so what is news

the lost baby whale named colin found abandoned by its mummy was euthanized based on the rationale that it should not suffer the slow death. it was deemed incapable of living on its own as it was having breathing difficulty, attacked by sharks and is feeding properly.

my supervisor has been appearing in several radio and television interviews over the past week. the media make it seemed as though the research we're doing in the lab is super uberly important. they even when to the extent of saying that this could save millions of life with just a pop of a pill a day. interviewed on tv was an old man who was on dialysis who said it would be miracle sent from God. now i can see how exaggerated the media can be. but all is good. the more funding we have the better the research can be. interested?

the poster presentation for the conference looks superb. ok self praise is no praise. will take a picture of it when i have the chance. there is a different perception of things when it's magnified a thousand times.

too many birthdays coming up. going to have four upcoming birthdays in less than 2 weeks. but isn't it better to have reason to celebrate i.e. you have friends in a land far away rather than not having anything to look forward to? though am feeling a lil left out from birthday celebrations of my beloved friends back home. i love y'all and can't wait till the day i'm finally back in msia to feel like part of the group again!

what kind are you?

Are you the kind who finds a reason to shop?

Or

Are you the kind who shops for a reason?

one eye tooth monster now has a twin

design inspired by oneye. though i not so advanced yet so i guess mine is like the simplified version.

with olympic spirit

beibei is the fish
jingjing is the panda
huanhuan is the olympic flame
yingying is the tibetan antelope

nini is the swallow

i didn't know what these were supposed to be until today when i actually bothered to find out. my bad. wasn't so into olympic this year since the events they were showing on tv at night isn't that interesting to me and i have no idea how the daily schedule is like. at first i thought they were all variations of panda looking creatures! apparently not. they are Fuwa, each with a meaningful symbolism.

and why the names you may ask. only when i saw all five Fuwa in order that i realised they are saying

BEI JING HUAN YING NI

"BEIJING WELCOMES YOU"

plus they represent the colours of the olympic rings

their promo video is quite interesting as well. too bad they didn't show it on aussie tv.

p/s: ok ok i know i can be a bit slow sometimes but hey don't read newspaper and i didn't watch the olympics opening. the first time i saw these were at mcdonald's!

told you it was addictive

it's surprising how some things on the internet can be a phenomenon overnight. take FB for instance. gone were the days we were all on friendsters where uploading photos took forever. where cool glittery messages does not appear most of the time. where if your friends are checking out your profile and it appears in 'who has viewed you' there would be this awkward moment where you think why so and so is checking you out. where if you chose to spy silently then be ready to get spied on. where there's too many 'chain letters' circulating around. it was just a year ago that i joined FB. i joined it because this is what the aussies use for networking. like how we malaysians and singaporeans were using friendsters. it was how i kept contact with my honours buddies. leaving them messages for them to reply when they're free. since for some msn at work is a no no. we organized events. we shared photos. we drew graffiti for each other. now it's like an addiction. i have to check it everyday without fail now. no wonder the polls are saying that workplace is becoming less productive since FB was introduced. of course i do refrain from making comments, or playing games, or spying on people while i'm at work.

one guy at our student room actually 'announced' that he's on FB for more than one hour during working hours. like as if that's something to be proud of? anyways just some weird AMS (medical student) whom we don't really fancy because he seems to be doing things not to our liking for someone new to our environment. moving things around without asking permission, complaining about the workload when most of the time we see him doing nothing.

ok where was i? have i told you guys that my supervisor has FB too? now even his wife has FB!? it's kinda cool but freaky at the same time. have to be especially careful when updating status. there was once min was putting some comment on her status and when she went to meet my supervisor regarding work, the first thing he did was asked her about her FB status! O.o and now that he has his new gadget i.e. the one and only iPhone, you can see him uploading status from his mobile all the time! thankfully there's this function where we can go offline while on FB else he'll be on alert to catch us slacking at work. he actually asked me to form a group for the lab where we can organize events and upload photos and stuff. but i told him that it would only work if more of our lab people have FB. else the group would be redundant. hey talking about group! the st. vincent's postgraduate student society created a group just for us! not so happening yet though but it would be a good place for us to give in suggestions as to what other events we can organize. we just came back from our annual retreat last weekend and boy was it cold at philip island. and i LOVE go karting!! more about that next!

tokens

from sarah

from 'tan tart'

a start of a new journey

the stilettos bead was a gift from charles and min

whilst the rests are my own

each one is unique

the epitome of life