Ever since Nok and me signed the lease for the apartment at Trappers Cove, I told myself that I should start packing, bits by bits so that when it comes time to move, I don't have to take a couple of days off just to pack. It should not be something that will affect my research or assignments. But I was so caught up in all the recent bloom of experiments that I would like to get done before I change lab that I delayed the packing until today.
Came back from lab around 4pm with the intention to read the Salmonella paper before I start packing. Unfortunately, just 2 pages before the end, I almost fell asleep. Since I could hardly concentrate anymore, I decided to pack some of the easy to pack stuff. Without realizing, within one hour, I packed 3 boxes and I have yet to start with the clothes and kitchen utensils, dry food and toiletries. These three boxes are just books! I can't believe how many books I've bought over these past 6 months. I think I'm going to send some back home, especially those that I've already read a couple of times.
Just a few weeks back, when I was talking to my mum on the phone, she told me that my dad's goal for the year is to get rid of stuff that he don't need anymore. Now what do you think my mum would say if I propose to send my books back? hehe..I don't even have my own room back home anymore I could at least have a small bookshelf right? Yeah..it kinda sucks that I don't have my own room to go back to when I go home but since I only get to go home for not more than 1 month a year, I guess it's fair that my brother has his own room (our house only has 3 rooms - parents, ahmah and my younger bro, whom we all call ahboy). Furthermore, whenever I go back, I don't always stay at home since it's so far away from town (about 20-25 minutes drive to Pulau Tikus, even further to Ayer Itam). I prefer to stay at my maternal grandma's house at Kampung Baru. It's not only nearer to town and all the shopping malls but near to all the good food too! Especially the 'keng che bi hun' at the corner of the street. That's the authentic one! Not like the 'chow mai fun' we get here - bi hun stir fry with broccoli, water chestnut and celery, along with lots of 'tau eu' and pepper..I think I can do better than that if only I spend more time cooking.
Saturday, January 29, 2005
Friday, January 14, 2005
This is the picture on the desktop of my baby currently. It is taken on my way home, which is the apartment block on the right. This is approximately 4.30pm US Eastern time. That's the time the sun usually sets during winter here. It's a no wonder why there are so many depression cases here in this part of US. They just don't get to appreciate the cheerfulness of sunshine!
This picture was taken before the heavy snowfall two days ago, behind the bus stop at Spartan Village (the area where I live). This particular spot is not a route where anyone would take to the laundry because it's behind a bus stop and no one would purposely walk out of the walkway. Furthermore, it is approximately 30 feet away from the laundry. *thoughts going wild* Hmmm..
This is not from Ohio. *Grins* I'm sure most of you can guess that this is my new baby..born on November 26, 2004. The desktop now has a picture East Lansing sunset and three more shortcuts. Otherwise, it is exactly the same as when it first came. I'm not one of those who like a cluttered desktop. It would be best if I can just have 3 shortcuts but 6 is the least I managed to maintain.
This is still in the campus of Case Western. The building behind the partially frozen lake is the Art Museum. It was a freezing cold morning but we came across a couple (dancers I think) who were posing for a camera man in front of the Museum - the girl wearing a high heels and short skirt while the guy was wearing a long sleeved shirt and a slack. I wonder if they get paid an amount large enough to cover medical expenses if they fall sick due to hypothermia (which is possible since the temperature is below O Celcius).
Thursday, January 13, 2005
observations on the bus.
I usually bring a novel to read on the bus or have my cd player with me. Today, I didn't have either one because I had too many notes to bring and a novel is gonna make my knapsack heavier and I didn't feel like listening to any of the cds I have. Since the ride is so boring as I've passed the same route for the past 4 months and nothing interesting had happened, I decided to entertain myself by observing people's actions in the bus and what they do to keep themselves entertained.
