the labbing labster

dear all. let me introduce to u a new species of year4 pharmacy students. they are called the Labbing Labsters. they tend to have the following characteristics:

• depressed
• no time for lunch
• always eating lunch from a plastic bag
• pathetic
• grumpy sometimes
• disheartened
• depressed until feel happy & laugh v high pitch (1st sign of psychosis)

and their conversation normally consists of:

• my cells died for the (n+1)th time : xQ
• my column leaked for the (n+1)th time : huirei
• i am doing SEM again.
• my SEM cock up.
• i just left lab
• i am going to lab
• are u going to lab?
• do u have time for lunch?
• i have no time for lunch.

last wk i set a new record in lab. went to lab from 8.30am-2pm (piahing SEM) then later on from 5-9.30pm. i think 9.30pm was soooo pathetic. the worse thing was i was separating skin from fat from this skin donor. so had her bloody abdomen on the table. it was bloody and yellow and fatty. OH I HOPE U ARE NOT EATING when reading this. if u are, TOO BAD. so was cutting off the fat with this teeny little scapel (pathetic), and then easing off the stratum corneum bit by bit. very fragile. hand shook after doing tt for like 4hrs. came out sky black black. but jooch waited for me in the canteen (also v pathetic) w dinner. makes the day not so black and pathetic. =)

congratulate me i am an official labbing labster.

THE MOST HECTIC WEEK EVER

9th, MONDAY day one
was labbing till 7pm. its the first day that i made proniosomes! (my neverending forever and ever FYP honors project). for the rest of the world: proniosomes are lipid spherical nano drug carriers. multilamellar structures. ok. end of boring u.

the bad thing is that haloperidol (the drug tt i am working with) is light sensitive, so i hv to work in darkness in the little room of my lab. and its very cold. and i hv 7 different formulations of proniosomes. and when u suddenly come out into the sunlight u feel like a worm coming out of the ground.

proniosomes are so new, there's only 7 published papers on it. whoohoo. in fact, anyone who is doing a google search right now will probably get directed to my blog HAHHAHA. i tend to misspell it as 'porniosomes' instead of proniosomes. haha.

then that night, it was gaw's internal drive distribution. busy.

10th, TUESDAY day two
i went for sylvia's wedding with char, mountain and yoyo ball. we talked and laughed alot... sylvia is our CPF boss last time we worked there tog after 'a's. its so amazing tt she still invited us back again, had a great time talking girl stuff like the process of giving birth DURING the dinner. and the food was wonderful. hehehhe. u gals are crazy!!!!!!! we also got stalked by a psycho photographer. he kept talking to yoyo ball, and wanting to take photos of us. and he got traumatized when yoyo said char is a chicken. haahhha. HAHHAA.

11th, WEDNESDAY day three
pharmacy mooncake festival celeb!!! but we left early once we had eaten. hahhaa. so bad right. about 50% were year4's and we all zao together. so poor thing the welfare organizer. xQ lor. haha. she was so excited (i think xQ went for the free food. then again, wt do u think i went for? Sweesung the best lor, got dinner at home, still go and compete for food with us... hahhha)

12th, THURSDAY day four
i had a jc girl's outing at orchard with dearest von & dearest reg. this reg. she is calling everyone dearest. and we are the bridesmaids!!!! von & i hv to start sourcing for white dresses... its gonna b so pretty at Raffles Hotel Courtyard, this garden wedding kinda thing... PRETTY... so exciting... so we went thru the programme, so exciting. and von, thx for the nice dinner treat. heehee. so sweet. =)

13th, FRIDAY day five
my fyp flopped today. i went to lab at 8am. labbing at EIGHT AM. but. my samples got overcoated in the gold-coating machines. and yes, its real GOLD. and it got overcoated cos the reading meter just shot out of range. and my co-supervisior n i panic. she panic for my samples. i panic cos i thought the machine was gg to explode. that meter needle.. walao, overshoot out of the range lor. scared. so, after the flop, i went back to my room to sleep. upsetttttttttt... and xq's cells died for the nth time (yesterday xq told me her cells died for the (n+1)th time.) huiyu also had problems with fyp.... everyone was quite sober & miserable... really friday the 13th...

and i went to csc maf for a while. alot of ppl running ard in lover's park. dunno its the haze or wt but i felt dizzy and sick. haha. must b old age. not used to running ard like old times... and when i went home the new zealand couple had arrived. entertain them... call me busy.

14th, SATURDAY day six
happy birthday to mama!!! it was my mum's bday, but we were so busy running about for ppl....
in the morning we went to the airport to send the new zealand couple to bangkok, and then went to the airport again at 11am to pick up another new zealand friend, aunty nelly! my dad was very happy in the airport cos he kept walking past the info counter and take sweets in the bowl while the receptionist was on the phone.

aunty nelly is such an inspiration. she is a wonderful old lady, delightfully dutch, and such a granny to me. tho she is 73, and went back to new zealand from cambodia to retire from being a missionary, she got itchy fingers again, sold her house and is on her way to bandar aceh. she says "if the pope is 78 and can sit there, wave his hands and be the pope, so can i, at 73, be a missionary"... quite inspiring right?

then that afternoon i went bowling with church youth group. i scored 58 i think. hahah. super lousy. then i changed ball and managed a 86. (balls matter).

the end of my hectic week.
phew! quite an experience. phew.... time for a breather.. =)

i am so busy. still backlogging on my blog. lotsa things gg on, but no time. labbing most of the time. labbing sounds cool eh? but it just means fyp-ing. (final year project-ing). very tedious, very frustrating. xQ's cells died for the n-th time. my other pharm sister huiWei also having problems w a leaky column. frustrations's in the air... anyway, during the mid sem break, had a 4th mc chalet. just so nice to look back on the times i spent nuahing and sleeping and eating. so nice right. not labbing...

