what happened today. daze. i was freezing, then thawed, then froze, then thawed. then froze again. whatever, i think total 4 times. but i am not sick. tired sleepy, on the way to being sick. but not yet.

i am getting very very bored of taxonomy. and as i mentioned to jx, i wanna study cAMP, but they refuse to teach it till yr 2 or 3. SIAN.
and as someone asked me, does meiosis process result in half-ing the size of the genome? ... hm.

i think my shooting is progressing. but why can't i get my release right. correcting the release is destroying my nice grouping. and i must stop hitting my arm, else my tissues will all be turned to mush.

i need sleep i want sleep. where sleep.


Update:
In biology the genome of an organism is the whole hereditary information of an organism that is encoded in the DNA (or, for some viruses, RNA). This includes both the genes and the non-coding sequences. The term was first coined, in 1920, by Hans Winkler, Professor of Botany at the University of Hamburg.

More precisely, the genome of an organism is a complete DNA sequence of one set of chromosomes; for example, one of the two sets that a diploid individual carries in every somatic cell. The term genome can be applied specifically to mean the complete set of nuclear DNA (i.e., the nuclear genome) but can also be applied to organelles that contain their own DNA, as with the mitochondrial genome or the chloroplast genome. When people say that the genome of a sexually reproducing species has been "sequenced," typically they are referring to a determination of the sequences of one set of autosomes and one of each type of sex chromosome, which together represent both of the possible sexes. Even in species that exist in only one sex, what is described as "a genome sequence" may be a composite from the chromosomes of various individuals. In general use, the phrase genetic makeup is sometimes used conversationally to mean the genome of a particular individual or organism. The study of the global properties of genomes of related organisms is usually referred to as genomics, which distinguishes it from genetics which generally studies the properties of single genes or groups of genes.

finally saw a suicide in progress. finally got to see the big big air cushion. din manage to see the culprit though. what a failure, to be still alive when the SCDF arrives is like pathetic. can't even kill yourself properly.

i hate the chem lab. lousy crap.

=(

yesterday i had Soursop-Strawberry juice. hmm. it tastes nice, sweet too.
last friday there was jackfruit juice. whyever matthew objects to it. but it's nice too.
some weeks ago there was starfruit juice. (he objected to this too)
anyway today was only apple-orange.

我們都曾經寂寞而給對方承諾
我們都因為折磨而厭倦了生活
只是這樣的日子　同樣的方式還要多久

我們改變了態度而接納了對方
我們委屈了自己成全誰的夢想
只是這樣的日子　還剩下多少已不重要

＊時常想起過去的溫存
　它讓我在夜裡不會冷
　你說一個人的美麗是認真
　兩個人能在一起是緣份

　早知道是這樣　像夢一場
　我再不會把愛都放在同一個地方
　我能原諒　你的荒唐
　荒唐的是我沒有辦法遺忘

　早知道是這樣　如夢一場
　我又何必把淚都鎖在自己的眼眶
　讓你去瘋　讓你去狂
　讓你在沒有我的地方堅強＊

讓我在沒有你的地方療傷

more BBC news

family too poor for mother to give her one rupee to buy rice to eat in school. got scolded by mother for wanting the one rupee. committed suicide later that day. sigh. so poor thing. such poverty.

BBC news

amazing, a sickness in the virtual gameworld that killed off so many players. and spreads so fast. maybe they need some epidemiologists. or they should just pull the plug on all the servers.
to think it started off as a localised game feature and ppl managed to find a way to spread it around the server. so cool.

当我们同在一起，在一起，在一起。。。

in this world was a mountain, on the mountain was a plane;
a magnificent sliver of metal, a marvel of craftmanship;
the age-old dream of flight, the eternal search for freedom;
what was the plane doing on the mountain?
the mountain was too high.

what a crappy shooting day. everything was off. and i kept hitting my hand. and i dropped the bow. flabbergasted.

spanish appartment.

i din know NUS lib has uncensored media. hm. so they restrict it to ppl who are studying the relevant modules. how interesting. the cover of the dvd even has the module code and list of students on it. wow. but i wasn't in that module, .. , perhaps they're not too strict. ah well.

wonderful movie! go watch! better than all that stuff in the theatres. the story of a french guy who went to spain on europe exchange. living in an appartement full of ppl from different countries. surprisingly Audrey Tautou acted in this one. her again. she keeps popping up. maybe i should just help myself and watch everything she acts in.

Yanni - If I could tell you

i haven't heard her play this in years. she liked it so.
such a song.

and i was lying in bed till 3am... s.i.g.h

lousy chem lecturer, who's getting blasted for not replying to queries and not providing answers/discussion on questions. lousy

i don't feel like sleeping. is it because i woke up at 12. or is it because of the tea i drank. or is it because im too bored to sleep.

why must i sleep. sigh. here's to 6 hours of sleep. i just can't sleep early...

haven't been blogging much huh. nothing very worth writing about. after being so busy. with barely time to finish doing work and preparing for quiz here quiz there, CA everywhere. today's been the first day i refused to do any work.

MAF! at hwachong institution. what a crappy name. feel like tearing it down (the name only). i guess in the end there was still a not-insignificant number of ppl i can recognise and chat with. which reassures me that it's not useless to go back. and there's no visible impact of the change in management. prob there were more ppl who i dont know or din manage to find. but well. sufficiently entertaining a gathering. especially insane Timothy.

i didn't get to shoot today.. haiz.. when can i shoot..

shall try to watch L'Auberge Espagnole in sch on monday. anybody else wants?

and i shall also try to blog more often. tho i haven't been able to find stuff to blog, or stuff that's outside of school. try

today's lecture. lecturer mentioned that some guy in harvard did some crazy experiment, went to measure the fluidity of the cell. like how viscous the cytoplasm is. used a nanoprobe to move a molecule inside the cell. published results last month and shocked everyone.
apparently it's as fluid as glass in there. GLASS! the solid-liquid glass. so that's how fluid it is in there. 70% water, but not free-water.

yesterday's practical. lecturer was going through stuff. mentioned Johnsons and johnsons soap that's advertised as pH5.5 . told us that he put 1g of it in deionised water and it measured pH 6+. 1g in tap water also pH 6+. ??? and then titrated it with NaOH and HCl, no buffering capacity found. so what in the world does the soap do? and what is the advertised pH5.5....

today's lecture too. lecturer was mentioning beauty products like collagen pills. if u eat them, what happens. if u rub lotion on your face what happens. and the sheer price of these products... tsk.

i do dislike biodiversity so. otherwise, almost all lessons are enjoyable. chem prac sux. the chem lab sux too. french is absolutely delightful.

and i want sleep. why is the stupid lecture so early. did i mention that the chem lecturer is insanely slow. ohno what shall i do in chem lect tmr. too bad the textbook is too heavy to bring there to read. the only other module with two lectures a week (french's the other one), and he seems to have taught the least. and with also the least gusto. pathetic.