Today (Wed, 29 Sept 2010)

Blogging now partly due to Arnold's FB bugging and partly due to inspiration.

I had a presentation today at uni. A proposal seminar, where I presented my research proposal to a very small group consisting mostly of students and only two lecturers (the coordinator of the seminar and my supervisor). It was OK, I wasn't too nervous because the group was small, the seminar room was also very small and only two friendly lecturers were present ^.^

Wanna share something funny that happened while I was in the preparation stage of my presentation slides. So, I had to prepare PowerPoint slides for my presentation right? So, like a  good student doing what she has to do, I did it lah. Then my supervisor wanted to have a look at my PPT slides a few days before the presentation just to check whether it's up to standard or not and when I showed him my PPT slides, he went and changed them by adding more photos, using bright font colours and blowing everything up in size. So in the end, my PPT slides became bigger, more colourful and looked more 'cheerful' (if it's possible to use cheerful to describe PowerPoint slides -.-"). Cute lah, my supervisor...like a little kid only LOL.

On another note, I seriously need a break. I'm so tired of working continuously for the past few days without getting proper rest and lacking of sleep. I feel like flying off to a beautiful remote island with a bunch of my close friends and just hang around all day doing stuff that doesn't require a lot of brain power. I FREAKING NEED A BREAK! haih.......vacation, oh, vacation....cuti cuti malaysia, that's what I need right now..

OK, end of post already. U can go back to whatever u were doing before u started reading this riveting post. But not before leaving a comment of more than 5 words on this post. Thanks! :P

Pour me a heavy dose of atmosphere~ lalala~

I'm gonna learn this next!

Sheet music can be found here: Sheet Music. If you watch carefully, you'll notice the person is playing a little differently from the sheet music but she/he only omitted a few notes from the sheet music, that's all. But I haven't printed out the sheet music yet coz it's 7 pages long!!! O.o And I just printed out a 4-page sheet music for the same song only to realise that it's not according to the video :( Wasted my printer ink and expensive A4 paper only Grrrrrr! *Sorry, pa* >.<

I think I should just buy cheap 70gsm A4 paper myself for printing out sheet musics, hor?

Updating the Blog, Albeit a Little Reluctantly

It's almost 11 p.m. now and I'm getting a little sleepy. Eyes are feeling heavy and my head feels like it's stuck in a cloud and everything seems to move slowly :S

Yet, here I am, lying on my stomach on my oh-so-comfortable bed in front of my netbook and practically forcing myself to update my blog with this post! I should get an award for this tremendous effort. Like, an award called 'Most Determined to Update Blog' Award or something like that. Or maybe a 'Best Blog-Updating Effort' award. OK, never mind that. I crap a lot and get a little delirious when I'm tired but forced to stay awake.

**MELANIE ONG and ARNOLD WILLIAMSON (both of you are always pressing me for blog updates) and the REST OF YOU reading this, you guys had better leave some comments on this post once it's up or all my hard+bloodsweatandtears effort will seem like it was for nothing! Hehehe :P

 So, getting back to the title and the purpose of this post - updates in my life since my last post (which was 4 months ago!!! CANYOUBELIEVEIT.COM!??), nothing major/life-changing has actually happened.

Since then, I've applied for and was offered a Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) from my university (which is UPM btw, just in case you don't know which uni I'm enrolled in now but you should OK!) which I accepted so I've given up my part time job teaching home tuition. I'm now looking for a room somewhere within walking distance of my university so that I won't have to commute back and forth to my uni daily which can drain quite a lot of energy from me each day. As for my research, it's progressing, albeit slower than expected because the machines (GC, GC-MS and FPLC) I need to analyse my samples are not fully installed yet or the training for the machines haven't been conducted yet. At least now I have some samples ready to be analysed (wohoo!!~) because I've been busy (or should I say SUPER busy) collecting them.

GC-MS

FPLC

Hmmm, what else ah?

Ohhh! I'm not alone in the lab anymore! I finally have new lab mates, both undergrad (8 student) and postgrad (2 excluding me) students under the same supervisor as me, and they're really cool and very helpful people! Yay for me!

Errrr...I really can't think clearly anymore....I...*yawn*.....need.....*yawn*......to.......sle

*doze off and cannot finish the sentence LOL*

Guilty as Charged!

Finally!!! I finally have a 'free' day to myself!

Actually, I'm not that free today, hence the inverted commas haha :P

I'm supposed to be doing my Research Proposal as an assignment for my Research Methodology course but when I saw this...

From Melanie's blog (See Tansra K!!!) Last update was 4 freaking MONTHS ago wei! o.O

 and this...

Look @ Arnold's comment in my last blog post And that was in JUNE weii!!!!

 I felt soooo guilty to my blog readers (OK, maybe only to the 3 or 4 of you who actually look forward to my blog updates LOL).

Right, I know this post is supposed to be an update but it's practically impossible for me to actually include everything I wanna share in a single post (and I'm supposed to be doing my assignment!! Oh, the guilt!) So...I shall update this blog PROPERLY tonight after I've made some progress (hopefully), however small or big (hopefully big hahaha!), in writing my Research proposal and after I'm back from my relative's Hari Raya open house. I promise I WILL update! ;)