Summer is slowly leaving New Zealand right now, and the rain is creeping back into our lives. I should be used to it by now, but it still came as a shock. I tried to go walking this morning before the rain started, but it still managed to fall from the sky. I had no choice but to bring my umbrella with me, which doesn't bother me very much since I have a morbid fear of dogs in the neighbourhood. I don't know why I am afraid of dogs and spiders. They seem to be completely harmless creatures. However, I had the unpleasant experience of getting chased by dogs when I was young. Spiders are the only insect that I am afraid of. I believe that some dogs are truly vicious and I should be afraid of them.
This neighbourhood mongrel is not really that bad, though. He/she has its own territory, and never venture out to get me. It only appears in the weekend, too. After five o'clock on weekdays, it is either fed or in the backyard so I never sees him/her! Maybe I am not afraid of it anymore, I look for it when I go walking.
I have taken up walking in Waikato Hospital again. They are building a new car park, which is at least five stories high with 800 new spaces. It is still in the steel structure stage.
I called my friend about getting workmate some beer for his 21st birthday. It seems to be his favourite at the moment, and I decided against buying a scarf for this person. It is not the gift he is looking for. The beer is also cheaper than I expected. I hope he will have a great time up North. Rock on, boy! Grow up quickly. My birthday is coming up as well, had been planning it, but also decided not to make it too formal. It's not going to be fun if it is so uptight! I will just invite some friends over to my place/town to drink and eat. If they want to come to have a good time, then we will have lots of fun. Too much planning is just not the way to go. After all, I am not Charlotte York and it is not my style.
This weekend is so relaxing. We have not been house hunting or going to open homes because we haven't got the contract sorted out by the lawyers yet. It will come back next week, and I have to endure the thought of not having a new house to move in for another week. Also, I don't know whether I will be able to concentrate on working if I don't see this birthday person next week. I may be able to concentrate more on the job, though. I sure will miss him.
It is ok. I think I can handle it. The experiment is just not doing what I want it to do right now, which is very frustrating. I will know the result on Monday. I am almost sure that the problem happened in the beginning of the experiment, which is why I am getting an empty result last Friday. I will march on! I will not be defeated by one set back.
I have managed to tidy up my closet and packed up two more boxes of books. My vanity table looks much tidier now, with the bottles of beauty products standing up right again instead of lying in a heap. I have also put skirts that I am going to wear this season into a Portman bag, and shorts into a Stax bag. They can be accessed more easily in front of my drawers. Great. I won't have mouldy skirts anymore! They had to be washed, and the patches just don't look very attractive. Mum warned me about technician wearing good clothes may be discriminate against because women who wear nice clothing may be airheads. My boss said that I shouldn't strive to impress him because he knows that I am good... I will believe my boss, but will also be more careful about what I wear. I know that one of my top has a very low cut, and it does show quite a lot of cleavage. However, why can't I look good and be smart at the same time? I will leave this question right now and worry about something important like my experiment, and perhaps, this nice man.
4/01/2007
3/26/2007
House hunting update
House hunting, as many people would know, is a job that is both exciting and tedious. It is exciting because you can shop around, knowing that in the end you will find one that you fall in love with. It is tedious because you have to drive around town in a hot car, and the weather is not helping at all right now. At the height of summer, the real estate market is as hot as the sun, and we are suffering from high prices right now.
However, one good thing about selling our house is that we got a good deal. The bad thing is this deal is not finalised yet. The contract will be officially signed by both parties at the beginning of April, which is still a week away. We cannot negotiate with the people who are selling houses yet. It is getting me down.
We have already seen four properties that we like, but having no cards with us, we can't talk with any of them seriously.
The best house (I will be as secretive as possible, surely no one who is going to buy a house reads this blog, I hope) we have seen so far stands on top of a hill. It has a huge section (+3000 meter square), with 3 bedrooms and a garage. It has a wood fire, and huge trees in the garden. The garden has an estabilished walkway down the gully, and there's even a door down the back of the property. It is quiet and private. The house is old, but with dishwasher and oven, it is certainly more modern than our current home. I have not seen it, but my parents have told me this much: they will retire in this house and love it. By the sound of it, I also like it. Even the lampshades sound appealing: there are flowers on them! It is on the east side of the river, which is on the same side as my work place. It is closing to Chartwell shopping mall, and you can take Orbiter bus to town easily.
The second best one is also in a quiet suburb. I haven't been to this house, either. I don't know the detail about this house, but it is on the west side of the river. Quite far away from work.
The third best one is in the north. The house is old and dilapadated, but the price is right. We can spend money on renovating it, changing the carpets and painting walls. The garden is also huge. It is close to The Base and to the edge of town.
