Sunday, October 19, 2008

One of the best birthdays ever!

The week of my birthday was the best ever!!! The only thing lacking was having my family with me! My previosu post, I was being emo about lotsa stuff including the fact that I couldn't see my bf on my birthday. But much to my delight, Sam came over and pampered me the whole week!!! I get to eat the yummy kiam-chai-ak-teng (salted vegetable duck soup).... and many other yummy stuff! Was pleasantly surprised that Sam could cook so well! What makes it so special is that he doesn't like cooking, but yet he still cooks for me. Thanks hunny! Luv you much much!
On the day of my birthday itself, we played laser quest, which is something like paint-ball (they should rename it PAIN-ball), but with no pain. Then in the evening, had a few friends over for steamboat. My non-Asian friends unfortunately doesn't know how to eat steamboat... poor Sam had to do all the work.


My friends: (L-R) Andrei, Andrei's wife Ana, Me, Maria, Susan, Rick, Venecia, Vincent





















Twister time!! Susan was good!!!





















Sam was even better.... hmm... what kinda awkward position is this???




















Pick up the cardboard box game. The idea of the game is to pick up the box with your mouth. Only your feet can be on the ground. Knees, elbows and hands not allowed to touch the floor. I think this game must have been created by Asians... hahah! Thanks to our squatting down toilets, and ketuk ketampi we had to do when we were kids, we can easily squat down with our feets flat on the ground.

Susan with her pulling pants up secret tip.

Maria practising qigong...



Piece of cake...

Just found out I had a competitor...who has the same position as me!


All in all a great birthday!!!

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Emo

I'm being emo. I guess everytime around this time of the month, when hormones go a bit haywire... I get a bit emo. I submitted my paper 3 times oredi, to 3 different journals. They all say the same thing. Your work is good BUT not good enough. The experiments they are asking is really not easy to do. These people don't understand how difficult it is to do something that is not a norm for zebrafish research... it'll be easy if I work with cell cultures or mouse models. But no choice ler, either I trash my journal into a crappy journal or just try to do the experiment. There goes another month or so (if I'm lucky) of my precious PhD time. Then, next I week I might not be able to see Sam. Sighz. All I wanted for my birthday was to be with him, but he can't come over. I can't go over because I just went over a few weeks ago... and I can't keep taking leave on Friday, because that's work discussion day with my supervisor. It's like when my mum says that we are eating Hokkien Mee for dinner, and then she changed her mind. The thought of Hokkien Mee just keeps running through my brain, and I can't do anything else. Never give me hope unless there really is hope of 99% of becoming a reality. I'd rather be surprised than disappointed. I'm just so frustrated, upset, sad, disappointed... and to top it off, my butt still hurts!! Like I said... I'm being emo.... aaarrrggghhh!!! Off to sleep.... tomorrow another day of writing and writing and writing.... better work than let my thoughts wander....