Continuing on is what is my blog history..............

Yah, where did i stop? Yah, this blog started because of the GEP project i attended in Beijing. It's been a long year huh, I am in the army now, totally different from what i was doing 1 year ago in research labs learning all abt science, chemicals n etc. Army for me till now, as i repeat, it just sucks, the training and all. Anyway, i am now training to prepare ATEC in which is like fighting war in reality which means preparing for ops and mission. In doing so, that's what ns life is abt in the army, finishing ATEC, 3/4 of army life is abt this. Anyway,i gone through 2 field camps this dec, 1 live firing n another one coming this sat. So sick n sian of it already. Huh, this is the army n i am army personnel and this is my responsibility. Sian , sian................. My sort of long weekend ends tonite with me going back camp on a christmas nite, isn't it sad, spending christmas nite in camp, haha, aiyo, sucks!!!!! Anyway, my blog's first birthday n anniversary. Still a long way to ORD, 1 year n 6 months, aiya, aiyo, so, so sian... Besides that on my mind, another is back to the same thing again: it's all abt love. Sometimes, i think abt this topic and i start to worry, will i be alone for the rest of my life? Oh why, is it this question in my mind. The answer is obvious right. Let me tell those of you out there that don't know, it is because people around my age already having girlfriend or ex-girlfriends and till now i having none. Very, very the sad right? Anyway, something tells me, i need to some sort change my character towards the girls i like huh!!! Thinking abt this, makes me feel confused, cause i know this is hard for a person like me. And the question is how? HOW? HOW? When will my happiness come n the girl come to me? Sound so desperate huh!! Haha, actually it is so lol. It is the truth n it is burning in my heart for a very, very long time. Anyway, back to my blog, since i started 1 year ago, it shall celebrate more anniversaries like this and it will continue on and on, years after years, decades..... Happy 1st anniversary n birthday to you, My blog!!!! Looking forward to your 2nd birthday already!! Hurray!!! haha!!!

Thinking back..................

Ya, thinking back 1 year ago this time, i was in China, beijing, xiangshan doing attachment of lab work. I really miss those days lol, learning new things abt science each day n relaxing with the GEP group of mine. Thinking abt those days, this was how my blog which is yongchiang2006 started abt 1 year ago n before that was me getting back my internet acccount which i sign up for: singnet broadband. Looks like it is a history of this blog from the start even before i started going to china for my attachment, i started the blog first but till now most of the things in this blog started from the trip: the feelings, reactions, reflections n etc. All this started from the memorable GEP trip to China. This year for me as i entered the army is very different from school life. I guess i really hate army. Time is almost up, can't really explain much, going out soon to book in tonite. Explain more after 2 weeks, haha..........................

Pass out lol, holding the black beret, officially armour trooper lol!!

Pass out of trades course already yesterday where i became an armour trooper officially. The black beret looks nice on me. Anyway, it is not easy to get the black beret i guess, i come a long way, almost 6 months into army life already. And i still don't like it, but too bad it will be my career for the next 1 year 6 months i guess. Sucks man, aiyah! Passing out a bit different from the BMT passing out parade, with the armour vehicles drive pass, joy rides for parents n secondary weapons introductions to the parents that came. It seems a long day than the previous passing out parade. Anyway, today booking in again. Sucks right? It is a damn short weekend for me. Anyway, they still owe me 1 off day, still to be return, don't know when will i get it. See how then, army life continues for me, huh, sian!! Tough life starting in my NS life, how leh, still must continue lol! Will update again ok!!! Off again!!!

Trades course finishing, guess tough NS life starting soon!!

Next week confine because of live firing, first time live firing for me in the trades course, i will be firing a new weapon i learn few weeks ago. Anyway, trades course finishing means that i will be getting my black beret and this signifies i am a armour trooper and tough life will start as we will first embarked on section training as a infantry unit first before the armour vehicles come in, by then we will be training as the 'real' vocation i am really in which is armour infantry. Life will be different after trades course, it will be much more tougher as i expect. i already am expecting for the worse. I will be looking forward to the next book out which is the nite before deepvali which will be next month 7 nov 2007. Long week for me from tonite when i book in. Can only complain i guess, after it is the government's order for S'porean Men to serve 2 years of national service to the country. No choice, Sian, Sian and very sian lol. Update again next month, so long...........Bye!!!!!!!!

Going into 4th week of trades course......................

Learn a number of weapons in trades course already! The sucks thing in trades course is only SOC i guess. But anyway, army is like that i got nothing to say. Army life just sucks to me. Like learning extra weapons not in my scope as a gunner, getting scolded for small things as a company. Anyway, let's skip the army things as it might seem boring to some of you which are not in the army. It's almost 6 months since i graduated from ITE huh!!! Time really flies outside but not in camp. I guess the L.O.V.E part in me had not disappear in my heart. Still will think of her, looks like she's getting prettier. Still will look at her profile in friendster and look out for updates of her despite long time no see. Think she's doing good in whatever she's doing now and happy. I guess i still waiting for that someone. Sad huh!!!! In army, seems like more couples than people which am single. Harsh facts of life, always appearing right in front of me. Got nothing to say leh!!!

Going back camp lol, holiday ends, time really flies

It's time to return to my workplace which is the army where long working hours are found on training both physically n mentally. It just sucks. It is the last day of my long holiday and tomo marks the start of my trades course and a officially start of my army life cause BMT is just the basics. Hate to say abt the posting cause i should be staying in the same camp just that it will be a 5-day work week from next week meaning i will return home on friday night, looking forward to that. Time really flies esp. holidays. Looking forward to the next POP where i am supposed to have the black beret as my headdress: 15 nov 2007 is the date. Still long though that will be after trades course.Haha!!! Trying to look postive always in army, it is like so stressful. Sian, see how ba. After all, still must go back by the law. Sian, sian n sian!!!!!!

POP lol!!!!!!!!!!

Another few weeks had pass, i finally pass BMT phrase in the army. POP lol, it means i had completed BMT and successfully pass out. Anyway, i know it is the beginning of army life only, still a long way to ORD lol and getting back my pink IC. Sian as i know i should be continuing life in 40SAR in Keat hong which is like so far from my home in hougang. Pass out while staying in the same camp, so stupid, right? Anyway, this is the Army. Very high chances i will be staying as armour infantry and the next phrase of my army life will be the trades course where we will specialise in more different weapons or weapon systems. Trades course should be the same like BMT(sort of). Anyway, there's what i think with reference to what they say. Ok enough about army life, divert a bit, i just bought a NDS on the day of my POP, great games i like to play. Though i found out the NDS having problems with the touch screen. Then sunday went back to check with the shop i bought it from at AMK hub. Today got back the NDS, they say it is the calibration problems and fix it for me already. So i took it home happily and now it is charging cause low battery already. Another thing went to CMPB for x-ray on my spine early in the morning today. Reach abt 8.05am, finish around 9am, while leaving saw my platoonmate and he ask me to wait for him since we are going back camp also. Anyway, another hour passed, he finish his x-ray, the time then is 10am. We went to eat at the canteen over there before going back to camp to return the x-ray to the doctor(medical officer in army context). We took a cab back, spilt evenly $6, the trip. At the guard room of our camp, before going in, i saw the Doctor's car going out, he told me he's going for some appointment n will be back only at 2pm.The time then was only 11am, so he ask us to return on wed. I was like what the fuck, took cab to camp, just to go home from Lim Chu Kang. Sucks man, anyway this is what happen. Will update again before i enter the stupid camp of mine for trades course. Look forward guys, BYE!!!!!!!

Been a long time!!!!!!!

One month never blog already, didn't really had the time to do so or maybe ia m lazy to put it in simple terms. Anyway, tonite booking in early before 8pm. So far army life have been very sian for me. Since the start till now, going through PTP and now in BMT stage. Leaving at least i month left to finish my BMT. Though learn a lot of things but some through punishments and most of the time i just hate army life. Don't know for whatever reason. Anyway, that's all so far. Not much time for me to continue blogging. That's for now......BYE!!!

Decided that i still got things to write at this very moment

NS is upon me. In only a few hours, i will be enlisted in Armour division in Keat Hong camp in the army. For NS days and for me which is still single, i look forward to a whole new adventure and life in army. But for couples, it is time where relationship will face it's greatest test of it all as promises could be broken through time where break-ups are possible and a lot of endless possiblities might happen, where the girls will be lonely amd maybe look for other better guys. But for all my friends out there who are dating one another, i do hope couples will still stay as couples after the 2 years where their guys will be serving their NS from tomo for most of the cases. If not, at least the couples will be still friends or best friends. Certainly i hope it is a successfully test taken by them. Here by, i sent my greatest blessing and well-wishes to all of them out there. Really looking forward to it i guess, the camp, training, lectures and all the camp stuffs. It really brings wonderful memories for me. I know i will get a lot new experiences and brand new adventures and wonderful memories to keep in these 2 years of NS days. Ok to end, i thank those who sent their greetings to me and may everyone out there whether working or studying will obtain good results, happy working, happy serving NS. And once again thank you and take care and may everyone be in good health and prosperous. Good nite everyone and Bye! Wait for my next blog......................Haha!!!!

The time has come, starting a whole new lifestyle

The last blog to be posted before i get enlisted. Next blog will be next month already lol. So the day for enlistment has come which is tomo 15 june 2007. The wait is over for me, it is time to start a brand and whole new lifestyle which i am not familiar with. Anyway, i will get used to it eventually. Haha!! Luckily for me, had a short holiday in penang before this. This is a good break for me as i been working pretty hard at ikea tampines for the past month. Working is always so tired ah. Studying is always better and more relaxed. Anyway, looking forward to this day for enlistment for a long time already. This day will come sooner or later for us(the men) in Singapore. It has come for me now. Feeling nervous, a bit excited i guess but looking forward lah. Tonite is the last night at home sleeping before going camp to sleep for at least 2 weeks. Anyway, got a chance to visit my grandma yesterday along with my brother and some cousins. Long time since i visited her like since from mothers' day. This previous week had been packed for me with 7 june, the last day of work, then 8 june went out with my sec friends, 9 june to penang till 12 june, yesterday went to grandma's place and today to catch up and gather with my ite friends. Ok, this is so much for now!!!!Bye, see you guys next month!!!!

Been sometime, L.O.V.E life finally.......................

