Monday, October 29

2:08 PM

Medal night woot!

yay~ i survived medal night. haha. photos are up on facebook (don't you just love it lol) and i'm uploading the videos to YSI now to send home, so i'll link them later... in case anyone's actually interested lol. LALING you know you wants a facebook account so that you can join in teh crack hahaha!!

anyway, here're the videos: chacha, samba, rumba, jive.

and yay i didn't fall flat on my face during jive! almost did, but i didn't. heeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

got highly commended, courtesy of that anal judge. weh. KJ and mel got honours, i can't remember wat elaine and andrew got. oh and we saw andrew's girlfred. *gossip radar twitching* was funny cos we were gossiping, and everytime KJ showed up and asked what's going on, there'd be this dead silence. lol. and jono was bashing pple, tyson was dancing very enthusiaistically with brad, there's a semi-incriminating pic of jono and tyson up on facebook haha

and erm, wat else... ya. we and waku demolished the cheese and pate ourselves cos noone else at our table wanted it. hehe, oh well. more for us hahaha. ya... then trained back to the city, probably convicned half the compartment that we were les cos we were babbling and calling each other laling. hahahah!!!! ya. wat else... PASTA DINNER~! haha, walked right past the function room where pat was having her b'day party (i thot she was having it elsewhere??). she and ran were shouting my name but i was too stoned to notice... and when it finally registered i had to backtrack to the room. where i got flying glomped by her. -_-" erm, someone's demonstrative. lol. ya.

sunday, slept till almost 4... stupid daylight savings hath kicked in. sigh. pottered ard ATTEMPTING to do my laundry, but as my luck would have it, all the washers were taken. i had to cart my laundry up and down 4 times before i finally got hold of the washer!!!! and then when i went to use hte dryer an hour later, there was this mad dash for the dryers and i had to carry my laundry from one end of the row to the other. -_-" crazy weekend laundry spree. i should just do it on a weekday or at 2 am next time... sigh

ok. all teh videos are uploaded, i've sent the links home... so now it's time for LUNCH! hahaha. ahem. yes. i'll come back and slack more later. whee!

oh, and it was bloody HOT over the weekend. but it's back to being cool now. -_-" sometimes i wish that melbourne weather would jsut make up its mind. -_-"

edit at 3.20: incidentally, i've discovered that safeway makes pretty decent honey swiss rolls (swiss, SWISS... not spring roll. -_-" silly me) SUGAR KICK!!! haha. thinking abt whethe ri should actually keep it in the fridge tho, then it won't go flakey everytime i try to cut it. hmm. oh, and my nail polish has decided to chip. very irritating. and only on my right hand too! gross gross. maybe i'll paint my nail another colour later... if i can be bothered... i feel like siaming home early again. lol. wat's new right. ^_^"

Saturday, October 27

12:58 AM

Freaking out!

sort of.

showed up for dance and got told that this medal, very few pple are doing silver latin.

in fact, only 3 pple are doing silver latin.

all 3 pple are tyson's students.

anyone see where i'm getting at here??

yes. i'm going to be doing a floorshow for my silver latin.

like, watch me run ard like a headless chicken now.

the good (and bad) thing is that i'm in the 3rd bracket. as i told tyson, i didn't want to be in the 1st cos the mood hasn't been set yet, while by the 4th bracket, there's just too much tension. so 3rd bracket works fine. in fact i think i've always been in the 3rd bracket. hmm. bad thing abt the 3rd bracket is that the hall will be filled by then. and for lack of any other couples on the floor, whoever's watching will be watching ME.

*chews nails*

let's just hope that the floor isn't too slippery and that i don't screw up my rumba timing. weeeeeh.

but i can think of it as good practise for my gold medals lol. at least for gold medals i won't need to worry abt finding appropriate songs. since SOMEONE has abt 80gig worth of music. *evils eyes said person in uropa*

i shall go and continue painting my nails. to glitter or not to glitter, that is the question lol. maybe i won't glitter them tonite. cos it won't dry in time to sleep. shall glitter tmr after asking the waku's opinion. whee!

and waku if you read this before we meet up to take train tmr, prease to remind me to bring the tickets. and my shoe brush. and my shorts. -_-" was it amy or someone else who forgot their shorts or stockings last time? lol

Friday, October 26

12:52 PM

Friday sha la la~~

yay~ it's friday once more!!! and there's medal night tmr but let's not think about that. hehe. but must remember to charge batteries for camera, dig out the memory card (in case got nice showcase and gold medal presentations) and paint my nails~ whee~ haha

so it's been a slack week at the lab... with me showing up later and later each day. ^_^" but at least i did show today lol. at like, 11.40... -_-" not like anyone else except for HoD was here. -_-" ya... so i washed out a couple of bottles and mixed up 1 solution... i don't know how to use the ph meter so i'm saving the rest for next week ie: excuse to slack some more.

and guess wat patricia showed up for an hour and has left for the epi-bio stats lecture and tute... so now i'm the only one posing here. -_-" i think i'm going home early today. lol. i don't see the ran anywhere... roger's... supposed to come in this afternoon after taking photos of his snakes but i think he's not going to show... hmm. see how. will bum till 2.30 or smthg, then go spray water at the scorpions (there's a box of crickets on my table. am i supposed to feed them as well? cos frankly, i'm not in the mood to go cricket catching. especially not with the HUGE crickets that are int he box that i have to empty this new box into... gross)... and then if noone else shows, i'll go home. i need to SLEEP dammit. irritating. all i need now is to start sucking blood from pple and i'll be a full-fledged vampire. cos i'm only awake after sunset. -_-"

erm... wat else did i want to ramble abt?? hmm... oh, there's a weird smell in the lab... kinda... oily food smell. i dunno if it's me smelling things or my jacket (can't be i just washed it, speaking of which i need to do laundry) but ya... it's a very strange smell to be smelling in a lab. -_-"

crazy melbourne weather. this is not spring weather, it's winter!!! well, not really. but it's cold and grey and spitting rainy. in other words, perfect weather to curl up in bed with a giant teddy bear and live in denial... or until yout tummy starts rumbling and demands to be fed lol. hee.

yes so... hmm. busy weekend? sort of. cos saturday's going to be a whirl and sunday will be like BLEH getting over the saturday excitement. lol. and then the monday routine of not wanting to go to the lab will start again altho i think i WILL actually turn up for once since i'm not turning up on tuesday lol. slacker. hehe. see how first i guess... oh wait, i need to turn up on mon if i actually go thru with my plan of buying patricia a good luck/happy birthday present. hmm. la la

i love ams year. otherwise i'd be freaking out over swotvac starting hehehe. happy sha l ala. oh oh oh, and LALING!!! I MCUHLY CONGRATULATIONS YOU ON FINISHING YOUR HONOURS YEAR!!!! *applause* and i have motivation nto to abandon you at market tmr... which is becos saturday market is infinitely better than sunday market lol

ok. shall go and... wander ard the corridors aimlessly. and stone at my laptop. and play some msn games. hehe. i should go and listen to the alanis morissette albums too... altho thanks to me KO-ing while waiting for tim to finish his spanish homework yesterday, i now have the urge to go and listen to techno. -_-" *headdesk* la laaa laaaaaaaaaa. must... get...rid... of... techno...vibes... *plugs in to nightwish*

Thursday, October 25

12:26 PM

Chemical love <3

yay~ the chemicals have arrived!!! so will start mixing up stock solutions and cleaning up the lab tmr. XD actually didn't even KNOW that the chemicals were here until roger walked past one of the benches and noticed that they were sitting there. ^_^" can't help it, those benches aren't near my daily walking path lol.

hmm.. ok. this is stupid. why can't they just put the concetration of the damn solution in a format that half=asleep pple understand??? i don't get it... *scratch head* maybe i'll ask roger again later when he's not so busy. and i need to tell him that i'm not showing up next tues. XD

almost didn't show up again today, lucky i did. hehehe. was so tempted to sleep in cos it was cloudy and perfect sleeping weather. la la la. took me 30 min to decide that i was going to get out of bed and come to the lab to pose. ^_^"

stupid dna sequences... searched until i wanted to vomit blood yesterday. scared ran and patricia as they were leaving becos by then i'd reached the stage where i was swearing at my laptop and the nucleotide database for having so much random shit that i really didn't want to read... anyway, so now i have a whole list of bookmarked sequences that i need to go over later when i've managed to get my hands on the scorpion taxonomy list, which is proving impossible to find. grrrr... so irritating. hopefully roger remembers to bring the file along tmr, otherwise i dunno how i'm going to find it, cos i can't find it online or in the library. -_-"

erm... yeah. other that that, nothing else to blog abt, cos i haven;t even been here long enough for anything to have happened yet. lol. is a lazy person sha la la... need to go and write up the progress report also. sigh. mah fan.

shall go and try desperately to search for the stupid article again... and then when i giv eup i shall go for lunch. and hope it doesn't rain on me. -_-" la la.