1. An Asian girl (couldn't tell if she's from China, Korea or Taiwan but definitely not Japan, Malaysia or Singapore) took our an apple from her bag along with a small carving knife and start peeling the apple skin into an envelope, brush off any bits and pieces that fell onto her pants, kept the knife and apple skin in her bag and started chomping her apple. My reaction: does she have to eat that apple in the bus? or she could have at least eat it with the skin right? Furthermore, the skin is where most of the vitamins are.
2. Somewhere at the back of the bus, a bunch of African American girls were talking so loudly that their voice were practically all that you can hear in the bus.
3. As they get off, a bunch of white American girls (probably in their late teens) laughed so loudly about something that must be really easy to understand and ridiculous but I have no idea because they were hardly speaking to each other. They were just speaking out words that made everyone in their group start laughing.
4. An 'ah-cha' (generalized term for Indians from India) guy sitting in front of my has so much dandruff on his head that if he were to move his head, he would have drop a large amount of dead cells. Not forgetting that he exudates a heavy odor like most ah-cha do..I wonder if they realize it themselves.
There are lots more that I can describe but I think I should be getting back to reading the articles that I should have finished reading earlier this week. Procastination is bad but this week is just too loaded with stuff waiting for my attention. I have yet to read a good paper this week that can get my full attention and interest but hopefully somewhere hidden in this pile of papers, I can find one.
Gosh!!! Does anyone listen to MSN Radio? They have sucky songs tonight!! I've been skipping like 15 songs or so. It's all rap or really noisy songs. Where have all the nice songs gone too? Maybe I should have brought my cd player this morning. or should I download winamp into my laptop? But then I gotta learn how to transfer my songs to my laptop, which means I gotta find time to do that. *Frustrated* So much to be done and too little time. Would the working world be the same or would I have more time to 'lepak'? Hmmm...
1. An Asian girl (couldn't tell if she's from China, Korea or Taiwan but definitely not Japan, Malaysia or Singapore) took our an apple from her bag along with a small carving knife and start peeling the apple skin into an envelope, brush off any bits and pieces that fell onto her pants, kept the knife and apple skin in her bag and started chomping her apple. My reaction: does she have to eat that apple in the bus? or she could have at least eat it with the skin right? Furthermore, the skin is where most of the vitamins are.
2. Somewhere at the back of the bus, a bunch of African American girls were talking so loudly that their voice were practically all that you can hear in the bus.
3. As they get off, a bunch of white American girls (probably in their late teens) laughed so loudly about something that must be really easy to understand and ridiculous but I have no idea because they were hardly speaking to each other. They were just speaking out words that made everyone in their group start laughing.
4. An 'ah-cha' (generalized term for Indians from India) guy sitting in front of my has so much dandruff on his head that if he were to move his head, he would have drop a large amount of dead cells. Not forgetting that he exudates a heavy odor like most ah-cha do..I wonder if they realize it themselves.
There are lots more that I can describe but I think I should be getting back to reading the articles that I should have finished reading earlier this week. Procastination is bad but this week is just too loaded with stuff waiting for my attention. I have yet to read a good paper this week that can get my full attention and interest but hopefully somewhere hidden in this pile of papers, I can find one.
Gosh!!! Does anyone listen to MSN Radio? They have sucky songs tonight!! I've been skipping like 15 songs or so. It's all rap or really noisy songs. Where have all the nice songs gone too? Maybe I should have brought my cd player this morning. or should I download winamp into my laptop? But then I gotta learn how to transfer my songs to my laptop, which means I gotta find time to do that. *Frustrated* So much to be done and too little time. Would the working world be the same or would I have more time to 'lepak'? Hmmm...
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
exhausted.
I feel like it's been a really long week but it's only Wednesday. Technically, it's already Thursday and I'm still in lab - what a nerd! Why am I still in the lab? I actually went home after the Candlelight Vigil held here on campus for the tsunami victims back home, which was around 6pm. Cooked dinner (roast duck from Ohio and cucumbers), ate and did my laundry. Came back here to check on my E. coli culture but unfortunately, they overgrown. Did some microscopy stuff and decided to check my mail. Then I was debating if I should go back or stay here to get some stuff done online - I decided to stay for 2 reasons
1. If I go home, I'll end up sleeping after taking my bath = no work will be done.
2. Windows on my PC is unstable and my Dell laptop cannot detect the broadband connection at home, which should prompt me to call Dell technical support since I paid for it but I was too lazy to wait through all the 'let me pass you to the right person game' the technicians like to play.
