Gold Coast

Testing out the new Picasa to put up my holiday photos. Its quite impressive but not as user friendly as I wanted it to be. Anyways, these are photos from Tropical Fruit World, MovieWorld, SeaWorld and Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. I didn't get many pics cos I was too busy doing stuff, and I preferred to take pics of animals rather than people or scenery. Also was running out of memory. Particularly happy that I managed to find all these exotic insects and stuff. Found some really beautiful spiders.

Holiday was really fun and I got really tanned. Not going to post up xmas pics cos most of them were videos anyway [ I was making them for my sis who is still in Malaysia.. :( boo hoo ]. Now just mucking around...really should be getting some work done but...what can you do. Its the holidays :P

p.s. Tets coming back in exactly 5 days!!!!!!!!! :D

p.p.s. congrats to Pete and Karen (and emily) on their belated xmas pressie ;)

Merry Christmas

Happy Birthday Jesus!!!! :D

And Merry Christmas to all of you ^^ Hope you have a joyous time serving your family as you remember why Jesus came down to earth.

I personally have been stuffed to the brim over and over and over. I dont know how much longer I can take this torture. But those prawns.... *droooool* Had my huge annual family xmas dinner tonight. Man so fun ^^ Reckon all that alcohol just makes the corny jokes in the bon-bons way funnier than it really is. We made some of our own bon-bons this year too! :D Heaps fun.

Mmmm drowsy . . . . x)

Sunshine State

Sitting in the Brisbane airport waiting for my family to arrive from Malaysia cos their flight got delayed by two hours. Haiya.... :P

I arrived in Gold Coast this arvo and had a drive around...quite a nice place. Humid though. No more schoolies so everything was quiet again. I must say the restaurants/cafe's are more expensive than I expected. The hotel/apartment type thing (im not sure what its called) is really nice!! Although theres only one air conditioning for the whole apartment and its in the living room... but....its still a very nice place.

Really looking forward to going to Movie World and all that jazz...hehehe. Also been reading The 5th Harry Potter book like I said I would. Its actually quite interesting. I nerdily counted how long it would take for me to finish the book... taking from my average of 3-minutes-per-page from Memoirs of A Geisha, It should take about 8 and ah alf hours to finish the 766 pages. Im determined to finish those 8 hours within this one week of holiday so I can concentrate on journal articles next week.

4 minutes left from the internet coin booth!! So funny...like you put in $2 coin and you get 20 mins of slow and quite crappy internet. I couldnt get into webmessenger. boo hoo.

Will post piccies when I get back to Sydney! :)

* y a w n *

Ah. Friday. So nice.

Work has been getting better. My headaches arent as bad as before. Tet says you get used to it (the radiowaves/radiation whatever) and true enough. Hopefully it doesnt come back after my holiday. Also, the connection is heaps better at uni so I can listen to Pandora. Its a fantastic site!! Honestly, its like the best thing Amita has ever contributed in my life (harhar). Alot of reading the next 2 weeks. We're trying to set up a protocol to test the filtration efficiency of some high grade face masks. Its more complicated than it sounds. But Dr. Tovey is nice. Which makes it all the easier to be a happy worker.

Tet got me Jars Of Clay: Redemption Songs for xmas. Yay!!! :D But yknow.... nothing will ever beat their first album. Its just been declining every year. Now they sound generic and....folky/country. Sigh. Thats what happens when artists get old. Tend to lose your creative streak man. Although this latest album is still better than "Who We Are Instead". That album was a shocker.

Going to Gold Coast to meet up with my family (flying in from Malaysia) tommorow. Been looking forward to it all week. Even more with work draining me. I dont understand why its so tiring... I did work experience last year as well but it wasnt as tiring. Sigh. Just getting old. Or maybe its just the whole xmas-i-got-stuff-to-do-omgomg. T_T

I was mooching about the Konfab site today and look at what I found...

Basically its like the Dharma Initiative that they have down in the hatch... yknow where they key in a number every 108 minutes. So this thing countsdown and you key in the number. Sounds uber geeky right. You think...what kinda moron would dload this stupid widget but check this out . . . .



8947 Downloads!!!!!!! (as of 16 Dec 11.20pm GMT+10)

About 9000 or so literate morons it would seem . . . .

Worky

Been working the past week. It sprung up on me actually...I wasnt expecting it at all.

Full time work truly is magnificently tiring. Its hard to get your full 8 hours of sleep when you have things external to work to do. Like xmas pressies, dinners, relationships and blogs. Going to Gold Coast with family next week though. Looking forward to my rest. Hopefully thats what it will be.

Sleep is annoyingly necessary for productivity. Unlike when at uni. Sigh.

Give me uni any day.

Sneak Peek into my Head

Your Brain's Pattern

Your mind is a firestorm - full of intensity and drama. Your thoughts may seem scattered to you most of the time... But they often seem strong and passionate to those around you. You are a natural influencer. The thoughts you share are very powerful and persuading.

What Pattern Is Your Brain?

I got tagged

This is actually something like a month and a half late. Thats cos I got tagged during Stuvac by Sanz. hehe. So sorry for my lateness but here it is.

7 things that scares me

• Rapists (above murderers and robbers even)
• Forgetting whats important and rejecting God later in life
• Being a bad mother....abuse comes in many forms...
• Making a phone call
• Cockroaches!!!
• Losing my inner child
• Watching scary movies. Seriously. >.< Or reading scary stories. Especially if Im home alone.
  

