Hello, I mean Goodbye Recess Week!

Today some of the cbe students in the seminar room came to a consensus:

Our recess week feels like labour week!

Everyone else: 맞다! 맞다!

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Here is a little Kyungsan to chase the blues away! ^^

너무귀엽다~

Let’s stick to nanofibers please!

Please don’t change my projects description can? I really like what I’m reading, plus it’s all I’ve been reading!

Can we don’t do hydrogels ? If I had wanted hydrogels I would have chose that project. Let’s stick to nanofibers please, let’s stick to 3-D scaffolds for tissue engineering. Don’t change!!!!!!

1st week of school.

You know you should stop sleeping in lectures when two of your friends that are not sitting with you teased you about your sleeping after the lecture has ended.

I’m just not very used to sitting down in lectures, listening to my professors talk. Plus the long traveling time is not helping my tired eyes much, I really need to move back to hall soon. I also shouldn’t underestimate the queue in LWN due to the fact that it is the first week of school hence LWN will be bombarded with innocent freshies trying to print their notes ALTOGETHER at the same time. If I have the money, I will so buy a printer. Is it me or is NTU getting increasingly crowded every single year?

Okay other than that, it has been nice seeing my coursemates all over again, plus IA has allowed me to make some new friends so the whole lecture hall feels friendlier somehow. I was just sitting in the lecture thinking that 3 years ago, we were a bunch of ignorant freshies sitting in a cbe lecture for the first time. Fast forward three years later, we were a bunch of survivors (we don’t really have it easy in this course) sitting in a briefing about our Final Year Project.

Woah hey, it’s our final year already.

But I’ll be good, I’ll be fine, God has been with me through the last 3 years, He will see me through this final year too. (:

Spoiled..

I think Profs are designed to spoil your holidays (when you don’t belong to the 1st class category). I just sooooooooo love it when things don’t go exactly the way I expected. All these school stuff are so awesome right? Weighing you down when you are trying to have fun during your vacation. Best of all is when they say things to get your hope up and only to kick the dirt into your eyes the very next moment.

I just so love all my freaking professors. What nice human beings they are! Absolutely NOT condescending…….

You sucks.

Prescribed Electives.

Come to think of it, I didn’t really gave the electives much thought. Now that I’m starting to ponder over it, I’m swarmed with questions and why is Mayas not online to help me with them! The many considerations: the lecturer, the nature of the course, the group it is under, the difficulty of the course, the relevancy of the course.

Aye, seriously, any cbe seniors who had taken any of the following electives please shed some light on what is good and what should be avoided. Very much appreciated. Haha.

Specialisations (please note the courses listed are subject to availability.)
Specialisation Group 1: Pharmaceutical Engineering
CH4213 Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutics	3
CH4106 Formulation of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Dosage Forms	3
CH4303 Bioseparations	3
Specialisation Group 2: Industrial Chemistry and Green Processing
CH4243 Advanced Reaction Engineering	3
CH4242 Catalysts & Nano-Support Materials	3
CH4222 Industrial Chemical Processes	3
Specialisation Group 3: Biotechnology and Therapeutic Engineering
CH4303 Bioseparations	3
CH4306 Bioanalytical Techniques	3
CH4308 Therapeutic Engineering	3
Specialisation Group 4: Nanotechnology and Reaction Engineering
CH4241 Surface Science in Catalysis and Nanotechnology	3
CH4242 Catalysts & Nano-Support Materials	3
CH4243 Advanced Reaction Engineering	3

F.L.U.

Oh yes the flu bug hit again, what’s new?

Besides a disturbingly similar december holidays plans this year and last year, another trend showed up again this year. Of course, it’s the me-falling-sick-during-exam trend that never seemed to go away. Last semester saw me rushing to the medical center for antibiotics and flu meds when it was exam time. I feel a tad frustrated and very weary because past few days had been woozy and very drowsy and I’m sure I wrote crap for my linguistic paper.

I can’t seemed to shake this away, how? And the weaker I feel, the more I know I need His strength to get by. God, please let me be well again soon so I will stop being a potential virus carrier. Oh wait, I already am! Lucky my friends are strong and healthy(unlike me) if not I will soon be quarantined. Seriously, now is really not the time to fall sick! My system always gets the timing wrong, I don’t know why.

