pain versus more pain

I've got a gaping ulcer in my mouth but there's nothing I can do about it cos every time I try to apply oral paste on it there will be blood and I'm damn worried my blood clot dislodging. This is driving me nuts.

I went to extract two wisdom teeth on the right today. The needle for the anaesthesia is really painful. The dentist was right. You can't feel the pain, but you can feel the pressure exerted on your teeth, which is almost as bad. The surgeon pressed so hard on my teeth I thought I might just dislocate my jaw. Then I felt her pulling and she promptly announced that the top tooth was extracted. The bottom tooth was trickier since it's embedded in the gum. I supposed she cut a slit in my gum first; I couldn't feel that. What I could feel was her sawing my tooth the way a carpenter saws a log. And the sound was just right at my ear.

But alas it was over. I stood up to leave, but felt a bit giddy, and the kind nurse guided me back to rest a while longer.

I began to think that I should have opted for general anaesthesia. But I guess the pain after the anaesthesia fades will be the same. It was disgusting swallowing mouthfuls of blood and walking home with blood-stained lips. And now it's no longer so numb but it's really painful.

Argh it hurts so much...

Had a great time singing with ms n lj... There are some people whom u haven't met up with in a long time and yet when u get together things just seem to click in place 

My experiment didn't work. Again.I'm so tired of this. Doesn't it seem like I'm always moaning and complaining? But that's because that's how I feel. I'm always in the lab earliest and leave the last. It feels really miserable to work in solitude for the entire day and have things keep going wrong.Nothing seems to work. I keep repeating but I don't know what is wrong.

Does this mean that I'm not cut out for research?

Ok, I need to stop worrying about this. There's nothing I can do before my mentor gets back. O need to start in my progress report. Period.

It's been such a long long time since I got good results. Heck, even reasonable results. Everything is just going haywire now. I feel like I'm groping in darkness, searching blindly for a way out.

It's just really depressing. Is research work all about getting results, I wonder. My mentor has gone overseas and there's no one to guide me. Is there any point in me repeating the experiments when I do not know where I've gone wrong?

Sigh.

R.I.P. Dobby

Dobby the House Elf: Such a beautiful place... to be with your friend... Harry Potter...

Getting my experiments to work is like getting 道明寺 and 杉菜 to be together.一波多折。 要经历重重的考验， 才能向上天证明你的决心，然后终于感动祂成全你。

我明白人生并不是一帆风顺的，不过付出了那么多的努力却仍然没有结果，很难叫人不气馁吧。

突然想起吴宗宪的一句话：“关关难过关关过。”

Yesterday's CM4211 test wasn't too bad, I guess, considering I only started reading chapter 4 yesterday while evaporating my samples...

... which I'm still evaporating RIGHT NOW. I really don't know what temperature to heat at. I'm scared that heating at too high a temperature will cause the samples to dry out, or worse, to decompose. So I heated 5mL of solution at 60degC from 5pm yesterday to 7.30am this morning. YES, I CAME TO LAB ON A SATURDAY MORNING AND FREAKIN' WOKE UP AT 5.45AM!!! I came early cos I thought it would be overheated, but there were still about 2-3mL when I arrived. So I'm still waiting now... Dunno when I can finish. Hopefully not too late, cos the canteen closes at 1pm and I would be starving at 7pm... :(

And the western stall is closed today! I'd wanted to eat spaghetti for dinner yesterday but ate chicken rice instead because I was late meeting T_T

can't beat the lsm students

Life science students are really scary. Not to mention annoying.

Swarming around the lecturer during breaks and after lectures like a group of bees.

Don't get me wrong. It's perfectly fine if they just want to clear their own doubts. But isn't it kind of disgusting to just hang around AFTER you have asked your question and listen to other discussions and interrupt incessantly when it's NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS?

fuck off, bitch.

It's almost impossible to ask your own question when the students are surrounding the lecturer the way the inner shell electrons shield the nucleus. And so I stood outside LT23 for more than an hour, during which fanYP walked past and gave his trademark smirk, richardW walked by and then back again, and then Ah Fen. Super sianz, listening to them ask questions which imho are stupid. Like what are microsatellite markers. What is p=0.05 in chi-square test. Come on, read up on the basics before you go around interrupting other people.

The most maddening and unjust thing is that by the time I'd wanted to ask my question, the lecturer went 'I really need to go; I'm flying off tonight.' At which I tried my best not to roll my eyes. He could have answered everything if he could just get straight to to the point and not beat around a gigantic bush.

Sigh, whatever. The test is this Wednesday.

I finally did it.

*pats on shoulder*

After missing a very good opportunity on Tuesday, I brought the gift again today, only to find that P has left. Heard from my friend that he will come tomorrow, that's when they're going to give him the farewell card (which looks really cute by the way).

Anyway, so I went into the office just now wanting to discuss my column results with my mentor, but unfortunately he wasn't around, BUT P was! Haha! I was nervous, of course I was, but with the thought of this is now or never, I went to my bag, grabbed the present (wrapped in this hideous pink with white polka dots paper), stormed back into the office and gave it to him before I could falter.

Yup, and so I did it.

Is it because I'm shy, or is it really this heart-weakening and mind-wrecking to give a present? Makes me wonder how guys propose to girls. To stand on the edge of something so life-changing... and have to face the possibility of a rejection. Takes a lot of courage.

What does it mean to live in a community?

Herbivores live in a herd to stay protected. Carnivores hunt in a pack.

What about humans?

Why is there such a strong need to conform, to not be a deviant? Even when you're forced to act against your will?

Why is it difficult to do the right thing?

Can barely keep my eyes open. Once again, I reached home at 10 today, without eating dinner. It's yet another long day in lab...

And can you believe it, the AIR TANK IS EMPTY AGAIN!!! Because my lab mate has been running hundreds of samples these few days. So I can't do my flame again...

Got to keep awake. I need to send my group member my powerpoint slides by tonight. Which I only started doing last night and am currently still at introduction. Sigh.