7 random facts about me

• I really admire and respect my lecturers
• I secretly hate my smile
• I'm actually pretty easily influenced
• I know I'm arrogant but I don't do anything about it
• I'm seriously crap at math and sports
• I love cartoons
• I wish i was geekier/knew more about stuff other than science

7 things I hope to do before I die

• Get married and raise a family
• Win a prize in Science. Or if Tet wins one thats good enough. haha.
• Make a small difference in every milestone of my life
• Turn my family to Jesus
• Play in an orchestra
• Own a cat/dog of my own
• Convey to my family and friends that I love them so much (abit late after you're dead :P )

7 things I can do

• Catch 3 out of 10 balls
• Stubbornly and logically argue my way in subjects of interest (e.g. not politics)
• Play by ear (and consequently, remember songs easily)
• Stay up all night and be perky the next day (as long as im not sitting down)
• Eat 200g of chocolate in one sitting
• Talk to animals (mostly cats) and truly believe that they're talking back to me (cos they are!)
• Cram.. I've got excellent short term memory

The Fourth One

I watched Harry Potter: Goblet of Fire today. [update: its on Imax too! That would be mad!! Unfortunately not in Imax Aus. sigh. ]It's pretty good. The graphics and story line are getting addictive, although this movie was abit long. After awhile I kinda got restless. It felt like it was never going to end. But it did. Really suddenly too!

Maybe I'm just abit slow and stuff, but I really didn't see the end coming until it pretty much ended. I'm like... what??... o...kay.... O.o

Still can't decide on which Honours project to do. I tried reading the Bchm paper today. O boy... struggled through. Gave up halfway. I should not be lazy and read the Micro one tommorow. Sigh. Decisions decisions. I'm running out of time to read my books. Theres so many things I want to do these holidays. I don't think I can get through all of it though. Isn't it always the case.

I want to know more and more. Learn more things, gather more information, acquire more skills. I hate to admit it but I think I'm a slower learner than I like to think. Also, my disability to catch balls is proving too great a foe for learning how to juggle. Not being able to catch balls may be caused by:
a) clumsiness/incoordination
b) small hands
c) bad eyesight/depth perception
d) bad grip (they bounce off my hands the way m&ms bounce off my front teeth)

Being eaten by mozzies. And spiders are rising as well. Also, i think a bunch of laurakeets have decided to move into the tree outside my room. They chatter mostly at dawn and dusk. Which would make them diurnal? Like kangaroos.

Speaking of the tree outside my room, Baby Bird has already moved out. Actually its been awhile. Just that I never found the occasion to bring it up. One day I just saw him hesistantly fluttering around from branch to branch. Quite adorable really :3

I soooooooo cant wait for Narnia. It looks really really good. Something about talking animals that really appeals to me. So excited ^^

Oh Fugnimmity -_-

I got my biochem results. I got 68.

I guess its not that tragic cos i expected a credit anyway.

But its tragic because its not just a credit... its a borderline credit.

A borderline credit!! In the last exam I'll ever sit for the rest of my life.

I can't face my employers anymore!!! This is so bad. I'm so dumb. Omg. What the heck. This is the impending doom I've been feeling since the end of my exams I think.... getting such bad marks for a subject that is so critical for my future career.

If I'm so crap at biochem, should I just do microbio honours? Whats the point in pursuing a career which Im obviously not any good at... competition is high enough as it is. Why should I make things any harder for myself.

Is God trying to tell me something....?

SOTE

SOTE was sooooo fun (and funny) last night.

We played SOTE Cranium where we were put into teams and had to play as a team. There were questions reviewing what we had learnt at SOTE over the past year. Can I say that it is not fair having Tony, Ben Ho and Sarah Wong in the same team!!!!!!!!! :P

But it was really fun even if we did tie in last with another team. Bleh :P

And speed fellowshipping was great too! I reckon it should be a tradition. :3

Life always picks up during the weekends. Hehe. Yay.

Honours

Wooo!! I got accepted in Honours next year! In the lab of my first choice as well! :D This is so exciting... I'm so glad they accepted me before my finals results came out!!!! Cos they will definately regret once they see my lame-o marks. meh. And yea, praise God cos everything good comes from him. :)

Anyways, need to do some reading this weekend so decide which project to accept. Whee. I'm so excited. This feels... like.... when I got accepted into uni 3 years ago XD ahehe

SOTE tonight promises to be fun and hilarious. Looking forward :B

Eeyore-ish

Dunno why but my nights have been becoming quite depressing lately. I kinda just sit there and stare at the computer screen. And I feel the feeling you get when you're in trouble and you're just waiting for your dad to come home from work and deal with you.

Why do I feel like this? I haven't done anything wrong. Why the guilt? Exam results?

I'm on holiday but I feel burdened and somewhat gloomy.

Sigh. Maybe its all the rain we've been having lately. Maybe I've got too much to do. Too many things on my mind.

Theres only one way to cure it. Get all the things on my agenda done. But no matter how much I do each day, everyday seems to just add on more onto the list. Sigh. Monotonous. Who says having fun is fun. Just cos its not work or studies, you think, why should it be stressful, why should it be tiring.

Great I'm grumbling now.

I should just go to sleep :(