Monday, February 19, 2007

In the spirit of Lunar New Year...

... I finally changed my blog skin - qu4 jiu4 ying2 xin1 :)

...I am eating lotsa good food here! last night's yummy yusheng at SSA's CNY reunion dinner, this morning's homemade kueh lapis and walnut cookies thanks to Christina and Junch, lunch's yam rice, ba1 bao3 cai4, stew duck, kong bak pao by the Great Chef Junch of course, and now i need to find space in my stomach for steamboat and Zee's highly anticipated dishes whee~ I love this substitute 'family' away from home! :)

...I am giving myself a holiday and i haven't done work the whole weekend. not good... but WTH, it's CNY!

GONG HEI FATT CHOI to all!

* 7:12 AM

Thursday, February 15, 2007

IT'S OFFICIAL

CORNELL UNIVERSITY IS CLOSED

We are snowed in! ~WHEE

You think our school is so kind? fyi, it was only closed from 12pm onwards, ie we walked to, then back from school THROUGH 2 feet of snow!

* 3:54 AM

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow... HUR HUR

Even the most beautiful thing on Earth has a threshold point whereby you just want to yell, "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!"

*all temps in farenheit unless otherwise stated (brrr....)

* 8:32 PM

Friday, February 09, 2007

High and low

Yesterday was a low, today is a new high!

Kickboxing class is awesome! I love the upbeat music, I feel like i am dancing as i do the routine hehe. just that it's a damn xiong dance la! my thighs are aching alr!

This sounds absolutely geeky, but chem lab is cool today! After studying NMR for so long, i finally saw what it exactly looks like and i learnt how to operate it hahaha. i also had to hold this propane/oxygen fire gun that shoots out a 3000K flame to literally melt the glass of the nmr tube at its end, then i twisted and yanked the tube out and let the melted glass seal up its end - auto-seal! hahaha. luckily nobody in the lab felt particularly murderous today hur hur =P

and my chem prof is thinking of bringing our class to rockclimb or go to the Hoffman challenge course (= mini-obs) when spring comes! :)

my water supply project is getting really exciting! i met up with my team mate today and had an absolutely productive discussion-cum-brainstorm session and so many ideas were thrown in and we already have our design of our testing device all planned out! the next step is to buy the parts and build it! whee~

I have stopped complaining about the permanently -15deg cel weather, because the permanent snow/ice/slush on the ground has given me a perfect excuse to buy yet another pair of new boots! They came within 2 days after i ordered them online - Zappos rocks!! Not very cheap or extremely gorgeous, but for a pair of waterproof boots that have good traction, i think they are considered pretty already!