Now that I'm done with everything, all I can think about is my comfortable bed. It's at times like this that I wish I have a boyfriend..keke. They can be really advantageous at moments like this. That's the other reason for my exhaustion this week. I can't seem to get him out of my mind at all. It started with the Swiss roll at Asian Mart in Ohio. Ever since then, I couldn't stop thinking about how different it would have been if he's here with me. It's been so long and the memories are still so fresh..how does one forget about their ex? I was telling mum about how I miss having a boyfriend - lots of people think it's due to desperation but I think that being in a relationship is a really wonderful feeling. A good relationship would be a balance between spending time with friends and the significant other. She told me not to think about it and I'll stumble into one when the time is right. But how can I stumble into another when I can't even forget the previous one? Sigh...gotta get these thoughts out of my system before the end of the week before I collapse with exhaustion.
1. If I go home, I'll end up sleeping after taking my bath = no work will be done.
2. Windows on my PC is unstable and my Dell laptop cannot detect the broadband connection at home, which should prompt me to call Dell technical support since I paid for it but I was too lazy to wait through all the 'let me pass you to the right person game' the technicians like to play.
Now that I'm done with everything, all I can think about is my comfortable bed. It's at times like this that I wish I have a boyfriend..keke. They can be really advantageous at moments like this. That's the other reason for my exhaustion this week. I can't seem to get him out of my mind at all. It started with the Swiss roll at Asian Mart in Ohio. Ever since then, I couldn't stop thinking about how different it would have been if he's here with me. It's been so long and the memories are still so fresh..how does one forget about their ex? I was telling mum about how I miss having a boyfriend - lots of people think it's due to desperation but I think that being in a relationship is a really wonderful feeling. A good relationship would be a balance between spending time with friends and the significant other. She told me not to think about it and I'll stumble into one when the time is right. But how can I stumble into another when I can't even forget the previous one? Sigh...gotta get these thoughts out of my system before the end of the week before I collapse with exhaustion.
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
great weekend
gosh..I'm so exhausted both physically and mentally. Signs of emotional exhaustion is coming to be visible too. But I'm still gonna blog about my weekend before I get home.
Got out of work early on Friday, which was great because I had a chance to go to Walmart and check out some furnitures - found out that they have cheap bookshelves and saw a desk that I quite like but it didn't look like it would fit my giant 19 inch monitor (it's times like this when I wish I have an LCD because all the desk that they sell these days seem to fit only LCDs). As always, I never leave a store without buying chocolates - I'm chocoholic - and Hershey's was on sale! I even got some Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I actually got the curly ones but it didn't taste as good as the traditional doughnuts, which of course is not even as good as Dunkin Donuts from home. I have yet to try Dunkin Donuts here though..maybe they're the same.
Went to Ohio on Saturday with Nok. We start out around 10am, she being an impatient driver, we arrived at Maumee, Ohio at around 1pm and stopped at Panera Bread for lunch. It was a really fun time because we were laughing all the time and it's comfortable because we had so much to talk and found that we're so much in common. Left Maumee and arrived Cleveland, Ohio at about 2.30pm. Ben's place is great! I love their apartment..it's bigger than the apartment mum and dad had in Beijing but of course, everything that's nice has to come with a price - USD 1k per month! and it's unfurnished! If I have more cash and earning more money, I would have stayed at places like that too since it's right at the heart of town and just minutes outside Case Western Reserve University. It was a great opportunity to be able to visit the uni since it's a great medical school and lots of great scientist had studied there. However, I wouldn't want to stay or go to school there - it's more of a city kind and I'm a 'country' girl. They have tons of malls there too and even a luxury mall for the upper class.
