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I salute you PRCs!

2008-10-26T22:18:00.004+08:00

Know I have been slacking for quite some time, allowing my blog to rot. But can't help it, most are work related, not sure to reveal or not. Lets start with the ultimate working/eating habits of PRCs in my institute.

At the pantry, a colleague found an opened pipette tip wrap in the bin, thinking why is there lab stuff doing in the eating area, he went around and saw this PRC, eating his lunchbox, with a 1ml or 5ml pipette tip (broken into half), like a pair of freaking chopsticks! Wah biang eh... is this one below lay...

These people are really tekong, eat shit sleep also cannot be separated from work. I wonder whats next, eating EtBr agarose gel for dessert like agar agar? Luckily no one is like this extreme in my lab, or else I change job.

Ore sexy?

2008-07-06T14:35:00.004+08:00

Yo yo recently kept myself occupied with job searching, now sort of confirm a job and i spend every less freedom watching dramas! The Absolute Boyfriend ,aka Zettai Kareshi or 絶対彼氏, is extremely nice! Abt a robot lover who is handsome enough for me to watch the whole thing....kawaii! That's one part where he asked his owner,"Ore sexy?" means "I'm sexy?" after exercising to seduce her hahaa. OMG shall not say to much spoiler, where's some pics of him.

Cont Hokkaido trip

2008-06-15T15:17:00.029+08:00

My com is finally rescued from a virus attack, yay, and i shall con with the hokkaido pics. We took a ferry to an island in the middle Lake Toya. The ferry is 4 levels tall and look like a fairytale castle.

Its a peaceful island deliberately planted with pine trees 60 years ago, so the tress are neatly arranged. Only deers and a pair of swans live there and they're considered wild as the people employed there only take care of the park and not the animals. Some pathways are covered with shredded pine trees which were teared down by typhoon, making them more comfortable for ppl to walk on.

The second hotel stay was a tradition tatami style, and the dinner looked more exquisite too. But we had to sit on the floor to eat, and my legs got so numb that I had to stretch both my legs out beyond my eating table, so no class hahaa!

The next day, we went to a place for our lunch and the scenery around that place was so beautiful and relaxing. Really starting to like the countryside of Japan where there are little high rise buildings, and everything is neat and clean.

One thing we couldn't miss about Japan is the vending machine culture. Hot, cold or things that have already been made convenient like instant noodles are sold in convenient vending machines lo.

Next, we reached a home-made jam shop. There were many jams for us to try from, but we didn't get any as the taste was too weird. The anpanman shop is just beside it, fully packed with toys, sweets and children clothes, very cool.

Lavender farm, too bad most flowers were not fully bloomed yet. The lavender ice-cream is a must! And there were also lavender cream puff and pudding and so on.

Snow crab!!! It costed abt S$60+ and we had to share it with another couple, ate all the meat but couldn't finish the roe. Frankly speaking, the meat tasted better than the roe, which is really bland.

The famous Otaru, a preserved heritage that will look more romantic at night. It was said so beautiful that even a camera idiot can take nice pictures of it hahaa. Too bad we went in the day.

This is a music box shop cum museum, just remember to keep bag close to you and not break anything.

A real chocolate factory!!!YAY!!! It has European design, and even the staff looked like a toy soldiers. There's even a performance by singing toys, just like the ones in Charlie and the chocolate factory. The only disappointment was that the shop only sell 3 kinds of chocolates, at usual price also.

For hardcore shoppers, these are the two places you cannot miss. The 1st is the sapporo shopping arcade, good for buying tibits and food, some shops are tax-free for tourists. The 2nd is Mall Rera, a factory outlet that has nike, swatch, levi's to coach. I'm glad that i my 1st trip to japan is Hokkaido, not Tokyo cos i heard city ppl are not as friendly as countryside, which is also quite true in other countries i guess. Still, I look forward to another Japan trip heh heh!

Met my mentor a few days ago and we talked about what's going on in our own lives. We even ate lunch together and he dropped me off at clementi cos he going somewhere else and couldn't drive me home. The point is that it was the 1st time we talked so much which mostly not work related hahaa. I really own him a great favor for teaching me so many stuff and unconditionally giving me advice whenever i need.

Feeling tensed

2008-06-02T20:00:00.002+08:00

Damn my computer!... It keeps breaking down, no internet connection for no reason cos everything else is working fine. Sian sian sian... Need to use the old but faithful laptop again, can't blog abt hokkaido just yet as the pics are in the computer.

