Wasted

The mid-term holidays (Easter holiday) is coming to the end. I have did nothing at all but to procrastinate every single day. No revisions were done. No follow-ups. Nothing. Absolutely 0.

I've wasted 8 days of my life just like that, for nothing.
(excluding the day we went traveling along the Great Ocean Road)




T.T

WS aka king of procrastinaters

Hot hot chicken shit

Just came back from the gym, thought of writing something before I start my never ending cycle of eating and washing up again. Today is my chest day. As usual, I went there, grabbed a pairs of dumbbells and start doing bench press. After warming up, I gradually increase the weight between sets and finally to 27.5kgs (2.5kgs more than my usual max weight) without much difficulties. Maybe I should consider 30 for the next time.. Anyway, after 3 sets, my left shoulder was starting to signal me that it is still in the recovery period. So, I decided to switch to cardio exercise for the rest of the day.

While I was resting at the side, I noticed one of my friend was teaming up with his buddy again to spot each other's workout. It was kind of funny cause whenever my friend is working out, his buddy would spot and gave him lots of motivation like : 'come on', 'push', 'you're doing great', 'one more, one more', 'easy, easy', 'you can do it', 'dont give up', 'two more to go' and then keep on repeating the same thing for like 30 times in less than a minute. Wah, if I have such a 'motivating' spotter, I would have pulled out a gun and shoot him to oblivion even before I start my workout. Bising bangor. That's why I still prefer to workout alone with the earphones on.

Anyway, what I wanna blog today is actually my genetics lab session which I had yesterday. Ever wonder what a genetic student do in the fire-prone lab? First, we put on our lab coat which protect us from the potentially harmful chemicals and in the same time, make us easier to catch on fire. Most of the fire incidents start from the students hit and spill the alcohol unintentionally onto their long sleeves, then go near the bunsen burner and poof.... Jackpot.

The first thing we dealt with is the drosophila (fruit fly) that I mentioned in my last post. This is how it looks like when we got the specimens. They are still alive.



Yup, those tiny dots are the flies. The yellow medium at the base is made out of some banana + some basic nutrients that flies need to grow.




This is how we observe them. Put them on the white platform to get a clearer view on their eye colours, wing shapes and so on. No, we are not killers and the flies are still alive. We dont kill them just to observe their features. Then you might want to ask why arent they flying around? This is the reason.




We made them inactive first by giving them CO2... See the pipe? It is connected to the tap that leads to CO2 source. We get the CO2 gas just like how people get the gas for bunsen burner. The flies will be active again after they are removed from the CO2. But usually before that happens, we would discard them into the fly morgue and they will be dead. Muahahahaha.... there is another way of making the flies sleep, its by exposing them to ether. But this is not usually done especially by the novices, cause ether + fire will result explosion which is a lot worse than just catching fire.





This is aspergillus. A kind of fungi which we use to study the genes interaction and complementation... bla bla bla so on so forth. They got very distinguishable features which enable us to identify them easily. To grow them, you just need very little amount of spores and stab them into an agar plate with some nutrients, then they can grow and poliferate after incubation. Due to the fact that aspergillus need to be incubated, therefore experiment involving aspergillus need more than one week to be completed.

The plate above is actually provided to us by our demonstator. Thats the reason why every colony is nicely organised and there's no contamination between colonies. We do need to learn how to inoculate the aspergillus into new plates and it is really not an easy job cause the spores are too tiny and a little mistake will cause contamination everywhere in the plate.

This is also the time when fire accidents usually occur. Cause in order to inoculate aspergillus, we first sterilized the pen with metal wire attached on it by soaking it with alcohol and pass it through the flame for a brief moment. Then, we take some spores from the colony with the tip of a wire and stab it into a new agar plate. We stab the wire upwards with the agar plate facing downward to prevent the spores from spreading everywhere but still error can happens sometimes.

Our demonstrators always talk as if fire accident is no big deal. They said it does happens from time to time and when it happens in the alcohol petri dish, instead of panicking and watching the lab from burning down, please take the lid and cover the petri dish so the fire will stop. Wah, easier talk than do ler, do you think how many people can actually think of doing that when the alcohol is burning?