kianmeng my fwen on the floor. he had to work the next day so had to leave. but was prevented by crystal who pulled at his jeans. (crystal now helplessly laughing). jooch took over. i think they just want his pants off. jooch nose very big.

the 4th mc guys bad habit #1: like to run into pictures to spoil them. they love phototaking. jooch ears very big.

the 4th mc guys bad habit #2: like to do weird poses. ok. its not the guys. its the girls too.

kailun has a big head. (i also ran into the photo.)

the 'C' girls: crystal, chloe and carine!!! we didnt allow SEE renhong into the photo tho he protested. here u see the manifesto of bad habit #1 by kkl, running into our photo and trying to do some aerobics. then again, looks like a C. not funny kkl.

the complicated love polygon (btw the guys).

they are gayland. so funny, fwed wrote in the agm report 'gayland bahru'. very good.

the 4th mc girls. u see, the nice photographer had to quickly snap to chop off the guys (left hand side). so bad right.

however, no one noticed the eerie shadow between zin and meitoon! kkl strikes his bad habit #1 AGAIN!!! argh... so eerie

their resume photo for gayland escort services. (men only). customer satisfaction guaranteed.

manifesto of bad habit #2: weird poses again. i think we look like smurfs.
oh we had steamboat everyday. jooch is blocking the tv. he is trying to do the if-jooch-can-cook-so-can-u thing. his lovely assistant ek (giving eye power). i think zQ is jealous. hahhaha.

we even take photos at the busstop. i think we love taking photos.
manifesto of bad habit #1 again. guys spoil pictures!!!
the guys pointing the 4th finger (standing for 4th mc.) jooch said heng we are not 3rd mc. haha.

oh and this photo below. zQ looks cute right? hahaha. zQ and jooch have the same mouths.

our group photo. look at kkl act sei pose. and lixian block her own face. ahhahah.

conclusion: the 4th mc really loves taking photos.

The CSC AGM

and the 4th MC stepped down after one yr together..

me not paying attention but saying goodbye to my key. dear key, i will miss u. i have been with u for 2 years. 2 years hanging on my little keychain. u have seen rough times (when the lock was rusty) and wet times (hence the word 'VPSP' a bit smudged) and smooth times (when SRH finally oiled the lock). i miss u. thankyou, key.

oh and i got flowers from my best fwen ONE SMELL. and a pink nalgene bottle, a huge box of chocolates (which he keeps saying is very nice & expensive) and a HUGE me-to-u card with a loooong letter + poem inside. even my bday also not so loaded. thankyou best fwen. i dunno wt to say, u spend so much $ on me. now tt u are taking over my role (he dethroned me).. one smell. my best fwen.

i wish u all the best, may ur days as VPSP be as wonderfully fulfilling as mine. *hug*

realised i shld hv put a photo of him instead of the flowers. but (a) the flowers look nicer (b) he still haven send me the photos. talk about being a best fwen. hahhaha.

CSC DAY 2006

one smell & clarice

Signature Love Project 2006

lijie & jiat & yeeng

Paint-A-Home 2006

cheeky & robbie & yongchuan

ethelonter III

mer & zQ & fwed

Project C.A.N. 2006

xq & quek & jooch

Grant A Wish 2006 (still in progress!)

denise & xyz & yihua

the 4th mc girls!!!! we rule, the 4th mc boys drool.. hehhe. i love u girls!!!

fwed & me & kkl. abnormal pose? not really. used to fooling ard w "my men"!!!

happy one-year-old bday, 4th mc!!! HEY where's the cake? kenna block..

just in case u wanted to see the cake. u know, photos dun hv sound. but imagine e sound coming from ppl like carine, michelle... waa faints.. one year liao!

my 4th mc

One-smell and Clar, CSC Day certainly gave my new term a wonderful kick-start, my SLP girls, I so totally love you, penguins rock! Waddle waddle. My 9 guys – my holiday SPs were fantabulous, never worked with 9 guys before, so exciting, but think you all spoiled me. Mer my Pnevma freshie from Ethelontêr I, so proud of you, Fwed and zQ, the former wildly excited while the latter counting down to when it ends, hug! My PAH men - cheeky, Robbie and evil yc, you 3-in-1 are a fantastic combination. My muscle men xQ, quek and jooch, all the de-logging peppered with colourful language made my first CAN so memorable. Dear all, your ultimate dedication makes the word ‘thank you’ seem like an understatement.

A huge thank you goes out to my 4th Management Committee; you are such a wonderful bunch of people, ever supportive in our term together, ever vocal, such long and hilarious meetings we had all for the common purpose to bring our club to something more than just a club. Your support the past year is so essential to me, without which I am nothing. we will always be the 4th mc, ever crazy, ever crazed!!!

Thank you Koh Kailoon and Fred (seldom i spell ur names correctly this way, haha) for being part of my dynamic team. Your advice, support, all those emails, online discussions, sudden brainwaves and late night conversations – its all worth it. Kkl you are a wonderful president, always calm and steady yet crappy, with sound advice, you give me the courage; fwed you are the one with all the ideas and you really encourage, we both go crazy together, you give me the faith. My two dear friends.

I would also like to thank the respective organizing committees for all the effort put in as these successes will never be possible without all of them putting in their hard work. To all volunteers, without which my Special Projects would not have come into fruition. To all my CSC members, I do hope that this year’s Special Projects did bring more than meaning to the voluntary work that you have been so faithfully doing. I hope that this will be a chapter in your life which you would not forget, may it remain in a Special Place in your heart.