Intoxi'Kath'ing Whispers

Haha.. going to make it compulsory to say goodbye to each year that passes by. Memorable Moments of 2007 January : My 21st Birthday!!! Enough said right... Had a party at home. Yay! February : Did not go round to visiting my relatives this year, especially my dad's side as we had to come back to Subang. (Dad had to do something). So, obviously, our ang pau income also dropped drastically. March : Hmm... nothing memorable here enough for me to remember... April : Had my exams? Nothing exciting going on obviously... May : Went to Pulau Redang with Uni friends! Had fun snorkelling and stuff. Got sunburned. (Duh) June : Donated blood for the first time. Still am proud of it. Yay!! (Mind you, I am very scared of needles, so it is a big thing for me. Will I do it again? Uh...). Went to Kuantan with another group of Uni friends, supposedly to see turtles.. But the turtles didn't want to see us. :( July : Classes? The adrenaline rush of running from hall to hall? Library to Cant...

Aahhh!! Stupid house printer had to choose this perfect timing in ruining my project report!! I have no idea what's wrong with it. It still has ink but when I print more than one page at one go, the ink disappears! So, I now have to go through a gruelling time-waiting game with it. Five minutes of wait, print one bloody "beaver's dam" page. Grr... Eight pages to go. Help. Okay, the paragraph above was not originally part of my blog today. But I just had to let it out. What I want to say about today are my food likes and dislikes. Haha. It just came to me. I have funny food tastes for a Malaysian. Know why? I dislike eating durians . I like the smell, yes, but I seriously do not like partaking in the ritual of tantalising my bud with its aromatic creamy flesh. Sorry. Once, my family decided to have durians for lunch ! (They are all durian lovers). I was like "What?!" Yuck!! Not surprisingly I threw a tantrum... Was in my teenaged years I think. I don't c...

Yay! Today was my last day of industrial training. Had loads of fun. Here are some pictures of what I was doing. But it's not really good or descriptive of what I actually and really did. At least you get the rough picture. Pun intended. By the way, outside the lab, is a sign saying, "No photography". But then, who gives a "beaver's dam". This is the column with which I started my column chromatography using silica gel 60. A closer look... I didn't do it so well.. thus the colour is not even. When it's well done, the colour will be even and you can see even coloured bands appearing too. A fraction collector. You just leave it be and it collects your fractions for you. Another fraction collector. You must put in the weight which you want it to collect though. Then it won't overspill. Test tubes containing my fractions. See the colour change? Cool huh? Hehe. Top view. Another collection of fractions. Colour is becoming darker. Look from right to le...

Lack of sleep leads to tiredness. Tiredness leads to impatience. Impatience leads to irritation. Irritation leads to frustration. Frustration leads to short temper. Short temper leads to angry outbursts. Which lead to words being said impulsively, unmeaningly and spitefully. Which leads to hurt and unseen scars. Hurt that is not easily forgotten though forgiven. Scars which will never be removed. And a distance between the hearts exist. No longer close as before.

Tomorrow will be the last day of the fifth week of my industrial training. And then, yay, three more weeks to go!!! After that, holidays and Christmas !! My favourite time of the year. Haha. Time really flies by quickly. Just one month plus to go and sayonara to year 2007. Can't help but feel sad, nostalgic and a bit reluctant . Reluctant for time to run past me. Reluctant to grow older another year. Reluctant to start the same routine all over again. Classes, exams, you know, the works. I have always, ALWAYS loved the end of the year. Especially the month of December. It feels like you're saying goodbye you know. As if another one of your life's chapter has finally come to an end, closed and put aside. With no other use except for remembrance, lessons and experience . Well, wish as I might, I can never stop Father Time from doing his work. NO matter how hard I grab on or hold on to time, it just slips by my fingers. So, what I will have to do is just run along with it. Yu...

Warning : Biased opinions ahead and maybe sexist remarks as well. With occasional outbursts! Do not read if you have a weak heart or want to retain a good image of the me that you know. Haha... Oh ya, long post ahead too. Nowadays we have so many social networking websites popping up like mushorooms after a heavy downpour. It's hard not to be involved with them when everytime your friends keep inviting you to join. I don't usually join every Tom, Dick and Harry sites that my friends invite me to. No matter how many times they send emails saying "Please join or so-and-so will feel that you don't care." Bla bla bla. Cut the crap. ( Not my friends' fault, it's a computer generated invitation, whaddaya expect?) Friendster, Facebook, Multiply . These are some social sites that I've joined and learned to love. I keep updates in there and I go 'busybodying' around as well. Usual right? In these websites, friends or people who add me are people that...

I have started my industrial training . During the last week, I was put in charge of some machine called rotary evaporator and my job was to get the mangosteen skin extract . The mangosteen skins were first soaked in methanol (an alcohol) for days, filtered for the liquid and then only is it poured into the evaporator machine to get the extract. In this machine, the methanol will evaporate and later condense into another beaker. The methanol after this is useless thus it is thrown away. While I was doing this process, I asked my supervisor where I should dispose of the methanol because it is obvious you can't just throw it into the sink. She said. "Sink." Oh, I thought to myself. Perhaps they do it differently in here. So I followed and happily just poured the methanol down the sin k next to me. I did that last Friday. Today, as I was going to dispose of another batch of methanol down the sink again, my supervisor saw me and asked, "That's methanol...