of food! and we almost had a pizza party or something cause two of my aunts and uncles called pizza..haha.So we had New York pizza and Canadian pizza.:) yum. And of course there were are food like my grandma's roast chicken, ribs, pork knucles, and finger foods. High protein diet! haha.Oh and we had strawberry strudel, durian strudel and hazelnut mouse cake! yummy! haha. sinful stuff.

Then as usual we'll be mingling around but besides the usual stuff, they asked about my interview too. My aunt asked if i was more confident to get dentistry or medicine, but i told her i have none for both. :( sigh. I was reminded of my interviews again.

In today's qt, there was an interesting story:

A midwestern town was suffering under a searing drought. All the townspeople decided to gather the clergy and assemble for a prayer. The whole town turned out to pray but there was only one person, a little girl, who brought an umbrella.

I realised that sometimes i pray about something but don;t have enough faith to believe it's really going to happen. Lord, strenghthen my faith. I want to be that little girl. Though now it seems that i don't know where i will be going and what i will be studying but i thank God that He is in control and He will guide me and lead me through everything. :) He is my good shepherd and He Knows me best. Help me to be still and know that You are God .

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
11:11 PM

Saturday, May 13, 2006

Midnight snacking.

I realised that cookies are one of the most sinful snack to have at night. And how did i discover that? I tried it myself. I'm regreting it alr! :( haha

I always thought that subway is healthy, but now i think only the subs are healthy, the cookies, are afterall still cookies, which makes them equally sinful as any other cookies lying around. I feel cheated. haha.

Anw, i toasted my cookie coz i wanted it to become more crispy( wait, tt's not the word but u get the idea la..) and silly me didnt wait for the cookie to cool before i moved it unto a plate. So in the end the cookie broke into many many pieces and i had mini oatmeal raisin cookies instead. ( shows how experienced i am in baking huh?)But anyway, the mainpoint is that the whole kitchen towel under the cookie was soaked in oil! eeewww... tink the cookie absorbed oil like a sponge or sth. fattening. but it;d still nice :)

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
12:54 AM

Solitude ...

Today i went shopping with wt and sok! yay! :) and burned a hole in my pocket(boo:( ). Sigh,the ill effects of retail therapy. haha. OHH, by the way i bought 2 pairs of earrings and a wallet! yay! :) and i settled the 2nd part of the mothers' day gift :):) happy! fruitful shopping ! oh and i would like to add that most of the shopping was done when i was alone, by me , myself and i. haha,And why is that so? Cause dear wenting abandoned me for her band friends and dear sok ee abandoned me for her darling cal! (tt's ok :)) haha but anyway, i did shopping on my own for the first time! yay!wt insist that it's time i grow up and learn to eat and shop by myself. :)

Oh, speaking of wt, that irritating girl grabbed my hand and refused to let me get down the train when i reached cityhall interchange! and i had to miss my stop and take the train back to cityhall. Evil wt! argh...haha

okies, so i spent my evening being a loner shopping at suntec city/marina square/rafflescity, combing every corner for the stuff i need to buy. haha. I think it was quite odd to walk around with my earphone on, listening to music but there isnt anyone to talk to anyway. haha.so nevermind! :)Hmm, i realised shopping alone is alot more efficient! but the problem is there's no one to discuss stuff with:(

oh oh oh...and i met this very funny shop keeper at citylink. I was buying this book from the store, then i went to pay for it. so this was what happened:

me: hi, can i have this please? thx :)
him:okies sure( proceeds to scan it in the cash register)
it will be $xx.xx
me:(hands over the money)
him: thank you.
me: (waits for the book)
him: (looks at me with a blur face)
Me: can i have my book please?
him: oh, i'm sorry here you go.

Hmm..poor chap, must have had such a tiring day, his brain totally can't function alr. haha. but i tink i'll have alot more of this kinda thing happening of if i work as shopkeeper. haha.funny, i almost bought an invisible non-existent book! haha.it'll be hilarious if i forgot abt my book and jus walked out.HAHA then i'll jus be donating money to tt shop. haha.coz sometimes i do forget. heehee

As for dinner, i went subway at rafflescity to eat alone, and i didnt get a seat:( how sad am i. But in the end it was ok! coz i had my spicy italian sub by that fountain thingy at basement of rafflescity. haha. it was ok except tt i was facing the carpark, not the fountain.haha.silly me. And spicy italian was nice too! i ove subway.:)

In conclusion, shopping alone isnt that bad afterall! haha but i'd still prefer some company though :) mastered the art of shopping alone, i'm so proud of myself.

