Friday, February 3
because i feel like blogging, and lattes taste good.i said i was a dork yesterday. according to melly, a dork is a male whale's reproductive organ. oh dearie me.
I PASSED MY CHINESE ZUOWEN TALKING ABOUT BAMBOO! gloats.
so! today was seriously awesome. i mean the SMP launch thingum @ NAP. which stands for ngee ann poly, btw. i never had any idea it was that near our school! i mean clementi just doesnt sound that closeby to bukit timah. but it is, sort of. so the launch itself wasn't THAT fun. as in, the people talking. most of the ge branch people were reading straight out from the pretty booklet that we got. i dont know, felt like hurling things @ them and telling them that we can READ, thank you very much. but we had nice refreshments! like these tiny lil egg tarts were positively droolable, both literally and figuratively.
but the NAP people, like the lab technician who told us all about lab safety, was really funny. and the other NAP guy whose accent i took years to figure out and in the end just asked him outright what it was, he was awesome too. teaching us about aseptic techniques. which apparently means doing things in a clean manner and keeping bacteria as far away as possible and at a minimum. which was a boring topic but he managed to engage us, so that was kool.
and i think the NAP people are so awesomely nice. the campus rawks too, being like cojoined with SIM. they get gorgeous labs.
& so it happened that NAP's open day was today too! so being boliao, brenda liza & i made our way to visit the labs & peek @ what people do. it was SO DARN KOOL, like there was this liquid nitrogen thing, where the guy put a pipette in it for 10 seconds, took it out and smashed it with a hammer because it'd turned into glass-like thingum. kuz liquid nitrogen is like neg. 190 degrees? fun fun.
then there was a whole bunch of other really kool things but the open day ended @ 6 and our launch ended @ 5 so we had really little time to explore. i bought this 4 bucks thingum, theres supposed to be a strand of DNA in it, but i suspect mine either fell out or decomposed to nothing. anyhows, its orange and it looks like a vial, really really small and they put it like a pendant onto a necklace! so fun right! im gonna wear it for the weekend. its pretty. brenda and liza bought a PINK one for ms chee hahahahaha i think ms chee would rather die than wear it larh. but its so nice.
and while we were worrying about why we couldn't contact assoc. prof henry mok, who's our mentor, we decided to call him on monday to see whats happening. but just now online brenda popped up to tell me that he REPLIED OUR EMAIL! and he sounds darn nice. really, and kuz hes an assoc prof hes not free and all, so he has this grad student to help us out with a lot of stuff, which's kool.
prospects for smp's looking great!
now i trot off to continue deciphering our topic, which, after much reading of wikipedia notes, i still understand nothing of. "Sub-cloning and expression of mutants of the anti-apoptotic Mcl-1 protein for study of small molecule inhibitor binding using NMR" blinks. ohh well. i'll figure it out somehow.
and im so utterly proud of myself. im going down to the nat.lib. tomorrow, FINALLY! i havent been there yet. quite embarassing, really. will be good to check out what range of reference books they have, both for smp & the various SIAs, as well as taking pictures and brochures for the LA SIA! wootz.
thank you God for making me happy.
oh right. i need to practice my prelude and fugue! class performances for music on monday. shivers at the thought. today ms foo gave me two new pieces and theyre really awesome, one is flight of the bumblebee, by some unknown russian dude, i chose to learn this one first kuz its nice nice nice, and the other is allegro something, by bartok. i heart. 20th century classical music is lurve.
broken chairs and graffitied tables,
- alena.
i was green-ed at 11:01 pm
