photos! 23 may 05


xenbar regulars! :) celebrating my birthday! :)





cutting the cake haha :)




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the very adorable doggie that 05S7A gave me- thanks !! :) :)




now it is a flat doggie!
but very huggable all the same :)


to my dear 05S7A:

it has been a pleasure teaching all of u.
hope i didn't make u dislike bio.
i do apologise for my terrible handwriting- but its not as bad as some of your handwritings loh.. u know who u are :p
and i also apologise for the fact that i'm not a very experienced teacher so i fumbled quite a bit when answering ur questions :s
(zhen hao- bacterial dna is found in the nucleoid.)
i know all the tutorials were very rushed- i've always wanted to let u guys off early but there is so much to do and so little time so i couldn't :s
at least i completed ur DNA tutorial (yay!!) so thats settled.
the other tutorials are for u to look through- ur new tutor will go through them after block test.

it was a little strange teaching ur class at first since i recognised some of u from back then when i crashed orientation :) i think i recognised helen, gwyneth and adam.
now i know all of ur names.
then i had to leave.
i feel bad.
cos its like i'm leaving u all to fend for urself during this bio block test.
so if u have any questions u can email me and i will do my best to answer.
do. not. ask. for. tutorial. answers.
cos i am not an answer key.
i will gladly answer ur conceptual questions though.

oh yes.
remember the piece of dna with 6000 nucleotides? (dna tutorial mcq question)
after confirming with other teachers, we have concluded that it is 6000 nucleotides altogether, so 3000 nucleotides per strand. so 3000/3 = 1000 amino acids required.
do note that we are ignoring the stop codons and termination sequence here.
ok so now that is off my back.
oh yes. get the past year block test questions from the photocopy shop and do them under timed conditions. have fun :)

as it is, bio is fun.
just don't let all that mugging kill ur interest in the subject.
as i've said from day 1, ur class is a smart class with great potential.
u guys sure are carrying on that "tradition of excellence" ur so fond of :)
make sure it continues :)
for lecture test 1 ur class average topped the level.
for lecture test 2 ur class average was 3rd (after asking for more marks haha)
i will go back to check on ur BT results mwhaha.
make sure it remains in this league.

those who did relatively well for LT 2, keep it up and don't get complacent cos its relatively well, not very well :) but still pretty impressive i must say.
those who didn't do well, work harder! don't give up.

well then.
so i guess this is it.
ur class has been fantastic, and i have enjoyed teaching u all.
somehow i had the easiest time when teaching ur class as compared to the other classes.
all the best for ur futures :)
i love u all very very much.

hugs and kisses
Ms Lim :)




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i was unsettled by the news from nus yesterday so i didn't get the chance to thank several very nice ppl.

a bigg thank u to:

1. the relief teachers in hc! wan jun, cheukka, xiz and thong kai.
for the stila lip gloss (yay!!) and the sweet handmade card- complete with the word
"bimbo" splashed across it 5 times in various locations :)

2. my dearest 05S7A
for the huge cushion-cum-doggie as well as the gigantic card :) and the very touching messeges in the card.
i love u all very much indeed :)

3. my dearest 05S73
for the 2 disney fans with little messeges written on the individual panels- very sweet of u :)

4. my dearest 05S7C
for being such an enjoyable class to teach cos u laugh at all my ridiculous antics :)


5. the bio and physics teachers
for all the well-wishes and for making my stay in the hc staff room so interesting :)


6. mr teo me and ms ong lh
for helping me to answer the last question my student asked me- why is there a glycosidic bond between the pentose sugar and nitrogenous base when there is no Oxygen atom?
ms ong (consulted 2 books): it is an N-glycosidic bond. so its a derivative. and anyway its too detailed and not really required at this level (i agree!)
mr teo (consulted 1 book): u didn't study food chem right! (duh :)) the bond is formed by the anomeric carbon atom. this means that there can be 2 positions for the nitrogenous base, either pointing up or down. but it has to point up due to specificity of the enzyme active site blah blah blah....(long long explaination-can't remember liao :p)

if u really wanna know the answer u can ask hai han or yifan :)


7. to some mysterious person
who got peach coloured roses sent to me this morning complete with a card with a mysterious message and no name. apparently i've known u for 1 year (according to the card). i have no idea who u are. but the flowers are pretty. thanks :)


oh yes.
its my birthday today.
happy birthday to me! :)




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so i didn't get into medicine.
now i feel lost.

yes, i do have a backup plan.
i have 2 scholarship offers- Astar and dsta.
and i have a cambridge offer.
both scholarships will send me to cambridge to read biology.

i do thank God for blessing me with a backup plan that most ppl would think is much better than nus med anyway.

but now that i have to face the possiblity of leaving spore, i don't really want to anymore.

i'm happy here.

and i want to be a doctor.

i don't want a Ph.D.

i want an MBBS.


so now i'll just appeal to nus.
and get my scholarship documents sorted out.
and pray.
very hard.