Ben brought us shopping and I fell in love with 2 elephants - it was mine in just minutes. It was really cheap too! I can't help it - the moment it got to my hand, the hug felt so good that I just couldn't let it go. Can you imagine such cute elephant go into mud-covered hands of 5 year old boys and into flour-covered hands of 5 year old girls? What about when they get mad at each other? The soft, large ears are gonna be torn apart! It's a nightmare! It'll be so much safer with me for sure.
For dinner, Nok wanted to cook some noodles because I said I like it a lot. So we went to Asian Mart to shop for some Thai food ingredients but there was a change in plans. We saw ducks!!! Our first reaction - laughed so hard till our tummy ache. They were grilled so well that their skin are shiny brown and they just look so delicious hanging there. The aroma was filling up our empty stomach that we just had to get it. So we got a whole duck, shopped for some junk that we misses so much - I got swiss roll (it's BK's favourite...I like it too but for some reason, that was the thought when I bought it), chocolate love letters and pisang goreng! I was holding the box of chopped duck, sitting in the back seat. My hand was itching to open it and grab a bite but it was impolite so I made myself sat there with wonderful thoughts of me eating the duck. It was the longest ride home ever! But the duck made it home with us untouched by my itching hands. Nok cooked the rice and I made some miso soup (obviously using some packet ingredients). The dinner was one of the best dinner I've ever had in months..haven't had a real sit-down dinner for a really long time. It was heaven on Earth!
Sunday was tiring but we still had a good time...
Went to Case Western's campus and roam around. They had a really good blend of the traditional architecture - Cathedral, Business Management building, Dance building - and modern architecture - museum, Accounts building, Law building. The accounts building is the one that amazes me most. It has a very unique shape and does not have any straight wall and I was surprised to see Malaysia flag in the building! I didn't expect that because I always thought that Case Western does not have lots of Malaysians but apparently they have enough to put the flag up there. After the campus tour, Ben brought us around the area and we drive through a cemetary. That was the prettiest cemetary that I've ever seen. Unfortunately my camera ran out of battery but Nok and Ben wasn't very keen on taking pictures there too so I didn't try. It is a Christian cemetary and the richer families put up huge and fancy tombs for the deceased. Some even have a tiny house. It wasn't even eerie like the chinese cemetaries we have back home - especially the one at Mt. Erskine.
We left The Triangle (the area Ben stays) at 3.30pm and head towards downtown Cleveland. Most of the cities in United States have a 'downtown' area where the government offices are located. The city hall is usually the most beautiful building (since it's government funded) and that's also the place you pay all the parking tickets and fines. However, the Americans tend to take their Sundays off too, which is unlike Malaysians (in fact, most Asians) would work harder on Sundays since it's the day where everyone brings their family out and go shopping. So we were just driving around the town looking at buildings and it looks like a dead town despite the really nice architecture of the buildings. It was breathtaking. We were just looking out and ooo and aaaahhs over all the buildings. Then Nok wants to get a cup of coffee so we decided to stop and get into Renaissance Hotel, which is a huge building. But guess what! When we went pass the door - it's a hotel cum shopping mall. It is unlike shopping malls in KL where you see lots of the shops on the outside and different shops on the inside. This looks completely like a hotel outside with a lot of African Americans (Blacks) loitering around it. But when you step inside, it's like a completely different place. After walking a few stores, it was just the same as any shopping mall - Gap, Footlocker, Taco Bell, McD, Abercrombie and all the American brands. So we got Nok some coffee and left. As we were walking out the door, a Black man stopped us and asked if we have change for bus. That freaked both of us out because that place is a really luxury area and there are people who stands outside the building asking for change. It was such an obvious gap between financial class between Blacks - the rich spending their money on clothes that they probably have ton of them already in the inside vs. the poor asking for change and loitering outside looking in. This is a segregation within the Black community as there was hardly any Whites there. We fumble with our pockets, said no and walked away as soon as we can. But after driving for a while, a thought came to me - we get even more eerie beggars in Malaysia, especially around Kota Raya area in KL - so why were we so freaked out? That's when it dawned on me: we were clouded by the ugly thoughts about the Black community - they are the failure of the society that creates crime, which is completely not true. They just can't help being that way. But then again, being in a foreign environment, I think what we did was best because one could just snatch our purse away if we were to take it out.
