plantar fasciitis :(

I've got awful fasciitis on my left foot for two days already and it's killing me, having to walk to uni rain and shine. :( Even the stash of salonpas that mum brought over did no good.

That aside, sis' and cw's birthday are finally over! Been baking non-stop almost every other day before THE party...to the extend that my sis complained to my mum that I'm trying to stuff her up with all the baking. =P Haven't you heard of practise makes perfect?? Well, both cakes weren't perfect on that day. Still needs a lot of improvement but...at least both were edible???! (:

Berries cheesecake ripple

Got this recipe from here and decided to give it a go since there are so many birthday babies (a total of 8!!!! My!!!) coming up this month and it's weekend, so why not?!!

It didn't turn out as great as the one shown in the blog...I think I could have overbaked the cake since I put too much batter - I blamed the terrible estimation skill of mine. But the taste is still quite good. (:

Will definitely give it another try when I'm in baking mode again!

Oh!!! The joy! (:

Realised that I've won an awesome storybook yesterday...and I didn't even have the slightest intention to pick it up from the post office for an entire WEEK, thinking that it could again be some crappy stuffs that I've signed up on Ozbargain :P

Then finally I was too unmotivated to continue working in the lab (it's Friday ok!) and decided to head to the post office 30 mins before it closes since they had already sent me the second reminder to go pick up my parcel. Lucky huh??!!

The parcel literally brightened up my day! =D

Many thanks to betweenthelines.com.au!!!!

contented

Mid-PhD talk ticked! (:

Got positive feedbacks from my students. One even drew a smiley for me! lol.

Overall, a pretty good start for the week! (:

L.O.L.

LOL! My awesome supervisor did this!!! :P
Stenciling a cool graph (that I did) tag on my lab coat??? Awesomeness~

Mid of June

is the beginning of the winter months in the Southern hemisphere.

Was welcomed with a terrible cold at the beginning...not a very good sign. Sigh. It's so much colder this year, especially since summer hadn't been real hot.

My studies is progressing, which is truly exciting!! Been learning how to patch since a month ago (I'm not going to bore you with it...but if you're interested in knowing what I do - click here and here) . But as usual, I procrastinate A LOT and have only done it like, 5 times in like 20 days?!?!! O_O I can't say that I like patching in the lab because the rest despise it. =.="" Thinking I've betrayed our "lab techniques" completely...Lame, I know.

I was like the rest...refuse to accept or learn new techniques - and wana continue staying in the comfort zone. Sadly my project does not allow that! The very reason that I sorta refuse doing patching in the first place was because I dislike Physics and those electrical materials AND I was really terrible with the technique. I could broke up to 10 glass micropipettes in one single experiment!!! How demoralising right??! And I hate applying suction to break the cell membrane. It's like trying to make kissing noise in public. =.=" and having all guys and no girls in the patching lab does not help at all!! Imagine I was sitting at the rig, practising how to kiss by myself with the guys surrounding me??!! O_O Doesn't sound very tempting to learn the technique after all heyy??!!

But...practise makes perfect!! (: I'm getting the hang of it...just a couple of mistakes here and there. Oh, thank God for all the perseverance...I was actually ecstatic yesterday when I managed to get current recordings from cells that I didn't even realise I injured my upper lip due to the suction. =S Oh wells...who cares if I can get this done by July, I will be pretty much done with my FIRST paper!! The JOY!!!! (((:

Bugs attack

Officially pronounced S-I-C-K! :(

and I feels lousy...it reminds me of how often I called him "lousy" and I supposed it's karma. Now I'm the one who feel lousy and terrible.

Took a day off from uni as I could hardly get out of the bed and my muscles were so sore that I thought I might have still done my weekly badminton. =/

I'm so contagious that no one wants to be in the same room as I do in the lab. And it makes me wondered, what if I cough into my flask of cells???!!! Would the virus infects my cells and starts to multiply and grow??!! O_O I think the cold has gotten too much into me...

Better go get some rest...