get it freaking done already!

oh don't worry. i'm just getting pissed at the IT guys at my workplace. i've been waiting three freaking weeks just to get my laptop hooked up to the network so i can do work freely in the comfort of my own laptop. something that just takes minutes to do, they're making me wait so long. and why? because mine is a freaking vista. oh...university policy so called. only can use XP. what the...! when are they going to keep up with the latest technology? shy to tell people i even in melbourne uni lor. but a part of me thinks that it's just the IT guys, just because they're not familiar with the whole vista interface and compared to the numbers of XPs they have handled, they're being lazy and giving excuses. argh...so frustrating right? now that i bug them so much...eventough i don't know when they gonna do it. i'll prolly have to bring it in every single day! else they come and i didn't bring my laptop then they'll prolly make me wait longer!! oh wait...to and fro from my house is less than an hour. i guess i can make them wait an hour? =)

anyways, i've just started the pilot experimental study this week. 12 rats underwent surgery and hopefully 12 rats survive till the end. while i'm not doing my own surgery at the moment, it is anticipated that i do eventually do some. i don't mind not doing lor...i can always just play the supporting role. =) wouldn't it be a waste if the rats die during surgery just because i was inexperienced right? but anyways, this is all not really up to me...if they want me to do then i'll prolly have to do...sooner or later. i haven't got bitten or scratched by any of them yet...which is awesome. 6 of them are going to get sacrificed this thursday. please be good when i take 'your' blood pressure. darn...i have to wake up freaking early cuz have to be there by 8 am!!! definitely going to be super duper COLD!

tempted to tell you guys about the gory stuff done to other people's rats and mice but i think i better don't. i won't believe what they do...seriously. it's making me think that what 'we' (my lab) do is WAY humane.

so fast it's wednesday d tomoro. by end of this week, means i already back in melbourne for 5 weeks. time seems to pass by so quickly. and soon i'm going to get my second payment. yay!! i think i better start keeping track of where the money is going. else i won't be able to save up the amount i anticipated. note to self. stop shopping eventhough things may be cheap. hehe. =) another note to self. don't be so lazy. cook lunch.

there's free rock climbing tomoro! which i was anticipating since last week. but the thought of me needing to get in to work by 8 am...means i have to wake up by 6.30 am. and if i go rock climbing...i don't think i'll have enough energy to wake up so early what more last the whole thursday!? hmm....

it's all about you today

when we were in dandenongs waiting for the puffing billy

this was really funny because he just candidly stepped onto the car without verifying if it belonged to anyone or was it a display

you should see the picture of him when we were last in gold coast 1999 where all the animals were surrounding him while he was posing for the photo

my dad is special because he's the only person i know with triangular eyes. =)

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!

my second weekend here

time do really flies doesn't it? it's now been two weeks since i came back to melbourne...well almost anyways. what have i been up to? staying in the city really doesn't help me stay away from shopping! but hey i did get my first payment so it's all good. =) if going for meals in the city means there's bound to be window shopping and window shopping leads to actually purchasing stuff. and me who said i wouldn't do as much shopping because i wanna save up money so i'll be rich when i get home (looks like that's not going to happen huh?). but i think i'm still in the transition period...come on...two weeks only ma. and i who always complained that it's hard for me to find something i like in my size during sales? it doesn't seemed so this time around! my theory is that i just came back to melbourne. i've been missing out on the fashion here for almost four months? so i still see things that i potentially like which could have been old stock but heck i wouldn't know! wait till a month later then probably i will start complaining i don't see things i like anymore.

and my senior just said that it was so unlike me that since i come back i've been coming in to lab everyday and staying til quite late eventhough i don't have any lab work at the moment! i know i know...i have a bad reputation from honours because i'm always missing in action supposedly doing work from home...or just too lazy to go in early so come at lunch time...or going back early. so i can actually sit there with my laptop (only for listening to music) waiting for the IT guys to come hook me up to the network. damn i hate waiting. week after week how long more will it take. i think i'm going to grow shorter by the end of this year since i'm walking while carrying my laptop to work every single day!! it's not one of those 12" laptop...cute and handy...and light. do you want a hunched back gal as a friend? =)

having craving for durian gelato...i want...i need...durian gelato!!! hope can get my fix tomorrow. oh wait...ain't i suppose to be reading all those journals that i brought back? hehe. and i have to go buy printer. and go eat duck rice. yumz. marianne...do you know pacific house is in the city now? =) sounds like i wouldn't be getting much work done huh? that's for bringing all the papers home. and prolly bringing it all back to lab on monday. extra burden. journals as thick as a textbook plus heavy laptop. there goes my shoulder.

