Of all days... someone had to hit my car on the day before my exams.
Of all days... i have to get everything settled within 24hrs.
Of all days... i'm having my exams tomorrow.

Argh... need to run to the workshop tomorrow.
Tat leaves me with one day less to study for my exams.

But still, Thank God the driver left his contact.
If not it'll be a hit and run case and i have to claim my own insurance. *bleah*

What a day... :/

updated:
3/3/2009 12.21pm
Xiao zi in hospital. Estimated stay ~2-3 days.
Knock out dent and respray front bumper and left fender.

7/3/2009 4.30pm
Xiao zi out of hospital~ Looking chio chio again. :D

Labels: random thots

Labels: random thots

Before i know it, it's December all over again!

It's my favourite month cause:
1. It's the cool season month
2. It's the Xmas month
3. It's my birthday month!
4. IT'S MY BIRTHDAY MONTH!!!

hehe..

I guess it's also cause it has always been a holiday month since i was schooling.

So.. what happened to this year? It's just zoomed past before i knew it. Oh dear, i have problems recalling what happened this year.... hmm.. I'm referring to my previous months' entries as i'm blogging. (like seriously man!) HA! Short-term memory as it's best once again. =p

- My cousin (Dawn) got married. (My first time as a jie-mei. Good $$! wahaha~)
- My first car accident.
- My trip to HK with my bestie (Scrapbk as proof!)
- I bought TWINKLE!!!
- Nephew's first year bday~
- Bought the Canon Ixus 860 compact
- Bought my holga
- Won a Canon Powershot E1 and selphy printer
- Sent off Sumi at crazily-early timing @ T3
- Bought my Canon 450D DSLR!!

Getting Twinkle sort of takes up the entire middle part of the year.
The entire drama of toilet training her, training her to slp alone at night.

What a short year it has been. I've been entirely caught up with school. Just one more year of torture before i'm officially awarded my...


(Ha! That's sure a mouthful!~) Sounds cheem and yes it's IS cheem. Honestly-speaking, I'm a paper-chaser. Grr~ And i hate to be one. Why can't i study for the passion of science and not for the paper?

Just this cert is more that enuff for me. *i think* I love the increase of knowledge i've gained through the course of studies but the studies part and just squeezing us dry with the insanely-packed schedule. That doesn't make studying fun anymore. Ha.

I am a BIG-NERD-AT-HEART. hee~
I like discovering more and more stuff about how our genes work and stuff. It's just amazing how God created us. Each and every part of us is SOOOooooo intricately created. Like how the enzymes in our body can be controlled by a mere biochemical pathway. How the 2metres long DNA can be packed into one cell.. You know how small one cell is?

*Nerd Rumbling in process*

I'm the sort who doesn't plan for the future.
Just taking things as they come my way.
So, come what may.
I'll just take one small step at a time.

If you ask, what are my new year's resolution?
I can tell you, i have none.

:)

Labels: random thots, year-end post

Yup. I've having my presentation tomorrow.
It's on a scientific journal and i tell you, those journals ain't easy to understand. MAN! argh~

I've only:
- Read my article YESTERDAY (they gave the article out like 2 mths ago)
- Still struggling to comprehend the article NOW.
- Doing my slides NOW.
- Probably practise my speech TMR. (if can finish up the slides by today.)

Good thing is that i'm presenting to my tiny class of 20 only. Mostly all know each other so i'm EXPECTING all of them to just shut up when the lecturer asks "any questions?" haha.

I think i'll just smoke my way through the presentation, as i always do.

Note to self: Don't try to act smart. hahahaha.

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Heels story1:
I love wearing heels. Just bought one last wk. Was just dining with my friend; on the way back we saw this shoe shop. Nice flats they have! Headed inside to see see look look.

Saw this 3-inch heels in a beautiful shade of BLUE....

I'm supposed to be saving for my dslr. BUT HEELS!! how often do you find a pair that really catches your eye? It had a pretty bow just at the back of it. :D I knew i just have to get it, though it's 3 inch high!

So out of the shop, i left with a box of blue heels in my hands~ happy~


Heels story2:
Wore my 2inch heels out yesterday. Wore to church in the morning. Met up with my friends after which. I didn't expect that much walking to be done in ONE DAY.