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
12:07 AM

Friday, May 12, 2006

Quiet time

Today's quiet time has a passage from the book of Esther. They the author of the qt material talked about how people always blame the negative experiences to bad luck and attribute positive experiences to hard work, but actually God at work behind the scenes. God puts us into difficult situations to hasten our spiritual growth and learn things. It is only through all the trials that we can be shaped by him to have christ-like characters. =] Then i realised something.i was getting complacent at work and things started to go wrong. Maybe He wanted to tell me to wake up, time to be more serious at work and not take things for granted. oops. haha. And at lab meeting Boss asked about how the student assistants were doing( that includes me) and my lab people said we're doing fine. haha.they're jus such nice ple :) I feel bad.

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
11:50 PM

I'm so tired...my eyes are popping out soon :(

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
1:47 AM

SETTLER'S CAFE :)

yay! today i finally went to settler's cafe! :) and i also settled part of my mother's day present at the florist at holland Village. they've got such pretty flowers!!! and flowers make people happy.:)

Today i was at settler's cafe with fio, meng and jing. It was really fun, and we were basically just going mad over there. HAHA. we played: Apples to apples( btw i jus ate an apple...yum :)), this game abt planting beans and slamwich! haha
CAUTION! slamwich is a highly addictive and tiring game! Side effects are sore throat from screaming and a sore palm from slaming the table.( or in fio's case, the whole hand is sore coz we kept hitting it.hehe) And for people like me with super slow reaction, i just kept losing cards to the rest and practically survived on charity from the other 3 . They generously gave me protions and portions of their card so that poor yuan tying can go on playing:) thanks peeps! :):):) love ya!
OH and apples to apples was jus really lame lar...but it's fun! haha...GROUND JUICE! hahahaha..oh man...i cant believe it.
As for the beans game, i cant really remember what the exact name was, haha...but it was fun too! tho i didnt really noe what was going on a first...haha.

after the exciting dinner, we went home and met tiff on our way home! haha. Today was a fuin and exciting day! YAY! haha...somehow this sounds like those primary school journals that we're forced to write...hehe.. i'm stuck at primary school level writing.:( mengsy, u can grade it for me then...haha

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
1:28 AM

Thursday, May 11, 2006

class blog.

the class blog is mad! especially with wt and I constantly changing each other's entries. ahha. oops :) anw, word of warning:

DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING WRITTEN BY ME OR WT ABOUT EITHER OF US AND A GUY. it's purely FICTION without a single bit of truth! REALLY. :)

haha. And i wanna say sorry guys! Dragged you both into our immature game! haha. They must be so embarassed and shy noe tt they just wish that they can hide in the mountains forever or something. HAHA. sorry! At least people know that everything we blogged about isn't true coz it's most likely been altered by the other party before. haha.

This is silly. I'm paranoid. haha.I'm checked the blog for over 5 times today already!CRAZY! And my colleague saw the entry when i used the comp in the lab. This is not good. I'm dead. :S

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
1:05 AM

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

booooooooooooooooooo!

I'm looking forward to thursday, because it's 4 day week this week! yay! I jus looooove holidays :)2 more days!

Things are getting quite monotonous at work.I do almost the same stuff everyday. Run gel. cast gel.harvest cells. run gel. again.sigh. I can't imagine doing the rest of my life if i venture into research. It's kind of boring, especially when i have no idea what i am doin and why i am doing it, to get what kind of results.And when the experiment doesn't work out, it gets quite depressing. Today i had a funny blot again. sigh. Weird things always happen to me. I know whats the problem. ME. my poor mentor, he'd probably survive better without me. He's an extremely nice person, and i thank God for that :) :)