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today was yet another fun day.

i went to tangs to shop.
found the shorts i've been eyeing for so long.
there are 5 different colours.
2 were at 30% off whereas the other 3 were at nett price.
and the black one was at nett price
so sad.
so i didn't get it.

then met up with yi jin in the afternoon for my treat at coffee bean mwhaha.
had fun catching up.

then i went to xenbar for dance.
we learnt a new shine today.
the steps are easy but its so so so fast!!
fun to do though.
while we were learning the shine amanda and ying appeared!
to join the basic class, or so i was told.
then at 8 sth justin announced that we should take a break.
it was a long break.
i went to the toilet.
when i came back, there as a table in the middle of the dance floor.
so strange.
so i went upstairs to talk to amanda and ying
then justin announced "its someone's birthday today. all gather around!"
so we all gathered around.
i wondered whose bday it was since mine was on wed.
and jian yang carried a cake to the table.
and i started to suspect sth.
then i think selene told me "its ur cake!"
i was like "!"
yay
so they all sang me a bday song while i stood there smiling away.
and after a looong time they got the cameras to work so we took some photos!
will post them up when i receive them.
so it turned out that amanda and ying came down just to celebrate my bday w me!
and jian yang informed everyone abt it so i received some really sweet prezzies from selene, melvin, edmund, ying and amanda, as well as a cake which jian yang baked w the help of his fren.
and all the nice salsa regulars were there too!
all the ppl i enjoy dancing with were there.
so it was a happy occasion.
i feel so blessed :)

thanks everyone! :)

today was a fun day.
met up with some of the class guys for a movie and dinner :)
was a very last minute decision- only found out abt 2 hours before the movie started. as much as i dislike last minute arrangements, i am so glad i went.
we watched star wars (duh)
was nice :)
now i'm inspired to watch the other episodes

we went to fei cui for dinner but it was too crowded.
so we went to breeks instead.
likoon finished his spaghetti before my food arrived!
so after spending $7.50 on pasta he still had to go to old chang kee to get more food. and wei ping calculated that for abt $25 one is able to purchase one of every item sold there.
we went to borders cafe for drinks.
but after looking at the menu for 10 mins the guys decided that they would rather get drinks from 7-eleven
so we walked out.
(sound familiar ying, manda and claire? ;p)
went to 7-eleven, bought a bottle of vodka each (except for paul), then went to the blue place to sit and talk.
but the guys ended up enacting scenes from army life and taking photos instead. was quite entertaining.
paul and wp brought cameras! wow :)
i want photos!!!

today is a day of many firsts.

first time i've eaten at the new restaurant at shangri-la- The Line. there is this chocolate fondue fountain into which one dips the strawberry on a sataystick. very good :) the design is very futuristic and rather similar to the nokia advertisement for the red, black and white phones only that the restaurant is white and orange. prefer the old restaurant- it has a more relaxed, cosy, friendly and tropical feel that fits in well with the hotel and the swimming pool and garden outside. the new design just sticks out like a sore thumb.

first time i've had this driving instructor teach me.
first time i've driven in the rain at night.
the road is wet and hence very reflective so i couldn't see the lane markings.

when turning:
instructor: look far! don't look at the lane markings!
me: okok
(proceeds to stare at some region in front)
instructor: stop looking at the lane markings!
me: ...

really loh
how can i look at the lane markings when i can't see them at all!
then i can't even tell which lane i am supposed to turn into loh
bleh.

and today is the first time i've met a mormon!
from america no less.
who spoke to me at the bus stop for 20 mins cos the bus refused to come.
really tested my knowledge of Christianity with all her info abt what they believe in.
was a strange experience.
but it helped me to realise the importance of having a strong Christian foundation.

well then.
so it was an exciting day.
but still no news from nus yet.
can prepare to fly liao.



