saturday was the most fruitful shopping trip for me. met sw and mz to shop for new year clothes. our first stop - far east. didnt buy much there except a pair of jeans and my formal clothes. thought i would go home without clothes as most of the clothes seem pretty retro and unlike my style. alot of the clothes this year are very baggy and i think i'll probably look like a clown swimming in the big clothes. lol...
after dinner at coffee club, we decided to digest our food walking down to OG. someone insisted that she saw an amazing offer for a guess bag but when we got there, we found that the bag has 'shrunk'. haha...it was actually just a pouch when it was assumed to be a shoulder bag from the magazine pictures.
and a further night walk down to bugis started our shopping! bought a dress at the first shop we came to. thought it was a bargain at first but walking on, i found many other similar but cheaper dresses. but mine is nicer. haha...
so the record spending for today: $150+! so rare for me. but i still wanna shop! if only i have more money. and the amazing thing is mz and i bought similar clothes at all the shops! haha...i think we can be twins le.

finally, the first week at lab is over. i havent had much to do yet except for bacteria work which is probably making my face condition worse. we have to do our culture in an open fume hood. then my senior say "actually, the wind will be blowing towards you. the hood protects the samples but not the users.". so dirty lah! all the bacteria blowing towards my face. hai... i've been ordering things for the first 5 days and i've already spent $2k plus of the lab's money. so easy to earn money for bio business. one bottle of 0.75ml transfection reagent costs $600+ le. and the prof dont even look at the price quotation when signing.
but my things wont arrive till 2 weeks later. what am i suppose to do now? i'm really worried that i wont be able to finish the project or even get to the main point of it. the prof change the direction of my project that its now totally different from what i did before. hope i dont have to spend many weekends or late nights in the lab.
another thing i dont like about going to nus is getting there. its such a fustration. i hate waiting for buses as i cant plan my time. every morning and evening i'll get so fustrated and in a bad mood cos the bus is almost impossible to get up as it is packed to the door. the frequency is also not very high and unfixed. and going on the train after that is an equally 'packing like sardines' affair. i think i'll be in a bad mood more often after school opens for nus students.

i will no longer complain about the journey from my home to ntu...
and neither will i need to. hee...

today was our first day back at ori for fyp. holidays are over so fast...not used to waking up early and i'm so tired. we spent most of the day cleaning up the radio-isotope room as that would be our work place - a room isolated away from the main lab cos there's no more space. its going to be so inconvenient cos we still have to go back to the main lab frequently to do some stuff or ask questions. and they say they'll try to squeeze out 1 access card for the 3 of us to share. grr...what's the point of recruiting so many staff when there's not enough access cards? just make more lah! hai... i'm going to do drugs again. i just hope it will be successful. dr khan already warned us that 4 months may be too short a time to produce reasults. just dont keep changing what i'm supposed to do can le

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

last week was the festive and birthday season! i've been having good food for 6 days straight, meeting with different friends and tried many new places. its burned a big hole in my wallet and left me lots of fats to burn.

last thursday, i met mz and sw for dinner at bugis MOF. i liked it alot. it serves japanese food and quite reasonably priced. i tried their soba and it was delicious! their bento looks good too and is cheaper than the soba. though it looked a little small. their desserts menu looked very tempting and we ordered strawberry and black sesame ice cream. they came with a waffle biscuit that i thought was very nice. the dumplings were a little hard and tasteless though.

fri, met hui, ling and yun for dinner at sketches. i think its the worst place i ate for the past week. the pasta was reasonably priced but the jumbo platter was definitely disappointing with the not so jumbo serving but jumbo pricetag. i ordered linguini with fried chicken and sweet and spicy thai sauce. i thought the sauce was on the chicken but it was in the pasta instead. i didnt like sweet pasta and the chicken was too dry.


sat ate at waraku with my family. good japanese food that's worth the price! the tempura ice cream is very nice! worth a try...

sun was my actual birthday and i celebrated with ny. went vivocity where we tried earl's swensons. the main course we ordered included a salad bar buffet. it was good but we had to rush and ended up being late for our movie.

mon played badminton with sw and hb. our last game of the year and probably till hb comes back again in may. havent played for so long and my legs were so tired after that. we were supposed to meet hui for dinner at "raffles city bakerz'in" but after walking around the basement and first floor, me and ny couldnt find it. we checked the directory and it wasnt on the list. there was no bakerz'in at raffles city! we ended up eating at ding tai fung whuch i didnt mind cos i missed the xiao long bao. hee...we went bakerz'in for desserts but the whole process was very rushed. we were the last customers and had to leave within half hour. i tried the chocolate warm cake. it was very nice with warm chocolate flowing inside and vanilla ice cream on top. i preferred hui's waffles with cheese ice cream and strawberry sauce. very nice! i think the desserts are overpriced though. its even more expensive than our dinner. i still miss chocz chocolate cake.

tue went to have toast box breakfast with sw and mz. call us crazy but its still nice. hee...went to watch alvin and the chipmunks. we bought the tickets the night before from a different cinema and there's only the front 3 rows left. why so many people watching an old show?? didnt know that can buy tickets in advance and from different cinema too. me and ny went seperate ways from sw and hb after that. last minute decided to eat at marche and so coincidental that sw was outside marche too! haha...the rosti is so nice. think i havent ate at marche for a long time. but this pre-dinner 'snack' at 5pm was too filling. haha...

thanks to my friends for the company and presents!