Dhoby Ghaut - The Cathy (WALK)
The Cathy - DG (WALK)
DG - bugis (MRT)
Bugis - Arab street (WALK)
Arab street - Bugis (WALK)
Bugis - DG (MRT)
DG - The Cathy (WALK)
The Cathy - DG (WALK)
Stand all the way on the train (Legs break liao)

All this walking with my absolutely-beautiful-black-lace-peeptoe-heels resulted in 4 blisters PER FOOT. hahaha. It didnt help that my directional-"fantastic" friend got us lost at Arab street. *bleah*

Labels: random thots, ranting

A HUGE load of my shoulders. My mid-term break has arrived! FINALLY! Though it's a mere 2 wks.. but man i'm thankful for this break.

Mid-exams was on last saturday, honestly i know that i didn't put in all my effort. *sigh* It's just very difficult to study as all the lectures are SO DIVERSED. ONE moment it's about amino acid structure, the next is about crystallography method, den it's about some specific protein, P450 cytochrome, DEN it's about the modifications made on many different proteins. I sort of picked my way through the notes. Focusing on some, glancing over most, 100% sure on NONE. It's just tough to study this way, where there's no main focus. *bleah*

Been horrible sick for 2 wks.. Very Major Sick = poor immunity = outbreak of my skin. *sigh* Feels like i'm back to stage one all over again. *teary-eyes... double sigh*

At least i had fun the past 2 days,

Meshelle's Bday...


Only nice image i have of me. hee.. credits to Jer's facebook. :P
Here with beanie.. Dom and wifey calefare behind.. why i have bunny ears....

My hair is actually long enuff to french-braid it! ha~ Lotsa fun and laughter.. And received the wedding invites from Rick and Angelyn. Yipee~ Another friend getting married. Congrats Ah-Huat! hee~ Weddings are such Happy Occasions!!

Sunday was reserved for my date with God in the morning and Twinkle in the afternoon. :)
Brought my little one to the SKC Dog Show at Expo again! I felt really bad of neglecting my girl for the past month. Bad mommy. Been so caught up with school every night that i couldnt play much with her. So this is the special treat for her. Our second time to the SKC dog show.

This time i bought her some more dehydrated treats. Fish-skin for omega-3; fish fillet; and chicken feet! eeks! It's said to be good for them to chew and remove tar from their teeth. No harm trying. haha..

And also got for her a super-comfy-velour-red harness. She looks CUTE in the harness. Red and white = perfect match. We hung around watching obedience challenges. *The doggies are AMAZING! When will my dearie be as guai~* The beautiful showdogs. Had a ton of fun just dog-watching. Saw so many breeds.. from the tiniest chihuahua (even smaller than princess!), dalmations, rotties, huskies, basset hound, daushund, corgis, MS, shih-tzu, maltese all wrapped up, yorkies, saluki, whippet.. so many to bio~ :D

My lovely got unanimous compliments..
It's always "She's so affectionate" Twinkle can be crowed Miss Manja Queen.

Didn't bring my cam.. So no pictures of the dogshow. *bleah*

I'm gonna treasure my 2 wk of holidays.
More regular sleeping time,
more kopi/prata sessions!!,
more time with Twinkle,
more time to be a couch-potato,
more time for my PSP!

Essentially, more time for myself. :)

I think i'll go into hibernation mode. Hee.

Labels: dogs, happy thots, pictures, random thots, ranting, twinkle

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MY FRIDGE IS FULL!

Can't wait to pop them all into my holga~
I have 4 rolls of films PENDING for processing. 2 fr my vivi.. 2 fr my holga..
Can't wait to see the results... IF i can find time to head to ML...

*i need to find time~*

Labels: films, holga, random thots

i have been terribly stressed for the past 4 wks.

Utterly tortured by my school. It's AMAZING what the school expects from us. They completed the half of my module lectures over a period of 4 sessions (full 3 hrs each time). They gives us 2 entire wk of practicals, FULL lab reports due a wk after. Den they gives us another 4 sessions of lecture for the last part.

They just forget the tiny-weeny fact that, WE ARE WORKING FULL-TIME AS WELL.