edit at 3.30 pm: omg, why is it still so early!!! i'm waiting for 4pm... cos that's when the research presentations start... i shud go for them except that i'm sleepy... hmm. may all the gum chewing work to keep me awake. -_-"

wondering whether i shud do a half or full pony tail for medal. cos i want to wear my long earrings except i dunno if they'll look weird if i tie my hair up totally. hmmm

it's friday tmr! yay!!!!!!! *wibbles off to a random corner to collapse and nap*

Wednesday, October 24

11:29 AM

Blind spots or plain blurness

aaaaaarrrrrggghh!!! my brilliantness astounds me. -_-" why is it that i never see the overhead bookshelves right above the usb port of my supervisor's computer everytime i use his computer to print stuff?? i just brained myself AGAIN and my head freaking HURTS now. *rubs sore spot violently* perfect way to wake myself up tho. haiz. sad case. i really don't get why i never SEE those damn shelves... i mean, they're right THERE... at slightly below eye level. too big to be missed. -_-" oh wait, i think i know why i always hit myself. becos they're in teh direct path of my head when i bend over to plug my thumb drive into the usb port. -_-" needs better distance estimation!!!!

speaking of distance estimation, i have this sudden urge to drive. who wants to sacrifice their car to me?? hehehe... i think i should go for a refresher course or smthg before driving here. haven't driven at home for a long time, never driven here before, don't know the rules here at all. anyone has the driving manual??

almost didn't show up at the lab today... snoozed for abt 40 min before dragging my lazy ass out of bed... was so tempted to send supervisor an sms saying that i swear i'm going to do my database searching at home, and then just stay home and... probably slack off. ^_^" ya. but i didn't. so here i am. and he's not here. -_-" why am i not surprised lol. but ya, slack supervisor is good. except when i'm freaking out, which prob won't be for a long time more.

oh yes, before i forget, PEOPLE! is to go adn downloads the progress report from teh AMS website!!! XD yay more forms to vandalise hahaha. oh, and the gube is up for collection from the med office. think i'll take a stroll down later and get a copy. then can read in teh lab during lunch of smthg hee. anyone wants a copy? i might be able to take more than 1.

erm, wat else was i going to blog abt... ah yes. so i've decided that i will be a good girl and do my database searches today, and maybe take photo of the gels... adn then tmr i will go and bug kon to teach me how to use the scanner to scan the gels and get prettier (hopefully) pictures of hte gels... and mix up solubulisation buffer... pour a gel, do the nanodrop tests and mix up samples. then i'll run the gel for the manicatus either on fri or mon... then tues i'm not coming since it's my birthday and i deserve yet another self-imposed day off. *whistles* who says that i don't plan ahead?? lol.

oh, and funny thing yesterday. went for dinner at zamzam's as part of my attempts to socialise lol. i is turning less anti-social aren't you guys proud of me? hehe, but i digress. erm, ya, went to zamzam's for dinner, had a crazy discussion abt wat muslim countries would do if there was a war during ramadan (not very smart, since it was an indian shop and we could have gotten bashed but we didn't hee), cos if the soldiers are fasting, then how are they going to fight?? then we went to the asian groceries shop of russel where i picked up more curry paste (still mild, too wussy to try the hotter one cos it's irritating to have to gulp water while trying to get an msg kick lol) and rice. then we were waiting for xiu hui to buy food for her housemate, so deva was standing at the entries to the grocery store cos that's where the aircon vent blows and it's hot air. so i was standing on the other side of the doorway and trying to convince her to sing along with me... except i was singing the welcome song, you know, like "huan ying huan ying, huan ying guang ling" and clapping my hands... and of course, a couple of pple HAD to walk past me as i was doing that and i got quite a few strange looks and one person actually turned around to stare at me and i was going 'heeeeeeeee'. XDXDXD after that deva ran away and didn't dare to stand in the doorway anymore. wahahaha. i am so evil. blame it on the coffee and teh tarik. hehe

after that, we were walking back when we walked into a very stoned and sleepy katkat *pats* hehe, i basically just pounced on her and started babbling and laughing like a lunatic and she was going 'huh huh huh???' and looking very blur. lol. and erm, ya, i think the rest got a bit scared as well cos i suddenly swung into full-blown hyper mode. ^_^" erm... sha la laa~~ ehehe

LALING!! i tanks you much for you wubs. ^_________^ and yesh i will emo at you some other time (hopefully not for a long time) but since you is busy freaking out over your thesis i is goes to find my latest unwilling victim. mwahahahaha. ahem. oh ya, food for medal night how ah? shall we just buy pate and cheese and crackers from market? and then just bring water??? i have a bag of gummies, we can bribe the sisters to share the crack with us. XD no idea where they're sitting tho, but KJ and arun (i think) are at our table. arun i'm not sure, he's either with us or at the next table.

oh yes, must remember to go charge batteries... would be sad if ran out of battery power halfway thru my routines. and i'm crossing my fingers and hoping that i'm in the 3rd or 4th bracket. i think it sucks being in the 1st bracket. cos noone's interested anyway. lol. but then again, silver latin has more pple making an effort to be interested than say, bronze modern even if you're in the first bracket. cos i think modern is boring. unless of course, they're really good dancers like the sisters, or hell, all of jono's students, who make modern look interesting. lol. or if they dances and looks muchly cute like the waku XDXDXD speaking of which, i'm either going to do bronze modern or silver club next. depends on wat tyson decides to inflict on me, altho if i had a choice, i'd never do modern. hehe. but i've decided that if i'm doing silver club next, i might get a new pair of shoes. and save my ratty old pair for bronze modern. cos i think once i clear all the bronze medals, i'm not going to do anymore more modern. and i think i'm rambling and have lost everyone except those who do ballroom so i shall shut up now. ^_^"

Tuesday, October 23

3:18 PM

Random emo moment

so i almost started bawling my eyes out last night over a small comment. but i didn't. so it appears that i'm back to my anti-crying self.

and then today i was looking at some photos on youheng's blog... some nice pics of jess, pearlly and teri, haven't seen them in ages. well, not since the funeral, but that doesn't count

haven't talked to pam since... last year. before she had that misunderstanding with deborah. i shud drop her a message one day.

didn't talk to adeline ever since she left a message asking if i'd heard from deborah the day she went missing. kind of expected. i'd only met her once before.

i think i'm losing contact with too many people. that and i've nothing to say to them. maybe i'm too superficial. and maybe i just can't be bothered.

i miss 02S73. all the craziness and stress, haha.

i miss my da jie (big hug to you if you're reading this and not stressing out over uni/your grandpa) cos da jie always buys me sugar to cheer me up. ^_^ btw, da jie, i think my mummy is plotting to kidnap you and take you out for lunch/tea/various food events when i get back. you... have been warned lol.

and most of all, i miss deborah. i think i'm feeling like this becos i was just thinking abt my resolution to delete her contact and e-mails from my computer. becos i think it's abt time that i let go. and it's a bit hard to let go when everytime i log into msn, the first thing i automatically look for is her name. and then i see 'starlight' under offline status.

so yes, next saturday will be the big clean-up. removing her emails and contacts. but i'm keeping our chat logs in the off chance i feel like reading them again. and i'm still undecided abt whether i want to delete her contact on my phone, becos it means that her last msg to me won't have a name to it anymore. just a number.

hmm.

sorry for the emo spam and thanks for reading anyway. i'll go and emo at my scorpions now. i love scorpions. i don't know how long they haven't eaten but they still seem pretty happy. spraying water at them is therapeutic to me. i'm not sure about them.

12:18 PM

My brain is mush

oh helpness, boston legal has eaten my brain. mwahhaha. danny crane! and allan shore. feel the love and crack hahahaha!!!

and on a random note, i found out that i'm able to curl up on a plastic folding chair and fall asleep without falling off. not bad huh? lol.

so, update on the weekend. friday... dance... tyson and brad were flirting again. my goodness. -_-" but at least this time tyson didn't get his shirt ripped off lol. waku came to visit at the beginning of my lesson!! becos she couldn't find the sean at the other studio. hahaha. but is ok i still feels the wubs!!!! after that... went home, stoned... boston legal marathon... then er... KO'd and couldn't summon enough random energy to drag self to market so LALING I MUCHLY SORRY I ABANDONATIONED YOU!!!! *offers ice cream as apology* i promise that i'll show up this saturday. ^__________^

sunday, supposed to go market early... ended up go back to sleep on the couch after waking up (before 12 for once!!), eating brekkie and fixing my phone strap (yay! it clinks and makes much noise again!) and only rolled out at 1.30. lol. sunday market sucks... and i got ripped off for my carrots. i went to buy 3 loose carrots for 50c, and then realised that further in, they were selling $1 bag of carrots. and the mushrooms!!! aldi had much much nicer mushrooms... and i've found someone who is a worse hoarder of mushrooms than i am. *evil laugh* i hereby conclude that i'm not a hoarder!! cos i don't hoard mushrooms or tomatoes or lemons compared to other pple. XDXD spent the rest of the day stoning, getting eardrums blasted, sleeping in various positions on the plastic chair, watching the live cook show and watching boston legal. XDXD

monday, decided that there was no point going to the lab since i was still too tired, slept too late and was too stoned and wouldn't do any work anyway *trying to justify self* so woke up at almost 3, and then proceeded to spend most of the day cooking... maybe i did do other stuff, but frankly, i don't remember, cos all i seemed to be doing was cooking, altho i swear that i didn't cook that much. hmm. oh well. then i read a couple of articles, studied the back of my eyelids every 2 hours or so, pissed my neighbours off by blasting muse and nightwish and eventually gravitated back to the tv to watch boston legal. la la. why didn't i do law? it'd be my perfect excuse to be evil and snarky bwahahah. but then again, by doing med, i get to be evil and snarky AND stick needles into pple. hee