《伯牙断弦》

I really should be doing my lsm lab report... but somehow ended up listening to lee hom's songs... I really like the lyrics of this song. Of course, it's by 阿信 = 品质保证 ^_^ Love it when the two of them work together. (see 《在梅边》 and 《丝路》)

知人知面 知己知彼 又知心
古人说 这就是所谓知音
相知相惜 相亲相爱 也相忆
朋友你 会不会常把我想起
何年何月 何日何时 再相聚
何时能 把酒言欢畅回忆
很多很多 很深很深 的回忆
很多歌 我只想要为你唱起

春秋时期 远近知名伯牙琴艺
沉鱼也出水 马儿仰秣聆听
聆听 寂寞 的声音
举世知名 不如 一个知音
直到子期 闻琴解开伯牙心境
高山流水 风景似有灵悉
高山青 流水静 如镜
无言却胜过有言的天地
听 宫 商 角 徵 羽
那歌词未写上的是那份弦外的延长音
斟一杯酒 一抱拳 一句关心
在千年之後 再延续 不变的旋律
当 春 雪 融 夏 景 秋风为我捎封信
冬 冬锣隆冬墙 冬 冬锣隆隆冬墙墙
又是思念的四季

知人知面 知己知彼 又知心
古人说 这就是所谓知音
相知相惜 相亲相爱 也相忆
朋友你 会不会常把我想起
何年何月 何日何时 再相聚
何时能 把酒言欢畅回忆
很多很多 很深很深 的回忆
很多歌 我只想要为你唱起

某年某月 某天伯牙再访子期
风景依旧绿 子期却已归西
触景 触琴 即伤情
伯牙绝弦 只因再无知音
千年过去 当我再度拨弄琴韵
更多冷箭 更多冷言冷语
请你听 请轻轻 倾听
唱给我永远不离弃的知音
听 宫 商 角 徵 羽
那歌词未写上的是那份弦外的延长音
斟一杯酒 一抱拳 一句关心
在千年之後 再延续 不变的旋律
当 春 雪 融 夏 景 秋风为我捎封信
冬 冬锣隆冬墙  冬 冬锣隆隆冬墙墙
又是思念的四季

知人知面 知己知彼 又知心
古人说 这就是所谓知音
相知相惜 相亲相爱 也相忆
朋友你 会不会常把我想起
何年何月 何日何时 再相聚
何时能 把酒言欢畅回忆
很多很多 很深很深 的回忆
很多歌 我只想要为你唱起

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Many things can go wrong when you're doing your experiment. No, I don't mean accidents. I'm talking about unexpected delays. Like there may not be enough Teflon cups, not enough 15mL tubes, not enough 100mL bottles, and of course, not enough pipette tips. Like how I had to pipette 16x15mL using 1mL pipette because we're out of 5mL tips. I'd planned to do the analysis on Tuesday, but the air tank was not available and I had to wait until it arrives on Thursday.

It's so difficult to book the balance, and I had to do my weighing while my friend went for lunch (at 2pm!), or when she's transferring her digest. And I feel so paiseh for delaying her weighing when she has hundred over tubes to weigh.

And so by the time I finished diluting my solutions and re-preparing the external calibration standards for magnesium (had to reuse my calcium standards cos I'm out of nitric acid!), it was 6.50pm, and I was totally drained, hungry and thirsty. To think that I'd be starting my flame AAS at 7pm... Goodness.

I'd planned to do the analysis with my lab mate since she's analysing for magnesium as well, but then she realised that our matrices were different, so I had to wait for her to finish first. I finally started my analysis at 8.45pm, and ended at 9.50pm. Then I couldn't print the results because the printer is spoilt, so I had to save the results to my thumbdrive. I shut all the gas tanks and rushed home to have dinner at 11pm. And when I left the lab my friend was still diluting her samples... :(

And of course, after all that tiring work in the lab, I still have to analyse the data. I have a feeling this one is going to be tough. The calculations for strontium is driving me nuts. I don't know whether I made a calculation mistake; I hope I did, cos my recovery is only 40%!!!

Sounds really miserable right? But on a lighter note, I'm happy to say that for the first time in my life, I've managed to align the graphite tube by myself and had a successful run! ^_^

Cooking spaghetti

I'd spent 45 minutes cutting the onions and what not, and after cooking them, I opened the can of pasta sauce that I'd bought, only to find noodles inside!!! Goodness. Who will buy spaghetti with sauce in a can? So I had to re-chop the onions and garlic  cos they were terribly burnt, plus I had to make my own sauce. Bleh. In the end I just diced one tomato and added some tomato sauce. Hahaha...

Here's how it looks like:

 

And yes, if you look at the time of this post, you can tell how hungry I was when I was cooking.

Dilemma

Analytical test down today. TM test on Friday.

Felt really sian while studying for the test... The prof's face keeps coming into my head and I just want to punch him. Bleh. There are 5 chapters, and the last 2 totally lost me. BUT fortunately CE on chip and lithography didn't come out in the test! Yeah! (but does that mean they'll be tested in the finals? I guess so...) I thought the test wasn't too bad... at least I don't think I'll fail.

My project group mate sat next to me during the test. Before the test he said, "Let me refer to your paper later hor", and I just smiled, cos it's not the first time I've heard this sort of comment. But I didn't expect him to actually whisper to me during the test. I don't know what he was trying to ask, because I didn't answer him. I pretended I didn't hear him. That's probably not a nice thing to do, but how could I risk talking to him with two invigilators around? Goodness...

Let's just hope he doesn't bear a grudge against  me, because we're not done with our project yet.

What a busy week. Even after all the action is over, there's still tons of data to analyse.

I think I'm very stressed. Even though I don't always consciously feel it, it's always simmering beneath the surface. And something happens and triggers the switch, my floodgates open.

Like just now. When I asked my sis when I can use the desktop since the monitor is bigger and keyboard has the number pad so will be easier for me to key in my data, she said she'll be playing 'left for dead' all day. So I returned to my room and switched on my laptop. As I was waiting for the com to load, I was staring at my organiser where I wrote the stuff I need to do to obtain an elution profile, and then something just snapped. I started crying, and I was thinking, why am I even crying?

Sigh, wasted my eleven hours of sleep. Now my eyes are going to be swollen.

I think I need to redo the elution profile... Sigh.

[@1.40pm: To anyone who might be concerned, I'm fine now. Don't worry ;P]

今天我遇到坏人了

Wish I was joking. Ha ha.

What a sucky day.

Today is The Day. The day on which I had planned to finish evaporating my sample, running it through the column and doing external calibration. I had prepared my stuff for so long, and had come to school EVERY SINGLE FREAKIN day of the recess week. I'd planned to finish everything today so I don't freakin have to go to school again.