Feeling tensed and uneasy cos the release of results is coming soon! 5th june ppl, watch out! Looking back at how i spend most of the time slacking and not studying in the past 4 years has made me feel so regretful. OMG just thinking already make me feel so depressed, can't wait to find out what i would get. I can only distract myself by thinking of the convocation day woohoo! We can get together again for probably the last time for the whole cohort. Some already shot own portrait in graduation gown.

Haiz what class would i get~~~

Hokkaido

2008-05-27T16:30:00.025+08:00

Kenny and I went to Hokkaido in a guided tour during mid-May. Before the trip, there's a briefing of what to expect, the guy told us the weather will be ard 10+ to 20+ degree. And guess wat, the first day there was 0 to 10 degree sia! Not only that i didn't bring jacket with adequate thickness, i wasted luggage space by bringing 3/4 pants, slippers and tanks, OMG. Other than the weather had caught us by surprise, anything else was extremely relaxing and fun.

This is the view of Tokyo from JAL plane before we touched down. Although Hokkaido is considered more "kampong" than Tokyo, there's still farm lands in the capital.

Then from Narita airport, we took 1 h to rush to internal airport and take another JAL flight. Heard from my friend that JAL is a good airline as SIA had lost to them before as the best airline. I really doubt that cos the food was bad... okay maybe i'm not used to it. Service is comparable to SIA though.

First stop, we went to the Japanese Ainu tribal village. They all look like Japanese to me hahaa.

They rear bears and dogs. Ppl can purchase cookies to feed the bear by passing it through the pipe.

They put up a performance, like praying for rain ritual and celebration.

Next, the ninja house/museum! This man had been greeting us loudly ever since we got down from the tour bus, which was still pretty far away. He goes, "YOSH!" "HAI!" "YASAY!"etc. As he handed me the sword for the photo shoot, he said,"Hold with da two hand... verli heavy." I just couldn't stop laughing. The whole place has an ancient feel~ that's why some traditional jap shows were shot there.

This was taken after the ninja show, wah so oiishi~

and kawaii neh~hahaa.

This is the view from our hotel room, damn nice, like a postcard. Every night there will be firework display that is released from a boat, traveling along the river from left to right.

When we went there, cherry blossom was about to end, so there were still some trees blossoming, like this one just outside the hotel entrance. The tour guide said Jap like sakura cos they look beautiful even when the flowers wilt and shed the petals, which will paint the ground pink.

Let's get down to biz, infinite strawberry picking! The owner allowed us to pick and eat any amount of strawberries there, of course cannot "dapao" la. It is the BEST strawberry i have ever tasted! They look perfect, firm, and shiny. And the taste is as good as its appearance. SOOOO SWEEEET and JUICY, with a slight pinch of sour. Mhm hmm~ The owner also planted apples and cherries but still not in season yet.

We went to another farm, milk farm, to make ice-cream in one of the farming tents heh heh. After mixing and beating milk, suger and cream tgt, the hardest part is this, keep turning the mixture in a bowl of ice so it would become frozen.

It was hard work, we also got free pudding to take away with us! The two "cow" sisters behind were the ones teaching us to make ice-cream.

Opposite the tent was this lone chained goat. The mountain behind it is called "羊蹄山", so appropriate rite. We went close to take pics with it and this is wat it did to us.

Distracted

And traumatized.

We later went to bear range. Most of the bears here were caught because they steal food from farms, destroy properties and threaten ppl's life or livelihood etc. The worse of the worse goes in and never comes out... just kidding. Anw, we bought cookies (100yen) and apples (200yen) to feed them. Bears which were hungry will make gesture of waving and begging to attract our attention to feed them. They prefer apples to cookies, and they're very good at catching food with their mouth, provided if you throw well enough.

We could also go to this area that is much closer to the bears. Just a wall and metal gate apart, i can feed them cookies by dropping it into the pipe hole above. One bear wanted more cookies from me by blowing into the hole and making sounds, like some kind of flute instrument hahaa. Scary moments when bears were fighting each other for the feeding spot, right in front and so close to us.

Shall stop here, more updates will come.

Its halfway done!

2008-04-22T18:31:00.005+08:00

My mood now is totally the opposite of this pict cos i just handed in my thesis last friday! I'm more than happy to hear fun plans, woohoo! Still, one more poster day to go and i'll be free. First thing first, after handing in the thesis, i chiong for chalet at sentosa and stayed there over the weekend.
Kenny and i tried the new fish spa near the underwater world. A great and ticklish experience hahaa. $35 for 20min in fish pool and 20min foot massage, really worth it since i wanted to try so badly ^o^.

