Cute proposal

Yixin with my cardigan tied around him! heh. a bit gay hor.


Anyway the day after coming back to singapore I went to school early in the morning for ureca. We started on some simple stuff like extraction and learnt a little about the mass spectrometry machine. The computer settings looked so complicated, i'm glad they didn't allow undergraduates to operate the machine. Quite sure if I did it, something would mess up somewhere. The results were also nothing like what we learnt in H3 chem, there was a lot of 'noise' that made it really hard to look at the peaks properly. Apparently you can run MS in certain modes to make sure the peaks look better or to detect a wider range of peaks. So cool right. Had a hard time learning how to prepare the sample for MS too, we had to 'spot' the samples onto tiny circles that are so closely packed together on a metal plate. My pipetting skills are so gonna improve after this.

Today i had ureca too, and we learnt how a HPLC (High performance liquid chromatography) works. I learnt the theory in H3, but when it comes to the actual machine there are tubes everywhere and looks really complicated. Once again, computer settings are the worst, but i suppose we'll get used to it over time. Then we had a lab meeting where we listened to one of the lab members present her work. Fought so hard to keep my eyes open! I was so hungry by the end of it all, but we were called to talk to our prof right after the talk. By the time he stopped, it was already 330pm :( Was so hungry i gobbled down my teriyaki chicken bento. Lucky for me, the auntie gave me larger servings than usual, though i think it's cos of the holidays. Didn't do much after the very late lunch.

Went to meet up with shiyun they all for weishi's birthday! really long time no see. Wanted to go for kbox, but not all of us were keen, so we went to the esplanade area to chit chat. Not long after we reached jacq was approached by some people asking us to present a rose to a girl! Turns out the boyfriend was gonna propose to her. How sweet right! So we all lined up and kinda marched into the restaurant (in a single file) and gave the girl the roses. Then the boyfriend appeared and went down on his knee and held out a ring! Aww. For a moment i thought the girl was gonna reject the proposal cos she hesitated for so long. But it succeeded anyway, and i felt very happy, like i've done a good deed. Heh. Yixin thinks this is rather cowardly for some reason, and says the guy should be confident enough to handle it on his own without the help of strangers. I still think the idea quite romantic though. After that we had ice cream at MOF and chit chatted. It felt nice, to laugh and talk about random topics. *thinks chimpanzee and frog* Gatherings like this always make me miss the good old '72 times :)

No lab stuff tmr, I mean today, I must go exercise already!

this morning we woke up really late, guess everyone's tired out by the wedding. I was still a little early though, so I spent it watching my vamp diaries again. we had breakfast at the hotel restaurant again, just me and Yixin, cos it was just too expensive to pay. this time I had some omelette that the Chef made, and it was delicious! love eggs :) when we finished we found yixin's mum dad and sis standing outside, turned out they haven't gone for breakfast. so we followed and I had some 豆浆油条*^_^* urghh, I think it's a bad thing that I'm always kept full all the time.

we went to this shopping place that's apparently quite popular with locals and tourists alike - sungei Wang. we split into pairs so it was easier to walk around, so I followed Yixin around cos he wanted to buy his games. we did do some window shopping, then spent the rest of the time eating! we had these bulgogi burgers for lunch, and dabao-Ed some milk tea for the rest. then we saw this cute store selling 'qqice' -



uh, it actually tastes a lot better than it looks.

at night the whole family went to a seafood restaurant for dinner. as usual there's always more than what we can finish, and I had to help clear the crabs cos nobody wanted to eat alr! I just cldnt let such good stuff go to waste Haii. we celebrated yixin's dad and aunt's birthday too, and were pleasantly surprised when everyone in the restaurant sang the birthday song too.

after the dinner we went back to yixin's aunt's place and us kids sat around and played bomberman again! this time I hav more experience alr, so I managed to win a game once :) we had so much fun, we didn't want to leave until it was 1am and had to return to the hotel alr.

I'll be returning to Singapore tmr!

3rd night in msia

Turned out the bathtub I wanted to soak myself in last night was for show only. all the plugs were taken out so it can't be filled up. boo. after we all took turns showering, yixin's sis did manicure for us girls! so pretty. was quite stressed when I did hers cos I don't have much experience. when I was young my cousins and I often played with my aunt's nail polish heh, the good old times. we ended up sleeping only at 2 plus in the morning, when the crowd opposite the hotel was still making a lot of noise. haha. it's Christmas!

this morning we had breakfast buffet at the restaurant downstairs. there was this pretty white piano in the middle of the restaurant, but no one was playing it :( what a waste! wish I knew how to play the piano. food was good, I especially liked the beehoon and chicken sausages.
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it's already my 3rd night here in msia. didn't manage to blog cos we stayed over at yixin's aunt's house in order to wake up in time to fetch the bride. woke up like 4 plus in the morning, and we only slept at ard 1 am cos we were playing bomberman. so ard 5 plus we set off for the bride.