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Error: Invalid Application Number or Identity Card/Foreign Identification/Passport Number or Date of Birth!



this is the stoopid msg i've been getting on the website since this morning.
freak.

i was shopping in the evening at far east.
suddenly my phone beeped.
sms from fish:
results are out! go check!
then
audrey got it too!

sms from liwei:
its out liao! go check!

so i became anxious all over again.
then no mood to shop liao.
haiz.
then went to dance
then came home
rushed to the computer
keyed in the relevant stuff
and..

Error: Invalid Application Number or Identity Card/Foreign Identification/Passport Number or Date of Birth!


so i'm still freaking out.
the nus ppl are evil.
they said that it'll be out by today!
horrible ppl
:(


i don't care.
dowan me then i also dowan them.
i'll go cambridge!!!!!!!
hmph!


argh.
this is a prime example of how, once again, God is teaching me to be patient and to trust.
O Lord it's so so hard :(
when everything is so.. uncertain.
but You know what's best for me.
just teach me to trust.




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i'm feeling emotionally unstable.

i'm freaking out cos the nus office of admissions application status enquiry thingy says "application processing" and the joint admission thing says "error" when i tried to find out abt my app outcome. which i've been doing every 3 mins since 9 am.

i'm feeling very sad cos a student from 7C just came to say goodbye cos he can't make it for the lesson next tuesday so i won't be seeing him anymore. he's a joy to have in class. argues intellegently without sounding arrogant, and makes the class laugh with his crappy comments sometimes.

if i'm so sad about saying goodbye to one student, then how am i going to leave 3 classes behind next tues?

argh.
time to check out the application website again.


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Monet



La Promenade, 1875




Garden at Sainte-Adresse,1867

my favourite artist!
cos he paints ppl.
so i get to see what ppl in the past were like
he is famed for his garden paintings though
which i'm not all that interested in.

the anticipation is driving me crazy.
can't wait for sch to end today so that i can go home to check the mailbox.
what if there is no letter
then i'll really flip man
haiz
mark prac!!





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A for agnes :)

curiosity killed the cat
its killing meeeeeee
the stoopid nus med results are supposed to come out by tmr...
can't wait lehhh
so curious curious
bleh.

well then
7C is so hardworking and so enthu that they have requested for a make-up tutorial session on tuesday
well done :)




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quite sad.
it'll be the last time i'll be teacher 7C tmr.
such a nice class to teach with lovely intellegent children.
they never fail to make me laugh.
but they can be serious at times too.
haiz
i feel as if i can help them a lot more- if i had the time to go through their tutorials and such- there is so little time now.
sigh~
will miss them quite a bit.




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learnt a new word today:
yayness~
sounds nice :)
and describes how i'm feeling now
its raining, but not too heavily so my feet didn't get too wet on the way to sch.
and since its raining, there is no assembly.
yay!
and there is council investiture this morning for many periods, so one of my classes will miss their tutorial.
so i get to hibernate in the staff room for many many periods until my first and only tutorial for the day.

and now i'm hungry.
got some food from the canteen just now but i underestimated the amount i needed to fill my tummy so bleh.
too lazy to walk down.
will semi-starve now.
i miss the "pavlov with fresh cream and fruit", "titoki and orange puff", "drunken prawns", "grass-fed NZ beef with horserasdish" (doesn't sound right.. but grass-fed cow with horseradish sounds..bad) and other delectable goodies from last night's buffet dinner.
it was my cousin's bday so her dad, who, by the way, is v rich, decided to treat all of us to dinner at the grand copthorne hotel, situated nicely in front of zouk.
my first time at the hotel.. i've been to quite a few hotels but not this one.. always wanted to go in cos it looked so nice but didn't have a chance- poor girl mah.
finally got to go in :)
the cafe there was having this new zealand promotion thing so they had a chef from NZ who prepared exotic sounding dishes from his homeland for the buffet.
it was nice :)
i think my cousin enjoyed the dinner.
she is 10.
for her 9th bday we celebrated at the pan pacific hotel.
i have no idea where they will celebrate her 12th bday.
then wat abt her sweet 16th bday?
whoa they are gonna run out of places to go to soon loh.
not that i'm complaining :)
cos meanwhile there will still be nice stuff to eat :)

ok then.
my hunger has disappeared.
time to do work.
i dun wanna mark prac!!!!
:( :( :(





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so its all over.
we're happy now.