Its kind of disgusting to look at, so many fish swimming around your legs and they treating your legs as food *gulp!* There's 3 person in the pool before we entered, and i could see the kids already couldn't stand the weird nibbling feeling on their feet. The scary part was when we enter the pool, most of the fish ignored the three person and came "attacking" us! Wah... i was expecting slow and gradual nibbling sensation from increasing no. of fish... not the whole SWAMP of fish! When i turned and saw the 3 person lost the fish to us, i was like "Um... sorry... feet too many dead cells liao" The pool we were in was for beginners, and there's pool for pros with bigger fish, mostly auntie and uncles, dun pray pray wor. The whole experience was ticklish, and fun to watch the fish squeezing and nibbling at the gaps between your toes hahaa.

Most of our meals were settled at vivocity, very convenient to have a huge shopping centre nearby without having to pay tourist price in sentosa. A lot has change in sentosa, there's even sakae sushi... the new musical fountain aka song of the sea has fireworks but need to pay to watch la. I haven't tried the new monorail as it doesn't go around the island to see all places of attraction, just vivo->merlion->beach station, so didn't feel its worth it to pay additional for the ride.

Wondering and pondering

2008-03-31T00:29:00.003+08:00

I'm ending my uni days soon, typing my thesis, finding job and hopefully, working soon. Sianz, still not sure wat to do in a long term and haven't find my dream. Just complaining as i'm feeling lousy nowadays. Watched this touching video and i actually envy the kiwi cos it has a dream and goes for it.

What is worth living for, is also worth dying for. Totally agreed.

Visa

2008-03-21T14:28:00.011+08:00

Kenny and i have booked a holiday trip to Japan Hokkaido, WooHoo! My sis is going to be $2393 lighter soon as i'm borrowing from her for this tour. Went to chinatown and checked out the prices of different agencies before deciding on this one, the cheapest of all. Their services should be alright i guess, after hearing some opinions from friends. The tricky thing about travel agencies is hidden charges - like tips for guide, substitution of place of visit and so on. Hopefully the things they told us are really the final price.

To travel to japan, i'll need to apply for visa... and japan embassy is so gegao. If you're a student, you'll need a letter form the school; an employee will then need a letter from the company. I just e-mailed to a department which takes care of undergraduate affairs, and i got reply very fast from this person, let's call her K. I was surprised how efficient the admin had become till something put me off. Went into the office, ppl at the entrance entertained me, took my name and called K. As i proceeded to K's office, i saw irene and a guy talking, totally disregarded my presence. After entering K's office and asking her to sign the visa application form for me, we went out to get the school stamp from irene. Instead of immediately getting the stamp, she was shocked to see me, a student, in admin area. She QUESTIONED how i entered K's office and whether i asked for permission from the staff at the entrance initially. So BITCHY, gaining pounds and age doesn't give you the right to throw your weights around k! Didn't reply her immediately as i was hopping K would answer for me, and she did! Although K just said "yay yay, she did.", it was sufficient to show who's not doing her job well. YAY!...right in you face!

Went home after that and some event was going on at the void deck.

Aww... so cute... A mini road safety park for the elderly! Reminds me of the road safety park we went during primary school. I was disappointed then because i was too short, couldn't "drive" the car, didn't know how to cycle, could only be pedestrian and the macdonald's don't sell burgers.

Lately there's a number of labs closing in the research institute i'm at now. One of them is the lab beside us, the xenopus (frog) lab. I took pic and video of them before they are gone.

These are the babies, they are energetic swimmers and have big head. Here's this video to show they swim rigorously, like having F1 racing in the petric dish.

Ly was asking if they were playing or they are really that normally hahaa. I have no idea, since i'm looking at them the first time too.

I tried a chocolate brand quite sometime ago, it completely sweeps me off my feet!

The shiny coat on the chocolate blinds my eyes hahaa! There's gold, sliver and rose colour coating, and they looked so metallic and special. Mmmhmmm... feel loved. My sis said she got it in Liang Court basement.

Sleepy bugs hit me in the face

2008-03-11T22:28:00.003+08:00

Okay... been pretty sleepy nowadays cos this week is packed! Has symposium... prepare resume... plan travel to perth... and need to read up journal for a TEST given by PI! And the paper is over 50 pages of history... OMG it seems like i'm still in school preparing for quiz sob sob.

I was supposed to wake up at 8am, had only overslept by 4 hours... Okay quite a great feat i would say hahaa... People out there, dun underestimate my ability to snooze the whole day away, cos i am surprise at myself sometimes too ^^. Luckily ppl in the lab dun noe or dun care, and i arrive during lunch hour when no one was ard anyway.

Love this song and the video lately, the singer is said to be the up-coming amy winehouse cos of her husky deep voice. The actors in the video have to convey their feelings while laying on the ground... the meet up... breakup... and even dance! I find it pretty incredible.

