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有几个知己是好的。。

尤其是在你心情低落时。。

更尤其在你远赴异乡时。。

当然，这并不意味着旧的已被替代。。

没有人可以替代你们的。。！！

当知道某人已有某人时。。

是有点失望、有点遗憾。。

但，也不是全然地吃惊。。

好的，很少是不属于别人的。。

谢谢“三剑客”的其余两位的支持。。

（应该为咱们的门派取个名字）

我们决定做一些疯狂的事。。

疯狂的事是我们的家常便饭啦。。

明天。。

我们会以游客身份游狮城。。

会以“formal”装出席。。

然后一起看戏。。

我们会拍很多的照片。。

我们会打扮得很漂亮。。

我们会玩得很疯狂的。。

谷底的心情已在云端。。

能在茫茫人海中认识你们。。

是缘分，也很感激。。

new project?

aihz...

i hv tried methods that i know..

and yet can't get my product..

Talked to prof..

mayb will switch other project..

not confirm yet..

The gold nanoparticle is simply to hard to maintain..

doing anything to it will damage it..

回首，回顾。。

终于回来咯。。

又是好累的一天。。

研究员的工作其实还蛮好玩的。。

以后我会走这行吗？

归途中不断地在想。。

虽然短短的十分钟。。

我却想了好多东西。。

从假期到现在。。

我觉得我好像学了很多东西。。

我忽然好像明白了Mabel常说的“有所期待”。。

当然，我不像她，她很“花心”的。。（她应该没来这里的 :p)

我自问不是一个很长情的人。。

但我若放了感情却很不容易收回。。

更莫说短时间内“跳槽”。。

可是最近好像对某人有了“有所期待”的感觉。。

就好像当初的那“有所期待”。。

不知不觉，那已是三年前了。。 哈哈。。

可是还是有人想知道当初的她是谁。。

可我偏不告诉你。。

我不是“饥渴”。。

只是我想好好地把握机会。。

不想让那稍纵即逝的好感消失得无影无踪。。

基于本身性格的关系，我好像已经错过太多太多了。。

去年就知道这人的存在了。。

有点吸引力，当然，也没去认识。。

后来又遇到几次。。

也没说话。。

直到上星期归途中遇见。。。。。。。。。（希望会有下文吧）

至于现在我身边的朋友们嘛。。

你们尽管猜。。

包你们想破脑都不会知道某人是谁。。

其实会忽然想这些是因为听到这首歌。。

真爱－183 club  >>>>>>>>>

我不喜欢那些歌手。。

也不是很喜欢这歌。。

除了那句“。。也都曾经遗憾，错过了爱，就难以重来”

1st lab day..

Today's first lab session was horrible..!!

basically we don't need to go anything..

All the Mass specs and NMR spectra are printed out for us..

All the peaks are interpreted for us..

Just reproduce what the TA said..

Great..

Great for insulting our intelligence..

and to learn something by doing nothing..

My experiment failed again..

gonna do it in organic solvent for Fischer reaction 2mr..

Hope it works this time..

Cos my gold kept crashing out in aqueous medium..

I shud do something to keep myself awake during 4-5pm..

dunno y i alwaz feel very drowsy during that time slot in lecture evrytime..

But i m very awake after 5pm amazingly..

By the way, I m still at lab now at this hour... great...

P/S: 

that funny TA mentioned above is a PRC (chinese frm china). He kept pronouncing "procedure" as "prositute". And evryone heard it as "prostitute".. All people giggled all the way thru' started from me..  lolz... terrible..

P/S 2: 

Shud i mention too technical stuff here.. Juz ignore.. Anywayz... very few people visit so nvm.. moreover, blog is for myself not others..

a poison-ed day...

Today..

I inhaled a lot of chemicals..

Other than my usual deodorant and refreshener...

so poisonous...

acetone..

ester (propyl trimethylacetate)

various thiols... (most: methyl phenyl thiol)

aqua regia..

air from my organic and inorganic chemicals cupboards..

no wonder chemists don't live long...

Anywayz..

good news is that..

i found out that my bottleneck is not my skills...

but rather, it's the chemicals..

So i juz change method..

2mr will be a fine day..

My "first" lab session starts 2mr..

bottleneck...

The life of being a UROPS (research) student and student is tough...

UROPS by itself is fun..
I alwaz said that to all my frenz..
It's like experiment without lab manual and senior reports..
Full of uncertainties...

U get to think for urself and design ur own reactions..
U r very clear of what u r doing in UROPS..
Unlike normal lab session whr u juz follow evrything in lab manual..
without much understanding.. at least that's what i usually do.. lolz..

U r free to use all dangerous and hazardous chemicals and instruments in the lab..
instruments like Infra-Red spectroscopy, UV-vis sepctroscopy, NMR machine etc etc..
chemicals like aqua regia, conc acids, liquid nitrogen etc etc...
These are the big no no in normal labs, even at uni level...

minor explosions are quite common in lab..
evrything is done in fume hood..
I learn how to see molecules in molecular language (signals, chemical shifts)..
Then from there we can translate it into what the molecules look like in text books..

My research project is on surface functionalization of nanoparticles...
basically it's to functionalize the surfactants attached onto the nanoparticles..
to make useful things.. or attached to a bio-molecules..
and then carry into human cell for some intracellular reactions..

but said is alwaz easier than done..
i m running out of idea as to how to functionalize my NP.. ~bottleneck
the outcome of lab results does not alwaz go in accordance with the theory..
U predict this and that, it gives u something else..

So chemical reaction looks so simple..
but it can be very hard to control, for instance, thionyl chloride (SOCl2)
No point explaining too many technical stuff here..
But juz to let u all know what i m doing now..

Life is so busy until i dont hv much time now..
evryday got morning lecture 8-10, then either 2-4pm or 4-6pm..
then rest of the time spend in lab...
at night, either think of what to do in the next day's lab or study...

The cycle repeats...

This does not mean i don't like research anymore..
I do.. but it's simply too exhausting hving to go lab n go lectures evryday..
after squeezing dry ur brain then go lecture n fill up with all new knowledge isn't fun..
I feel physically and mentally tired evry day... 8am-6pm..

To make things worse..
i do not hv the sufficient knowledge on the lab techniques and knowledge on chemistry..
picking up a lot along the way though...
so sometimes it's very discouraging...

This is only the end of week 2..
In NUS, things start to get out of hand in week 5 & 6 ONWARDS...
Hope i can survive then.. lolz..
13 more weeks until my final exam again..

回忆录

就让我来回味一下这两个月所发生的事吧。。

6/12 最后一张考卷

7-9/12 回忆缺陷

10-11/12 旧朋友来访

12/12 家

13-14/12 研究工作 （化学）

15-18/12 槟城

19/12 chem dept dinner

20-25/12 狮城＋圣诞 （好友团聚）

26/12-7/1 研究工作 （化学）

8-10/1 conduct workshop （化学）in frnt of ~70 ppl. nice experience

11-14/1 研究工作 （化学）

14/1 至今 开学咯！研究工作 （化学）忙忙忙忙忙忙忙忙忙忙

长话短说，说完了。。

细节有空再写。。

没空就不写了。。

《无》

好久没写部落格了。。

究竟发生了什么事？

其实，发生太多事了。。

到底是啥事呢？

下次有空时再写吧。。

01-01-2008

@.... Happy New Year ....@

all the best to evryone..~