Plus my immune system never seemed to work when I need it to! It shouldn’t get paid, nor received any recognition, because it never even attempted to mount any response! *grumbles* Maybe I am immune-systemless. Right.

Facebook generates weird people, I’m sure Lesley will agree with me. Hahah.

Time to go and I know many people are already celebrating their holidays, so I hope those who have ended continue to keep poor(+sick) people like me in prayers so that you will still see me next week(meaning I survived the exam!). Sorry for putting all those brackets because many people tend not to get what I say thus inducing this need for me to be lengthy so I can explained myself. See, I did it again.

I am a master of reading between the lines you know?

I hope I don’t messed up my paper tmr! *HOPEFUL*

A few somethings.

Don’t you just love Korean drama? It’s not just the handsome cast that comes along with it that attracts the audience, along with them is the usually sappy lovey storyline that everyone else digs. I wouldn’t say I don’t dig the sappy love story because I do, I really do. In an embarrassingly kind of way, but I like them, I like how sweet the characters can be(of course I mean when they are not crying excessively).

So recently I’ve been hooked to this drama called Lovers(I know wrong time to be hooked but I think I deserve a little break). My point is that it’s quite a nice show to watch; a lot of crying(from both the guy and girl -_-”) but at least no one is dying yet. You get the typical love story that gets recycled time after time: cute+ditzy(although she is a doctor..) female surgeon falling in love with cool+silent hunky gangster.

A lot of crying because the hunky gangster already have someone and he had to stay with her out of obligation. I shan’t go into that part but let’s talk a little about the characters. I thought back to all the previous korean drama I’ve watched, which isn’t a lot.. 5 I think. Anyway, I concluded that the lady and the guy must have such personalities and characters in order for the opposite party to fall for them. It is almost like a formula for success, in getting the person you like to fall in love with you too. At least in Korea anyway..

The ” hunky gangster ” that everyone loves must have:

1. A sad childhood. (it’s a must for the guy will then grow up to be dark and mysterious, which all the girls love)
2. A complicated life (either due to the sad past or due to his current life because then people will be interested)
3. An expressionless/frowning face constantly (so when he smile because of you, it means the whole world to you)
4. A bad temper (kind of adds to the ruggered image he already has)
5. Limited speech, Sean should take note of this (a man of few words is strangely captivating to a lot of people, don’t ask me why)
6. A kind heart (best if he loves kids then his soft interior will make all the girls go ‘ awwww ‘)

Tell me, how can you not like somebody like that? Hahah.

The lady that everyone loves must have:

1. A bubbly personality (everyone loves a cheerful soul around)
2. Outspoken (it seemed to me that no guy will be attracted to a silent, prim and proper lady yet they are interested if the lady is bold and is able to splash a glass of wine into someone’s face)
3. Eyes that plead (they can’t resist it when you look at them longingly)
4. Strongly opinionated (they are impressed when you stand up for what you believe in even if it means picking a fight to save your friends)
5. At least a little strong (if not.. how to stand up for what you believe in and fight?)
6. Pretty face (self-explanatory)

And of course the above points are solely from my very few encounters with Korean drama. So even if you try them out, could maybe only work in Korea.. Hahah.

Anyhow..

New Balance Real Run

It was fun and it feels good to complete my 1st proper 10km run! All thanks to leep who is kind and patient and a very good racing partner. Smiles girl! The run was tiring but it was fun. Especially when we were walking and talking, hahaha.

Things you do when you are bored and on MRT with a macbook

We must be really bored.

And finally before I leave…..

Tadaaaaa. Finally got my hands on this. (:

So I don’t need the lights actually.

Just the road and the car and the staircase. It’s enough. 

 

The only reason why lab sessions are fun.

This is my lab group – BL1.

And we are the only lab group enthusiastic enough to want to take a group photo.

In the middle of our experiment.

I kid you not.

Oh well.. not that our experiment required much of our concentration. Still it was one fun semester doing experiments with this bunch of people. I guess next semester we probably wouldn’t be in the same group, but thank God for them anyway. (:

I still think posing with the micropipette looks weird.

Bish, bang, whack!

My roomie really lived up to her nickname, “Bang bang”.

