Year 3 Semester 2

This is going to be a very very long semester, with 7 subjects to learn in 4 months and a final year project in hand,

i should be glad if i have ample time to breathe and relax.

On top of that, this is also the last semester that involve lab sessions, which is something i’m looking forward to end as soon as possible.

My new semester will involve mostly PBL-clinical-hospital attachements, reports and presentation and some lectures to attend as well.

Yea, and next semester i’ll be doing my project presentation and viva examinations for my final year project if every thing goes smoothly. *keep my fingers cross and pray for the best*

It’s only week 2 and im feeling extremely tensed.

I go to bed at the end of everyday so exhausted that i’m numbed by the tiredness and my workload and study load.

Maybe i need a bigger brain capacity. Why was I not born smarter?

Despite all these workload, i’m passionately driven by the great feeling of achieving my targets at the end of most days.

I wish i have 48 hours a day to read all the books that spike my reading lust.

May this new year and the coming years be better to everyone i love and everyone who cares about me.

May i achieve higher targets one step at a time and enjoy my every moments indulging the feeling of satisfaction throughout my life.

Last but not least, may my white-horse-prince and I cross each others’ path and starts a happy-ending-love story.

right, dreaming la aku ni…

hahah

bye.

good night!

-huifang-

Hello 2012

I cherish every moment together with you,

enjoy listening to your ‘kakak’ calls although they’re pretty annoying at times.

Everyone at home hopes that you will make us proud with your intelligence and prove to us with your achievements.

A new year is a new beginning for everyone of us.

We hope you’ll study well and show us your results.

We have faith in you.

We’ll work hard together for our own future Li.

Happy New Year and May we all survive this year and the coming years in the future!

cheers~!

死撑

我最厉害就是死撑，

现在也是在死撑着，

我一定要撑，死撑到底！！！！！！

慧芳加油！

Twinkle Twinkle little star

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Aunty bought this little star-shaped bottle from singapore and asked me to make little colourful origami stars to fill up the bottle for her.

*make a wish when you fold a star*

and hope that the wishes will come true.

=)

-huifang-

Lab time!

nutrient agar at Ipharm

I’m currently doing my industrial attachment at Ipharm for 2 weeks.

I’m placed at the Bio-processing department.

In a nut shell, BP does the scale-up of the Cuprisvidus sp. USMAA1020 bacteria to produce bioplastics.

The bioplastics produced are biodegradable and biocompatible polymer which can be used in the medical-related fields.

P(3HB-co-4HB) is the specific polymer produced via intracellular process which after validation showed that this specific polymer has the highest medical application.

Today we get to start with the preparation of nutrient agar (complex medium).

After weighing and filled up with distilled water, we autoclave our own nutrient agar to sterilize it.

When the agar is allowed to cool after autoclave, we move on to pouring the agar onto culture plates for the agar to solidify. The pouring part was carried out in the vertical laminar flow with proper aseptic techniques.

My nutrient agar bottle

Pouring agar into plates

 

 

Agar preparation in the vertical laminar flow

Besides that we also practised how to streak the bacteria today. (however i have not thought of taking photos when we were streaking just now )

On top of that, we also learnt how to calibrate a fermenter.

And the remaining hours well, we’re doing the same thing like what i am doing now. lol

alright that’s all for now.

bye.

-huifang-

Auguries of Innocence by William Blake

To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage.

A dove-house fill'd with doves and pigeons
Shudders hell thro' all its regions.
A dog starv'd at his master's gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.

A horse misused upon the road
Calls to heaven for human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted hare
A fibre from the brain does tear.

A skylark wounded in the wing,
A cherubim does cease to sing.
The game-cock clipt and arm'd for fight
Does the rising sun affright.

Every wolf's and lion's howl
Raises from hell a human soul.

The wild deer, wand'ring here and there,
Keeps the human soul from care.
The lamb misus'd breeds public strife,
And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

The bat that flits at close of eve
Has left the brain that won't believe.
The owl that calls upon the night
Speaks the unbeliever's fright.

He who shall hurt the little wren
Shall never be belov'd by men.
He who the ox to wrath has mov'd
Shall never be by woman lov'd.

The wanton boy that kills the fly
Shall feel the spider's enmity.
He who torments the chafer's sprite
Weaves a bower in endless night.

