The Legends of the Pugilistic Leader

This is a record of my everyday life, my thoughts and feelings, and my favourite topics. Read it if it's of interest to u!

Monday, July 31, 2006

Wanted to post FOC pics today finally.. but hor.. sian 1/2... blogger photos failed to work after i uploaded 2 pics. So ya... totally lazy already. Anw... some updates.. finally this week, if nothing goes wrong, i'm gonna end all my tuitions!!! OK.. not like i'm already gonna get my well deserved break.... cos i still gotta work... but at least its a load off my shoulders. I get my nights off!! And i get to sleep late on Sundays!!! YAY!

Anw... this is the thank you card my P3 chinese tutee gave me... so cute right!! So sweet right!! Almost made up for all the times he's been naughty and misbehaved and made me pull out all my hair and want to spank him on his bottom. The key word here is ALMOST. Cos even on the last lesson today.. he misbehaved!!! ARGHHH!!!!




This kid is really quite problematic.. but his dad and family is really nice.. and they are really nice to me.. and his dad really wanted me back to help him next yr January... so yea.. they juz found a replacement for a few months. SIGH.. but I am really tired of teaching him.... but.... haiz.. nvm... bobian...


Anyway.. no more tuition means more time to spend with family! YAY! I hardly get to see my grandma these days... last time i used to see her almost every day.. then it became every week.. now every week is a chore.. i gotta squeeze time outta my super tight schedule. Feel so bad.. especially since I will be gone for such a long time. At least my parents can still webcam with me..

Ya anw... updates about work!! Shit lor.. this blog is getting boring can!! Always work work work.. tuition tuition tuition.. wat happened to the ultra happening and exciting life KS used to lead!!! ARGHHH!!! Ya as I was saying.. updates about work..

The other day, I almost forgot to add Ethidium Bromide to my agar before i cast the gel... then I was telling my colleague thank god i remembered in time.. if not do everything swee swee no bands come out. Then my colleague replied, "Oh its ok wan! Once, another colleague forgot to put oso... then after that the gel came out, she went to take a picture.. bands still appeared! That shows how contaminated our gel tanks are with EB!"

-.-

Now... is that wat they call an occupational hazard?

Anyway... i am really really really disgusted by how my days always go. I would be sitting in front of the com.. msn-ing.. slacking away.. gleefully counting down to the time when i can go home.. not believing my luck that i have so much time to slack away while waiting to knock off.. then like 15 minutes before I can leave, my mentor will gimme something else to do!!! ARGHHH!!!! Biang eh!! Then I always end up going home late can!? NO FAIR LOR!!!! ALWAYS LIDDAT!! Gimme false hopes!!! But anyway.. think from tmr onwards will be pretty busy.. loads of PCRs to run. Anyway.. the PCR running times will be slacking times as usual la.. but the preparation for PCR will take quite some time lor.. sian.

Today was terrible.. dunno y early morning got this persistent tummy ache that wont go away. Its not the lao sai kinda tummy ache.. maybe got something wrong inside... ARGHH anyway.. i really felt like taking MC lor.. but cant la.. i already took 4 days off for FOC. Sian.. plus a severe attack of the Monday blues... HAIZ.. i feel like Garfield..

Some random thoughts... yesterday I finally felt the difference between an Automatic car and Manual car as I was driving my bro back to camp. That particular stretch of road had loads of traffic lights and yesterday I was damn suay la... kept meeting with red lights.. and that stretch of road had tons of red light cameras.. so I din dare to beat the red light oso. Sian 1/2...

So a lot of times, after cruising for a while at 70kph.. will have to hit the brakes. Then after that start again. Ya my point is.. for manual, after stopping, u go gear 1 right? Then after that, u wanna speed up, u can switch at ur own comfort from gears 1 to 2 to 3 to 4. Depending on your skill la.. usually shouldnt take too much time to go up to gear 4. But for auto cars right... the shifting of gear will be automatically controlled by the car (hence the name automatic car). So in other words, u cannot control when the car is gonna go to gear 2 or gear 3 or gear 4. So thats y its slower!!! At least for my dad's car, takes quite a bit of time to accelerate till gear 4... so u can imagine my frustration when a while after i reach that speed i come to the next red light!! ARGHH!!!

k before i end off for today, give u pple a treasure ok? This afternoon, was in the lab. My colleagues were playing the Chinese radio. Afternoon they have this segment playing oldies. SHIT LOR i'm getting old can!! Most of the 'oldies' they play are my favourite songs in my sec school days can... CAN!? Those are SOOO not oldies can!? BIANG EH!!! But anyway... today i heard this song.. far far older than those songs.. haha think its my parents' era.. but i really quite like it!! Think its sung by Vivian Chow... but i cant find the mandarin version. Make do with the Canto version from Youtube k? Canto not by Vivian Chow.. by Shirley Kwan.


