Sunday, November 30, 2008


Phew!

FInally i collected back all the samples! :) Now i have 50 samples i think. BUT!

Im facing some problems. Some of them wasnt clear of how its supposed to be done i think. But i explained to them already. But i think i wasnt there to monitor them. Here are some errors/mistakes made by them:-

  1. Both saliva and buccal swabs samples were put into the fridge. I only asked them to put the buccal swabs in the fridge.
  2. The amount of saliva collected is not appropriate. Some collected way less then needed. But surprisingly some of them collected way more than needed.
  3. I stressed to them to write their initial and not their name. But they wrote their name.
  4. They didnt cap the saliva tubes tightly. Due to this, the saliva wasnt mixed with the oragene solution. And some of saliva went out the tube. (Yar i noe its disgusting). And this worries me most.
  5. Some of them label the buccal swabs tubes but they didnt label the saliva tubes. Sigh.

Overall, im very worried la. But its ok. At least i got all the samples that i wanted.

Posted by Other Eden at 6:28 PM

Friday, November 28, 2008


Ouch. My jaw hurts real bad. I think its my tooth? Seriously. I cant open my mouth.I cant eat properly. T_T. And i can't chew too. I have to chew slowly. And yet it hurts. Sigh.
Since monday anywayz.

Anyway yesterday i went to sch. Finally got a sample from Louis.Thanks Louis. Then, i dunno y.. I asked help from Mr Kok. But he didnt want to help me. Basket. What a very "helpful" lecturer. Anyway, y muz ppl give me false hope? WHen i asked a person if they can help, they say can. But then last minute they say dun want. Y cant u say "no" in the first place. Sigh. Ppl these days.

Posted by Other Eden at 7:39 AM

Thursday, November 27, 2008


Brrr.. Im so nervous. It thursday. I havent even collect any samples. Only 11. What i meant was i gave my cousins and friends the things already. BUt i havent collect from them. Bleah.

The 11 samples is from the lab also. LK helped me to recruit. So i should have already recruited 43 samples. 23 females and 20 males. I need 2 more females and 5 more males. Sianed. Anyone anyone pls!

I distributed all the tubes and swabs to my cousins family la. There should be 19. Hopefully all 19 contribute! Coz if not hor, i will be in trouble. I will have to hunt ppl already.

I managed to get one of my course mate to contribute too. Yay. Only one? yes. The rest dun want. Bleah. I also smsed some of my frens and they didnt reply. Im so sad.

Posted by Other Eden at 2:32 PM

Wednesday, November 26, 2008


Wth man.

Juz now i received a phone call. When i picked up the phone the person said,"How are you today?" I was like..wth.. who r u sia. Of coz i didnt say that. Anyway i didnt answer her lah. I asked who is she. Then she said she is blah blah from blah blah. Promoting health and food supplements. Sian. I hate it. Why muz it always me who pick up the phone everytime someone like this calls. Brr. I always kena u noe. Then, i just didnt bother what she said lah. Juz say okokokok all the way. Let her blabber her way thru. Then the best part is i said "No thanks". I put down the phone. Mwahaha..

Posted by Other Eden at 7:58 PM


When i'm bored, i cook. When i cook means i'm bored.

Ok nvm

So this morning im so bored. And hungry.

Posted by Other Eden at 11:05 AM

Tuesday, November 25, 2008


Ouch! My tooth hurts!
Nvm
So some one just got an OMNIA. Grr

Btw, i wanted to change phone actually. My contract is over :). So i went to hello shop and everything. I couldnt decide which phone to buy. I was looking into touch-screen phones. :) Thought of the Samsung F480. I dont know if its a good phone or not. Nvm~~

Posted by Other Eden at 8:03 AM

Saturday, November 22, 2008


Heya

Ive not been feeling well these days. On wed nite, i had stomach problem. My stomach felt very uneasy and i felt like vomitting. It dragged till thurs. Then on Fri morning, i had diarrhea. Tsk3.. Then... luckily, at work, WL gave me a medicine. Its a chinese medicine. To treat diarrhea and other related illness. So yea, and i tell ya it worked like magic. My diarrhea stopped. But the medicine is very bitter and u have to suck the pills slowly some more. But nvm.