Of course things don't go so smoothly for me.

I'd secured the booking of all the instruments I need. BUT phD student S needs to use the balance today. Even though she had booked it on Tue and Thur. So after some negotiation (like I have any choice) I agreed to let her use it in the afternoon while I'm running the column. She'd messaged me thanks, and I'd replied no problem, though in my mind I was thinking, you gave me so many problems.

The main thing is, I had booked the flame and graphite AAS in the afternoon and evening slots. Yah, I was even prepared to stay till night. BUT S started using the graphite in the afternoon, and when I asked her about it, she said her run would only end at 8pm, and suggested that I run my samples tomorrow. I gave her the okay face, but inside I was thinking WHAT THE FUCK! (Yes, I swear a lot inside) Freakin asshole, do you not understand what it means to book something? It means that person needs it. What's the point of having a booking system when you don't stick to it? I was seriously damn pissed.

So I need to go back to school tomorrow. Yah. And I'd already prepared my standards, and I need to leave them and my sample overnight, which seriously affects the accuracy of my results. If I need to redo the whole damn thing again because of that stupid bitch... it's just disgusting.

And squeezing onto crowded trains and buses did not help improve my sucky mood.

日有所思，夜有所梦

The mind is an amazing thing.

This morning, I dreamt that I had a Chinese test but I'd completely forgotten about it. I didn't study at all. Which I think is because I kept playing Westward IV during the long weekend and didn't complete what I was planning to clear during that short break. Anyway, in my dream, I went to the toilet before the start of the test, and when I returned to the classroom slightly late, guess who's inside (other than the students, of course)?

Mr Lim, my primary school Chinese teacher, and, ahem, my supervisor. Looking stern.

Holy shit.

I was reeling from shock when I woke up. How on earth did he enter my dream?

Scary.

And I usually take the lift at S15 when I go to the lab, but today I alighted at the stop opposite university hall and took the lift at S12.

And guess who I saw again?

Bingo.

Had lunch with Priyanka today. Finally... Haven't seen her in like two years? Watching her eat Indian food reminded me of how we used to have dinner together at KE VII...

It was my free day today (Thursday), but of course I still went to school. Although I'd booked the instruments and stuff my mentor didn't want me to do YET another run (I've done nothing but graphite furnace AAS since school started!). He's hoping that the results would be good enough for the professor. And I sure hope they are, cos I also don't know what went wrong. The prof once asked if I did blank correction (at that time I 'd given him a blank look), yet today LJ did without blank correction for external calibration eventually. I'm confused...

Really tired...

Trying to listen to my instrumental analysis webcast, since it'll only be up for one week (dunno what the prof is thinking...).

It's such a torture listening to him mumble into the microphone. And breathing a lot of air into it. And it's so darn soft!

I can't believe I've only covered 11 minutes.

66 more minutes to go.

By the way I'm back to perfecting my external calibration and standard addition AGAIN. For the FOURTH time. Sigh...

Some random thoughts about tv... Lab is down for air-con maintenance, so essentially I'll just be doing my readings today. Until 6.

So anyway, I was watching "Unriddle". It was so heavily criticized, but knowing Singaporeans who just love to complain, I decided to watch it for myself. I started watching from that clown abducting kids story, so I missed the part about Yuze disappearing. That story was sad. Well, the next story was even sadder. I think all the actors in this show are great. Actors who rarely get the chance to be the main lead, but work hard silently. 章增翔 (can't remember his new name)，黄炯耀，陈泰铭，王昱清。。。and 陈弘宇 was such a convincing 骆忠孝。His calm façade masks the insecurity and cruelty that he hides within. Especially the scene after he reads the fake letter that Yaxuan supposedly left him and held the letter to his chest. I was really really touched when I watched that. I also liked how his face instantly changed when Xiaoman revealed that the letter was fake. I thought it was really cruel, but then again, was it not cruel of him to take away the lives of so many innocent young girls?

And then there's this long-running line about Yuze's disappearance and how the former band of brothers are killed one after another. I'd originally thought the police (陈泰铭） was the murderer, because he keeps emphasising how he can't afford to lose what he has, but after he couldn't bring himself to kill Xiaolang yesterday... I don't think it's him anymore. AND Xiaolang said it was Zhang Yuze who shot him. AND the security guard saw Yuze at the scene where Four-eye's wife was forced to jump off the building. So I guess it's not really that impossible that he's a bad guy...

BUT THEN there are still 4 more episodes to go, and I really don't think they'll reveal the ending so early on. So I'm thinking that there must be more than meets the eye. Hmm... my guess will be Dewei then. He might not be as dumb as he seems. He was the one who recounted Xiaolang's account of what happened 15 years ago to Xiaoman, but Xiaolang later denied having said anything. So he might have lied, though Xiaoman doubted that he could have come up with such a fancy story. What's his motive, though? Framing Yuze so that he could win the heart of Xiaoman seems a bit far-stretched. Maybe he's the son of Chai or something... To seek revenge for his father...

Haha, I'm thinking too much...

I'm really tired.

Just waiting for time to pass… Until when I can finally go home. Not that I hate it here; I’m just really really tired. Is there something wrong with me, being this tired after 6.5 hours of sleep? I don’t know.My lab techniques have always been pretty bad, and I’m terribly slow. Still am, but I think I’m slowly improving. I mean, today’s the second time I’ve done a standard addition of strontium using the graphite furnace. The readings were not good though; the graph is not linear. So I’d have to redo the experiment. This is my second attempt already. Actually when something goes wrong, I’m totally lost. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to troubleshoot. And I’m kind of worried, cos I’m still not very familiar with operating the GFAAS, especially the aligning part. These past few days LJ has been helping me to set up the instrument while I prepared the solutions. So when it’s finally time for me to do it on own…

We’ll see.

Saw Ping Sen in school today. He asked how my FYP was and commented that I look ‘憔悴’. I'd like to think that he means I've lost weight, but really I think he's just referring to the dark circles under my eyes. -_-

Anyway, here's my timetable:

	1400	1500	1600	1700	1800	1900	2000
mon	LSM1102-B	LSM1102-B	LSM1102-B	LSM1102-B
tue
wed		CM4242-T	LSM1102-L	LSM1102-L	LSM1102-T
thur
fri	CM4242-L	CM4242-L			CM4211-L	CM4211-L	CM4211-T

Any time that is not labelled means I'm in lab. So you can imagine how thrilled I am.

