Thursday, July 07, 2005 . 2:20 PM
* Wat are these feelings?*
I'm finally back from my 1 week hiatus. If u have been coming here often, then i'm sorry u had to face my boring old post for so long. That wasn't much of a post anyway haha.
1st of all, i realise i onli bother to blog on weekdays and it has to be in the lab. Bcos i'm usually free anyway. And i won't waste my own personal time blogging unless it's some juicy news to share.
Then it happened that karen has gone on her 2 week and a day leave from morning. And i have to take over all her work. So now i'm a person fighting all alone, doing 3 pple's job!! Karen usually has no problems with her DNA sequencing services, as she has done these for 3 yrs mind you. Her pace of work is lightning fast. Chop chop everything is settled. And gosh i couldnt' even settle the things. I had problems with calculations(mainly due to lack of sleep n practice), problems even arranging the tubes in order cos my brain wasn't with mi but at home in bed, couldn't wash the machine well, everythihg that could have screwed up screwed up. It's always like this. Any other time when ur not rushing things are always ok. But when u need to rush, u need to depend on this freaking donoe some $20k machine to work, it doesn't work the way it shd!! And then i have to ans to users. So i have been doing OT the past 3 days to finish up. I wasn't even slacking at all. The whole 3 days my butt didn't sit infront of the pc for more than 5 mins but working the arses off. I couldn't help but feel stupid as well. I was trying to help my own service users cos they couldn't even section their tissues so they called for help. Pple wants to buy antibodies..wan this chemical that chemical, wants mi to take a look at their sections and give them some suggestions to improve. Sighz..
LAst nite a new reality hit mi. I've long tot the period of reality hitting hard on my face thigie is long gone. I've onli experienced that when i came out to work. Now that my honours frens have graduated, i experienced something that i never felt. I have to face the fact that some of them are leaving singapore, leaving me. And i cannot accept it. Especially deying. Eh i'm glad u got a perm job. Congrats. In such a short time somemore. But she's gonna b based in KL most of the time!! BOOHOOOO!! I can't believe it. I can't believe i'm really upset, that you are not going to be THAT part of my life anymore! Wat happens to all the swimming sessions,going out, hanging ard, and badminton with meimei..bohhooo!! Aren't u honoured that i'm so upset over u? hee :p
Another peice of gd news is that xiaohui has won herself a trip to Hungary for an arts camp of sort sponsored by laselle for 2 weeks. So there...sparks how i feel abt pple leaving. Xiaohui is temporarily of cos. But she could really have gone overseas to study.
And benedict, who i knew only when he came to use my lab's facilities but he's also my coursemate. A gd msn kaki. Unfortunately oso someone due to leave for germany for masters n phd in sept. Boohoo!
Arthur, a sec sch classmate. Not close anymore. Yicai's fren as well. played with the possibilty of whole family migrating over to UK. Due to leave this sept to study in UK too.
How many pple i know would leave singapore and never to come back again? Never to see them again?
Peng Liang. My user. Someone who i personally taught how to do H & E staining for cell culture. So u see the teacher-student bond is there. He's a plastic surgeon back in shanghai. 24 yr old this yr. Doing his masters at the moment and was sent here for 6 mths. I onli got to know him for abt 3 mths. But he's just gone back to shanghai. A very very joyful man, and i see it's bcos he accept Christ here! And gez wat? He was attending my old church all along!!Baptised and an even happier man. Someone i may not get to see for the rest of my life unless i go to shanghai one day. And i think i know a number of shanghainese hee.
This other user which i do not wan to name. Leaving for USA with boss to finish up his phd. Gosh. I wonder if my boss could bring mi away pls..
Actually not much of a big deal, i shdn't get so upset and all. But i suddenly realised how grown up we are now. And such things should or would start happening. I shd expect it but truthfully i didn't. Come to think of it. I,myself is an immigrant. Like how my aunts n uncles seldom see my parents and other aunts n uncles...that's life i gez. I wonder where life would take me. I wonder where God would put me.
............Convocation..........
Now Nus is quite a happening place. For we have countless orientations going on in the school for the KIDS, i mean the newbies/freshmen. And i vaguely remembered how it was like for me,us when we were at that age. Makes me wanna be a student all again. That anticipation of uni life, that sianess that sch is gonna start, all these stupid orientations and matriculations! wat a fuss!! wat a fuss it was then.
As a new chapter begins, another chapter has to close. Tat would be the convocation. It's the session of convocations man. And it's great to graduate this yr. Bcos NUS is celebrating the centennial, their 100 yrs. And on the university hall this huge poster hangs every yr at this time of the yr, graduating class of watever watever. And this yr, it's a tag special. That's y i say it's so nice to graduate this yr bcos on the poster, it's written CENTENNIAL GRADUATING CLASS OF 2005. And poster is in gold somemore! Wat the hell..wat happens to the 99th yr then!? Any case, weiping's convo is today, graduating with phd. When would it b my convo again? :p Tomoro is the life sci honours class. Mon is deying's ntu,tues is meimei's. How nice. How nice if i could have it all ov again. Last yr's sux lor for mine. Was scheduled at nite! I didn't even wan to invite any frens! But Deying came :)
Btw to nus pple who has graduated, The university hall has moved..to the new building beside lt32. It's v nice. But now the balance has been shifted. No longer is the old university hall bustop where the most pple would get off the buses like 96. It is now the lt32 bustop where most pple will get off which means more pple taking internal shuttle bus A and i don se the frequency improving at all. So nice rite?
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