The last one, not the least, is also on the western skirt of town. It is a Lockwood home, new and easy to maintain. It has a huge garage, small rooms so it is not cold in winter. It has a good garden. The house is also furnished with modern appliances, new carpets and the toilet is clean and new.
We cannot afford to pay for the full price of of the first one, and it will be difficult to negotiate with the agent. I like the house, though. If it is not sold this week, all my family may go to the next open home.
The other options sound more feasible, and more likely to afford financially. However, before Apirl, everything is still up in the air. I am waiting for the good news next week.
I have also been given a new project today, and possibly another one coming up soon. Just hope I can successfully handle this one. It is completely new to me. I love a challenge.
However, one good thing about selling our house is that we got a good deal. The bad thing is this deal is not finalised yet. The contract will be officially signed by both parties at the beginning of April, which is still a week away. We cannot negotiate with the people who are selling houses yet. It is getting me down.
We have already seen four properties that we like, but having no cards with us, we can't talk with any of them seriously.
The best house (I will be as secretive as possible, surely no one who is going to buy a house reads this blog, I hope) we have seen so far stands on top of a hill. It has a huge section (+3000 meter square), with 3 bedrooms and a garage. It has a wood fire, and huge trees in the garden. The garden has an estabilished walkway down the gully, and there's even a door down the back of the property. It is quiet and private. The house is old, but with dishwasher and oven, it is certainly more modern than our current home. I have not seen it, but my parents have told me this much: they will retire in this house and love it. By the sound of it, I also like it. Even the lampshades sound appealing: there are flowers on them! It is on the east side of the river, which is on the same side as my work place. It is closing to Chartwell shopping mall, and you can take Orbiter bus to town easily.
The second best one is also in a quiet suburb. I haven't been to this house, either. I don't know the detail about this house, but it is on the west side of the river. Quite far away from work.
The third best one is in the north. The house is old and dilapadated, but the price is right. We can spend money on renovating it, changing the carpets and painting walls. The garden is also huge. It is close to The Base and to the edge of town.
The last one, not the least, is also on the western skirt of town. It is a Lockwood home, new and easy to maintain. It has a huge garage, small rooms so it is not cold in winter. It has a good garden. The house is also furnished with modern appliances, new carpets and the toilet is clean and new.
We cannot afford to pay for the full price of of the first one, and it will be difficult to negotiate with the agent. I like the house, though. If it is not sold this week, all my family may go to the next open home.
The other options sound more feasible, and more likely to afford financially. However, before Apirl, everything is still up in the air. I am waiting for the good news next week.
I have also been given a new project today, and possibly another one coming up soon. Just hope I can successfully handle this one. It is completely new to me. I love a challenge.
3/17/2007
Summer Olympics
I organised the summer olympics team at work the day before the game starts. If I didn't do it, then who else will? The boys weren't very organised. I ran up to see the organiser and paid her the required entry fee. Later, I went to see the receptionist to fill out the entry form. After all these running, Thursday ended with the low note of getting ditched by mate for Japanese movie. However, after one hour of misery in bed, I suddenly decided that it's not worth crying for and got out of bed. I ate my lamb chop dinner and slept through the night without waking up for a long time! Wow! The lifting feeling is so great! I can't believe how stressed I was.
A new job had been given to me on Friday. I am so happy that I have something else to do now. I had to make up extra buffers for regenerating the nickel agarose columns on Friday, even though I have made them up Thursday afternoon. By 3:30p.m. in the afternoon, I have packed them up and stored them in the fridge. I will have to carry out the last few steps next Monday. It takes very long for the buffers to run through using only gravitational pull from Earth. These columns don't work very well with added pressure, so I didn't connect them with the peristaltic pump.
The first event for Summer Olympics was rob the nest. Two of the team members had to jump in sacks and collect tennis balls (eggs) from the nest. It was not as easy as it looks! Me and Ai had to synchronise our jump by counting, and I got so tired! It was so much fun, though.
We then moved on to gumboot event. As a farming research facility, we can never get too far away from gumboots! The first part involved four team members walking in gumboots filled with jelly/dish washing liquid. Haha! It was so slippery. We managed to stand up and walk fine, though. Team work was the key. We had to pick up puzzle pieces from the other end and piece them together. Gumboot throwing after sliding through the wet plastic sheet was the second part of the event. It was so much fun! Even though I managed to lose my gumboots twice, and never got them across the goal, I got so wet.
We left the MIRINZ field and got across to Moonhop. Again, you don't have to be tall and strong for this event. I was a pretty good hopper, and the lady who was taller and stronger than me was falling over a lot!
