mid exams already?

So apparently some of my courses are already holding midsem examinations before the break. So much for having time to study. Earliest one is next Monday. I should prepare for that one soon. As a result I have to start working on days which I normally give to relaxing/Crossover. Kinda bummed out but it's only temporary. Hope I don't miss out on much.

This week's Adventure Time... not as awesome as I had hoped. But it was alright. They didn't have every character in it. But they sure made a whole lot of references. Also confused on when the episode takes place in the timeline.

Finally a new communitychannel video. I think she's the only Australian youtuber who I support. The thought of Mychonny being the very few youtube celebrities of our country really sucks.

DmC looks awesome. I like their art style. It's very modern, like BBC's Sherlock. I don't know why a large amount of people are hating on it.

Can't wait to play it, though I know my brother already wants it. So guess I'll play after he does. Also KH3D came out a while ago. I really want to play it, but yeah I don't have that much free money to spend. Also David if you're reading this I need to return your PSP heh... I finished the game but the secret bosses are too hard to beat without grinding first. So guess I'm done. It was a good game, especially by the time I figured out the combat systems.

Haven't had one of these days in a while

So much sleep was had today. Usually I'd have to go to the city for practice or whatnot. But after performance at the Opera House, we could finally take a day off. Felt like a holiday despite having an assignment and uni the next day.

Not much to write about. I'm pretty excited for this week's Adventure Time, almost as much as I was for Burning Low. Apparently this episode will show every character that's been on the show. The preview showed a character from one my favourite episodes. My favourite because it left a creepy feeling by the end which was great compared to the less interesting episodes. It also reminds me of secret murder mystery.

LSP and Cinnamon Bun are hilarious

It finally happened to me. I never thought I see the day. I now have timeline and have no idea what to do with it. I have by the 16th then it automatically makes it public.

Warning, passive aggressive post.

I put a lot of effort into that. And it's not like I have all the time to spare. But I still did it as soon as I could. So when you point out to me that it's already been a week and you wanted it tonight then the least you could have done was give me an exact due date, instead of telling me to do it as soon as I could. I expected a bit more professionalism on your end. I would have done mine if you just asked. I hold nothing against you, I'm just a bit annoyed. But if you ask me again, either give me a solid schedule or I just won't do it.

Oh and then there's you. The moment I saw you I knew you were a slacker. You don't do any work and get by only by taking the easy way out. I still remember overhearing that conversation about how you copied an innocent person's answers in the mid-semester test. Why are you in this program? You do not deserve this degree or to be involved in science. Who the heck wears sunglasses indoors? Blind people and douche bags that's who. I want nothing to do with you. The worst part is because of our surnames we have to work next to each other. I don't ever want to be partners with you.

I really think that facebook group are a bunch of jerks. You people do realise the reason for the mask is that he was sick right? And the mask is to avoid spreading germs to anyone. I for one respect his enthusiasm to learn. Even if he asks stupid questions, or constantly asks the lecturer stuff at least he's trying really hard. He didn't let you copy his work? Looks like someone isn't trying at all. Maybe if you were friends, instead of just a class mate you can use for your own gain, he'd let you. But he's not perfect either. Yes you do have a point, filming in a lecture theatre may be unethical. But I don't know, I do know that as long as you can physically see someone there's no law against filming/photography. You actually have to express your desire not to be filmed if you want your rights too. But if someone bothers to find the exact law about uni lecture halls (I suppose it's a private building as apposed to a public area) then yeah go tell him to stop. 

Enough ranting. Just felt like letting some thoughts out. Hopefully I don't have to do it again anytime soon.

Burning Low

This reminds me of the time when we talked about quach bases.

This episode was quite good. I really like how Finn does not hesitate at all when trying to save ____ even when it's seems like suicide. Also tiny plot twist at the end, I like those.

I had the pork rice at Gumshira. It was nice, at first. Then yeah the meat was really salty. Maybe it was lack of appetite due to lower than normal blood levels but yeah. I should probably stick to ramen.

Another day for science

My Tuesday classes are made entirely of labs, one for biotechnology and other for molecules cells and genes. It's kinda weird but I'll get used to it. Biotech seems more easy to do. Today I had to isolate a single colony with a loop and agar plate for the first time. I had no idea how much pressure I had to put on the surface. Guess the results next week I'll find out. Then it was diluting E. Coli and spreading those onto plates. Using pipettes was super easy. My partner used the plastic pipette tip on the bunsen to sterilise. I was like "okay.." apparently he did micro so I'd assume he knew what he was doing right? Finally gram staining. Lots of steps involving a lot of crazy solutions. Luckily I was wearing gloves, that stuff went everywhere. But in the end I made a good slide of stained Bacillus.