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suan le.
i'll take huiying's advice.
to be more tolerant.
but somehow it has evolved to become
i don't care anymore.
watever man.
watever.





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yesterday was a terrible day.
i was supposed to meet yijin for coffee at 2pm cos he lost a bet and had to treat me.
so i was on the bus on the way to 6th avenue when a bio teacher called me at 1.50pm

me: hello?
bioteacher: hey agnes ah, do u have a prac now?
me (SHIT. have meh?): i have no idea leh...
bioteacher: there is a class in the lab waiting for u leh
me (wattheheck!!): oh no.. can u help me go in and calm them down first..
bioteacherP: cannot... i'm doing the SPA assessment now.
me (die...): ok i'll come back now.

so i got off the bus at 6th avenue and called up yijin, who was already on his way, to cancel it. think he wasn't too pleased. who wouldn't be!
so sorry!!

then i called cheukka, who nicely agreed to stand in for me for 5 mins cos she had lessons at 2pm- thanks!

then i ran to the bus stop, got onto the bus back to hc.
in my hurry to get back to sch, i rushed down the steps on the bus, tripping over my skirt and tearing it in the process.
such a beautiful skirt!!! i'm heartbroken :(

then i rushed to the staff room and looked at the roster for this week and next week's prac.
MY NAME WAS NOT THERE FOR THE FRIDAY AFTERNOON PRAC.
so i called xizhen, who told me that she had settled her 74 prac with another bio teacher.
i decided to just grab one class's prac and go down to the labs.
one lab had SPA
the other lab had 74 with their tutor.
the last lab was the cluster lab and lo and behold, there wasn't any tutor there.
the class was 70.
gave them their assignment to do (which was labelled 73) and lamented over my ill fate.
and nursed my poor skirt.

at the end of the prac i went back to look at the roster again.
and i realised that there was an arrow drawn, showing that the 70 prac had been shifted from next week to this week instead.
BUT the teacher-in-charge wasn't me!!!
and when i looked through my pile of pracs, 70's prac wasn't there, and that means that i wasn't assigned that class!

so i cancelled my coffee appointment, pissed off a fren, troubled another fren and tore my skirt- for no good reason! and through no fault of mine as well.
argh.

so i wasn't in a good mood at all.
but watching body language calmed me down.
judging body language was actually quite fun.
only that i feel quite bad for the first team cos i think they have the potential to win, only that they didn't perform well for the real thing- i heard that they danced quite well during the full dress rehearsal. such a pity.
the dear organisers gave us flowers!
so now i have a pretty bouquet of roses in my room
yay
happy :)
but once again, watching the MAD hiphop piece by the j2s and some j1s, i felt so.. sad. although that was the 3rd time i watched that dance this year, i still felt tears pricking the back of my eyelids. especially since daniel and weidi were dancing. i couldn't help but recall the times when i was on that very same stage dancing with them. brought back memories, and this strong yearning to dance, with MAD, in hc, again. such a great desire, yet one that would probably never be fulfilled. all i have now are the photos and the one precious video tape of some of the dances we performed in hc.
time to watch it for the 50th time.

inspired by all the dancing in the afternoon, i went to xenbar that night. now there is a scratch on my calf, inflicted by the heel of my dancing shoe yesterday during practice. ouch.






its raining now.
just stood outside watching the lightning for 5 mins.
the whole sky was illuminated and it was so beautiful and majestic- almost surreal.
then i understood what the verse "the heavens declare Your majesty" really meant.
standing there in the rain and witnessing the sky and my surroundings light up with each flash of lightning, i felt small, so small in the grandeur of it all.


its my little brother's birthday today.
happy birthday!
in 11 days time it'll be my birthday! yay.
and 11 days after that it'll be my other little brother's birthday.
so this is the time of the year when my family gets lotsa cake to eat.
not that i'm complaining :)




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ppl have been arguing whether its Agnes' or Agnes's.
so i've decided to check it out cos ppl don't believe it when i say that its Agnes'.

http://www.writingenglish.com/possessive.htm

-Create the possessive form of a proper noun in the same manner as for a common noun. For singular proper names, add 's. For plural names, and some singular names, which end in an s, add only an apostrophe.