School has started, and it's left me feeling so drained. I'm supposed to report to the lab everyday at around 9, though I tend to reach at 9.30, and leave at 6. Guess I didn't know what I'd signed up for. Everyday seems so long... and when it's finally time to leave, I have to beat the crazy rush hour traffic to get home at about 7 plus. Where am I going to find time to do my work for other modules?

Watched the YOG opening ceremony last night. The performance was quite boring, to be honest, though the stage design was nice. The speech by the chairman of the organising comm was horrible; I couldn't help cringing whenever he paused and then the crowd would applaud. Oh man... But it made me want to go watch at least one of the matches. I mean, who knows how many years it would be when an event of this scale will return to Singapore again?

Inception

You're waiting for a train; a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you can't be sure. Yet it doesn't matter - because we'll be together. 

~Mal

I miss you more than I can bear, but we had our time together. I have to let you go. 

~Cobb

Argh, Cobb's guilt. I cried when the scene showed he had indeed kept his promise to grow old together with Mal, and then he finally decided to let her go... :(

And I stayed till the end of the credits, but what's supposed to be there isn't! Grr...

Casino Royale

Vesper Lynd: You're not going to let me in there, are you? You've got your armour back on. That's that.

James Bond: I have no armour left. You've stripped it from me. Whatever is left of me - whatever is left of me - whatever I am - I'm yours.

Vesper Lynd: You love me?

James Bond: Enough to travel the world with you until one of us has to take an honest job... which I think is going to have to be you, because I have no idea what an honest job is. 

That last scene where Vesper died in the elevator was so sad.  Sigh, he'd shed his armour for her but now he's just going to shut himself in more than ever...

Stress can do wonders  to your body.

 Like automatically waking up at 9.57AM when you set the alarm at 10AM before going to sleep at 4.

Amazing.

My face in thine eyes, thine in mine appears

And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;

Where can we find two better hemispheres,

Without sharp north, without declining west?

Whatever dies, was not mixed equally;

If our two loves be one, or thou and I.

Love so alike, that none can slacken, none can die.

"Tristan & Isolde"

I'm flying off to Japan tomorrow morning. Or tonight.

Feeling very nervous now.

No tour guide, nothing...

Hope I brought enough money.

Argh I'll miss the last episode of 'The New Adventures of Wisely' on 29 June!!!

Happy Birthday to Lee Min Ho and Jung Yong Hwa!!!

最近在追看《原来是美男》。

看着戏里的张根硕，让我想起李敏镐。因为两人长得有点像，尤其是画上眼线后。（声音也挺像的！）

曾经想过要看 "Personal Preference"，但最后并没有。因为没有办法看李敏镐饰演别的角色。因为对我来说，那张脸和具俊表是相等的。因为具俊表应该和金丝草相爱，所以无法看他与别的女人在一起。就像道明寺和杉菜一样。就像奈特和里理子一样。

只因我入戏太深。

或许就是因为这样，有些演员才会拒绝接演某些可能被定型的角色。由于角色太具代表性，演员无法突破既定的形象。于是富家公子继续高傲冷漠且深情。

Leonardo di Caprio 算例外吧。

本人看了一则"P.P" 的片段。原本认为诠释得不错的 Gu Jun Pyo, 竟与 Jeon Jin Ho 有些神似。让我有些失望。

Isn't this kind of sad (for the actors, that is)? Does this mean I'll never watch any new dramas by Lee Minho, Matsumoto Jun, and Hayami Mokomichi?

I guess so. I guess it can't be helped. Since their 深情-ness is already too deeply ingrained, any other pairing would seem like some sort of betrayal.

当两个人之间的理念不同，必定会有意见分歧的时候。

这时候就得有一方迁就另一方。

是的，迁就。

就像道明寺和杉菜一样吧。两个生活环境截然不同的人，真的能一起幸福吗？

或许这就是真爱的力量吧。又或许这是只发生在偶像剧里的童话故事。

好感性啊，竟然一大早起来打这一些，而且昨晚还睡不着呢。

I've been pushing it to the back of my mind. Pushing and pushing. Wait till July, I tell myself. Wait till July when the system officially opens. And so I spent a month hiding from reality.

And now it's June.

How long do you think you can hide, tky?

I try to reassure myself. It probably doesn't matter if I get allocated unpopular projects, since I'm not interested in any of them anyway. I hope I'm right.

At times like this I'll chastise myself. You could have just graduated and get a job, why stay and suffer for one more year?

And then I remember the process of job searching is just as dreadful.

Oh well.

This is life.

CBS cancels 'Ghost Whisperer'

I've just finished watching the last episode in the 5th season of 'Ghost Whisperer'. Says in the subtitles that CBS has cancelled the show after the 5th season, and I was like, huh?! True, there have been moments when I thought the show was deviating way too far from where it had come, but I love Melinda and Jim. Even though I was lost about the Romano thing and Gabriel (I still don't know if he is indeed Melinda's brother, and what happened to him in the end). And somehow they just stopped talking about this hidden town beneath Melinda's store. Melinda's mother doesn't appear anymore, and Professor Rick Payne never returned from his trip. And of course, there's this kill-Jim-and-put-him-in-Sam's-body saga that drove off a lot of viewers. Ah, but this show has been with me for FIVE years, man. How can I not be saddened? Though I think the ending (if it's really the end) was pretty good... The Shinies were revealed to be ghosts of children who have gone into the light (yeah sweet little Cassidy returns in episode 22!), and they united under Aiden to save Melinda from the Shadows. I was pretty touched by that scene. And in the final scene, the Clancy family accepted that the gifts Melinda and Aiden have should be treasured. Melinda thanked Aiden for being her hero that night, and Aiden said "So are you, everyday." Awww, so sweet!

There are talks that ABC might take over the show. I hope it's true, and they'll do a good job and return to how Ghost Whisperer originally was. More emotions and less conspiracy. I used to cry watching every single episode of season 1 and 2.

^GHOST WHISPERER^

Just finished watching "Orange Days".

You know why it had caught my attention?

Because the characters are about to graduate and are looking for jobs. Hah.

But that aside, I'd really recommend this drama to everyone. Really nice. Had me laughing (see "Shanghai Honey" =P) and my heart twitching and aching and at the end, feeling warm and fuzzy.