Sunday, July 30, 2006

HELLO DARLINGS!!! ALL MY DEAR FRENS!!!!

I'm having a birthday party on the 12th of August (cos on the actual day of my birthday on 12th Sept I will already be in Vancouver) and I will be celebrating my birthday and it will oso serve as a mini send off for me!

Ok i dunno who i've invited who I havent.. i've lost track. Anw.. those invited right.. HAHA here are the details.. it will be held at my place. Yea i noe like, 90% of my Uni friends have never seen my home neither do they know where it is.. NOW I TELL U WHERE!! EXCITED NOT!! FINALLY THE SECRET IS OUT!! HAHA

K the address is 2 River Valley Close. Its this condo called The Regalia. It's at the intersection of Killiney Road and River Valley Road. Closest MRT is Somerset. If u all agree to meet at a particular timing maybe I can fetch u all from there YAY! YAYYAY! Or if the grp is small i can drive over to fetch u pple! HAHA! Small meaning 6 or less. Should start ard 5.30 to 6pm.

I need all who are coming to let me know ok? So I can arrange.

As for presents.. I duno leh.. I cant really decide.

I wanted an electric guitar! But then I think I will leave it aside to rot.. unless i can find time to practise. I wanted a keyboard too.. that one think will practise.. but practise for own listening onli. I think it is the Superband effect!! I wanted yoga and pilates lessons.. maybe those vouchers for those lessons.. HAHA but I wont be in Sg till dec so maybe no time to go for those lessons too.. HOW HOW HOW!!!

Ok after much thot, I came up with yet more suggestions... I wan a Prada wallet, an LV bag, Ferragamo heels.... erm.. yea.. about there. HAHA

Discuss within yourself wat u guys wanna buy ok!! Then let me know after that! HAHAHA

Friday, July 28, 2006

My 2nd blog entry!!! Today i'm in the blogging mood! HAHHAHA no la.. juz wanted to clear out all the photos in my phone. Hee hee..

Let's start with these REALLY NOSEBLEED INDUCING PICS FROM THE FINAL NIGHT OF ESTADOS.. BS FOC!!!! WOOHOO!!!


OMG WHO'S THAT WITH THE 6 PEC!! AIN'T HE OUR VERY OWN MR YAN YEW WAI!!!!


WHOA MANHUNT!! MR SINGAPORE 2007!!!!!

"上衣脱掉脱掉。。上衣脱掉!" HAHA


Moving on.. these were from yesterday's steamboat and BBQ dinner at Zheng Fa with the Mewuk gang!!!! GAWD!!! It was SO FUN!!! HAHA its the people who make a gathering special..


大姐大 Andrea and I!!

My fav freshie (sry favouritism here) Reuben and I!! HAHA


My classmate Xiao Yun and I!! Weird how we almost never talk to each other in class cos we were so distant HAHA but now we're not!


Anw I plucked out my wisdom tooth juz now!!! Not me la.. the dentist... but yea.. OUCH!!!! I fainted AGAIN!!! DAMNIT! Seems like everytime I pull out my wisdom tooth i will faint!!! HOW COME!!!! At first I thot i was damn brave... everything done already I still asked for my tooth as a souvenir.. UNTIL i went out to the receptionist.. then suddenly the world started to blur... ARGHHH OMG!!! IRRITATING!!! I thought i was brave lor!!! ARGHHHH my lips turned really pale.. my mum thot it was so farnie after her anxiety wore off.. she made me take a picture of myself... HAIZ... my lips pale meh!!!


Anw... this is my trophy!!!!


OUCH!!! I'm WISDOMLESS! Twice over!!!

At work

Ohh i am at work now!! SLACKING as usual... today nothing to do.. cos everyone else in the office is busy working on some stuff that i dun understand as yet.. havent learnt about.

