Hahahaha, those Adidas flip flops really DO exist EVERYWHERE I fangirl at, huh?

First, there's multiple pictures of Chellsie Memmel perusing her pair many, many times (Even at the weirdest times, like that picture of her and Shawn - Shawn was wearing Uggs - boots - while Chellsie was wearing... those Adidas flip flops. LOL). OH, and that picture of Alicia Sacramone in those Adidas flip flops (With her knee strapped with ice). And now, an old 2004 picture of Justine with her Australian Open trophy... wearing those Adidas flip flops. THAT DESIGN. IT HAS OBVIOUSLY NOT GONE OUT OF FASHION. HAHAHAHA.

ILU, my tennis player and multiple gymnasts.

Also, the Australian Open is starting next week. It's funny, you know. It feels like it's just another year that Justine's skipping the AO, then she'll have another AWESOME year in tennis. Like, let's see... She played in '03, in '04 (She won), she missed '05, because she fractured her kneecap just before the Australian leg of the tour, but made a good comeback to recapture her French Open title that year (Which was the good thing for a year filled with injuries and recovery from CMV), she was back in the finals of '06 (UNFORTUNATELY we all know what happened. Meh - anti-inflammatories ARE NOT supposed to give STOMACH ULCERS, DAMNIT), she skipped AO in '07 because of problems on the personal front, but went on to capture 10 titles that year, which include 2 Grand Slams and the Year End Championships.

Justine's tennis has and always will be awesome. This year, if I am rooting for anyone, it'll be for Dinara Safina (Ironically, she was the last person to play AND defeat Justine), girl's getting better and better (and I've always liked her brother, heh, heh), and I'm hoping so hard that Svetlana Kuznetsova will stop her FAIL and win the French Open this year. Come on, Kuzzy! Even Justine and Carlos has faith in you!

Here's to a year with less tennis in me since 2003. :(

- Some classmates want me to be Class Rep. Uh. Right. I don't mind. It's just that EVERYONE should be okay with it.
- I remembered why I loved Genetics. <3
- I didn't get to stalk Tun Dr. Mahathir today. Sorry, sir. My hopes and dreams of going to Columbia far outrank my hopes and dreams of seeing you. Cursed admin only let the Humanities students go in to watch him talk. HMPH. JUST BECAUSE WE'RE STUDYING BIO AND CHEM DOESN'T MEAN WE DON'T CARE ABOUT WORLD PEACE. PEOPLE LIKE ME STILL WANT TO TAKE POLITICAL SCIENCE, OKAY?
- Back to Bio. There's a gene called 'InterLeukin 23 receptor' in Chromosome 1. LOL.
- Amyloidosis can also be found in Chromosome 1.
- Chromosome 1 has about 4000+ genes, with about 263 million base pairs. This is based on ONGOING research. There could be MORE genes and base pairs.
- That's just CHROMOSOME ONE. REMEMBER HOW THERE'S 46 CHROMOSOMES IN THE HUMAN CELL?
- My Chemistry teacher has lame jokes in his notes. (Eg. "ACID RAIN: NOW YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE SWEET TO MELT")
- We have a DRAWING assignment for English.
- Econs. <3 I was in the library the other day, and I found something in the Introduction of an Economics text:

"Economics involves the overlapping of all social sciences, Law, Politics, Ethics, Psychology, Sociology and History. For example, an economist decides that higher taxes are necessary to control inflation.

A politician may reject the idea as it may mean a loss of votes with an election close at hand. A student of ethics might argue that only the rich should pay the higher taxes. A historian could point out that higher taxes has caused violence or maybe even revolutions in the past. A psychologist may question the possible effects of higher taxes on the individual's attitude to work, while a sociologist might consider the effects of higher taxes on domestic relations in low-income families. A lawyer representing a union in an arbitration court might use higher taxes as an argument for making employers pay higher wages."

- Okay. I now need to go and do my research on the Human Genome Project (HUGO) for Bio. I KNEW being a ReGenesis fan would bring awesome benefits in college. MUAHAHA!
- On a non-college related bit, I have now decided that I prefer Alicia Sacramone with blonde hair. The brown ain't working, I feel. I know she's studying in Brown and all, but... [/lame]

So it's 8.10 in the morning and I'm in the LIBRARY... BLOGGING. Ur hur hur... My classes doesn't start 'til 9am on Mondays.

Wasn't feeling too well yesterday, but I didn't come down with a fever, and I feel better now, so thank God!

aSac can be so mean sometimes, hahaha. But in a humourous way. BUT I DO NOT LIKE AMERICANS TAKING DIGS AT THE CHINESE. HMPH. NOT MY PEOPLE, NO. HURH HURH. Okay, I hope someone uploads the aSac pre-Golden Globe thing on EZTV or something. I haven't even finished downloading Damages yet. NO TIME LAH. UGH.

It is not appropriate to read ONTD_Olympics in a college library. No it is not. Not when they have random picspams in the comments dedicated to certain gymnasts. And not when there's and Amanda Beard post. Ew, do not want Raptor.

Um, yeah. I better do something productive since I'm in the freaking library.