Canada's resources
United States' budget deficit
Jones' skates
Dickens' writings

-Create the possessive form of a name, which ends in a silent s, z, or x, by adding 's.

Perez's turn at bat
Des Moines's airport
Guy Marcoux's reputation



therefore it is Agnes' not Agnes's.
so i'm right!





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there is a very cute couple in class on of my classes.
actually there are a few lah, but one of them is particularly noteworthy owing to certain observations i made today.

the guy came into class alone carrying 2 bags. he placed one on a table in front and sat at the back where his designated seat was. 10 mins later the girl walked in without her bag. guess where it was.

since the girl was late, she didn't have time to copy wat i had on the transparency- the question for their assignment. so the guy came all the way to the front to pass her his copy. but she nicely rejected and decided to copy it herself since he needed his copy to do the assignment (welldone :) ) so i decided to give her my copy instead.

and they tend to sit in front. which means that they don't talk to each other much in class, which is good cos it means that they participate in the class discussion.
well well.
so they're quite a sweet couple.

this reminds me of what cheukka told me this morning.
an incident in her class.
cheukka (to the girl): it's mgh not h!
girl: but why?
boy: it's mgh what! didn't i tell you last night?
wah lao. and we wonder what they do on their dates loh.

so its quite interesting teaching in hc.
get to see things from different perspectives.
but sometimes somethings remind me of my own jc life.
sometimes i stand outside the classroom and wait for my students to come. looking down at the class benches and the central plaza, i would occasionally see some ppl i recognise, then realise that they were not my batch-mates, but juniors who look like them. and then i feel this tinge of sadness for the days gone by, how i will never be a student here again.

will be judging dance competition body langauge later.
it'll be the first time watching a dance on hc stage this year.
will bring back memories, especially since its in the audi.
sigh.
i miss performing.




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discovered some photos of my juniors and grand juniors!
taken at the beginning of the year when some of us went back to crash orientation.



so interesting to see them in their sec sch uniforms!



pre-ns boys!



oiying and i! :)

a lot of relief teachers in hc dunno who woffles wu is.
including a certain gp teacher who is always complaining about how little i know abt current affairs.
tsk tsk.
see so i -do- know stuff in the news ok.

i'm still thinking about the interesting experience in astar yesterday.
i went into a cell.
the waiting room was called the ER (endoplasmic reticulum -not- recticulum. those who spelt it wrongly for ur lecture test got half a mark deducted!)
which was conviniently across the corridor from another meeting room, aptly named the Golgi.
the interview itself, however, took place in (where else?) the Nucleus.
there is this other room called the Mitochondria as well but we didn't see it.
but there was no Chloroplast.
so i was in a heterotropic eukaryotic cell.




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on saturday i was devastated.
in the afternoon, i smsed this guy i met at the a*star interview.
and he told me that they called him up for the final interview (to be held today) on friday,6 may.
so i knew that that was it- i was kicked out of astar for good- the person in charge of HR, celine, told us that they would contact us by friday.
but i decided to live in denial the whole of saturday.
until i could bear it no longer.
then at night, at abt 1130 pm, i came to terms with it and went online to pour out my heart to the one person who would understand exactly how i felt.
disappointed, yes.
but the little details are the most hurting and not many ppl realise or know wat they are so i could only tell this fren. its strange how we are so similar in this academia-related aspect and yet so different in other areas.
but you were really comforting cos of ur naturally optimistic outlook on everything- so i felt happier after that- thanks :)
and sorry for keeping u up- i know u aren't as nocturnal as i am.
and so to return what u told me- if dsta doesn't accept u, we both know that its their loss.

on sunday i met amanda to shop at arab street.
but we ended up in this quaint little cafe- Ambriosa cafe- in Baghdad street.
the service was lousy cos we had to wait super long for everything to be served.
but the ambience was nice :)
and the drinks were really good.
unfortunately the exotic-sounding side dish we ordered turned out to be just samosas. bah. butbut they came with this chilli dip that was fabulously spicy. yay! :)

and then we continued shopping until we realised that we were both late.
so we dashed to mrt station.
but on the way we passed this underpass.
me:where do u think that leads to?
amanda: the mrt station!
(and proceeds to dash down the escalator)
me: ok loh
(follows her)
-after walking through the whole lond underpass we emerge... on the other side of the road-