today... rolled out of bed and was actually on schedule and not rushing madly (unlike other tuesdays where i'm in a semi-stoned mad rush to get to the lab on time for supervisor meeting) when he smsed me at 9.45 telling me that he was going to show at 1030 instead of 10 for our meeting. so from then on, my brain went back to sleep and i was pottering slowly ard my apt making my bed etc. XD hee. in fact, i don't think my brain woke back up. hmm. ya. got to the lab at 10.15, supervisor showed up eventually, had a suuuuuuuper long sort of meeting that last almost till 12. O.o

anyway, status update on my project. i don't need to do anything else with the gel that i ran last week, just keep it sitting happy in the fridge until i can do a mass spec analysis. so my mission now is to find any toxin sequences that could be used to match the sample so we can determine the type of mass spec to feed it thru. and i think i need to widen my literature search and read more, cos i'm really not sure wat exactly to write into my introduction. -_-" and supervisor also doesn't know wat i should be focusing on. *headdesk* sometimes i wonder wat the heck i'm doing. hmm -_-"

ya... anyway, he's gone home for the day, my brain never left home for the day, i WANT to go home for the day (altho i know that i shouldn;t) so i guess i'll settle for posing intelligently, attempting to jumpstart my brain and do a couple of sequence searches, figure out how to use the scorpion2 database and... ya. do work... highlight more articles... *melts into a puddle of stoned goo*

oh, and before i forget, medal this saturday! i'm wearing the dress i wore for my club latin medal. but i'm tying my hair up, don't want to eat my hair while doing jive lol. i tried the dress on yesterday and the skirt doesn't seem too heavy so shud be fine... la la la. need to paint nails black with glitter too mwhahaha. they're currently dark red... bloody~ woohoo!! hahaha.

ok. i think i'm officially nuts. i shall go and direct all this random energy into something more... constructive...

wish i had an oven. i've this urge to BAKE. -_-" ooooooooh, waku laling, after you hand in your thesis can i cannonball over to make cookies or smthg??? pretty please?? XDXD

and finally, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY IN 7 DAYS!!!! where's my present i dun wanna grow up!!! oh wait, i'm technically a legal adult already. damn. haha. where's peter pan when you need him... off having fun with wendy i suppose. XD and i think i'm being cynical today. haiz. watever. bye!

Friday, October 19

12:34 PM

TGIF~!

yay~ it's friday once more!!! super tired, maybe from all the anticipation cos i've been thinking it's thursday since tuesday... wait, i think i blogged that before.. hehe.

argh, i think i either need to sleep more, put more eyedrops or change my glasses. my vision is... weird... or maybe i just need to get my specs straightened out. they're not sitting properly again. sigh.

was once again tempted to not turn up at hte lab this morning... so i settled for turning up very late in the morning XD ya... i mean, i wasn't exactly planning to do anything anyway, but ya. guess i'll just pose here till late afternoon adn then go home... and great, i forgot to bring my handphone danglers. cos i finally realised that roger has pliers in his drawer, which he uses to work on wires. which would be perfect for fixing the loose link on the dangler so i can put it back on my phone. after so long of have stuff hanging off my phone, it feels a little weird to not see anything or hear the clinking everytime i pick up my phone. ^_^" hehe. oh well. guess i'll just borrow his pliers for hte weekend. he's not here again, -_-"

lab meeting yesterday was insane. it lasted for 2 hours. *dies* and i didn't understand half of wat was being discussed... ya. but anyway. i finally have some pretty results for my gel. or rather, HAD. -_-" but yes, the gel yesterday ran pretty nicely. the protein bands at the high molecular weight end finally resolved more clearly. so is happy happy joy joy. did the rosenfeld stain on them (roger keeps calling it rosenkreuz or smthg to that effect. i might think it's rosenkreutz cos that's one of the organisations in trinity blood i think? *demented fangirl*) so it was looking really good. then brilliant me and supervisor decided it would be ok to leave the gel in the destain in the fridge overnight. and i come in this morning to change the solution to water... and the gel bloody SHRANK!!! *freaks out* so now it's soaking in water and hopefully it'll... unshrink. and the shrinking won't damage the proteins or anything. arrrgh. *head desk* didn't help that i didn't have time ot eat lunch, apart from a muffin so... ya. brain not thinking very straight i guess. -_-"

yes. anyway. so i basically wibbled ard half-stoned the whole of yesterday, then ended up having a tv marathon and JAP CURRY~ hail msg hahaha. speaking of which, i need to go and buy more of the curry paste. until got enough for 3 more servings. hmm. oh and i also found out that potatoes can be green... even after sitting on my table for a long time. -_-" erm. well. noone has died after dinner last nite so i assume that it was edible. XD la la la. ya. watched 4 episodes of boston legal as well. my goodness all the snarkiness... why am i not doing law again?? hahaha. j/k. XD but yes, highly entertaining and random show... one of the girls seriously looks like wat's-his-name... shirota yuy? (or am i making this up) argh, the guy who plays tezuka in tenimyu and kagurazuka in hanakimi... i so need to go and google pictures. the resemblance is scary. i keep thinking of him everytime i see her face and then i start laughing randomly. -_-"

oh, random note, i've decided that madonna's "rain" is the song to use if i want to hao lian my speakers. XD heeheheh

ya... so erm, lots of boston legal, heroes (becoming a bit random there too >.>) and intermittent stoning last nite = randomness!!! hahaha. and then katkat rand suddenly at 12.30 and started babbling about... *scratch head* a lot of random stuff. lol. katkat my dear, your accent... *shakes head* lol. and pple wonder whether you're really aussie. hahahaha. have fun at planet-uni tonite!!! i'll be having my weekly therapy sessions with tyson. altho whether i end up more destressed of brain damaged at the end of each session -_-"

la di da. ok. i need to stroll down to give order forms to victor later... chemicals la la la. didn't know that some of hte chemicals are so expensive. wow. la la. hmm. wat time to siam today i wonder... ran and patricia are looking very hard working... and i... have my earphones on and am bobbing along to winamp. hehe. ya. guess i'll go and read a couple of articles... la di da. should have brought 'good omens' along. then can read longer at lunch. the newspapers haven't been ard the last few days i went to lunch. sad. ended up reading the australian prescriber for fun cos i didn't want to stare at the wall while eating haha

ok. time to do work... or pretend to do work. >.> i've this urge to just up and leave. except i haven't even been here for 2 hours yet. hehe. oh well. will go and reference the latest article that ken gave me adn then start painting it pink. la la

edit at 2pm: just check on the gel with ran, yay it un-shrank!!! my goodness. you have no idea how i felt when i saw it at like, 1/2 size this morning. lol. but yes, it's back to normal size now so i'm heaving a big sigh of relief now. i lent my book to ran to photocopy. hope he can read my writing lol. la la. ok. back to doing work. not like i've actually started yet. been reading the news. and i think i'm going off to lunch soon lol. fridays are good days for slacking. but i still want to go home early anyway sha la la

edit at 3pm: yay i got the keys to the lab~~ so now i don't have to worry abt being locked out anymore bwahhaha... but thanks to all the fiddling i was doing with my keyring, i chipped my nail. so i need to go home nad file it. -_-" la la. hope my nails grow to a decent lenght by next fri. then can paint them black and scare pple at medal nite on sat. XD tee hee... but ya. to think that my randomness extends to my keyring too... i was arranging my keys so that i don't need to flip thru them too much to get hold of my apt key adn the corridor key, since those are the ones that i'll use most often... and hten after i arranged them, i realised that i'd inserted the lab key facing the wrong way, so the ring wasn't balanced. -_-" so i had to take it out and flip it round and then put it back onto the ring... hence the state of my thumb nail. bleh desu.

shall stone for an hour or so more, and then I IS GOES HOME FOR THE WEEKEND~~ XDXD hahaha ahem. *goes back to posing with many journal articles and looking innocent*

edit AGAIN at 3.30pm: dammit, i need to find a glam way to sneeze multiple times without feeling as tho my nose is going to explode... please tell me i'm not coming down with anything... or hayfever. i don't think i have hayfever. argh. and why do i get this feeling that my cotton-on jacket has shrunk after i washed it? or were the sleeves never past my wrists? i don't remember. hmm. i feel like going to cotton-on to see whether they still have that hot pink jacket that i've been eyeing forever... must... resist... hehe. but ya. the shopping vibes are starting to get more violent... who wants t o come with me? XDXD *money flying away sadly*

Thursday, October 18

11:55 AM

Sleepy, what's new

argh. why is it only thursday. why why why. *flops on table and dies* i've been thinking it's thursday since tuesday, but now that it's finally thursday i feel like passing out in bed for the rest of the week. -_-" maybe cos got too much anticipation for the weekend lol. but ya, you have no idea how tempting it was to stay in bed this morning... but i rolled out of bed in the end. la la. don't want to come to the lab tmr either! wants to stay at home and sleeeeeeeeeep. bleh. i'm almost 100% decided that i'm not going to come to the lab on my b'day. XD i shall go and slack off bwahahah.