We laughed about our silliness in the car, drove home with tired eyes and body that craves for a soft comfortable bed but with wonderful memories of Cleveland, Ohio. We came back to my place, ate duck - yes, again but it was just too good to be missed! Those of you back home could just go out to any of those 'kae pui' stall and ask for 'siow ak pui' but what we get here? Only those ducks in Red Cedar River (the river that cuts Michigan State into North and South campus).
Got out of work early on Friday, which was great because I had a chance to go to Walmart and check out some furnitures - found out that they have cheap bookshelves and saw a desk that I quite like but it didn't look like it would fit my giant 19 inch monitor (it's times like this when I wish I have an LCD because all the desk that they sell these days seem to fit only LCDs). As always, I never leave a store without buying chocolates - I'm chocoholic - and Hershey's was on sale! I even got some Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I actually got the curly ones but it didn't taste as good as the traditional doughnuts, which of course is not even as good as Dunkin Donuts from home. I have yet to try Dunkin Donuts here though..maybe they're the same.
Went to Ohio on Saturday with Nok. We start out around 10am, she being an impatient driver, we arrived at Maumee, Ohio at around 1pm and stopped at Panera Bread for lunch. It was a really fun time because we were laughing all the time and it's comfortable because we had so much to talk and found that we're so much in common. Left Maumee and arrived Cleveland, Ohio at about 2.30pm. Ben's place is great! I love their apartment..it's bigger than the apartment mum and dad had in Beijing but of course, everything that's nice has to come with a price - USD 1k per month! and it's unfurnished! If I have more cash and earning more money, I would have stayed at places like that too since it's right at the heart of town and just minutes outside Case Western Reserve University. It was a great opportunity to be able to visit the uni since it's a great medical school and lots of great scientist had studied there. However, I wouldn't want to stay or go to school there - it's more of a city kind and I'm a 'country' girl. They have tons of malls there too and even a luxury mall for the upper class.
Ben brought us shopping and I fell in love with 2 elephants - it was mine in just minutes. It was really cheap too! I can't help it - the moment it got to my hand, the hug felt so good that I just couldn't let it go. Can you imagine such cute elephant go into mud-covered hands of 5 year old boys and into flour-covered hands of 5 year old girls? What about when they get mad at each other? The soft, large ears are gonna be torn apart! It's a nightmare! It'll be so much safer with me for sure.
For dinner, Nok wanted to cook some noodles because I said I like it a lot. So we went to Asian Mart to shop for some Thai food ingredients but there was a change in plans. We saw ducks!!! Our first reaction - laughed so hard till our tummy ache. They were grilled so well that their skin are shiny brown and they just look so delicious hanging there. The aroma was filling up our empty stomach that we just had to get it. So we got a whole duck, shopped for some junk that we misses so much - I got swiss roll (it's BK's favourite...I like it too but for some reason, that was the thought when I bought it), chocolate love letters and pisang goreng! I was holding the box of chopped duck, sitting in the back seat. My hand was itching to open it and grab a bite but it was impolite so I made myself sat there with wonderful thoughts of me eating the duck. It was the longest ride home ever! But the duck made it home with us untouched by my itching hands. Nok cooked the rice and I made some miso soup (obviously using some packet ingredients). The dinner was one of the best dinner I've ever had in months..haven't had a real sit-down dinner for a really long time. It was heaven on Earth!
Sunday was tiring but we still had a good time...