To start, i am busy with working for last month of may. So did not have much time to blog. Anyway, my L.O.V.E story in ITE. Actually for the first girl i admired was in a group of three. Yah she was the first girl i notice in my ITE life. Got to see her most of the time in the first semester. Need not explain so much as i don't know whether to put their names in this blog, better to be safe, so i decided not to include their names. If anyone think it is them, can ask me personally. Thank you! To continue on, the first semester was quite a bore for me as i sort of led a 'No-life' days. Anyway, the first semester mostly surrounded with girls or myself. I say this because whenever it is time to go home, the ones with me in the same bus stop is only my female classmates. The guys in my class either go to take the MRT route home or Bus 2 which is at the back of my school. I say also surrounded by myself also because in school i keep a lot to myself for the semester. Also kind of interesting first semester to descibe as going home time, my female classmates will also try to tease and make fun of me and of course try to talk to me. Yah anyway, didn't know them well, so didn't have much to talk to them. Anyway, i was quite alone in the first semester.When i look back at these days, actually i regretted a bit as these are actually the days where actually i can find a girlfriend and maybe started dating in ITE and for the first time in my life but this was not to be in the end. A bit too late to regret huh!! Anyway, it is already passed. HAHA!!!
Ok, back to the first girl that i look upon and admire. Yah as i describe got to see her most of the time. I can say she's the most pretty and cute girl that appeared in my ITE years. She is also very friendly. I think that's about all i can say, or else it will be very obvious already. The second one i can say the name as most of the people will know already. It is Nikki. This happened also in the first semester as she's most of the time teasing me and actually i am the type of guy which actually like girls who start talking to me when i don't know them at first.It gives me quite a good impression. Yah quite hard to explain but you guys should know. About Nikki, she change a lot from the first semester till the last in ITE. She used to be a person which is such of like me, being cheerful and happy-go-lucky. These are also some of the characteristics which i like to see in a girl, so that's why i ended up looking into her. But even since she got her boyfriend which is wei yeong, she change into a totally different person. I can say the changes are like from heaven to hell. You guys should know lah.
Ok, again we are moving off to the next person and the last girl i look into and love her till now. I can't seem to let go and still trying i guess. Abt this girl, i started liking her since that day. Remember that day was sometime in november 2005, we were in a group eating in C1 and talking after that, i remember if i am not wrong it is a friday afternoon after school. She ask me for my handphone number and when i ask about hers, she joke and say wait for her greeting SMS and when i ask her how to do i know it is her. She ask me when i received the greeting SMS, to reply to her and ask her. Ever since that day when we separated and went home after the small talk we had in the group, i been waiting and thinking when will i received the greeting SMS. After a few days, the greeting SMS actually came and i was so happy. Don't know for whatever reason. That day i mgs her quite a few SMS and sort of chatted with her. Slowly, i got to know that actually i like and love her. Although it is one-sided and i never actually ask her but actually i dropped hints along the way when i got time alone with her. Remember in the last semester which is the project and sometime in november 2006, i told her all the guys which like her before and till now. This hint is the most obvious which i gave and i think it is the last that i gave away before leaving for the GEP trip to Beijing. I now can say to her what i didn't tell her which is the last guy which like her which is me(Yong chiang). I am kinda of disappointed as i don't know whether she got the last hint which is damn obvious lol. I think i like her because of her bluriness sometimes which can also lead to the cute in her. She also have a straightforward character, something i quite admire too. As i say i still like and love her till now! How??? I don't know!!! Let time be the cure!!! HAHA!!!!!!!
Ok, the things i say above sort of concluded my L.O.V.E. life in ITE and also completed my last part of the story in the whole of my ITE life. Happy that i finally found time to finish what i started. Haha!!! Till the next update, bye guys!!!!!!!

Working For me has Started...........................

Now working had started for me since thursday when i reported for the Ikea job. Anyway, i am kind of lazy to type my L.O.V.E. life now as now i am working. Ok, On the first day of work, while working actually i saw ms natasha but did not acknowledge her because i was kind of busy serving the food to other customers. Anyway, that's a surprise on my first day of work. I was given one set of uniform only as some admin problems. Anyway, friday was a off day so i got to wash my uniform to prepare for work today. Today was my second day of work, still getting use to it, slowly but surely! My work for the cafe and restaurant for Ikea. My job is to serve food to the customers as they placed their orders with me. Ok, second day of work, another surprise as i saw velda and friend. Also saw Ms Tan kheng hua, mediacorp actress.Today was also a kind of busy day as it is a weekend. A bit tired although it is a 5 hour shift. Ya, my job requires me to stand all the time. The pay are weekdays:$5 , weekends: $5.50. The pay are quite reasonable and the staff i am working with are also friendly and easy to work with. After finish work, went to ask for my second set of uniform but to no avail. Anyway, forgot to sign out in the paper before going home. Never mind will write it tomo as i am working also. Guess will be working in the same set of uniform as i don't have any extra set. Whatever, anyway is not i don't want to change! Ya, that's my day!! Till then........

Birthday full of surprises!!!!!!

Before talking abt the final part of my ITE life which is the L.O.V.E , another great event which just happen is my 20th birthday on 18th of April. It is truly a birthday full of surprises i can say, with surprises from my friends and the army which is totally unexpected. Anyway, this is how the day started: I met ah kiong at woodlands checkpoint at abt 11am where we travelled with our passports to JB. We went to JB's City Square to watch a movie but were rushing for time as we needed to go back school to order the class photos that were taken, we needed to reach school at abt 3pm. So we decided to watch ninja turtles again as there were no other shows that could fit our timing. After the movie, it was already abt 1pm. We were already quite late actually, but anyway we had a quick lunch at 'Secret Recipe' in City Square itself. Then after lunch, we went to a comic shop also in the same place as ah kiong wanted to look at comics. Anyway, before that, he already mgs mdm ruhaida saying we would reach abt 4pm. So we left JB at abt 2pm and headed straight back to school. Along the way, back to school, i mgs Feng xian as she called me while i was watching the movie at that time. Found out she wanted to call me to wish me happy birthday personally. But anyway, thank her for her thoughtful thought. Reached school abt 3.50pm, where some of my classmates with mdm ruhaida and mr rashid were sitting in C1, they all sang birthday song to me. After that, we sat down and starting talking for a while, while ordering the photos. Anyway, Ah kiong and i left with Lyon and Jane in Lyon's car. Lyon then, send us and drop us at Tampines mall where we took a train to Vivocity, the next destination of my birthday celebration. Actually, ah kiong didn't told me abt meeting anyone at Vivocity but along the way,i could sense that there's someone we were meeting as ah kiong was like telling me to rush to Vivocity to buy tickets for the movie: Meet the Robinsons' in 3D. True enough, when we reach by MRT, we saw serene standing and waiting for us. Although this is supposed to be a surprise, but this first one was most not surprise surprise to me. Anyway, after that we went to buy the movie tickets where serene bought the tickets while he asked me to help him buy drinks from the nearby 7-eleven, after helping him buy, i went to the toilet and came out. When i came out, serene just finished buying the tickets. Anyway, she then went to the toilet. After that, the 3 of us went to the comic store at the top floor cause ah kiong wanted to look at comics and games. Then we went up and look around. Look and look, after a while, ah kiong then out of sudden ask me to look at a black pig which was at one of the top shelves. Anyway, i didn't find it weird at first but ah kiong suddenly laugh which make me felt a bit weird then. After that, i again walk around cause ah kiong was still looking around. Looking around, i saw Li jin which make me very, very surprised. I could not believe it and walk away to a corner. Ah kiong then led me to Li jin and told me she was waiting for me to talk to her. Then i went to look for Li jin and acknowledged her presence. Anyway, they then tell me Li jin actually came in the shop earlier than that. It is my poor observation that i did not realise. Actually earlier, the black pig which ah kiong wanted me to see, he was already hinting me. This second surprise make me very surprised and can be said as one of the jokes which is very funny and created together with them. As Lijin told me the previous nite, she was not going for my previous plan for the zoo during my birthday and say only she might be going out with calvin after he work. So i assume she was not coming for my birthday celebration. Anyway, very surprised to see her and happy too. So after we left the comics shop and went back to the movie threater to wait for the movie. While waiting, we were chatting at the seats there. Then when the time is almost up, i queued to buy cheesy hotdogs and nachos for them. While i was buying, the third surprise appear, guess who? It is the couple of Yiqi and Shun quan, never seen them for a while. A bit surprised!! But nevertheless i still think that the second surprise is the most surprising to me. So we went watching the movie( Meet the Robinsons in 3D) together. As it is a 3D movie, we were given free 3D glasses. Although it is a 3D movie, after the movie, most of us feel that the 3D images in the movie are not a lot. But 1 thing good abt the movie is the moral which is looking forward. It teaches us, no matter what happens, we must always look forward in life. I think this is very true as a lot of things will happen in life, good or bad, esp. the bad ones, we must always look forward and forget the regrets or bad things that already happened and continue moving forward. We must never allow ourselves to stay backwards as time passes and will not wait for anyone so we must always look forward and never be left behind.
Ok, back to the day! After the movie, we went to eat our dinner at vivocity's Kopitiam food court. After eating, we were chatting. During that time, my brother called me and brought me another surprise and the last surprise of my birthday which comes in a news of me enlisting into the army of Singapore armoured regiment( 40 SAR). I told all of my friends there and i could not believe it. The feelings were nervous,excited, lost. The feelings were mixed at that moment. Anyway, after that we were all chatting abt NS life and Ah kiong shared his jokes which he had witness and enjoyed in his NS days. We continued chatting a while more before leaving the food court at abt 11pm. Although it is a long day, But it is a birthday that i first thought to be a boring, but with surprises like that, i had a wonderful time. Thanks to the person who organised the whole day celebrations cum surprises which is ah kiong. Extremely grateful and special thanks to him for a well spent and wonderful birthday for me. Also the first person who wish me happy birthday. The next person is serene as she finish classes in poly before coming to vivocity to help celebrate my birthday for me and also for the movie ticket she paid for me and also for the time taken by her as she had school the next day too. Thank you, Big thanks to you too, serene! Besides thanking them, the others which are the surprises Lijin, Yiqi, Shun quan. Calvin also which could not make it to the movie and met us after the movie. Thanks for their company for a wonderful evening spent at vivocity. Also thanks to kelly, although she did not go to vivocity to meet us due to her poly's homework which she needed to rush. Also she's the second person who wish me happy birthday. Thanks to people who wish me using SMSes also. This will include some of the persons which i met at vivocity. Others are like hwei ling, wei ann, hui ping and my secondary school friends. Thank you to all. If i missed out anybody, you guys can leave comments and tell me. Anyway, i thank you guys also. Bye, Bye and Take care!!!!

