vegas in 12.

ben minkoff; fall 2011 collection

this bag is so yummy. i think any man that carries this bag would instantly up their sex appeal by a good 10 points

i smell.....sunscreen and coconut lotion ;)

not too happy of a day today. in fact, i'm a little down. that's an understatement. i was positively wailing earlier. but a 4 hour nap does do you some good. did you guess it had something to do with exams? how did you ever?

i took my spectroscopy chemistry final today. it was worth 65%, and i was determined to A C E it. i hustled in this course all year long, and prior to the exam, i had been scoring a 90% average. funny how things can take a drastic turn in the course of 2.5 hours. it was a fair exam, but long story short, i ran out of time, resulting in leaving two pages blank. i dont think i have every left a page blank, nonetheless two, in my whole academic career. needless to say, i was devastated.

but we gotta move along now, don't we?
yea. it's just a lot harder to do than say.

no use crying over spilt milk. ..how i hate that saying.

when i came home, my brother made me curly fries. ....
he even went as far as to bring it up to my room. weird..
he also made me tea.
oh i get it. hahah, my mom must have called and clued him in. so sweet <3

inner peace

I've been boring so I'm going to talk about studying and exams yet AGAIN. but when your 8am-11:30 pm is filled focusing on one thing only, it's hard to take your mind it and talk about an unrelated topic.

But I just wanted to say that I have been VEERRRYYYY HAPPPPYYY these days!! And I am happy that I've been happy! I guess you could say I've been at a plateau/had rough times for a while, even though I have a very fortunate life. My blah days have outnumbered my good days for the past..I don't know how long. year? Last semester was especially rough. I put so much on my plate that I didn't know how to handle it, and everyday was basically an emotional breakdown. To put it short, I was a walking (if even), basket case.

But this term, and especially these past few weeks, I've been nothing but happy. As you already know, these weeks are finals weeks. And if I am a basket case during the semester, by the time I'm pushing through finals, I have already fantasized through 100 and 1 scenarios about how to kill myself.

But not this time.

I may not be as completely on top of things as I like (ie. I would lovee for my exams to be even more spaced out.) But I have made a good habit of sleeping by 12:30am, waking up at 6:30 am, grabbing my gf at 7:40, and being at the school library by 8 am. Then we focus on our respective subjects till night time, with a few gossip breaks in between so we can maintain our sanity. I've gotten as much done as I can in the time alloted, and I've been doing it healthily! My mommy is the dearest. She's been making me protein based foods, with minimal to no carbs, as I tend to pass out after eating them. Because I've been getting more sleep than I usually do, due to regulated sleep hours, I have also been cutting out the coffee. My source of caffeine comes from the big mug of green tea I've been warming up my mornings with. So yay to keeping my sanity and being healthy in a typically super stressful time! Two down, 3 to go, and goodbye third year biochem!

I am so going to buy myself a congratulatory pair of loubs and the lv stresa after this is over and done with. T-8 days to a sunshine-filled summer! muahz xoxo

i take my every mornings with a cup of green tea and honey. so nice and comforting when i didn't have time this morning, my mom pushed a mug into my hands as i ran out the door. inside? my familiar cup of tea <3

your phenotype depends on genotype and environment.

so changes in your genotype will cause a change in your phenotype. if your genotype is EXACTLY the same as someone else's, then the only thing causing a change in your appearance will be the environment you live in.

with that being said, just analyzing the genotype portion, of course as humans, we have overall features of our genome that everyone in the species share. for example, this includes the genes that encode for everyone having 2 eyes, a nose, a mouth, etcetc. however, we know each of us look different from one another, and genomically, this due to polymorphism. this is where the sequence differences, duplications, deletions, insertions, location and the number of transposable elements each of us contain are held accountable for our individual appearance.

...studying for my genetics course. trying to make some use of my procrastination time.. productive procrastination haha..