A week full of UPs and DOWNs

"Friendship is not about finding similarities, it is about respecting differences. You are not my friend coz you are like me, but because i accept you and respect you the way you are."



I realise that the Singapore Education System do place a great emphasis on exams and I'm feeling it right now. Very disappointed. Our semester 2 results were out, many were glad they did better this semester but some are still very disappointed with their results for falling below expectations. I'm not sure what is expected of me this time around. But I have decided not to exercise the S/U option and see if it's good enough. Hopefully I won't regret my decision.

A little update from what I have been doing. My internship experiment shows promising results so far. Hope the sequencing results will not mess everything up and I have to repeat the whole experiment again. I really enjoyed working with my mentor. She's very kind and helpful. Although she's busy with her own experiment, she will definitely take time to make sure I understand and can cope with what I'm doing.

I went to play at the West Coast Park playground on Thursday. So fun. I think I didn't enjoy enough as a kid. Haha.. must make up for it now:P

Friday was really disappointing and sad day. I didn't expect myself to be so upset. But thanks for the company.

Anyway, Saturday's "swimming lesson" was fun. Yippee...I'm 'learning' how to swim. :P

We will also be preparing for the PGPR Welcome Festival the coming month. Will be having our general meeting soon but we are already starting to do some of the work now, like designing the guidebook. I'm looking forward to working with the RAs in the coming semester. I guess it will be very fun and exciting.

I went for the Matriculation Fair PB Briefing. It's really troublesome to be representing two clubs at the same time, especially when they fall under different groups. I guess it will be better if they are aware of what each other are doing rather than what they are doing alone. I wasted a lot of time queuing outside the LT because they direct me to the wrong queue. I even went to confirm with them 2 times that I'm in the correct queue. It started almost an hour late. Haha..rather inefficient I would say. They have also increase the price of the booths without getting consent from the PBs and only after everyone made the payment. I think it's not right for them to do so; they should have at least made the announcement once they have decided to increase the price. The reason they gave was because there's increase in cost of wiring. I was wondering if the wiring company can just increase the price after they have confirmed the price. That's not all, we were told to bring two extension cords one which must have at least 4 sockets and 5m long for one but they are only allocating us with 2 sockets each. They couldn't really justify the reason why we need to bring 2, only saying that in case we don't have enough :S So not convincing I would say.

Okie I think I'm being super critical to them. Haha..Just don't like the way they work. But whatever it is, they have my support coz this is not a small event to handle. There bound to be people who are unhappy about the arrangements. And I guess they have their share of problems to handle. So will try my best to give them my full cooperation although it may seem contradictory.

Next week, I will be shifting to another room again. Haih..so troublesome and I think it's going to be super tiring. Can't imagine my small small room and store so many things inside. Hehe..need to dispose and bring home some of my things. I'm like always bringing things here and nothing back home.

We will also be trying to organise the Singapore National Othello Championship in NUS this holidays. Hopefully the proposal will be approved fast:P Then can start working on it. Don't want everything to clash.

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“A Happy Journey Starts Like That!”

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菊花台 (Ju Hua Tai)

I think this song is so nice. Nicer when someone sings it to me :P And I know the meaning to the words. So happy!!!
It's from the show Curse of the Golden Flower. I don't really get what was happening in the show though. I just remembered that most of them died. Sad ending:S Someone did something very sweet and touching today. Thank you. :P

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To my dear friend

Before the clock stirkes twelve,
let me take the opportunity to let you know that
you have grown a year more

Happy 21st Birthday, Evelyn Chin!!

Sending you brithday blessings
filled with love and peace and joy,
Wishing sweetest things happen right before your eyes!

Hugs hugs. Enjoy yourself and have a great day. Miss you lots:)

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Guilty

My fault or not my fault?

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Treasure every moment as a student

It's not really fun to be working. I think I like being a student more. It's so much more fun and relaxing. I'm already one week into internship! Yippee! My mentor will teach me some new stuff tomorrow. I'm going to learn how to cut the electrophoresis gel and extract the DNA from it. I will also do cloning and sequencing. So excited...but it's quite tiring to go to work also. So little time left to sleep:(

Went for a meeting on standing committee updates with Yee Han, Feng Fu and E Yin (I think). Haha..cant remember her name. But it was just a short meeting. There's another one on 5th of June. So I foresee myself being very busy this holiday.

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RA Training Part 2

I learned how to perform CPR and use the AED kit. Haha..so it's supposed to be quite safe being with me:P BUT I don't know how much I can remember from the course and since I tried it on a CPR Manikins I can't guarantee it to work on humans too. Haha..since they can't feel the pain. Blek...

One-Man CPR Guide
Early recognition and access.