Sometimes i really feel that my mentor is too nice and he is always bullied by the boss.The people in my lab are feeling quite low nowadays. Seems like the 'battle' between them and our boss is getting tougher each day and they just get more and more depressed and lose the motivation to pursue their interest. It's really a pity seeing people like my mentor, who are really good scientists, giving up their passion because they met a lousy boss.Most of my lab people are christians but many have stopped going to church. :( I think it's partly because boss expects them to work on Sundays too, though it's really not a valid reason for not going church. Now, most of them are feeling quite fed up and they feel like they have no hope in life. ( yes, it seems to be that serious.)My mentor used to come in for work at 8am but go home at 12 midnight. His work hours are crazy! Now that he is fed up with the boss, he sort of shortened his wrking hrs to 12 hrs per day, which is still alot. And the amazing thing is that they come back on weekends and PUBLIC HOLIDAYS too. And boss comes in to patrol around the lab 3 times a day to check on people. Sometimes my mentor will get called into hos office 2 or 3 times a day and it gets quite irritating. If you want your people to produce results for you, you should at least let them do their work in peace instead of keep interrupting them for no reason. And it's not like they are not producing results. There's an air of unhappiness in the lab and the only thing i can do is to pray for them, and the boss.I'll keep praying. =]I know God will have a plan for them, in His time.

I want a new blog skin

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
11:41 PM

Monday, May 08, 2006

late nite snacks :(

I'm a pig!I've been eating loads and loads of icecream recently. Everyday is an ice cream day.haha.yay! for me but boo! for my weight. haha. Guess what? I'm eating bread now, yes, at this hour when i'm gonna sleep soon, when i am actually not hungry at all! haha.And i need to exercise, feeling so unfit from lacking exercise, but there's too much inertia for me to go run.sigh. garfield syndrome.

oh today we had cdg at westmall :) haha..today was an all girls team! haha. nuns! :) and i had my hersheys sundae pie! yum :) i'm such a glutton. And earlier on before the meeting started we had our little 'mystery' to solve. I think we're being a bit too imaginative or we're still stuck in the game murder 21.haha.anw,It was the first meeting where juano joined us! hhaa..and we discussed on the first 10 chapters of corinthians and got confused by the marriage part..oops...haha. We shall go find out. =]

A nice verse to be reminded of :
'Everything is permissible for me'--
but not everything is beneficial.
'Everthing is permissible for me'--
but i will not be mastered by anything.
1 Corinthians 6:12

It's not fair! tomorrow grace will have her day off!! but i don't!!! :( i want off day too. haha.
okies. it's late already. nites! :) i want to slack.

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
12:11 AM

Saturday, May 06, 2006

HAPPY DAY!

yay! today was such a happy day! :) oh, by the way it's already yesterday since it's past midnight. MY GEL FINALLY WORKED!!! so so so happy:):):)

Today, after work, we had a lab outing, haha.We went to marina for steamboat and it was the first time i was there .hehe.the food was nice!! yum:) but so sad, i forgot to bring a camera:(

okies, i;m lazy. so thats all! haha

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
12:45 AM

Friday, May 05, 2006

hahaa...i'm feeling very hardworking today! haha. three entries in a day!! wow, it's a record!
anyway, today during lunch, i went over tiffany's house to have lunch with tiff and fio!
haha. I'm happy! i havent seen tiff for ages!!! Anw we had marcaroni and cheese, which fio anf tiff cooked together. I'm so sorry for letting you guys wait for so long! because of my gels and blots which didnt turn out right.
Then we had ben and jerry's for dessert! yay! ice cream is a happy food! it makes people happy! and fio ws totally high after eating it. :) i wanna eat ice cream everyday! but it will make me fat :(

Oh, and today i went blog visiting! and i saw the CG blog!!! so cool! :) haha think i should go sleep already. or else i'll stone at work tomorrow :(

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
1:13 AM

Work= Western + cast gels

Okies, that basically roughly sums what ilve been doing all these while. Okay, there are other stuff like mini preps and cell harvesting and stuff but casting gel and this technique called western blot is what i always do , without fail, rain or shine. it seems like my life revolve around them.

Ok, so it is logical to say that after casting almost a hundred gels and developing them for Western blots, i should be quite good at it right? but NO! recently my gels and blots have been giving me lots of problems!!!
I dont know why funny stuff always happens to me. Last time was the eppendorf tube cracking for no apparent reason, resulting in me losing my sample. Now, new stuff happens! I keep casting weird gels which have funny shapes! and my blots are terrible! one minute the signal is too weak and when i used a stronger detector which shd give me a stronger signal, the signal totally dissapeared!!! WHY WHY WHYYEEE? this is so odd! and today i tried casting the gel over and over again and it didnt work! i did it three times today! It isnt so bad when you cast and get your prettu gel but today i casted 3 times and because it wasnt good so i have to throw away and cast! so it means i have to disassemble the apparatus, scrap away the gel, wash the plates with soap and dry it, clean with ethanol, and assemble it and lastly make the solution again!Not to mention to pour it.

