A bit late, almost time to jot about week 6, but oh well. I'm feeling incredibly nervous right now, so I want to get some stuff out of my head. Interview tomorrow. It has come!!! yipes.
This was a delicious week of curry. I made beef curry this time with my roomie, and we lasted for nearly a week on it. It was quite a curry-licious week. And every time I ate my rice with curry, I would fall deeply into a food coma. Eating curry makes one verrry sleepy afterward.
Other food news. Chai latte is quite delicious warm. I've decided to try all the cafes on campus this semester. So far I have hit the Architecture one, Popovich (Business school one), Tutor Hall (Engineering school's), TroGro, and the Law School one. But I confess, Popovich and the Law school ones were this week (week 6). ;P Now, why doesn't my college (LAS) have a cafe like the others do?
I put this on my phone for this week: "I enjoy spontaneous hang outs, even if it's just for a few minutes." But sadly, I don't remember what I was referring to! Who did I meet up with? ... I think it was a freshman year roomie... yeah. Most likely. It's been so busy suddenly (february is apparently busy month for me). Piling up so much and forgetting so much. shucks.
But I've gotten a few minutes of outside reading. Working on finishing "The Tipping Point." Loving it so far. "Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few." (Page 37) Makes sense. There are only a few people who really love to talk to random people and make conversations. I met a mom who did that on the Primetime shuttle back to school this past weekend. Quite good at gathering information, and quite good at getting people to know random things about you at the same time.
Anyway, a random note to myself. I think the best when I'm in the bathroom. It's good alone time. And good thoughts flow through my brain. But when I come out of the bathroom, they all flow out, and I have to think hard to retrieve them. Which I never end up being able to do, sadly.
Last random note. A baddy team player had his 21st bday last weekend, and some of us held a little party for him. We went to a French restaurant and paid for his dinner. He later told me that was his first time he experienced having his dinner paid for on his birthday. He usually paid for everyone on his birthday. Interesting, but totally understandable, since that's what my mom (and the moms of my family friends group) does. I thought, how easy it was to talk about deeper subjects with these people and get an idea of their personalities rather than thinking so much about myself. Yet that in itself is also kind of thinking about myself. Still such a kid for unconsciously paying more attention to myself than others.
I'm surprised there was so much last week! And I didn't even talk about my three-day three-holiday weekend. I'll clump all my pictures for later. My brain actually feels lighter now! And it's raining outside again. The sun didn't stay long enough!
Friday, February 19, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
XLVIII : Last Semester of Undergrad - Week 4
The little things that I love...
1- The warmth of clothes that just came out of the dryer
2- The deliciousness of home-made food
3- The purely happy smiles from complete strangers
4- The random messages and drop-ins from friends
5- The passing greeting, even if it's just a simple smile and a nod, from people I've met somewhere. Or even from people I've never met before and had mistaken them for someone else.
6- The sound of pouring rain when I am warm and dry in my bed.
7- The comforting sounds of mommy snoring in the master bedroom on the other side of my wall back home.
8- The clean and rejuvenated feeling after a nice, steaming hot shower.
9- The presence of a trusty person.
There are probably more, but those came to me this past week. I had my first exam of the semester on Friday, and because the TA forgot to tell us nine people in the class that he was going to give the exam during the afternoon discussion period, we all sat there during the morning lecture period wondering where he was. Strangely, one of us had the TA's cell phone number, and that's how we found out we had sat there wasting half an hour. But we did make conversations with each other, finally. As a class of nine. One would think with so few people in the class, we would be fine with talking to each other, but we usually just sit in our seats waiting for the class to begin. I love bonding.
Just like I love team bonding with the badminton team. We went to Irvine for our first game this semester, but it was cut short because their volleyball team had a tournament that day too. Sucks, but what can we do. It always cheers me up so much to eat with the baddy team. Delicious places, wonderful times.
And, though I have a physio exam tomorrow, I watched the concert of one of my favorite j-pop groups: Tegomass! :) I still find it interesting that Japan has "idols" such as these two who form Tegomass and, with other members, form NEWS. Still love their songs and their passion for their fans. Whenever I watch their concerts (DVDs and documentaries!), I see their hard work and devotion in making their fans enjoy the concerts and songs. And I still wonder to myself, when have I really, truly given it my all? To see people around my age, though in the entertainment industry, working so hard every day and enjoying their work makes me motivated to find that feeling too. Enjoy hard work. I hope pharmacy school will be exactly like that. From what I've heard, it seems so. I'm excited. But I still get so easily off track. If I say I want to do something, I should do it without getting distracted. I tell myself that every semester... I wonder if it's possible to accomplish?
1- The warmth of clothes that just came out of the dryer
2- The deliciousness of home-made food
3- The purely happy smiles from complete strangers
4- The random messages and drop-ins from friends
5- The passing greeting, even if it's just a simple smile and a nod, from people I've met somewhere. Or even from people I've never met before and had mistaken them for someone else.
6- The sound of pouring rain when I am warm and dry in my bed.
7- The comforting sounds of mommy snoring in the master bedroom on the other side of my wall back home.
8- The clean and rejuvenated feeling after a nice, steaming hot shower.
9- The presence of a trusty person.