Then, so this morning i had fever. And headache! So yea. Luckily my fever subsided. :)

Ok so lets put that aside. Im so happy to the max. Coz, next week, the whole week i dun have to go to work!!! Wee!!! but i still have to go to sch. But its better isnt it. Its so near to my home. Dun have to wake up early and everything. Ok so, the reason is, KKH will undergo an audit. Its called JCI accrediation. So these auditors will come for that entire week. So, to avoid me from screwing things up, my supervisor instructed me not to come to work for that week but have to go to sch instead. Wee!!!

So, i already had tasks given to me. I had to find 50 ppl to contribute their saliva and cheek cells for my project! It sounds easy but not many ppl want to spit u noe. Brr.. But luckily, i already asked my cousins, aunts and uncles to contribute.. so total i should get abt 17. :) So, hope to find more ppl!!!!!! Pls anyone! Who can contribute their cheek cells and saliva samples!!

Posted by Other Eden at 7:16 PM

Wednesday, November 19, 2008


Heya

So on Monday, i went to work as usual. Then during lunch time, WL asked me out. I meant. For lunch. At Tekka market there. So yea. I always have lunch with her these days.Haha. Its great coz she's a very nice person and everything.

Today i went out with WL and LK for lunch also at Raffles Hospital. Hahaha.. It was fun. Hehehe.

Btw! On Monday i went to watch Madagascar 2!! Haha. With Niz, Nul and Nurul. So yea.We watched at Downtown east. So the movie was okay! It was funny! i would rate it 3/5.

Posted by Other Eden at 7:21 PM

Sunday, November 16, 2008


Hey...

Mua strings snapped again! But actually it snapped later than expected. Coz usually this strings will snap like in 2-3 weeks. But this time it lasted abt 5 weeks. Cool.

So it snapped when i played tennis yesterday at CSC tessensohn. So i took this bus no 21 from my house lah at abt 7.10 pm. Straight bus thou. To my horror the road infront of the bus stop was under construction. So from 3 lanes became 1 lane. So, there was a major traffic congestion there. All the vehicles were inching their way through. Bleah i had to wait for the bus to reach the bus stop for like 10 mins or so although the bus was there infront like 100 m away from the bus stop. Then, as i was about to board the bus, a guy alighted the bus kinda scolded the bangladeshi worker. He said abt why they make the roads during busy hours and blah blah. I actually felt that way also. Why must they do the roads during that hour sia. But nvm.

THen when the bus reached bedok reservoir road there, the bus was invaded with foreign workers. Bleah. Menyibuk ajer. And the bus became so packed. Furthermore its a single deck bus. And we were like sardines in a can seriously. It was so warm and i couldnt really breathe coz the person infront was like squeezing on me. And also, some of them stinks. Sigh.

THen when it reaches geylang, there was a traffic congestion again. So i reached the place at abt 8.30 pm. Tsk3. Usually, it only takes 50 mins to reach. But this time it took abt 1 hr 20 mins. SIgh...what a day~~~

Posted by Other Eden at 6:16 PM

Saturday, November 15, 2008


Hey

Yayz! My bro coming back tonight!! =)

Anywayz juz now got the 1st on campus discussion. Brrr.. It was from 9 am - 1 pm. So yea
At 9 we got a briefing first. Before we were split into classes.

So in my group got only 8 ppl including me. So, we had to share our experiences during SIP. Iskz. So yea, they all seemed to be having fun during their SIP. THey went thru a lot and they did so many diff things. Adelyn and 3 others were attached to this vet company or something. They did so many interesting things. I was envious. Lissa was attached to a cream company and she also did interesting things. When it comes to my turn, it was boring. Coz everyday i did the same thing. Bleah~ PCR PCR PCR. Seriously i dunno what to say seh. I cant bluff them or anything. And i had to be frank. I even told them abt my mentors and everything..So yea....