That's the thing about Japanese drama. Ever so motivational, but 不留痕迹. Not like Mediacorp dramas, which are clearly preaching in a very cliched manner. Watching doramas really make you have that "tomorrow will be better, let's run towards the sun" feeling.

Yuuki Kai
Hagio Sae
Aida Shohei
Ozawa Akane
Yashima Keita

Every character was very well-developed. Ahh... that empty feeling after finishing a drama... :(

Oh ya, that Sano character is actually played by Kashiwabara Takashi, aka 直树 in "It all started with a Kiss". I totally couldn't recognise him!!!

It's finally over. 3 years of uni life. Will be entering the workforce if I were not doing Honours project.

Isn't it amazing how fast time passes?

Had a karaoke outing with the CHIP gang (aka ‘神经一族’ as they like to call it :P) today... Went all the way to Paya Lebar!!! ONE hour train ride! Phew, although it's cheaper than K-box (how can anything be more expensive than that), I don't think I'll ever go there again. It's just too far away.

It was a pretty nice outing, I guess. Though in view of our impending graduation I do feel a tinge of sadness, especially since Esther will be returning to Hong Kong after the graduation ceremony. It feels kind of odd, like to have a friend leave and you'll probably never see her again.

I borrowed 2 books from the library. Trying to learn Japanese. I've been wanting to do these for ages, but now I think it's crazy to try to learn a language on your own by reading books. I don't think it works. Sigh, see how it goes bah...

Wouldn't it be nice if we could live in our own world, where we could delete all the annoying people and live with only people we like?

I might end up living alone. XD

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

I FINALLY FOUND THE SAD SONG IN 'METEOR GARDEN' THAT I'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR AGES!!!

It's called 'Lovely Memories' by Alvaro Pierri





*Shancai breaks up with Daoming Si in the rain*

Time seems to really fly when you're in uni. It passes so fast it really scares me. Like, omg, it's weekend again? Time for me to catch up on sleeping as well as the enormous pile of never-ending work. I MUST NOT watch youtube again. MUST NOT!

I hate Physical chem lab. The experiments are so unfamiliar and it's really unfair to people who didn't take Solid state last semester, i.e. me. I know nothing about surface tension, Bravais lattice, eutectic diagram and whatever crap. AND my viva is 2 weeks away. I heard it's darn tough. Grrr....

By the way I think I'm addicted to the Tap tap game. Hah

OH MY GOODNESS! I just found these videos and I think I'm going to die of happiness!!! Those SEGA games that we used to play at my uncle's house! Those good old days when we don't have to worry about homework...... Oh man...

This link below is for 'Sonic the Hedgehog'... the user disabled the embedding function.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxj68273OJ4

This one below is 'Streets of Rage'. Remember breaking up telephone booths and crates for weapons and food? Yup, that's the one... With the frightening woman with whip and this juggler on a unicycle...



I can't find the Bugs Bunny game though :(

What Hurts The Most

What hurts the most

Is being so close

And havin' so much to say

And watching you walk away

And never knowing

What could have been

And not seeing that lovin' you

It's what I was trying to do

 

What Hurts The Most by Rascal Flatts

Titanic vs. Lusitania: How People Behave in a Disaster

By Jeffrey Kluger

It's hard to remember your manners when you think you're about to die. The human species may have developed an elaborate social and behavioral code, but we drop it fast when we're scared enough — as any stampeding mob reveals.
That primal push-pull is at work during wars, natural disasters and any other time our hides are on the line. It was perhaps never more poignantly played out than during the two greatest maritime disasters in history: the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. A team of behavioral economists from Switzerland and Australia have published a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that takes an imaginative new look at who survived and who perished aboard the two ships, and what the demographics of death say about how well social norms hold up in a crisis. 
The Lusitania and the Titanic are often thought of as sister vessels; they in fact belonged to two separate owners, but the error is understandable. Both ships were huge: the Titanic was carrying 2,207 passengers and crew on the night it went down; the Lusitania had 1,949. The mortality figures were even closer, with a 68.7% death rate aboard the Titanic and 67.3% for the Lusitania. What's more, the ships sank just three years apart — the Titanic was claimed by an iceberg on April 14, 1912, and the Lusitania by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. But on the decks and in the passageways and all the other places where people fought for their lives, the vessels' respective ends played out very differently.
To study those differences, the authors of the PNAS paper — Bruno Frey of the University of Zurich and David Savage and Benno Torgler of Queensland University — combed through Titanic and Lusitania data to gather the age, gender and ticket class for every passenger aboard, as well as the number of family members traveling with them. They also noted who survived and who didn't. 
With this information in hand, they separated out one key group: all third-class passengers age 35 or older who were traveling with no children. The researchers figured that these were the people who faced the greatest likelihood of death because they were old enough, unfit enough and deep enough below the decks to have a hard time making it to a lifeboat. What's more, traveling without children may have made them slightly less motivated to struggle for survival and made other people less likely to let them pass. This demographic slice then became the so-called reference group, and the survival rates of all the other passenger groups were compared to theirs.
The results told a revealing tale. Aboard the Titanic, children under 16 years old were nearly 31% likelier than the reference group to have survived, but those on the Lusitania were 0.7% less likely. Males ages 16 to 35 on the Titanic had a 6.5% poorer survival rate than the reference group but did 7.9% better on the Lusitania. For females in the 16-to-35 group, the gap was more dramatic: those on the Titanic enjoyed a whopping 48.3% edge; on the Lusitania it was a smaller but still significant 10.4%. The most striking survival disparity — no surprise, given the era — was determined by class. The Titanic's first-class passengers had a 43.9% greater chance of making it off the ship and into a lifeboat than the reference group; the Lusitania's, remarkably, were 11.5% less likely. 
There were a lot of factors behind these two distinct survival profiles — the most significant being time. Most shipwrecks are comparatively slow-motion disasters, but there are varying degrees of slow. The Lusitania slipped below the waves a scant 18 min. after the German torpedo hit it. The Titanic stayed afloat for 2 hr. 40 min. — and human behavior differed accordingly. On the Lusitania, the authors of the new paper wrote, "the short-run flight impulse dominated behavior. On the slowly sinking Titanic, there was time for socially determined behavioral patterns to reemerge." 
That theory fits perfectly with the survival data, as all of the Lusitania's passengers were more likely to engage in what's known as selfish rationality — a behavior that's every bit as me-centered as it sounds and that provides an edge to strong, younger males in particular. On the Titanic, the rules concerning gender, class and the gentle treatment of children — in other words, good manners — had a chance to assert themselves.
Precisely how long it takes before decorum reappears is impossible to say, but simple biology would put it somewhere between the 18-min. and 2-hr. 40-min. windows that the two ships were accorded. "Biologically, fight-or-flight behavior has two distinct stages," the researchers wrote. "The short-term response [is] a surge in adrenaline production. This response is limited to a few minutes, because adrenaline degrades rapidly. Only after returning to homeostasis do the higher-order brain functions of the neocortex begin to override instinctual responses."
Once that happened aboard the Titanic, there were officers present to restore a relative sense of order and to disseminate information about what had just happened and what needed to be done next. Contemporary evacuation experts know that rapid communication of accurate information is critical in such emergencies.
Other variables beyond the question of time played important roles too. The Lusitania's passengers may have been more prone to stampede than those aboard the Titanic because they were traveling in wartime and were aware that they could come under attack at any moment. The very nature of the attack that sank the Lusitania — the sudden concussion of a torpedo, compared to the slow grinding of an iceberg — would also be likelier to spark panic. Finally, there was the simple fact that everyone aboard the Lusitania was aware of what had happened to the Titanic just three years earlier and thus disabused of the idea that there was any such thing as a ship that was too grand to sink — their own included.
The fact that the two vessels did sink is an unalterable fact of history, and while ship design and safety protocols have changed, the powder-keg nature of human behavior is the same as it ever was. The more scientists learn about how it played out in disasters of the past, the more they can help us minimize loss in the future.