Today we celebrate the birthday of someone special, someone fantashmic in many ways.



Ms Ng Min Shen LaurieBaleJackmanForemanPace!

You are now as old as... as... uh... Shayla Worley and Randy Stageberg!

You've been a good friend over the years. Hope this one will be another great year for you! Staring at Hugh Laurie. Staring at Hugh Jackman, studying in Design School...

YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL, WOMAN. YOU MAY BE STUDYING IN DESIGN SCHOOL NOW, BUT YOU'LL SUDDENLY END UP IN JUILLIARD. AHAHAHAHAHA.

ENJOY THE SHARPIES I GAVE YOU A WHILE AGO, DAHLING. IF YOU RUN OUT OF INK FOR THEM, I'LL BUY YOU MORE. AHAHAHAHA.

It hurts. It hurts when you know that someone you love is leaving.

People come home from their journeys. But there's one journey in which someone leaves and never comes back.

Death.

I think it hurts when someone just leaves, but knowing that the clock is ticking is worse. The fact that you can't do anything to keep that person from going. You don't know how long the person has left. But they're going anyway. Never coming back.

But, you know, they're not dead yet. So I better spend as much time as possible with them. I won't care about the distance.

This will either creep you out or interest you, but whatever it is, it certainly is very stare-worthy CGI.



Yes. We watch Youtube videos for lessons, hahaha.

Also, my Bio teacher showed us a picture of coiled chromosomes (If you remember, you can only see them during the Prophase of cell division). THEY LOOK SO CUTE. SERIOUSLY. LIKE FLUFFY LITTLE THINGS. SO PRESH. When she put the picture up, she was like, "Cute right?" and there was a collective sigh of "Aaaaaaaaaaaw!" Then she was telling us how, if we take Biomed in Uni and take Histology as a subject, we'd have an opportunity to use chemicals to induce cell division, then use more chemicals to stop the cell division as the chromosomes coil, use stains then take an electron microscopic picture of the chromosomes. SO COOL.

Oh, I found the picture on Google.



WHO KNEW CHROMOSOMES WERE SO CUTE AND FLUFFY?

Uh... yeah. So, as you can see, I clearly am enjoying Bio so far.

Econs is cool, too. I was reading the next week's notes. Transition economies are an interesting read.

Will blog more later.

OH, and I have one more public announcement to make.

MIN SHEN! JIA SHEEN SAID THAT ROBERT SEAN LEONARD IS HOT.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

SERIOUSLY. SHE SAID RSL LOOKED HOT IN DEAD POETS SOCIETY. AHAHAHAHAHA.

FANTASTIC.

I'm posting this from the library. Hahaha. Kononnya revising Econs. Ehem.

No LAN, so I was done at 2pm, but sis is out so she can't fetch me, Dad's out so he can't pick me up 'til later, Pei Lyn's got classes 'til 3pm and... uh... I don't have the house keys anyway so I can't get in. Geez.

Will lepak more online later. I only have to revise Bio, Econs and recall how to do completing the squares (Yes, Add Maths. Sigh), reread about the Nitrogen cycle and then write my thoughts on Dead Poet's Society and I'm DONE FOR THE DAY. HA.

(AND, HOMG. I JUST READ... ALICIA SACRAMONE'S GOING TO THE GOLDEN GLOBES. LIKE, DON'T ASK ME WHY. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE HELL IS SHE DOING AT SOME AWARD *NOT* RELATED TO *SPORTS*, BUT OOH, I'M GOING TO SEE HER ON TV AGAIN. BUT WAIT. IT'S ON, WHAT, MONDAY MORNING? DAMNIT. CURSE YE, COLLEGE!)

ALSO, I HAVE A FEELING THAT THE GIRL BESIDE ME IS TOTES TRYING TO READ MY STUFF. HENCE, THE TINY FONTS.

The A-Levels peeps had their O-day today, so I met up with Jo Zee, Wei Wen and Dhiv during my break.

Anyway, we had our library tutorial thing, and I can now access my Taylor's Online Portal thingamajig. And the library is an awesome resource. I can actually read the New England Journal of Medicine! And the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)! Hahaha. So syiok, man. I know I should be reading stuff like Time, or The Economist or something, since I'm taking Econs. But, hey, you learn Bio stuff in Medical Journals, yeah? And my uncle brings The Economist back every weekend anyway, so hahaha.

Anyway, so far, Bio is awesome. Opening topic : Genetics! Hahaha.

OH, and did you know that the Carbon Cycle is now taught in Chemistry, not Biology? Also, have you seen the ACTUAL structure of Glucose? It's INSANE! OH, and did you know that Carbon Dioxide takes 20, yes, TWENTY years to decompose? That means my first breath's CO2 has yet to decompose. LOLtastic.

I still don't like Add Maths. It's taught in our Maths Studies. Hmph. At least my lecturer seems pretty good right now.

STUDY TIME! I'm done with my homework for today. Time to list out the things I need to do.