Post bday update

2008-03-01T15:38:00.007+08:00

My birthday just passed sometime ago... can't believe i'm 23 already, cos i remembered my 21st birthday party was held just last year lor hahaa. Had a very fulfilling birthday on wednesday.

Ky bought a slice of chocolate of cake to celebrate during lunch hour, too bad she cannot eat chocolate. There's a candle and 3 "frogs" on it, just nice for the three of us to eat hahaa. After that my lab got celebration, not for me of course... for a colleague who succeeded in graduating from her PhD studies and becoming a postdoc. We had pizzas and pastries again.

Met up with kenny later and had our dinner at the Hog's breath cafe in chijmes. Its my first time eating there and i had to say their steaks are really bombastic! Juicy and chewy...mmmhhmm

I bought my birthday cake myself again cos my mum had no idea where and what Rive Gauche bakery is. This is my dream cake ever since i ate it on my friend's 21st birthday party (see!... we really celebrated 21st birthday not so long ago lor), the *~*Guanaja cake *~*

Last weekend i was playing basketball at a court near my house and saw this cat laying around. When i approached it, it just turned around and showed me its belly... make me feel so paiseh *blush*

*Zoom* It seemed like relaxing as i stroke its belly hahaa. She felt soft and fuzzy. She keep in the same position even when i left her... maybe she really fell asleep.

Chocolately time

2008-02-26T19:02:00.009+08:00

Went out with my fren to the bugis, i received and also bought chocolates...woohoo!... If you're ky, please turn away cos the following contents are too cruel for your eyes heh heh.

My fren bought me Godiva chocolates! She's MAX... even took the 2008 catalog (dun noe got spring/summer or fallwinter version or not) for me so i can ogle at them. I may be a chocolate fanatic, but i have never eaten Godiva before... cos its like the unreachable brand with my pathetic financial situation. But now NOT anymore muahahaa! ^o^

6 pieces of the truffle collection can set you back by more than 30 bucks T-T... Feel heart pain for my fren... so i promise her i'll eat slooooowly. Then we went to the OG tidbits section where they have great offers and strange choices.

I give Morinaga dark choc another try, and i still prefer Meiji's one, cos its tastier, smoother texture and cheaper. Wah then I came across this "freak", i really must buy to try man!

Meiji's banana choc!? Diaoz -_-" It smells like chewing gum, and lack the banana taste. Like a little bit over-sweeten chocolate.

There's a website, like forum but ppl post funny animal pics (mostly cats) instead of comment. For example like this.

A cat trying to find excuse for its addiction to playing wii... so cute! Its been updated pretty frequent, surfing this site has become one of my pastimes :)

Food for thought

2008-02-23T00:11:00.004+08:00

I've been listening to Dan & Young show on 98.7fm in the morning on my way to work lately, and Dan talked about this interesting story that's quite funny and let you see things in unusual aspects. So i wanted to share this story with kenny while eating ice-cream and he had already seen it in e-mail lor. For ppl who don't know abt it yet, here it goes....

A bird was flying to warmer places to escape the winter, unfortunately it was not fast enough... its wings were frozen and stiff and it fell to a open grass field. It was thinking "I'm going to die" etc while laying there waiting time to pass. Just then a cow passed by, shit on it, and walked off! Of course the bird was pissed off... but after awhile its body became warm again! Apparently the warm cow dung was "thawing" the frozen bird. So the bird started to chip happily again, thinking it could fly pretty soon. Its beautiful voice attracted a cat nearby, which dug it out and ate it!

The moral of the story?

People give you shit may not always be a bad thing
People take you out of the shit may not always be a good thing....And finally
When you're in deep shit, keep your mouth shut

I almost laughed out load on the bus... aiya... shit happens, think of it as a lesson taught that makes you stronger and move on... a good story!

This is the ice-cream store, Cold Rock, where kenny and i were eating. A bit like subway, choose cone or cup, cups also have different sizes... then choose what flavor you want... finally toppings, as many as you want at $1 of each kind. The selling part is the crazy selections of toppings... got mars bar...twix...nerds and so on. Then the staff will whip anything together in char-kway-teow motion. This is what i got myself.

Dark chocolate and tia mora (coffee i think) + Nerds and Cadbury Crunchie in regular cup. Fail in my "experiment" :( It taste weird cos of the nerds candies... maybe its not my cup of ice-cream, might be a different story for someone who loves dark forest flavor.