Anw since i'm in the office, might as well lemme tell u a bit more abt my work and my job.

I've worked in many places, doing many diff kinds of jobs. Sure i've had jobs that offer me much higher pays than this.. but i've never been happier working anywhere else.

This is the kinda job for me.. it is the kinda job of my dreams. I'm born to be a scientist.

U wanna keep me in a white collared 9-5 office, u need a rope to tie me down. U want me to stand up all day doing sales or sitting in a bank talking to people.. i'd rather you shoot me dead. I earn more.. but what's the point?

I may nag a bit and complain a bit about having to do so much PCR and run so many gels and risk dying of Ethidium Bromide poisoning but then deep down i know.. i cant get another job i will enjoy more than this. It is not just about the pay. It is what we are doing that makes it so special and meaningful. We are trying to better the lives of Mankind! Ok i know this sounds really idealistic.. but it's this thought that kept me going all the way, kept me firmly rooted to this job and this dream... that is the thing about this job that makes it so special.

And sometimes.. when u are bordering on discovering something really interesting and fantastic that no one has ever discovered before.. that kinda exhilaration is nothing you've ever felt before. Its indescribable.

So.. i'm trying to make the most out of my life at the moment! Every moment is filled up with interesting things.. since holidays started i've never had a quiet moment. I've tried so many different things in these 3 months! First I took intersem. Well that can hardly be counted as interesting yes I know... but well.. let's pretend Astro is interesting la. Meanwhile, I also tried sales, promoting products @ the PC fair... and I also had a stint at this logistics company, working as a data entry personnel.. and then i applied for an attachment... at Biopolis... and got it!

There were other interesting stuff as well.. like going to KL!!! And the climax must have been that not too long ago.. FOC!!!! All the new and interesting people I got to know.. people who've been studying alongside with me for 2 years but I never took the time to get to know well... and now really regret not doing that.

Another exciting event awaits.. my exchange!!!! GAWD!!! i cant wait!!! If only every single day of my life could be like this.. filled with excitement and entertainment... OHH i cant wait for vancouver!!!!

And i'm planning on going NYC while on my exchange!!! Emily's gonna bring me around!!! YAY YAY YAYYYYY!!!!

And i'm also planning to go Mongolia or Tibet to backpack some day soon!!!! Finally found someone with the same interest who's willing to go with me!!! YAY YAYYYYYY oh man i cant wait... the greens... the grass... the beautiful people with rosy cheeks... the sands.. the desert... its gotta be soon cos i'm graduating soon and I predict i will have to enter the workforce almost immediately cos its either that or i wont be able to get a job. And the next long holiday I have I will have to start on my FYP. And to backpack, u need a pretty long amt of time. At least 2 weeks... to be able to see and truly appreciate the culture and way of living of the people over there.

Why backpack!? Why not go on a guided tour? Safer! Nicer! More comfortable! But wat u see is totally different. It is a total different experience if you backpack. You live like the people over there, you see more learn more. You dont juz see what they package nicely for tourists... u see the real life!!! COOL RIGHT!

K siao liao i gtg... this is company time HAHA I juz spent an hr plus blogging.. and getting paid!!! HAHAHAHA

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Back from a yrmates bonding session last sunday! Went to Elly's place and celebrated bdays for Elly Cat and Nydia! Had loads of fun catching up. But hor I very upset lor Weeweecat. First thing u said after not seeing me for so long is that my Birkies are UGLY?! WEEWEECAT!!!

Anyway rite haha as usual when a grp of girls get together, the subject never leaves boys. HAHA last time it used to be crushes now it's bfs dunno when it will become husbands?! OMGOMG we are all getting to be soo old!!!! AWWWW!!!!

Updates abt work.. finally I gotta meet Axel the GREAT!!! OMG! I shook his hand!!! Cant believe it.. for such a great scientist, he's really amicable and easy to talk to. Though he's really busy, he still takes time out to chat and get to know us.. haiz.. and he even goes back to the lab to work on Sundays. 伟大.

