i am a low processitivity DNA polymerase

nope.. this is an understatement. I am a super low processitivity DNA polymerase. I just cannot bring myself to study. I am so tired.. i want my holidays.... sigh... I am only covering 1 lecture each day these past 2 days... sian...

argh!! I need more drive to study.. only a few more days!!

I still prefer studying about simpler stuff. The complicated things that I am learning turns me off... I jus cannot bring myself to study them.... argh... sian....

exams are going to be over soon...

yeah! i am 60% cleared for my exams.. i know i know.. there are tonnes of people out there who have already finished theirs. But at least mine is finishing right??

I cleared my most feared paper today, cancer biology. I was more than glad to get it over and done with. Can you imagine having to remember all the dumb forms of cancer, the molecular mechanisms behind them, diagnosis and treatments? There were hell lot of stuff to remember and very little time. And i kept mixing up all the pathways and the chromosome numbers. IN THE END... hmm.. the paper din really asked a lot of details. In fact, it was quite do-able. There were some questions that i really dunno how to do so i jus smoke my way through. I hope my smoke was logical. Hopefully i can clear this module with a decent grade. After this paper i really had 如释重负的感觉. Felt so much more relaxed man....

Two more papers. I just hope that i can trust my instinct more. It had been more than once did i suspect my own answers when they are actually correct. HOLIDAYS.. wait for me!

buried in the middle of books

2 papers have already passed.

Nothing much to complain about the first paper. It was a do-able paper. Anything that i do not know as my own fault coz i din study enough. But.. i did leh. I studied the most for this paper. In fact i only studied for this paper. The problem is that, i realised that things take longer to get through to my brain. Poor bioavailibity of the information? Probably.... So anything that i studied did not get through. But it is not really my fault leh. There were hell lot of things to study. I predicted that they can give different questions every year and the questions can last for 10 years. The only thing i want to complain about the paper is the first section. The lecturer said got 6 true/false questions. BUT he never say each qn got sub-parts. In the end, i did a total of 24 questions. Felt so cheated after the exam.

Today's paper sucked. Out of 3 calculations questions, i only know that 1 is correct. The second one i think is wrong and the last one i hope is correct coz i think i got a weird ans. And out of 5 essays to do, minus the calculation question, i only know hot to do like 2? The other 20 marks i crapped my way through. Do not think the crap made sense. And out of the remaining 8 short questions that i have to do, i only know how to do like 6? Sigh... i hope i am not the worst... pray for the best.

Cancer in 3 more days. Shit lah.. that one oso very terrible. My god.. I am looking forward to next thurs!! exams are over!!

how to deal with exam stress?

BLOG! yes... and what do you do when you do not have anything to blog about? You start posting bo-liao photos. I was looking throught my photos and found some of these photos that i wanted to blog abt but somehow they failed to make their way to my blog. So here they are:

Talking abt exam stress, my fren's bf very sweet. Bought her giant pockey to relieve her stress. i am so jealous. But i decided to console myself that my bf oso very sweet. He gave me this candy stick during christmas after we had a big fight. But i din managed to get it from him until very long later coz he passed to my juniors to give me but i wasnt' at the new year dinner.

Instead of studying, I was out having lunch with my friends. We went PS to have high tea buffet. It was at this place called 老北京. I thought the food was just alright and it was a bit ex to pay 18 for so little variety. But there were some interesting stuff about the place.

First, they have a super authentic looking menu. Looks like some manual right?

The food of the day. My friends they all keep taking plates after plates of it. I refused to eat it. You know why? Coz it those 三cen肉. So fattening....

The next interesting thing was the popiah. We got to make them ourselves. haha.. so fun. Everytime at home its always my aunt making it for me. This time i got to try on my own.

The ingredients come in such a tray. So we get to mix everything we want of dun want together.

My popiah in the making. Found anything missing? haha.. yar.. the vegetable is missing. I did not see it on the table until i have finished putting my bean sprouts.

Yeah! Presenting to you.. my completed popiah. Taste good and look good too right?
Some random photos...

One day in school, 3 silly girls decided that they want to eat cup noodles. So here we are, with 3 bowls of cup noodles and a packet of soup. yummy.. but better not let mummy see.. she is going to nag me for not taking care of myself again...This girl is the sis of a student in the class next door on Mondays. haha.. she is very cute right? So pretty with such big eyes. Look a bit like a cartoon character hor?The cutest child in the world. My cousin! He is so funny. We were playing badminton at the court and he took the racket and play guitar. Elvis in the making...

Fish & Co

After some discussion, we decided to meet for dinner to celebrate Sharon's birthday on Saturday. Initially planned on a lot of places but in the end we went to PS and eat Fish & Co. And the attendance was pretty impressive. There were a total of 14 ppl wor! and 6 guys! (Fyi, my clique only have girls and there are 15 of us, including one in US now) At first we wanted Sharon to bring her bf along coz we nv see him b4. Den she wants us to bring all my bfs along so he wun feel so weird. Initially i tot only km coming. In the end, everyone's bf came!! including mine. haha.. thanks dear! He do not usually go out with my friends. So sweet of him to go with me. *muack* love you.. i gotta thank Citibank too. Without his credit card and the free drink at Fish & Co, he probably wun come.

Anyway, back to the food, very long never eat Fish & Co liao, still taste as nice as ever. BUT, i really wonder what's wrong with some ppl. They simply wun get fat. I eat the way they do, i cannot fit into my clothes in one week. After Fish & Co, Jo complained she still not full. Mind you, she and her bf shared a seafood platter for two. Usually i eat tt with hz i always cannot finish the food. And after dinner, Xiling suggests that we go Gelare and I had ice cream while Jo ate waffle! OMG.. she is a cow.. with 7 stomachs. haha..

