Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the wrong words seem to rhyme
Out of the doubt that fills my mind.
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i know i already need an extension for spring break Wednesday, March 24, 2010 i dont know why but i suddenly feel homesick. anyways, might be going shopping with mary tomorrow or thursday still waiting for her response. i think its gonna be weird since we havent met sincce we graduated and thats 3 years? but hopefully it'll be fun or that we'll even go. i am craving retail therapy badly. but at the same time, i want to save up for our summer trip to florida. though mom and dad will be here before i go (in fact, they dont even know about it yet) so my bank will be topped up then. its only 9pm and i already feel like going to bed. this is not a good sign. i n.e.e.d t.o g.e.t s.t.u.d.y.i.n.g! expanding your horizons Sunday, March 21, 2010 just got back from eyh not too long ago so i'm gonna blog about it before i get too lazy and drag this till years later. you should know me by now (remember the winter break trip that happened? now where is that post?) anyhow, we've been preparing this workshop ever since we got back from sacnas so i would say november? and now it's all over, just like that. i really will miss the whole process or rather the whole company that we have. i had tons of fun just hanging out with them, bitching about "pork chop"-no not food, a person who i will talk more about later, and just stuff that corrupts my mind. this is my last committment i have at skyline. well, i should have had one more on tuesday but it got cancelled apparently so now i hope he reschedules or something. i really cant bear to leave skyline. but otherwise, this is officially my last event and i have no other reason to go to skyline anymore. sad. i could go visit next year and stuff but we'll see. quite a few people from my batch came today so it was nice meeting up with them again though i didnt talk to them much since i was busy with my workshop. fail. felt somewhat bad but hey i was busy so i forgive myself. so we all met up on friday at 12 to make sure everything was set up and ready to go on saturday. made more fake stuff like bacteria and nutrient broth which the girls would use. we didnt want them to use real stuff since it was expensive and what do 6th graders know about bacteria rubbing their eyes with their e.coli infected hands. even i forget sometimes to wash my hands before touching my eyes. also decorated our room and my did it look like a rainforest. we hijacked plants from the bio plant room and that was one bad but funny experience. the ferns were pretty much dried out and dead and we had to carry them from the second floor to the third floor. as we were walking, all the leaves starting falling off and we left a trail to our room. people started following the trail so we had people peeking in and out of our room. of course, we got yelled at by the lab technician so we took a broom and swept it up. i havent touched a broom in ages. even for my room, i just use that cloth thingy that dust sticks too. but i must say im pretty impressed with myself. who knew this spoilt child could sweep. oh and before that, since 3 of us reached early, we decided to head up to the classroom to arrange the tables to make it look like a lab but right when we were done, a teacher walked in. apparently, there was still classes going on in that classroom. and being mean to us, she made us arrange all the desks back again. thanks for making us exercise. our room was amazing when we had everything going. the lights and music and all. some other students came in and they felt pretty bad about their own room. case and stephen came in too and they were impressed i must say. really, we just wanted to show them that we put in effort and hoped that the kids have fun so we'll get positive feedback. too bad i dont have a decent picture of the room. everything was too hectic once we got started. got to skyline at 7.45am. i was actually pretty excited that i couldnt exactly go to sleep. and i actually woke up early without having to press my snooze button a million times. that was how excited i was. i dont see myself doing that for school... waited for anchi so we could check in and bumped into case. i saw her everywhere in school. especially towards the end. she's definitely someone im gonna miss. she's the most awesome mentor/professor you could ever find though sometimes i just cant get her sarcasm. on friday when i was walking to the bus stop to wait for my cuz, i bumped into her and she mumbled something about lost fortune cookies. i was like huh? and she didnt answer me. but we were walking in opposite directions. as i was waiting though, i saw her at a corner near the gym sitting with her husband how sweet. anyway i digress. so we checked in for everyone and of course pam whom i referred to as pork chop didnt get her name tag and lunch ticket. we knew why but she didnt. because of her ditching the earlier meetings we had and she basically didnt do anything, plus the grudge that we had against her, although the last factor didnt matter, case took her name off the program. isnt she awesome or what. we didnt tell her straight in her face that we wanted her name off but being an awesome prof that she is, she knew what and how to do. plus she was in charge of the whole event anyways. oh yeah. went back to our room to try to get everything set up and ready to go when the girls get in. the ambience was just amazing (geez i m running out of adjectives to use) it really felt like we were in the rainforest. plus we had dry ice to make it look all foggy. so the first workshop started and it was mainly a practice run for us to get warmed up. it did run pretty smoothly but we were done so quickly that we didnt know what to do with the leftover time since we couldnt let them out early. so we gave out word searches and crosswords to do leftover from last year. they were enthusiatic for a bit and were definitely impressed with the room but we couldnt hold their attention for long. then again, they're 6th to 12th graders. plus, our workshop was pretty science-y. second workshop was better though we only had 10 mins in between to prep. seriously not enough time. i would say that that was the best batch. had lunch after. we didnt want to bring everything with us to the other building where lunch was at so one of us stayed behind and we brought food back to the room where we