Reflections for ITE years(part 2)

Continuing with the reflections for ITE years, i guess there's a need to reveal the people's name as it seems very obvious as told by some of my friends during the past 3 days of chalet. Ok, for the first term, the group i was with consists of ah kiong, shun quan, sing hua and me. Second term and third term, Ah kiong and me with the couple which is Li jin and Calvin. Close to the end of second term, it is Jane that join us. That happened till fourth term but Jane was the one that was following us 'on and off'. Ok, the fourth term, it is Ah kiong that left for HK GEP program, this is the most obvious as told by them during the chalet. Ok, the last group of people is my GEP Beijing people: Feng xian,Shao wen, Kelly and me. The last person who join my GEP group is Zhen wei. Ok, my LO throughout the IA period is Ms Angeline Lee.
After all the persons i revealed from part 1 of my reflections of ITE, it is time to continue on. Ok, in this part 2 of it, i will comment abt the whole course i been through in ITE and some of the people i didn't mention in part 1 of the reflections.
To start, some of the people who also play a part in my ITE years like Nikki, Denny, Hui ping, Hwei ling,Yiqi, isabel. For Nikki's part in my ITE life, i don't know how to describe but it is a long story which started with her teasing. As for Denny, he is the first friend i got to know in ITE. After i know abt his bad habits and his craziness over games, i slowly move away from him. In my class, he's a person which people know him for his bad habits and games. As for hui ping and hwei ling, i got to know them at the start with Li jin.They were the formly three sisters. As in the first term, after school, the three of them will always ask me to accompany them to shop in tampines, anyway it was always rejected by me as in the first term, i was busy working and isolated myself a lot due to working and studying. After Li jin got into a relationship with calvin, things were twist-and-turn and in the end, resulting in the split of the three sisters. There were also another group of three sisters consisting of Yiqi, Isabel and Jane. This group of three is also separated due to BGR, bitting, vengenace, revenge and etc. In summary, actually a lot of things happen in between of them. Also in the first term, they always tease me saying i very 'DAO', not answering them when they ask me things. The reason is i think they don't know me at the start so can't blame them. Anyway, if i ask them now, i doubt they will say i am 'DAO' anymore. Yah, about this two groups of sisters who were spilted, i can only say it is a sad thing. Anyway, it seems like they are all doing very good. I guess that's the good thing.
To summarise and end this reflections, the most important thing is to thank the people that make my ITE life colourful, the first group and the only person in this group, that will be ah kiong which makes the most changes in my ITE life and breaking my 'many first times' in a lot of things. Anyway, i can say that for his friends, he does really more for his friends than himself. He really makes a great friend. Ok, for the second group will be Li jin and calvin. Although i actually don't feel good with couples but with them around in my ITE years, my thinking slowly changes and it seems that couples can be good friends with people around them too. But i think till now, no other couples can follow what they are doing and get around with friends that way. And sometimes what Li jin say about herself, just makes me laugh and with her cold jokes. It just makes a good friend too. And for the next group and also only in this group is Jane, although she's on-and-off following us but she is another good friend to have as sometimes her bluriness just makes her very cute and funny. And this just make somes of the jokes around us. Ok, for the last group i would like to thank is my GEP Beijing group. As we spent 2 long months in Beijing for our attachment, i got to know Kelly,Feng Xian, Shao wen and Zhen wei. As this is the first long overseas trip for me, the memories with them will forever be kept in my mind.
Ok, once again, i would like to thank the following 5 groups of friends that i mentioned. These 5 groups of friends really are the highlights of my ITE life and make my ITE life really interesting and colourful. Thanks for all the good time shared between us. Besides them, i would also like to thank my classes in ITE, Class C and R, the students and my class advisor(Mdm Ruhaida).
This part of my life will be definitely treasured and remembered in my mind, really wonderful memories that will stay forever in my mind. Thanks and Thanks to everyone that had made this possible....................................THE END................................................

Lowest point of my life i guess!!!

Before continuing the ITE reflections part 2, Let's talk abt my feelings after the release of the poly posting results which i totally was unsucessful in. These few days i guess i had been trying very hard to cheer myself up. It seems like it is not easy to be happy sometimes. Anyway, since i came back from Beijing, things happened which already affected my mood, for people close to me i guess they should know ,the first matter i dealt with is the L.O.V.E matter which makes me down for some time already. As this matter i am still slowly trying to accept and move on, things are quite good, moving along the time of recovery. Ok, it looks good, right? As i say, moving along the time of recovery meaning not yet recovered, right? Anyway, my mood is still quite ok still and getting better before the release of the poly posting results. Now, after the release of the results, i guess my mood is down again because firstly, the first matter have not been actually solved and the results had become another matter serious enough for me to be actually very sad. I guess 2 matters added together had led me to think that till now in my life, i had come across another of the lowest point of my life. Because after the results, I have to end my education life at ITE itself, and as i say before if i cannot enter poly this year, i won't have anymore plans to study for at least 2 or 3 years. And maybe after NS, i might not even have time to go to poly and need to start working as my father is old already by that time and mother not working due to medical problems. As the elder son in the family, i have no choice but to help my father lesser his burden on his shoulders he carried for the last 20 years. That's why i say, it is now or never. Since it is fated that, i cannot go poly. I will need to try to accept this fact and move on with my life now. I am trying very hard to accept this fact this few days but to no avail.
It is because after a while, the failure of entering poly will come back and still affect my feelings, making me in no mood to do anything. How to stabilise this feelings? I also know, need to be positive and always look forward and not back. So this few days, i watch dramas actually to try and not to think abt it. But when you come to meals' time, you tend to think also. So till now, i guess i have not succeeded in accepting the fact that i am not able to enter poly. Thus, my mood is still down. About the L.O.V.E segment, i guess i can very much affects my mood little this days. In conclusion, i can say all these matters had led me to another lowest point in my life. Seriously, all these had make me really moody this few days. Aiyah, what to do? Just maybe to cope with it till i finally get an objective for these rest of the year which is maybe getting a part-time job. I guess now time is the main factor in recovery from these two major damages done to me. Hope that i will be happy soon and to be the cheerful guy that i am.

Reflections for ITE years(Part 1)

Ok, it is time to do a conclusion and summary on the 2 years in ite. I guess not really 2 years after minus out the holidays as i entered the course officially at 20th june 2005. Anyway, in year 1 of the course, for the first term, i was working and studying at the same time so actually didn't get to know friends in ite, though i have my group of friends in ite but we were not that close, just ordinary friends i guess. I think first term is sort of my 'no' life days in ite as i didn't really get to know my ite friends well and i was like a machine working and studying at the same time with rest time limited. Once second term starts, i decided to quit my job as i really felt it is too much for me to cope already. From then on, i guess my ite life around with friends really started. As that time, a lot of things happen like one of them leave for poly, another one left for a relationship as time goes by, leaving actually a group of four including me, to 2 of us in the end. For the second term, i got to know him as we went out a lot of times and share problems together. For this friend, he really change me and some of my thinking as well. Anyway, he broke a few of my first times, like singing songs, travelling to KL, eating sakae sushi and a lot more. Anyway, i guess i spent the most throughout my life in ite. Actually i have to admit all these spent is worthwhile as these are some of the things that bring us together as good friends. I can say it is the turning point of my ite life i guess and maybe including my whole life till now. So this friendship till now is still there, as i guess we really treasure it as the age gap between us is quite big and not easy for us to forge the bond. So this friend accompany throughout the second and third terms, we can say we went through quite a lot of good and bad times i guess. But in the middle of the second term, a couple joined the two of us and we were like a group since then and following that a girl joined too which were 5 of us as a group then. Anyway, these 5-person group lasted for the second and third terms and sometimes we will go out after school as a group to different places like bugis, suntec city, rivervale mall and etc. But sometimes the girl will not followed us, so sometimes it is only the 4 of us together but in sch eating lunch will be the 5 of us eating together. These are also some of the wonderful memories from the second and third terms. Ok, for the last term with QC and lifeskills only, my good friend went for the GEP program in Hong Kong from 14 oct-16dec for 2 months and my life in ite changes again. Anyway, he started his classes on the same day as us in singapore which is 16 oct 2006. Yah, i went back to school so i went back to the same group of friends except without him. Anyway, sometimes i am alone with the couple as the girl go join other groups for lunch. Anyway, in the last term, seems like passing so fast as there is only 6 weeks of studying before IA starts. During this term, my IA which is the GEP program had been discussed through the last few weeks of QC.For this, actually only 4 persons were in this program which is 3 girls and me. But due to some management problems, the course manager decided to get another person to join the Beijing GEP group. The last person that joined in is another guy because he is the only person that applied for the GEP program which was open up last minute by our course manager. So after the QC term finish, the GEP Beijing students started doing school project first for the first week of IA as we are going to Bejing to do our IA only from the second week of IA(4 Dec 2006). So actually before this, the project we were attached to had also been discuss during the QC term and we were co-leaders as appointed in the various school project. I was attached to the algae group for the first week of my IA. Then after that, from the second week onwards, we were in Beijing doing our 2 months of IA till 8 feb 2007. This 2 months story was told in my previous blogs posted so i needn't explain so much. Anyway, i learnt quite a bit out of the 2 months attachment in Beijing. After that, i return to singapore to continue my IA in the school project actually but we were told to do QC practicals and tests, besides that we still have to do our GEP presentations slides within the few remaining weeks of our IA so we didn't help out much in the school project. So the last month in the school project for our IA, we focus more on our assignments given by our LO. After this, i completed my studies already.
So the above, summarise most of the events that happened in my ITE life in College East(Simei).
For Part 2 of reflections ITE: i will summarise more on my thoughts of this course i been through.
Stay tuned!!!!!!

Last Official Day in School

Today is my last official day in school. Went to school as usual, met ah kiong, calvin and li jin in the morning as calvin wanted to have breakfast in school. I reached the earliest this morning, a surprise to me, anyway i reach at 7.25am, after that is ah kiong reaching at 7.35am, the lastest is Lijin and calvin reaching 4 buses after me which is around 8am which is due to this reason we did not have a proper breakfast and just grab a bite and bought a bread to eat before going up to the LT 5 for the session with ms lee, dr yeo, mr din talking abt the graduation. That talk finish at abt 10.15am. The program after that is the taking of photos of my class. We assembled at abt 11am and my class finished the photo-taking abt 11.40am. The order is S,P,R,Q. After that, our class had a sort of class photo where we throw our lab coats in the air. After that. we went to C1 where i sat down with Lijin and calvin, and waited for ah kiong as he talked to ms lee. I then had lunch before going up to observe our practical 16 results with my GEP group. As we waited for ms lee to finish talking to her class including Zhen wei, we decided to ask ms lee when will she be free to attend to us. Anyway, she ask us to find ms vini to read the results for us. After that, it is abt 2.30pm where we decided to take photos with ms lee and all the GEP students. The last thing i did in school is waiting for ah kiong after his brass presentation which started after the photo-taking with the GEP students. i waited for abt 2 hours until abt 5pm before his presentation finish and he came down to look for me. It is then we went to meet lijin and calvin in orchard. That's the last official day in school.