This is the plate that I did last week and it turned out to be quite nice. See how pro I am... Muahahaha... (ignoring the huge band of contamination across the plate) Very pro dy la, ok? Who want to comment banyak banyak one, gi la buat sendiri... cis...








WS

Hello, everyone

It has been a long time since I wrote something here.. Anyone miss me? Guess not.. Oh well nevermind. Nobody cares...

After the long holidays, I am back to Melbourne which does not has lots of major changes. Only a small amount of restaurants got replaced with the better one (This is purely an assumption). As for me, I moved out from that horrible apartment to a new accommodation which is slightly nearer to the uni. So, starting now, you all wont be able to hear my rants anymore about that organism. Haha... this should be quite a disappointment for those who cares for my sluggish EX-housemate, or the so called 'wei-siang-curse-non-stop-drama' !!

The same state library where people still sit on the grass patches where the sunlight reaches. Arent they suppose to lookout for over-exposure to UV rays?

I am staying with another guy now. A Malaysian whom I dunno comes from which state but I know his mother is a Kemaman-ians. He is a rather nice guy and currently taking his masters in RMIT. I dont have his pictures but I can tell you that he always remind me of CTZ. He is somehow similar to chen either the physical appearance (except the unique feature that make CTZ special) or the styles. The only thing that I cna complaint about him right now is probably his extra loud singings/shoutings... (he is a rocker)...

As for me, I am doing my second year now and the subjects I took are so ... erm.. specific. Principles in Genetics, Experiment in Genetics, Molecular biology and Gene, Health & Society as the breadth (junk) subject.

For Principles in Genetics and molecular biology, they are all about normal biology studies where you need to read and memorize before you enter the exam hall. And then, Experiment in Genetics should the most boring science experiment ever. This is because the living things that we would deal with are actually 3 - E.Coli, Drosophila and Aspergillus where 2 out of 3 are hardly visible things. E.Coli is some stupid bacteria that you can only observe it after it poliferates and form a colony. Meanwhile, Aspergillus is a fungi which also only visible after it grows into a colony. The biggest organism- Drosophila is actually a fruit fly aka lalat aka 'chang ying' aka 'wu ying'. In the case of Drosophila, we need to identify the males and females and then look for the mutated features like curly wing, smaller eye, different eye colours, shorter abdoment, absent of hairs on the legs and many more stupid physical features (without using any instruments like microscope). As for the junk subject, its a junk... self explainable..hahaha

I write till hungry lagi... bencinya... Hungry = eat = wash dishes/cutleries... and then after washing = hungry = eat again ... Argh.. my neverending house chores and no matter how I cleanup my room, it will be still messy everytime I come back from outside... Grrrrrr...

I guess my next post should be somewhere near Easter dy.. hahaha =P





p/s : I changed my mascot and yes, it is a pokemon and I dont need any coments about its ugliness yata yata so dont any of you dare to bug me with those stupid comments or questions.


WS

I'll be back...

Hopefully tomorrow... I am suppose to post my blog two days before since I have promised it to myself but I was really busy for the last few days (on some not very important stuffs) and today was exceptionally busy busy busy....


So I have to delay it again. Hopefully tomorrow I will have the right time and the right mood to sit down and write something... Haha..




WS

转机

作曲：潘玮柏 作词：潘玮柏

凌晨的飞机
随歌忐忑飞行
从相机里面正视着回忆
背景是层影
我哪里都不想擦去
到哪里痛楚计算清
怕遗憾拖远
易碎的情绪我收听
想你在一起
我却身不由己
你每次伤心 我每次缺席
遥远的距离
我以为我们的爱情
誓言里还会有转机
没想到陌生机场
写下结局
各自的转机
我放不过我自己
转一圈回到了原地
眼泪是一种提醒
我很爱你
让一切归零
我放不过我自己
仍相信爱会有奇迹
人群中我正逃离
我抱着你
我们的爱情
还未完待续
想你在一起
我却身不由己
你每次伤心 我每次缺席
遥远的距离
我以为我们的爱情
誓言里还会有转机
没想到陌生机场
写下结局
各自的转机
我放不过我自己
转一圈回到了原地
眼泪是一种提醒
我很爱你
让一切归零
我放不过我自己
仍相信爱会有奇迹
人群中我正逃离
我抱着你
我们的爱情
还未完待续(我放不过我自己)
转一圈回到了原地
眼泪是一种提醒
我很爱你
让一切归零
我放不过我自己
仍相信爱会有奇迹
寻找我们的转机
我抱着你
我们的爱情
还未完待续(我放不过我自己)
眼泪是一种提醒
让我们一起回忆
我们的爱情
我放不过我自己
眼泪是一种提醒
我们的 我们的
我们的爱爱爱爱
我放不过我自己
眼泪是一种提醒
让我们一起回忆