me:i think we should just walk to the mrt station and forget abt the underpass.
amanda: but i'm sure the underpass leads to the mrt station!
me: ok loh
-so we go back into the underpass, realise that there is no mrt station, and go back up-

amanda: agnes, u should have taken geog s paper instead of chem s! it would have been more useful!
me: let's just get a scout to bring us around.
amanda: but scouts are...
me: yah i know.
-exchange meaningful looks-

but the conclusion is that i did -not- suggest that we use the underpass ok.. i merely pointed out its existance :)

well then.
so today i went for bio lect with xizhen.
was sitting comfortably and the back and reading my book when my phone rang.
so i picked it up.

me:hello
caller: hi is this agnes.
me (cautiouslly): yes?
caller: this is celine from astar.
me (ookay): yes?
celine: are u free to come down for the final interview at 5 pm today? but u should arrive at 4pm.
me (wattheheck?): whoa why so last minute one?
celine: aiyah long story.. tell u later. so can u make it?
me: an zua ani kuan one.. ok can la
celine: good.. sorry ah
me (sorry no cure!): no prob! thanks

well. and so after that harrowing weekend living under the belief that astar doesn't want me, they finally called me. 5 hours before the interview. goodness.
but at least i have the chance, and i do thank God for that :)
and to my poor fren who had to suffer through my outburst on saturday night, thanks and i'm sorry- but u were right! they really did call in the end :)
and to xizhen- thanks for swapping pracs with me :)
so since it was so last minute i wasn't interview-ready at all. so xizhen told mrs foo that i had to go for an interview. so mrs foo ordered me to postpone a tutorial period to some other day and go home to change before going down.
yay :)

so it all worked out really well cos i reached astar before 4pm. that gave me ample time to confront celine.
and as it turned out, celine was on leave on fri. so she asked her temp staff to sms/call the ppl up for the final interview.
so the temp staff contacted everyone except this other girl, karen, and i.
so karen emailed celine on saturday to confirm her rejection by astar.
and celine only raed it this morning.
in her words "i almost got a heart attack when i read the email"
so she called up karen and i this morning to inform us.
just in time too.
so celine was so grateful to karen for her email- "or else the seinor hr officer will get it from the interview panel and her head and my head will roll"
so it all ended well.
and for the third time in 6 days, karen went right after me for her interview.

the interview went much much better than the med one.
and i got to meet edison liu! *star struck*
didn't know he was the one interviewing me until celine told me when i came out.
he asked quite a few questions but they weren't -too- hard.
there was this other guy who spoke, looked and behaved in this condescending manner and tried to niao me and make life difficult for me. but compared to the med interview that was nothing. even his "you did so well in secondary school- wat happened for the a levels?" (complete with a smirk) couldn't shake me. ah well.
at least the other 2 interviewers were nice.
and there were both profs. this proves that profs can be nice too.
out of the 6 med interviewers i got 5 were profs and 1 was a med student. and the profs weren't v nice except for these 2 lady profs.

but well
on the whole the astar interview went fairly well.
fortunately i read my research paper once through before going in so when edison liu asked "which programmes did u use to identify the proteins?"
i could say with confidence "Swissprot and ScanPS"
mwahaha.
i wouldn't have known otherwise.
so now i'm happier.
and i do thank God for that.




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feel better now
thanks everyone :)

to my dear 05S7A:
so sorry for the lousy tutorial session this afternoon.
was seriously feeling quite depressed and unsettled so i couldn't really teach all that well- not that it should be an excuse not try.
thanks for being so responsive with the relevant expressions when i shared my tragic story with u all.. made me feel understood :)
thats why u all deserve to be let off early :)




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the medicine interview was bad.
i.e. zhi de jing qu heng de chu lai
i was all prepared and sitting outside waiting for my interview to begin.
then the door to the interview room opened and a prof walked out.
i was so shocked.
"prof k!"
he was the senior person at the uro dept where i worked!
so he knows me!
and i have a feeling he doesn't really like me.
but anw he told the organiser "i can't interview this girl cos i know her"
wattheheck loh.
like wat are the odds that someone i know would be in the room. there were 5 interview rooms loh!
anw.
so we had to switch my interview room.
and huiying nicely agreed to swap with me- thanks dearie! :)
but as a result my 1st interview got pushed back by 30 mins.
the interviewers were quite nice la.
but they asked me a lot of hard questions.
ugh.
and i think my answers were lousy.
the last question was the hardest.
when i stepped out of the room i could hear one of them say "that was a hard question" and the rest laughed.
sadistic!