Lab sessions were horrible, half the time.. no.. more like the ENTIRE TIME, we have no idea wad we are doing. Briefing by the lab demos stinks. Horrible and unfriendly lab techs dun help either. Me and my friends are like totally lost. We just wanna finish up wadever we are supposed to do and just FLEE out of the lab. BUT this leaves us totally stuck with the lab report.

Man.. Chemistry Calculations.. Was hopeless with that in my sec sch days. Am hopeless with them now as well. What's the deal with the no. of moles.. molarity.. molality.. concentration.. ion exchange.. electrons.. chemical equation.. equilibirum. HELLO??? PPL majoring in molecular biology DON'T CARE ABT THOSE! Tell me about bacteria.. genetics.. viruses... anything else.

This is my worst module till date. Chemistry sux big-time.

The feedback form (given at every end of the course) was issued to us. Not surprisingly, the entire class (including ME) had LOTS to write in the comment portion. Complain complain complain. Ain't gonna help us no more.. but at least hopefully the next batch get a better treatment.

BUT.. to my surprise.. the final part of the labs was relaxing. i was ECSTATIC when the lecturer announced that the lab reports are all due on the day of my exams! YIPEE~ meaning i have a whole 3 wks to SLOWLY do my report. And the requirements of which has been reduced. NO need for RUBBISH stuff like intro, method, results, discussion, conclusion CRAP. Just "RESULTS". Tat's it. Simple enough. PERFECT.

Thank God for the 180degrees change in the sequence of events. Man, i was so depressed on the monday about the quizzes to come(4 quiz in a week, wow... perfect planning. -.-) But really, Thank God for changing everything. Nice lecturer, nice pace of work, nice nice nice..

Coming to the end of THIS MODULE. Just need to scrape through this one.

I know God can help me with that. :)

Keeping a heads-up!

Labels: random thots, ranting

My lappy crashed... Kinda sad about it cause it means that all my stuff (my reports.. pictures..) are GONE..

*poof* into thin air

Good lesson to myself; to back up my stuff. Me.. the dumb-ass.

Anyway, i just want to comment that LENOVO's after sales service is SUPERB! Used their service a total of 3 times.

1) My brand-new LCD screen was spoil. I went to 'deposit' my lappy at my nearest post office. And Voila~ Singpost delivered it to them. They fixed it up and send back to the post office. Go and collect it. :)

2) Battery problem. The technical support ger called me from overseas!! haha.. weird, though i stated in my request form that i'm fr SG. Called me a couple of time to check on my battery series no and stuff. Problem not solved as my batt's warranty was already over. *bummer* but anyhow, i can feel her sincerity of wanting to help me. *Props to the nice lady!*

3) Lappy siao-problem. Refused to access to Windows XP. Technical support guy, Steven, walked me through the guide of finding out wad's wrong the computer. Assessed that it was the problem of the hard-disk. Advised me how to remove and install the hard-disk by myself. Asked his rider to immediately send the hard-disk to my house for a one to one exchange.

WOOT!~ that's what i call GOOD SERVICE!!

I'm gonna fix it up this evening when i get home.
If this doesn't work, i'm gonna rewrite this post! *evil laughter*

i'm so gonna get LENOVO as my next lappy as well..

Upz to Lenovo peeps.. hee~

Labels: random thots, ranting

I'm about to blow with the overload of excitement, mixed emotions in me!
(i think that's what's causing my weak stomach these days...)

FINALLY!!!! finally... my life-long dream is coming true~

Regretfully it's done without the anticipation and excitement i would expect from my family. I would love to have my mom come along with me to choose my ger.. collect her and just choose stuff together for her. Honestly i dun think i'm doing anything wrong but well, that's what parents all the time don't they? they just have to sing a different tune from their kids...

Parents.. you can't do with them, you can't do without them. :)

Well, Thank God for friends... *EVIL* friends!!!

*fingers crossed* for this sat~

God...i REALLY REALLY need your help on this one... ... ...

Labels: random thots

♥ Name's Michy
♥ Living in la-la land
♥ Forever Lost…n Blur…
♥ Loves the whole world
♥ Loves DRIVING
♥ Loves lomography
♥ Crazy over cameras...