Today my mentor told us some stuff abt PhD studies in the states. HAHA need to take something like a PhD version of SATS. Hmm pretty cool. HAHA maybe will go take next time! Applicable in the States only.. Hehe

Paiseh long time no blog HAHA sry ah.. still waiting for the pics. I have some ready.. but still waiting for the rest. Anw rite, every night now, pple are having msn mass chats lor.. this is friggin unhealthy la... i wake up so early work so hard in the day, after that got tuition at night, then wanna sleep liao get pulled into mass chats.. HAHAHA but seriously.. miss them!!! OMG i miss FOC!!! Tmr there's a mambo night outing.. still contemplating. Feel like going.. but gotta work the next day.. should i!?!?? Siao liao.. but anw thursday there's an OG outing!! YAY!! Can meet them again!!! HAHA I CANT WAIT!!! K gtg.. my msn's flashing again. BB!!!

Friday, July 21, 2006

BACK FROM CAMP!

OMG FOC WAS FUN FUN FUN! More so than I expected. Cant believe it. HAHA Mewuk was COOL! Everybody was SO FUN! People I knew from other OGs were fun too! Hee hee

K la friggin tired now. Camp was supposed to end today but cos I promised my mentor to be back in the lab by Friday to help him wrap things up, I left directly from school to Biopolis this morning after going to bed at 3am and waking up at 6.45am. Madness..... kept dozing off in lab today. Jialat jialat.

Anyway rite, will update more about the camp after I get the pictures of the camp from my frens! Waiting for pple to send me the pictures now! QUICK!!! Gonna kajiao pple to quick upload the pics already... QUICK QUICK QUICK!!!!

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Developing the biomedical field is not cheap. Need an idea how much it costs?

One day, one of my colleagues left an ice tray out overnight, with some tiny eppendorf tubes of reagents left on it. We only discovered it the next day. And by then the tubes cannot be reused anymore cos they needed to be kept at -20 degree celsius most of the time.


After some calculation, we estimated the loss.


It was a few friggin thousands in SG dollar!!! Just those few tiny tubes that dont even add up to 50ml!

Gawd.

And we spend like thousands and thousands of dollars everyday doing experiments using those kits the biostartup companies sell us.. THOUSANDS by the DAY!

Now you know why all your medicine cost so much. Think about the money pumped in to develop them. And now many governments are limiting the number of years the medicine and methods of developing them can be patented... so much so that many of these companies are losing money. It takes like, 20 years for the start of the development, the thinking up of strategy, the development of methods, and clinical testing, before finally patent application and then the selling of the drug. 20 years at least. How can these companies survive?!

Instead, govts should subsidize these medicines and companies more. Or they could pump in money themselves for the development of these medicines. Haiz...

OH ya anyway rite.. i am so high!! HAHA going for camp next wk!!! UY is my JNR!!! HAHAHAHA happy sia... think this could be the last time in my entire life i am joining a camp of any kind.. better enjoy it while i can. YAY YAY i am so happy so high... hahahaha will see if there can be any pictures taken then show u guys k?! YAY YAY!!!

Will get to know many many more frens in BS!! SO HAPPY! HAHA exciting! Really glad Wingyan asked us if we wanted to go. Hehe i will never regret this. It's the first time I'm anticipating camp. Even more so than UOC. OOPS hahahaha

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

World Cup (dying) Fever

One of the two 2 or 3am World Cup 2006 matches that I bothered to wake up to watch.. the match between Italy and France. The finals! Actually I woke up like, 20 minutes into the game.. cos I 赖床 lah as usual. But that is not the point. The point... the BLARDIE point is.. they actually managed to score the only 2 goals of the game within that starting 20 minutes!!! Holy SHIT! I think someone up there is punishing me for 赖-ing 床. Teach me not to do that in future.


But in any case... Buffon is really good. He probably had a lot to do with Italy getting into the finals. He certainly deserved the Lev Yashin award for best Goal Keeper. 实至名归. The Italian were playing mostly defensive. Their defense was like.. seriously damn good. 滴水不漏. If not for that brilliant penalty deflect by Zidane, I guess it is near impossible for France to score against him.


Highlights of the game, from the moment I watched:

1. The offside-neargoal of Italy. Everyone thot it was IN! And then the idiot referee who looks suspiciously like an OompaLoompa had to declare it an offside. Yea I mean.. after watching the playback yar it was an offside.. but barely lor! Wah lau eh can close one eye or not! Like.. those drama with the heads missing the finishing line by inches to get 2nd or 1st for a sprint or marathon or something. But never mind.