running a gel now. loaded with ran's samples too. i hope his don't screw up, becos i gave him the last of the buffer that i'd already diluted hours before he asked if he could run his samples with mine... so ya.. hmm. will go to kon's lab later and borrow their stain for my gel, and also aske them whether i can make up more buffer with their reagents or if they've got some extra they don't mind giving it to me... la la. well. i think ran's convinced i'm nuts... cos i wibbled in half-asleep this morning at 10.45 and was giving him very vague and random answers and not being of much help. ^_^" i swear it's not my fault. i'll be more lucid... later... maybe.

lab meeting later at 3!!! hope i have results to show that are more interesting than the previous ones... la la la if not i plan to waffle lol.

i need caffeine. or sugar. or maybe both. i feel like i got cotton wool between my ears. -_-" and where's my supervisor anyway? he's either in a meeting or not here at all. -_-" LA DI DA

amy-chan! yup, i did ok for progress check. lisa did it for me... and tyson forgot the samba intro. he kept trying to pull me into the bronze i think, so i ended up backleading him into the silver... so we had to restart 3 times lol. other than that, it went pretty well. i just need to make sure that i lower my heel on the rock-backs, cos i tend to not lower it all the way. maybe i should just change to higher heels... then i can cheat lol. whee~ i just hope i don't get the super anal guy for my examiner again... altho i wonder if i can get honours for my silver latin... somehow i'm not as confident abt it... or maybe it's just the jive altho i am improving... la la. oh ya, it's friday tmr... yay for therapy session with tyson!!! i think i'm going to be very stoned or very high by then hehe.

shall wibble over to check on the gel again... wish i'd brought my bananas or bread to nibble on. i just hope that i have time to eat before the lab meeting... don't think i can inhale my lunch in the tearoom during the 20 min intervals that i'll be doing the stain and destain later... hmm. worse case scenario = run to union to buy sushi and eat lunch as dinner/supper... i think i'll make jap curry for dinner tonite. msg fix anyone? lol. need to go buy more jap curry too i think... only got 2 cubes left?? maybe?? la la.

shall go and stone and surf blogs and read a couple of articles now desu... *wibbles off to pose intelligently*

Wednesday, October 17

4:56 PM

Craziness!

la la la. yes so i was really busy today... doing non-lab stuff lol.

well, i did do some lab stuff. supervisor FINALLY showed up (lol, the look of relief on my face!!!) so we had a nice chat abt my gels... going to run a low acrylamide concentration gel tmr to hopefully resolve some of the protein bands... may that work. i think i'm supposed to run some of ran's venom's as well. oh dear. i think i used up all the sample buffer. -_-" la la la. not my fault i swear!! haha.

after that got a call from mum saying that the flights are reallya ll booked out. meow. wish the old travel agent didn't change position. we don't like the new one cos she's not as efficient... ya... so i had to run to STA at union to buy a ticket with qantas. thank God man, i got the last seat on the 11th!!! i think the agent must have thot i was nuts cos i was babbling randomly and when she pulled out the seat from the database i went 'yay now i don't have to row home' lol. ya. she was really nice... then i had to run over to student admin to get my ISIC form validated, had a really disgusting photo taken at the chemist (waaah i look like a pontianak!) went back to the agent and impressed her with how fast i'd shown up again. XD ya, and then stupid credit card didn't go thru, so i rang sis and probably scared her half to death becos i don't ring, i usually sms and ask THEM to ring me lol. ya. so yay ticket is settled. leaving on the 11th, coming back on 9th feb right after CNY. is a sign that i can stay for CNY, cos mum said that SQ flights were totally booked out for jan, so i took it as sign that i'm staying home for CNY and booked liek that. XD heeeeee

ok. supervisor has left, ran has left, and so i shall now pack up and siam as well. la la la. running gels tmr... yay for methanol fumes woot. hahahaa. *prances off*

ps: i still haven't figured out how long ot hold my breath when pouring gels... that smelly temed really... smells. -_-" la la la la la.

i ramble and digress i shall now go poof. and yay for not-so-legal boston legal d/l!!! *is excited*

Tuesday, October 16

12:12 PM

In need of GUIDANCE!!!!

damn i filled my water bottle too full and i just spilt water on myself... un-glam. -_-"

yes, well. the title says it all. i haven't seen my supervisor for a week now. -_-" but he did ring me this morning (just as my alarm clock went off. apparently, when the situation calls for it, i can sound un-sleepy) to apologise for his prolonged MIA-ness cos he's working on smthg, didn't quite catch wat he was mumbling abt, or maybe my brain was still half-dead. ya. so we had a mini conference on the phone with him sounding entirely too awake and happy for my liking, and me with my head under my doona hugging jin-chan and wishing that he'd called just a little later when i was more lucid. ^_^" yes. anyway. we've concluded that i shud go and talk to jon or kon later to ask whether using DNase to degrade the samples would get rid of the big blob towards the lower molecular weight areas. hmmm. and then i'm supposed to mix up samples or smthg if the protocol is easy to follow.... i think. *scratch head* damn. guess i was more asleep than awake during that conversation lol.

ya, after that, since he wasn't coming in today, i decided to go back to bed till 9.30... except that with all cases where isleep in, the snooze button becomes my best friend... so i err... didn't roll out of bed till 10.30 ^_^" la la la. erm... ya. heeeeeeeeeee. and my hair is refusing to decide whether it's having a good hair day or bad hair day. -_-" DESU. i guess that's wat happens when you have to decide between blowdrying hair totally before going to sleep and frying it, or not drying it totally, so that it doesn't get fried, but ends up sticking out thanks to pillow-san. -_-"

incidentally, the weather is MAD. as usual. 30 degrees yesterday, 17 degrees today. MY GOODNESS. don't you just love the psychoness that is melbourne weather? haha. and i have changed my mind abt melbourne tv. it's not utter trash. it's MOSTLY utter trash. there're actually some decent shows. *impressed* like boston legal aka: snarky lawyers of the world unite. *dies laughing* and prison break... wish i'd watched the first 2 seasons so i'd know wat's going on.... on that note tho, do you think they let the prison inmates watch prison break?? haha, cos frankly, they make it seem too easy to break in and out of jail. -_-" anyway, MAG! if you're reading this and one fine day you decide to go ahead with your prison break marathon, can i invite myself along? lol. i swear that i won't kidnap daxter or kelly in the middle of the night and run away... really. ^___________^

i should get off my lazy ass and go find jon/kon soon... i think kon's not in. i peeked in through the door when i got to the lab this morning, he wasn't there, but i didn't see if his laptop was there... la la.

erm... wat else... oh yes, my results from yesterday. looks like cracking the glass plates did screw up my results a little. the 2 lanes that were near the crack got smashed. so the samples didn't run vertically. they ran diagonally. -_-" so my molecular weight marker kind of got disfigured adn ran off the side of the gel. -_-" haiz. oh well.

ning da. THANKS. ><>fumes to inhale at the lab lab work to do, so maybe i'll come find you one day to reclaim my backpack or just drag you out to fatten you up after the exams ne? ganbatte! and er, prease to stop haunting your yahoo.jp auctions and study desu. -_-"

i should start running my literature searches again... why are all the papers that i find interesting (when i can be bothered looking) so damn OLD that i have to go dig them up in the basement??? i bet you could film a horror movie in the brownless basement... all those sliding shelves. everytime i have to go down there, i can so picture someone getting turned into strawberry jam.... ew gross. ok. i is shuts up now and goes and erm... find jon/kon or do literature searches. SIGH. bye.

ps: it's TUESDAY!!! and i just realised that medal nite is next week. O.M.G. and it also means that the waku's thesis is almost due so GANBATTE LALING!!!! if you're even reading this, which is unlikely cos i think that you shouldn't be wasting your time on smthg as inane as this lol.