During yesterday’s training, she really “bang-ed” me with the ball and it smacked right onto my helmet. And thank God for helmets! So many people got whacked on the face yesterday, I was beginning to think that helmets are more important than paddles…

But of course that would be a silly thought, wouldn’t it?

And training wasn’t the best but I think that at least I know where to go from there. Although I was getting whacked and smacked and spraining my fingers all over the place. But those happen all the time don’t they? That did say a lot about my reflexes last night though. -_-”

Bummer bummer.

I’m embarrassed to say I can’t do a proper dip, so that’s something that requires a bit more effort now. Close-range shootings were off, way off and I can only looked on in amazement as the rest managed to give nice shots. I had to put up with some shit unpleasant stuff too. But what can I say? Hahaha, not like I really cared about it afterwards anyway.

Ahem, a feat was achieved today though. I managed to wake up in time for my 830am lesson with a swollen finger. Yanking the tape off the finger induced many sharp jolts of pain and that kind of really woke me up. But I digressed. What surprised my mates the most was that I kept wide awake throughout the 4 hours lectures today. I didn’t even dozed off.

They nearly wanted to applaud me, but I had them not to.

And because this week was a little bit kinder as there aren’t any pressing tests nor lab reports, I decided to catch a movie tonight. The movie was long and Wang Lee Hong spoke mandarin with a canadian accent. It was initially funny to hear his very nasal pronunciation of every word he spoke but I got used to it gradually.

I mean given 2.5hours, how can you not get used to it?

The movie had a sad ending but I can live with that. By the way, the movie was Lust, Caution, if you are above 16, you could catch that. And oh, thank you for driving! But you still owe me money hor. (: And it is so  not about the diamond ring..

I think the happy thing was not about watching the movie but actually being able to go out instead of studying. It seemed that I haven’t been doing much except studying and not that that’s a bad thing. It’s just that I’m big on equilibrium, and I do think it’s important to strike a balance in whatever I’m attempting.

Too much of something is always bad.

Tomorrow’s lesson starts at 1230, I can sleep in late. I should probably read my book or something. Friday should be fun. I hope. Hahah.

I’m rambling.

Frenzied.

It has come to the time of the year where fastest finger wins the game again. Don’t know what I am talking about? All NTU students will know that when it comes to registering your core modules for the coming academic year, speed is all that matters. The moment the specific time for your registration starts, more coveted tutorial groups are snatched up faster than you can say, ‘Better…what?’. Sam innocently asked me if better tutorial groups means better tutors. Fortunately no, better tutorial groups simply means better time slots.

 The last semester subject registration went quite well for me. I woke up early and managed to get the subjects that I wanted. So this time round, I stupidly assume that CBE students got the morning slot again. Thank God just before I went to bed last night, one coursemate reminded me that the registration starts at 1.30pm tomorrow, not 9am. The worse thing was that I applied morning leave and they did not allow me to take afternoon leave.

 I panicked. I mean, how am I supposed to snatch places with people when I am working? CGH internet isn’t running at the speed that I need it to and with patients streaming in like nobody business(thanks to a certain doctor), I was so distracted. Yet I know that no amount of whining is going to help and that all I needed to do was to trust God. But because I did not want to mess up my timetable for next semester, I was rushing through everything and constantly cursing under my breath.

I tried to contain myself. I tried to calm myself down. Still, I felt so frenzied and worried constantly if I would get what I want to get. Whatever happened to seeking God’s kingdom first and all the other things will given as well(Matt6:33). It is funny and worth a mention because I left that verse with the cell just last saturday. Yet today it did not even brush past my thoughts when I was in a frenzy.

God has a good reason for the way He plans things for us. I need to get over myself, and my constant need to have things in my order because ultimately, it is God’s way that will be the best for me. Futhermore I know that I does not see the picture as well as He can, so it is always wise to follow Him than my own wants. Because I know that at the end of the day, I do not want to live with the regret of not obeying Him.

I dislike regrets. Much.

I guess the next time I am in a frenzy again about school stuff, I should really sit down, think about God first, before I make my next move. And oh for your info, by His grace I did managed to get the tutorial group that I wanted. (:

Anyone know how to upload photos in wordpress?

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Many thanks to my dear roomie for helping in clearing the doubts about the registration. She knows everything! (: