a very long story.

last friday we had our replacement phys pham lab which was originally on tues...
the experiment was on eye drugs...

the thing about nottingham is.....

they dont believe in Animal testing.....

but they do believe in Human testing!!!

we had to sign a consent form 1st though (just in case something happens)
hahahaha

so i was the subject for the pilocarpine drug.... ie parasympathetic stimulant... well a muscarinic agonist la

okay i'll stop being biolog-icy

can you see anything?
look closerrrr....
good thing my eye colour is lighter... or it'll be really difficult to see...
the above picture was taken at 10pm.. which was.... err... 8 hours after the drug was applied....

heres a closer look........

normal/controlled eye

..........

.....

....

...

abnormal/alien/test eye

hahaha
i have no idea why i laugh out loud whenever i see this...
its SO weird!!

there was also another drug used that will cause dilation of pupil...
we went around looking at each other's eye
alien eyes and anime eyes
hahahah

the reactions were around the same
' HAHAHA'
' really very small la! very obvious! HAHAHA'

=.=
so jakun right these people.... (is one too)

we had to measure near point accomodation, pupil diameter and light reflexes...
the experience was kinda fun really

but it was weird how one eye was blur
those who had constricted pupil couldnt see far while those with dilated pupil couldnt see near...
we were told not to drive and operate heavy machinery..
lol

my teammate's pupil dilated till 7 mm while mine constricted till 1mm....
we were also supposed to take note of when the drug effect wears off....
i was patiently waiting... and checking the mirror on and off...
it VERY slowly became bigger.... and things didnt look so weird anymore.....
but by 330am i still had uneven pupils.....
so i went to sleep
hahaha

next day it went back to normal!
yay!

okay now that thats done i should stop slacking and get some work done....

calculation test this week
HOW LA HOW LA HOW LA HOW

i just want to pass!!!
which means i just want to get 90/100!!! O.o (so impossible since im so the careless!!)

oral presentation on fri...
HATE presenting

have to stay back late on fri for the 2nd time cause of stupid lab report.....

oh right... i still havent finish my MR and label for dispensing lab...
tomorrow got seminar to discuss lab results!!!

I WANNA GO HOME ALREADY!!!!!

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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

remember what i said about how something MUST happen everytime i come back here?
i was just telling a fact...

so what was the event of the week?
*drumroll*

POWER OUTAGE!!!

it happened at 2 am...
and i knew that it was the whole block because everywhere was just black black black.. only emergency lights available...
unfortunately i was still awake.. so i thought it would come back in a while and tried to sleep...
the keyword here is 'tried'

needless to say i was like a zombie when it was time to get ready for class....

but wait...
still no power....
and it was the WHOLE campus...
no power + lab session = impossible?
so i delayed getting ready....
and everybody that went for class came back saying that class was cancelled until 12pm which was the time the power was supposed to come back....
we semangat drove to office in our sleeping clothes to ask about lab...
'come back at 1 if the power comes back'

after an hour or so... they posted a notice.. all class were cancelled and power would only come back at 6pm...

lalala~
went to eat pan mien for the 2nd time this week...
hahah
nice pan mien that only costs 2 plus...
most worth it i've ever had.. =]

good thing its the raining season... so it wasnt really crazily hot...
came back.. did work before i lose any natural sunlight...
slept for a bit since there wasnt ANYthing i can do without power...
around 5 it came back!
weee~~
there were cheers all around
hahaha

what we see on the way to pan mien at broga (this was mon)...

trees....

and more trees...

looks like genting highland no?

haha
trust me when i say that this place is ULU
u practically have to pass through a forest to get to food....

i honestly suspect that there is something funky going on..
because the seniors said that this NEVER happened before...

and in the 5 weeks i've been here i was exposed to....
1. bathing halfway no water
2. electrical trip... all electrical points were useless
(this event happened for a known reason and i was sworn to secrecy so haha!)
3. toilet flood aka drain? tersumbat?
(still not sure what was the reason.. dunno if it originates from lower floor or our problem haha)
4. whole campus no power supply
5. on the same day that we lost power supply, it was almost impossible to get through to anyone on the phone

'maybe got UFO'
' yeah and then when it crashed it caused the power outage'
' and then the EM wave terganggu so we cannot call anybody'
'yeah lo yeah lo'

this is what happens when u have nothing better to do =.="

lazy to blog already la... not like anybody reads also
maybe i should bury my blog soon...