Moving onto the Sensasketch and Genga event, this one is for the geeks and freaks! That's who we are! We managed to reach 30 levels for Genga, and had extra bonus points for using only 1 piece in four levels. Then, it got canceled out by not having two top full levels. I was pretty good at it as well, but Erik was even more daring. He made to 31 levels after the competition had ended.
I was good at guessing from the pictures that the team members drew for Sensasketch. I figured out the bride from the flower and the veil. It was quite funny. I also had two very difficult clues: satellite and Commonwealth Games. I had to draw a Sputnik and Eartch and star so Miel can figure out what it is. Oh, well, and I actually wrote "England" and draw the six rings of Olympics. I will read up what symbol the Commonwealth uses, but I don't think anyone knows!
The pool event proved to be the most strenuous. I couldn't get onto the Lilo at all. Erik and Miel were hogging it. Anyway, I will find out who pushed me into the pool on Monday. You are going to get it! Nah. I am just kidding.
All of us went to have sausage and meat BBQ in the club. Mike, Jeremy and I waited until the prize giving around 8:00p.m. It got really cold. We got the Wooden Spoon (last place), and had consolation prize of 60 dollars DeVice voucher in Innovation Park. It was actually better than nothing! I thought it would be difficult to come first, but easier to come last and achieve my objective. Cool. I am so happy.
I tried to look up something for work today (Saturday), and decided not to do much about it until Monday. There's really no point, I want to ask my boss whether to login to this company website or not.
I have been given this project to use Biacore machine. It is a new technology, and I have to read papers about this. I am going to do a Maxi prep as well. It's all going again! So exciting.
A new job had been given to me on Friday. I am so happy that I have something else to do now. I had to make up extra buffers for regenerating the nickel agarose columns on Friday, even though I have made them up Thursday afternoon. By 3:30p.m. in the afternoon, I have packed them up and stored them in the fridge. I will have to carry out the last few steps next Monday. It takes very long for the buffers to run through using only gravitational pull from Earth. These columns don't work very well with added pressure, so I didn't connect them with the peristaltic pump.
The first event for Summer Olympics was rob the nest. Two of the team members had to jump in sacks and collect tennis balls (eggs) from the nest. It was not as easy as it looks! Me and Ai had to synchronise our jump by counting, and I got so tired! It was so much fun, though.
We then moved on to gumboot event. As a farming research facility, we can never get too far away from gumboots! The first part involved four team members walking in gumboots filled with jelly/dish washing liquid. Haha! It was so slippery. We managed to stand up and walk fine, though. Team work was the key. We had to pick up puzzle pieces from the other end and piece them together. Gumboot throwing after sliding through the wet plastic sheet was the second part of the event. It was so much fun! Even though I managed to lose my gumboots twice, and never got them across the goal, I got so wet.
We left the MIRINZ field and got across to Moonhop. Again, you don't have to be tall and strong for this event. I was a pretty good hopper, and the lady who was taller and stronger than me was falling over a lot!
Moving onto the Sensasketch and Genga event, this one is for the geeks and freaks! That's who we are! We managed to reach 30 levels for Genga, and had extra bonus points for using only 1 piece in four levels. Then, it got canceled out by not having two top full levels. I was pretty good at it as well, but Erik was even more daring. He made to 31 levels after the competition had ended.
I was good at guessing from the pictures that the team members drew for Sensasketch. I figured out the bride from the flower and the veil. It was quite funny. I also had two very difficult clues: satellite and Commonwealth Games. I had to draw a Sputnik and Eartch and star so Miel can figure out what it is. Oh, well, and I actually wrote "England" and draw the six rings of Olympics. I will read up what symbol the Commonwealth uses, but I don't think anyone knows!
The pool event proved to be the most strenuous. I couldn't get onto the Lilo at all. Erik and Miel were hogging it. Anyway, I will find out who pushed me into the pool on Monday. You are going to get it! Nah. I am just kidding.
All of us went to have sausage and meat BBQ in the club. Mike, Jeremy and I waited until the prize giving around 8:00p.m. It got really cold. We got the Wooden Spoon (last place), and had consolation prize of 60 dollars DeVice voucher in Innovation Park. It was actually better than nothing! I thought it would be difficult to come first, but easier to come last and achieve my objective. Cool. I am so happy.
I tried to look up something for work today (Saturday), and decided not to do much about it until Monday. There's really no point, I want to ask my boss whether to login to this company website or not.
I have been given this project to use Biacore machine. It is a new technology, and I have to read papers about this. I am going to do a Maxi prep as well. It's all going again! So exciting.
2/22/2007
When there's sun there's fun
I have the distinct urge to paste what I have written on Msn Space here, but I don't want to say the same thing in my favourite blogging site.
It is Thursday today, and it is still so warm and summery in New Zealand. I just can't feel sad and cry even though I have written to this nice guy and he said he doesn't want to go to dinner with me this Saturday.
