Don't sweat the SMALL stuff!

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Hehe. Second entry of the day. Nothing about handphones and all. Just have to release some tension. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH! I can't take it when someone's late and doesn't have the decency to call or leave a note. Some more it's a weekly meeting, nothing out of the ordinary. Surely it's not too difficult to remember a stupid meeting lar. Yes, I mind waiting for people. And waiting for the same person over and over again is getting on my nerves! UGH! How annoying is that! Considering I gota walk all the way cross the road through 2 buildings. Not that it's very far, but just annoying lar!!!!! ;P

Thennnnn, what's wrong with stupid old man who's stalking girls almost half their age. Not me lar. But my friend. And some girls are too nice to tell them off. Got the guts to get her house number somemore. WAHLIAO! Take mirror and look at self lar! I wish I could throw rotten bananas at them and scold them till the whole building knows what a blardy *toot* they are. Sheesh. Don't they get the hint that they're obviously freaky and annoying, butting into every conversation and talking abt How to kill the mouse over the lunch table. UGHUGHUGHUGH. Then dare to come in and look for her everydaylor. FREAKFREAKFREAKFREAKFREAK.

Ok, i am not feeling very kind to weird people today. Not that I am most of the other times. But today's just one of those days, if he came and asked another question about my friend, I'd tell him to back off cos he's so annoying! Girls, DO NOT feel shy about telling someone you're not comfortable with their actions towards you. DO NOT feel obliged to give your number away cause you dont want to be rude. BE RUDE!!!! Of course not like what I want to do now lar. DO NOT entertain them if they bug you in a weird way. especially when they're SOOOO DAMN BLARDY OLD!

DILEMMA!!!! HELP!

So, in the midst of all the tonnes and tonnes of journal articles I've had to dive into, I find myself reeeeally distracted! See, my mobile phone plan has actually just ended a couple of weeks back. Then the good M8 guys called me up to offer me a 'deal'. A new phone if I extended the contract another 2 years. Then I thought to myself, I can actually get a NEW FREE PHONE with any other providers and what they're offering me is kinda like the same as if I had to start all over again. STOOPID PEOPLE! They didn't know I already had my mind set on changing to either Optus prepaid (with the turbo charge and all!) or 3G. ehehehe....

So, what's the whole dilemma all about....See, I WANT a new phone. And my parents (WOOHOO!) are coming in a weeks time. So, I gota choose which phone I want to get and gota let them know soon. I've been thinking about the Nokia 6280 or the Motorola Pebl. See, one has good looks and is a CLAMSHELLPHONE *drools. And the other has better features and is 3G compatible so if I choose to change to 3 then no pohbem. HOWHOWHOWHOWHOWHOW. Wah. looks like WHO instead of HOW. Anways, comments welcomed!

Better get back to my LitRev. THREE MORE WEEKS! ahhhh..and about 1.5K ish of words to go with lots of editing.

Random nonsense alert

SIGHH! I know I want to blog but i have absolutely nothing interesting to blog about. Oh maybe the spider incident last Saturday night but I'm too lazy. haha. Or perhaps about the commonwealth games. But I haven't watched enough to have anything to blog about. Hrmmm. Or about my LitRev, which if you've hung around me enough, YOU'd be able to blog about it for me =P

So uninspired. Unfortunately, my brain's shut down to 'scientific-writings-only' mode. I've noticed one thing about myself. I don't tend to snack or nibble on jellies or gobble down packets of potato chips when I do work. I drink stuff. Water, Ice peach tea (thx2gracie!I went and bought one the other day), tea, coffee, mocha, more tea, more coffee. Which then leads to the MANY toilet breaks. Sometimes twice in an hour. Eek. My bladder's overworking. Maybe just a way of procrastinating cause I NEED to go to the toilet rather than I want to go for a walk. hehe.

Anyways, enough crap. Just wanted to tell everyone I'm STILL alive. Sob* Camp coming up and I can't go. grumbles*

3rd floor, Alan Gilbert, AG22

My tent and where I spent most of my day...

