No Line On the Horizon

Ok..so i forgot to bring my camera to the microbe party, and therefore any interesting and creepy pics can be viewed from Facebook via a friend album who tagged my ugly face in it!...Hah.

Been unduly busy this week..yikes..feel like time zoom pass very quickly in lab..sigh. I shall look forward to my December holidays! It's my second overseas trip with Liren, and well, we shall have many more to come! Talking about hols...me and Liren saw a pair of angmoh couple in JB custom, who looked extremely lost..And apparently, they walked towards the wrong direction to Singapore..So, we approach em telling them they walked the wrong way...well, then we chatted and coincidently they are also heading to Clementi. They are a pair of young French couple, whose English sounded so like my boss..creepy.. but what interests me is that they actually quit their job cuz their sick of it, pack their bags and head to south east asia and just don't give a damn about it. They guy once worked in South Sudan building water pipes for NGOs. Wow. Maybe one day, me and Liren will quit our job and travel to Bhutan or Mozambique for some serious soul searching..who knows, maybe we will! =)

"Stand by me...and darling darling stand by me"

I AM CURRENTLY WATCHING U2 LIVE FROM ROSE BOWL IN YOU TUBE CHANNEL-WOW!

I WISH I WISH THEY'D STOP BY SINGAPORE for their 360 deg tour!!!

Beautiful Nightmare

The department party is tomorrow! This year theme is "Nightmare on Mirobe Street"..chimm.. but as usual, we had fun preparing all the food... our lab is in charge of the Franco-Swiss food (cuz my boss is French), unlike last year where we need to convert the whole seminar room and walkway into a disco room.. This year is much exciting cuz we'll do Halloween! =) Pumpkins craft, witch brew and broomsticks.. As a tradition, we'll have to dress up our boss according to the party theme...It's a secret which will be revealed tmr! Ha, I hope she looks good tmr =)

Here's a little sneak preview of some of the stuffs we made..little blind mice..

Ermm..actually looks more like Jumbo elephant ler..ha

WITCH FINGERS......

Oh shit, my blog header is missing!! Now where did it go?? Urggh, looks like i gotta find one to fill the naked header. Yo fat sis, can you help me do it?? heheh

After all hype that Liren has been psycho-ing me to watch Inglorious Basterds with him, finally we went to watch it! Surprisingly it was a good piece work of Quentin Terantino, well of cuz he's good! A dark comedy, with a pinch of Hitler sarcasm, action, love, betrayal, horror.. all manufactured into a nice story. =) Overall, it's 2 thumbs up!

Postgraduate studies for the past 3 months have been a turmoil, many ups and many downs as well. But, I learnt a lot along the way and that's what education is all about, right? Often, many would assume that postgrad is hell lots of lab work (yes, it's true cuz you'll be handling more than 1 project) but it's also a training ground for you to be independent, responsible of your own project, critical and most importantly maintain good relationship with your labmates although some might pissed you off in between...and that's when your EQ often plays an important role. And, no you don't have to be a smart ass to excel in research. Hmm maybe a knack in presentation skills.. Anyway, one lab I've known with top scholars students produced no results and no publications for the past few years. Well, there is no textbooks or prepared notes in scientific research. You start from nothing, plan and troubleshoot from something, and finally be critical on the bench cuz there's no room for mistakes. Or else you got to start all over again..On top of that, you have to plan to save the lab resources and the environment as well. I have to say, sci research is an interesting job, like I said many ups and downs (negative results, no results, weird results, etc) maybe I'll get bored of it someday, and move on to another science arena..but what's important is the present. Living to the fullest at the present is much effective than dreaming about the future. Really. Cuz everything will fall into place by itself...

Adieu.

Hello Hello my officially dead blog! Damn, i typed the wrong password into this blog site. That resonates how looong it has been...ahh man, everytime i'm home from lab, I would lay down on the sofa just doing nothing. Like a dead fish. Except maybe moving my two fingers to scroll the webpages on bags, facebook, emails etc..Unless I'm being forced by Liren for jogging..

Apparently, there's a whole bunch of ppl that I've known getting married this month! So, there's definitely overkill of red wine and laughter....Congrats to Chuyin, Jasmin, to Grace my fellow lab da jie. Congrats to Delvin gor for his up-coming wed in Dec.. So when is mine? I don't know! When someone propose I guess?