- Continue fic. I have not had time to even sit down and think of how to continue the story. :o
- Shorten labcoat sleeves. I think I mentioned in my previous post - Small was too small (Short, rather), but Medium's a bit lebar. Instead of rolling my sleeves, I'll just alter it myself. I wish I had an awesome labcoat like 13/Cameron does. Theirs have the whole womanly curve thing. OH, or a labcoat like Cuddy's. It's got PINSTRIPES.
- Find somewhere to dump my FORM 4 books. I STILL HAVE MY FORM FOUR BOOKS. RIDICULOUS.
- Cousin is moving in over the weekend, I would think. I just realized that my ENTIRE SAM textbook pile is barely half the height of my Bio-Chem-Phys reference books/SPM stuff pile. Hahaha.

*Also, I swear that I saw Mrs Soh wearing Crocs today. The ones with heels.

So now for my English homework I'm supposed to write in a journal EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. I have no idea what to write in it. I tend to ramble. Hahaha.

Anyway, got most of my books today (Bootleg copies, hee hee), my labcoat (I couldn't take a Small - it was too short. The Medium's a bit big. =.=) and goggles, so my bag was pretty heavy and full.

I got... A Mr Hoong for Chem, Ms Ng for ESL (AWESOMESAUCE), Mrs Soh for Econs (DOUBLEAWESOMESAUCE), Mr James for Maths (He reminds me of Mr Jacob) and, as I mentioned yesterday, my class mentor, Ms Cheang, is my Bio teacher.

I sort of know my classmates now. Not know as in I can break out in song with them - that will take time - but at least we're civil and not bitch glaring at each other, or something. There's this girl in my class who comes across as really bimbotic (Down to the voice), but I shall reserve my judgement. One day, she might be my really good friend and read my blog. Hahahaha. She probably doesn't even know my name yet. I can't remember hers. Haha...ha... No it's not really funny.

ANYWAY, during ESL, Ms Ng was like, "Oh let's watch a movie. About 40 minutes of it". The VCD didn't have a cover, but you know, you can see the CD itself? Anyway, I thought it looked familiar. Then she said, "It's about an English teacher and a group of students", and I was like,

"HOMG IT'S DEAD POET'S SOCIETY!"

Not out loud, obviously. But anyway, HOW AWESOME IS IT?

OH, and my Chem teacher realizes that we're a bunch of psychos. "WHAT? Bio, Chem and ECONS? Why'd you take... SCIENCE then? Or... Why'd you take ECONS?" We all burst out laughing, saying half the class doesn't take Econs, but Accounts. Hahahaha.

Well, I'm kinda wiped from today. I need to write about Dead Poet's Society, AND write a journal (And rant a little bit and try not to sound too shallow or fangirly or desperate).

Carpe diem, everyone.

Today was Orientation Day!

There were some speeches. Briefings, rather. The Provost enlightened us with a story of what eagles are/can do, and how they learn to fly/soar, and paralleled it with what our experience in SAM will be.

First, we'll be chilling in our nest for 12 weeks (Eagle time. SAM time = A week or so, haha), then our 'mother'/Class mentor will chuck us out of the nest and let us freefall, for we are not free from the force of gravity. As we fall and not know what to do, our mother will catch us and bring us back up. And the process repeats itself; falling, getting caught, falling, falling, until we learn to spread our wings and ~*FLY*~. And then we'll be awesome like eagles.

Cheesy, but kind of inspiring in a way.

Anyway, I'm in G9, with two girls who I know by face. One's from Sri KL (I still can't place where I've met her before, apart from John Quek's tuition), the other's from SU, one of the Gamma girls from the Chinese group. There's 7? guys in my class and about 20 of us girls. Hahaha. And my class mentor's my Bio teacher, and she looks like my optometrist. LOL. AND BEFORE YOU MOCK ME, YES, I HAVE A REGULAR OPTOMETRIST, WHOM I SEE VERY RARELY WHEN I TAG ALONG WITH MY MUM FOR *HER* EYE CHECKUP. WHICH REMINDS ME - I NEED TO SEE HER AGAIN (Uh... In a literal and metaphorical way? I think? I mean, I still can see. Okay, I need to stop being lame) BECAUSE OF MY LEFT EYE. IT'S STILL GIVING ME SOME ISSUES. HOPEFULLY ITS POWER IS STILL 25 AND I STILL DON'T NEED SPECS.

I don't want to be conned by ex-students into buying useless notes/books/things like that, so I'll just get MAC Centre's 'Perfect Binding' ones, which look just like the real textbook. Not that anyone checks, anyway. And I have my maths textbook in a perpetual state of ruin because my sister got it in a perpetual state of ruin, and it was lent to a cousin, and now it's in my hand. I might want to buy a copy so that my textbook doesn't literally fall apart when I try to study.

My face looks squashed in the Student ID. Geez. Didn't someone learn how to use the 'Edit Image Size' function on Photoshop? It keeps images proportioned. (Wow. Is S'L being vain about her Student ID photo?)

Hahahahahaha my Mondays start at 9am.

Which reminds me, I might want to ask my cousin if she has SAT revision books.

ALSO, I want to join the Squash club. OH, and TAYMUN. Taylor's Model UN. JUST BECAUSE.