Views of my Blog...........

Oh, i found out today my blog is actually very popular and will get more popular cause jane and kelly just promoted it today in school. Esp. jane who had promoted it from the moment i reach school. I thank you a lot for your 'wonderful' help ah. Anyway, abt the love life i mentioned in this blog is private and confidential, so i guess only people i mentioned before will know abt it. Jane, the answer to your question and curiosity, it is for you to find out and for me to know. Guess maybe i will tell when the time is right, if the time is right!!! Or maybe you will not know at all.
Ok, back to school life for today. I was so bored thoughout the whole day doing nothing. Anyway, guess this whole week will be the same cause my project had stopped from last week and this week is the final week in school with me graduating very soon.

Graduating Soon in the final week now........

Principal's presentation set on the 15 march 2007, next thursday. Though finish the slides, the problem will be what to say. Anyway, my slides for the group will be mostly pictures and i guess need to think of the things i am going to say. Just be easy i guess, just that maybe will be nervous on that day of presentation. Anyway, that's school. School will be over after this day of presentation as all the things are done. After school is over, i guess i will be a wondering soul again. The next thing will be poly admissions i guess, first objective for me after ite. If sucessfully will be going to Singapore poly in april. If not, will be waiting for NS letter, to go in NS and start working after that. It's up to Fate now. I really hope that i will make it to poly. Sometimes wondering what is love, it been from secondary, failures all the while i guess. This year will be 20 years old already, now ite life is ending, love has never bloom for me, i guess it is a sad thing for me. My class in ite have the most couples of up to 5. So envy of the couples sometimes! Anyway, the recent couple seems to have met problems so early in the beginning. Actually, i am quite concerned over this. People should know the reason if good friends with me.
Should be happy or sad abt this problem between them? Anyway, thoughts of mine flying everywhere.
This is what i feel for this week, i guess all these will last quite some time. Esp. the love part i guess.

Another long time since updated........

Finally, formal presentation is over on monday 5th march. Quite relax a bit i guess. Our presentation sucks actually cause we were like so last minute with no team spirit entering to the place of presentation. Our lack of team spirit and work were so obvious as told by one of my teachers in our presentation. Anyway, modifying our presentation slides for the principal. Today just finish doing the slides BUT i still feel like the presentation we can still do better. Anyway, not thinking too much, at least it is done i guess. I don't pinned any high hopes already. Ok, love in ite is over for me. It is time for me to leave things as usual now. Though disappointed, life's goes on. Don't know when will i get over. Anyway, things should get better as i am graduating soon in another 1 week. Let's see how the future of my love life will be, when will my fate come?
Ok, till then!!!!

Long time since updated.................

Life's in singapore so far? Yah, i think after so long, it is ok already. Not forgetting it is my homeland after all. Ok, the last time stop at 8 feb 2007. 9 feb 2007, so tired but yet still have to return to school for class C class photo to be taken. Anyway, it is good as i saw most of my friends and classmates. I was quite happy and still went out with 3 of my friends to Chinatown and spent the entire evening with them after the photo taking in school that day. Though tired but that was a well spent day with friends talking and laughing.

8 Feb 2007----Flying back from Beijing

What a morning it is! The morning started with us waking up at abt 7am. I mean the guys, we slack abt till 8.30am before going up to the girls' room to discuss today's plan. Anyway, the girls ask the guys to go to Dr zhao's office to collect something from him. So i called Dr zhao before going and he insisted that he wanted 1 person to go over only. But Zhen wei followed me as the girls went to xiang shan to buy thank cards for the rest of us. So we move off separately, when the guys reach Dr zhao's office, i ask Zhen wei to stay downstairs as i went into his office alone. To my surprise, Dr zhao handed a pair of new year deco and say it is for Dr derek yeo and wanted us to pass it to him on his behalf.I felt it is a very cheap thing and using a normal transparent plastic bag to store the new year deco,is not the way to give a present all though it is cheap, at least you packaged it! Anyway, showed Zhen wei the present also. He was also quite surprise that the 2 of us think that Dr zhao is a stingy person. Later along the way, me and Zhen wei were talking abt the present and laughing abt it. Actually more like complaining! Anyway, we then called the girls and went to meet them at xiangshan for breakfast. So we met the girls and later went to supermarket as some of them needed to buy something. After that, we went looking around for places to eat our breakfast, but found out that all our favourite places to eat are closed or food not ready. Anyway, we then decided to go back to behind our hostel to eat our breakfast, on our way, we prayed that it is open for business, our prayers worked, it seems like it just open for business and we are their first customers of the day. That is like already 10am. So we had our dinner with shao wen, kelly and Zhen wei eating their last bowl of chicken sliced noodles and me eating fried rice. Feng xian never eat as she didn't have appetite. It seems like the last time in Beijing we came out so early for breakfast , our favourite shops just didn't want to open for us and suddenly the streets are like so deserted with very little people. Anyway, it is just a sad ending huh! Anyway, we then went back to the hostel to write our thank you cards for our teachers and taking photos of the cards. We saw the time,it is like 11.15am and Zhen wei and i rush to our different labs to give the cards. But my professor offered me to eat lunch with her and one of my teachers in my department. So i couldn't reject her good will, and had my last lunch in Beijing with them. After this lunch, i rushed back to the hostel as we were supposed to be going off at abt 12.30pm. I run all the way back to the hostel to pack and move my lugguage to the vechicle provided by Dr zhao. In the end, we set off without Dr zhao as he said he got a meeting which he needed to attend. In the vehicle, i suddenly remember i forgot to take my toothbrush, towel, face towel. Anyway, let it go. Also cannot go back already what!
Ok, when we reach the airport , it is abt 1.30pm already, we were left alone with nobody to guide us. Eventually, we found the way through . We passed through 2 checkpoints before reaching the waiting area at abt 2.15pm. A lot of forms to be completed, first is health and lastly the form abt why and where you going back. Anyway, we rested at the waiting area till abt 2.55pm and ask whether we can board and the staff told us to wait till 3pm. But just when Zhen wei finished asking abt 1 min, they open the gate and everyone rushed to board the bus ,taking
us to the plane. We were like so pissed. Anyway, we boarded the bus and the bus took us to the plane and we were sitted at abt 3.20pm. So we waited for the plane to move, but till 3.30pm the plane didn't move and 3.30pm, a new batch of passengers just arrive and they started putting their things only so the flight was delayed till 3.45pm before the plane started moving. Again we got delayed and must queue for flying so we started flying only 4.10pm. So we flew back singapore, but on the flight i was so damn bored with nothing to do. We reach singapore at abt 10.20pm but pack until also 10.30pm before leaving the plane and checking out already 11pm. The girls also do some shopping for wines and beer. But kelly also bought perfumes. After they are done, we went out to collect our lugguage and went to meet our families waiting for us, it is already 11.30pm. Anyway,ms lee told us we need to go back school the next day for class photos, we were like sian lol.So i was quite happy when i was at the airport when i reach singapore because wee kiong, hui ping , Zhao ming and ah beng also came to see me. After we saw Dr yeo, we gave the present Dr zhao gave him. I think he didn't felt happy upon receving it. Anyway,Dr yeo didn't talk to us much, so the talk with ms lee, we were dismissed.After that, we set off home. I reach home abt 12midnight. Unpacked a bit, but my parents did a lot for me and i went to bathe at abt 12.20am until abt 1am. After that went to eat supper with my mother and brother outside, ate meepok fishball dry, so shiok lol, so long never eat already. So that's the last activity of the nite, after that, we slept....... That's almost a whole day outside,right? So tired huh!!! Anyway, it is over!!!

7 feb 2007--------Last minute shopping BUT regrets...............

7 Feb 2007, last full day in Beijing. Kelly need to go office as instructed by her teacher to return the card so she woke up early and went to her lab to do the return card procedures. After that, me and zhen wei also went to our indiviual labs to do our own things. Like for me i upload the photos from my lab office's com and also sent e-mails. Zhen wei finished eariler so went back hostel first and wait for the other girls. After i did my things, i called kelly's office and see if she's ready. She said she leaving soon and ask me to meet her at another building where she did the return card procedures. So i went to meet her and waited for 20mins before she appeared with your teacher, then i waited again for her to do her things at the building before we headed back to the hostel. On our way, we saw feng xian and shao wen bringing the heater we lend back to shao wen's lab to return.So me and kelly followed them back to the labs where we separated so i went back to the hostel first to wait for them. After a while, shao wen came to the guys' room to call us to go out. So the 5 of us went for our last minute shopping for this last full day in beijing. We did our last minute shopping in xiu shui street and wangfujing. But feng xian left early as her department had a farewell dinner for her. So the 4 of us continue shopping till abt 7pm and reach our hostel at abt 8.30pm. Then we did our last minute packing till abt 12am before feng xian came knocking on the guys room to do editing of an article we suppose to hand to Dr zhao to be published in their newsletter. The guys actually were busy packing that time, so feng xian was alone thinking abt the editing. At abt 12.30am, i finished packing and join feng xian for the editing while zhen wei was still packing until abt 12.45am and also join us in the editing. We slowly edit till abt 1am before kelly came knocking on our door and also hurry us to do editing and also join us too and we found out kelly sneak out while shao wen is sleeping in the room. So the 4 of us did editing until abt 3am before the girls went back to their room and the guys sleep. While kelly did the rewriting of the whole article in the girls room till abt 4am before the girls sleep. This is what i found out on 8 feb2007 morning. One thing i regret is actually i wanted to send one of my seniors off at the train station but i do not know how to get there and he told me not to go but on the way back, i found the place in the same bus back hostel just that in opposite directions. Aiyah!!!!! So regrets again lol. So sad ah! Anyway, last day is like that passed one lol.

6 feb 2007-----Regrets.................

