Won't Go Home Without You

Having two months long of a holiday. But I am not going back home yet. Why should I go home? It will be equally bored being at the apartment or at home. Might as well be at INTI so that I can help some juniors with their SAM finals.

Argghh... it's Friday and I feel so restless without my Weekly Shonen Jump...

Wonder if I can sneak in Notthingham University and use its resources? I am dying to play squash or badminton or basketball... but there's no one to accompany me. Lonely as usual~

It is not that all bad. I borrowed some novels to read. A common and boring way to kill time.

Gentle Lies

INTI is coming up with assessment fee and raising the current resources fee.

Damn you! Now my study loan would not be enough to cover the entire course fee.

Might transfer elsewhere, you know... sigh...

Happy Together

Well, this is one memorable week.

For one, me and my classmates had the worst of the week. Tests on Monday and Tuesday and and assignment due date on thursday. Studying for the biochemistry test took out all of our vitality, but all of us burned the whole year supply of midnight oil to complete the assignment. Stupid me for doing the assignment 3 times. Yea, I had to redo twice because:

• The 1st attempt was on nuclear membrane receptor. I was suppose to search for a plasma membrane receptor. Wasted 5 hrs of my time. Thanks to Yee Ling for pointing out my mistake or I would not have enough time to redo.
• The 2nd one I did was rejected when I handed in for inspection because it did not fulfill the HIGH EXPECTATIONS of the lecturer. Another 3 hrs of hardwork gone down the drain.
• Well the 3rd one was completed during a 2 hrs break. Then I quickly handed in and don't wanna bother about it anymore though I was not pleased with the quality of my own work.

What a horrible turn of events.

Biochemistry test was a total blow up. Don't even want to know the results. Can't study at all the night before because I had a serious case of diarrhoea, an ordeal that lasted 5 days since Saturday. And I don't even have the time to go to the doctors. By the time I went to the clinic yesterday, I was said to have cured. And strangely, I was told that I fared well in my Genetics test. Zzzz...

Well, the happy part was after finishing the assignment and tests. Hanged out and had steamboat dinner with a group of seniors. Learnt that they are all avid video gamers. I was asked to join them at cybercafes... I do not like to spend money that way... but I was more than willing to play video games together to kill the accumulated stress... So I got back to the keyboard and played DoTA and Left4Dead as usual...

I was also introduced to the sport Squash last week and instantly liked it. Well, for one it is a cheap sport to begin as the racket is less than RM20 and the ball can be reused, unlike badminton. ^^" But honestly, it is difficult to get friends to get into sports with me. Acquaintances who are enthusiastic are often expert in their field of sports and therefore there is hardly any place beside them for a newbie like me.

But eventually, I hope to find my place in INTI's society. Hopefully real soon, before my university life comes to an end.

Home

I went home for the weekend and got sick. What luck...



The moment is crucial. There's test on Monday and Wednesday. But my mind is dead and my eyes are not buldging.



Crap!! I don't wanna retake the subjects...

Level Up!

Technological update: My beloved brother doubled the RAM of my laptop to 2GB. Now the loading time of Windows Vista had dropped dramastically. That's just awesome. Strangely, the battery life seemed to be better too with additional RAM. Still, the laptop cannot support running Devil May Cry 4. Just too bad.

Today we got back out biochemistry test paper. When compared to genetics test, this one is just bad. Couldn't comment much on it, nor can I blame the lecturer for being strict. I was overconfident and ended up making a terrible mistake.

Like JW, I am going to work out on the 20 common amino acids once again.

Oh yea, Midautumn Festival totally sucked due to an unfortunate event last weekend.

Helena

Do you believe in afterlife? I never once agree to that idea due to lack of physical evidence to prove its existence. Well, no one should not say that I was being disrespectful when I say afterlife does not exist. It is juzt a personal opinion, not a fact.

Though there was a difference in opinions, I was not spared from a series of undesirable customary procedures, such that my body was filled with the stench of soot and incense. The lengthy chanting process was both physically and mentally challenging such that I was able to hit the sack and sleep at anytime.

Strangely, no one was teary through the 3-day long mourning period. Guess everyone realized one truth of this material world, which is impermanence of substance but it remains as a theory since no one was kind enough to validify it through experiments. I, for one had observed sufficient evidence to accept this universal truth.

Everyone was glad that the deceased was released from all forms of suffering now that she is dead. However, how come a dead person can impart suffering to everyone else just by dying off? Is there a Law of Conservation for suffering, where suffering cannot be destroyed, but merely transferred to another being?

I was referring to the torturous chanting process.

Don't you think it was ridiculous to hire several nuns or monks for about RM1k to do chanting some sutras whatsoever which the words make no sense? Personally, I thought of them as choir leading singers and we the relatives were part of the choir group, singing a hymn with a history on its own. But hey, these religious figures were proactive enough to bring their own drum set and other musical instruments.

A writer once wrote in Chinese, "I won't be missing you 'coz I have never forgotten everything about you". Honestly, I think I would forget all memories about this relative of mine in the shortest period and not be missing her at all simply in the future because I was not even close to her and all memories of her were either bad or bitter.

We of Generation Y are living in a fast paced life, where time is count by seconds and not days. Therefore, I believe it is more important to love the living rather than mourning the dead. So I say farewell to my late grandmother.

Man in the Mirror

Wanted to take a nap in the evening, but having a hard time to fall asleep. That's one of the few reasons why it sucks to be a guy. So ladies, don't think guys get away easy even though we don't experience period.

And that's one of the few factors that made me stayed up so late to complete my revision on Biochemistry for the test later in the morning. Do wish me luck.

I seriously could not distinguish between proteoglycan and glycoproteins.