As usual, there was a lot of photos. haha.. Xiling bluff Sharon she never took the photo of her bf kissing her. But actually she was taking a video. wahahaha. But it was so sweet. Her bf was so sporting. I decided not to post the photo here to save her the embarassment. Anyway, Xiling was trying to take a photo of me and hz but the camera simply would not focus. There was a total of 9 blurred photos taken. haha.. it was so funny. We were like the models of the day. Finally Duan Bao managed to find a way to get the camera to focus and got a photo of us.

Anyway, here are some photos of the evening.

Everyone were patiently waiting for the food. The place was freezing cold and I was super hungry....

Presenting to you, the couples...

Finally, my dear and me. I still thought hz was very sweet. hehe.. thanks darling!
Besides couples, we have some les for the night too. Presenting to you... the not so straight ppl..

The 9 blurred photos. None of them would focus. If only they can. Coz i think some of the photos might turn out quite nice.
The first focused photo taken for the night. The girls. Yu Lei was so happy that she can stand at the back coz she was wearing heels. The ultimate winner was still Sarah coz her heels were real high...
The gentlemen of the day. What a wide variety of colours.. haha..
Table shot of everyone. Mitchell was the chairman of this dinner. This dinner looks like some match-making with so many couples. haha..
There's xiling posing proudly with her ice-cream. Her bf like to disturb her. Got another photo oso but i was too ugly in the photo so i decided not to post it. hehe....

Jo's waffle. Actually look quite nice hor? I am really surprised with the amount of things that she can eat. Amazing. And she finished her waffle even faster than i finished my waffle basket.

Last day of school before the exams...

Looking back over what i have written over the past one month, i realised that i haven been updating very often. Cannot really blame me for not updating. I am so much reports and assignments to hand in that i nearly went mad with reports. Here I am, still suffering from the after effects of lab reports and exams are already coming! omg.. shit...

anyway, this week is the first week that i do not have to hand in any reports and last week, we had a little celebration in school. Haha.. no lah.. actually it was to celebrate Chew Hwee and Sharon's birthday. We had a funnily decorated cake by Xiling and XinYing. And Jo was too stressed she had some alcohol with py in school and looked like a lobster after that. We had a lot of photos as usual and we even recorded a super long video for Grace. Hope that she will get the video soon.

Here's some photos.

The "ugly" cake. Saw the mess at the bottom of the cake. Its supposed to be S for Sharon and Q for Qiuhui. They kept remind sharon that its not SQ for Siqi.

Saw the very short stick? The birthday girls are supposed to pick them up. Not too hard right? (",)

Here's sharon making a brave attempt.

And that's chew hwee. Great job girls!

Caught in the act. Jo with her "apple juice".

Me as the cake girl. As usual.

Look grace! We left a pc of cake for you. But since you cannot have it, sharon finished it for you.

Group photo! But we are missing anne and grace...

Exams are here!! But they will be over in no time. Hang in there girls!

Some photos...

Okay okay.. here are the photos that i promised.. i took more than 1 week to post all of them and its not a lot of photos. Its so hard to post photos on blogspot. if anyone found a better and faster way, please let me know ok? thanks!

My trip to Biopolis
The first thing which we saw that tells us that we are on the right track. Don't you think the word "Biopolis" is a bit too small? And do not think the 3 figures are quite dumb, they are actually made up of all the different buildings in biopolis. Look at the map and you will understand.

That's me with the biopolis as the background. Dresscode for the day was smart casual and there are still people who turned up in jeans and three-quarters. Luckily this photo cannot see me very clearly. I think i look weird in the photo.

The map of biopolis. There are 7 buildings altogether. Namely, Proteos, Nanos, Matrix, Centros, Chromos, Helios and Genome.

This is actually found at the bottom of the map on top. It tells you what each building has and from there, you can basically guess what is each building doing.

The Matrix building. It was where our seminar was held.

This should be the first thing that anyone notice the moment they walked into the building. But apparently all 3 of us were cocked-eyed. We only saw it during the break. Can anyone guess what does each picture represent? Each picture represent each of the building in biopolis. Bio students should not have a big problem guessing. Esp biomolecular trained students.

Have you guessed it? Here are the answers...

Another very impressive thing in the building is this DNA structure. Its built to perfection, with each atom in the DNA structure accurately represented. Including the different bases. And we found something amazing. Even the different number of hydrogen bonds are represented! Here's the CG triple bond. Look out for the white circles. Of the bond is behind the pole.
This is more obvious, the AT double bond.
A simpler and more elegant DNA structure that could be found on nearly every level of the building.
Welcome to BioBiz 2006!

The auditorium where the talk was held. Very cozy chairs.. i feel asleep for 2 hrs during the seminar. Even the toilets are very pretty. Look at the signs of the toilets they are also made up of the different buildings in the place.
They even have handicapped toilets. Do not anyhow use wor.. later get complained..

My very tasty doughnuts

After the seminar i went to meet hz at orchard and i bought tasty doughnuts home. Very pretty packaging hor? But cannot buy too often, very 心痛 coz its quite ex..

The IT show

After a busy weekend for biobiz, its the IT show. And i bought my printer. Sooooo happy. I have long wanted a colour printer... and now i got a three in one.

That's the trolley i used to bring it home. Luckily got this trolley. If not dunno how to bring 3 printers back home...

My printer in the original casing. I am now the proud owner of a Epson Stylus CX4100.

Everything that was contained within the package. There! Its comfortably housed on my computer table. I took a very long time to decide where to put it. It was a lot bigger than i expected...