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Sunday, October 21, 2007

i've come to realise that i dont blog much when i'm not at home...

the 'amazingly fast' speed of the connection there doesnt help either..
that day i wanted to upload some pictures(its been AGES since i posted any!) but i kept getting this error.. so i gave up
but ze blog is kinda sorta well really dead nowadays anyway...

break was great...
if you call not accomplishing ANYthing in you initial to-do list as 'great'
funny how time actually passes by alot quicker now... one minute i'm packing to go home and the next i'm getting ready to leave already...
my weekends are practically useless nowadays...
i think i need a crash course on time management soon.... preferably now...

i'm yapping too much... i know i know!
when people asked me what did i do over the break.... i can only reply with...
sleep
eat
go out
shop
eat
online
sleep
eat
watch tv
online
eat

noticed how 'eat' appeared the most?
i think higher beings are trying to interfere with my 'not gain anymore weight for fear of resembling an elephant' plan...
either that or what my friends say about how my parents are really afraid of me starving over there is true...
its ridiculous really...
i had suppers that are rich in calories
like... a lot of crab... and....
cendol dumplings gyoza taufufar giant bun all together...
extremely filling meals with friends...
my family went for an all you can eat japanese lunch thingy...
shashimi~ unagi~ cawanmushi~ greentea icecream~
yummy!
some pics....

the place was really cute... it had this small japanese village feel to it..
shashimi.... i think we had 5 servings of this.... i still want moreee
sushi sushi sushi
hehe

is it possible to eat crab 4 times in 2 weeks?
well apparently it is in my household...
i think i MIGHT be getting a little sick of it...
i wasnt when my bro was at the 3rd time... but i kinda am...
but i'm not tired of shashimi!!! haha
during my break i had chocolate everyday
a lot of available chocs + no self restrain = me eating everyday
what an unhealthy equation....

a whole pack of sneakers mini are gone.... the timtams from aussie has been reduced to just 1 miserable packet...

but theres still dark choc blueberry macedonia peppermint milk choc white choc etc etc

there is no end to this!!

things in uni are starting to heat up....
there are loads to do....
sometimes i just cant bring myself to do it though...
why isnt there ever enough time!?
its been raining everyday...
in that ulu place... when it rains it pours
the wind is strong so even if there's shelter you're never safe!
gao wong ye why do you make it rain everytime?

i'm starting to think that its abnormal if something doesnt happen...
my place's fengshui too good what...
on thursday... we got a sms from our housemate...
'our toilet is flooding'
dum dum dum
sigh..... tersumbat la... but nobody knows how the hell it happened...
when i saw it for myself...
'wtf'' was on my mind...
but 'omg' came out....
my advice to all those who wanted to see later was : hold your breath
and to make it all the more better... the plumbers will only be available on the following day....
so... we had to bathe somewhere else (of course i bathed!!)
we brushed our teeths in the kitchen -.-
and i had to pee badly so i just asked my neighbour if i could use their toilet.. haha
they say we have to pay =(
i hope its not our fault so we don't have to pay
i honestly have no idea how it happened anyway.. i've never done anything...
unless the combined amount of our hair can actually block the drain....
boohooo...

why do these things only happen to us?
no water la no electricity la toilet flood la
must be my sui-ness...
i pity my housemates...
gomenasai

talking to international students can really make you realise how 'malaysian' you are...
they actually find it amusing that we use 'lah' for almost every sentence...
and we're subconciously polluting them...
haha
its so cute when they say it though..