so i was 30 mins late for the 2nd interview.
once i stepped into the room they were like "what happened?"
of course they were not happy.
but like its not my fault wat!!!
(*&^%
this interview was very bad.
more like a torture session.
and i think i got too emotional when talking about cancer.
which happens to be my pet topic.
bah.
they probably think i'm some overemotional wimp.
then the interviewer in the centre, this big sized old man with a sinister grin kept quiet for 10 mins before grilling me for 20 mins.
the worst 20 mins of my life.
makes that cheena Astar interviewer seem like a lamb incomparision man.
and after the whole 2nd interview ended, i left the room dejectedly
and waiting outside the room was this girl, karen, whom i met at the astar interview. but i couldn't speak to her cos my tears were threathening to flow out.
so i brisk walked to some corner to cry my eyes out.
that was the absolute worst interview i've ever had- worse than the 12 ppl panel for nsts.
and then huiying showed up and gave me a hug.
then i felt happier
thanks dear! :)
then i met a doctor for lunch then went to sch for tutorial.
bah.

so now the conclusion is that i'll just wait and see where God leads.
if i get it, i get it.
if i don't i'll do research.
but the prob is that Astar is -still- daoing me!!!
i'm getting worried.
:(
leave it to God.

"I know the plans I have for you", says the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you hope and a future."

teach me to trust.




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the A*star interview on wed went quite well despite some hiccups.
one interviewer said "how else would u treat cancer?" after i proposed an anti-cancer strategy based on my project.
like how i know man.
one is enough loh.
bleh
plus he had this cheena accent so i couldn't hear wat he was saying.
and the last question of the day was from him: "wat does music and dance have to do with cancer research"
riiiight.
can't stand him!!
so mean to me.
fortunately the other interviewers were nicer.
one of the interviewers said "if u were an undergrad working in my lab i'll be very happy to have u there"
nice guy!
so i was happy.
and i do thank God for helping me through it all.
awaiting an email to see if i can get to the next round of interviews.

and today i have finished marking all the stoopid independant learning notes.
all 70+++ self-made notes by the students.
so sickening.
there are 3 types of notes.
1. generally correct info expressed in the correct way
2. generally correct info expressed in the wrong way
3. wrong info presented in anyway.
4. high quality scripts

for some reason those who had 1. had identical phrasing.
down to the very words and punctuation
so did those who had 2.
so i'm assuming that there are 2 major websites that they just cut and paste from then if they are lucky they got the right one. if they are not, they didn't.
but its still generally correct.
but not very good.

very few type 3. scripts fortunately.

but very few type 4. scripts too- well organised, relevant, concise notes in point form and not copied whole sale. and with diagrams scanned in from Campbell. and with mind-maps at the back.
impressive right.
but the no. of scripts that fit this criterion can be counted on one hand.
and most of them come from the same class ah.
and that class is a nice class to teach cos the students are so entertaining :)
we were prevented from entering the tutorial classroom by some gp teacher who over shot his period. so we all stood outside waiting and they were all plotting how to chase them out. some guys went to open the back door. and one guy even went and sat at the back haha. and the teacher didn't even notice!
hehehe.



ok tmr is the medicine interview.
i am scared.
:(





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so much work to do!
need to look through all the notes of the students' independant learning stuff.
and i need to finish marking their lecture test!!
actually i've already finished marking on saturday. but i have a few questions i didn't mark cos i need to clarify. so now there are lotsa things waiting for me to mark.

apparently only 2 of my students know abt my blog, largely because our class blog is down.
so we should keep it that way :)

jacqueline tang!
your bday prezzie is still sitting on my table!!
so its not my fault that its belated hoh :p
it was fun shopping with u, shan and char yesterday... thanks for organising it dear :)

its a nice change shopping with ppl who know orchard well.
even better than me.. for example someone (can't rememeber who) knew which escalator to take so that we can reach the mrt station in the shortest distance possible.
someone else knew which side of the 1st storey to walk from so that we'll end up right at the foot of the escalator at the other end.
and finally i'm shopping with ppl who know where all 5 mango outlets in orchard are located.
yay~






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