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...

O_O

Don't know how on earth I managed to cut both my right thumb and index finger. =.=" That aside, it's FRIDAY again!!!!! (:

Saltimbanco

Awesome show, especially the mime!!! (:

Life is like a maze, you never know what you'd come across...

This blog pretty much attracts no attention at all...*I like* =P

Mum came on last Saturday for 10 days and coincidentally, it was the Food and Wine Gourmet Festival at Clare Valley, which is approx. 2-hour drive from Adelaide.

So, a group of us decided to go and get ourselves drunk some countryside fun! The weather was perfect - bright and sunny, thank God, since it has been raining all week. We went to a few wineries (Clos, Annie's Lane, Last Word and Seven Hill) before heading to the oh-so-famous Mintaro Maze just an hour before it closes.

We were too early for the first winery and they hadn't finished setting up just yet. =.=" People were just hovering around the frontyard, sipping on riesling (famous in Clare region) and reds. So we proceeded to the second winery, Annie's Lane (which is more lively). The 80s music was blasting so loudly that we could hardly hear each other. We had some gourmet sausage rolls, pies and salad for brunch prior to wine tasting.

Due to the festival, some of the wineries required us to pay for wine tasting...so that sorta keep us away since we're not too willing to spend on trying something that we would not buy. Last Word's wines were alright, let's just say it's not my type. The riesling is too sour and the shiraz is too spicy...Seven Hill was the last winery and probably the best we have been to...We almost skipped it because when I suggested it to my driver saying that it offers both free wine tasting and museum and cellar tour (stingy asians who want most of everything! =.="), he shrugged off saying that we would try some others along the way to Mintaro maze. Meh, he changed his mind as quickly as the mood of a girl. And we obviously did not regret going. The scenery was picturesque with a huge church standing magnificiently at the entrance way, looking out to a big vineyard. Tents were set up in the middle of the humungous frontyard, with the winery workers selling all sorts of desserts and preserved meats. I felt in love with the garlic infused olive oil...omg, it was sooooo goood!!!! I'm thinking of "investing" on a bottle soon...

We spent more time that we anticipated at the winery since we were busy tasting almost all the whites and reds on the list and trying to squeeze in some time to visit the underground cellar and museum. Some of the wine barrels are even as old as I am!!!! Antic!

We finally left with 7 bottles of wine to the maze...This is how the maze looks like!
The woodhead bf always think that maze is for kids and childish for adults =.=" He took his word back when we arrived!!! The maze is built with huge conifers since 1995 before the trees gained independence and started growing. Mind you, the conifers are so tall that we could not even peer through the other side. The task that was set for us was to reach the centre of the maze asap and answer a list of questions along the way. I guess trying to find our way while answering questions did manage to confuse our sense of direction.

We splitted into 4 teams and each took a different route at the entrance. We could literally hear but not see each other in the maze. lol. FUN!!!! And we found a few of this pants-down gnomes along the way...
We bumped into a father who was looking for his way to the centre of the maze with his cute little boy (who was already in the centre) hurrying him. (: Glad to say, the bf and I was the first team to arrive at the centre!!! ((((: Awesome team, we are!!!

Devastating

It's devastating knowing someone you love dearly is dying...especially if he/she is about to embark onto an all new journey of experience. I don't know how doctors could sustain all their feelings, not only that, but also to break the news to the patient's family members. It's so heartbreaking!!! Maybe that's why I'm not a doctor! I don't think I will be able to do that ever...

That aside, my host mum in Japan has just passed away 2 days ago. May you rest in peace and shine upon us.

xxx