Laptop didn't come easy..

the last post and this have been done using my new laptop.. Yeah! I finally bought a laptop this mon.. has been thinking of this for 2 years already.. but my father didn't want me to buy.. he says it is not necessary to spend so much money to buy.. okay.. maybe I did not really need it last year.. but this year I am so much more busy liao.. I think a laptop is really necessary. I can have access to internet and com everywhere I go.. no need to always go cblc.. where I sometimes need to queue.. and the 4-plus-year-old desktop in my house is so slow liao.. sometimes really felt frustrated by its slowness.. rather than changing to a new desktop.. why not get a new laptop right..

this laptop really didn't come easy.. I have to explain to my parents how much I really need a laptop and I have to borrow money from my mother to buy it and I promised to return the money to her when I start to work.. just when I thought I finally succeeded to persuade them.. then I had a quarrel with them last week.. becos they really unhappy that I still involved in sci club activity.. always going out.. then not enough rest.. I didn't always go to sci club events lor.. just that two weeks ago.. thurs I went to watch movie with friends then fri went to prof's house for a farewell party and then sat got alive.. they are just very unhappy that I have so much activities.. it is just a coincident mah.. it is very rare that ppl ask me out mah.. just nice that week got so many.. haha..

then I not very happy that they nagged at me about it.. don't give me freedom to do what I want so I threw my temper and even ask my father to stop the car and I get out and stomped home.. yup, I was in my father's car and we are on our way to breakfast, not far from house.. I very very very bad hor.. but I just don't know why I do it.. maybe I really lack of rest and feeling stressed from studies.. excuses again.. haha.. okay.. I agree that I am really a unfillial child.. my father really very angry with me lor.. he even wrote a letter to me.. telling me how disappointed he is.. okay.. it's my fault.. if he continues angry with me.. I would not be able my laptop anytime soon.. so I apologised lor.. thru sms.. becos he will not want to talk to me.. I told him how remorseful I am and how sorry I felt and the cold war did stopped on that day.. luckily.. hey.. I didn't apologise just becos I want to get a laptop okay.. I really felt bad for my action lor.. and I don't want the cold war to last too long..

when I finally get the permission to buy.. I went to coop then the person there told me that there is no more stock for the acer model.. oh my goodness.. why am I so unlucky de.. was it becos I wore black that day.. it was not my lucky colour.. strange right.. I actually thought of that.. haha.. listen too much to the fortune teller.. therefore, I had to pay a $20 deposit and wait lor.. the person said the stock will come in 1 week's time.. but it actually come the next day.. aiyoo.. I thought it will take some time.. didn't know so fast. made me worry so much ..

using the laptop also has its troublesome way.. its quite heavy.. so I really dread to carry it to sch and back home sometimes.. makes my bag so heavy.. and when I start to use it, I have to install in the programs that I will need.. a bit waste time also.. and I need to transfer some files from my desktop to it also.. okay lah.. these are just some small complaints.. overall I am still happy can liao.. hee..

busy busy busy tired tired tired..

Hello..
it has been so long that I never update my blog.. it has been one month..

yup.. a lot of things have happened.. I still remembered less than one month ago.. I am more free and people are always asking me.. "Hey! your fyp still haven't started yet yah? so late haven't start?", "you seem so free..", "still wearing shorts (or skirts)? you must be haven't start lab right.." when I heard all these.. I will feel a bit embarrassed.. am I so slack? I'm not.. just that the chemicals had not come and the prof haven't gave me instructions mah.. how to start.. I was also worried that I start late also..

