Intoxi'Kath'ing Whispers

A quick recap of the year 2008 before it bids us goodbye forever!!! As is tradition, click here and here for 2006 and 2007 respectively. January : My birthday! And had a 'surprise' for me by my uni friends during our steamboat dinner. (Thank you!) Went to the Curve with CY and Chian for TGIFs! February : CNY eve fell on the same day as Ash Wednesday (A day where Catholics are to fast and abstain from meat. So how?) We replaced it with another day officially lo. :) March : Easter!! And also the month where I fell sick (food poisoning) and had to skip my genetic tutorial and MB lecture... hahaha. April : Exams again.. and genetics really killed me... but results were ok. Thank God!! May : My first overseas trip!! To the US! A very wonderful and certainly an eye-opening experience. :D Thank you mom and dad!! Hey, I paid for my food and other other stuff though. Haha. June : Went to Genting and experienced my first step in a real casino surrounding. Felt like a katak di bawah tem...

Listening to sad songs definitely does not help with one's mood. Perhaps cause the weekend is over. And tomorrow I have to go back to the lab. Perhaps I feel scared and uncertain... of many things. Especially the new year 2009. Perhaps it's because this coming Christmas will be the first of "many firsts". Many firsts that evoke both sad and joyful memories. But mostly sad ones. Yet, Christmas is also a time when we get to meet up with friends and family whom we rarely see. That is something to look forward to. :) The first Christmas where the person I love will not be there to celebrate with me. Anymore. The first Christmas where some changes are bound (and already) to happen yet I am desperately clinging on to the old, the familiar. I do not want to let go. A lot of things have been wanting to be said. But cannot be said. For fear of a lot of things. Don't we all? Watched Twilight yet? The plot is ok I suppose. But there is a song in the show which can reall...

I will update as soon as I can. My darling little blog.... hahaha. Anyway... recent going ons: - Sat for my last exam paper of the year on Wed. And.. let's not talk anymore about it. - Just had a major stomachache. Went to toilet. - Had the Alien doughnut from Big Apple. Yums! - Found that a small rat died in a wasted effort for a FYP. It died because it inhaled too much chloroform. It's not supposed to die!!! - Realised that I have a good projectmate whom I am compatible with. Thank you! - Frustrated that UTAR is stingy in buying chemicals and equipments and whatnots we need for our projects. Hel-lo?!! There are three chemical tests I can't perform cause of this. Sigh. - Realised that I am not a very vocal person. It's true!!! And...... huh? What? Oh! It's way past my bedtime. Night. :D

I went to Bali, Indonesia from 15th to 18th of October. For more on the trip, click here . Anyone planning to go there can definitely find out a lot from my friend Jenny's post. She's provided a lot of information, like the costs involved and of course, beautiful pictures. Both of us went for a holiday trip there along with three others. Besides promoting the Island as a holiday paradise, so they say, I'm here to also provide information for Catholics who intend to visit Bali and would like to see the churches there and maybe go for mass. But I only saw one church. Sorry. During our stay in Bali, we stayed at this place, Febri's Hotel and Spa . And believe it or not, haha, I was actually quite happy about it, that a Catholic church was just within walking distance from our hotel. What a great surprise! I don't know about other people, but whenever I am in a foreign place and I see a Catholic/Christian church, either when we pass by or not, I always feel very happy...

Yea... I've been really busy till my blog is stagnant and mosquitoes are laying eggs in it. Huh. Hahaha. Don't mind me. Had a bad day today. I'm doing Soxhlet extraction as part of my practical for final year project, which requires a heating mantle, and also condenser. Care has to be taken that our solvent in the flask does not dry up lest the thing explodes as it is super hot. This is exactly what happened in the lab today. My extractor exploded in front of my project mate. Thank God she wasn't hurt. Summary: Water was everywhere, oil was everywhere and broken glass pieces were there to greet me as well. The stench coming from our exploded stuff was so unbearable till the chemistry students had to move labs. Sorry!!! But I strongly feel that it is none of our fault as both our flasks still had solvent in it so we have no idea why it exploded. Sigh. In the end, we have to clean up lo...hahaha. Took mops and pails from the 'kakak' downstairs. She saw her p...

I'm feeling down today. Sad, tired, dull. Just feel like sitting down and stare into space. I lost two things in the space of just two days. Yesterday, I lost my umbrella as I placed it in the canteen when I went to have my lunch. And I totally forgot about it when I left!!! So now, I have no idea where it is. Whether the cleaning lady took it, the noodle soup seller aunty took it or even some desperate students who were stuck in the canteen and couldn't get back to the lab. "Ayo, raining la. How to get across?" Looks round. "Eh," Nudges friend, "there got umbrella leh. Looks like it's still functioning. No one's around. Should we take it?" "Hmm.. take only la.. Its' here for us. Maybe it's a free gift." "I'll keep it afterwards, can save for other rainy days after today." *Evil snickers as my umbrella is whisked away, never to be seen with me again.* *Wah!!! Cry...* Today, I lost my magnetic brac...

The Pink Ribbon/Passionately Pink event was held in Jaya One (Groud Floor) near Utar PJ campus recently. Actually it was quite a while, haha. But the gallery is still open where we can admire/criticise the pink rubber ducks which were self-decorated by various local artistes including the likes of Sarimah Ibrahim, Daphne Iking even Amber Chia. I was there with my three sisters where we only had the intention of eating at Wendy's, then we decided to walk around for a bit and came across the gallery. So, being busybodies and since Eileen's a pink maniac, we went in to have a look. The ducks were cute! Unfortunately we didn't bring any cameras so no pics. But we did buy one pink rubber duck of our own as the proceeds went to charity for breast cancer (Sth like that.) RM10 per duck . Quite ok lo. Haha. Here is our duck. Original. No additives, preservatives, colourings and what nots. Hahaha. This is what's written at the bottom of our duck! I super like the pun! Pink ...