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Mar. 4th, 2014
301th Post!
Mar. 4th, 2014 11:38 pmWas curious to see how much I've posted so I went to check my profile earlier... and lo and behold, I was at exactly 300 posts!
Never knew I'd posted so much haha! And I've received close to 400 comments, and made over 3.5k comments myself. In the roughly 2.5 years that I've been on LJ. Hmm, not bad, not bad. Thank you everyone for all your love and support! m(_ _)m
Let's continue to share the Arashi love! :P
And I'm still struggling to do my Arashi reviews. Finally finished up the new yaer's AnShi SP, but since I went out on Sat and did the review on Sun, that means I'm a week behind in my TV show watching again. Not to mention that at the rate I'm going, I'll never be able to watch Aiba Manabu and Shitsuren chocolateir. And I really wanna watch Aiba manabu... >< And new shows come in week after week... ah...
Anyway. I wanted to share this yesterday, but by the time I finished up Aiba's part of the AnShi yesterday, I was too tired to even do the html links properly so... >< Finally got that fixed today though!
I got back my JLPT results yesterday! My mum whatsapped me a photo of the score slip during lunch time yesterday...! 150/180, and A in all three categories - vocab, grammar and reading. I got full marks for listening, which surprised me, cos there were a few questions that I wasn’t so sure of. Guess all that Arashi shows watching paid off lol. Well its only level N4 though. So nothing to be too excited about. But I was absolutely lazy and didn't study at all - beside watching loads and loads of Arashi shows, catching up on all the half a year worth of programs that I missed while waiting for my poor leg to heal. I did better than my sis, BUT the test was in the middle of her exam period and she had no time to study, or even watch Arashi shows... actually her vocab, grammar and reading part was higher than me by 3 marks, but she did poorly on her listening. I need to improve my grammar a lot more. It's my weak point, be it English or French - been trying to learn French on the duolingo app for fun, and it has indeed been fun. I'm going awfully slowly and re-doing a lot of the lessons though but its interesting to be able to learn another language. I do a bunch of lessons roughly once a week, or sometimes twice. Too bad there isn't a similar app for Japanese... that'll push me to improve my vocab/grammar at least once a week. So I'm hoping to be able to push myself to learn some Japanese at least once a week. To get ready for taking N3 in July.
Oh yes. It was quite epic. During the listening exam, someone's phone rang. My first thoughts were 'who's going to get disqualified?' Turns out that it was the exam proctor's phone. LOL. It didn't ring at a very important time though, cos I promptly forgot about the incident after that (I still scored full marks after all)... So I was really surprised when I received another letter yesterday in addition to my score report. Because of the phone ringing incident, they are gonna refund my exam fees! And they gave me a voucher so I can register for JLPT this July for free! Whoohoo! That's a whopping 55 bucks refund. Neat! Sadly my sis registered online whereas I went down last min and registered... (we were in different classrooms). Would have been nice if both of us got a refund haha. And since there's the voucher, I guess I'd better start studying for N3. And really, actually put in some hard work this time. N4 was easy, but not as easy as I'd have liked. There were quite a bunch of vocab and grammar questions that got me guessing... so I need to be better prepared for N3 this time.
I'll have to go down to the association to collect my cert and refund by the end of this month. Which is a little troublesome since they only open weekdays, though to 8pm - otherwise with work I'd never be able to make it.
Whee 55 bucks! I've been wanting to get a vocab book for a while now, and there's this book that I saw in Kino that my sis says is really, really good. But it’s a whooping 60++ bucks so neither of us felt inclined to spend that much money. But now I'm definitely gonna get that book with the $ 'saved' from the exam fees. Yippee!
Work has been good, and I'm starting to get busy now, with DNA extractions and qPCR to do. Still waiting for the guy in my group to teach me DGGE - denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis - i've never done it before. There's this wheel like thing that you have to use to make the gel and all... but yup, no more time for me to sit at my comp writing fanfics. Even at the comp i've got quotations to ask for, or results to analyse and all... its not an overwhelming amount of work - if it becomes too much to handle i can always ask for help - but its definitely enough to keep be really busy. I pretty much spend most of the day in the labs now. Mondays are particularly busy since I have to get all the DNA extractions done. And with 9 samples to be done in duplicates - for a total of 18 - its time consuming work. I have to run the automated DNA extraction machine thing thrice, since it only takes 8 samples at once... 27 mins per run BUT with the set up time and cleaning up, it probably takes me around 45 mins per run. Ah the setup and clean up time... it's what been causing me to run the DNA extraction till past the official working hours, even though I thought I had more than enough time to finish up before 6. But no... it was more like I ended up starting the last run at 6. >< Ah... gotta work on my efficiency for that...
