Fight

Wake up late because it is Saturday today. Fuzzy is already at work and I am finishing reading Harry Potter. I have tried to fix my modem, but it is still unable to get online so I have not been able to play the MUD game for a very long time now.
I doubt that I will be able to fix it at all. Maybe I will just buy a new one when noone is noticing and start using the new modem. However, dad is talking about upgrading to broadband so I will just wait what he will buy in August. I will have to wait until September to have a new internet connection, though.
Make mango salad. Mum can't find the peeler and dad is angry because he said that mum never changes her habit of leaving the peeler on the peeled rubbish so she may have thrown the peeler away. That's such a small thing to fight about and I just kept quiet. Lunch is very hard to sit through and dad goes to have a nap.
I practice cello for a while and read the notice saying that we will start practice again on 29 July. Goodie! I thought we would start this Friday.
Not much happened, but I have finished reading Harry Potter. It is really sad that Dumbledore died, but we will look forward for Harry's hunt for the Horcruxes and the death of Voldemort? I hope he dies, the evil man he is.

Feeling sick

I have been feeling sick since Tuesday, but yesterday my head was about to explode so I drove up to the university clinic to see a doctor. I saw a nurse and he said that I should take some Panadol for the pain and the fever. I went home after that and slept until six o'clock.
I went to bed early after reading some Harry Potter. It was a good evening of not doing anything. I wake up feeling refreshed so came to work again.
Work is going more smoothly than yesterday because I got some good results. I counted the SU colonies and entered the data into computer. Talked to boss for a while and she said she wants me to write up protocols for next week. I have already done most of the new stuff and will write protocols for the experiments that I have already finished.
Drive up to university to autoclave my PBS solutions and it took about half an hour to do the whole thing. I grew the bacteria on the farm and took them up to the university incubator so I can take them out and put them into the fridge tomorrow. I will be able to start experiment straight away on Monday.
Supervisor had suggested to me to use water from the farm trough, UHT milk, peptone water and water as liquid diluent. I am still in negotiation with my boss about the detail of the experiment.
Now I am going to go home and have a nice weekend. Am going to practice cello tonight.

Busy Wednesday

I can't believe how busy I am on Wednesday. Drive up to the farm bright and early to count my plates and discover that the Streptococcus uberis didn't grow. >_< I am going to have to repeat this experiment again on the bug. Supervisor gives me some pointers on how to improve the experiment and I am off to the office to check my e-mail. I just have enough time to do that before meeting friends and sister for lunch in university. We talk for a while about life in general. We are planning to go back to our original countries in Asia, including Taiwan, Malaysia and India. We will visit these places, shop, and see the sceneary. I have never been to Malaysia and India. It will be a great experience!
Quickly leave university to go to the farmers hall to play volleyball with people from work. We have lost yet another game, but we are improving all the time. The first game is really close. We only have five players this time and we nearly beat AgResearch. So happy!
Have about half an hour spare before the laborotary session so I work out the microscopic calculations in the computer room. Blog in Chinese then put on my long white coat. The students are not working hard enough! Some of them are really slow and didn't listen to instructions so they are not finished in time. We will make sure that they have hear the instructions clearly next time so there will be no excuses! We will not tolerate laziness and that will surely cost them marks if they have not done their pre-lab.
By the time I get home, I am just too tired to do anything else to quickly get into bed for a nap. In the evening, we watch Grey's Anatomy again and the new series Numbers. It is a great TV show but quite wooly with using mathematics to calculate crime.
Grey's Anatomy is about the second day that they struggle to make through their internship. Being intern sucks. Isabel has to stitch up a Chinese woman, not understanding her for whole day, she finally stitch her up. Then she finds another who is injured but has no green card so she cannot get inside the hospital. Poor woman. Grey is treating a rape victim who bit off her assailor's winkie. Haha. The guy then came stumbling into the hospital and bleeding. The woman wakes up from her coma in the end, which is a great thing. Grey can't resist kissing Derek in the elevator so when she gets off work, sho opt for taking the stairs instead. She accepts George as her new roommate. George deals with coding people all day and Christina deals with people who are not sick so don't need surgery at all. George gets really depressed when nearly all of his patients die, but when Christina tells him that, he is very angry. Then again, he is George and he worries too much.
Numbers is also about a serial rapist/killer. The cop's younger brother is a brilliant mathematician. He uses the information his brother gave him about the cases to think up an equation that calculate the point of origin, i.e. the place where the perp lives. He hypothesises that the perp lives in Silver Lake area, but he moved to another place recently so the cops can't find him. He also finds the place where the perp works and this time the perp is caught and a girl is saved from his grimy kitchen.