This is my desk at the Alan Gilbert building :)

This big friend keeps me company, courtesy of Hannah =)

This little friend gets tortured when I'm stressed =D

Who said scientists can't be funny people!

I opened my uni Inbox this morning and found a weekly newletter from Howard Florey Institute. I couldn't resist putting this small section up. Teehee. Hope you have a good laugh. Or you might actually roll your eyes and close the browser. Oh whatever!

Q. What kind of ghosts haunt chemistry faculties?
A. Methylated spirits

Q. If H2O is water, what is H2O4?
A. Drinking, bathing, washing, swimming....

Q. According to the chemist, why is the world so diverse?
A. Because it'l made up of alkynes of people

Q. What is the difference between chemistry and cooking?
A. In chemistry, you should never lick the spoon.

Hehe. Brain awareness week!

National Brain Awareness Week

This week is Brain Awareness Week for Australia!
13th to 19th March 06

Moodymondaymorning

It feels like I'm still sleeping, or at least my brain is. Haha. Too tired to construct proper sentences so this is going to be nonsensical blabbering. bla bla bla. Had a group meeting this morning which went on for far too long. Didn't have ANY idea what they were talking about cause the person was just reading from the paper and I was too tired to bother. Everyone kinda had that 'look' but was nice enough to try to pay attention. Gotta be nice, gotta be nice. Next time when I have to present, I don't think I'll be any better. EEK.

Been really stressed (what's new) the whole weekend mainly cause my supe asked for an outline of my lit review by Tuesday. At the same time, I have to read through enough articles about Atherosclerosis so I can at least look like I know something. Gosh, I suck at this. Then got a Stats assignment due on Wed which, I must add, I HAVEN'T TOUCHED. Stupid weather, yesterday was HOT and today's so gloomy. Don't blame me for being pms-ish. rolls eyes*

Still, I find myself getting so distracted with blogging, reading other people's blogs and cleaning things. Yes, if you haven't already known, I clean things when I'm stressed. Kinda helps me think but not overkill my brain cells. Hehe. LAdidaaaaa dumm... Singing helps too but only if i'm alone at home. hehe.

Stop getting distracted winniekam! 11:21 already!

Sunday evening

I was feeling a bit bored and distracted so I thought I'd blog. Or maybe ramble on about the weather or this painfully long article I'm trying so desperately to finish reading and make it through alive or *thinks...anything that comes to my mind.

So lately, I've been recalling the memory of a certain incident with a friend (in a car with a 'few' other people) who made a comment about me that was rather embarassing. haha. yes, I think a lot and will ever and forever remember if you have wronged me. Well, I don't feel like that friend wronged me but it's more like, I still can't help feeling embarassed about it. haha. I do laugh at the thought of it and find it funny but you know, embarassed too. I don't hope to see a comment from you-know-who-you-are (or you MAY not know who u are), ahahhahahahah :P Someday, if I ever get over the embarassment I'd blog about it cause I do seriously think it's funny. And also glad at the fact that the friend was comfortable enough to shout it out loud and point out that i *dash dash dash dash* instead of gossiping behind my back that I *dash dash dash dash*. HAHAHAHA. Bet you don't understand a single thing. Nevermind, nevermind.

I played so much tennis at the Worship Retreat 06. YIPEE. Man, had to workoff all the gooood yummy food. We had chocolatepuddingwithice-cream for LUNCH! Then there was a LOT OF TABLE TENNIS TOO! So currently, my right arm is quite sore. Don't mind a massage. Anyone?? *gives the cute look.

It's so darn hot and I'm not even half way through the journal. UGHUGHUGHUGHUGH. I'm so gone. Needtodowork needtodowork. Needtodowork....

Today is a new day! Tomorrow is a newer day! :) Tomorrow's tomorrow is a newer newer day. Ok, just being silly...

It's been a VERY crap day

Warning- "There will be a lot of complaining and whining. Do not attempt to read on if you are not in the mood to listen/read about me complaining."

