simple and fun

On Friday, my plan for this weekend was to watch DVDs, sleep in and wake up without an alarm clock, read novels and read some articles on microbial diversity. However, I could not sleep past 9am even though it was dead quiet when I woke up except for the sound of the cars passing by on the highway once in a while. But that wasn’t the source of my waking up. It was more due to the habit of waking up at 6am every morning and all I need was a couple of hours extra. But I got the pleasure of just lazing around the house, watching Hero and Jersey Girl.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to leave lab work even for a day so I went to lab in the late afternoon to run a PCR. Yeap, the PCR is working well but I still can’t get the product I want to amplify in large amount. It seems like the primers have another annealing side that keeps giving me an unwanted product that is only about 800bp. But I am glad that I have products to play around with instead of just empty reaction tubes with just buffer and water.

Around 6pm, CY called and said that they are having a barbeque at Hawk Island County Park. What else would be more fun on a Sat. evening than spending time with friends by the lake, eating BBQ chicken drumstick? So I agreed to it and he came to pick me up. I am glad that I went because we had so much fun and it’s been such a long time since I laughed so hard and it was genuine. I didn’t have to pretend to be a different person. The gathering was nice too because there was no gossips, which would have occurred if I had spent time with M’sians from my undergrad peers. I am not trying to offend anyone but everytime there is a gathering, there’s always stories going around about who’s doing what and what is happening to who. Here, we don’t know each other very well except that we’re all M’sians and we appreciate companionship of our own kind once in a while. So it was just enjoying the moment and nothing more.

After the BBQ, we had a few games of bowling at Okemos and pool at Owen Hall. I came home late and did not get to read much stuff but it was fun. This is actually the first time I went out with them as friends and not because it is organized as an M’sian Student Organization activity. I would definitely do it again.