7 feb was my off day in Beijing. Ok before that,i actually went out alone on 6 feb in the afternoon as the girls went to zoo area to shop for clothes as i went to xi dan another area to look for clothes as well. First time, went out alone in Beijing, felt lonely at the start but try not to think abt it too much. Left the hostel at abt 1pm after eating lunch.Anyway, was cheated RMB 10 by facial company said to be doing free testing for my face. Nothing much to say, just to say i am stupid and simple-minded. Anyway, after wasting RMB 10, i went to buy what my objective states in the first place. Finished shopping abt 4.30pm before travelling by bus to meet the girls near zoo area, meet them abt 6pm. Then took bus back to hostel together and put our things we bought before going back as Zhen wei's professor was treating us to dinner. Actually,this is the main reason why ZW did not go out with us to do last minute shopping. So ZW's professor took us to a 5-star restaurant for Beijing roasted duck and we had our dinner there, we felt great and thank his professor for that wonderful dinner. After dinner, he sent us to visit qinghua university which is second in China. So we actually visited university to them is a place of interest. Anyway, the university itself is bigger than singapore's university lol and it is self-efficient like a neighbourhood with banks, petrol stations, swimming pools, stadium and etc. That's the last place we visited in China. After that, actually i suppose to meet my seniors in the office as they are leaving on 7feb 2007 but when i return from that dinner abt 10.05pm. i found that the office is locked with nobody there. Sad ah!!!! Never got a chance to chat with them for the last time.

Last 2 days of working: Yesterday and today

Abt yesterday, it seems like i slack the whole day, just chatting with my department people here and updating the blog. Nothing much really happen yesterday, but the feeling is different as i will be leaving soon and back to singapore. I kinda of cannot bare with the people here. It seems like a kinda of sad feeling that flies pass me whenever i came back to this lab office to spend this last few days here and leaving this place where i stayed for 2 months. Anyway, the few days always thinking when will i be back again to visit them(teacher and seniors). Actually nobody really knows the answer. Yesterday was treated to a farewell lunch by Dr zhao and some teachers from the admin side and of course student councillors. Anyway, felt weird eating with them as these people are not really the people we get together with. We had only 1 meal before and this is the second one only. Dinner ate together as a group yesterday, but today i guess will not be as zhen wei having dinner with his department people, rest of us maybe going out for last minute shopping again in the afternoon as we have nothing to do.
Ok enough of the updates till now!! Now for weather reports here in Beijing, just found out that tomo the weather is snow with rain, can you imagine snow with rain the feeling, just wondering how it feels tomo when i wake up and walking on the streets as tomo is a off day for us to do final packing and shopping! Thursday is the day, abt my flight will it change due to weather?

Long and last weekend here in Beijing!

This weekend started early with friday as the first day. Friday, we wake up very early at abt 5am. We left hostel at abt 5.40am to take bus to the train station to transfer to a train there to Badaling Great wall of China. But we reach the place abt 8am and saw a lot of people quening up for the train and decided to change to take a bus to great wall instead. So we went back to the bus interchange to look for a suitable bus to take us to Bus 919 which is to Great wall of china. And this took us quite a while to figure out and in the end we check the map and walk out to find bus 618 to transfer to bus 919. And when we reach Great wall which is a long trip for bus 919, we reach the place at abt 11.30am. Can you imagine almost 6hours to reach Great wall, we took a lot of time, mostly due to poor planning! Anyway, we climb the great wall to the highest peak which is 888.8m above sea level, ok the view is great. On our way down, kelly lost one glove and we help to look by going up and down again. In the end not finding the lost glove, my guess it has flown off. Anyway, we were so tired that day. We came down and out of the great wall at abt 3pm. Walk around the souveirs shop there, and i bought a few there. Took the bus back at abt 3.30pm and reach city area abt 5.30pm before heading to look for hotel for us to stay. That's actually the plan for that day. Look around at hotels near 919 bus interchange but couldn't find a hotel nearby so took bus 27 to Xizhimen and look for hotel again. Couldn't find a hotel within our budget, so sadly went back home and had our dinner at xiangshan, where again the girls went to have dian xin for dinner and the guys went to eat a proper meal. The guys reach home later as the girls finish their meal first in another shop different from the guys. When the guys reach home, only kelly was awake as the other girls sleep earlier. So the guys went back to their room to slack lol and Zhen wei say he want to go lab fill our flask so he went back and i was left alone in the room without entertainment as i left my handphone charger in the girls' room and the china plug also so cannot watch tv or listen to music as my handphone is in low batt. So i lay on my bed in the hostel and don't know why i slept so early that day, maybe i am just plain bored ba! Ok, that's friday, great wall day!!
Coming to saturday now, the girls say they want to sleep longer on friday nite before the guys came down so we went up to the girls room at abt 9.40am. And while we prepare to set off, it is decided that we have breakfast first while kelly says she go her lab to check abt the hotels. So the 5 of us set off, and the 4 of us went to have late breakfast and after that went back to find kelly in her lab. So we search for the hotels using the map while we were there and didn't find the ones kelly found in the internet. So we look again on the internet, so wasted quite a lot of time and left kelly's lab at abt 1pm. So in the end, we took 2 buses to Wangfujing to look for the hotels there. We reach the place at abt 2.30pm before searching around the place for a decent hotel. Found a hotel nearby and cheap, guys one room----260, girls one room---------388, stay for a nite. The feeling is great lol, once we went in the rooms, the girls say they are bathing immediately so the guys also bathe and we went out to do last min shopping and to have our dinner and in the end,we had our dinner from street food. We return to the hotel at abt 11pm and we return to our rooms where i watch soccer till abt 1am. Zhen wei slept in the middle of it, anyway i bathe during halftime and continue to watch the match. I slept at abt 1.30am that night.
At lastly it is sunday, the last day of this long and last weekend. I woke up at abt 7am, don't know why, maybe haven adapt yet! Actually we decided to try the hotel's breakfast and kelly told the guys to go check the breakfast there at basement 1 and after we check we call the girls room using phone to tell them the breakfast is not so good and they wouldn't like it so they decided to continue sleeping after that. Anyway after that, i decided to have breakfast in macdonald's. The time is already 9.20am .So the guys left the hotel at abt 9.40am to eat breakfast and after that zhen wei say he wanted to buy cds. So in the end, Zhen wei and i return to the hotel at abt 11am, we bathe again before the girls and us check out the hotel at abt 12.30pm. After checking out of the hotel, we continued doing our last minute shopping going to the area nearby and xi dan before going back and reach our hostel back again at abt 7pm. After that, Zhen wei and i waited for dinner as the girls cook spagetti. After that , we all sat down on watch harry potter while having dinner till abt 10pm. Before we head on to sleeping as this long weekend is very tiring.
Ok, long weekend huh, so tiring but now don't know will my lugguage be overweight with so many souveirs to bring back. Aiyah, anyway let's take a day at a time ba.

OK, long weekend ahead of me!!

Tomo going to Badaling Great wall of china finally, the last place of interest we going to before leaving beijing on 8 feb 2007. Really looking forward to this i guess, after all it is the one of the 7 wonders of the world. Today, had lunch together but it seems that the mood is a bit weird, seems like everyone is a bit sian. I also don't know why! Anyway, tomo have to wake up very early to catch the train to badaling which leaves at abt 8.15am, as we need to take a bus to transfer to the train. Tonite must pack as maybe we will be staying at a hotel near badaling for a night. If staying then, we can bathe there and enjoy the hotel facilities if we find one good hotel i guess.Anyway, this is a long and last weekend for me and the rest of my group so i must enjoy till the fullest. See you guys on monday for my updates on my blog.......Bye!!!!

Normal Day for yesterday But...... And things for now!!

Normal day, yesterday as everyone went for both lunch and dinner together as a group. We sort of enjoy ourselves for the whole day i guess. Anyway, we went to kelly's lab in the afternoon to actually research on the hotels in Great wall, Badaling but i guess we couldn't stay for long as that's a department meeting at the place we are using the computer. Anyway, we then went back to the lab to continue our work. At night we met for dinner after work at abt 6.30pm with feng xian's junior following us to eat again. This time, we order dishes with rice for dinner and each of us ate abt 8.50RMB to 9.50RMB. Met my senior during dinner, saw him eating alone, cause we finishing dinner soon so never invite him over to join us. Anyway, after dinner, the guys went back to hostel to bathe while the girls went to kelly's lab to research on hotels again. The guys then went to met the girls at kelly's lab and look at what they found out. We leave together at abt 9.30pm and Zhen wei return to his lab to do weekly journal again, slept there in the lab office as usual and i did my weekly journal in the girls' room and finish week 8's journal at abt 12.30am before going back to sleep while the girls still carry on watching dvds drama. Wonder what time they sleep?
Anyway, did grinding of samples for my senior again the whole morning, got breaks in between so typing the blog slowly. This morning,Zhen wei bought breakfast for the whole group lol, suddenly become so good, actually i was a bit surprise. Anyway, he bought you tiao and soya bean for all of us. I also rec'd mgs from shao wen in the morning to ask whether the breakfast was bought by me. i think the girls also felt very surprise of what Zhen wei had done today. I actually thought of doing that but he is faster than me lol. Anyway, something i think the girls will appreciate that Zhen wei had done. Let's see how the girls will react during lunch i guess. Yah talking abt lunch, lunch is coming!!!!! Haha actually already feeling hungry.........................Till then everyone....BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So How's today?

So how's today? I also don't know till lunch. It is said yesterday that we meet up 11.30am at the lobby for lunch. What will happen??? Don't know yet!!! Hope that kelly is ok!! Guess it is time to find out if there's anything wrong with her today! Today still grinding samples for my senior, i think maybe for the whole day. Now slacking till abt 10am as said by him. Anyway, today is also a day to look forward too as today is bathing day. Oh, in Beijing, Xiang Shan, you must always love the hot water and the bathing days. Water is really precious here as in winter over here, esp. hot water!!! Let's see what will happen for today!!! More updates coming up soon!!!

Yesterday finally had dinner as a group BUT...........

Ok yesterday was an abnormal day as things happen. Should i say misunderstandings during lunch? Yah i think should be i guess. Cause kelly actually had stomach problems cause maybe she is not eating and her stomach sort of cannot take it anymore! And the rest of the group thought she disappear during lunch when we call her office and couldn't find her but actually she went to the toilet during that time. So the guys went back to the room to check, while the girls went to the library to check and couldn't find her still. Then we decided to go to kelly's office to check and found that kelly is eating there, which made shao wen kind of angry. And kelly try to explain but to no avail earlier. But during lunch together, it seems ok as kelly finally get to explain her side of the story. Anyway, kelly went back late yesterday while the rest of us slept early at abt 10pm. That's why kelly didn't have dinner with us yesterday.Anyway, i kinda of feel that something is still wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, for dinner we have a guest to eat with us which is actually feng xian's junior. We had dinner just outside of the hostel we staying and i try a dish which is fry liver rice which actually taste good, tried it the first time only. Wonder what did kelly had for dinner yesterday since she is not feeling too good!!!! Yah, another day passed huh, going back soon, still mixed feelings inside of me.