Mua-ing

2008-02-21T22:37:00.011+08:00

Okay okay...i have been slacking for quite awhile (1 month plus only heh heh)... no decent opportunity to write cos

bro's back to fix the computer and spend all his time on it

he's around to "clean-up" the com...so can't do indecent stuff

all photos in the old laptop, too laychei to transfer

spend too much time surfing for edison's pics

(fill in yourself)

During the CNY i did a few stuff, attended a friend's bday party, lao yu shen at the newton, bai nian etc

Here i am with the birthday gal.

The sistas... pauline, winnie, miko, me! Pauline seemed like have grown up alot hahaa

This don't look like me hor... taken by cameraman for pubs...

Our first outing to clubbing together heh heh. Seems like we're the sit-ard-drink-beer-ppl watching kind of person. While drinking, a group of ppl were popping their heads around, looking at the floor looking for smth. They lost A HANDPHONE BATT... so hopeless these ppl actually could lost smth so hard to lose. And i don't think they found it in the end.

Lao yu shen at newton with ex-colleagues.

They have finally revealed their inner feelings for each other, those are my hands btw.

Dun force it on me...no...Today is the last day of CNY, gong xi fa cai huat arh!

Bird Park

2008-01-20T14:39:00.002+08:00

We went to Jurong Bird Park last month, only managed to upload now cos lazy hahaa... all photos have to be downsized for quicker uploading mah. Shall picked a few interesting to pics to talk about then. This is the artificial waterfall in the park, it seems to be beautiful and cooling place. Even wedding couples went there for photoshoot.

While walking around in the park, i saw this bird staring at me lo. So i looked right back at it and to see what would happen. It slowly...

slowly...

slowly turned away. Aiya what do you expect? Their time in there must be really boring. Let me summarize their activity in captivity.

Sleeping...

Taking turns to sleep...

Hanging around...

Digging...

Talking...

Standing with legs apart...

Standing on one leg while the other holding an insect to eat.

Or basically going around doing its own "business".

Of course there's some funny stuff that took place.

This bird was walking around in the pathway for the visitors, that's where I'm standing, till it saw us coming. Then it calmly walked back to its place of captivity through the fence to join the rest. I wondered what went through its mind.

Bird:"Finally can relax, let's go jia zhua!"
*We came in*
Bird:"#$%&@ Sianz... Need to get back to work."

We wanted to see the magnificent eagles, many were high up in the trees except for this taking a bath in the pond. Did the staff feed it too much or its life is too comfy here? This eagle looked like a chicken to me, don't you think so too?

I luv this one, so colourful and pretty with head turning to one side, appearing to be shy.

There are a few shows but we were only in time for one, The Birds of Prey show, featuring the eagles, vultures and owls.

This is a Secretary bird, it looked fierce but listened obediently to its trainer.

The host held the microphone to the owl to show how loud it could shriek.

The other ability it has was swallowing the long piece of meat whole... cool!

Super late gift xchange

2008-01-19T13:22:00.001+08:00

Our lab is having the christmas party late cos many staff went back to their home country during the Dec, then we had to postpone to yesterday to celebrate.

We bought canadian pizzas, drinks, tidbits, fruits and so on... way too much food to finish, even need to dabao the food. I ate so much that i had stomachache almost immediately, i think cannot eat watermelon with the mandarin oranges together hahaa.

The gift exchange game was the first time i play. That's how it goes: 1st person pick a gift. 2nd person can choose to "steal" the 1st person's gift or pick from the un-opened present. 1st person need to choose again if his gift is "stolen". 3rd person same as wat 2nd person did and so on...1st person gets to be the last to choose, so will be fair then. These were the present we brought, that's one more present not in the pic was a bowling ball! I was like WOW! The ball felt like 12kg lor! A female staff got that somemore hahaa! Luckily her husband's fetching her after work. The present i brought was the circled one, a pink shawl... omg in the end a guy chose it, saying he could give it to his wife.

This is what i got, liquor chocolate yay! Ly bought from T3 candy empire. Got stolen from me a few times and it still came back, so fated *grins*

Ridiculously amazing

2008-01-17T20:30:00.000+08:00

Hey check this out! With his talent, many impersonator will be out of job soon. Amazing!

He looked like in great pain while doing the spongebob part, so funny... must watch more squarepants for the impersonator's hard work. I also found this on youtube, a US production but has touch of jap cartoon to it. Awww............ so kawaii!

It's ALIVE!

