Random musings

I told my sis I'd wear this flowery blouse when I'm 20-something.
Then she told me flatly that I am, in fact, 20-something. I replied that I'll wear the shirt when I'm her age (which is only a few years later).
I am too old for the song "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman" by Britney, cuz I am a woman. If I committed a crime (not that I would), I'd be sent to Changi WOMEN'S prison.
I read in Her World that Maria Sharapova, tennis superstar, is 22 years old. I'm 22 too. Kind of proves that age is just a number, doesn't really reflect maturity.
People younger than me are making news. Did you know that the famous Ris Low is 19?
I am really technically an adult after all.
From now on I'll have to replace the phrase "When I grow up" to "When I'm fiscally independent/mature".

I've been reading my Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea Quartet lately. In the novel, the characters only tell the people they truly trust their "true name" (spell casting issues). I feel that my true name is my chinese name because not many people know it. Hahaha.




I don't really like advanced cell bio, its pretty boring to me. Except the part about how calorie restriction can prolong life expectancy. I've got an exam on it on Wed, sigh. The boredom of it all! I should think tumour bio would be more interesting.
Anyway, I had a dog dream again. I dreamt that I had to adopt 2 cute puppies (a bluish one with curly medium fur and a brown one with floppy ears and short fur) because I joined some animal/ELDDS club in school and the dogs were abandoned. They were quite cute, but I was worried about keeping them because I didn't really have time for them and also I was living in a flat. And I didn't know how big those puppies would grow to. But I couldn't bear to send them to SPCA cuz I kept thinking of how they put animals down. Luckily it was a dream. I always have dreams about having pet dogs and not really wanting to keep them because of all that trouble.
Then my dream went on to me visiting a bee keeping place. I was so scared of getting stung and kept wearing the suit. And the people who went with me didn't bother!
What a silly dream.




I've been feeling the stuck-in-a-rut, trapped, sub-optimal, robotic, barely awake, mentally-absent feeling for quite a some time, maybe 2 weeks. In short, I am sad because of a variety of trivial reasons which should normally not cause sadness. But I have to admit to myself that I am sad nevertheless. That's one of the ways to increase EQ (so says the lecture slides of the module, "Dynamics of Interpersonal Effectiveness"), to ackowledge one's emotions and being self-aware.
*flips notes*
The next thing I have to do is try to get out of this mood. (Hmm. Should I gorge myself? No, the lecture notes says that we have to also control impulse and delay gratification.) "Motivate oneself and persist in the face of frustration". Ok. The notes also say that people with good EQ can manage their emotions. I have to now manage my emotion. Now that I have acknowledged it. Er. Lecture notes says "Downs and ups spice up our lives!"
I guess I shouldn't have slept in and should have went for that particular lecture. Let me find the textbook.

Anyway, I'm sad cuz I fear for the future (post-graduation plans). And I fear for cell bio. And I fear for my pharmacogenetics test. And I got terrible experiment results today. I can't seem to troubleshoot. I could have plated the cells badly, but its only just as bad as the other times I plated. Or I could have added something wrongly. WOE IS ME! I really need this break from lab. (Thanks to reading week and exams, I can take a little break! What a skewed sense of looking at the world.)

Could be PMS again.

Your Socks Say You're Playful

You Are: - Always hyper - Very amusing - Known as friendly - Quite silly

I quite like this pair of socks!

Haha, cheryl and mud, i did this quiz tooo!

Your Bed Says You Are Down to Earth

Outward appearances are a concern of yours, but not your primary concern. You try to take care of yourself and your home, but it's not an obsession. Your life tends to be completely chaotic. You aren't a very organized person, and you tend to be slow in cleaning up messes. You are very low maintenance. You tend to go with the flow, and you're easily pleased. In relationships, you tend to kick back and let the other person be in charge. You tend to be a down to earth, practical person. You think in terms of what is actual. You are a bit of a homebody, but you can also make yourself at home anywhere.

I have an unfunny science joke:
So says the bartender: "Pub Med is such a hit among scientists."
So says the bartender: "Pub Med is a popular hangout for scientists."

I got inspiration for this unfunny joke when I randomly wondered why Pubmed (the medicine and science database/search engine) sounds so catchy and memorable. Then I thought it rhymes with "Club Med", a hip holiday resort chain. Maybe that was the inspiration? Maybe there's tons of people using PubMed in ClubMed.
Hahahaha. Not funny.
But the main point of this joke is that maybe Pubmed is so named because it sounds like a bar/pub/club to colour the lives of researchers.
Then again, maybe PubMed is like a short form for "Public Library of Medicine", which makes a lot of sense since it is a provided by the awesome NIH and US National Library of Medicine.

(For the non-science students who read my blog, Pubmed is like a JSTOR for science students.)




I watched "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" in 3D and it was fabulous! Falling spaghetti, ice cream, steak, hot dogs, pancakes, eggs and bacon.... I think "Ice Age'' still has more jokes than Cloudy, but Cloudy had such wonderful special effects and animation. Boy, I am loving the 3D wave right now. The story is very meaningful too. Besides the romance and the conventional follow-your-heart stuff, it also tells us to do what's right and not what pleases others. Besides these, there are also other meaningful things, and if I write them down it would make the show sound boring, so I shall not. And I really liked the subtle environmental and obesity references. What a great movie: meaningful and a visual spectacle. Compared to ''Up'', I found this movie more satisfying because it has a better plot and also better animation (more colourful and more detailed).

Another movie I watched is "500 days of summer". I kind of like it because it is a romance movie but not too sweet. In fact it is kind of frank, but not too cynical. I especially liked Tom's (the main character) kid sister, whom he whines to about his relationship. She's so cute and likable, and gives sage advice about relationships, so it makes it ironic and kind of funny too . I also think the girl Tom likes (the other main character), played by Zooey Deschanel, is very very pretty!

On the side note, I didn't get my money's worth ($9.50) when I went to Toa Payoh's movie theatre. If I watched the movie at home on my plasma TV, I'd have had a better experience, because the air con was not working well in the theatre. I was fanning myself! Should have went to complain outside. Then I would have gotten my money's worth. The cinema is in such a lousy place some more, the building it was in had so many empty shop spaces. I think cinemas in such dilapidated places should have discounted movie tics. But anyway, why on earth did I still go and watch?? Because I really wanted to watch 500 days of Summer, and also because we were already there. Inertia, inertia, inertia!

What a big contrast to the theatres in The Cathay and AMK Hub Same price lehs!!! In fact, I paid $10.50 for the 3D movie at AMK Hub because we went on a weekday!