now that my lab has started.. I become so busy.. I have to go lab on my free time and free days and cope with my other assignments.. lab reports, marketing assignments.. when they come tog.. it is really disaster for me.. last weekend and this week, I never sleep much lor.. slept at 3 or 4 plus am for most of the days.. am I a robot? even a robot, also cannot overwork lor.. I really hope that I can go back to the time I was so free.. so sad.. it will not happen.. I just have to bear with all this until next year lor.. mid term break has started but I still have to go sch almost everyday next week to do lab lor.. I decided to take a break today.. don't want to touch sch work at all.. I know I should not be so slack at all.. but I don't care! I slept to 2pm today and then at 5 plus I slept again to 6 plus.. haha.. see how tired I am.. the night before I also slept at 4 plus am lor.. to finish my slides for yesterday presentation..

yah.. I did a presentation yesterday about my honour project progress during group meeting.. what makes up the group? My supervisors, my mentor and the rest who are lab officers, grad students, research fellows working in the same lab.. my sup is their boss.. quite nervous lor.. so at the beginning, I did say wrongly some stuff.. some words didn't pronounce properly.. hee.. then the prof shoot me questions.. and the first qn, I didn't ans to the question.. I understand his qn but I don't know how to ans becos I never consider that at all.. then I try to smoke thru lor.. hee.. but he says that I am not answering his qn at all.. haha.. okay I give up.. I just be honest and say I never think of that lor.. subsequently, he pointed out some other things that I need to consider in my experiment.. quite useful lor.. when the presentation ended.. I feel so much relax.. haha.. no matter how it goes.. I still feel good abt it.. hee.. and my other supervisor, an ang moh, even says my presentation is quite good leh.. haha..

doing lab work is actually quite interesting.. but I still cannot do it independently.. still need my mentor's help and and supervision.. becos some of the techniques I am not familiar.. even the washing of glasswares also need techniques de lor.. need to rinse with water, then use soap and brush, wash and rinse with acetone.. then put in oven.. haha.. not very easy lor.. even brush also need to do it in the right way.. haha..

Not happy..

I should be feeling happy as I have one reponsibility down and now I can concentrate all my heart and mind on my studies and honours project. But suddenly some issues popped up that really make me not happy at all.. make me feel really cheated and disappointed.. maybe.. I am the one who has misunderstood things and expected too much.. this heat that built up in me has already burst out once but I still feel some of it remaining in me.. appear now and then in my mind.. how can I concentrate to do my report.. Argh.. so frustrating.. I just have to be more determined and force it out of my mind.. it's over so don't think so much!

Rag Day photos

I have uploaded the photos that I took to this link
http://picasaweb.google.com/starsfruit/RagDay07

not very well taken becos I took them from the side and was blocked by the mics, chair and people.. these are the best I can do liao lor..

Well done Sci fac! I was so happy when I hear all the awards that rag won that I want to cry lor.. it was better than what I have expected and the other faculty floats are worst than what I have expected lor.. why this year standard not so good.. sci one is so magnificent.. but next year must try harder on the recycling part and least cost.. if not very difficult to get best float de.. it's not only me feel this way lor.. I also hear others made the comment that we are doing float just for the sake of winning and lose the objective of using recycled materials and being environmental friendly.. using a lot of paints and new expensive papers do not really fit the theme..

but it's still great that the rag comm are so creative in creating the designs and muthu's mechanism.. I feel proud and happy to be involved in helping to do some of the mache and painting.. and it's great that we still hold on to the most coin collection award and the flag gold award.. to beat biz on the 60% seems like so difficult but I believe we can do it becos we did it before.. 2 years ago..

1 more strong competitor is coming up.. which is SDE.. they always do well in float, getting best float for 3 years already and they are improving in flag also.. they will catch up anytime soon.. so has to watch out for them..

Is it worth the 45 mins wait?

