FYP vs Pregnancy

Pure joy! That's how I felt when I was printing out my thesis. I couldn't even control my smile when we were having our lunch moments before the 'big moment'. Suddenly, there's a thinking, this is it! After so many months, this is it!

Ohya, we called our thesis as Baby, and it's a twin! (cause we need to submit two copies to the Faculty, one copy for each assessor.)

~My babies~

Seriously, Final Year Project was just like a pregnancy. We started our FYP bench work during early October last year, which lasted for 3 months till mid January this year. Then has been writing our thesis for the past few months. Reading journals, writing, correcting, rewrite, correct again..bla bla bla..took us 7 months! Similarities between FYP and pregnancy? Here goes!

1. Choosing FYP title was just like choosing your partner. FYP - Find Your Partner -->, Finalised Your Partment->, Forever Your Partner, there's no turning back (Yuen, 2010). Except for our case, it's our partner for few months only. However, it's an experience that last forever, right?

2. Bench work: It's like the first trimester of pregnancy, where we always heard from elders it's the most important stage, have to becareful etc. Same applies to FYP. By hook or by crook, you'll have to complete your bench work in three month's time, no matter how much you have to do, you'll have to finish it.

Oh, I miss my bench~

3. Supervisor: During pregnancy, the pregnant lady has to go for check-ups right? And who did the check-ups? Doctors. As for our FYP supervisor, most of them have the designation 'Dr." in front of their name too! Hahaha!

My supervisor Dr. Kho..shh, don't tell her we got this pic ^^

Strict but is a very very caring supervisor!

4. Pain-stalking journal hunting and reading. Just like pregnancy, parents nowadays, young parents especially, will read a lot of articles on pregnancy. What to do, what not to do, which will be the best for your child etc. FYP? There's only one word to describe it: Argh! (Is argh a word? lol!). There are so many articles out there, but so many of them (that I wanted) has to be subscribed. I have to ask help from friends whose Uni has larger database than UTAR. Special thanks to HUI LI and JULIE!!

Thesis writing. This is considered a quite organised table. You haven't see the worst~

5. Spent countless sleepless night just because of it. I think it is applicable to both cases? Haha!

6. The feeling of pure joy when it's finally done. All the hard work months before was worth it. Like a mother after delivering her baby (from what I saw in movies, and from my mom's stories), you'll forget all the hardship you faced when you see your baby. Yeah, the moment I saw my thesis coming out piece by piece from the printing machine, I' m just speechless~

It's here, it's here!!

Difference between pregnancy with FYP is: you have to take care of the child for your whole life. FYP? Maybe it'll affect the life of some of us, who knows?

Me and Pei Sin, carrying our babies, hahaha!

All DONE! Hope we'll all get great marks for that~

P/S: THANK YOU DR. KHO and my postgrad senior RACHEL! LOVE YOU GUYS!!! Oops, GIRLS!

And Then It's Week 14

Finally it's here...week 14, the final week of the semester.

Highlighter was broken just when I need it the most

For some, it's just another final week of the semester. No more lecture class (except if the lecturer decides to gives 'guidelines'), no more labs, no more quiz, no more presentation.

For us, it's the final week of our lives as an undergraduate. And it's the most hectic one. Just had our last test (ain't turn out good for me though), going to have our last lecture soon, final year project presentation and thesis correction all in a week. All we have for study week is just 3 'study days'.

Drinking this to help me stay awake!

Yeah, my most trusted coffee (Instant one though >.<) and to be corrected thesis..

So fellow course-mates, Biotech May'08. This is it. Like Dr. Loh said: Be Bold, Be Strong!

Good luck for all of us! We can do it!

转贴

今天在面子书看到了这篇文章，觉得非常有意思，所以就在这儿分享分享。。超喜欢第一句的^^

第一句

如果我們之間有1000步的距離

你只要跨出第1步

我就會朝你的方向走其餘的999步

第二句

通常願意留下來跟你爭吵的人

才是真正愛你的人

第三句

付出真心　才會得到真心

卻也可能傷得徹底

保持距離　就能保護自己

卻也注定永遠寂寞

第四句

有時候　不是對方不在乎你

而是你把對方看得太重

第五句

朋友就是把你看透了　還能喜歡你的人

第六句

就算是believe(相信) 中間也藏了一個lie(謊言)

第七句

真正的好朋友

並不是在一起就有聊不完的話題

而是在一起　就算不說話

也不會感到尷尬

第八句

沒有一百分的另一半

只有五十分的兩個人

第九句

為你的難過而快樂的　是敵人

為你的快樂而快樂的　是朋友

為你的難過而難過的

就是那些　該放進心裡的人

第十句

冷漠　有時候並不是無情

只是一種避免被傷害的工具

Warmth From Home

Fruits, Vitamin C and red bean soup, all from home~

My parents and my sis came to Kampar for a short visit yesterday evening. Hehe, I know my parents are missing me, cause they had been asking when I'm going home for the past two weeks. My sister however, is a different story. She didn't know she have to tag along until my mom suddenly told her an hour before they start their journey here, teehee!

Their timing was really great. I just barely close my room door after I reach home from campus (stranded there for more than an hour, stupid rain!) and there they are! How can I know? My sister kicked my door, like usual...Hm, time to teach her how to use her knuckles to KNOCK on the door, not kick eh!

Spent few hours chatting with mom. Sis use my laptop to poke around and gossiped with us. Dad? Napping of course~ Wanted to bring them for dinner at 'wo wen tian' , the famous claypot Dong Po Rou, but as usual, no luck =( Out of all places in Kampar, we had McDonald's for dinner. Mom and sis happy lo~ Haha!