had our own little party. pam ran after me when we were leaving to get a lunch ticket. how desperate. i know i sound really mean here but if you seriously hear and see what she does, you'll feel the same way. our last workshop was a little disastrous. it was in the late afternoon after lunch, so all the kiddos were already restless. we didnt want to torture them more so we just sped up everything and they had a bunch of free time. i had a weird girl in my group which totally drained me. how do girls at 14 get such an attitude? i dont get it. played with dry ice bombs for a bit and that was fun. the best part of the whole event was after everything ended and majority of the people left. so we headed down to the reception for dessert and bitched some more while we left the other group behind to clean up. okay no, we didnt ask them to clean up, they did it themselves in their own will. got back up and they left while we packed up the remainder of the stuff. so we had to bring the carts back down to the bio lab and we had jon-one of the go'fer guys help us and we wanted to prank him with a dry ice bomb. so we placed it on the cart and started following him quietly. it was hilarious and we couldnt stop laughing. people around were looking at us as if we're crazy. the sad part: it didnt go off. so disappointing. we had to go into the room and throw it in the trash lest it goes off while the lab tech was there. we would be killed. so anchi had the bright idea to prank case in her office. we passed her some stuff the leftovers from the workshop and anchi placed the bomb in the hallway. we did tell her however. it would just be mean. haha. but still, it was fun. went back up to clean up everything and made one last trip down to the bio lab. took pictures and saw case again but she was leaving this time. we ran into the bio lab since theres a view of the carpark where she usually parks and started waving. hilarious. nav was kind enough to drive me home. i'm sure going to miss these guys a bunch. they always make my day. the stories that they share and the bitching that we go on and on about. seriously every sentence we seriously want to say is followed by complaints and stories and bitching. so our meetings usually go on forever. but its all worth it. hopefully we'll stay in touch and meet up every once in a while to catch up on more stories. okay, another long post and im tired so im going to crash. on a last note, i am never going to be a middle of high school teacher. hoot hoot Saturday, March 13, 2010 had my first experience at hooters today. okay not a big deal but more on that later. so this week has just been exhausting with a capital E. not that i was bombed with midterms or anything like the past 2 weeks but i've just been in school till late everyday. from getting on bart at 7.30 to getting home at 6. i know 6 is not late at all but i usually dont get home that late everyday. maybe just 3 times a week or so. but there was just so much to be done and my cousin was staying in school later too so i dont want to spend more time waiting for the bus and paying 2 dollars for the bus. i'd just be wasting more time especially if i just miss the bus. that would put an extra hour into me doing nothing. i just cant stand it when i get out of class at let's say 2, but i dont start studying or doing actual work at 5, which is what happens most of the time. by the time i get home its usually 3.30 and that is if my cousin picks me up. and by the time i settle down, shower, eat and stuff, its already 5. ridiculous really. i could have done so much during that 3 hours if i were in school. but oh wells. i commute so im living with it. hopefully next week is better and then its spring break!! woohoo! the past 2 nights, i've just been struggling so much with the planets homework and its making me lose interest in it. im getting more bored in class and my doodling rate has increased. bad stuff. need to change! im never going to use google mars again. i can do math, no problem with that but making me zoom in and out describing stuff and measuring elevation and latitude in arcminutes confuses the hell out of me. main reason why i dont take geography. been going to a few office hours this week as well thats why im getting home later too. hate it when the profs just think that everyone lives on or near campus. hello, what about those that live an hour away?! so stop holding ur office hours and extra classes in the evening. though the good thing is, i actually understand and am following what goes on in genetics and nutrition. guess office hours works. i need to start sucking up to profs too in order to get letters of recommendation later on. oh the difficulties of college life which is making me laugh right now. you'll know why later when i blog about what happened this afternoon. started officially helping out with the snails research last week as well. (just realized how long i havent blogged). so last friday, jenna(grad student), marika another helper and I met up and we started measuring the snails they caught during the week. there was 150 snails and boy were they tiny. didnt expect them to be that small. in fact, i havent seen them that small. those that i worked with over the summer were huge compared to those. and those that i worked with, i thought they were small and hard to work with since it was so hard to get anything out of them other than poop. anyways, we hard to tag them with bee tags (tiny round colored tags to be stuck on their shells so we could identify them), clean them, measure their shell size and weight. i did the cleaning and squashed a couple of their shells. but they were soo cute when they all had their lil tags on. too bad i dont have a picture of them. theyre with jenna. maybe i'll take a pic when i clean them next week. but anyways, i have to say this: snails are NOT slow. thats a myth. we did like an assembly line thing so i passed the clean snails to marika who did the tags and passed them to jenna who measured them. so of course cleaning was fast compared to the other jobs. for tagging, you had to use a toothpick to apply glue and stick it on so it took longer but they were fragile. so we just had the snails in a petri dish but of course they could crawl out but we knew that they wouldnt go far if they did so it was manageable. but we were wrong. we werent exactly keeping an eye on them since we were concentrating on our jobs so some of them were "missing". we searched high and low for them