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First... replying to someone's (forgot the username, and too lazy to go check) comment on my previous entry. I'm addicted to two One OK Rock's songs, well the two endings songs of Kenshin 1st and 2nd movie, The Beginning and Mighty Long Fall. Love them, its really nice. Been listening to ONLY these two songs for two days one and even now it's playing in my mind hahaha. Do check out these songs if you are free. Again, I'm way too lazy to find a youtube video to dump in here cos yeah.
I'm totally not doing my subs now... but meh... it's been busy at work recently!

Hmm I can't remember if I've mentioned it or not but I’ve sort of been keeping track of how many ppl I speak to at work… and on Monday well… if my supervisor didn’t come round asking me to key in some data in the late evening, I would not have spoken to a single soul at all! Minus ordering my food during lunch of course. But well that’s just the way research is… when doing experiments you can well not talk to anyone at all. So yup, these days I am CONSTANTLY listening to my music in the lab. Unless someone is talking to me of course, but that doesn’t happen much. Its like… less than 10 mins a day, minus lunch times IF I join by lunch buddies and take the shuttle bus out… but these two weeks I’ve been so busy I’ve hardly joined them at all! Plus school reopened so the canteens in the uni are super, duper crowded!

Today I did work really hard! Broke my new record I guess, 4 plates of qPCR, on top of that one of the plates demanded that I do a gel electrophoresis after that… But I’m glad! My qPCR results for the plate I did to help another group… it turned out really nice. Very low standard deviations and very nice melting curves. And it was done in triplicates! I think it turned out much better than that done by their own group members hahaha. Then again, no one else ran as much qPCR as I did. Over 70 plates for sure by now. Well today alone was four plates!! Hahaha. Its no wonder that I’m tired! I started qPCR at 11am and was still doing a plate at 5:50pm!

So well… you have to forgive me for just being in a totally slack mode… I’ve not even read through the stuff my friend asked me to help proofread and sent me on Sun night. Opps. And not I’m too tired to read too. Hopefully I’ll finish the bulk of the qPCR by this week. Then next week ought to be a more… relaxing week haha. We’ll see.

Well… so anyway… I was just slacking around earlier and played with the few photo editing apps that I got recently. Plus I added some photos to instagram… so let me just share them here...

2014 08 20 22 57 51 This was made with the Lory Stripes app. Well all the apps that I bought and used today (besides instagram) was from the same developer...

2014 08 20 22 36 34 This was made with Matter.

2014 08 20 18 34 07 2 As was this… My cute fishy mug with vitamin C redoxon drink. Perfect cold drink to have after a long (and thirsty) day in the lab. I’ve been religiously applying lip balm every time before I leave for the lab now. Cos my lips dry out and get cracked otherwise. Well… the humidity is lower in air con rooms already, but in the lab its specially lowered even further - to prevent bacteria growth and what not. So yeah, I end up getting really thirsty. See all the condensation on the cup? Well the water dispenser gives cold water, and coupled with the slightly endothermic reaction of the tablet dissolving… I end up with a lovely, cold drink! And the water being flavoured is really important cos… otherwise I can’t drink that much plain water at once. Even though I’m really thirsty and end up drinking like… half a bottle already… (maybe 300-4000ml). Yeah. I drink a lot of water at once after long lab sessions… but it can’t be helped that I stay in the lab for so long because I need to do my experiments and more often than not, I run on a tight time schedule! (Else I’d have to go home really late!)

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Random pic of movie ticket stubs… quite rare for me to watch movies, but it seems like I’d be watching two more movies soon - the two Kenshin movies! Yay! Well I hope I’d be able to catch them in the cinema anyway.

2014 08 19 18 49 00 A picture my sis doodled on her lecture notes. And she photocopies and cut it out for me so that I could use it as a card cover… cos now I’m wearing the access card and my ex-link (transportation) card on my jeans, in a plastic name card holder attached to those retractable clips.

This was made with matter too. I love those shiny metal stuff, but its hard to hit them nicely in a photo. This looks really cluttered, I know.

This one is made with Tangent...

Okays. Now for some Japanese words!
紐 (ひも, himo) - 1. String; cord. 2. Man who is financially dependent on a woman (such as a gigolo or, in the case of a prostitute, a pimp); pimp.

Came across this word in the latest episode of Aiba Manabu. Those string like pieces of dried gourd. Which brings us to the next word.

乾瓢 (かんぴょう, Kanpyou) - Strips of dried gourd.
See how its made in Aiba Manabu! XD

邦楽 (ほうがく, hougaku) - Japanese music (esp. traditional japanese music)

洋楽 (ようがく, yougaku) - Western music; european music.
The last two are from the latest AnShi. When they were guess which song will 'up your feminine levels'. Well you ought to come across the word 洋楽 pretty often, but 邦楽 not so much.

Anyway, these words will be added to my Random Japanese words flashcard set on Quizlet. So check that out if you're interested. Well Quizlet lets you embed HTML... so let me just try it out here... :P
Edit: Meh. It doesn’t work on LJ :(