I've never been involved in the whole wedding process, i usually just go for the dinner. today I got to experience it all firsthand! there's actually a lot of traditional customs that I didn't know about. like the couple has to give the younger generation angbaos, then the older generation has to give angbaos to the couple, everyone in the house included! so throughout the day, I've accumulated 5 angbaos already :) and then the wedding stuff can only be held by females. when the bride leaves home, gates have to be closed to signify the leaving of a daughter from the family. a bit cruel right. and then to signify that the bride has left and then come back to visit her family - 回娘家, the bride has to walk around the car a few times before entering the house again. I'm sure i missed a lot more though, cos the whole thing was done in Cantonese. oh and it sure was cold in the morning. not sure where I was in msia, but it was one of those kampung areas. totally felt like I was stepping into winter when I stepped out of the car.













pretty flower that was on my hand, made Yixin wear it to take a photo. heh.

at the wedding I helped out with the attendance taking cum angbao collection. it was a bit of a challenge since they all speak Cantonese and I'm pretty much a noob at that. luckily everyone else knows Cantonese so I occupied myself with putting crosses on the seating arrangement plan. planning a wedding is sure not easy. guests kept walking around after they were seated so we weren't sure if the table was really empty. wanted to close some tables but when the wedding was gonna start all the people appeared back at their seats. haiyo.

I had a bit of fun throwing rose petals over the couple, yet another first time again! was very happy when the banquet finally started, ate a lot of the dishes that were served first. I think I ate like over 10 prawns, I was the only one at the table who attacked the prawns with my hands haha. super unglam! had a lot of red wine too, resulting in a very red face and neck. oh well, alls worth it for my fav wine.

by the time we returned to his aunt's house, we were all so tired that we promptly fell asleep on the sofa. it was already 9pm when we woke up! this is what lack of sleep+alcohol does to people. headed out for a quick dinner, didn't have a lot cos tummy's still full from lunch. but I still loved the chicken in black-and-sweet sauce(dunno how to describe la!) and the fried lai liu ha(is it crayfish?)

now everyone's asleep except for me and Yixin, who's happily mugging his chemistry. I shall watch my vampire diaries for a while then!

first day in msia!

I'm now resting in the hotel for a while, goi ng out again soon. as seen from the picture yixin's having a lot of fun with the iPod dock and the king sized bed. totally enjoying the room. we walked around the huge shopping centre just now, but didnt manage to get a lot of stuff cos its mainly branded goods around here.
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just back from a very filling dinner of bak ku teh. it's quite different from what we have in Singapore, I think the taste is more intense, but I still like singapore's version better. yixin's cousins are very nice people, kept filling everyone's tea cups and passing around food to eat. the above 40s have another table to themselves haha. being in Malaysia, one thing I had to get used to was the long travel times. less than one hour is considered reasonably short alr. so i spend most of the time on the car sleeping heh.

oh and that dog in the picture is this super cute retriever/Labrador (can't tell which) puppy who just wants someone to pet her and play with her. according to yixin's cousin she's the neighbour's dog but they dont really take care of it. poor dog. yixin's sis and I petted it as much as we could.

I'm feeling super worn out now. stark contrast to the crowd opposite our hotel; we can hear them even from the hotel room. shall go and soak myself in the bathtub now. now that there's wifi in the room I shall try to blog every day!

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Exams go away!

Woah i haven't updated my blog since mid terms! Haha. Now i'm already having my final exams, 2 down, 2 more to go. Can't wait for exams to end, because the day after my last exam i'm going straight to msia to attend yixin's cousin's wedding. And then we just booked ourselves a cruise trip next month! WAHAHA. totally in a blissed out mood now :)
 ...back to the heart and its action potentials!

All my mid-terms are over! :)

Yup, had my final mid-term paper today, 中药学. I felt a lot better after this paper compared to physio and anatomy. I think that my brain is starting to work at its peak again; it has never been quite the same after 诊断finals.

I really like our 中药 lecturer! Haha. He kinda feels like dad. His lectures never get too boring, 'cause he always shares his experience with the medicine he uses. He often says "真的没有那么神奇。还是不要中毒比较好。" HAHA. Next week he's gonna bring us to the herb garden! Hope we get to taste some interesting herbs :)

After school while waiting to meet prof tam, haining and i went to the TCM clinic to try and recognize some herbs that we just learnt. Some herbs smell really horrible - whether it's supposed to smell like that or 'cause it turned moldy i don't know. But the smell sure helps when memorizing them.

I feel so tired now. Can totally hear my brain protesting that it needs to rest for a while. I shall give it a good long rest tonight! After that, it's CHIONGGGGG all the way for exams!

现在心情很沉闷。
一个有大好前程的年轻人，现在只剩下冰冷。冰冷的身体，还有爱他的人的，冰冷的心。刚才上课的内容就是母亲在怀孕时，有可能发生的问题。包括心脏发育不完整，胎儿位置不正常，基因的病变...很多很多。母亲要将孩子带来这个世界上，要克服种种困难。好不容易生下了，养大了，死了。因为一群仗势欺人的混蛋而死了。
生命就是这么脆弱。好难过。


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