i'm currently suffering withdrawal symptoms...
i want my laptop!!! dad's isnt the same!
and my freaking monitor is pms-ing
but nobody bothers because bro has his own pc and sis uses her laptop...
=(
i'm too lazy to bring my laptop back and forth
=(
it can be heavy when you're not driving/being driven
ohh that day i took the lrt the wrong way...
yeah you must be thinking
'omg how stupid can she be to do THAT?'
okay i wasnt looking at the signs...
so i ended up heading towards kl...
had to get down and go the other way
hahah
this is what happens when u leave me alone
but hey i'm alive
it was pretty funny anyway...
and YES la i'm STUPID
if you call me blur you're just being kind =)

my whole post has been rather random huh?
these are just highlights...
if i blogged about everything i dont think i'll ever have enough space...
what exactly is the word limit here anyway?
come back mind~
yes my posts are lengthy...
yes they have a lot of words
yes they can get boring
yes my blog is dead-ish
yes i dont really care
yes you dont really care either
yes i should be sleeping
yes you should stop reading
yes i'm finally done blogging
yes this is for real

xoxo

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Thursday, October 11, 2007

WEE
i'm having a 'reading week' now for raya till next tues.....
ironic how i havent done any 'reading' whatsoever...

don't be surprised if the next time you see me i resemble a pregnant woman...
eating extremely fattening yet sinfully delicious food is bad bad bad
but...
how can i resist?

yesterday at 10pm....
dad: ting go teman me buy crab
me: o.O what time is it?!
dad: 10 oclock la
me: *secretly thinking that hes joking* duwanla

so..
i had salted egg crab at 11pm... ta pao-ed from pantai seafood... 2 big boxes...
and we all know when it comes to crab... i can eat A LOT
teehee

my dad may not know what my favourite colour is.. what kind of food i dont eat... what my friends names are... what my favourite pasttime is... what flavour of icecream i like.. which i prefer between ketchup and tomato... what my favourite fruit is... etc etc

BUT he knows i like eating crab

HAHAHAH

shit.. as if i havent gained enough weight already

tuesday was spent in ou with the girls.... what we did was... eat shop eat
i spent the most again =(
i went home seriously broke
we ate at delicious for dinner...
took pics of food but too lazy to upload....
i miss their wedges already......
nearly DIED trying to finish the food... those two didnt help either!

wednesday was lunch with foodies minus one
eat till full full again...
then we were drove around from subang to ou to uptown
haha

i made a pact with someone about actually touching my notes and books this holiday....
but im wondering if i can ever keep up my end of the deal...
gomenasai!

things i have to/should do:
- study?
- finish manufactoring record
- print out label for dispensing lab
- study??
- write abstract for PAR assignment
- do powerpoint for oral presentation
- think about what the hell is the future of pharmacy profession (my topic)
- attempt studying for calculation test ( the freaking 90% passing mark punya.. which means if i get 89/100 i still FAIL.... so since there are 50 questions... i can only get 5 questions wrong? and part A cannot use calculator? OO EEMM GEE)
- study???

things i actually did/am doing
- shopping (cant do much of that anymore since im BROKE)
- going out
- onlining like nobody's business
- appearing offline most of the time because nobody wants to talk to me anyway
- downloading stuff
- joined facebook (how lifeless can i get right?)
- blogging (like duh)
- watching tv
- eating (hence the gaining weight dilemma)
- watching downloaded stuff
- being bored when everybody else is hibernating ie studying

what i am currently watching

house season 3 (because im just in love with dr house)

gossip girl (still havent made up my mind about this show)

heroes season 2 (ANTICIPATION all the time)

pushing daisies (interesting for now!)

damn me and my never effective to do lists!

on another note...

is tomorrow's movie day still on?

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Saturday, October 6, 2007

here i am again! blogging instead of doing my work...
just a shout-out....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TINA!!!

hope london's treating you fine.... so sad la didnt get to chat with ya properly that day... but i'm glad you're having fun there...
go rock LSE yo! xD

*me hopes i didnt get the date wrong... me thinks tina won't see this though*

just to make this post less pointless... lets talk about lecturers shall we?
there are really lots of different lecturers in this world huh?
i thought i seen a weird one with my ex bmed sc lecturer... and not to forget pookey....
there are many different kinds of lecs in notts too....

the one teach until super fast 1 until nobody can fall asleep because if you dont pay attention for one second you will be LOST LOST LOST (i did that a couple of times and its not fun!)
the one who lectures and lectures and makes you wonder why on earth are his/her classes always so freaking LONG compared to others...
the one whos voice is so darn 'sexy' and lectures so very SLOWly you just can't help not paying any attention...
the one who lectures and when the class ends you're left wondering : 'huh? wtf just happened?' and you have no idea what you have just learnt...
the one who is moderately paced and can wake me up by doing something interesting....