2008-01-15T18:56:00.000+08:00

Yahooo!... feeling happy lately cos i just created another transgenic zebrafish! It is new, created from a promoter gene that was isolated from Fugu (pufferfish) and expressed in the pancreas. But when injected into zebrafish, it is expressed in the neuro tube instead! As it has not been characterized yet, alot is still unknown about this line... whether it can survive till adulthood... how the GFP expression is like at different life-stages... and so on. Too bad i can't include this in my project cos it was originally served as "safety net" for my FYP, a completely different project just in case the one i'm working on doesn't work. So far, i've created 2 transgenic lines and i felt like a mad scientist hahaa.

This is the 1st line ("monster") that i created, expresses GFP in the neuro tube, eyes... as well as in the heart (the small green thing beside the yolk). Don't have photos of the 2nd line yet, maybe show it next time.

Recently there have been several symposium and talks in Biopolis, so we get to eat free food from the catering, and even dabao back to our workplace for tea break! Reminds me of the good-old-free-food days in SBS, eating food catering that are mostly not for us heh heh. These are the dabao food, with the most delicious in ascending order.

Dumplings, got veggie i don't like.

Crab claws, real claws are made together with it.

Cheese sticks, better if eaten when hot with cheese oozing.

Lastly, chicken drumsticks, tasted a bit like BBQ and spicy. Its good... even when its already cold. We didn't get to finish them cos the dabao was only brought to us after the lunch break.. so late and so full... why i didn't know it earlier... WHY ?!

Just now while walking out the lift and along the corridor leading to my house, wah i saw a GIANT monster on my neighbour's window!

*ZOOM* See!? So BIG, almost my palm size. When i saw it, i quickly ran to a safe distance and took a pic of it. Wanted to go in nearer to get a better shot but too scared... Ewwww~ ~ ~ should be a grasshopper i think, aiya watever it is, 6 legged creatures are all disgusting to me. :p

Meiji attack

2008-01-09T20:52:00.001+08:00

Welcome ky back! Hahaa i'm so happy cos she brought us a supermassive pleasure back from her trip to taipei and hk. Taaadaaa!~

As you can see, I can't wait to sink my teeth into it! Then later during lunch break, sq and ks were fighting for a piece of the Meiji 宝典( 甜点). Yo check out the ultimate fight of 武林盟主 vs Sharon QQ.... and keep your eyes open to see the shadow hand 无影手 as demonstrated. The match ended up in a tie score, so we had to equally distribute the chocolate.

Ky also bought this meiji, its so cool cos its more than meets the eyes~
Think its an ordinary chocolate? THINK again....

Woohoo.... transform into a mirror with stand! I already have a great idea to trick some people with this "chocolate", the condition is that they are not reading this now in order for it to work hahaa! Ooo... Then there's Ovaltine Can drink too, another nice beverage following the Mars drink that s'pore don't have. Shall stop here for now, time for dinner, maybe a giant dessert after that^^

I'm Back

2008-01-06T16:28:00.000+08:00

Have neglected the blog for quite some time because i spent the holidays staying at home, nothing interesting to write....except about my sis heh heh.... she was tidying the house one day... you know... creating alot of dust in the house, i could just smell the flying dust in the air... wah so dirty. And because of being so close to the dust while cleaning, my sis got herself eye infection! o_O" She needed to see the doctor in the end. Muahahaa!... I'm so bad to laugh at her but there's some incidents so pity and yet so funny... you just try to politely hold back your smile with a sympathetic face rite? She's now recovered with the help of eye drops from the doctor. Have any of you seen this public phone before?

Now is already so hard to find public phone, let alone say this is a SPECIAL one, Lion ValueCall! I was walking home and saw this... it even got list of numbers and price for different countries, mainly asian countries, it even got australia.... not bad. I can tell my dad to come here if he needs to call my bro.... then he will look like one foreign worker calling back home at the void deck. OMG! If this phone is here, it means there's potential market near my home, more foreign workers will be hanging around.... NOOOO..... They better move this blangah phone elsewhere! T-T

Yay food review time! I tried this instant noodles yesterday to compare which is better. Both of them same brand and flavour, difference is left is made in indonesia, right is made in malaysia. My verdict - Indonesia wins! It has additional fried garlic bits, and it also makes me realise the good old taste of this brand, the malaysia one has changed and i don't even know... wah lau so disappointed with myself lor... haiz.

My parents bought this sponge cake from Tesco in malayisa. As usual my dad bought two because of offer. It can be baked in oven or heated up in microwave.

Hmph... doesn't... look... appetizing. It looks weird, smells weird, and tastes weird and too sweet. Sianz still got one more cake to finish. My dad has become a typical housewife after he retired, in his eyes there's only offers and sales... anything cheap he'll just grab... even when looking at the brand and you'll know not nice one. We still have some of his "victories", aka not-nice-chocolates, sitting around in the house. I bet he's waiting for us to finish up for him lor.