Went to Case Western's campus and roam around. They had a really good blend of the traditional architecture - Cathedral, Business Management building, Dance building - and modern architecture - museum, Accounts building, Law building. The accounts building is the one that amazes me most. It has a very unique shape and does not have any straight wall and I was surprised to see Malaysia flag in the building! I didn't expect that because I always thought that Case Western does not have lots of Malaysians but apparently they have enough to put the flag up there. After the campus tour, Ben brought us around the area and we drive through a cemetary. That was the prettiest cemetary that I've ever seen. Unfortunately my camera ran out of battery but Nok and Ben wasn't very keen on taking pictures there too so I didn't try. It is a Christian cemetary and the richer families put up huge and fancy tombs for the deceased. Some even have a tiny house. It wasn't even eerie like the chinese cemetaries we have back home - especially the one at Mt. Erskine.
We left The Triangle (the area Ben stays) at 3.30pm and head towards downtown Cleveland. Most of the cities in United States have a 'downtown' area where the government offices are located. The city hall is usually the most beautiful building (since it's government funded) and that's also the place you pay all the parking tickets and fines. However, the Americans tend to take their Sundays off too, which is unlike Malaysians (in fact, most Asians) would work harder on Sundays since it's the day where everyone brings their family out and go shopping. So we were just driving around the town looking at buildings and it looks like a dead town despite the really nice architecture of the buildings. It was breathtaking. We were just looking out and ooo and aaaahhs over all the buildings. Then Nok wants to get a cup of coffee so we decided to stop and get into Renaissance Hotel, which is a huge building. But guess what! When we went pass the door - it's a hotel cum shopping mall. It is unlike shopping malls in KL where you see lots of the shops on the outside and different shops on the inside. This looks completely like a hotel outside with a lot of African Americans (Blacks) loitering around it. But when you step inside, it's like a completely different place. After walking a few stores, it was just the same as any shopping mall - Gap, Footlocker, Taco Bell, McD, Abercrombie and all the American brands. So we got Nok some coffee and left. As we were walking out the door, a Black man stopped us and asked if we have change for bus. That freaked both of us out because that place is a really luxury area and there are people who stands outside the building asking for change. It was such an obvious gap between financial class between Blacks - the rich spending their money on clothes that they probably have ton of them already in the inside vs. the poor asking for change and loitering outside looking in. This is a segregation within the Black community as there was hardly any Whites there. We fumble with our pockets, said no and walked away as soon as we can. But after driving for a while, a thought came to me - we get even more eerie beggars in Malaysia, especially around Kota Raya area in KL - so why were we so freaked out? That's when it dawned on me: we were clouded by the ugly thoughts about the Black community - they are the failure of the society that creates crime, which is completely not true. They just can't help being that way. But then again, being in a foreign environment, I think what we did was best because one could just snatch our purse away if we were to take it out.
We laughed about our silliness in the car, drove home with tired eyes and body that craves for a soft comfortable bed but with wonderful memories of Cleveland, Ohio. We came back to my place, ate duck - yes, again but it was just too good to be missed! Those of you back home could just go out to any of those 'kae pui' stall and ask for 'siow ak pui' but what we get here? Only those ducks in Red Cedar River (the river that cuts Michigan State into North and South campus).
Thursday, January 06, 2005
long but productive.
It's only a few days into the new year but I've felt like it's been so long already. Tired. Lack of sleep. Unbalanced diet. Lack of fitness. Uncomposed. Yet feeling good. Managed to get a few questions answered and able to draw up new hypothesis, which means the road is not ending yet and more fun is yet to come! Maybe I actually get to rest a little tomorrow. Time to go home but thought that I need a good shout out so I decided to shout it out here.