Work is getting quite monotonous, especially when I dont know whats the rationale behind all these things i;m doing. I want to ask my metor! But he's jus too busy with his work. Sometimes i feel that he is guqite unlucky to get me as his student. Poor guy! i'm so sorry.

But it's really amazing how i got the job. :) I just sent them an email and they took me! yay! without any interviews! I guess it's God's grace and i really need to be thankful for that, Cause i know people who applied but wasnt given the job coz they dont need people already.

So, overall, i;m still happy with my job. :) and my friend say i look v happy there, haha...maybe i am! :) but i really ho[e i can find out what's wrong with my gel and blots. :( haha

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
12:54 AM

boo!
after resting for one day i've finally got over the trauma of the INTERVIEW!!
Firstly, i want to say that it is NOT a good idea to have Three INTERVIEWS in a row!! especially when the interviewers are out to GRILL you! it's really traumatising! :S and for all you people out there who have upcoming interview please please reschedule if the schedule is tight! :)

Okies, let me see...hmm...shall start with dentistry first! So, yesterday i went down to the faculty of dentistry in NUH early in the morning and went for my forst interview! Point one, i think i wasnt really very awake. Point two, i have zrero preparedness! so, you can expect the outcome, i dont really need to elaborate on how disastrous it was. But the shocking thing was i didnt prepare myself for the most obvious question that thay will ask: WHAT SETS YOU APART FROM THE REST OF THE CANDIDATES? it was qiite duh that they will ask but yet i didnt prepare for it! what was i thinking?

Ok, so after the dentistry inetrview i supposedly had an hour's break before my next grilling session for med faculty. So i happily( or not so happily) made my way to NUS Yong Loo Lin sch of Medicine to take my interview. But! Situation number 2: i reached there too early and was requested to take the slot before mine because the previous candidate isnt here yet! so being traumatised my the previous interview and almost brain dead, i got called in for the interview.

Now, we've come to the first round of medicine interview. I went in and greeted the interviewers, ie 3 professors.
For the first prof, this was the dialogue:

Prof: So, can you tell me the name of the school?
Me: Yong Loo Lin School of medicine
Prof: So, tell me,who's Yong Loo Lin?
Me: ??? er...........
I;m not too sure but i'll guess that it's the founder?
Prof: Dont guess! nvm, then which aniversary is the school celebrating now?
Me: Um....so rry, I dont know
Prof: then what's the dean;s name?
Me: er.....
Prof: So you've come to an interview without knowing a single thing about our school?
Me: [still stumped]
Prof: then what did you see when u came into the building?

and then again i didnt pay much attention to the building because i was sooo super nervous and traumatised my the dentistry people!and more questions which i shant mention here to bore you:) but the thing is that i actually read about the school befoe but as usual i forgot about it!oh and later he asked about when do the med students study paediatrics which i read abotu and forgot again:(

And the second prof asked me about the healthcare issue in the elections and me, being an uninformed cartton watching couch potato who doesnt watch the news, didnt know what she was asking! and sigh

The third prof was the nicer one and asked about working woman and compassion. I like her! think she probably sympathised with me and decided to let me off (THANKEW!)

Then, i had the round 2 interview for medicine! This time it was 2 medical personnels, doctors medical students or nurses. Think i got 2 Doctors. By now, i was already having the bochup feeling, after 2 sessions of grilling. But it turned out relatively ok :) Oh and they are the nicest interviewers for the day! I LOVE THEM =] but the funny thing was, they found my CCA funny, whyee? it's just a normal sport.

OK, so that was how my interview went! HORRIBLE! because half the time i was trying to recover from shock and didnt even reply properly! And for the rest of the day i kept thinking about the terrifying experience and my ppor friends had to hera me go on ranting about it! THANK YOU for listening! (especially cheryl-- the poor girl had to listen to me talk through the entire lunch! I'm so sorry!)

So after spending one entire day thinking about it, I am fine alr! finally got it out of my head :)
People keep telling me that maybe it was'nt as bad as it looked. Maybe, I hope so! But, right now i'm just thankful that it's over! I;m free! yay!!!! and I pray that whatever outcome there is, i will be able to accept it. He who noes me best will have the best plans for me! :)

As for those who are having their interviews, JIAYOU! and all the best

tying rode the Shrimp Boat.
12:14 AM