Tuesday, March 15, 2005 . 9:27 AM
* Wat happened...*
This is a time of goodbyes and happy get togethers.
Last wednesday, Weiping officially graduated from her Part time PHD after she gone t hru her oral defense. Oral defense is where you present your thesis to a few examiners and they bombard u with Questions and then decide to pass you or not. So she has passed. Everyone was estatic. U could see that desire in the phd students' eyes, the hope that they can juz b like her. After all their oral defense would b in nov and another student next april. Boss got apple strudels and lots of junk food, champagnes, soft drinks and all of gathered in the seminar room to eat and drink ourselves silly and waste time. Not bad a job huh. When i was alone with Boss, he was holding to 3 thick copies of weiping's thesis and he asked me, ' do you want to have one of your own??' WOW. U know i don't even have honours, and masters and ur asking mi if i wan to have a phd thesis of my own?!! OF cos lar!! It's like such a big honour. It's like something that's so tough and some pple had acheived it aldy. I really look up to Weiping. She had her 1st child when she was doing masters. She had her daughter when she started her phd. And throughout all these struggles, imagine having to babysit her daughter at home and at nite, she still could manage to work and do her research part time. I mean wow. It's the strength of a woman that's really amazing.
Then time for gdbyes. The dannish research fellow is leaving .And our chinese (china) research fellow too. And then b4 we know it, the other lab officer called Florence suddenly told us her last day was yesterday. We were shocked. So boss had a bbq on saturday at his condo in toh tuck rd for the dannish and chinese Research fellow. Cos we didn't know Florence was going to leave us too and boss kept it a secret too. Was fun. Everyone brought their other halves and kids.
So yesterday, weiping karen and i treated florence to a buffet lunch at the guild house in nus. Cost like 13+. At tea break boss got us all down to the cafe below for a farewell for her. So we wasted time chit chatting and drinking ourselves silly again.
So after all these gatherings, i'm beginning to feel part of this small community, small family. In fact much closer to them. It feels abit like i'm sitting with my relatives. Bcos im not that close to my relatives, im always v quiet with them but i know they are blood related to me..somehow the colleagues makes mi feel like that too.
I'm getting so sway recently. Juz bloody sway. One day i can juz wake up being jinxed for the entire day. Bloody pissed.
|