what did he do?
well after one lecture with the 'dunno why his lectures so darn long 1' i was very the sleepy... and in walks our lecturer... and we were learning about enthalpy and energy and dunno what la...
so he drops a pingpong ball on a table and asks where does the kinetic energy go...
so we said it becomes heat energy when it touches the table...
and he drops it into a beaker of water and asks us the same thing...
i think we answered the same thing...
next he asked 'if that is the case... if we can put in energy into the ball... are you saying that it will jump back up?'
and guess what happened next....
he pulls out a hairdryer......
we all started laughing.....
he had one student go out and 'transfer heat energy' into the ball....
*5 minutes later....*
'hmm... i think thats about enough energy...'
*laughter laughter*
then he asks us to think and the rest is just a lecture about how there are many energies involved and bla bla...
i swear if the hairdryer didnt appear i would be so bored and sleepy....

but there is one guy that is seriously damn funny....
i have 2 english, 1 black, 3 chinese and 1 french lecturer...

the french dude can really make me laugh like mad...
1st day i wanted to laugh because of his accent.... and the way he talks its just.... funny!
he says things like
' there is no pen.. this is so sad... ' (with french accent.. so its like... zhere iz no penn.. zis iz so sadd..)
YET he comes to every class without a marker pen!
and when my curious classmates starts asking questions... he replies things like...
'this is not the purpose of the slide'
'wow you are better than me'
'you dont have to think so much'
'you dont have to worry about that'
when he says it its SO FUNNY la!!! *but me thinks he doesnt really know his stuff*
there was once he refer to the protein as a potato... and we were laughing...
and he said: 'i am sorry, i dunno how to say this, it looks like a potato to me'

but the lecture on friday really make me laugh the most!
we were talking about bacteria... then gonorrhea (STD)

'it is very bad to get this'
and then he started advising us...

'sex is good.... but condom... MUST'

'i beg you.. always remember..'

'condom is your friend'

then he did a blowing motion....
'test first... if it bursts... BAD'

HAHAHAHHAHA
he is really damn amusing la...

what else i learnt?

'bacteria is our enemy'

'chemotaxis in real life occurs when there is money'

wearing a flower clip to class is good...
'what a pretty flower... it makes me happy... 5 marks for your next test..'

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Friday, October 5, 2007

my blog seems to be dying....
anybody kind enough to give CPR?

the first thing i realised when i came back was........

i no longer know how to operate astro!!!
*cries*

i came back... pressed 76.... channel not found.... pressed 71.... channel not found.... *remembered something*
press ok to look for channels...
how to remember?! the order all also change already...
why need to press 3 numbers now har?! har?....

yeahla yeahla... it has been told that they were changing it...but still.....

ULU people like me dunno how to use la!
ULU people like me dont even know what is the latest movie to watch now.....
ULU people like me got EXTREMELY excited when we went to kajang and saw pizza hut, kfc, baskin robbins, dunkin donuts, starbucks, secret recipe....
ULU people went : wah got pizza hut! dunkin donuts! BASKIN ROBBINS!!!!!

want to know how one of the ULU people spent her week?
note: the author has no idea why she is refering to herself that way....

okok... normal mode... this is how my nottingham life is like...

monday: alarm rings at 8.30... off and goes back to sleep until 8.45.... get ready.... WALK to class... 10 til 4pm with 1 hour break... WALK back to room... rest for a while... carry out our plan to COOK.. we made 6 dishes for 7 people... o.O hahaha... but we cleaned up pretty nicely =) it was 9plus when we got to shower, online, watched disturbia with housemate which was left abandoned in my laptop ages ago... sleep.

tuesday: same procedure as above but earlier... had lab from 930 til 430 with an hour break too... VERY TIRING OKAY! dragged myself back to room.... DIED.... okay kidding... went to SA for a while... too lazy to cook... went out.... reached somewhere in kajang where there was civilisation!!!(refer above for examples of shops found there) ate pizza hut... lol.... came back at 9 something... shower...online, sleep.