2. The other offside of the day was one by Zidane. I was going "OMG!" already.. cos I sorta wasnt paying attention that very minute the goal was shot. But then after that, it was declared an offside. Thanks to Sh for letting me know! Haha.


3. The red card Zidane got. He is a fantastic footballer I must admit. If not for that brilliant penalty, France would never have gotten a goal past Buffon. But at age 35, it is pretty immature for him to get provoked/allow someone to provoke him and very childishly headbutt that person in the chest and get sent off for that agree?! Ok I must say that person who provoked him is of cos in the wrong too.. but as the captain of a team, at his age, shouldnt he show more maturity and shrug it off?! Be a good example to the other players? No? Rooney well, he got sent off cos of a similar event but well, at least when you talk about age and position in the team, I guess you can sort of forgive him for being immature. But ZIDANE? Never mind I still cant get over the shock that Zidane allowed himself to do something like that in his final match in his professional football career, especially since it is so significant.. it is the World Cup FINALS!


4. During the penalty shootout, the 2nd attempt by France. The missed goal. Buffon didnt even have to do anything. Guess that joker of a player must be thinking of copying his lao jiao captain Zidane by deflecting the ball in the same way. But of cos... not everything will go so smoothly la. Told u Zidane lao jiao already... how to be as zai as him?? That was kinda like the final nail in the coffin for France. The Zidane sendoff was the first. If Zidane was in the lineup for penalty, maybe the result might have been different who knows? But well.. I guess to a certain extent the French morale was sorta affected after their captain was served a red card. 无心应战 already.


5. Final goal in the penalty shootout. Italy won 5 out of 5. FULL MARKS!!! WAH!!! SHIOK!!!


Saw the Italians running estatically through the field... through streams of confetti and a wildly cheering crowd. 好感动. The Italians are a proud people. They have the most prestigious league in Europe (nah it is not the EPL contrary to popular belief). Although it is now plagued with match fixing scandals, doesnt change the fact that they are really fantastic. That is why the entire Italian national team play in their own league and in their own clubs and not any other country. Cos they are a really proud and patriotic nation. It was really nice to see them winning.


Great that Zidane won the Best Player aka Golden Ball award too. He deserved it. Probably can mar the flaw resulting from that red card.


Anyway wah kaoz my 乌鸦嘴.. I was just telling someone the other day.. World Cup finals seldom go to penalty kicks. So start at 2am should end by 4am. Then can go sleep! Then TMD this time really went to penalty kicks!!! OMG! Cant sleep till almost 5am! Then after I went to sleep, it was a restless sleep filled with dreams.


K it was a really weird dream again la.. dont laugh at me k.. i oso cannot control my own dreams. Anyway, it started off ridiculously. I was at the World Cup stadium watching the finals. And then guess wat?! I saw that TCS organised an outing there too with all the actors and actresses! Then I was watching that final match with Jing.. and I was almost sure it was a dream. So I asked her to pinch me, and I pinched her too! And wah lau! It hurt lor! It really did! So we both concluded it was not a dream. And then we just shook our heads and went on to watch the match.


After the match ended, we wanted to go home. Then we just sorta tried to find our way to the exit but cos it was all in some weird language which must be German (though I dunno German so I dunno how I can possibly know German in my dream) but anyway in the end we found our way to a door. We thought it was an exit, so we pushed and entered!


And VOILA! It was the dressing room for the French players! They looked so depressed and deflated... we felt really sorry for them. We wanted to turn away and go out.. but then later I really felt so sorry for them I turned back and went up to the closest player I could find and I said, "Hey look.. you guys played REALLY well! I was so impressed! It was just a stroke of bad luck.. but dont worry alright? I'm sure you guys will make a comeback next time!!" I flashed my brightest smile at the player (I cant rmr who he is though wat I do remember is that Zidane was not in the room haha). He smiled at me weakly and said thanks. But he still looked so sad! So I went up and gave him a hard hug and told him, "Its alright.. dont take it too hard. You did your best! We could all see it!" And then I ruffled his hair a little (like how you do that to a little boy) and finally his smile started to warm up!


After that I smiled at him again and then I told him I gotta run. And then I caught up with Jing and told her about my 艳遇 and then later excitedly asked her, "EH! QUICK! Let's go look for the Italian team so I can pull the same trick on them!!! HEEHEE!" I was doing my 如意算盘... happily grinning to myself... and then suddenly......................













