(A melodic or harmonic configuration that creates a sense of repose or resolution.)
"But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever." - Psalms 52:8
Thursday, January 24, 2008
zomg.
what is going on?? the world is too small.
when i came bursting into the office today, alvin turned to me and said, 'guess what? do you remember this guy called marc?'
'uh, no...'
'from morris piers?? ok, anyway, i was talking to him and he was telling me he was having lunch with some people yesterday and asking them if they still keep in touch with their JC friends...'
'OH OH THAT GUY, from smu right? yar why?'
' yes, so he was talking about jc friends that they still keep in touch with...'
'mmhmm'
'and weiyi mentioned your name.'
'??!?!?! huh?'
at this point i'm like, 'eh what the heck? why is weiyi's name in this conversation? marc? weiyi? jc friends?? they know each other? and marc doesn't even know who i am, so why'd he mention my name to alvin? what??'
ok apparently, hao lun was there too, who mentioned alvin, and hence allowed marc and weiyi to make the connection that weiyi's jc friend, ME, is also his morris pier's friend, ALVIN'S, girlfriend.
all thanks to haolun who made the connection. haha.
and apparently marc (who was introduced to WoW by alvin - yes, i remember alvin telling me this a long time back, coz he mentioned marc was really, really, into WoW at that point) and weiyi play WoW together. LOL.
as much as i try to stay away from WoW, it just comes after me... i don't know why. -_-
i spend lots of time with alvin. i mean, that's a given, right? since we work together?
we spend pretty much the entire day together, working through bits before experiments, culturing malaria together, working on the experiments we set up, writing research papers (not so much reading research papers - which is a nasty habit i have to change), coming up with a poster design, preparing for upcoming conferences, preparing to move our experiments over to NTU, making media... THIS WORK IS NEVER-ENDING.
and then of course, we go out and catch movies or concerts or go cycling or shopping and I LOVE ALL MY FRIENDS... but it seriously perturbs me that, we never seem to be alone anymore.
i try thinking back to the most recent 'just-the-two-of-us' date we've had.
'hmm... went for cloverfield with the guys, went for parties with my cell, played guitar hero with HIS cell... etc etc'
well ok, i can think of one recent 'just-the-two-of-us' date actually. we'd gone to parkway for sashimi and then walked around for what, 1 hour? then we went back to his place to work on our IC50 paper.
this is all rather depressing. rather.
-great big sigh-
see, classic example. it's almost 8pm and i'm waiting to go home with alvin to... have dinner then work on the IC50 paper and on our poster for next week's conference.
i loved how the entire theatre was silent for a long moment after the movie ended. and my adrenaline was pumping like nuts... not sure how you'd feel about it though.
i was desperately catching up with Coffee Prince on mysoju.com last night, and only slept at 230am but before i slept, i resisted the urge to set my alarm for 730am instead of 630am (more sleep, but go to work later :P)
i resisted the urge, woke up in the sun-less morn, and was out of the door by 715am.
that's when everything went downhill.
i waited and waited for an empty bus, wondering to myself WHY are all the buses full? odd morning. then a never-seen-before 'mrt shuttle' bus zoomed past.
???
eventually i managed to squeeze myself up a bus 9, and made my way to the mrt station. checked my watch, 'hmm good, i can still take the train from simei to pasir ris, then to school and make it to work on time. heehee, can sit down too heehee.'
well, that was what i thought la. -_-
upon reaching the designated bus stop, there were tons of people trying to get up the bus. again, 'odd morning' flashed across my mind.
oh well. i got off the bus and looked over towards the mrt station...
DANGGIT. IT'S CLOSED!!! due to some 'technical difficulties'.
i woke up early... FOR THIS??!?! noooooooooooooooo...
yar so anyway i sat at the bus stop, stumped as to which bus to take to school, since the shuttle service provided from simei to tanah merah were all packed even without picking anyone up at simei.
in the end i took a 10 minute walk to another bus stop, hopped on to bus 5 which took 20 minutes to arrive, got caught in TWO jams outside simei mrt and at eunos, then hopped on to 14 at orchard, and walked over from dover to school.
i'd never been so happy to arrive at work.
it's insane - the whole mrt debacle made me take 3 hours to commute to work this very morning. sigh, maybe if i'd read psalms before breakfast like i was supposed to...
i could be called nerdy at times, but even this is too much for me.
The PCR Song
There was a time when to amplify DNA, You had to grow tons and tons of tiny cells. Then along came a guy named Dr. Kary Mullis, Said you can amplify in vitro just as well. Just mix your template with a buffer and some primers, Nucleotides and polymerases, too.
Denaturing, annealing, and extending. Well it’s amazing what heating and cooling and heating will do.
PCR, when you need to detect mutations. PCR, when you need to recombine. PCR, when you need to find out who the daddy is. PCR, when you need to solve a crime.
i just went back to sunset way yesterday evening, so when i saw willie come online i msged him to tell him i went back to our old place to check out how much it's changed.
and then on the other window, i was telling weiyi about Switchfoot; and i realized i haven't checked with willie if he was going yet, so...
Ms. Moo (@): XS earbuds are the way to go says: OH HEYYYYYYYYY do u wanna go for switchfoot? can't believe i forgot to ask u
Willie says: on the 31st?
Ms. Moo (@): XS earbuds are the way to go says: yeah haha i see u know already
Willie says: well i have to admit something
Ms. Moo (@): XS earbuds are the way to go says: ? u can;t stand them?
Willie says: i have backstage passes hahahaha
Ms. Moo (@): XS earbuds are the way to go says: NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Willie says: HAHAHAHHAA
Ms. Moo (@): XS earbuds are the way to go says: BO JIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! T_T
Willie says: under my studio lah!
Ms. Moo (@): XS earbuds are the way to go says: bring me bring me bring me please please please *beg*
Willie says: must ask my boss cos he surprised me the studio is sponsering their gig
Ms. Moo (@): XS earbuds are the way to go says: OMG wah
Willie says: so all engineers get the passes
Ms. Moo (@): XS earbuds are the way to go says: i'm losing it already
Willie says: why?
Ms. Moo (@): XS earbuds are the way to go says: gah! GAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Willie says: be an engineer! hahaha
Ms. Moo (@): XS earbuds are the way to go says: -_- can't believe i paid 92 bucks BAH! come on ... gimme passes so i can bless someone else with my fantastic front row tickets
Willie says: HAHAHA
and also! he knows the people from the Fire Fight! i just knew i've seen the specky guy before; he's willie's pal!