Monday, October 15

12:30 PM

Monday stoning

the bad thing abt lab work is that after a while, your hands start to stink of the latex gloves. -_-" oh well. thank goodness i don't have latex allergies. it would be very irritating lol.

running a gel now... i hope it works. i cracked the glass plate while clamping it in place. not very smart. but by then i was too irritated with my blurness to change the gel. becos it'd mean that i'd have to pour another one. haiz. i shud have just chucked the cracked plate the other day instead of using it to pour a gel. should have known that the cracks wouldn't have held up to the strain of the clamping... ya. so basically, a whole chunk of glass came loose just now and i was going oh CRAP. but at least it was only the top, didn't tear the gel and collapse the wells... altho the wells on one side are a little uneven... which hopefully won't affect the results too badly... *crosses fingers* and to top things off, i only realised after adding in the buffer that i'd loaded the plates in the wrong order. and i wondered why the wells looked like they were going to collapse before i finalyl realised that i'd reversed the order adn that the buffer wasn't even contacting the gel!!! cue much internal swearing and more cracking of the glass plates. -_-" i is fail. *goes to the corner to shred paper*

ya, so as a result of that stupid plate cracking, the seal wasn't tight enough so i had to load the entire container up with buffer instead of only 1/5 like usual... so i have no idea where i'm going to chuck almost 1 litre of buffer later. *headdesk* and my supervisor isn't here again. i'm going to hound him to clean the benches and bottles tmr, i really need the empty bottles for mixing up new stock solutions and for the stuff i can't throw down the sink!!! argh!!! *headdesk* ok. so later i need to go invade the other lab to borrow their stain and destain solutions. haiz. maybe i'll just use their shaker while i'm there... -_-" la la la laaaaaaa. *dies*

it's moooooooooonday. whywhywhywhy can' the weekend be longer. sniff. hehe, the weekly countdown to friday hath started. ^_______________^

was talking to sis yesterday and she says that the latest trend is to dye the bottom layer of your hair... hehehe... thinking of doing red that way? maybe? i dunno. shall see how... i've seen someone who's done that before, but i don't remember who. oh wait, i think i remember... christina aguilera in her 'come on over' mtv. i like her red highlights/watever they're called there. XD tee hee. hmm... or maybe i shud just stick to highlighting my hair.... or dye my whole head dark red. bwhahaha. all hail the not so inner bimbo. or maybe i should cut down on the red. cos i need a new pair of glasses before my current pair turns from red to transparent and/or i go even more myopic. -_-" and i think there's a 90% chance i'm going to get a red pair again lol. haiz.

help my sister is attempting to interrogate me via e-mail. not that i'm giving her any answers. mwhahaha. i love keeping her in suspense. cos she gets all worked up and irritated... and i get a warped sense of satisfaction from that. ^_________________^ REVENGE~ for all the times she refused to tell me stuff when i was a kid hahaha.

listening to 'graduation' by vitamin C... and there's a line abt "where we're gonna be when we turn 25". well. i got an answer to that: BLOODY STUDYING FOR MY FINAL FINAL FINAL EXAM THANK YOU VERY MUCH. -_-" lol. incidentally, 15 more days to my birthday. XD waaaaaah en-chan doesn't want to grow up. la la la. hahaha.

no, i haven't inhaled that much fumes yet. hehe. i'm just erm, gearing up for it. lol. today will be the day for methanol. yay~ lol. ok. i'm rambling. i shall go and re-enrol now... and i think i need to go drop in and water the scorpions later... waaaaaaaaaaah supervisor-san prease to come in tmr otherwise they;ll be starving!!! not like they weren't being overfed previously -_-" ya. i hate crickets. i'm not sticking my hand into the box to catch the smaller ones. the big ones are ugly and scary. bleh. ya. so i shall just go and squirt lots of water at the scorpions later. XD

Friday, October 12

11:48 AM

Adrenaline rushes

resident evil last night!! sad to say, it was an anti-climatic ending which just didn't live up to the rest. i mean, really. the zombie dobermans (i think) are really just overdone. the action was not bad. quite matrix style. but the ending! argh! -_-" anticlimatic. seriously. like, the movie was going on and then suddenly, it just stops. like wtf? haha. but other than that, it was very enjoyable. tempted to go adn hunt down the OST. is not bad. really adds to the atmosphere. i think anyone watching us watch the show would have been highly amused too. becos we had many ice cream accidents (breaking cones, dripping chocolate), and then during hte movie, mag was swearing and keeping up a runnin commentary on botox, deva was laughing her head off beside me, i was very calm and excited abt all the nice explosions, and tim was highly stressed out by all the tension and anticipation. *dies laughing*

and then the big drama occurred after we left the cinema... i'd been digging ard in my bag for a tissue cos my ice cream started leaking out the bottom on the cone after the movie started... so somehow, my wallet fell out of my bag. and i didn't realise till we were on teh tram back and then i was like 'oh crapcrapcrap i think i lost my wallet'. ya. then everyone started freaking out with me, attempted to call teh cinema (jsut got rerouted to the booking hotline? wtf) and basically almost ran back to crown... thank God that when we got there, the pple who were cleaning the theatre had found my wallet and left it on a chair at the back, and there was nothing missing from it. *sigh of relief* i think i'm going to be paranoid for some time now, seriously, hwo my wallet fell out i have no idea, cos my pink bag is pretty deep, and my wallet pretty heavy... wah. stress man! no idea wat i would have done if it was gone... cos i'd have to cancel stuff, and all my IDs are inside (license and student card) and ya, it'd basically be a huge pain. so after i got the wallet back we went to imbibe some sugar at boost to celebrate. needless to say, i went high. and started laughing. -_-" lala.

progress check tonite!!! amy-chan, thanks for the err... advice... not that worried abt forgetting the routines. except for jive. becos if i do, i'm pretty sure that i'll be able to follow the tyson like a good little sheepie thru the rest. i'm more worried that HE will forget the routine. lol. i think there was one time i ended up backleading him for bronze samba cos he forgot the routine. not at the exam or comps tho lol. ya. my goal is to keep my balance during the crazy jive spins. not worried abt teh rest. haiz. and i will master the art of posing and looking cute during the freeze. the problem is that the pause isn't long enough, so i wouldn't have time to adjust my posture or anything if i don't arch my back enough and just end up looking mildly constipated. -_-" argh. LA LA LA.

i'm hungry. maybe i shud eat early. but i shud also go and settle my experiments. whywhywhy is roger not here again, i really need to ask him stuff. i think i'll pop over to the other lab to ask the pple there wat they think i shud do with my gels... irritating. nad i think i need to pour new gels too. and then make up my samples. but i also want to go hooooooooome *howls* i need to cook and get rid of the food in my fridge. seriously starting to look like i'm hoarding stuff. lol. was contemplating pretending to be sick so can go home early, except i think i look too healthy and happy to pass off as mildly sick so sigh. i shall stay till... a decent time that i can roll off without looking too slacker. altho i bet everyone thinks i'm slacker anyway. -_-"

lab meeting this morning! finally have some decent results. altho ran's still far far ahead with his experiments... ya... haiz. but i'm having fun so it's all good. kind of wish i had more time for the project becos i could do so many interesting things.... but ya... dunno... and i need to raise the issue with roger as to whether i shud be looking at so many species of scorpions, becos it'll either be very shallow with a broad scope, or an in-depth analysis of a very specific thing. hmm.

Thursday, October 11

3:29 PM

I'm FAMOUS!!!!

OMGOMGOMGOMG!!! *squeals and bounces happily*

i'm famous!!! lol. well, not famous famous, but hey, i got bored and ran a search on google for my pen name, and guess wat? i've had my stories translated to french and chinese!!!!

*does happy fangirl dance of doom*

ok. so it's just 2 stories. the short ones (i highly doubt anyone would translate my mini-epic lol. that one too rambly already) but yay yay yay~ *bounces and twirls*

and at the risk of sounding ego... i think it sounds pretty good in chinese. lol. the person who translated did a really good job, i must say. heeeee. i'm going to read it and plough thru fan ti just to feed my ego. too bad i don't understand french hahaha

is very happy now mwahahaha

12:50 PM

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY BLOGGIE AND TOMA!!!

omg. in the excitement of the past week, i TOTALLY forgot that it was my blog and toma's b'day... in fact, i think i forgot last year too. *facepalm* yes, so, imagine that today is the 5th of october... so happy 23rd b'day toma! prease to get more roles in drama so that you can spread the random crack. hehehe. and if you do replace wat's-his-face in NEWS, i swear that i will become a NEWS fangirl altho p-chan can't... exactly... sing... >.> hehe. and bloggie-san~ happy... erm.. *counts on fingers* 4th birthday!!! (ok. so i cheated by checking out my archive lol) 4 years of spam and still going strong!!! teh spelling and the grammar have erm... dropped in standards tho. hahaha. ya.

oh and today is my mummy's b'day too!!! so happy birthday mum!!! if you're reading this then... i'm screwed. hahaha.

yesterday;s gel~ ran well. i think i need to lower the acrylamide concentration, becos i seem to be getting high molecular weight bands. which is strange, becos i thot that scorpion toxins are low molecular weight. very interesting results there. but yes. it was the fault of the stain! so HAH. i rule. haha. ya. so i was super high on fumes again yesterday. and i wasn't fated to buy my conditioner yesterday!!! first i got waylaid by HoD as i attempted to siam at 5.30, and then it started RAINING as i walked to lygon. and anyone who knows me knows that i HATE GETTING WET. bleh. so i ended up going back home to wait for teh waku home delivery of mushroom soup. lol. LALING I THANKS YOU FOR THE MUSHROOM WUBS!!! I EATS IT AND IS HAPPY!!! (can i keep the container it's so small and cute haha)

today... supervisor msg at 9.15. very short and sweet: 'MIGRAINE'. lol. so i went back to bed and slept till 10.40. i swear i meant to get out of bed at 9.50, but that didn't work. *whistles* was highly tempted to just not show up, but ya... i'm still here. good girl. *pats self on the head* altho i haven't done any work (yet) apart from writing the card to deb's family (at last) and destaining my gel again for fun. i should go and take a picture of it, except i don't know how to upload the photos from supervisor's camera... no idea how he did it the other day. hmm. oh well. will do show and tell tmr at the lab meeting... maybe bring the whole gel down to the meeting room. lol. extra a bit ya? hehe

resident evil 3 tonight~ *is excited* yay for explosions. haha. shud get ard to running thru the jive routine properly too... i have no idea how i'm going to pull off the 'stick butt out' freeze thing. weeeeeeeeeeh. haiz. hehe. and i wonder who'll be grading the progress check, cos all the teachers have lessons tmr... unless it's desh? or maybe alina, if she's back... nicole's not at the studio on friday night. oh well. will just take it as it happens lalala. and must remember to buy ticket for the waku too~ i think we're going to be sitting at the same table as KJ, elaine and adeline and possibly their mum. and most likely their sister. lol. everyone bring earplugs! we all know how shrill KJ's whoops can be when he puts his lungs to it. hahaha. is evil sha la la.

ok. off to do... work or smthg. i brought cookies to munch on today. hehe. got the research in progress talk later, which i should go for. altho it's tempting to siam... oh well.

and then there's the great conditioner hunt!!! note to self, prease to turn LEFT, not right when walking to lygon along grattan street. haiz. waste of time man.

endnote library stocking up in progress... why can't i find the articles that i d/led??? which database did i get them from??? *headdesk*

Wednesday, October 10

2:24 PM

How to save a life?