Abt yesterday.................Maybe things i will be doing today!!

Yesterday again slack in the morning, ok maybe not because i doing some translation work from Chinese to English. Ok nothing much happened in the morning, so come lunch, we went out together to eat a nearby village, cheap noodles which are filling to my stomach. Because the noodles is cut straight away from the dough made and the noodles are a lot which makes you feel like eating ban mian but in a large quantity. And you know eating this, is like eating the dough itself, very very filling!! Went back in the afternoon for experiment with my senior doing total lipids extraction and purification, help him grind the peach sample using mortar and pestle, and observe the whole process. Went back home quite late compare to other days, reach home abt 6.20pm. Ask the girls whether they having dinner, they say no. Then i went to eat dinner just outside of the hostel before coming back up to do week 8 reflection on my IA book and help Feng xian do blog and talk to the girls as well. Of course after that is sleep lah. Anyway, Zhen wei went back to lab to do his things and slept there again!!
Ok, this morning continued my translation work again. Afternoon should be helping my senior to do grinding of peach samples again. Hopefully the girls will eat dinner tonite but chances are slim!!! Till then..................BYE!!!!!!!!

Last 2nd weekend here----27/1----28/1/07

Ok, this is a summary of the last 2nd weekend here in Beijing. On saturday, we went back to xi dan known as singapore's orchard road by me. Went back there because haven finish walking that area and shopping there. Went there for the whole day as we left hostel at only abt 9.15am and reach there abt 11.30am. Nothing much happen, and we decided to go back xiang shan to have our dinner as it is cheaper, the girls had dian xin for dinner while the guys, us, went to have fried rice as it makes me full instead of the dian xin the girls had. Reach home abt 8.15pm, and ask Zhen wei to go back lab to fill water as he say he got things to do in his office. I stay in the girls' room to check for the place we going the next day which is silk street. Meaning using the Beijing map, i look for the buses which can reach there till abt 10.30pm as buses are cheaper here but here a lot of buses so must look very long. After that,i talk with the girls in their room till abt 11.30pm before going back to my room where no one is there. Then slept at abt 12midnight, wake up at 1am to go toilet to find a message which tell me that Zhen wei is sleeping in his lab office. Then i continue sleeping till the next morning.
On sunday, woke up quite early due to big business in the toilet. I woke up at abt 7am. Zhen wei still not back so i went to send him a SMS to remind him to come back earlier before 8am as we decided to leave the hostel for shopping at abt 8.30am. In the end, the girls wake up at abt 8.30am and it dragged until abt the same time as sunday abt 9.30am then left the hostel. I led the way on sunday as the route to the silk street was found by me. We took 2 buses to the silk street but the 2 buses we took extra stop so delayed the trip a bit so actually we reach the place at abt 12.15pm. The 2 buses are new to us so we don't know and just take and in the end saving only 50cents RMB.
Anyway, we had a whole day of walking from walking to the place of destination from the extra bus stop, shopping, buying things. At night, we went to wangfujing Food night market, where i try fried liver soup there so the rest of us try new food, as food were quite expensive there, we didn't eat much there. I didn't eat much so when i went home, i ate a packet of instant noodles before sleeping. We reach home quite late abt 10.15pm. So slept at abt 12midnight. So tired this sunday after the whole day of shopping.
Last 2nd weekend already huh, though i think this weekend is tiring but it is fun and a happy weekend for me as group outings is always the best as i will never get the feeling of loneliness which makes me fed-up and sian>>>>>>>>>>>OK, more updates on the way, BYE!!!!!!!!!

Things changes so fast yesterday........................

Just after i wrote the blog posted yesterday, my senior ask me to prepare some media which only has a chinese name which i ask him to translate for me but he don't know and say he will check it out for me. But till now.......Anyway yesterday in the afternoon, i learn how to be cotton wrapped test tubes caps as my senior didn't want to use metal test tubes caps. Anyway, he left me to do this the whole afternoon, while he is busy with something else. Happy at least i learn something new and was not slacking and rotting in the office. Ok, night was peaceful and a lot of problems solved and questionmarks answer too. The mood for me today is happy but don't what lies during lunch. Take a step at a time, i guess.
Saw results of the transformed cells grown in a agar plate by my senior just now. He say nothing for me in the morning, maybe in the afternoon ba. Typing this blog now and looking forward to the weekends. As weekends, make me less lonely and feel more together. I am a person that cannot tolerate loneliness the most. Every other thing is less important than me being lonely. Cause problems start when i am lonely.
Ok enough of me, tomo will be the weekend where we start our last-minute shopping as next weekend, we will be at Great wall of China, everyone, the place we must go when we are in China. Really excited and looking forward to it. Yah so that's the plan discuss for the last 2 weekends we having in China. So that's all i guess for now!!!BYE!!!!!

Ok the girls eat instant noodles again for dinner...................And things now!!!!

The girls again had instant noodles for dinner again, ok not all of them, kelly didn't eat, she ate the shao mai and dumplings i bought when i went with zhen wei for dinner. The girls besides eating all this, also ate biscuits and tea egg. They were so thrifty because i think they didn't want to blast their bank account and at the same time i guess also for slimming down as they sometimes would complain that they are fat already. Ok, so it has been 2 nights that zhen wei and i had dinner together. I actually always wanted us to have our meals together as a group regardless whether it is lunch or dinner. Not breakfast as i don't expect the girls to wake up early to have breakfast together. Though if the girls are willing to wake up early, i don't mind but it is like rarely and i need to see a miracle i think for the 2 weeks remaining as they always like lying on the bed till quite late. Only lunch and dinner i expect, is it that difficult?
Anyway, hope to see changes and miracles!!! And i hate to be leftout esp. here in Beijing, i get fed-up if this happens(people with me here in Beijing should know what they doing)
I emphasize again things that is regarding a group must be discuss as a group. Examples photos to be posted. Should i go so specific?Actually some things i don't know whether to explain and let the whole world know.
Ok enough of that! Today morning i slack again as nothing to do so typing this blog to be posted.
Hopefully, afternoon will have things to do ba. Ok that's now........Bye!!!!!

Yesterday till today

Yesterday, whole day did nothing but surf the net and pretended to be researching cause no one ask me to do things or experiments. Typical slack day!!!!
Today, morning do nothing till abt 10am, then senior ask me to do preparation of media by washing glassware again, a lot of glassware i wash lol!! Went for late lunch as washing things with detergent for most of the things take time. Went for lunch together with the rest at abt 12noon after taking photos in my labs for the ite yearbook. Went to xiang shan to eat shao mai, dumplings and xiao long bao for lunch. Went straight back to our separate labs as times flies, travelling up and down.
And here i am waiting for my senior to start experiment of preparing LB media lol! i think will start soon. Guess that's all for now!!!!!! BYE!!!!!!!

Yesterday.....busy day

So yesterday started with me realising i am having a meeting at abt 8.30am. So i sort of rush to my lab office, reaching the office 5-10mins before the start of the meeting. So lucky, i remember the meeting huh! Anyway, attended the meeting for my entire department, the agenda of the department is year 2007 research projects plan. The meeting is quite boring with people presenting their powerpoint slides of their plans for 2007. Anyway, it could not finish in the morning. So continued after lunch at 1pm, i was a bit late due to reasons. Anyway, the meeting continued and finish at abt 3.15pm. And after that the whole department went for a steamboat buffet as a department after the meeting, we decided to eat at wa da kou. The whole department took bus 331 to the place and we look for the place together as we are not familar. So i save on my dinner yesterday, so full and quite happy yesterday as i got to interact with my department people as last time i was a bit sick and could not quite interact with them. A lot of food in that place, like a food heaven lol from bottled drinks to alcohols like brandy, XO, white wine, chinese wine, fruit juicies, grilled food, seafood, ice cream, noodles, fried rice, cakes and etc. All for just 41RMB, everything included and free-flow. Envy????????
Anyway, yesterday so busy till no time to touch the com lol!
SO now understand how busy i am yesterday. So that's yesterday!!!!!!

Ok, i am back!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello to all again! I am back to type the blog and update again. Busy day, yesterday with meetings and etc. Will tell you more in the next blog abt yesterday.
Ok, now let's look back to the weekends i had. Starting from sat(20/1/07), we wake up early and left the hostel at abt 8.30am and left for tian tan(temple of heaven) and spent an entire day there and had a late lunch at kfc as we couldn't find any other good places to eat, kelly was great as she compromise and eat the lunch set with the 4 of us. Anyway, quite happy as kelly sort of have a fear of eating KFC. Don't know how to explain but thinking for her own good, we shouldn't eat KFC again.Ok we reach home quite early at abt 8pm. The girls don't feel like eating dinner as they had a late and to them a heavy lunch at abt 4pm. So me and zhen wei went up to xiangshan again to eat late dinner in china at abt 9.30pm.After that, went back to lab to collect water as our hostel's hot water boiler is not working, so zhen wei and me went to collect water and after that went back to the hostel to sleep. And that's that day!!
For Sunday(21/1/07), we went to wu da kou as suggested by me. I thought there is a lot of things to shop or see there but turn out to be small shopping malls and shop. Anyway, we wake up early and left hostel at abt 8.10am to have our macdonald's breakfast at wu da kou, we spent an entire day shopping in the small area. I seriously think that i chosen a wrong place to shop and see things. Anyway, we bought our dinner in nearby supermarket and went home at abt 5pm, reaching home around 6pm. Had my dinner, rice dumplings and chicken bought from the supermarket in wu da kou. After dinner, do some washing of dishes and help out together with feng xian doing the pioneer destination blogsite pictures and on to sleeping after that. Felt that the day was wasted by me suggesting such a lousy place, Aiyah!!! Anyway, it is already wasted.
So that's weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

18/1/07-----Now......