Yes, it is!
Yesterday after rag day, so hot, thirsty and hungry and wanted to get an air-conditioned place in marina square to sit down, have a drink and eat.. then someone suggested Waraku.. it is a japanese pasta restaurant.. okay.. never tried that before so it is something new.. then when we reached the restaurant, we saw so many ppl waiting outside the restaurant.. oh my goodness.. is it really so good? maybe it just open.. it's a new restaurant so many ppl are curious and wanted to try.. haha.. so are we.. and we are told by the manager to come back 45 mins later.. and we just waited by going to mac to have a drink first.. haha.. and I say I will give it a thumb up if it really worth the 45 min and the food is really so good..

and I really want to give it a thumb up! I ordered a seafood spaghetti with tomato and cream sauce.. the pasta is not bad.. seafood is fresh.. just nice to fill the stomach.. not too much that you will feel sick in the stomach.. which is the common problem for some pasta restaurant.. before the pasta, there is a small bowl of salad.. which I really like.. haha.. I like salad! After the meal, we still ordered dessert.. I had a fruit ice-cream shared with yuan yuan.. really like the corn flakes at the bottom.. hee..

The salad..

Yuan and me with our pasta!

I finished everything.. yeah!

A candid shot taken with our dessert.. haha..

A spicy olive oil that I never see before.. there are two small chillies soaked in the olive oil..

We received $25 vouchers after our meal there and the safe-keeper of our vouchers is junjie.. haha.. sorry yah.. the photo not very nice.. but it is very funny.. worth putting on my blog.. haha.. and this is the proof that our vouchers are with you okay.. hee.. cannot try to fake yah.. or be uncontactable.. haha.

Facebook is really interesting.. haha..

I actually is very lazy to set up another profile.. I have friendster already.. why need another one? but my friend has uploaded the photos that I want in her photo album in facebook so no choice but have to set up an account lor.. then just now I go and explore a bit.. it is actually very interesting and quite addictive..

it has all the interesting applications there.. and I added quite many of them..haha.. you can be a vampire who bite others.. you can poke, hug others, show your emotion, ask ppl for their honest opinion of you anonymously.. have graffiti on your wall or send videos or photos to ppl.. have your fortune predicted using fortune cookies or have horoscope predictions.. and also cast spells on others.. haha.. there are many many these kinds of applications..

never know it is so fun.. should go and try www.facebook.com

HOW?

HOW stands for Honours Orientation Week.. haha..

Ppl asks me what I am doing in sch this week, I told them I am having honours orientation.. and they will give me a surprised face.. doing honours also has orientation.. a bit unbelieveable right.. only chem department has this.. it is not a O Week that you will ice breaker games to let you know your fellow chem honours students or the profs.. haha.. somebody asks me that.. but it is week full of some useful and also boring talks.. like today.. I am wondering whether the statistics lects are relelvant to me.. slept thru half of it.. it's really boring.. some parts have already learnt before in sec and jc.. and the lecturers are boring also.. oops.. hee.. got one talked so softly into the mic that I cannot hear what he says and one rushes thru and I cannot catch what he says and feels so lost.. hope tmr talks will be more interesting and more relevant bah..

Seen my supervisor yesterday.. yes.. I have confirmed my honours project topic.. it is "Organometallic Complexes of Quinine for new display materials".. it has both organic and inorganic.. and analytical also.... has to use NMR and MS mah.. From the leftovers, I found this project which is interesting to me.. I don't know why nobody wants this proj.. I heard this Prof not bad.. but may have high expectation lor.. maybe becos he is the HOD mah.. from the list.. I see I am among the 2 who took his projects.. surprisingly.. he has 10 over proj but nobody wants.. maybe inorganic is not popular.. apparently the other person who is taking his project has not contact him yet.. and I may be the only one honours student he has this sem.. and the lab officer made a comment that they have to "zhen xi" me the only honours student..

don't know why.. after meeting him yesterday, I felt a bit scared.. feels scared that I have to do the organic synthesis independently.. really scared will screw up everything.. what if I failed to synthesize anything.. what if I don't understand what I doing.. what if I even simple things also cannot do properly.. what if I cannot meet the expectations of the prof.. a lot of what ifs are in my mind.. quite intimidated by the lab and the equipment lor.. and I will have to go for trainings to learn how to use NMR and MS.. thinking of that.. I am a bit scared liao..