segeln. ruhe. zwang

too many days have passed for me to recount day by day.

last week of school was relaxed.. i remember that thurs i went to support the tennis match. sonya played well. tricia looked pretty serious=) rather different from astro. too bad the guys lost, but just as the rugby match, it was quite clear who the winner should have been.

the first week of holidays consisted of waking up early to go for "rmp". very glad that there's at least someone else doing the same thing, furthermore, nice waikit!
our project's "application of nanotechnology in oral chemotherapy". we met up with the professor on sat, he gave us some reading to do, and man it took us a while. but i'm glad because it sorta got me into the mood, especially when waikit was taking it so seriously and trying very hard to understand. if i had read it alone, i think i would've just let everything swim in my head and moved on to the next page.

during this week we've done "afm" (atomic force microscope) but didn't see much. just orange glowing spheres.
lots of weighing with an ultrasensitive balance
homogenizing, to make an emulsion (but the foam kept coming out, so to homogenize for an acculumated time of 4 minutes we had to spend 40 minutes)
centrifuging (which was less troublesome because we just had to leave the samples in the machine)
more weighing
freeze drying
SEM
more homogenizing
.....
basically we didn't have to do much, you just dump things in the machines and they do everything for you.


wed morning xiz and i went to the embassy to pick up our tickets for the trip. exciting stuff: taking off on sat 210603 3.45am (jen still wanna send us off=)?), stopping over at dubai, landing at düsseldorf, visiting bonn, cologne, berlin and potsdam, flying from berlin to munich (whoo hope they sell lots of bayern münchen stuff in the airport) stopping at dubai again, and back to singapore on 060703, the last day (sunday) of the first week of school.

i've done nothing! really, absolutely, no-thing.


class chalet later/soon. meeting class at 11.30.


mon, tues, wed to be spent at nus. hopefully thurs will be free for shopping. and fri (the 20th) will either be spent shopping again or hiking (so fun), and at night we'll take the bus to the airport. xin dong already. stone until 3am...what could be entertainment during this time? and we can't call anyone, considering it's past midnight. who won't mind us calling them?


=(.

posted by sunny @ 21:06