OH MY GOODNESS

read this:

Vodka drip saves poison victim

i dunno whether i want to laugh or... laugh. well.

HAHAHA!!!

ahem. seriously. necessity is the mother of all invention never sounded so... appropriate. lol. and maybe the doctors took home watever was left of that case of vodka.

oh well. now i know that if vodka is the antidote to antifreeze. lol

oh, and i ate lunch at 2pm today!! sushi! *pleased with self* proud of me yet? i'm attempting to stick to a normal lunchtime here... not like that's been a great success the past few weeks. LA LA LA.

and ning da! how come all the charmaine's ice cream outlets are closing!!! did they go broke?? nooooooo!!! no more yummy gingerbread ice cream... *is sadded too*

note to self: do NOT take a deep breath right after pouring acetic acid (aka, vinegar) solutions. INSTANT SINUS ATTACK!!! poor nose. i swear my sense of smell went numb for a few seconds. *shakes head*

12:27 PM

Gels are your FRIENDS

repeat that many times and maybe you'll start to believe it. lol

running the gel today. may it work this time. *crosses fingers* well, may the sample from the male scorpion work. becos there was a chance that i might have slightly screwed up the sample from the female (that i've been using the past few weeks) becos i totally forgot that i was supposed to boil the sample right after adding buffer. i only boiled it the next day. -_-"

and may the staining work. haiz. i think i'm going to end up breathing in loads of methanol fumes later if i end up too anxious and hovering ard the agitator... la la la la.

sleeeeeeeeeeeepy. didn't bring lunch today. wasn't anticipating having the time to actually sit down in the tea room and eat. guess i'll go buy sushi or smthg later if i'm hungry...

and i need to remember to go lygon to buy conditioner!!! keep forgetting to do that... oh well. i have abt enough for another week if i keep forgetting, but i don't exactly want to end up pulling out more hair by accident becos i run out. -_-" i is blur. why is it that the hairhouse warehouse in the city only carries redken shampoo but no conditioner!!! whywhywhy!!! if i was lazy i'd just buy herbal essences conditioner since it smells nice, but after i accidentally fried my hair just using their shampoo last time (becos i didn't realise that it was fine for normal hair but would fry rebonded/coloured hair... or maybe just my hair) i'm kinda skeptical abt using 'cheap' shampoo nad stuff... hmmm

wait. why the heck am i rambling abt shampoo and conditioner on my blog? omg, i think i'm really losing it. *headdesk*

resident evil 3 tmr nite!! woohoo! PIANG PIANG! haha. for some strange reason, i'm perfectly fine with watching pple get blown up. but i can't stand horror movies. -_-" i have... weird logic. haiz. haha.

*prods gel* gel-san, prease to hayaku run finish so that i can stain and destain you and ROLL HOME!!! i need to clean out my fridge. it smells... strange. -_-" was so tempted to stay at home this morning... and sms my supervisor to say that i'm not feeling well and hence am not turning up. but i was good girl and rolled to the lab lol. and HE's not here lor. *falls down* haiz. oh well. at least i'l (hopefully) have a result to show him tmr.

maybe i shud go and feed and water the scorpions... they haven't been fed for a long time... and i don't htink supervisor has given them water this week yet. lalalala... trip to the animal house woohoo.

ok off to check on gel. and stone. and check again. and stone some more. and then i'll go to the animal house later when i'm destaining it. haiz. bye~

Tuesday, October 9

4:18 PM

Is dead.

*dies on keyboard*

tiiiiiiiired. -_-" add loads of sample preparation and dilution calculations to massive inhalation of various fumes over the past 2 days and you have one very stoned en-chan -_-"

yesterday's gel... omg... *headdesk* the protein concentration wasn't high enough. i suspect that i didn't pour the gel properly. there was something wrong with the stain. basically, it didn't stain. so i wasted an hour waiting for the damn thing to stain. ended up with me running down the corridor half hysterical to poor kon who had to attempt to trouble shoot for me in my semi-high state. lol. so i made up another batch of stain on the spot, inhaled more methanol and acetic acid fumes... and then it stained. yay. very faintly. -_-" so i ran it thru 3 cycles of destaining to get rid of the background colour... except i was so anxious abt whether i did screw up the sample prep that i kept uncovering the plate as it sat on the agitator to check on it, therefore inhaling even more methanol fumes. *passes out*

do you think my brain is well-preserved yet? lol.

today. woke up and wibbled ard getting ready for meeting... supervisor msg and said that he'd be in late. then i was sooo tempted to get back into bed and live in denial abt having to go to the lab. lol. ended up with me pottering slowly ard the apt (and spilling half the milk out of my bowl when i wanted to pour it into my cereal. -_-") so i got to the lab at 10.15. started setting up the plates for gel-casting , figured out how the seal works (except that it's still not a perfect seal cos one of my plates leaked 1/2 the gel before it set. waste of time.) and then went to pour gels before discussing with supervisor wat our next plan of action is.

mum prank called me while i was pouring gels, she was too excited abt recieving my card. lol. considering that last year my card only reached her in nov when i sent it out beginning of october. haha. ya. then apparently they have decided that we're nto going to move. -_-" so ya. we're staying back at the house... and i think they're going to sell the one amber apt that they bought. *confused* so we might might MIGHT get a dog. in the near future. ^_^ PUPPY~! haha. ya. after finished pouring gels, was doing ethanol precipitation and getting high on more ethanol fumes. O.o then got a call from my newly appointed lunch alarm clock (haha) so i went to eat lunch at 2.15. ran and a few others from his lab came down for coffee break and were planning for a lab poker nite. lol. they is crazy.

came back after lunch and finished the last bit of ethanol precipitation. so now is almsot totally dead and more than ready to go home. considering that supervisor hath left, i don't see why not. and i was working all day today. for once. hahaha. lala. *looks innocent*

hmm... jsut got a friend invitation on facebook... apparently i know the guy... but i dunno him??? *peers at his photo* who the hell is he? and considering that all my meddie frens are frens with him... err... *facepalm* i need to go and socialise more with the meds. hahaha.

ok. i'm going to pack up and leave now. I GIVE UP. maybe i'll write out some data and bring the piece of paper home to draw up a table or smthg... i dunno. hee.

*wibbles off*

Monday, October 8

12:23 PM

OMG I'm actually doing work on a MONDAY

*does happy dance* yay~ the system is working!!! i'm currently runnign a gel on our wonderuflly almost obsolete system, and thank goodness it's working. ^_^" it's currently resolving, so shall keep my fingers crossed for the next hour and a half (At least) to three hours (omg no, not that long hopefully) hehehe. erm. ya. oh well. at least now i know that it works. cos really, when compared to the set-up in the other lab which i've been borrowing, ours is positively primitive. -_-"

so tmr i think i'll pour more gels. see how today's one goes... cos the percentage of acrylamide i'll have ot use will depend on the results of today's gel. i think. not sure. will discuss with roger tmr. yesh. gel-san! prease to run properly and show me pretty pretty protein bands. XDXD la la. lucky i came to the lab today. cos roger was here and he usually doesn't come on mondays. lol. hee. i rocked up at 10.45, walked past him in the corridor (he was running ard with a coffee and talking to someone from another lab), slammed all my stuff down on the table and got cracking straightaway so i'd look really busy. hehehe. oh well. as long as i get my stuff done, i doubt he really cares wat time i show up. and ken showed up just as i was going downstairs to get ice, and i was all decked out in my lab coat so mwahahah. i is looks the busy! (altho i'd only been ard for like 5 min... *whistles*)

anyway, ze dandenongs sugar expedition of doom was the canceled because THE BLOODY BUSES DON'T RUN THERE ON SUNDAYS. *sarcastic applause* why am i not surprised. i mean seriously, the cafe is on TOURIST ROAD. if there isn't any transport there, how are the tourists going to get there? right? right? haha. well. maybe there is alternative transport... like bus 11... climb slowly up the road, work up an appetite, contribute to the economy while aiding in the onset of a famine/depleting the sugar stores, roll back down the road. haha. haiz. guess we'll go there some other day when there is PUBLIC TRANSPORT AVAILABLE. *evil eyes the pple in charge of public transport in melbourne*

and apparently my powers of whining and dragging information out of pple persuasion are the good. XDXD hehe. i should become a shrink. *peace sign* but anyway, en-chan is the happy happy joy joy now. XD

resident evil 3 comes out this week! yay! piang piang piang! i think kat kat would like it for teh explosions, except that there's too much gore in it? heh.