  • Check for chemical spill, exposed electrical wire, fallingitems, fire, leaked fuel and gas (basically check for danger :))
  • Tap on the shoulder gently, shake te person and call out loudly "Hello! Hello! Are you OK?
  • If no response : "You! Call 995 for ambulance. Go and get the AED here.
Early CPR
  • Lay the patient lying flat facing up on firm, flat surface
  • Perform "Head Tilt - Chin Lift". Check airway & remove any obvious foreign object.
  • Maintain "Head Tilt - Chin Lift"
  • 'Look, Listen, Feel' for signs of breathing, ie. chest rise, sound of breath & air flow.
  • Give 2 breaths & watch chest rise concurrently
  • Check for pulse with index and middle fingers pressing at the groove at the side of neck
  • Observe for signs of circulation - coughing, consciousness, movement & breathing
  • If no pulse: Maintain head tilt, locate hand position next to the sterna notch, place heel of other hand on top of the hand on the sternum
  • Perform CPR: Interlace fingers of both hands & lift fingers off chest wall
  • Straighten both elbows and lock them in position
  • Position your shoulder directly over the patient's chest
  • Use body weight to compress patients's chest by about 4-5cm
  • Count loudly as you compress
  • Perform at least 3 cycles of CPR
Reassessment
  • Check pulse / sign of circulation for 10 seconds
  • If negative, continue CPR and wait for arrival of AED and ambulance
  • If patient is recovering, place patient into recovery position

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RA Training Part 1

One week of internship is over and I'm moving on to the second week. I finally got started with my project. Quite excited about it although its a lot of repetitive work. I will have to troubleshoot many many times before getting the appropriate settings and combinations.

And we are also moving out from NUSSU Secretariat so last Thursday, we were there to pack up our things and clear the room. Found quite a lot of antiques in the room. Haha..I'm also supposed to move out from my room today but the management didn't record which room I'm supposed to move to and so the security guard who are there for the 24 hours check out don't know which is my allocated room. So I can't move yet!!! Argh, so frustrating...this is the only weekend left to shift so that means I will have to move them during the weekdays after work..the thought of it is tiring enough :S

We had our RA Training yesterday where I get to meet a lot of new friends. We had lots of fun playing the games and getting to know one another. The senior RAs were there to share their experience too. And I guess after our training, we are more geared up for the coming semester :P We also decided to have BBQ for the outgoing RAs some time in June and we had our first R3 meeting last night to plan for the upcoming activites. Today, our professors will be treating us to a restaurant to celebrate the end of another semester. Haha..I'm there to eat since I wasn't part of the team last semester :)

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Internship Day 1&2

It's already my second day of internship at TLL. I haven't been doing much these two days.
Day 1
We met Yang Hong at about 9.30am to settle the administrative stuff and she brought us to our lab to meet with A/Prof Laszlo, our supervisor. My mentor's Hsiao Yuen. She's really nice and friendly. She brought us down to the store to collect some stationeries and also our lab coat. Then she showed us around the lab and brief us a bit on the safety rules and the position of equipments. After that, it's just sitting down at my table reading journals and thesis. But Hsiao Yuen asked me if I'm interested to see her doing transformation so I went to the lab with her:P I got to learn a bit about the equipment to use and some techniques to ensure measures are taken to minimised errors.

Day 2
It's super boring. My mentor went to Qian Hu to collect some samples so she was not in the whole morning. Therefore, there's nothing for me to do. She was quite busy after coming back so no time to really teach me. We went for a 2 hours lunch and seminar at the auditorium. I was super sleepy. Nearly fall asleep in the auditorium but because we were sitting at the first row right in front of the speaker, have to pretend I'm paying full attention and fight my sleepiness. So torturing to sit in for one hour and feeling sleepy plus the auditorium's like quite nice to sleep.

Look forward for tomorrow. I'll have to wait for Qifeng to pass me his thesis to read:P I hope there's something for me to do. Don't like sitting in the lab and staring the the flap catching flies:S

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Happy Mother's Day

Specially for my mummy...




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Post-Exam Activities

11.30am. Our exams are finally over! Yippee! We decided to head to somewhere further - Tampines! Visited the new Tampines One. Haha..it's definitely not comparable to shopping centres in KL.

We had lunch at Swensens'. There's a lunch 1-for-1 promotion. So the three of us went it and start ordering which one to be the free one. There's also the student promotion but it only starts at 2.30pm. So we took 2 sets of the 1-for-1 promotion. Making it a total of 4 dishes. Yummy!

We ordered salmon and tuna sandwich, caesar chicken salad, chicken baked rice and chicken mushroom pizza. Hmm, we didn't realised that we ordered mostly chicken. And the salad wasn't one of our choices either. But because we pay the same price for 4 dishes and for 3 dishes, we just add another salad:P

Sandwich..quite a challenging task to cut it up..haha..but eelin, u are expert in it:P

And we ate them all up. Too full that we have our dinner quite late.
The super giant salad bowl that I totally underestimated its size.
See how big the fork is:P
Attempting to eat with the giant utensils:P.

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Yay..Bye Bye Sem 2

I should be done with my exams this minute. :P Yay! I finally manage to struggle through all the 6 modules. Not sure if I will do the same for the next semester or not. Haha..slowly think la.. I got 3 months. Yippee...looking forward for my internship..lalala..can go play!!!

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One more day..

Yay! One last day left.. I cant wait for tomorrow's paper to be over! Hehe..then I will have a long 3 months break from studying..YIPPEE!!!!

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iPhone

Hehe..I changed the music player to iPhone! Looks quite cool can see picture also..I wonder if they have other colour for iPhone..maybe blue might look nicer..it will go well with my background..yippee all blue then..haha..next time then i go explore

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