Although it's a short visit from my parents, I felt recharged! Note to myself: faster finish up my thesis writing, lab reports and start revising for upcoming test! Then, I can go home~ Mom, I'll bring to you to have McD Breakfast when I'm back ok?

无题

有没有这种经验? 满怀心事，但是说不出口。不是不要说，而是完全不能说。。。

地，肮脏了，抹了抹，就没事了。

那么，心灵呢？

Gathering. Chats. Picture-taking

Yup, the title pretty much sums up the 'must-do-list' in most gathering.

The meaning of gatherings: we gather; we eat, talk and listen, update on each other; and most important, we take pictures, lots of them! By the end of the day, we look at the pictures, and think:' Oh my, how time flies!'.

Just had my form 5 class gathering yesterday. This is the first time we held it before Chinese New Year since 2008 (due to short Chinese New Year break and exams that kills the mood). Wow, 4th year already. Clap! Clap! Clap! Keep up the tradition guys! One suggestion (shall not mention who made it) though, can we change location next year?

As usual, few of us hanged out after class gathering, few hours is simply not enough for us talkative girls! Hence, we changed location to Secret Recipe at Marina Island. A slice of cake and a cup of tea was sufficient to make us sit there for 3 hours, and chat non-stop. Yup, girls.

Cam-whoring session! Okay, nicer term...photo-taking session. Did not take much picture with my camera though, since there were so many cameras around. However, I did take these~

It might be few months later, or one year later, it will still feels like we just chat not long ago for me. Till then friends! Am already looking forward meeting u girls again~

Final Semester

Time flies. 3 years ago, I was still a fresh graduate from Form 6, working as a clerk at The Store to earn some pocket money, gain some experience and pass my time.

Now here I am, 3 years later, starting on the final semester of my undergrad studies. With the deadline of thesis draft submittion approaching, I didn't really have the time to reflect on myself (excuses!)

Where will all of us be 3 years from now? I don't know.

All I know is, no matter what our decision will be, either continue our studies, or join the working force, I'll forever remember the precious few months we will be having together.

Study hard, study smart, study like there's no tomorrow(if there's no tomorrow, I won't be studying, won't I? Hehe!). Cross our fingers and wish for the best. Make full use of the remaining times we have together and make more memories!

Dear coursemates, cheong ah!!!!!

Family

Spent the whole weekend with my family for a shopping spree in KL. Didn't know when it started, but it has kinda been a 'ritual' to my family to buy clothes during December for the coming year's Chinese New Year.

This time around we stayed at The Summit, Subang again. Spent the whole Saturday at Mid Valley again. Burned a huge hole in my dad's pocket again, hehe =P.

I love it when I'm with my family, even when we were staying at a hotel, it feels like home to me. Many things remain unchanged: brother and sister being silly and childish which they'll never act in front of their friends, mom's nagging and her style when she's tired (multi layer eye-lids and very moody, haha!), dad's snoring when he's sleeping soundly.

While some of the things remain unchanged, many changed as well. Noticed that daddy and mummy are getting older. It's not that they are old, but their body is obviously not as young as few years back. I have to talk louder when I'm talking to daddy, I have to walk slower when I'm walking with mummy (as usual, hehe), their skin feels softer due to gradually sagging skin, there are more wrinkles on their face, more white hairs prodding out from their hair. Suddenly I feel that I'm not a good daughter. I should be taking care of them instead of still letting them worrying about me.

From now on, I'll: listen patiently when chatting with mom even if she is repeating the same old story again and again, call home instead of waiting for mom's call even though it cost few ringgits (okok, i'm stingy, happy?), listen patiently when dad is telling his story from company even when I dunno who are the uncles he is referring to, call my brother instead of chatting through msn, nag my sister less (maybe) and chat with her more....most of all, take care of myself before I can take care of my family, right?

~Home is where my heart is, where my family belongs~

Longing

For the first time in Kampar, I cannot sleep because of the weather. Slept for three hours when I needed more of it. The fan was already spinning almost to the maximum speed yet my room is so stuffy. Looking at the statuses in Facebook does not help either. Everyone was complaining about the hot weather. In Daoist's beliefs, there are suppose to be shower during Nine Emperor God festival. It came and went this year, without a drop of rain. Someone joked that even the God couldn't overcome global warming.

October, monsoon changing season. Expected to have lesser rainfall. I'm not the one who usually remember when it last rain or shine, however it has been at least two weeks since it last rain, or as far as I could recall.

~Let the rain fall down,

And wake my dreams,

Let it wash away, my sanity,

Cause I wanna feel the thunder, I wanna scream,

Let the rain fall down,

I'm coming clean, I'm coming clean~

Come Clean- Hilary Duff

p/s: feel the thunder? No thanks, haha!

仰望星空

突然间，我又多出了一个星期的假期，无言。。。

昨天下午四点多收到了教授的电邮，告诉我们她下星期不在，要我们十八号再去实验室。早些告诉我嘛！让我呆呆的呆在金宝一个星期，快发霉了^^

怎么办？回家咯，反正才一个小时多的路程，回家免得妈妈担心。。辛苦爸爸了，晚上八点多来载我，十一点多又去上班了。

在回家的路途上，突然望上天空，发现有好多星星哦！一路上没什么路灯，天空还蛮晴朗的，没有月亮，让星星闪烁得更亮。好久好久没有在车上看星星了，很舒服，但是过后还蛮晕的，哈哈！

看到这些星星，让我想起与朋友去年躺在足球场上看星星的时候。很快的我们就要毕业，开始令一段新生活了，将来会是怎样？没人知。但我相信，我们会活得更精彩！

p/s: 第一次用华文打不落格，好不习惯哦！华语又退步了 T_T