Day of Days

Dr Kee and Mee helping out @ Melb Uni Open Day

Biochem dinner Miniproject students

L to R: Me, Prof Paul Gleeson (Head of Biochem) and Dr Irene Stanley (whom we affectionately dote as "Harry Potter"- yes she can do magic tricks inside or outside the lab)


L to R: A/Prof Cheng, me and A/Prof Paul Gooley

"If we were to run a NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) analysis on Collingwood Players samples, we'd be able to find every single chemical listed in the 2007 Sigma-Aldrich Chemicals Catalogue"- A/Prof Gooley

20:8:07

12:39hrs AEST, GMT +08:00
The Melbourne of University

Library Law

Guess what? The comps at the Law Library have GOOGLE EARTH.. but UNFORTUNATELY there was no Haze.. and I could actually see my own house from there.. 79 West Coast Green.. So I decided to go on a fact finding mission- I typed in Mentakab.. and the camera panned.. and all I saw was a splotch of green.. you cant zoom in much.. I guess Kay Weng was right.. and in fact Mentakab is on Wikipedia.. hmm.. very interesting.. there're alot of trees there.. so much for my amusement today.

Slept for only an hour last night from 6-7am.. I feel the fatigue just setting in but.. I guess there's really not much of a choice.. I gotta carry out my responsibility.. and being responsible often means doing the stuff that you dont like.. I guess thats the way life is isnt it? No one asked you if you liked it and you are under no obligation to like it.. but you just have to do it.. I'm in quite a dour mood today.. there're many things going on- academia and otherwise.. but as dour as I am, I just guess I'll laugh or at least try and let it pass.. Isn't that the way life is? it insults you time and time again.. but just shrug it off.. infact you insult yourself and get a laugh out of it too.. a transgression of mine is probably that I've imposed my own standards on others... my own stoic attitude towards life.. well I know for one I've tresspassed Ju wen... I didn't get it at the point of time.. I actually still dont.. but.. some things in life are probably best not understood but just done.. so I'll do my bit..

Its an unusually quiet day today.. although the sun in all its splendour smiled upon me.. but I just couldn't help this feeling inside me.. As I walked out from home the second time, all of a sudden.. its like such a surreally beautiful day but with a tinge of melancholy.. I dont know why I felt that way.. but I just did.. thoughts so elusive playing hit and run with me.. could it be I'm just tired? could it be that I've suppressed so much of my emotion that its starting to turn on me? Its the kind of feeling when you have a cut in the middle of your palm.. whilst it isnt inherently lethal, you feel it there and it annoys you.. I feel edgy.. and some low on morale.. I look at my books with a sigh more than my usual 'can-do'.. its like something is sucking my energy.. and I doubt its just the lack of sleep- because I've gone without sleep before and I felt fine..

Oh well.. I guess a start would be to quit whining and to get on with my work..