The caterpillar on the leaf
Repeats to thee thy mother's grief.
Kill not the moth nor butterfly,
For the last judgement draweth nigh.

He who shall train the horse to war
Shall never pass the polar bar.
The beggar's dog and widow's cat,
Feed them and thou wilt grow fat.

The gnat that sings his summer's song
Poison gets from slander's tongue.
The poison of the snake and newt
Is the sweat of envy's foot.

The poison of the honey bee
Is the artist's jealousy.

The prince's robes and beggar's rags
Are toadstools on the miser's bags.
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

It is right it should be so;
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Thro' the world we safely go.

Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.

The babe is more than swaddling bands;
Every farmer understands.
Every tear from every eye
Becomes a babe in eternity;

This is caught by females bright,
And return'd to its own delight.
The bleat, the bark, bellow, and roar,
Are waves that beat on heaven's shore.

The babe that weeps the rod beneath
Writes revenge in realms of death.
The beggar's rags, fluttering in air,
Does to rags the heavens tear.

The soldier, arm'd with sword and gun,
Palsied strikes the summer's sun.
The poor man's farthing is worth more
Than all the gold on Afric's shore.

One mite wrung from the lab'rer's hands
Shall buy and sell the miser's lands;
Or, if protected from on high,
Does that whole nation sell and buy.

He who mocks the infant's faith
Shall be mock'd in age and death.
He who shall teach the child to doubt
The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

He who respects the infant's faith
Triumphs over hell and death.
The child's toys and the old man's reasons
Are the fruits of the two seasons.

The questioner, who sits so sly,
Shall never know how to reply.
He who replies to words of doubt
Doth put the light of knowledge out.

The strongest poison ever known
Came from Caesar's laurel crown.
Nought can deform the human race
Like to the armour's iron brace.

When gold and gems adorn the plow,
To peaceful arts shall envy bow.
A riddle, or the cricket's cry,
Is to doubt a fit reply.

The emmet's inch and eagle's mile
Make lame philosophy to smile.
He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

If the sun and moon should doubt,
They'd immediately go out.
To be in a passion you good may do,
But no good if a passion is in you.

The whore and gambler, by the state
Licensed, build that nation's fate.
The harlot's cry from street to street
Shall weave old England's winding-sheet.

The winner's shout, the loser's curse,
Dance before dead England's hearse.

Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born,
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.

Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.

We are led to believe a lie
When we see not thro' the eye,
Which was born in a night to perish in a night,
When the soul slept in beams of light.

God appears, and God is light,
To those poor souls who dwell in night;
But does a human form display
To those who dwell in realms of day.
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It's a pretty gloomy poem but i would like to share with you all. I like the beginning and ending part.
Good night. Hope i'll be better tomorrow.
-huifang-

A weird dream

This song was playing so clearly in my dreams for 2 days since last week.

What a weird dream, i saw myself crying in a nicely decorated garden which i have never seen before. and this song was the background music but there was a piano playing on its own in a corner of the garden. Just like the scene from <<The Piano>> video of the song entitle the heart asks pleasure first but not that eerie… lol

this is the video from the piano. hahaha

weird huh? by the way, the song that i heard in my dream is called Secret Love by Jim Brickman.

I guessed im too fucked tensed up for exams until i’m having such funny dreams.

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Coping pretty well with sleep-depriving-nights at the moment.

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Utterly dislike people asking questions during exams cz it’s pretty disturbing in a pin-drop-silence-exam-hall okay?

Read the questions carefully and answer them according how you perceive the questions la. Why must ask ask ask? It’s not like u get extra tips or what right?

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good night.

3 weeks to go and i can go home.

-huifang-

Final examination phobia.

My 1st paper starts on monday.

I’m having butterflies in my stomach already. (not diarrhea tho, its more like stress induced mental symptoms.)

May Buddha enlighten me throughout my whole journey.

-huifang-

Jigsaw Puzzle

Love is simple.

Yet we human beings make it difficult and complicated.

Because everyone is different, that is what makes each individual special.

A soul mate is like a jigsaw puzzle that fits perfectly.

Some pieces fit but still is not a perfect match.

It seems like i’m not the only one that is having this puzzle issue.

My piece of puzzle has yet to be found.

*study till i feel so emo now* =(

-huifang-

Ras-MAPK pathway

This is for my own reference…