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

Benjamin Button: Momma? Momma? Some days, I feel different than the day before.
Queenie: Everyone feels different about themselves one way or another, but we all goin' the same way. 


Mrs. Maple: Benjamin, we're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us? 


Captain Mike: You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went. You could swear, curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.


Benjamin Button: It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you.

Benjamin Button: [Voice over; letter to his daughter] For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again. 

[last lines]
Benjamin Button: Some people, were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people, dance. 

It's so sad... :(

Chile and Haiti: A Tale of Two Earthquakes

Chile and Haiti: A Tale of Two Earthquakes

The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Chile early on Feb. 27 was 500 times stronger than the 7.0 quake that killed an estimated 200,000 Haitians last month. And yet the number of casualties in Chile appears to be exponentially smaller, with the official death toll still in the hundreds. Far fewer people were rendered homeless than in Haiti, and much of the telephone service in Santiago and parts of central Chile had been restored within five hours.

To be fair, Haiti has had far less experience with earthquakes, and therefore earthquake preparedness, than Chile has. (Before Jan. 12, the last major quake to hit Port-au-Prince was in 1751.) There will, of course, be the apologists who insist it's unfair to compare a basket case like Haiti, the western hemisphere's poorest country, with a showcase like Chile, which has Latin America's highest per capita GDP and is set to become the first South American member of the exclusive, Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Chile can do things right, Haiti defenders argue, because it's more developed.

Wrong. It's the other way around: Chile is more developed because it's doing things right. The same goes for Brazil, Uruguay, Costa Rica and a handful of other Latin American and Caribbean nations that have decided in the 21st century to stop running their societies like medieval fiefdoms. They've conceded that niceties like rule of law, accountability, education, entrepreneurial opportunity and administrative efficiency actually have merit. And they've stopped making worn-out excuses, like the threats of communism or U.S. imperialism, for not modernizing their political and economic systems.

Finished watching episode 38 of We Got Married...

The last episode of the Lettuce Couple...

It's really sad... I mean of course it's good that Hyun Joong got the role of Ji Hoo, but it's sad that he and Hwang Bo won't get to see each other anymore... Of course I'm hoping they're still meeting up...

Solbi couple gone.

Romantic couple gone.

Lettuce couple gone.

Out of the original couples only the Ant couple remains. Though they are also leaving in episode 41. I just wish they would remove Jung Hyung Don. Those two are already running out of time spent together...

~To the world!~

I really need to start studying le! 2 mid-terms this week!!!

Adapted from "High-Yield Brain & Behavior"

The one about the soldier is quite sad...

Finally found the link to download Keep on by Ai Maeda!!! It's the ending song of Digimon, the one with many circular pictures of the characters...

振り向かないで 走り続けよう Sunshine day
擦りむいた痛みに 负けられない Adventure
立ち向かおう 恐れることはない My future
渇いたノドに うるおいをくれる Your smile
心の奥に住んでる 弱虫な自分に
别れ告げ またひとつ 强くなれるはずさ
今こそ 飞び立つ 勇気を もって
心の羽広げて まだ见ぬ未来へ
今から 果てしない 宇宙へ 向かって
まだ始まったばかりさ 梦への冒険
la la la... la la la...
君の手を握り さあ飞び立とう Blue sky height
明るい声と 笑颜が まぶしい Paradise
暗暗の中 迷っても あきらめない 负けないさ
一筋の光を 见つけられるはずさ
涙を见せる ヒマは无い!
今から 涙は 见せない ように
心の瞳开いて まだ见ぬ 未来へ
今こそ 信じる 强さを もって
いつでも立ち上がれる 勇気を持ってる
la la la... la la la...
うつむいて 肩落としちゃ たどり着けない
希望に満ちた 素敌なゴールに

Furimukanaide hashiritsuzukeyou sunshine day
Surimuita itami ni makerarenai adventure
Tachimukaou osoreru koto wa nai my future
Kawaita nodo ni uruoi wo kureru your smile Kokoro no oku ni sunderu yowamushi no jibun ni
Wakare tsuge mata hitotsu tsuyoku nareru hazu sa Ima koso tobitatsu yuuki wo motte
Kokoro no hane hirogete mada minu mirai e
Ima kara hateshinai sora e mukatte
Mada hajimatta bakari no yume e no bouken
La la la... la la la... Kimi no te wo nigiri saa tobitatou blue night sky
Akarui koe to egao ga mabushii paradise Kurayami no naka mayottemo akiramenai makenai sa
Hitosuji no hikari wo mitsukerareru hazu sa
Namida wo miseru hima wa nai! Ima kara namida wa misenai you ni
Kokoro no hitomi hiraite mada minu mirai e
Ima koso shinjiru yuuki wo motte
Itsu demo tachiagareru yuuki wo motteru
La la la... la la la... Utsumuite kata otoshicha tadoritsukenai
Kibou ni michita suteki na gooru ni Hashiritsuzukeyou idomitsuzukeyou tsuyoku nareru sa! Ima koso tobitatsu yuuki wo motte
Kokoro no hane hirogete mada minu mirai e
Ima kara hateshinai sora e mukatte
Mada hajimatta bakari no yume e no bouken
La la la... la la la... La la la... La la la...