Finished early and got to leave, I should remind myself to take a look at what GMO topic I want to do for my assignment. I then went to the library to finish the pre-lab for BABS. The lab consisted of doing one thing which was placing human cancer cells of different concentrations in medium which contains all the good stuff it needs to grow. Unfortunately the rest of the lab we needed to answer questions. I told my demonstrator that my knowledge of PCR came from song, which she's never heard of. She probably thinks I'm weird now. Turns out the song didn't have all the facts. Who knew? 

After lab I went to Town Hall and donated blood. It was a weird feeling. While I was being drained I actually had no idea how much blood was coming out. What I was looking at was the other small bag used for testing which wasn't filling with blood. To my surprise they told me I was finished, and I saw the actual bag which was huge. I didn't even notice it! I got home alive. I remember one friday when I had a bandaid on my arm and Carmen thought I donated blood. Having now officially donating blood I don't really see how she could mistake that tiny bandaid with this.

365

Obligatory birthday retrospective post time!

I still remember what happened on my last birthday. It was during the time of SM Town gathering and I was relatively new in the crew. During one of our practices we were having break and then the lights went out to find that there was a cake for me. It was such a nice gesture and it really made me feel happy.

On my actual birthday I decided to go to Carmen's dessert thing instead of staying at home and study. Despite trackwork I managed to get to the place on time. Shortly Yuki, Huy, Carmen and Elena showed up and we went to Glebe for some churros. They were really good. Afterwards we went shopping in the city and then crashed at Crossover. I was feeling sleepy so I ended up crashing on the couch while the others were jamming.

Haha I started writing this a week ago and now I've put it off till now.

Sunday was interesting. Not everyday you get to do something like that. I enjoyed it. I want to see someone else play the exact games and see how they go. Had cake at the studio where I was presented with a really unique jumper/jersey thing! I should really wear it sometime but I have no idea what occasion would suit it. During a performance? haha.

Went to watch The Dark Knight Rises with my brother and father at IMAX. My thoughts would be that you would need to have watched the other two since the third draws a lot of elements and back story from them. It wasn't as awesome as The Dark Knight and I knew that would happen. Expectations were raised a little too high if you ask me.


I feel like as I have aged, everything around me has aged also. Things weren't the same as they used to be. Where things are going I don't feel like it's going to be good. But I don't know, maybe I'm just imagining the worst but by extrapolating facts it's hard not to. Sometimes I think I'm being biased, while the other times I think I'm the only person who feels nobody is willing to do the right thing.

On another note I don't feel like myself anymore, if that makes sense. Guess I'll have to find it again.

This year has brought me good times and happiness. And I'm grateful for that.

I don't know what to put here

Thursday I crossed another thing off my list which was to visit my old high school. During the year I've had a lot of people tell me that my old headmaster wanted to see me. So I visited him and we talked about last year and this year, my reasons for leaving UTS after first semester and reasons for choosing Medicinal Chemistry. He thought it was good that I decided to stop my old course after one semester and not longer than it could have been. He seemed to support my education in the medicine field, which I then found out that he did med at USYD back in the day. Not sure how far he went with that but yeah. He had to go from Castle Hill to uni for his first class in the early morning and then go to Westmead in the afternoon. And then go back to Castle Hill via multiple transports. Took hours from his day but he said he learned to study while travelling which was productive. All I do on the train is sleep.

Afterwards I went to the bus stop which I used to take to go to Parramatta. Luckily back then I didn't have to worry about which bus to take since all buses terminated at the terminal at Parra. And it still applied now. I took the next bus and got to Parra. Since I'm going to do some photo work soon, I decided to buy a new lens for my camera. I needed something for low light situations so I got the 50mm f/1.8 lens. The thing can't zoom in or out but that also means it can take generally nicer photos than zooms since they don't have all that extra parts. Also another thing is it's really wide aperture which is definitely good to catch more light in dark places like a theatre. It was also cheap, like the cheapest lens you could possibly buy. Not sure if that's a good thing actually. Now I need to do some practice shots, I suppose Friday will be good for doing that.

Walked home in the light rain, and pretty much spent the day reading everything I could about using my camera and all the functions. Turns out I need a program to work with all my photos and convert them from RAW to jpegs or something similar. I could use iPhoto but I feel like the program is doing more harm than good to my photos, which I previously used to work on the RAW photos I shot at Yuki's birthday when I forgot to set it to not shoot in RAW format. So far the two programs that I could use are either Apple's Aperture or Adobe's Lightroom. Aperture is cheaper I think but everyone seems to prefer the editing power of Lightroom. Sigh and I wanted to save money for upgrading my kit lens.


Guess that's all for today's blog. I should sleep. My sleep pattern is all over the place, especially when I was sick. After I had dinner I had a nap and I had no idea how long I slept. Perception of time is lost to me.

This episode looks promising.