What's interesting these days? Hmm, nothing much except that Barrack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize and oh.. Avril Lavigne files for divorce..so much for her happy ending?

ok i'm so so so exhausted today. swollen eyelids. headache. tired muscles. cramps. urggh feel like lying on my bed and practically just lay there for the next 20 hrs...knowing that i can't cuz i have loadsssss on my to-do list! =(

last week went home, and going home again this week! ha..cuz my darling si gemuk is coming home!!! home is still the best place on earth, i tell you! plus i gotta give some tutorials to my parents on internet. now they can surf on the star, toto, you tube and chat on msn. i can't stop laughing when i see my dad type on the keyboard, searching for the letters. hahhaa.

and do check out "this is it" movie on michael jackson! his last tour clips, going on cinemas in the united states..don't think they have it here in singapore. too bad =( he will always be the greatest entertainer and musician of all time, until the world ends.

I LOVE...

OK let's blog about my current squeeze..

As a Windows users for more than 10 yrs, I realised that Windows is so self-limiting and mundane and bored. It is true when one try his/her hands on Mac OS, there's no turning back. After more than a month of using a MacBook, I'm simply overjoyed because everything is kept simple and fast (incredibly faster than Windows). It never fails to amaze me with all the built in applications. Even the boyfriend is getting a Mac soon and kept wanting to use mine! Ha. So here's a few good things and some con of cuz as far as I'm concern..

The good:

-MacOS is essentially resistant to almost all internet spyware and viruses cuz they all attack most Windows OS. My thumbdrive is loaded with Trojans due to the STDs among the lab computers, and so far my laptop is not affected at all. Woohoo.

-iPhoto is brilliant, less than 10 seconds to transfer from an SD card and arrange all my photos according to event, place and face recognition. Yes, face recognition as in when I tag one photo with "YinFong" or"Jimmy"; every other photos with their face will be recognised and grouped in a folder under their respective name. How brilliant. And I can directly upload photos to Facebook using this application.

-Garage band, compose music directly on the laptop. Piano, keyboard, guitar, bass, drum, etc..

-Control iTunes and iMovie directly from the keyboard

-Light sensitive keyboards, which automatically illuminates in the dark

-Get Tube! from youtube =)

-MacOffice is much easier to manipulate and compatible to open in any form of Windows OS.

-The 2,3,4 fingers thingy! I love it, is so simple to scroll, expose, enlarge anything...

-100 secs to startup and 10 sec to shutdown

-3 sec to load the web browser safari

-No, and I mean NO crashes unlike Windows "End programme now" which totally pissed me off

-6 hrs of battery life!

-HD LCD screen, omg I love my screen.

-Aluminium bodied, nice to touch.

The bad:

-Cannot transfer songs to other mp3 brands except iPod. Which means, I die die have to get an iPod to replace my old Creative Zen. =(

-Need to download some converter to convert wma files to mp3 for iTunes

-Umm what else? I don't understand why some of my friends hated Mac at the first place...at least I still couldn't find the bad out of it. Yet.

The ugly:

-Price may be a concern, but I got a good deal from school with free MacOffice, Adobe CS4 and 3 yr apple protection plan worth $300+, free upgrade to MacOS X Snow Leopard roar..am waiting for my CD!

Personally, I think I'm paying for something I feel is worth the price. Well, I haven't tried flipping my Mac over to a Windows as I do not have a pirated cd on it, but come to think about it, why would I need Windows now??? Two words, Mac rocks.

I got a free T-shirt from MacNUS that says: "Once A PC" on the front and "Now A MAC" on the back. Haha damn cute.

Love,

Regina

Happy-ing

And so I've met Ashin, Monster, Shitou, Masa and Guanyou last week!! It was a good show, nevertheless, Ashin is darn cute and others are incredibly talented. =) I don't really listen much to chinese songs esp chinese pop except for some classic by Jacky Cheung and that's it. By far, I only listen to Mayday and that is Wu Yue Tian, and that is I'm one of their biggest fan!! So, it's really a good night when I went down for their concert and the crowd were super high as well. Here are some nice shots taken from a digital camera...i think the stage resembles a cell (as in the basic organization of all life forms) undergoing mitosis or meiosis (fig 4).. Well, very much correlates with the tour theme "Mayday D.N.A world tour"..haaa. Some of the older songs were performed like Lian ai-ING, Jue Jiang and Crazy World, and mostly songs from the Poetry of the Day After album.

Cheerio

Regina