Desparate housewives

I felt really happy because met M around lunch time today. He had a haircut and was complaining to me about getting up early again because university has started. You guessed right. It is Semester B and the students are flocking back to Hamilton and going to lectures now as I blog. You can see their wary faces due to late nights of watching rugby and skiing down the slope. You can hear the awful sound of orientation music. You can smell the food in Bongo once more. Students are crowding in front of the Banks to get a glimpse of the cheap stuff and drinking coffee for lunch. All is well.
Walking M to his class, I went into the bank to do some banking. The bank is also busy at the moment with students paying the second semester's tuition fees.
It was raining hard. Weather was not on holiday anymore so we got torrential rain as the welcome gift back to university. Demonstrating training went smoothly with humour. Each of us got a red book with answers to the laboratory sessions. Horray! This was what we always wanted when we were undergraduates but now just symbolises work. It is not that bad. We get paid, right?
Cultured for tomorrow. Spent the afternoon typing the first chapter and played psypets. Accomplished little work today but had caught up with classmates and they all seemed to have problems with their experiments. Hope the problems are not too serious.
Watched Desparate Housewives. The narrator was a dead woman. Four wives: Bree is a perfect wife, who cooks perfect food and her house is always clean as a whistle; Susan's husband walked out on her, probably not because of her bad macaroni, just because he was a jerk; Gabrielle wanted fancy car, fancy dress, and fancy house, but her husband didn't love her so she is having an affair with the gardener; Lynette has three uncontrollable sons and one daughter. They all have problems, but how are they going to deal with their problems? We will find out in the funny, witty, desparate, sad and happy Desparate Housewives next week.
I can't wait to see Cold Case and Grey's Anatomy this week. They are both so cool. I love NCIS as well. It is back on Sunday.
No one wants to go to the ball. I think I will go by myself. Why not? I tend to have a great time there. Why not?

Sweet home Alabama

A girl left her past behind in the small town called Pigeon Creek in the deep South. She got pregnant, married to her high school sweetheart, but had no life. She left Pigeon Creek to find her dream in New York and became a designer there. She befriended Andrew Hedding, the mayor's son, and was asked to marry him before his mother's charity fundrasing event. However, she was married to Jake Perry, her love of life in the South so she drove back immediately to ask him to sign the divorce paper.
The whole movie is full of small town hospitality and memory from the past. Her friends have all settled down in their life, having children and got married, prospered as her husband who made glasses. She is unaware of all these changes because of her ignorance, and she finds that she feels right at home in Alabama as she is in New York. Torn between the two lives, she must choose to marry the rich son or stay married to her love from ten years old. The movie also has the confederates fighting the North, adding that extra comedic relief. Animals, nice people, straight talking and hearty, are all loveable characters. Living in a small town doesn't mean you are blind and dumb, as she soon finds out that her husband knows about her present life and went to New York to see her and decided to make a name of himself in this world so she will come back to his life.
It is so cool. I like this little film that you can put in your pocket. So delightful.
It is raining. I hate raining. I can't believe M loves raining. Haha. It's so contrary.
Discover that the demo training session doesn't start until 11a.m. so now I am blogging the weekend. Not much happened. Mr. C came down from Auckland to bring something down to us. He has a new house so is getting rid of a lot of things. Just wondering whether his TV is old so we can have a new TV. Our TV is breaking down. Why doesn't he bring something that we need? Haha. You can't always get what you want.