Hmm..let's see what happens since NY's day. Oh yeah..choops actually did made it here. She called on NY's day when I was out mattress shopping with Nok. I can't believe it was so hard to decide on what mattress to buy. No wonder dad took such a long time to get the mattress for ahmah. But for me, the major dilemma was how much should I spend on the mattress? I know that I'll be spending 1/4 of my day on it every single day and sometimes even more and it should be a comfortable one but USD 200 is a little too expensive right? But then I asked Voon for his suggestion and he had a good point...USD200 for 5 years...it's like USD40 a year...and I spend more on other unnecessary stuff a year than USD40..so I decided to just get one but have yet to. I saw airbed and I kinda like the idea of that but need to check it out to see if it's comfortable first.
Got to spend time with choops, updating each other with what's happening and she sure is a happier and more relax girl now. I'm happy for her and am I glad that I'm not losing another friend because when we were looking back at all the people we used to know, it's kinda sad how many we lost contact not because there were no means of communication but because we changed so much from each other that there's nothing common between us anymore. Maybe I should have made more effort in making the connection work..but then again, it won't work if it's just from one side right? But for all it's worth, I'm glad I still have some of you whenever I need you and I'll do my best to be a great friend.
Gosh...I'm so tired I could hardly move at all. My back is aching badly and I look so inorganized although I'm psych about my research. I wish the holidays are a little longer so that I can get more stuff done but I'm still glad that I managed to get quite a bit done this holiday. When class starts, there'll be less of me in the lab already..but hopefully I can squeeze in as much time as possible as this project is so much more interesting. Will be taking 2 classes but still in a dilemma about one of the class. The one that I really want to take is Advance Microbial Pathogenesis but I'm not too sure about Eukaryotic Genetics. I'm not very keen in sitting in lectures about eukaryotes although I'm one myself but I think it'll be very informative just as a general knowledge. Oh boy...there's just too many dilemmas that need my attention these days.
At this moment....sleep comes first.
Hmm..let's see what happens since NY's day. Oh yeah..choops actually did made it here. She called on NY's day when I was out mattress shopping with Nok. I can't believe it was so hard to decide on what mattress to buy. No wonder dad took such a long time to get the mattress for ahmah. But for me, the major dilemma was how much should I spend on the mattress? I know that I'll be spending 1/4 of my day on it every single day and sometimes even more and it should be a comfortable one but USD 200 is a little too expensive right? But then I asked Voon for his suggestion and he had a good point...USD200 for 5 years...it's like USD40 a year...and I spend more on other unnecessary stuff a year than USD40..so I decided to just get one but have yet to. I saw airbed and I kinda like the idea of that but need to check it out to see if it's comfortable first.
Got to spend time with choops, updating each other with what's happening and she sure is a happier and more relax girl now. I'm happy for her and am I glad that I'm not losing another friend because when we were looking back at all the people we used to know, it's kinda sad how many we lost contact not because there were no means of communication but because we changed so much from each other that there's nothing common between us anymore. Maybe I should have made more effort in making the connection work..but then again, it won't work if it's just from one side right? But for all it's worth, I'm glad I still have some of you whenever I need you and I'll do my best to be a great friend.
Gosh...I'm so tired I could hardly move at all. My back is aching badly and I look so inorganized although I'm psych about my research. I wish the holidays are a little longer so that I can get more stuff done but I'm still glad that I managed to get quite a bit done this holiday. When class starts, there'll be less of me in the lab already..but hopefully I can squeeze in as much time as possible as this project is so much more interesting. Will be taking 2 classes but still in a dilemma about one of the class. The one that I really want to take is Advance Microbial Pathogenesis but I'm not too sure about Eukaryotic Genetics. I'm not very keen in sitting in lectures about eukaryotes although I'm one myself but I think it'll be very informative just as a general knowledge. Oh boy...there's just too many dilemmas that need my attention these days.
At this moment....sleep comes first.
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Happy New Year!
This year's NY's even celebration is the quietest and most boring one I've ever had...no parents, no friends, no fun...but it is one of the most relaxing night I've had for the past few weeks. Everyone left work at about 2pm. I had a discussion session with Dr. Schmidt at 2pm, which went well and I feel refresh that I now know where to heed next on the Fluorometric Assays. Finished at about 3pm, cleaned up all my stuff, wrote a letter to Mrs. Ho and left the office at about 5pm.