Hmm that's about all for today... Was so tired I was ready to sleep halfway writing, but to split a single LJ entry into two parts (or slap on a work in progress label)... that's getting a little ridiculous isn't it? ><
Night nights all! Would love to do a review of last week's VSA cos it seems like arashi x JE plus one (that guy's name slipped my mind) would be epic, but that'll depend on how tired I am over the rest of the week ne... >
Never knew I'd posted so much haha! And I've received close to 400 comments, and made over 3.5k comments myself. In the roughly 2.5 years that I've been on LJ. Hmm, not bad, not bad. Thank you everyone for all your love and support! m(_ _)m
Let's continue to share the Arashi love! :P
And I'm still struggling to do my Arashi reviews. Finally finished up the new yaer's AnShi SP, but since I went out on Sat and did the review on Sun, that means I'm a week behind in my TV show watching again. Not to mention that at the rate I'm going, I'll never be able to watch Aiba Manabu and Shitsuren chocolateir. And I really wanna watch Aiba manabu... >< And new shows come in week after week... ah...
Anyway. I wanted to share this yesterday, but by the time I finished up Aiba's part of the AnShi yesterday, I was too tired to even do the html links properly so... >< Finally got that fixed today though!
I got back my JLPT results yesterday! My mum whatsapped me a photo of the score slip during lunch time yesterday...! 150/180, and A in all three categories - vocab, grammar and reading. I got full marks for listening, which surprised me, cos there were a few questions that I wasn’t so sure of. Guess all that Arashi shows watching paid off lol. Well its only level N4 though. So nothing to be too excited about. But I was absolutely lazy and didn't study at all - beside watching loads and loads of Arashi shows, catching up on all the half a year worth of programs that I missed while waiting for my poor leg to heal. I did better than my sis, BUT the test was in the middle of her exam period and she had no time to study, or even watch Arashi shows... actually her vocab, grammar and reading part was higher than me by 3 marks, but she did poorly on her listening. I need to improve my grammar a lot more. It's my weak point, be it English or French - been trying to learn French on the duolingo app for fun, and it has indeed been fun. I'm going awfully slowly and re-doing a lot of the lessons though but its interesting to be able to learn another language. I do a bunch of lessons roughly once a week, or sometimes twice. Too bad there isn't a similar app for Japanese... that'll push me to improve my vocab/grammar at least once a week. So I'm hoping to be able to push myself to learn some Japanese at least once a week. To get ready for taking N3 in July.
Oh yes. It was quite epic. During the listening exam, someone's phone rang. My first thoughts were 'who's going to get disqualified?' Turns out that it was the exam proctor's phone. LOL. It didn't ring at a very important time though, cos I promptly forgot about the incident after that (I still scored full marks after all)... So I was really surprised when I received another letter yesterday in addition to my score report. Because of the phone ringing incident, they are gonna refund my exam fees! And they gave me a voucher so I can register for JLPT this July for free! Whoohoo! That's a whopping 55 bucks refund. Neat! Sadly my sis registered online whereas I went down last min and registered... (we were in different classrooms). Would have been nice if both of us got a refund haha. And since there's the voucher, I guess I'd better start studying for N3. And really, actually put in some hard work this time. N4 was easy, but not as easy as I'd have liked. There were quite a bunch of vocab and grammar questions that got me guessing... so I need to be better prepared for N3 this time.
I'll have to go down to the association to collect my cert and refund by the end of this month. Which is a little troublesome since they only open weekdays, though to 8pm - otherwise with work I'd never be able to make it.
Whee 55 bucks! I've been wanting to get a vocab book for a while now, and there's this book that I saw in Kino that my sis says is really, really good. But it’s a whooping 60++ bucks so neither of us felt inclined to spend that much money. But now I'm definitely gonna get that book with the $ 'saved' from the exam fees. Yippee!
Work has been good, and I'm starting to get busy now, with DNA extractions and qPCR to do. Still waiting for the guy in my group to teach me DGGE - denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis - i've never done it before. There's this wheel like thing that you have to use to make the gel and all... but yup, no more time for me to sit at my comp writing fanfics. Even at the comp i've got quotations to ask for, or results to analyse and all... its not an overwhelming amount of work - if it becomes too much to handle i can always ask for help - but its definitely enough to keep be really busy. I pretty much spend most of the day in the labs now. Mondays are particularly busy since I have to get all the DNA extractions done. And with 9 samples to be done in duplicates - for a total of 18 - its time consuming work. I have to run the automated DNA extraction machine thing thrice, since it only takes 8 samples at once... 27 mins per run BUT with the set up time and cleaning up, it probably takes me around 45 mins per run. Ah the setup and clean up time... it's what been causing me to run the DNA extraction till past the official working hours, even though I thought I had more than enough time to finish up before 6. But no... it was more like I ended up starting the last run at 6. >< Ah... gotta work on my efficiency for that...
Hmm that's about all for today... Was so tired I was ready to sleep halfway writing, but to split a single LJ entry into two parts (or slap on a work in progress label)... that's getting a little ridiculous isn't it? ><
Night nights all! Would love to do a review of last week's VSA cos it seems like arashi x JE plus one (that guy's name slipped my mind) would be epic, but that'll depend on how tired I am over the rest of the week ne... >