Actually i wanted to wait for my fren to send me the x'mas gathering photo so i can blog about it together, but i guess she's mia. My JC frens and i ate at New York New York, the half spring chicken i ordered was below average. Its cold and tough, gave up eating it and moved on to my fren's fish and chip which was so much much better!

Their hot chocolate with mushmellow was satisfying, nice to drink before you go to sleep... arhh~

Kenny and i went to clementi Botak Jones to eat western food. I think he ordered chicken sausage and fries. I LOVE the fries! Especially their seasoning makes them so delicious.

I had their signature dish beef patty with added cheese. Patty was moist and chewy... so heavenly. The price is slightly higher than hawker western food but their portions are big, and loaded with massive amount of onions! GTG already, my one-eye sis ask me to go running with her.

HO HO HO! Merry X'mas & A Happy New Year!

2007-12-24T12:34:00.000+08:00

Merry Christmas to all! This is the Christmas tree just put up by my sister...before saying that it is plain and ugly. I really hope she can be this true to herself all the time ha! Most of the decorations were thrown away, so this year nothing to display. Anyway our family has always been not keen on celebrating, the setting up of the tree is purely dependent on my mother's and sister's mood^^. I'm just happy to eat chocolates from kenny's company gift exchange.

I also bought some from nearby market to treat myself. Meiji black is my all time favorite, then Nutella was sold at 50 cent so cheap, must grab lor! Jap candy never see before, so just try. I used to eat Nutella from young, it was one of the childhood candies....remember the candy with a hole in the centre, which you blow into it and there's sound....then got "M&Ms" chocolate in the package with the shape of number 8....chocolate is gold coins design....wah sweet memories. Luckily these days still can buy these stuff at mama shop.

Met up with friends at new york new york for gathering on Saturday, next time then write when i got the photos. HJ faster send me lay....

Munch Munch Munch!

2007-12-21T19:54:00.001+08:00

The big eating sound is to show how delicious our lab tea break was this afternoon! But before that i want to talk about my day on Wednesday, so sucky! I'm really glad that PI was happy to teach me how to section my fish embryos...first thing we did was to book the machine. The morning slots were taken up so we could only take the afternoon ones. We went back to the lab station and his wife was also showing her student the sectioning process. So PI wanted me to follow them. Everything is really interesting, its good to have new stuff to learn every now and then. Anyway i thought PI would not show me the whole process again, but he did la. A bit tired by then. Then there's another student who also wanted to learn, so PI showed him the ropes first while i looked on from beside. So can you imagine? By the time its my turn, its already the third time i had seen it...wah...was really feeling drained. I think it was also because i woke up damn early that day in order to reach the lab before 8am just to add one reagent....mood was pretty foul since the start of the day.

This is the sectioning machine, my samples are the white white thing on the left. Place the sample on the black round holder for sectioning. The "spinning wheel" is by the side of the machine that controls the blade to move up and down, like sewing machine actually. This was the first time doing it and i realised it is mudderfarking tedious and cold! The area inside is kept at -30 degree, i can't stand cold so the process was tormenting. By the time i was done, its already 7pm, fingers numbed and brain drained. Because i overshot the time to fix the embryos, the reagent i added in the early morning was wasted argh!! Stayed in the lab for almost 12h and only did one experiment, i thought to myself not very productive lay...Learned one lesson that day, next time i would plan the whole day for sectioning, without other experiment to worry about.

Enough of complaining, sounded very grumpy =.=". My lab had tea break today for two reasons, to celebrate my mentor Steven's birthday and farewell party for ZR. See how funny they are, standing on chairs as to hold an important ceremony hahaa! The food was oolala~

Birthday cake is pandan flavor, which is very special and i seldom get to eat. The pastries were bought from a bakery shop in holland v, although many said the bun-like pastry is famous, i prefer the fruit tarts because of their crunchy bits. Then here comes the ultimate maker for a super duper tea break, chocolates from ROYCE!! OMG I couldn't take my eyes off it ever since it made its appearance on the table. Lucky to have Christmas while just started working, so many chocolates to eat and so little stomach space.

Suck the Kao :)~~

2007-12-17T21:24:00.000+08:00

Finally get to eat the chocolate dessert in the Esplanade store Max Brenner yesterday.

I ordered this hot chocolate drink "Suckao", meaning sucking the molten chocolate with the metal straw. Sound very crude, like an aphrodisiac drink or something hahaa. The chocolate discs came with the choices of white, milk and dark, of course i got the dark one la.... First, add some milk into the container. Second, wait for it to be warmed up by the candle below. Third, dump all the chocolate discs right in, not without saving one to eat *Hohoo!* The dark chocolate was not as bitter as i expected, was a little disappointed. Needed to add in a lot of the milk to melt the discs initially, diluting the taste in the process. The best part was to let the drink slowly "simmer" to become more concentrated. When i drank the warm and potent "brew", wah lao it felt like Heaven.