Ok, on wednesday night 17/1/07--- Zhen wei and i were supposed to bathe as it is bathing day. On our way back, we saw a notice which perish our hopes of bathing as they have not enough fuels to boil the hot water for bathing. So till today, it is been 1 week plus that i didn't bath already. So we decided to bathe later in the afternoon at another building today. Anyway, yesterday it is another routine day at work. For dinner, girls decided to have instant noodles yesterday. So the guys went up to xiang shan again to eat. So yesterday after dinner, everyone were busy with their weekly journal of week 6 and 7 cause by today need to hand in as kelly promised ms lee already. Anyway, today in the morning i was ask to view my senior extacting and purifying the TPS gene with the instructions found in the extraction and purification kit bought by my senior. Came back from lunch at abt 2pm.Till now i still waiting for him to come back for the afternoon's experiment lol! So now got time with nobody to fight with me using the only free computer in the lab office, i am typing this blog. One more thing shock to find out that even the water for drinking is stopped in our hostel as there's no more fuel to boil the water so now the only way is to come to our lab to fill the drinkable water which takes us abt 15-20mins to walk to and flow back to our hostel. This is like so troublesome. Wonder if this is the life for the remaining 3 weeks here. Aiyah, we going to face another new problem. Always full of surprises since wednesday night, what is the people doing over here? Living conditions here already sucks and now this? Don't know what to say ah!!!! Take care everyone in singapore, you guys are more fortunate and cherish water in singapore.......BYE!!!!!!!!!!!

Today......................................

Slack in the morning, so slack without using the com till abt 10.45am. Use the com for abt 30mins before going out for lunch with the girls as zhen wei is busy with work and couldn't make it for lunch with us. After lunch, went back to room to settle debts with the rest. Reach lab office at abt 2pm. Now waiting for senior to return and later ask if there's things i can do. Using com now to watch xiao nian yang jia jiang on youtube.... Still slacking!!!
Anyway, looking forward to bathe tonite as wed is bathing day. Yo, so Happy, haven bathe for the pass week already. Yah also tonite we frying fries to eat with bread, eggs and hotdogs. Looking forward to that too, Haha!!
Looks like tonite will be a great night!!!!!!!!!!
BYE!!!!

Yesterday afternoon and night.............16/1/07

Afternoon in the lab, independently prepared NYPD media, from weighing to dissolving to pouring into 20 250ml of conical flasks of 200ml each to autoclaving the media for sterilisation, i prepare slow as i needed to wash the glassware needed and after the autoclaving, needed to wash glassware used in the process. Dinner was a bit different as kelly didn't want to eat, shao wen and feng xian had instant noodles for dinner. So me and zhen wei went out to eat. Zhen wei later return to lab at 7.30pm. So i went to the girls' room to watch armed reaction 2 again, and the girls decided to sleep early again at abt 9.30pm, i left the girls' room. Then finally zhen wei came back at abt 9.40pm and we watched tv for a while in the room before i sleep at abt 10.30pm.Zhen wei told me this morning, he sleep yesterday at abt 11plus cause of watching tv. So that's yesterday!!!!

Monday night...........................15/1/07

After a long and tiring day, we return to the hostel separately and suprising each of us return quite early at abt 5.30pm and decided to have dumplings for dinner. Actually besides that, we had a 'roti prata' sold here of course without the curry. Anyway, we ate and watch armed reaction 2 while eating and watch till abt 9.30pm before the girls wanted to sleep early so the guys went back to their own room. i know i slept at abt 10.30pm cause i had late supper with some of the dumplings left. Don't know what time Zhen wei sleep as i dozed off while watching tv actually. Didn't know i was so tired yesterday!! And that's that's, thanks for reading, Bye!!!

Monday blues for today!!

After a normal and fruitful weekend with happenings as mention in previous blog with places of interest visited for almost 2 whole days. The energy has definitely been drained out of me. i slept for abt 7hours only and today morning when i came back for work, i was ask to wash the glassware which was use by my senior during weekends to run his experiments. Wash until almost sleep ah!! Anyway, i am so so tired. Soon going to prepare gel for my senior, ok that's now.......bye bye!!!!!!!

Weekends for places of interest, tired though................

We wake up quite early to go to the imperial palace last saturday. We left at abt 9.00am.As always the guys would wake up first and on to waking up the girls in their room. Actually suppose to leave at 8.30am, but anyway we reach there at abt 11am. The imperial palace is inside of tiananmen, so we took a bus to a place before transferring to a train to reach tiananmen station. We reach and explore the places in tiananmen before we saw a shop taking photos of traditional palace costumes of emperor, princess, concubines, empress, generals and etc. Kelly and Feng xian decided to take photos using the costumes provided, they paid 40 dollars each,two photos to be taken for them. So the guys and shao wen waited for them and help to take photos with our own camera besideswhat the shop provided. Spent abt 30mins over that shop. Moving on, we decided to buy tickets for visiting imperial palace, it cost us RMB 40 each. The place is very big with actually a lot of palaces lock,showing the main palaces not the small ones. Anyway, some of the main palace is also renovating so cannot go in. Anyway, we actually scroll through the entire place though some of the palace are lock, it is still a big place afterall. I guess we did take a lot of photos and using my video camera from my handphone taking short videos which are sometimes very funny, as in the things we do!!Ok for lunch, i finally had my first meal at starbucks coffee cause there is no other food outlets in the imperial palace. I had a duck breast snadwich and a cappaciono( sorry don't know how to spell)---- 38RMB, so exp!! The imperial palace closes at 4.30pm. So after that, we walk down to another place to have dinner. On our way, we walk into raffles hotel in Beijing, and i tell you the place is great and looks like a 5-star hotel, went to check the prices , it is like so expensive. Anyway, we went to dinner and again i had the baked rice with seafood, the girls order the same but zhen wei cannot take seafood so he had a fried rice with diced chicken and etc. Reach home at abt 10pm, everyone is like so tired after walking for the whole day and today it felt cold maybe cause we are outside almost the whole day, not like in shopping mall with heaters.
Sunday, we left the hostel at abt 11am to have lunch at nearby restaurant. With us reaching the summer palace at abt 12.30pm. We bought tickets for the whole summer palace which cost us 50RMB. The place is also so big till we cannot finish walking all the paid destinations, one of it is wasted, so sad that we have waste one paid destination fees. Aiyah, anyway, we reach home quite early at abt 8pm, had dinner before that. And watch armed reaction 2 till abt 12midnight before we went to sleep. Busy weekend we had ah!!! Tired, but at the same time happy as we finally visited places of interest in Beijing itself. Next weekend should be the same schedule, but time really flies, 3 weeks left in beijing..................................Bye!!!!

Today is a busy day......Definitely!!!!

People, being busy sometimes can also be happy. But being busy too often is not too good as it makes it stress up and burst. In the end, you are the one that is suffering. So i am happy, as after a long time, i finally get to be busy for once in the lab. Anyway, it is another of my great days in this lab so far. Not like often, when i slack in the office doing nothing. Happy though now i staying back doing experiment for maybe another 30mins or so. Yah though left abt 3 weeks in beijing, i think finally i learn a bit more. And if this goes on, i were have learn quite a lot in this 2 months i guess. So happy now!! HAHA!!! Things had finally change!!!! A long wait but nevertheless, it is a fruitful wait. Patience is the key in this long and fruitful wait!!! Anyway, tonite should be discussing where to go for tomo. I guess i quite look forward to it. Lets' see when the discussion ends tonite.... Thanks for reading.... See you on monday for more updates of my weekends and happenings in Beijing........Bye!!!!!

Today had A BUSY MORNING.................

What a busy morning i had, when i came to the office like less than 15mins. My senior ask me to prepare another gel. Anyway, i prepared halfway before other seniors ask me to be more safety conscious as some of the steps done by my senior are not too good. And in the end, it is him doing the other half of the experiment. So after we prepare the YEPD media again, like cleaning glassware, weighing powder, dissolving and etc. So it is a busy morning for me as i spent almost the whole morning in the lab till abt 11pm. Lunch time, oh first time do things till lunch time. The feeling is shiok though i did quite a bit of things. Anyway, now afternoon, i again need to find something to do or see. Going......... Will be back for more updates of my life here in Beijing....BYE!!!!!!

Great evening in Beijing yesterday after i hope......

Yesterday, my senior came back to the office at abt 3pm and decided to run gel. So he showed me how to prepare the gel. Forget to mention it is agarose gel, so we measure 0.2g of agarose powder for 20ml of 1x TAE buffer to prepare the agarose gel in a conical flask and using microwave oven to dissolve the agarose powder. We then add 2.5 microlitres of EB to the solution and put it into the casting tray with a comb and wait for abt 20mins for it to harder. OK, enough with the gel. That's what i did yesterday, running of gel which is gel electrophoresis. Ok, after summarising it. It makes my life easier as i learn another new thing in Beijing which makes me happy, better than sitting down and doing nothing. Yesterday, feng xian came back late at abt 7pm to cook dinner for us. Anyway, feng xian cook great noodles and yesterday our dinner were cheap as each person cost abt 2dollars and less. Kelly came home even later at abt 12midnight as i found out only today while we had lunch. Wondering what she do for the whole afternoon till so late! Anyway, shao wen ask us all not to wait for kelly and sleep first so we were sent back to our rooms and the guys slept at abt 11pm. Also found out, feng xian and kelly slept at abt 1am yesterday. With feng xian doing her logbook and after kelly came back, they discuss on how to go to the great wall of china. Anyway, that's all the happenings of yesterday!

10/1/07----- today

10/1/07---- Day of boringness as my senior did nothing that i could learn cause he did everything in the night and never bother to ask me to see. I again slack the whole day while trying to fix my labtop and it didn't seem to work. Anyway, this kind of life just sucks as i do not want to be in the lab or office for the whole day. Anyway, sometimes i just update both of my logbook if there's nothing to do. Or like now updating my blog! Anyway, yesterday shao wen rested for another day and looks like she is feeling better already. This is good news as this weekend, we are finally going to places of interest already after so long, nearly 1 month! But anything could happen, so i guess still must pray for the best.
Today, i also slacking i guess. Hope afternoon, there's things for me to see and learn. Really hope so. Cause i am really sian already, i almost have nothing to write in my Q&C logbook and the girls' logbook are like 10-20pages more than me. OH, scared later go back ITE, don't know how to explain. Let's not think about it anyway! Enjoy the life here first, i think when i go back, will suffer even more ah.Hope for the better, am i always doing that? Aiyah!!!!
That's for now again..................Bye!!!

Yesterday was another busy day for me!!