Stupid-est Subject Ever

After a whole semester of doomsday theory (my lecturers said climate changes will lastly leads to ice age - doomsday la tu), now the tutor wants us to write an essay on something like this :

Choose one of the following statements and defend it. That is, develop a convincing argument in its favour and support your claims with data and references to expert opinion.

1. Climate change is not happening.

(Ulquiorra: Then wats the point of me studying this subject and wats the point of me writing this essay? Brainless)

2. We don’t know why climate change is happening.

(Ulquiorra: Are you telling me that all the figures, climate models and lectures you all given so far are craps?)

3. All changes to the climate are natural.

(Ulquiorra: Financial crisis is also natural. Why bother to fix it ?)

4. There is nothing that can be done about climate change.

(Ulquiorra: Do nothing then, sit there and wait to die. Its better to jump stairs and die now, less sufferings)

What the F***!! After one whole sem of brain-washing, now you want us to write something like this? Its just the same like you asking a vegetarian : Why are you not eating veges?

Yesterday, during tutorial session, the tutor said its perfectly OK for you all to disagree with the exam question and write ....

The question is not correct. Such and such is not happening and its all due to such and such.

If your answer is still making sense, you will be given marks.

I was like WTF! Are you telling me that the exam questions can be RIGHT or WRONG and how on earth am I going to sit for this kind of exams.

Did they think before how retard are they for asking me to write such an essay?

*Imaginary Scene*

Me: Why you mark this answer as a wrong answer?

Tutor: Cause you wrote there, climate changes are not happenings.

Me: So?

Tutor: It doesn't make any sense. That's why you got a zero.

Me: So, you yourself also know it doesn't make any sense, right? Then why are you calling us to write this kind of sense-less essay back then?

Tutor: ....

*End of scene*

This is definitely the stupid-est subject ever. I hate breadth subject.

Special post for May Tan

I was suppose to write this weeks ago... as I had promised to May Tan (pronounce as mai tan - sell egg) but because of laziness, I delayed this post again and again. So now, I am going to tunaikan janji.
(soli arr, ah may)

Actually, I knew ah May since primary school although we had never been in the same class before. This is because she was always being appointed as the class rep in her class and people just couldn't help to notice her outstanding physical appearance(a bit roundish, a bit nia.. not very much). I was not sure she knew about me or not during this time because Tay Wei Siang was really a damn low profile nooby nerd this time and Chen Han was still a cry bun (He was complaining that he dint get much exposure la.. so I ma give him some lo.. since I am a kind-hearted person)

After UPSR, we went to different secondary school. I went to SMKSS while she still continued her studies in CHWS. Then, it was until form 3/4 (I forgot), we started to mix together and get along quite frequently because of two reasons. One is because of Lau Si Ying, who joined the set Dear and become a pseudo-member. The second reason is of cause Kang Kang and Dino Egg's gossips. Come to think about it, I dint go for same tuition classes with you before, right? Well, at least not in the same group before. Erm, maybe once or twice in Mr. Tan En Jin's classes... I couldn't remember now.. Brain stucked

Ok, here comes the college part. By the time we (me and NWK) chose to enroll in Taylor's College in the last minute, we couldn't find any accommodation anywhere near the college. Then, we heard about Dino Egg's apartment and Li Ching's withdrawal. And then, Long story short, we all lived under the roof of 120-E. This is the time when we all (Me, CM, NWK, Eric Goh and Dino Egg) became real close friends together with Lim Sze Yin, the partial 120-E resident.