Kenny ordered the waffles....wow look at how "flooded" it is....the sauce can also choose white, milk or dark. The berry jam was not bad too. I love it when the people are generous with chocolate sauce for waffle desserts, it make great sense that waffles have "wells" in them for "flooding" purposes right?
This was what i ordered, can't remember the name cos it was not my first choice. I wanted to get a fondant but not available...sianz...then that person recommended this....it turned out to be a pleasant surprise! The pastry has two layers, the bottom is moist cake, the top is chocolate mousse. The mousse melted in my mouth almost in an instance, so satisfying!

We went to watch The Warlords in the evening. It has the usual glory part as a war movie, didn't find it as bad as ks finds it to be. Hey try watching The Devil's Rejects, that's really above my limit lor!...really buidahan. I like Jet Li's character, like more in depth and complex. Andy Lau is the righteous one, while Takashi is simple minded. Don't know why the movie make him look so retarded sometimes....said " 大哥是對的" so many times, and also the brotherhood pledge sentences. A lot of people laughed as he kept saying innocently. The part where 4000 soldiers killed was really sad, i cried a bit sob sob. Why cannot release them if keeping them is a burden, why must kill them lay?

Youtubbing all day

2007-12-15T14:36:00.001+08:00

Nothing to do, stopped playing NDS for a while cos i'm afraid of getting tired of it fast, so i surf Youtube to see if there's anything interesting to post.^^ I saw a news report recently about this endangered species which hops around like a kangaroo. Soooo cute and tiny with big ears! It looked so animated that i thought only existed in the jap anime.

The documentary of its life was only released recently, just wondering if anyone of you know such an animal existed or not heh heh. Anyway, i continued to search for funny videos and came across these two.

My gosh! Think twice about saying bad stuff in front of your pets, they can communicate like humans with us and among themselves. The two cats are really unbelievable btw.

TAADAAAAA!.....

2007-12-15T00:34:00.000+08:00

Finally set up a blog, all thanks to Winnie who have a private blog and made me sign up an account blah blah blah... so i unknowingly, unusually and unconsciously created one myself on Wednesday o_O". Feeling so "exposed" to talk about my life, and confused by all the features, i only managed to start blogging today! *Applause*

Suaku i know, like i just evolved or something, so paiseh. Aiyah wat the heck, i told myself just do it and i may like it in the end. Most of my friends already have blogged for ages, and i thought i will never ever EVER be like them. But now i just want to say...I ALSO CAN BLOG OOKKAAY!? Of course i said it in a nice way, cum and support me k hehee.

Today is half burn, its supposed to have briefings in the morning at SBS, and as usual by the "efficient" admin, one of the briefing is next month, going for the one in jan is of course better la. The problem is that they always have to inform us at the last minute, like they'll get bonus for irritating the students. Anyway, whole friday should be free, before my mentor give me work to do in the morning. Morning take photos of my outstanding fish, lunch time i went home before i leave for my facial appointment in the evening.

Talking of my fish, i just gave SQ a batch yesterday. I was so nervous, heng got help from ZR to pour the fish into a plastic bag. Bye bye fishy, i think its better that way for you to live with the "stepmother" then to kill you hahaa. Just joking la SQ, really thanks for your help.

This is the bag of 32 fish adopted by SQ.

This is where they used to stay, pretty much like our HDB.

Looking so cute and innocent when they're young.

They need private tanks before they can mate. Fake grass is for stimulation, separator is for us to set the time of mating.

Lately my flat has quite a few stray cats appearing, one of them is pregnant and likes to ask for affection. I opened my door and was greeted by this pair of big eyes.

I was so freaked out, my god she concealed so well among the shoes! Played with her for a while and this happened, refer to video.

She kept blocking my path and didn't allow me to go, even bit me in my foot! (That's when i said "Hey!") No cuts or bleeding, it felt like a pinch though. Few seconds of walk to the lift was dragged for more than 2 minutes hahaa. Although she has a big belly, she would everyday make her way from the ground floor to my neighbour's doormat to sleep, and i live at 12th floor mind you! I've seen her walking the stairs and not taking the lift with the help of people. That's what i call a SUPERMOM.

After all the drama, i reached the beauty centre and saw this at the entrance. It looked so funny, like a giant toilet paper cos it's not round like a snowman hahaa!

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