There were plans earlier this week..Chicago..hanging out with Irina..catching up with James..choops probably coming over..but Chicago was too expensive, Irina didn't feel like celebrating, couldn't get hold of James (you must have been not picking up my calls again! juz kidding!) and no news from choops. Then Nok called about going shopping for mattress for our new apartment and since I was up for spontaneity, I agreed and we went to Walmart. But guess what! They close at 6pm so we just walked one round, sort of figured out what we would like and left. Went to Goodrich, wanted to rent DVD but it's close! There goes a night of cuddling in front of a probably a great movie. So went home and Nok went to Donna's place. It wasn't an adventurous day or anything out of the ordinary but it was great to spend time with her. Laughters and jokes were shared, which I really do need at that time.
Actually, I am not even sad about spending the holidays alone. I've actually came peace to myself..no more depressing moments, no more mourning over the lost of a relationship and no more worrying about unneccessary stuff. Called BK in the morning to wish him Happy New Year after calling all my old high-school friends. We had a great talk and it feels good to be able to joke with him and laugh. The best was to hear him laugh again. It seems like everytime I called him the past few months, he was either occupied with some activity with friends or busy eating or had some stuff to do. But today, he's just there..available..being himself. It feels great to end the year knowing that there's peace between us and we'll be good friends in this new year.
New Year resolutions? When I was younger, NY resolutions were just something that I'm so psyche about early of the year but left behind as the year goes by. But this year, my aim is to make a NY resolution work. I think it's time I learn to keep track of what I am spending. This realization came to me when I was filing all my bank statements, payslips and all those financial documents. Then I realized that I had not saved as much money as I had intended to when I first started working. Well, I did spend a lot of money on the laptop, camera and household stuff. So this year, I decided to follow every single penny that I have and make sure that they all go to great use.
What's for the NY's day itself? In my mind right now..mattress shopping with Nok..finish the book I'm reading..watch some DVDs I have..online games!
There were plans earlier this week..Chicago..hanging out with Irina..catching up with James..choops probably coming over..but Chicago was too expensive, Irina didn't feel like celebrating, couldn't get hold of James (you must have been not picking up my calls again! juz kidding!) and no news from choops. Then Nok called about going shopping for mattress for our new apartment and since I was up for spontaneity, I agreed and we went to Walmart. But guess what! They close at 6pm so we just walked one round, sort of figured out what we would like and left. Went to Goodrich, wanted to rent DVD but it's close! There goes a night of cuddling in front of a probably a great movie. So went home and Nok went to Donna's place. It wasn't an adventurous day or anything out of the ordinary but it was great to spend time with her. Laughters and jokes were shared, which I really do need at that time.
Actually, I am not even sad about spending the holidays alone. I've actually came peace to myself..no more depressing moments, no more mourning over the lost of a relationship and no more worrying about unneccessary stuff. Called BK in the morning to wish him Happy New Year after calling all my old high-school friends. We had a great talk and it feels good to be able to joke with him and laugh. The best was to hear him laugh again. It seems like everytime I called him the past few months, he was either occupied with some activity with friends or busy eating or had some stuff to do. But today, he's just there..available..being himself. It feels great to end the year knowing that there's peace between us and we'll be good friends in this new year.
New Year resolutions? When I was younger, NY resolutions were just something that I'm so psyche about early of the year but left behind as the year goes by. But this year, my aim is to make a NY resolution work. I think it's time I learn to keep track of what I am spending. This realization came to me when I was filing all my bank statements, payslips and all those financial documents. Then I realized that I had not saved as much money as I had intended to when I first started working. Well, I did spend a lot of money on the laptop, camera and household stuff. So this year, I decided to follow every single penny that I have and make sure that they all go to great use.
What's for the NY's day itself? In my mind right now..mattress shopping with Nok..finish the book I'm reading..watch some DVDs I have..online games!
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