my progress check has been moved to friday instead of saturday!! *runs around like a beheaded chicken* cos tyson can't make it on sat. so... ya... HOWHOWHOWHOW! my JIVE!!! *headdesk* does anyone have a video of silver jive??? omg. i think if i still can't get it on friday (and i get lousy comments in my report) i'm going to ask lisa to dance with tyson and video it. i'm already imitating her styling anyway. well, not the arms. i copy nicole for the arms. but i aim to bounce ard like lisa cos she does it muchly cute. XD

speaking of lisa, she was a bit high on friday. so she was doing the lunge with arun, except somehow it ended up with tyson daring him to carry her... which he did. and then he threw her over to tyson... who pretended to throw her over to KJ (who was sitting on the bench) and KJ seriously screamed. hahaha. *pats the KJ* so nice to bully him. i was rubbing in the fact that i don't have exams again. mwahaha. ams is fun. anyway. after tyson put lisa down, brad decided that he wanted in on the fun so he made tyson carry him as well. *dies* the things i didn't need to see. haha

erm... wat else... ya. my weekend involved sleeping too much, sleeping too little, super screwed up eating habits. smthg like that. lol. i need to eat at regular hours. haiz. oh and i need to go mail mum to ask how to cook smthg now. lol. i is EXPERIMENTATIONS in the kitchen!!! oh oh, and i fixed my rangehood light. which happily blew right after i finished cooking my curry. -_-" so now i have a new lightbulb! and i can see what i'm cooking!! *hallelujah chorus* lol. i think my neighbours would have thot i'd lost it completely this time. cos i was bent backwards over my stove poking up at the light with my screwdrivers and then hammering on the cover of the light when it refused to come off. -_-" the light casings in my apt are damn hard to open. -_-" may my room light never blow. cos i can't reach it just standing on my chair. which means i'll have to figure out a way to drag my table into my room. *feels daunted and dead just thinking about it*

ok. off to read the news and do the 20m stroll at regular intervals btwn my desk and the setup to check on my gel. whee~ be good everyone!!!

Friday, October 5

4:44 PM

Busy day at the lab!!

so i rocked up this morning at 1015, thinking that roger would be in... the lab was dark. -_-" so i popped across the corridor to gossip with suhaila for a while, then i wandered back out into the corridor. and ran into roger who was just arriving with a cup of coffee. -_-" and he was like, 'why are you wandering around out here?' and i went ' well, i kind of don't have the keys to the lab, so i usually make it a point to come late so that there's someone there to unlock the door for me.'. lol. and he was quite interested to know why my bag looked so heavy and was impressed at hte amt of stuff i had in it after i recited off the entire list. lol.

anyway. i mixed up the samples, so will run the gel on monday. took me all morning. never do mixing when half asleep. it becomes doubly painful and confusing. maybe doubly doubly. which would be... fourbly? quarbly? quadruply? hmm. anyway. ya. pat and ran were very amused that i was actually doing work again. hehe, looks like i've become notorious as a slacker. ya...

after that i was setting up the plates for pouring gels (waste of time. in the end only 1 plate worked... cos some idiot fitted the other plate in reverse and i didn't know how to dismantle it until i waved it at roger to complain after pouring the gel and he reassembled and tightened all the screws on the damn thing). so that was until 12.

then roger dragged me off into the animal house to take pictures of the venom milking... quite cool, now have one really cool shot of the venom drop on the end of the scorpion's tail. not very professional-looking, but it makes a point. XD ya. so we milked all 4 of the scorpions and pissed them off muchly. took pictures and stuff... then i ran back and went to pour the gel. very interesting process.... gel-pouring.

so now i'm camping at my desk waiting for the 2nd layer of the gel to set so that i can wrap up and go home... haiz. still haven't eaten my lunch. omg. at the rate i'm going, i might as well show up to the lab late, eat late brekkie and then skip lunch and eat early dinner and supper -_-" forced dieting. ARGH. i'd bring cookies into the lab to munch except that i'd just keep eating and not do anything constructive. like erm. facebooking. hahahahaha.

ok. is almost time to go check on gel. whee~ dance tonite. therapy session mwahaha. must remember to pack in my dance pants, altho i think i could still dance in my fox jeans, they're loose enough. LA LA LA. progress check next sat! who wants to come and watch?? waku is forgiven if you don't come since you is muchly stressed honours student. XD *pats* may i get my routines and arm styling right. argh.

random question, should i paint white nails with black tips, or black nails with white tips? both cases with a layer or 3 of glitter??? hahahah. and for my makeup, since i'm (almost 99.9%) going to be wearing black (prolly the black dress for my first medal) should i do my usual sparkly eyeshadow or the bronze one that i've been wearing lately (like to phantom)? la la la la. hehehe.

and this time i'm not going to that salon to do my hair. not after the coconut tree they turned my fringe into last time. >< bleh. but then again, my hair is long enough to pull into a decent style... hmm... but it'll mean that i' have to wake up early. haiz. i think i'll just ponytail. hehehe.

ok! check on gel! XD bye~

Thursday, October 4

4:10 PM

Sitting in the dark...

supervisor is filming for the tv thingy, so we're currently sitting in the dark. -_-" so is typingi n the dark~! hahaha. not bad. they use green light as backlighting, so is like halloween party atmosphere. hahaha.

ya... busy-ish day? had lab meeting in the morning. met another member of the avru, he works at sunshine. he was saying that when we become doctors next time, we get a lot of taxfree equipment... so he was saying that he can get a laptop a year and pay abt 50% less... with really good specs too!! 2 gig RAM, 120 gig memory... I WANT!!! ahahaha. i just realised that for an electronics junkie, i don't know much apart from the speed and memory and pretty graphics. oh well. but the meeting was good. bill (the guy i met today) was making me feel better abt not having as much data as ran becos him and roger were discussing stuff abt the project and he was like, ya, that''s (the protein gel i ran last week) interesting stuff, since no one's ever done research on those particular scorpions before. so anything i find will be of interest. is feels better and not so slack now. and they mentioned smthg abt possibly sending me to sydney to work with the guy who's also working on these scorpions... but i dunno whether they'll actually do that or not la.

ya. then was doing ethanol precipitation... except that supervisor had to go off halfway to meet the tv crew, so i had to do the rest myself... hope it was correct!! well. i only separated the pellet and supernatant, couldn't add the buffer and watever else cos the crew were in teh area that has the weighing machine and pipette tips. -_-" so i assume that i'm doing that tmr.

incidentally, the filming is the entertaining. he has to say certain lines and repeat them till the camera pple is happy. me and patricia were spying just now but he was nervous so he told us to go away. but i think ran is watching now. so maybe i'll go and kay poh later hahaha.

ya and err... i've been gambling on facebook again. *headdesk* this is why i'm glad it's nto real money... like horse racing. cos my luck is the random. lol. oh well~ can earn money petting other pple's pets everyday hahaha

want to go hoooooooooooooome. *whines*

oh, yummy dinner yesterday at waterfront, cos it was tim's sister's b'day. hehehe finally another super sugar addict like me!!! everyone was dying by the time we got to dessert but both of us were still happy happy joy joy eating dessert. hahaha. there's always room for sugar~ and i had a grand total of 3 sips of wine before i decided that this time i would be smart and not attempt to make myself feel sick (vodka cruiser incident ne, amy-chan?) ya. lol next time, i should BYO ribena juice, then can look pro and drink with everyone else. hahhaa!!

heroes starting tonite! and got bionic woman before that, which is supposed to be good. hehe. whoever wants to watch and has no tv is welcome to join in teh madness!!! XD

oh oh. and i ran into anthony on the way back from my sushi run. he was at the lab workship we had begining of the semester, he was my bench partner. didn't recognise him at first cos his hair is long and it's wavy now... last time i saw him it was still short. and i was trying to decide if he was anthony or andrew... keep getting the 2 names mixed up. -_-" oh wel. ya. so he's at the MHRI with the waku waku and he was saying that he's very bored cos everytime he does western blots, he has 2 days free. so i was like ...... ENJOY YOUR FREEDOM WHILE IT LASTS!!! hahaha

hmm... ok... i shall go and... surf the net. not much you can do in the dark... and i don't feel like reading the journal articles on my laptop. haiz. la la~

Wednesday, October 3

3:10 PM

SPAM~

the lovebirds have gone home already... ard 30 min ago. cos ran was tired.

i wanna go home tooooooooooooo

i've been gambling on facebook. lol. well. not really. betting on teh (Fluff)frens racing... and losing big time randomly. -_-" LA LA LA~ fye-chan won 3 times! is proud of him... he's got pathetic speed. but he's still cute. *pets him muchly* oh helpness. i've this random urge to go buy a polar bear and name it fye... but then again, it would be more appropriate to buy a mehmeh and name it fye, since i got black mehmeh called kuro-chan. hmmm.... must... resist... stuffed... toy.... tendencies....... anyone wants to go teddy bear shop with me to stop me from buying instead of just molesting and glomping all the toys there?