There are probably more, but those came to me this past week. I had my first exam of the semester on Friday, and because the TA forgot to tell us nine people in the class that he was going to give the exam during the afternoon discussion period, we all sat there during the morning lecture period wondering where he was. Strangely, one of us had the TA's cell phone number, and that's how we found out we had sat there wasting half an hour. But we did make conversations with each other, finally. As a class of nine. One would think with so few people in the class, we would be fine with talking to each other, but we usually just sit in our seats waiting for the class to begin. I love bonding.
Just like I love team bonding with the badminton team. We went to Irvine for our first game this semester, but it was cut short because their volleyball team had a tournament that day too. Sucks, but what can we do. It always cheers me up so much to eat with the baddy team. Delicious places, wonderful times.
And, though I have a physio exam tomorrow, I watched the concert of one of my favorite j-pop groups: Tegomass! :) I still find it interesting that Japan has "idols" such as these two who form Tegomass and, with other members, form NEWS. Still love their songs and their passion for their fans. Whenever I watch their concerts (DVDs and documentaries!), I see their hard work and devotion in making their fans enjoy the concerts and songs. And I still wonder to myself, when have I really, truly given it my all? To see people around my age, though in the entertainment industry, working so hard every day and enjoying their work makes me motivated to find that feeling too. Enjoy hard work. I hope pharmacy school will be exactly like that. From what I've heard, it seems so. I'm excited. But I still get so easily off track. If I say I want to do something, I should do it without getting distracted. I tell myself that every semester... I wonder if it's possible to accomplish?
Monday, February 1, 2010
XLVII : Micro Lecture
Before I forget, the things I have learned in micro so far:
1) 50% of our poop is alive.
2) When a male and female bacteria conjugate (aka have bacteria sex), the end result is usually two males.
3) Recently, a study done on a certain kind of mold found that it does advanced calculus better (and faster) than engineers (and whoever else needs to use calculus). They grew the mold on a map, in which they put food (I believe they used cereal of some sort) in high density cities. Then they let the mold grow and found that the growth mapped out the best way to use fewest number of extensions to max out the amount of nutrients it can attain. For instance, they put the mold in Japan (I think it started in Tokyo?) on a map and put cereal on the densely populated cities and watched where the mold grew. And when they compared it to the transportation rail lines there, it matched up pretty well. Crazy nerdy mold! And we just can't compare to the great, ever-so-complicated simple mysteries of nature.
4) When we smell, it isn't actually us that smells but the bacteria living on us. And people have bacteria that specifically love that single person. Pluck it off that person and put it on someone else, it'll probably die. The world is a tough place for all living things.
5) Tap water and industrial water are actually from the same type of water. It's just industrial water says "DO NOT DRINK" because people haven't bothered to install a = blocker for the possible backflow of the water when it has gone down the drain and decided to come back up the pipe. And who knows what good stuff it can bring back up with it. "YUMM" as my prof said as he drank water from his little thermo bottle.
6) Never write to Giant Microbes (that company that makes awesomely cute stuffed microbes) complaining about the specifics of certain microbes. For instance, the fact that (insert bacteria name here) is supposed to have flagella all around it, not just coming from one end of it. They will reply with "This is only a toy." Or, in that above case, they will add to it "And that is a mutant. He is very valuable" and send you an actual giant microbe of that bacteria, which we find only has flagella on half the side... but we will not complain anymore because "It is only a toy."
How many of these will probably show up on the exam? 0. wootness. But such fun facts and the professor is so nerdily in love with microbiology (or more specifically, bacteria), he has amusing tangents. Oh, the joys of being a nerd.
1) 50% of our poop is alive.
2) When a male and female bacteria conjugate (aka have bacteria sex), the end result is usually two males.
3) Recently, a study done on a certain kind of mold found that it does advanced calculus better (and faster) than engineers (and whoever else needs to use calculus). They grew the mold on a map, in which they put food (I believe they used cereal of some sort) in high density cities. Then they let the mold grow and found that the growth mapped out the best way to use fewest number of extensions to max out the amount of nutrients it can attain. For instance, they put the mold in Japan (I think it started in Tokyo?) on a map and put cereal on the densely populated cities and watched where the mold grew. And when they compared it to the transportation rail lines there, it matched up pretty well. Crazy nerdy mold! And we just can't compare to the great, ever-so-complicated simple mysteries of nature.
4) When we smell, it isn't actually us that smells but the bacteria living on us. And people have bacteria that specifically love that single person. Pluck it off that person and put it on someone else, it'll probably die. The world is a tough place for all living things.
5) Tap water and industrial water are actually from the same type of water. It's just industrial water says "DO NOT DRINK" because people haven't bothered to install a = blocker for the possible backflow of the water when it has gone down the drain and decided to come back up the pipe. And who knows what good stuff it can bring back up with it. "YUMM" as my prof said as he drank water from his little thermo bottle.
6) Never write to Giant Microbes (that company that makes awesomely cute stuffed microbes) complaining about the specifics of certain microbes. For instance, the fact that (insert bacteria name here) is supposed to have flagella all around it, not just coming from one end of it. They will reply with "This is only a toy." Or, in that above case, they will add to it "And that is a mutant. He is very valuable" and send you an actual giant microbe of that bacteria, which we find only has flagella on half the side... but we will not complain anymore because "It is only a toy."
How many of these will probably show up on the exam? 0. wootness. But such fun facts and the professor is so nerdily in love with microbiology (or more specifically, bacteria), he has amusing tangents. Oh, the joys of being a nerd.
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