Bleah~~~~ I dont think ill be doing well for SIP and MP. When i saw everyone's project title, they were very complex. My title is so simple. Its only abt comparing the extraction using saliva and cheek cells for the use of PCR. So i juz had to do extraction and PCR. Bleah~Or maybe DNA sequencing. Sighz~~

Posted by Other Eden at 4:43 PM

Tuesday, November 11, 2008


Yes! Me and Sam won Ryan and Malcolm 7-6(5), 6-2!!

Posted by Other Eden at 6:51 AM

Saturday, November 08, 2008


Hey

So work was good these days. There was a new staff in our lab! Yay. Her name is WL. But her so called level is higher than us though. SHe is a scientific officer. SHe has done her PhD. And now doing her post-doc in KKH i think.

But she is a very nice person. She is very courteous. She always smile smile. She smile and greeted everyone that walked pass her in the lab. THough she doesnt know that person. She is very organised and initiated too. Cool.

And the good thing is, EL moved out to another lab! =)But dunno til when. Coz our lab can only fit 3 ppl i think. Coz its very small!

Anywaez.

WL told us (me and LK) abt an incident. She had met 3 road accidents!! And she is ok. The accident happened at a zebra crossing. The car had stopped before she crossed. BUt as she started crossing, the car accelerated and banged onto her. THe impact caused her to fly off. But the weird thing was, the car escaped. Without a trace. Dunno y police cant find the driver. But miraculously, she was ok. Only suffered bruises and concussion.

One thing i like abt WL is she knows Islam very pretty well. COz she is a malaysian. The surprising thing was she memorize the Azan (prayer call). Coz she used to live near the mosque and everything. And i also juz got to know from her that malaysia got a lot of Public hols! Grrr.. Including Nuzul Quran, 1st Muharram (Islam's new year) and they got holiday for hari raya puasa for a few days i think. grrr. But nvm!

BUt hor, LK is a malaysian also! WHy LK no nuts abt Islam. Nvmlah.. Thats it i guess :)

Posted by Other Eden at 3:12 PM

Sunday, November 02, 2008



Btw. yesterday i watched The Coffin with my family members. My dad got 4 complementary tix! =) So the show is ok! Some scenes are scary. I rate it 3.5/5. Not bad lah. :D
Btw! My match is postponed as expected. Due to rain!!!! Grrr... Postponed to next 2 weeks. Due to him going overseas. See told u hes always busy. Bleah!!!


Posted by Other Eden at 8:06 PM


Bleah~

The ITN OCA is postponed yet again!

This is like the 3rd time that its been postponed. Firstly, it was supposed to held at 11th Oct. But postponed to 25th Oct. Then postponed again to 1st Nov. Now i dunno postpone till when. And dunno if there will be another postpone after that or not. So, due to the postpone, i played tennis. Mwahahahahaha. With James. I havent played with him for like ages. I won him 6-3, 7-6(1) though i was playing like crap. Bleah! My string tension dropped! T_T I have a feeling its gonna give way anytime. Pls! I have a ladder match with Erwin this afternoon. And i hope i get to play with him coz its very very difficult to arrange match with him because he is always busy!

Another person difficult to arrange is Wilson. I think he coz he is very outgoing. When i tried to arrange with him, he always say he is going out or he got appt. Apart from that, he also plays soccer! And most weekends he has soccer matches!! Bleah! But i tried to arrange with him this weekend. And to my horror he said he found a job and he is not free this week. ~~~ I was like..brrr.. I only need like less than 30 mins! Coz i was leading 6-3, 5-5. Well, thats if it doesnt go to the third set. Bleah.

Its his fault too! He came late the other time! ANd because of that we didnt manage to finish the match. And its my fault also coz i didnt manage to close out the match. Coz i was leading 6-3, 5-2. Grrr... Whatever la. Im gonna see if he has the initiative to arrange the match with him. Im not going to do the arranging anymore. Period.

Posted by Other Eden at 7:53 AM