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    memories carved at the back of my brain

    Tuesday, October 12, 2010

    oct...
    commencement!



    collage from the taiwan trip!


    okay its been ages since i've blogged and for the obvious reasons, its due to mainly work and work and more work. for this duration of 3 months, its been a roller coaster ride for me i guess. a lot of things to blog about actually, but guess that i don't have the time to blog in detail and the emotions and memories are fading away after so long too. so i'll just leave the photos on =)

    firstly, was finally the commencement, that marked the next phase of life. attended the commencement for the life science sharks, then its finally mine the next day. was a very tiring but happy day for me i guess, and its probably the last time we'll ever see our own batch of people who had attended lectures and tutorials with us for the psat 4 years. even you don't know the person, at least we can recognise each other and its this sense of familiarity thats very heart warming. even nowadays i miss meeting people whom i used to know along the corridor or around the school. guess thats just the usual moving on with our own lives, and going on to meet new people who will make or will not make footprints in our lives. but thanks to all those who specially came down and took photos, and to witness the transition point of each other's lives =)

    next was the taiwan grad trip with i had with val, which was a 14 days trip. the trip was indeed nice, despite the bad weather we met all the way once we left taipei (aka taichung and kaohsiung). did mainly the county areas around taipei, had a good stay at our hotel at taipei, which i will strongly recommend all other people to go there. ask me for more details if you need it =) we didn't have enough of taiwan seriously, especially with minimal exploring outside of taipei due to the weather. in taiwan you can actually see the progress of the development of the country, with the old houses and countryside against the high rise buildings in the background, which i feel is an interesting sight. its a relaxing trip, with us going on our own pace, following on our itinary. days which val had conference i did travelling alone for the day, and its actually not bad. though its lonely, and you can't probably share your thoughts with other people, it did make me appreciate the places that i've been to more. its also more of self-understanding and enjoying the solidarity time alone. but its a good experience. will probably blog more in detail of the trip next time, with day by day breakdown =) but i'll defintely going back there again.

    then it proceeded with the start of school officially, after my stint as a part time RA. its just like being an RA with lessons to attend, and the modules are BORING. worst of all, its 6-10pm (though it will end earlier), so by the time we reach home its always near to 11. probably this is what it meant by 'grad students have no life'. i've even went back on both sat and sun, working 7 days a week without a break. this is mainly due to the rushing of the manuscript which was supposed to send in for publication by end sep, which unfortunately we missed due to the stupid siao zha bor asking for more data and she's the one who have been driving me up the wall. constant pushing and i cant stand the way she talks now seriously. stupid and useless and time wasting suggestion, i wonder why did i actually asked her to be my co-supervisor, which gave me more rubbish to clear. had this idea of removing her name, but this will definitely create a storm. i had been on the verge of breaking down due to work stress, which thankfully i didn't thanks to val who have been there for me. and at least now i've thrown back her the stuff, and this whole episode will end soon. she'll just be a co-sup in name i guess, with me going to move on to a totally new area in nano (next week), and going to be spending half the time in IMRE with 2 more new advisors. wonder how this thing is going to turn out. but i've wasted 2 mths of my phd time doing nothing, and seriously need to speed up. who says grad student have a good life rotting in office everyday. but im going to miss synthesis in the lab =(

    okay enough of venting for now. else this will go on and on. gotta finish up my stupid report for my module, and have to suffer every week listening to that particular lecturer that makes me restless and clueless every week. life isnt that great, but guess it has its ups and down.

    and hope that everyone has been doing well =) till next time then!


    7:25 PM //