Some IDIOTS going home after watching soccer at Mohammed Sultan or Clarke Quay or Boat Quay drove past my place honking like crazy shouting, "ITALIA ITALIA ITALIA!!!!!"


And I woke up. And I checked my clock.. 5.15am. Only 15 minute of sleep and I could dream of so much. Now I know why they say I like to 想太多. HAHA

Monday, July 10, 2006

Italy VS France going into extra time now... score still 1-1. TMD I bought Italy win lor! Make me lose money! ARGHHH nvm I still hope Italy can win this World Cup. I hope I dont regret staying up to watch the finals... hope i dont screw up work again tmr.

ZIDANE JUZ GOT A RED CARD!!! HAHAHAHA YAY!!!! ORBI! K i go watch liao bb. His last world cup and he got sent off.. sad man haha

Saturday, July 08, 2006

Sorry for the lack of updates. Aku too busy la. I am heading for burnout. Work is exceedingly tiring and draining.. i dunno why.. somehow I really enjoy it but the minute I end work and step out of Biopolis, I will just feel like energy has just been zapped out of my system. I can fall asleep in the 5 minute shuttle bus ride. I can fall asleep at BUSSTOPS something that has never ever happened before. Thank god that hasnt made me miss any buses. Yet.

And like.. 4 days a week after work I will have tuition. Doesnt help that I keep falling asleep during tuition cos I'm just so friggin tired and drained out.

And after tuition I will have many many stuff to settle for my UBC exchange. Things have a way of screwing themselves up no matter how well I plan everything. I can map my modules nice nice swee swee, plan the timing for ending my attachment and the flight nice nice swee swee in time for the international student orientation and then there will be factors to screw up the flight timings. I can plan my hostel application and early arrival application nice nice swee swee then suddenly my parents learn that (despite my best efforts to keep it from them) the other girl going to UBC with me originally had her application rejected by UBC so now I am going all alone and they insist on going with me. And since all the decent budget hotels I could find are all not that near UBC I have to spend many sleepless nites looking for accommodation for them in UBC. But never mind. Those are not important. They are just there to test my patience and determination to go for the exchange so when I actually go I can appreciate it more since I put in so much work for it.


Now some updates about work.

Yea as I had told u guys earlier on.. my mentor and colleagues are a superb bunch of pple. Fun, and yet hardworking.. smart and not snobby.... nice... and friendly. Especially my mentor. He goes out of his way to ensure I learn a lot a lot during my attachment... he lets me see and try out many different techniques... gives me projects and guides me personally, sacrificing time for his own projects. Paves the way for me in the event that I might join them for my FYP. Super nice and patient and explains everything thoroughly... listens to my suggestions and agrees to some of them. Basically makes me feel important and not just like a lousy know-nothing attachment louse.

And I screwed something up at work. I can cry just thinking about it. I cant believe I actually made such a big mistake. In our research, we deal with clinical samples from cancer patients. Basically, the amount of sample given to us is very small... precisely cos it is from real cancer patients and that is why it is so precious. And in a moment of carelessness.. just one second of daydreaming.. i mixed 2 samples up. And it is irreversible. The 2 samples are lost. 2 samples from cancer sufferers who kindly donated their tissue samples in the hope to better the lives of other cancer patients in future. I wasted their effort just like that. I couldnt forgive myself.

It was the first time i saw my kind mentor angry. But that is not the point. Even if he wasnt angry I couldnt forgive myself precisely cos I knew the gravity of the matter. He kindly entrusted me with this task.. exciting work that most of the pple at the lab had never had a chance to do except for him.. cos he wanted to let me try some of the more exciting tasks.. and i let him down. I cant bring myself to face him. I tried to make it up by working doubly hard to ensure the rest of the samples for all the later batches turn out well.. but still that will never erase the terrible mistake i made. Nothing will. Like what my mentor says, "If you screw up the PCR or something else, it is ok lor.. just redo. Just spend one more week... but it is not irreversible. But this is clinical samples. You cant ask the patient to die again you know what I mean?"

Yea that is why I feel so bad. These cancer samples are obtained from patients 3 years ago. Exact details I cant disclose cos of the confidentiality clause, but that is a kind of cancer that has almost 100% fatality rate. So those patients are already dead. If I were the family of the patient, I will probably hate the researcher to the core. My beloved family member has died and he donated his tissue sample to you guys and this is the way you treat it. This is how you repay his kindness.

