{ Friday, August 21, 2009 } 11:18 PM

I Had Fun Today

Lab for Dosage Form Design started! I hate MRTs. I had to miss 2 trains before I could get on the third one towards Pasir Ris. And I saw this stupid guy trying to squeeze onto the train by having his face facing passengers trying to get on the train and pushing his ass towards commuters already in the train. I was like, it's no use doing so because he's not even anywhere near the door. I mean, he's not even halfway through the door. That means he won't be able to get on the train anyway. Indeed, he didn't!

Anyway, lab was relaxing for this first session, but it's not going to be so later on. Haiz. I kind of expected that. We were doing moist heat and dry heat sterilisation. So we were given talcum powder and paraffin oil contaminated with bacteria (purposely) to sterilise. We filled 1 oz and 4 oz bottles with the powder and oil, and used only a spatulaful of powder and a few drops of oil for assay. Guess what? We were told to dispose of the remainder back into the stock bottles. Haha. We were shocked! It's like, contaminating the stock bottles! But they ARE contaminated... and I didn't know there was a need to wear masks while putting back the powder (powder particles suspended in the air, and I held my breath for fear of bacterial infection). I thought Hui Ning had it on for fun. So dumb of me. Anyway, I had fun chatting with Jamie while writing my labels for nutrient broths used to culture the samples. We found out that Prof Kurup had been teaching in NUS since 1970s and (he doesn't look old, really) he has even taught Prof Chan Lai Wah! Wow! I salute him. Just then, Yee Wen came along with a paper on which "Hi Ah Boon" was written and asked me to take a picture with it. LOL! Of course I agreed, 'cos I never had the chance to ever since I joined the group on Facebook. She was really excited that I already joined the group. Haha. I hope she posts the photo soon! It'll be cool to "appear" in the album. =P

Lunch was quite awkward initially, for there's only me and James. He bought his first while I looked after his laptop. I went for economic mixed vegetable rice and the queue was SO long and amazingly slow. By the time I went back to the table, James already finished his lunch. Oh well. I understand.

We started talking about IT products (there was an IT fair in Sci Fac, but kinda lousy) and he was impressed with my handphone. I felt so proud! He's like the first to truly understand why I bought my phone. (I felt like we bonded. MLIA. [LOL!]) He complimented that the camera was really too good for a phone and that it was worth buying it because it's almost similar to a smart phone (which he has, and is SUPER COOL). I then asked some questions about his phone, like whether it has motion sensor. He didn't answer me directly, but showed me a function. It's an application whereby there are 2 dice on the screen, and you can shake the phone to make the dice roll. I got really excited (because I saw the dice function on the Internet but never got the chance to see it real close) and James let me try once. AAAAAAAAAAAH! I can't get enough of it still! I hope he'll lend it to me again someday, haha.

Yin Yin joined us later and she had cookies for lunch. I tried a little of her ginger biscuit and it's actually quite good. I'm so gonna buy it someday! We had a little chat and boy, we had fun laughing it out loud. I'm serious! We talked about a lot of things and today's a really great day for me.

Dosage Form Design lecture made me really sleepy. I feel so apologetic to Prof Kurup but I can't help it! It's been a long day and the pace of the lecture was slow (but I do appreciate it, 'cos Med Chem gave me hell). We also watched a video on laboratory safety. I saw Dr Giorgia in it and some of the teaching assistants seen before in the past 2 years. I also saw Chen Yee Ju in it! She was acting to be innocent when caught eating in the lab. Her expression was so cute, I think she deserves an acting award!

I don't have to TGIF this week because today's really fun and as more Fridays come, I'll be a goner.