Send "Keep On" Ringtone to your Cell

不往后看地继续跑 Sunshine day（晴天）
不屈服于膝盖擦伤的痛楚 Adventure （冒险）
面对着 没有东西可害怕的 My future （我的未来）
那干渴的喉咙 给润湿了因 Your smile（你的微笑）
向那住在内心深处的 儒弱的自己
告别 说再见 令自己变得一点点坚强
就是现在 持着勇气高飞
展开那心的翅膀 飞向未知的未来
从现在起 被带往那没尽头的宇宙
那只是刚刚开始 奔向梦的冒险
la la la... la la la...
抓着你的手 与你一起高飞 Blue sky height （高高的蓝天）
你那明亮的声音和微笑是耀眼的 Paradise（天堂）
在黑暗中 即使迷失 也不会放弃不会输
我知道我将会看到一线的光
我没有时间去展示我的眼泪！
就是现在 我不会再展示我的眼泪
打开那心的眼睛 向未知的未来进发
从现在起 我相信 我有力量
能再次站起来 当持有勇气
la la la... la la la...
如果低着头 垂下肩膀 是永远不会到达
那充满希望的 绝妙的终点
(couldn't find the english translation :P)

刚读了TH的blog，觉得她好会写哦。相比之下我的blog好像很没有content。。。写一下我对新年的感想吧。。。

我一直以来都不向往新年。真的，从童年时期就如此了。除夕在家吃团圆饭还ok，初一去阿嫲的家，超远的ok，得搭MRT all the way to Tiong Bahru。和爸爸的家人真的很不熟，一年才见一次面，而且频率全然不同。所以年复一年的坐在非常拥挤的客厅，倒数着可以离开的时候。最不喜欢的就是我的大伯，超没人缘的。Every year he will bring his stupid dog to 拜年. Mind you, that house is crowded enough without the dog running all over the place. Don't you think it's very inconsiderate to bring a dog when you know there are going to be people who are afraid of dogs? And all the time he had eyes only for that dog, feeding it mandarin orange, getting a bowl of water to feed it...! I am NEVER going to eat at that house if one of the bowls has been used by a dog!!! WTF! He just looks really annoying and every year I am just bursting to leave that place.

阿嫲每年都一样唠叨，但今年的情况好像比较糟，好像开始有点痴呆了，有点不认得人了。看了有点伤心。。。

过后我们就去大姨的家。。。也没什么。。。 以前还会一起玩牌，但自从买了麻将之后，一家人就分两派了，一组打麻将，一组看电视等着回家 aka zuobo。想想真的挺无聊的，大人打麻将打到凌晨一，两点， 为什么我们明明就累得要死还要等他们？We could have just gone home first. But luckily this year my cousins have bought Wii, so it's not so bad. My hands are aching horribly now, though.

So that's Chinese New Year for me. Nothing more than a routine. And it's my mid-term break now, I really need to study and start on my long report! Bleh!

《珍惜来临的一年 》

有人说岁月太匆匆 转眼又一年在手掌中溜走
是不是没有做什么 就这样让时光留不住

年轻的世界也许不曾感觉 生命是如此短促
如果你期待有收获 不要犹豫不要蹉跎

过去的岁月已不会再回头 未来的路仍然要走
在新的一年来临的时候 请你接受这一份祝福
过去的岁月已不会再回头 未来的路仍然要走
在新的一年来临的时候 请你接受这一份祝福

Bright Star

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art —
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors —
No — yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever — or else swoon to death.

Was on Facebook just now... Miss Susan Ong (or Mrs Goh) finally accepted me as a friend! =) So I looked at her photos, and I saw Miss Ling (music teacher) and Miss Ong Theng Choo (my sec 1 and 2 form teacher). So nostalgic! Then I scanned through her list of friends, and saw more familiar names: Miss Chia Ai Ling, Miss Jessica Goh, Mr Tan Chuan Long, Miss Jasmine Lee, Mrs Ang Geok Hoon (CLDDS teacher), Miss Tan Huizhen (!).... It's quite touching to see that they added each other as friends... Wah really very 怀念... I miss secondary school days so much. 看到老师们很多位都变了好多。。。陈泉隆老师结婚了(heard he was married to the girl guide teacher..finally saw her face)，而且有小孩了！真的替他感到开心。记得以前华文课的时候，他老是说他的弟弟怎么催他结婚。。。there's some story about toothpaste that I can't really remember. And saw photos of Mrs Ang in York with her family. Then saw Miss Jessica Goh's profile picture with a kid beside her I assume that's her kid. *surprised* When I was still in RV， I really didn't think she looked like she was about to settle down. Oh well... 数一数我离开立化已经 2010-2004= *gasp* 六年了! OMG! It's been so long?! But I still feel deeply for the school, even though the old building no longer stands. The Pandan reservoir where we did the horrible 2.4km runs...I can see the reservoir from my 1B classroom and I remember we used to smell whiffs of chocolate... The many bus-stops... When I was in sec1 I took bus 176. Then after I moved house I took 51 and sometimes... is it 331? Can't remember. Anyway they cancelled the line by the time I was in Sec 3, then there was 143. And sometimes Ming Shu and I would walk to the bus-stop opposite the church to take 78/79. The canteen... Sadly non of the vendors will move to the new campus at Boon Lay. I get to eat cai fan on a good day. Charsiew rice from stall 5 ( I still remember the plate is red) if time is short. It was an eating competition that I always lose. But then again how can I possibly beat Ming Shu? Mostly we ate ham-and-cheese from stall 10, standing around the newspaper/public phone area.