I think God is working on me here: he is watching over me. I am sure that when the right guy comes along, he will take the initiative this time. I am looking forward to that day, and when that day comes, I will jump for joy.
Apart from the rejection, today is actually really good. I have done maximum work and managed to save a person from swearing at the end of the day. The experiment takes 3~4 days and you don't want to lose anything in the end.
I believe he will still be sweet. He just lost a few drops of liquid...and don't blame me if you lose it all. I was just being nice to point out he should be careful.
Erik was typing furiously now. The report is due on 9 March and both he and Anchi are writing and reading a lot. Fortunately, the experiment is almost finished. They will move onto other projects, and fry bigger fishes later. Cool!
Thank God, it's almost Friday!
I am looking forward to this weekend. I have nothing to do but put my feet up and sleep. After getting up at 6 almost everyday in the last few weeks, I am getting the rest I deserve. I have been working hard out.
Still, I think I am beautiful, pretty, and smart. I am not defeated at all. I am a strong person and it shows. I am who I am. I am me.
Keep telling myself that I should get other hobbies. I have been playing piano and cello lately, and writing my novel again. It's great. There's no pressure to read and write thesis anymore. Life should be like this, and if we are packing up everything and moving, then I will be too busy to even think about a boyfriend.
God bless.
It is Thursday today, and it is still so warm and summery in New Zealand. I just can't feel sad and cry even though I have written to this nice guy and he said he doesn't want to go to dinner with me this Saturday.
I think God is working on me here: he is watching over me. I am sure that when the right guy comes along, he will take the initiative this time. I am looking forward to that day, and when that day comes, I will jump for joy.
Apart from the rejection, today is actually really good. I have done maximum work and managed to save a person from swearing at the end of the day. The experiment takes 3~4 days and you don't want to lose anything in the end.
I believe he will still be sweet. He just lost a few drops of liquid...and don't blame me if you lose it all. I was just being nice to point out he should be careful.
Erik was typing furiously now. The report is due on 9 March and both he and Anchi are writing and reading a lot. Fortunately, the experiment is almost finished. They will move onto other projects, and fry bigger fishes later. Cool!
Thank God, it's almost Friday!
I am looking forward to this weekend. I have nothing to do but put my feet up and sleep. After getting up at 6 almost everyday in the last few weeks, I am getting the rest I deserve. I have been working hard out.
Still, I think I am beautiful, pretty, and smart. I am not defeated at all. I am a strong person and it shows. I am who I am. I am me.
Keep telling myself that I should get other hobbies. I have been playing piano and cello lately, and writing my novel again. It's great. There's no pressure to read and write thesis anymore. Life should be like this, and if we are packing up everything and moving, then I will be too busy to even think about a boyfriend.
God bless.
2/18/2007
Happy Chinese New Year
Hello, everyone. Happy Chinese New Year!
I was so tired last night so didn't stay up until twelve. Gone with the old, and get on with the new this year. I have found myself a job, graduated from university last year, and this year, I am going to take life in a stride. I am older and wiser, and more confident. I love the new me, and this year, I am going to be successful.
Cut the old roses in the morning. I notice that the yellow roses are growing very well on our neighbour's side. We are lucky that our previous owner planted different colour roses in the beginning, and we have planted at least four new ones after we moved here. They are all blooming in the summer sun.
It is very warm today, with temperature soaring into the 30s, I don't think it is a good idea to stay in the sun that long.
I have texted Erik and contacted Anchi about preparing for work tomorrow, and felt down about that. However, the project is in their hands now. I am just the messenger. They will have to take full responsibility themselves.
It is a great day and I look forward to another week of work, fun and happy Hen's Night/Wedding, Kelly! I love her party. It was one of the best party that I have gone to in ages.
I was so tired last night so didn't stay up until twelve. Gone with the old, and get on with the new this year. I have found myself a job, graduated from university last year, and this year, I am going to take life in a stride. I am older and wiser, and more confident. I love the new me, and this year, I am going to be successful.
Cut the old roses in the morning. I notice that the yellow roses are growing very well on our neighbour's side. We are lucky that our previous owner planted different colour roses in the beginning, and we have planted at least four new ones after we moved here. They are all blooming in the summer sun.
It is very warm today, with temperature soaring into the 30s, I don't think it is a good idea to stay in the sun that long.
I have texted Erik and contacted Anchi about preparing for work tomorrow, and felt down about that. However, the project is in their hands now. I am just the messenger. They will have to take full responsibility themselves.
It is a great day and I look forward to another week of work, fun and happy Hen's Night/Wedding, Kelly! I love her party. It was one of the best party that I have gone to in ages.
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