This is Ah May. She always said she very chio one... Chio or not? I'll let the readers decide.

This is also the time when most of the funny happenings occurred. We always grouped together and stalked on kang and dino egg (the only couple in 120-E). We went to the same gym, Fitness First. Back then, CM was such an active Yoga Class attendant that she even practiced (wanna show off she can 'bridge')yoga at home. After gymming, we would all together went for dinner (Small 2 and Sea Ham - Mek Yin's favourite) followed with lok lok in the pasar malam street. Everyday eat so much, no wonder cannot slim during A levels time.

Another picture of May Tan. Pan Cute version.

Although living away from hometown, ah May can be still considered as a 'kuai lui'. She likes to stay inside the house at night, wearing her pregnant woman clothes. No clubbing de unlike me and kang kang, whole day 'pou' CC. The most 'bu kuai' thing she had ever did during 120-E time is probably the morning when she simply let the plumber come into our house while we all still sleeping (120-E residents wake up time is around 12-1pm during weekends) and till now, she still argue that incident is purely illusion.

When talk about Chiew May, of cause nobody would overlook the fact that she is a damm pro shopping queen. This is also the first time I realized the 'dahsyat-ness' of a girl when comes to shopping. Piles of clothes were seen everywhere in her room and sometimes in the living room of 120-E (wardrobe got no more space to put the clothes then have to put on the floor la.. ah bo?). Wanna have an idea of how big is a pile? Well, I would say it is big enough to sit on it just like a couch. Oh ya, and also the shoes. 120-E has probably the most shoe per house around the whole My Place Apartment which is around 50-60+ pairs. More than half of them belongs to CM, of coz. I can still remember the amazed expression by some of the 120-E guests.

"Just how many people was living in this house actually?"

This is always the first question we were asked after they saw the shoes.

Ah May in her batik thingi. Well, according to my understanding of what she wrote in her blog. The reason she bought this thingi is solely because of that small ribbon at the back of the shirt... I was like OMG, so imagine that in future, she likes a particular dress so much that she will end up buying the whole shop. Well, actually what I wanna point out in this picture is that I dont think this is something people say fat lo... at least for me lo.. Then why everyday still bising bangor about nak slim so much. If nok slim sangat, makanla dulu, dok makan mane ade lemak nak diet.
(Ulquiorra: Illusion... must be illusion.. her pics all kuat deceiving)

And now, after A levels, I came to Melbourne and she went to Sheffield, UK. I know we wont be seeing each other as often as before because of the holidays timing. But still we have Internet and MSN, so it wouldnt be very hard for us to see each other. Well, at least for me. You like to camwhore so much. Simple go anywhere also can see your picture and I am still doubting that my laptop is totally free of your pictures by now. Your pictures are worse than computer virus.... No matter you delete them, there are still remnants somewhere in my laptop.

Okla, I write a lot dy... lazy liao.. Wanna stop dy... Coz 'chicken' very fan.. In MSN keep on berkokok...

So lastly, I would like to wish Ah May luck for studying in Sheffield. Hope that you will graduate with flying colours and then become a chio lawyer. By that time, don't forget about me arr... I want your help arr in future cause you know la... significant people like me sure got a lot of people like to sue me one unlike the insignificant 'chicken'...

Jia you Jia you Jia you!!!



(P/S: Chen Han called me to include these as well in this post... Mati-mati pun nok squeeze into CM's post)
1. He would be a good father for chicks
2. He is a kind person (I would agree to some certain extent)
3. He is very good in cooking (this one was agreed by Wei Xian, not me)
4. He is very generous (Well, he helped me print my assignment then staple it before giving it to me)
5. TWS said : ehh, dont just put good things about you la, put some bad one.
TCH said : but I dont have bad points.
6. He cut onions with sunnies on, goreng ikan have to wear long sleeves jacket coz oil jumps
(TCH added : If got topeng even better)
7. He is still sulking because I dedicated half a line for TJS's birthday but none during his birthday. He is very sad that he is so insignificant.