and i think i've just convinced one of teh avru pple (not sure wat her position is called) that i'm nuts. cos she asked if i was going to the seminar now... and i was like, there's a seminar now? and she said that it's on cannabis, which was the only reason why she was going... so i said, "oh... are they going to give free samples? *insert hopeful look*" and she was like "O.O we all wish that don't we? lol" hehehe. i is win~

lab meeting tmr morning... why why why... why can't normal pple start work at 11!!! 9am is too early. haiz.

ok. back to work. i hear supervisor's voice in the corridor

11:19 AM

ASDFG!!! *sqeeee*

OMG OMG OMG!!! FYE-SAAAAAN~~ ♥_♥

evil evil CLAMP, to give fye such a twisted past... then again, it is rather typical of them. -_-" waaaah!! can anyone feel the ashurafye vibes yet. lol. and lots of kurofye hehehehe... but yesh, i'm currently left at a cliffhanger cos the next chapter isn't out yet. weeeeeh. ya. so was going gaga last nite over the prettiness of tsubasa... and now i'm going to conitnue reading xxxholic as well to see how exactly watanuki fits into the whole mess. -_-" haiz

also watched the finale for hanakimi. omg wat is it with them and crossdressing!!!! toma in a nurse outfit, oguri shun in a french maid and tezuka/kagurazuka/watever his real name is too!!! *scarred for life* anyway. ya. ending was sweet. like aaaaw.. hahaha. and oguri shun is on silent but deadly crack. -_-"

erm... ya... blogging at intervals while racing fye-chan on facebook. lol. whee~ hehehe i shall go and do work now

oh oh oh and i found the dirge of cerberus screensaver. is d/ling now. dunno how it looks like yet, but i might jsut replace the crissi core screensaver if there's enough pretty piccies of vincent and maybe genesis. XDXD

Tuesday, October 2

2:04 PM

At last! AN UPDATE!!

lol, no pple, i haven't managed to fall off the edge of the earth. i've just been too lazy to sit down adn start typing so, you have been warned. this is going to be a long post. but before i start, announcement!

GO TO FACEBOOK AND PET MY POLAR BEAR!!! IT IS CUTE AND FLUFFY AND IT'S CALLED FYE!!! (i wanted to put kurofye=OTP but decided i need to have some reputation left. lol) and erm, for those who didn't know, i'm on a facebook rampage... and i took almsot 2h to decide on a name for the bear, much to amy-chan and mr veggie's horror cos i was spamming them on msn with names ranging from ice cream to coffee to black. -_-" don't ask. ^_^" oh and i've also started reading tsubasa from where i left off... pretty pretty fye-san... who's now a vampire and oh so hot. XD *does fangirl dance* haven't gotten past the part where they leave the X/1999 world yet, but ning da says that ashura-ou wakes up!! so is yay~ can't wait to get to that bit.

oh, and happy children's day everyone! lol.

anyway. starting from friday: dance lesson was crack as usual. tyson was being his usual crazy self... including announcing to adam that he (tyson) was old since he's 25 (note, adam is almost 10 years older) no surprises that adam deathglared him. lol. and then tyson was singing along to 'memory' from cats and making it sounds REALLY dodgy. especially at the part where it goes "touch me, it's so easy to leave me, all alone with my memory blah blah" didn't help that he was singing in brad's general direction. lol... ya, anyway, progress check is next week, so hope that everything goes smoothly then...

sat. PHANTOM~ yuxi no baka didn't know it was the matinee, and then he went to sleep ant turned off his phone, so he only found out 10 min before the show started that he was supposed to meet us! not bad. -_-" in the end he didn't come. lol. me and waku freaked the guy who bought goddess' ticket... cos i was wearing heels and i was stomping on koala's foot, and waku kept putting her head on my shoulder and i was patting her head and promising to buy her ice cream. lol. LALING YOU IS CUTE! XD but yes, the musical was really WOW. the seats weren't as good in teh end, cos we were at the corner and the arches obscured the edges of the stage. but i liked the opening, when they whipped off the dust clothes and raised the chandelier. except the chandelier looked kinda lopsided, maybe from all the bashings. lol. anyway, the phantom's voice was really really good. even christine's wasn't as good compared to his. but then again, he IS supposed to be the angel of music. the managers were entertaining... i like the song abt the notes except that when everyone started singing together i couldn't understand anymore...

oh, and random parts of the musical where me and waku totally cracked up: the part where the phantom was eavesdropping on the gargoyle and they lowered the gargoyle from the ceiling... me and waku started singing 'batman, da na na na na na na na batman~' and i don't think the pple who could hear us appreciated it. and then the end when christine and raoul escaped and they were rowing hte boat past the other side of the grille and singing, and we were like wtf! they think they're on a gondola in venice or wat??? hahaha. ya. we is random pple ph34r us. XD

after that i went to safeway and bought muchly sugar. bwahaha. bought a chocolate mudcake, and choc chip cookies, and choc chip muffins... notice the trend here anyone? hehehe. ya. so i'm a very happy sugared person now. XD and then to top things off, mr veggie came over to stuff me with brownies and lotus mooncake on sun. so now i've got even MORE sugar. *is in sugar heaven* erm... ya... wonderful jch pple! we need to have a mooncake party like soon... before i starts eyeing the pile of mooncake on the table and deciding that they calls my name and i shud eat them all. XD

ya so sunday was spent slacking off and eating sugar... i managed to make the veggie almost vomit blood by showing him the chinese dance performances... and the opening to hanakimi (he looked postively shell shocked when he realised it wasn't an anime and that it was really, quite a girl's drama), the first 10 min of samurai 7 (decided it was too boring and that i would prefer to watch gundam wing) and then we decided to watch azumanga daioh since it came from AJ and couldn't possibly be that dodgy... by the end of the first episode, we were both twitching and have sworn to kill AJ the next time we see him. hahaha. altho the song that chiyo-chan sings when cooking is catchy enough to be irritating. so i shall go and learn to sing it and then piss pple of. hahaha

monday! i err... was supposed to go to the lab. except i woke up and decided that there wasn't any point. so i went back to sleep. lol. woke up much later and pretended to do work. ie: refreshing the facebook page and spamming pple ahhaha. cooked lots of lunch also, helped goddess with her e-mails... finished reading naruto (omg, there's a new plot twist. i shudder at how long more it's going to take to actually FINISH the damn thing. -_-") wanted to watch the last ep of hanakimi but it only finihsed d/ling at 12.30, so was too stoned to fully appreciate the crack so decided to leave it for another day. started reading tsubasa, as stated in the first paragraph.

today! had one of those stupid lectures again. turned up at uni ON TIME for once and found out that BOTH the lecture theatres we would have had the lecture in (either one or the other) were in use. so half the undergrad med fac was congregated in the foyer gossiping. turned out that hte lecture actually started at *11*. -_-" stupid admin never tell us. so ended up in union house drinking bubble tea. not very smart, cos i'd just gobbled a muffin and a cup of milk barely an hour before, and then topping it up with honey milk tea and pearls. felt positively sick by the time it was time to go for the lecture. the lecture was.... so-so. better than the others. maybe. quite funny. we were sitting in teh front row, but mag and tim fell asleep anyway. and then halfway thru, the guy behind me's phone went off. and it was the cavalry/cowboy ringtone (you know, the one where the horse is galloping etc) and he couldn't get it out of his bag in time. so it played the entire tone out and i was giggling when it started but eventually the whole theatre burst out laughing and i was flat out on my desk. lol

went for lunch with the gang at nasi lemak house!! i now know where to go when i want the type of hor fun that i like... soup is good. fried hor fun not as nice. XD whee! big portion too. is no can finish by self. ya. met tim's frens who were telling us abt the break-ins... and how one of them actually SPOKE to the intruder and kicked him out of hte house. waaaah. is scary. may that never happen to me. altho my door has had a chip along the wood as though someone tried to screwdriver it open... hmmm. ya. so we were discussing how to booby trap the place. XD haiz. choy touch wood won't get break in!

ya. after that wibbled back to the lab very reluctantly. wanted to go and feed the scorpions but guess wat? no can get in. -_-" ran said that they changed the system, so even his supervisor couldn't get in. -_-" lucky i watered them on fri, so at least they've got water. doesn't matter if they don't have food anyway. oh well. will try again tmr. if not will have to go and find the operations manager and ask him to rekey my swipe card... la la la.

so now i'm sitting at my desk and blogging... and reading some random journal article... and listening to mr brown show. lol. the sian song! and the medisave lucky draw. -_-" think i'll send one ot waku... is to make her HAPPY and DESTRESSED!!! hahaha prease to add oil laling!!! *waves fanclub banners*

heroes starting this thurs~ is excited. and will everyone who d/led and watched ard stop trying to spoiler me!!! *deathglares the veggie and eng kiat*

okies. is to go and does work or smthg now... think my HoD thinks i'm slack. yesterday never come... today go for lecture, instead of doing work while waiting for it to start for real i go and drink tea... and then i run off for early lunch and don't come back till 1.30. hahaha. oh well.

blog more some other time! if you guys are still reading nad haven't given up on teh babbling yet lol