I still get nightmares about that very second when I mixed the 2 samples together. I cant get over the guilt. ARGH I must make sure this project is a great success if not I can never forgive myself. Never.

There I've explained why I am so busy. And told a little story that happened.

Anyway I am seriously considering closing this blog down... too busy to write. And anyway I will be starting a new one when I start my exchange in Vancouver. Some sort of a travel diary. But never mind.. till then... I still need a space to release my thoughts when I'm free. I have loads to say here! Just that I dont have the time to do it. Haiz. K gtg.. ciaoz!

Sunday, July 02, 2006

KL-Genting!

Here's my KL-Genting trip update!!!

We went with a tour agency, by coach. Set off from Golden Mile Complex, Singapore.. passed by WTC.


The bus has some crappy video showing.. damn noisy. Can't even go to sleep. ARGHHH!!!! To think the bus seats are supposed to be the super comfy ones for sleeping!


We pulled over at a 24 hr hawker centre in Msia for a toilet break and for supper.

Then we hit the roads again. The Msian highways have a speed limit of more than 100kph! That's the NS highway.



Arrival! We reached the resort at Genting at about 4am. ARGHHH horrible. My sleepless night and dark eye circles. But anyway, that resort was pretty nice on the outside. ONLY on the outside.





There was no breakfast on the first day, so after we checked in, we went for dim sum breakfast! My mum there.. awaiting breakfast haha


But wah biang it was too early... and they onli had very little selection available. Nonetheless... still quite nice. Hehe


Then we hit the casino... I managed to sneak past the security on the first day. But anyway... i really dun understand wat's so nice about casinos la. Just sit there and push a button push push push, see the thing rolling and your money rolling away... somehow no matter wat u wont win money la. Overall. Sure lose. If not y all casino owners are so rich! Then kaoz.. the adults can all sit there and get so absorbed and keep playing.. then wah biang... the casino pple oso damn smart lor.. the jackpot hor.. u press 10 credits, then u win 5 credits already the jackpot machine play so much music machiam u hit jackpot like that.. but hor u calculate a bit.. 10 credits minus 5 credits wah kaoz u still lose 5 credits can?! Then liddat they slowly slowly earn 5 credits 5 credits from u... after 15 minutes become many many credits and much much money already!!! WAH BIANG!!! Cant believe the adults huh.. usually like so smart.. go casinos all become dumb..



Anyway.. after a while at the casino.. i decided i was sick of it. I wanted to go KL!!! So I took the cable car down!!! It is the longest cable car ride in the world and the fastest in Asia or something.. beautiful scenery.


Grandma and I going down to KL in the cable car!!!!! We're going shopping!!!


The scenery was beautiful.

Then we took a bus from midway up the mountain, down to KL central!

Beautiful scenery!



We first visited Mid Valley.. got Dunkin Donuts there!!! And we ate at the Crystal Jade express there for lunch as well!!


Then after that we took a cab down to Times Square and Sungei Wang!!



After half a day of frantic shopping.. Spent a few hundred... close to a thousand bucks WAH haha.. shopping queen... hehehehe

After that we took the bus up midway to Genting again... WAH KAOZ that bus driver thot he was Fujiwara Takumi on Mount Akina!!!! TMD!!!! The roads were super winding and he kept driving faster and faster... even when pple were shouting at him to slow down... wah biang... he purposely lor i tell u.. tmd.. after the horror ride from hell ended... we all thanked our lucky stars we were still alive.

And so we happily went back up to Genting via cable car again!!!




This is the view from the top of Genting.. beautiful.







Sunset..

Shopping in Genting!!!!


Super foggy in the morning... See the winding roads up to Genting?? Yea look like Mount Akina right??





Sunrise..


Arcade in Genting!


It's the OSCARS!!!!


Foggy roads.. on our departure. DAMN it was friggin cold la! And I was braving the low temperatures in my newly bought denim berms.. haiz..






落山... in my AE86 Trueno. HAHA nah.. in the bus. Speed limit was a crawl.. 30kph or 40kph.







K that's about it.. gtg... will update more about my attachment later!!! BTW anyone for World Cup?? Watch together???? Heehee