Ok, yesterday was not slack at all with me following my senior around and i think i learn a lot of things and the whole process abt mRNA extraction and purification of yeast cells. Finally something to write abt in my Q&C logbook. I think the decmember i did not do much at the research institute. Anyway, now i quite busy and my labtop crush yesterday suddenly so cannot use it anymore. Anyway, luckily that's a free com for me to use in my lab officer. Though it is shared by my department, most of the time this sort of free com is use for printing purposes. Anyway, they say i can use it. Anyway, now left with less than 1 month, should be quite fast pass ba!! Anyway, this day is not a good day for shao wen as she came down with food poisoning with high fever over here. Anyway, we always take care of one another so i guess nothing bad will happen. And she should recover fast. We are like taking turns to be sick, anyway, we recover quite quickly, so must have very good immune system ah, the 5 of us over at beijing. Anyway, that's life over here. Our skin recently are getting drier and drier so i guess my cut won't recover too soon or maybe need for me to return to singapore before it recovers. Meanwhile, i don't know how not to touch water since it is still an open wound that have not clotted.....Hope it recovers soon!!!!! I guess it is so long.......Bye!!!!!

Yesterday was another busy day for me!!

Ok, yesterday was not slack at all with me following my senior around and i think i learn a lot of things and the whole process abt mRNA extraction and purification of yeast cells. Finally something to write abt in my Q&C logbook. I think the decmember i did not do much at the research institute. Anyway, now i quite busy and my labtop crush yesterday suddenly so cannot use it anymore. Anyway, luckily that's a free com for me to use in my lab officer. Though it is shared by my department, most of the time this sort of free com is use for printing purposes. Anyway, they say i can use it. Anyway, now left with less than 1 month, should be quite fast pass ba!! Anyway, this day is not a good day for shao wen as she came down with food poisoning with high fever over here. Anyway, we always take care of one another so i guess nothing bad will happen. And she should recover fast. We are like taking turns to be sick, anyway, we recover quite quickly, so must have very good immune system ah, the 5 of us over at beijing. Anyway, that's life over here. Our skin recently are getting drier and drier so i guess my cut won't recover too soon or maybe need for me to return to singapore before it recovers. Meanwhile, i don't know how not to touch water since it is still an open wound that have not clotted.....Hope it recovers soon!!!!! I guess it is so long.......Bye!!!!!

Monday.....Monday........

Slack the whole working day but in the night went back to do and observe experiment for mRNA extraction. The whole experiment actually took abt 4-5hours, at abt 10.15pm, i decided to leave eariler as i was too tired. Anyway, i didn't miss much. It is just that some parts of the experiment i don't understand cause my senior couldn't explain it in English, the chemical used for the extraction. Anyway, at least i learn something. I don't know what to write in the Q&C logbook cause most of the experiments, i just observe. Till now, my hands-on experience here are like 1-5% only meaning very little. I reach home at abt 10.30pm cause i rush back,took abt 10mins, usually 15-20mins walk, did not like to stay in the cold with me so tired and carrying so many things. Anyway, So tired for this day, never try before whole day in the lab or office. So long, people reading.......Bye!!!!!

Exciting Sat And Staying in Hostel on Sun with...............6/1-7/1/07

Exciting Saturday as i mention which is us exploring a new place which represents the Orchard Road in Singapore. This place contains lots of shopping malls but things are quite expensive over here. We do lots of window shopping and some of us bought some clothes. Forgot to mention, we actually decided to wake up early to eat macdonald's breakfast but when we reach there, we found out that breakfast is served till 10am only. So in the end, we did not have breakfast or any meal at macdonalds' as kelly didn't like fastfood esp. lunch. So in the end, we chose a japanese restaurant and i try their pork ribs noodles which was ok. Anyway, we spent the entire day at that place and in the evening, the girls decided to cook food and eat to save money. I was chosen by them to cook noodles. So they ask me to cook whatever i like using the noodles, We went to Carrefour at another place to buy the ingredients needed. So we reach home quite late at abt 9pm, then started preparing the dinner with the girls preparing the ingredients for me and we cook till almost like 11pm before eating our dinner together. After eating, we went to sleep at abt 12.30am. The girls told us to come in on sunday in the afternoon only. So me and zhen wei decided to eat breakfast on Sunday.
Sunday, the day started with me and zhen wei waking up at abt 9am. Went to eat breakfast at a dian xin shop, had xiao long bao and wanton soup, quite cheap-----RMB 4.50. After that, we went to the supermarket to buy custard cakes in a pack of 16 and two bottles of soft drinks for two of us. Then we went back to the hostel and watch tv till abt 12.40pm before i knock on the girls' room door and help them fill the flasks with hot water. We then were told by the girls that we were be eating lunch together at abt 1.30pm. But we waited for the girls to change and prepare and they took such a long time till it is dragged till almost abt 2pm. Due to my surprise, we enter the same shop, zhen wei and i had breakfast in the morning. Anyway, i try some other things like shao mai, dumplings and their soup. After that, the girls decided to ask me to cook again as they think that i cook pretty good. So we went to shop around our area for the ingredients till abt 4pm before heading back to the hostel. The girls decided to go borrow a cooking pot for easier cooking. The guys then headed back first to wash the dishes of yesterday and prepared the ingredients for cooking. The guys were kept busy till abt 6.30pm before the girls should enjoy using the internet in kelly's office before they came back and told me the pot couldn't be borrow. I don't know what to say abt the girls. The guys are like so busy with cooking and the girls are doing the least to help. Anyway, i cut myself when opening the luncheon meat can. Anyway, the girls came back and ask me to start cooking. I started cooking and needed to cook into 2 parts as the pot we have is too small. But the pot just stick easily so feng xian do the scrapping for me while i am cooking. Anyway, we had our dinner like 9.30pm and watching armed reaction 2 till abt 12midnight before sleeping. So that our weekend..... Till then........BYE!!!!!!

Last Friday-----5/01/07

Last Friday, i almost slack the whole day,not doing anything! Just before i knock off for work, my senior suddenly ask me to help him in preparing NYDB media, i was kinda of happy and at the same time 'sian' cause it is almost time to go back. Anyway, i did stayed back and help out by washing the conical flasks needed which is abt 10 conical flasks and some other glassware which were needed. Observe him weighing the ingredients needed for the media, it is a lot as he wanted to make 2 litres of the media. In this institute of botany, people use weighing paper to weigh their chemicals, i notice it is not so good as it spills easily if the chemicals you weigh are too much like 10g-20g, the weighing paper is way to small. Anyway, this is what i observe. Also their anaytical balance are so dirty and filled with a bit of rust. Wonder how they publish their articles worldwide and experiments done, the results are so accurate and right. Anyway, my senior and i work till abt 6pm that day and the whole department had went for dinner already. We were the only 2 guys left that evening. After that, the four of us except feng xian went to eat dinner together. Feng xian couldn't make it as her experiment needed 3 hours to do and she started only like at 4.50pm. After dinner, the 4 of us went back to the room for a while before something bad happen which is kelly's hp dropped into the toilet bowl and she and shao wen were busy in retriving the hp. After that, shao wen went back to the lab to look for feng xian. Kelly also went back to the lab to do some cleaning duties. So left with the 2 guys in the room, We play computer games till the girls came back like at abt 11.30pm only. Yah, that's the day and happenings of this day!!!

Yesterday was another routinue day But...........

Another routine day but things were a bit different as finally someone ask me to follow him to do experiment. Yah, it is one of my seniors who taught me how to prepare potato dextrose Agar using agar powder, D-glucose powder and boiled potato water. I was quite happy as i finally learn something after a long while. The last time should be the learning of electron microscope. Anyway, at least got learn something, better than nothing. But afternoon after lunch i also did nothing. That's why for me is another routine day. In the night, feng xian and shao wen made toasted bread for us which taste so nice.Yah so that's all for yesterday........Bye!!!!

New Year's Day Holiday(1 Jan to 3 Jan)

This year's New year's Day holiday is 3 days in China. Quite happy as we have extra time to go around Beijing. As told in my previous blog posted, we didn't work from mon to wed as this are public holidays. So on Monday, we went to shop again in the same area looking for dvds and shopping around for things to buy. Anyway, dvds of interest are hard to find. Aiyah!!!!! On tuesday we went to snow skilling but the place sucks and is not organised with people all angrily waiting for the snow skilling equipment. It just isn't worthwhile and it is so far away from our place almost 2 hours ride like from east to west. We didn't skill much as we wanted a refund from the organisers. Only kelly and feng xian went to snow skilling as feng xian's teacher lend them the snow shoes after lunch for them to try out. Anyway, we were refunded the money but pay for bus trip as the place is very far and we need to wait for the bus till abt 5pm before heading back with the whole group. So the whole day is wasted and we wake up so early just for this. Can you imagine waking up so early, 6.30am to wait for a bus to take you there and do nothing when you reach and the toilet there is like shit with lousy facilities. Anyway, Tuesday is just wasted.
For yesterday, we went out in the afternoon as we were quite tired and went to shop in a new place. Look for dvds of interest again and couldn't find anything. Aiyah, why so hard to find, so fed-up!!!! We went mostly to clothes shop as most of the things there clothes, dvd shop we found only 1 shop lol. Only feng xian and kelly bought clothes. The guys didn't buy because everything they sell for the guys is all suits or coats. Yah but at night, Feng xian cooked spagetti for dinner and it was great taste and the feeling is magnificent. Anyway, we sleep quite late as we watch a new drama series by Ella and Fei Lun Hai.
That's all for now.....Bye!!!

Weekends........

Long time everyone! It been a long working weekend for us i guess because of the New Year's Day holiday from 1 jan to 3 jan, we were suppose to work last whole week. But because of the snow that came finally after 1 month of waiting, it came during Saturday but it is a small snow only. Anyway, we decided to go play snow in the morning and as well as build snowman.So we went to the botanic garden which cost us RMB 5 for entrance fee. The botanic garden was big and we just went one corner of it to build our snowman, along with us is feng xian's and shao wen's senior. We had a great morning of fun over at the botanic garden. Though i didn't quite enjoy because of the incident in the morning with my roommate. He say since i came, he didn't have a good nite sleep ever. And that's not the first time this happen within this month. So during lunch i discuss the problem with my group and the seniors as they ask me what happen. All of them ask me to call Dr zhao to solve the problem, so when i came back from lunch and the rest of them return to the lab for work. I didn't went to work as i was not told and i was a bit sick too, so i rested at home for the afternoon. Anyway, i call Dr zhao and he solved the problem for me by moving me and Zhen wei together in the same room, i was quite glad but the room is at level 1 and the room seem to be colder than my previous room. Anyway, the good thing is that the room is equipped with tv.
Ok now for sunday, i went to work as usual and nobody seem to care abt me in my department. I still need to ask them whether this weekend is suppose to be working and then they explain to me. Anyway, it is the same,I slack there also.
This should be the only working weekend and working for one whole week is so tiring with me still recovering. Anyway, that's this weekend.....bye!!!!