wednesday: same morning procedure.. dispensing lab from 10 til 130... struggled filling up the manufactoring record... i really dunno how to use the BP and BNF la! made oral rehydrating powder... damn leceh 1 lo... weigh grind sieve weigh again mix weigh AGAIN pack... all manually... only managed to pack 1 miserable packet because i was seriously too 'fast'... boo... TIRING day again.... calculation class from 3 til 4.... went back.. online online... waited til 730... cook rice.. ate.... talked talked til 9 something... shower... online.. sleep

thursday: same waking up procedure... classes from 9 til 4 with 1hour break.... 4 hours of calculation class... =.= SUPER BORINGNESS AND BRAIN DETERIORATINGNESS... walked back... considered going for a swim.... so we went... there were so little people there! more space for us! haha! lets see... when we arrived there were 2 indian girls who were leaving... and 5 other pharmacy classmates... so 8 of us fooled around for abit... the 5 left earlier... and we left at about 7... was super the HUNGRY... went out for dinner.... the food took so LONG... so we talked and talked and TALKED... food came at nearly 9... we finished before 930 because we were so hungry! i proposed the theory that: they starve us so that the food seems nicer to us! but it was really okay la... 35 for 5 of us...
on the way home we saw a row of dogs lying on the road...
'die already a?'
'hahah how can? dogs must die in one row 1 meh?'
then i told them that i saw a lot of dogs that day.. and i even counted for them.. 10 dogs i saw that day!!! they kept laughing... and if you're also wondering if they were the same dogs they werent.. because...
2 were hairy
2 were small, not hairy and can climb up a very STEEP slope
6 were lying together on the road
i dunno why they find it funny when i explained this to them -.-

friday: woke up really EARLY to carry out our plan to cook breakfast... haha... we had scrambled eggs, sausages, fish fingers, bread, milk xD i highly doubt that we'll be cooking breakfast again anytime soon... classes from 10 til 12... well technically it was one class from 10-11 and one talk from 11-12... rush rush... pack pack... wait wait... jam jam... came back and DIED(sleep)

well... thats technically how my life is... i'm feeling a bit of the hectic-ness.... i still wonder how my classmates have time to study.. and trust me.. most of them are really hardworking...

one thing i dont like about this place is the food on campus... we only have 2 places to choose from... and i always end up eating the same things... wednesday i had fish and chips at the admin building and omg the fish is so i quote:'NOT EDIBLE'.. it tasted like.... like.... like.... it just wasnt fresh la!!! and 1 hour is hardly enough time for us to go out to eat since... well we're not exactly fast eaters.. hehe

i'm glad my housemates/roommates are pretty okay to live with... okay.. i cannot explain if they're my housemate/roommates since we dont share a house nor a room.. we just share an area... aiyor ill explain later IF i ever get to taking any pictures of this place...

oh yea... this place has exposed me to alot of.... 'nature'
there are loads of insects here... but not mosquitoes... just insects that sometimes im not even sure what they are... they just have wings... and they fly around and mysteriously dies on the floor or any surface.... i swear they do! i have no idea why... there are certain times when u wake up and walk out and on the floor u see dead insects *insert horror movie sound effect*... hahah
thank goodness there arent that many in our bedrooms....
when it rains.. i can hear a lot of frogs croaking outside....
sometimes i hear crickets when i'm trying to sleep...
and i see the occasional stray dogs (refer: thursday)
hmm.. maybe i should call them mountain dogs since i remembered that someone asked a senior where do the dogs come from and he answered...
'i'm not sure'
*thinks for 2 secs*
'i think they're from the mountains'
*me wondering where are these mountains and why on earth the dogs would wanna come to OUR campus from THEIR MOUNTAINS*
and of course i see the ducks in the lake everyday....

aiyer tired already.. blog more later la...

shit i have 2 reports to finish.... lazy/dunno how to do laaaa

i very stress
'cause i see a lot of seriously sangat the rajin people
'cause i dun likey lab
'cause i dunno a lot of things
i very sad
'cause i havent see ANY of my close friends for a long time already
the timing is always not right...
i miss them... i wonder if they miss me? maybe they dont care about me already la...
'cause i always dont have enough time to do what i want
'cause of reasons that i dont even understand

SIGHHHH

okay la... ill stop whining already
sorry for being so annoying

buhbye

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