Finally... Finals *Again* !!!

Hell yeah, the time is here again, the damned final exams !!! 

After finished busying with the thesis, I felt like I've lost a big burden in return of a lots of pimples and panda eyes. When the thesis was bound and given to me at the photocopy shop, the first thing that pop into my mind was, "my half year's hard work finally bears a fruit !". Oh yeah, most importantly: no more dealing with alignment problems, strict formatting, used of US/British English words and sleepless night now !

#The cover of my softbound thesis.#

Curious about what am I doing with the apples ? Take a glimpse on it here:

#Looks disgusting ? These are the crude extract that taken me quite some time to extract out from the apples ! It might contain phytochemicals that has the potential to be a drug/cure to cancer.#  

#Acsorbic acid standard solution added with violet/purple coloured DPPH free radical, one of the bioassay to test the antioxidant activity.#

#ABTS cation solution is another solution used test the antioxidant activity using another bioassay. Dont you just love the colour of the solution ?#

And guess what... final exams are coming *didnt I just mentioned it earlier ?*, and I'm still slacking to get enough sleep. Haha~~~ In the end I'm sharing this song to you lot that I've been listening to for the past few days. Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin, and then later on rearranged by Disney in Fantasia 2000. Enjoy~

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Nuts !!!

Its driving me NUTS, I never thought that the peanut that I received from Sensei-sama grows that fast !!! Well... I think is illegal to ask for a peanut from her for my personal gain since those peanuts are her FYP samples in plant tissue culture. But anyway, as long as her supervisor didnt find out, I guess it should be fine.

Here's the picture of the peanut plant on the 3rd day:

#You can already notice how thick is the stem connecting to the roots, I guess it's already that thick since the second day I planted it.#

When I saw that it has sprouted some young leaves, I played some songs for the peanut for the rest of the day. And what surprised me on the 4th day morning (today) is, I never realized that it has grown soooooo much !!!

#Its has grown taller for at least 2 times since yesterday !!! No wonder Sensei said that she was shocked by the growth rate.#

Gotta continue on monitoring its growth from now on. I wonder what should I be doing once it is too large for the pot that it is growing from... save that for the future then. 

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Recent Updates

Its been weeks since my last update... let me list down what I've been through in those days:

- Having big problems with the Internet connection lately, there is no doubt that someone is manipulating the connection or heavily downloading/streaming movies. I hate it everytime when I wanna use it for assignment/report, it get sucks. Feels like smashing the modem so the whole house couldnt go online. *Rawr~~~~~*

- You might noticed it already, UTAR COU just had their second concert last month, coverage of the concert can be found here. We also had a celebration dinner 2 weeks afterwards with a concert DVD given to those who're attending as a mystery appreciation gift. I received a copy myself but couldnt watch it using my old laptop. *Sob sob* Anyway, I had a nice meal on that day, and I filled my stomach till it almost exploded !

#Some of the memorable happenings compiled together by one of our concert committee member. Thank you for the beautiful work.#

#Celebration dinner at Grand Kampar Hotel Chinese Restaurant. Can you spot 2 hidden Mickey ?#

#Seriously... the cloth used to decorate the pillar was comfortable when hugged. Lol~#

#What is a celebration dinner without a big group photo ?#

#We just couldnt stop ourselves from taking pictures on that day... even with our hoods on ! And yes, there's 1 more hidden Mickey here too.#

- Lectures are as boring as ever... but it is a different story for FYP ! Seeing my apple samples are giving positive results for the antioxidant assays I did on them motivates me to continue on. The only problem I encounter is time and amount of solvent left. Hope that I can finish everything soon.

- Oh yes... I did quite some cooking with Rannie-chan and Freezie-chan as well ! We cooked ourselves dinner a week before semester starts and constantly having a cooking session once every 2 weeks on glutinous rice ball dessert, fried bread and sushi.

#This is one-of-a-hell big piece of maki filled with cucumber, carrot, tuna spread, crab stick and sausage.#

- Working seems like enjoying lately, though we still need to be serious when the big bosses are around it is busy time. Me and Harley-san celebrated our beloved colleague's birthday last Saturday with a chocolate cake. Announcement: December monthly promotion coupons are coming real soon !!! 

#Obsessed in working until taking picture with the cake AND the tray. LOL~#

#Oh yeah... making leaf-shaped wasabi is my specialty now since almost everyone is afraid of the smell. Credits to Harley-san for the picture.#

I guess thats all of it unless you wanna count "course registration sucks with turtle-slow connection" and "NDS game Professor Layton series are addicting". Here's a lovely and relaxing song I found today by Hebe of Taiwanese female pop artist S.H.E. to end this post. Enjoy~

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純潔パラドックル - 水樹奈々

FYP gonna start real soon, and I'm still lagging behind of my schedule. I really didnt know what should I do after I done my extraction... to be precise, I havent done anything related to the methodology yet, I'm not even sure what kind of result will I be getting.

Life isnt as easy as you think. Seeing my fellow friends working on their gingers, bacteria and agar plates gave me an idea that FYP is going to be fun. We're all doing our own research all by ourselves with guidance from our supervisor. Once the whole thing was complete, we're writing our very own thesis for the experiment that we conducted, which might be handy one day in the future.

Anyway, I'm really lazy here. What I really wanna do is just lying on my bed hugging my pillow and nothing else... with some musics playing on my computer as company would be nice of course.

By the way, here's a song performed by Nana Mizuki titled Junketsu Paradox, which is the ending theme of the anime Blood-C, a collaboration project between Production IG and CLAMP. There's a Blood-C movie coming up in June 2012 too.

#Poster for the anime with the main character Saya and her sword.#

Here's the song that I've talked about, be warned that this is not the full song. 

Enjoy~

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FYP

Finally, I got my Final Year Project's (FYP) title already. The title was actually my last choice out of the 6 titles I chosen... anyway, I'm still glad that I'm able to work on the title that I choose, although I'm not very excellent on Chemistry-based subjects. The title that I got is about antioxidant properties of edible fruits/herbs/gingers. Antioxidant... interesting huh ???


Been to library yesterday after class to search for some information, text books and thesis written by the seniors on the title. I flipped through those thick thesis related to my title and got a shock of my life: most of their supervisor were Dr. Lim Yang Mooi !!! I remembered her talking about cancer prevention during a sharing session in the 4th GBHEF (check back here for some details on whats happening during the event) with Yen Yee as the emcee for that session. 

#Flowers blooming outside of the library.#

#Sun shining through the transparent ceiling of the library.#

Most of the thesis that I read through seems to be quite difficult to understand, especially the method used to conduct the experiment and collecting data/results. After throwing away those thesis, I looked for relevant text books/reference books for similar information.

The first thing I noticed was... damn, where the heck are the books that I needed !? Every book that I looked through doesnt seems to be useful enough for me. But in the end I managed to found a frequently-borrowed book with notes scribbled down and corners of the pages folded... which is quite useful in the sense of getting a rough idea where to start my project.

#Didnt took the sunset yesterday, but I swear the sunset was much more beautiful than this one.#

I walked myself to Block C Cafeteria for the usual CO practice. And I realized that how much I miss the bright sunset over the mountains and above the lake. The wind was cold but soft, and it ease my mind from the stress. Finally reached the cafeteria and we all gathered outside for practices. Without surprise, we're informed that the concert was delayed. We ensembles + practices a song and called it a day. Great... it'll be a boring day then. 


And I think that I should create a new label named "FYP", for future use of course. =)

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