and since they were tiny, they could practically hide anywhere. some turned out to be under the wash cloths, others on the taps, and almost halfway across the table. but thanks to the snail whisperer aka me, we managed to find them muahahaha. snails dont escape my snail vision. went back in on wed to clean their tanks. they poop a lot!! marika just cleaned them on monday and on wed, their tanks were filthy with poop. bone numbering has been fun too. it really depends on the day to see if i could write small. some days, its just impossible, other days, i can write fine. so far i did kit foxes, some rat thing and paramycus something. heard there's a tiger carcass that came in today. exciting. dont think i'll see it though. tag tying is not that bad too. just really brainless and boring work especially if you're working alone. worked with christine a few times which made it better. we had crepes after class on wed too. yums. i had been craving for them for about a week and finally got them satisfied. we went to this place on telegraph and we both got nutella banana and vanilla ice cream. so good. but the crepe was a lil thick for my liking so i was so full after. i really like this semester too since im getting to know more people so its not that miserable anymore. speaking of miserable, seeing others get scholarships that i could have had a chance at while i was at skyline just gives me a sense of regret. those were prestigious scholarships-all state/all usa/1 out of 800 applicants. i did think of applying back then but looking at the questions that you had to write about yourself just scared me away. i didnt have that much credentials then. like the research publication and stuff so i really wasnt confident. but then again, i could have at least tried. you just never know. might have said this before but i never knew i would get into berkeley. all i remember was wikipedia-ing the top schools and just reading about it but never in my mind did i think i would one day be on the campus itself studying. its almost surreal really. if i were to apply with my o levels or finish jc to apply, i would never have had a chance. and i am pretty sure of that. so i guess in some way, i am content with not having those scholarships and at that time, i was ecstatic enough that i got into berkeley and everything else just seemed minor and i really didnt care. so there, my regrets. on to today, (okay this is one heck of a long post to compensate for my lack of entries). even though i had to skip nutrition and risk not understanding stuff, hopefully i can get christine's notes, i have no regrets. so i left school at 10 to get down to skyline to prepare for eyh. it was totally a session of bitching and gossiping. skyline didnt exactly have school today due to flex days so campus was empty. quite weird really. but case was nice enough to be there so we could work on our workshop. she didnt have to be in school at all but she was so humble and claimed that it wasnt a day off-they were still getting paid for not teaching. even if she was home though, she'd be slogging her guts out like a workaholic as she is preparing for eyh. but anyways, during the session, we planned out all the steps of the experiment and made sure everyone knew how it was done so we wouldnt be blurred out when we were teaching the girls. that would be bad. along the way though, we digressed a lot which was hilarious. people were telling stories about faculty, how they were hitting up on students and stuff. it was both gross and interesting. something good to know. and you can never get sick of gossiping. talked about how to seduce profs so they would be lenient with you. the stories they told were just out of the world. so towards the end, we decided to hang out for a bit. went to case's office and asked if she wanted to go with us. we knew she would totally pick the tab if she went. she's cool like that. (how many profs who are in their 60s would be as cool as that?) but she declined. she was busy working as usual and being professional since it was still school period. but the funny part was she said not now, but she will at the conventions. (ptk is going to be at orlando for the international convention, texas last year. oh so jealous). talked to her for a bit and i told us about how i was helping out working with snails again. she thought it was funny and asked if the snails were scared of me =.= after a while, when we were just hanging around persuading her to join us, she said we were wasting out drinking time. lol. decided to go to hooters. from wikipedia: hooters is a restaurant with a waitstaff primarily made up of attractive waitresses. the waitresses basically wear a tank top and shorts. so u get the idea. our waitress was nice though, she was totally chilling with us. so they all (ash, nav, pearl, anchi) got a drink and she was asking if i wanted one too since she could sneak me one but of course i declined. 1 more year! ok, even if i was 21, i wouldnt exactly drink other than maybe on my birthday. they said they would bring me there when i turned 21. lol. so pearl's birthday was a month ago but they still celebrated it. they maade her a sash which they all signed and a crown made out of styrofoam cup. so nice of them. who still helps u celebrate a birthday when its been a month. really had tons of fun throughout the whole 2 hours though. talked a lot. relieved the time we spent during sacnas. all the stories and insider's story. what happened during that whole week was just beyond imagination. the amount of hooking up and flirting. but oh we had so much fun. i would totally do it again. this bunch of people are just great. it does make me miss skyline. because it was such a small school, we all knew each other some how and there'a a common topic-faculty. lol. no, but the time we spend together just makes it different. the week in texas really helped. im sure we all bonded well except for some people who we think are just plain ridiculous like we want to kill them when we see them. nav was nice enough to drop me home after. cant wait to see them again next fri and sat. picture up on facebook. one picture. got home and played disney scene it. fun stuff. i was so behind but i caught up. playing with my cousins who are disney fans, huge fans is not easy. alright, my fingers have got enough excerise for today. hopefully i'll blog more regularly so you dont have to be tortured with long posts. |
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