The bookshop... the photocopy shop... the hall, the first place I went to on my first day of school, where I got struck by fate. Mass dance... I remembered my white pinafore got dirty that day... the second-floor linkway... Ming Shu and I copying Chemistry TYS solutions outside the General Office... The staff room with namelists of every class (i don't know where i placed my collection)...with a microphone outside to page for teachers... I'd paged for Miss Guo Lanhua so many times when I was Chinese rep... how the guys go “交剪报。。。”...lol...collecting paper from the recycle bin (>.<)... painting the 2B classroom... learning the “看我７２变” dance from Xueyi... Walking past the Maths board everyday... E. Lit Dramatisation... Going to 3D, and becoming antisocial... Why did I waste those 2 years during the most precious part of my life? Sigh... if only I could go back. Memorising chemistry during recess... I remembered we were outside the home econs room..but i can't rmb which chapter... Memorising C. Lit as we paced outside the auditorium... Hating community singing at that time..."It's my life"eww... and found myself liking those songs now. Why couldn't I have enjoyed it then? Liking the song "One in a Million"... Doing gardening duties... That horrible gym with that horrible Hawk... I still hate him, that's the only thing that hasn't changed one bit. Hah.

The Chinese Lab with the tiny storeroom for CLDDS... Watching “地久天长”　there and crying (in school!)...but Yue Jia was crying too... Listening to Jiang Li talk about C. Lit... Going off to the AVA room for Chinese lessons... Chemistry remedial lessons with 4A... Then Mrs Goh leaving and Miss Ivy Cheong taking over. Me breaking the delivery tube and yet she didn't scold me and even asked if I was hurt. Mr Chow Ban Hoe... I was soooo scared of him in the beginning. But I began doing well in his class and he didn't seem that scary after all... Mr Bryant Chew who sweats a lot... Mr Chiam Tat Wee... I heard Miss Esther Lee left already... Mdm Soh Kah Lay... Mr Chew Hwee Meng... Mdm Louise Mak... Miss Huang Qiuying (memorising 唐诗s during文史 lessons)... I wonder how many of these teachers are still in RV. I wonder why teachers in Singapore always leave. I wonder why schools in Singapore always get torn down/shifted. I wonder why in Taiwan they can return after 20 years and still find their former teacher when mine quit the year I graduated. Does Singapore have no history, or is its history constantly being rewritten? I wonder why we have no sense of belonging. Why, oh why?

I'm getting too emo... Can't believe I wrote such a LONG entry... Facebook always makes me emo... I should be doing my lab report!

Miss Susan Ong and Miss Ong Theng Choo are teaching in ACS International now...

Darn, if anyone reading this is thinking of visiting RV, drag me along, k?

Ended up watching tv all the way until 10 anyway, even though i have GEM2501 test tomorrow and i haven't started studying, and Organic quiz tmr AND i haven't started studying that too... sigh.

Anyway, 《过好年》is really a nice show. Entertaining and funny and touching and not too cliche (unlike 《想握你的手》. That show is darn exaggerated I get goosebumps from watching it, and Yvonne Lim plays a not so likeable character and it's terrible to listen to my mom criticise her). Anyway I really liked a scene from today. 成龙 (not Jacky Chan... 董木星的儿子) worked as a bookie to earn more money. However he embezzled $8000 (!) (now we know where he got all that money from..he claimed to have earned it from giving tuition) and was caught by the chief, and got beaten up. His parents were furious (whoa at their acting skills... Cynthia Koh really looked like she's going to break down), and his father scolded him, and he retorted, "我赚钱又不是自己花。我会这么做还不是因为你没有用！！！" Whoa, I love how the tense atmosphere was built up and how 成龙 finally exploded. 张家奇 is such a good actor! His anger, his tears, his frustration... he's definitely better than 许雅慧, who's from StarSearch (alas they should just stop that show. It hasn't been working for ages and it never will. Look which champions are still hanging around...) She did a pretty poor job at crying when Haojie decided not to go to Australia with her.

Anyway he's the one who acted as “可乐”　in 《豹子胆》, "Car" in 《阴差阳错》 and later　"小金龙" in　《黄金路》. How time flies, he was this adorable little boy in "The Vagrant" and now he's all grown up. Sidetracking a bit, he's better-looking than his elder brother... :D

道明寺司にお誕生日おめでとう!

ALIVE

Watching "Stand Up!"made me miss Yamapi... Argh ever since "Code Blue" he started having this curly hair that doesn't suit him. Giving "Buzzer Beat" a try... Get your old hairstyle back, dude.

update at 12.22am: i give up. i want yamapi to be with aibu saki, not that violin girl! I'll try "The Guests of Room 0"..sounds interesting...

the first story stars Ohno Satoshi as a proud man who mellows down after discovering his 'value' is lower than a hostess... I like this line: "Besides, a murderer wouldn't have eyes like those of a baby bear" (referring to Ohno)....hahaha

watching 'stand up!!' now after completing the 2 nana movies...by the way the first was definitely much better than the second. the 2nd nana was horrible...she's the mean friend from 'kurosagi'...i only watched it because of Narimiya Hiroki...

looking forward to 'Stand Up!' cos guess who's in it?
1)Ninomiya Kazunari
2) Yamashita Tomohisa aka Yamapi
3) Narimiya Hiroki
4) Oguri Shun
5) Tsukamoto Takashi (hehe actually I only just know about him in 'Tokyo Dogs'..he's that baseball player)

Sad song... I finally remembered where I'd heard it... It was played in Karei Naru Ichizoku =(

AY09/10 Semester 2 (nightmare ahead)

After a terrible headache and struggle I have arrived at the following schedule:

	800	900	1000	1100	1200	1300	1400	1500	1600	1700
mon			CM3292	CM3292	CM3292	CM3292	CM3292	CM3292	CM3301-L	CM3301-L
tue			GEM2507-L	GEM2507-L	CM3212-L	CM3212-L	CM3222-L	CM3222-L
wed
thur									CM3301-L	CM3301-L
fri			GEM2507-L	GEM2507-L	CM3212-L	CM3212-L	CM3222-L	CM3222-L

Now I need to pray very hard that my lab can finish early so that I can make it to forensics lecture at 4pm. Or I’ll die.

And it’s 6 hours of lectures on Tuesdays and Fridays = no lunch.

I don’t understand why they only offer lab on Mon and Thur. Everything would have been perfect if they open up Wednesday. Then I can take CM3301 and PR2202 on Mon and Thur, the other chem modules on Tue and Fri, and lab on Wed. Isn’t that good? Sigh, stupid chem department.

Oh yeah, Happy New Year! Not that happy, actually, but whatever.