I woke up feeling motivated to head to uni and get some work done. I've got camp tonight and there goes my Sat and whatever efforts to make up for my procrastination. So, need to do extra extra work in the day before I leave for camp. But I wasted so much time. So here's what happened.

I got to the honours room, sat down at the computer and started opening gmail. See, I cleverly emailed the pdf files to my gmail account so I can open it in uni and print from there. Don't know what's wrong with the damn computers (two, to be exact) there lar, but I couldn't login to my account. ARGGH!!! So, I wasted some time trying and trying and...trying. Until I got fed up and decided to look for the articles again. Which wasn't very clever.

Bla bla bla. Then it hit me, I could forward them to my hotmail and print from there instead. WAHLA!! So, I went to the computer labs in another building, cause the ones I were using can't open gmail, sent them to myself so I can go back and print. BUTTTT, hotmail doesn't have enough space so I had to delete some old mails...and register another dumb account just to print the stupid things. All that done so I walked back to the honours room. I thought I damn smart d! But mana tau the @!$%#$^ file cannot open again!!! I was going to curse like crap! blarggggh! So, I had to walk ALL the way back again to the comp labs. People must think I'm siao. So, this time I tried to send them to my uni account and made sure I checked to see if i could open them.

Finally, I managed to print them. But the printer which was 4 floors down takes about 15-20 minutes to start printing and they don't come out at once. SO, more waiting. On top of that, I had to collect my access cards from another building on grattan street. I decided to leave the stuff printing, walk to get the cards and come back to collect my articles. Walk walk walk under the hot sun. Found the place, and saw the notice, "Collection times between 8am to 12pm". Time check-1:15pm !!!#$@%@%@# >_< Wah, so kek! I thought I could go home and sulk already, but I still had to collect my printing. Walk walk walk back. After all the nonsense. I thought I've had enough for the day. So, I headed home. Almost at my door and I realised that somewhere between the collect this and walk there, I forgot my Kathmandu (I LOVE THAT BOTTLE!!!) water bottle. Have absolutely no idea where I left it somemore. ARGGH!!! I can strangle someone. You know like how Homer strangles Bart. HAHA*

Somemore now gota take bath and pack in 40 minutes!!! ARGHGHGHGHHGHG!

journals, journals and more journals

It has been quite an unproductive week. Either that or I'm just a really stressed person who is never satisfied at the amount of work I've done. Haven't really got into the mood of doing anything uni especially when you have to work from home. There's just too many distractions around at the moment. Can't wait for the admin people to get my access cards done so I can hop into my new 'home' and be surrounded by extremely hard-working people. Need motivation! Ugh.

So, I'm officially stationed at the Alan Gilbert building on Grattan Street. Have to love it! I get my own cubicle rather than squeezing with 14 other people in this puny room with no air conditioning or ventilation. Plus, everyone's already saved the best spots in the honours room which leaves me with a crap table near the door. Extremely distracting. So, hooray for me cause I get a better, cooler desk. And the plus point is that a friend from my Neurophysiology is in the same room. Like, right behind me!

My 6000 word literature review is due on the 20th of April. Which means I have a couple of months before I hand in this 20% MAJOR review. I'm starting to feel the pressure cause I can't find the right journals. Eh, you think so simple go to wikipedia or google mer! Needs to be scientific ok! I came across this paper which was on obesity. Didn't notice until I was half way through that it was published in 1961. WOW. I wonder if it's still relevant. Haha. The words he used was so layman that I thought it looked more like a newspaper article. There was a part in the introduction that said, "if the patient looks fat, he probably is fat." I had to read it twice before it really registered because it is VERY RARE that you find such use of language in scientific journals. FYI, it was refering to how to determine whether someone is fat. Anyways, I had a good laugh and thought I'd blog about it.

So, there. I should so be getting back to researching. I'm just afraid I might end up being so gila that at every conversation I engage, I'll start explaining about my project-obesity, atherosclerosis, cholesterols and tocotrienols. When I finally get a better idea of what they are, I'll attempt to blog about it.
I'm off. woopidooo*