note to self: drink more water...

sex and the city

i was just complaining that there's nothing on tv eventhough it's friday then linda said why not we go watch a movie? super uber excited i uttered i wanna watch sex and the city! because previously i asked but no one was interested to watch it with me. saying they weren't fans of their series and all. and i would say i'm also not a devoted fan because i only watch them whenever i can and not go crazy if i've missed some season or chapters. so we called up and there were still tickets available for the 11 pm show. after some rational thinking we concluded that there was still tix because the movie was going to be 3 hours long including ads and by then it would prolly be too late for some to take the trams or the trains. loved the movie to bits! totally chicky flick. i pity those guys who were dragged to watch the movie. mostly gals of course.

on another matter, we went to max brenner before the movie started. so we were happily sitting there waiting for our order when linda noticed a man just walked out with the plates on the next table! the next thing we knew, he came back and was surveying the merchandises and just wrapped on of those cups in his jacket and walked off again. i spontaneously called out to linda's friend who was working there and told him what we saw. in shocked! then after a few minutes that guy was walking pass again with quite some items in his plastic bags! but linda's friend later thanked us and told us they have caught the guy. wow...i couldn't believe my eyes really. right in public where there's just so many people inside and outside of max brenner. we were later told that he said he was drunk but it definitely didn't look like it when we saw him.

it's the long weekend and i've only be back at lab for a week. fantabulous!

can you believe it?

that the price of my bedroom slippers is more expensive than that of a heater? well, i was trying to look for a better heater since it always crash within a year. thought maybe got kambrook or something to buy but seems like all the heaters around are ciplak brands or should i say no brand? ya, and i needed a bedroom slippers too because the kitchen floor and the bathroom floor are tiled. so it's really cold! i was told that this year will be the coldest winter in the past 10 years! it is quite cold considering that it's only june now. prolly be great for skiing this year. but not like got anything to do with me la.

=P

i kinda enjoy staying in the city, eventhough it's the other end of the city. =) anytime can just walk to melbourne central or safeway to buy stuff. though i don't like it that i have to take my own groceries. you know i don't have the strongest arms in the world. and taking a trolley will just look so aunty. maybe i shall like drop by every day and buy one thing at a time? but am finding it hard to finish up all my food eventhough it's not a lot. 15 mandarins is taking too long to vanish. pack of caramello koala is taking too long to finish. cereals not even touched cuz no milk (just bought milk today), and cheezels!

am thinking i'm always writing in short nonsensical manner. is it confusing or wat?

melbourne is freaking cold!

when i came back here, i thought "darn, i just missed out on the megasales in malaysia!". but tomorrow is the start of stocktake sales! i can't think of anything in particular that i really want to buy. except for the fact that i need a new heater (the weather is getting pretty cold) and a new printer (which was worn out due to overusage last year). if i wanted to, perhaps i could get more sweaters. other than that, i already gave up on the hope of getting another boots since i was told they (charles and keith) are not taking in size 4 this year. i'm not overexcited about the sales though. since i know i seldom find anything that i like during this time of the year cuz everything that i like is often out of size. so i actually buy stuff when it's not on a bargain for fear of no more stock.


have been back at uni for two days now. doing good at the moment. kinda been doing things leftover from last year actually. submitting abstracts for poster or oral presentation based on my honours project. so am actually kinda glad that more than just an honours thesis have come out of last year. going to be working on my PhD project outline soonish. i think i'm the PhD student that started the latest this year but obviously can't be helped.

there's random stuffs in my room...

...but i'm too lazy to touch them