Saturday, September 15, 2007

THERE IS A GOD.
Well, okay, there has always been a God. But still. It’s umm, figurative. A matter of speaking.
…
Okay, fine. THANK YOU, GOD.
Really, I am insanely happy to have recovered from my bout of painful swallowing and the mild cough which came after that. I am dying to eat chicken. I haven’t had it for at least 2 weeks. (Actually, I had it today.)
And chocolate. But I had that yesterday. And it was quite delicious and wonderful, to eat chocolate again.
Chocolate is good. Makes you feel really high and happy and random and hyper and –
Oh man, even Jinken commented on it on the day of my Bio paper, that I was tra-la-la-ing around and being generally very high and random.
It’s all that pent up energy! I’m like really high on oxygen now. It’s mad and insane and random but really nice. I haven’t felt this good in weeks.
… Aside from the fact that I am in the midst of my Prelims now. It’s really weird. On one side I am like ‘IT’S THE PRELIMS LIKE OH MY GOODNESS IT’S THE PRELIMS!’ and on the other side, it’s ‘Ah, it’s only the Prelims’. So I’m pretty conflicted and I feel like an IDIOT.
I feel like I should study and I feel that I shouldn’t. I don’t know how to say it.
Okay, I do.
I DON’T WANT TO STUDY.
*wail*
But I shall have to gut that out and sit down and study! Really! I can’t get by like this forever! I shall study. It’s really…
Hmmm. I read Skip Beat! recently. That is, I read from the first volume to the 16th volume in 3 days. Wednesday night was volume 1 to 4, Thursday was volume 5 to 10, and then today was 11 to 16.
(NELLYN YOU SHOULD BE STUDYING)
Yes but really, the main lead is quite inspiring and very cool. Aside from the traditional shoujo stuff, it’s really quite good – like how she uses acting to really bring out her qualities and everything.
And she has cute demons. They’re extremely efficient in cursing people to do what she wants for them.
But the later volumes are a bit creepy!
Sigh. I shan’t bore my nonexistent readers with this.
And Smee! I think you’ve converted me to an UVERworld fan! Ahh!
This is weird! As in, I’ve liked bands before, here and there but ahh! This is weird!
I shall go and reflect on life and Oreo cheesecakes. That shall be my greatest wish now. To eat an Oreo cheesecake. I don’t remember eating them at all. I shall have to try it one day.
Now to reflect, and to study Chemistry. Monday’s my last paper! Let ligands not affect my soul with their negative charges!
(Actually, not all ligands are negatively charged. There are the ones that have no charge at all, but decide to hang around and annoy Chem students like me with their nonexistent charges and desire to cling onto the poor metal ion.)

Extra random bit:
Wait wait! Now I shall entertain you with amusing questions from my Biology paper. I tell you, they are very amusing people, the Biology section in my school. They ask the weirdest of questions.
For example, there was this question about this sort of bacteria that gives you some sickness that I can’t really remember the name now, I know it starts with S, it’s either Salmonella or Shigella or Staphylococcus aureus but it think it’s the last one – but anyway, they were saying that the bacteria resided in your large intestine even after the person’s cured and there’s no visible symptoms.
Weird question arises: Explain how the bacteria can be transmitted to infect others.
First reaction: Ah. Crap.
Really! As in – well, really!
So we were all confused and thinking of how to phrase it nicely, because it’s painfully obvious how the disease can be spread (you really don't need bio sort of knowledge for this) – then I just gave up and wrote: Having disturbing habits like not washing your hands after visiting the washroom.
As in, really! How are YOU going to phrase it?
We were discussing it after the paper – how does one phrase it nicely and tactfully so that no one gets insulted in the marking of the paper?
Ah I was random again for the paper, one question; I had no time and just wrote down ‘I forgot’ as the answer. It was a 2m question…
And today’s paper 3. I swear they ran out of questions to ask us.
It’s an applications paper – you don’t ask us about theory stuff like why DNA behaves this way!
And here’s the answer to the question on everyone’s mind – how do stem cells differentiate into other cells?
Answer: So, to generate cultures of specific types of differentiated cells—heart muscle cells, blood cells, or nerve cells, for example—scientists try to control the differentiation of embryonic stem cells. They change the chemical composition of the culture medium, alter the surface of the culture dish, or modify the cells by inserting specific genes.
I got so irritated that I went online to check.
I wrote down: Uh, stimulation of some genes? *Prods*
Yes I wrote down *prods* because I didn’t know what else to write! I was contemplating writing that the scientist would call the nucleus and ask it to differentiate nicely.
Ugh but I just made it in time so no time to change.
End extra random bit.

Posted by norbert at 9/15/2007 12:32:00 AM