Costly Lesson...

I have made a careless mistake and ruined my experiment. All the previous work goes into drain and the most terrible thing is, i have wasted a few thousand dollars. When i found out that my experiment was failed, i really hoped that it was merely a dream as the consequence was more than i could bear. But soon, reality sank in. Only god knew how upset and helpless i was. How i wished i could turn back the time. I could sense that my voice was trembling when i told my boss about it, and my palms were cold and clammy. My mind was actually blank but still, words came out. She was unhappy but was calmer than i would have expected. I feel really bad but i tell myself that i still need to move on. The most important thing is to learn from this mistake and never ever repeat it again in future. I am just a human being afterall...

What a Day!

I reached Lily's house at 11.30am, sweating profusely. I was just about to press the doorbell when suddenly my mobile phone rang. I fumbled through my bag and found my mobile phone and it was Lily. I answered her call and told her that i was at her doorstep already. I was just wondering why did she make that call and the front door of hers flung open. She told me that our manicure and pedicure lesson was cancelled at the very last minute by our teacher as she was feeling not well due to the monthly thing. Actually I only felt abit upset as i already walked all the way to Lily's house from my house to attend the lesson and now only being told that the class was cancelled. But Lily was totally flared up and annoyed. I could understand why she was so angry as this was not the first time that our teacher being unprofessional. Previously, we were supposed to have our first lesson on 9th of May at her house but she told us last minute that a bride-to-be lady had requested her service on that day and asked if we could change our lesson to the next day. She said that it was okay if we still wanted to have lesson on that day as she practiced first come first basis. Well, we were not that inconsiderate to the bride-to-be, so we just agreed to change our lesson to the next day. Also, instead of having our lesson at her house as being told earlier, we ended up having the lesson at another place. I was still okay with that but Lily was feeling a little bit annoyed as she kept on changing. During our second lesson, as promised, we were going to meet her at Lily's house at 11pm for the lesson. Again, she told us last minute that she was feeling very tired as she worked for 16 hours nonstop the previous day and asking us if we could start the lesson at 12pm. We waited for her about 2 hours as she only reached at 1pm. Lily was really unhappy with that and was preparing to voice out her unhapiness but i quickly stopped her. I worried that our teacher might feel unhappy and teach us not whole-heartedly. Today, Lily couldn't hold back her anger anymore and no matter how i stopped her, she called our teacher and complained about her unprofessionalism. Well, i knew that this day would finally come and i just watched helplessly at Lily, unsured about what's going to happen next. After she hung up the phone, she told me that our teacher was apologizing and feeling very sorry. She said she would come down if we really wanted her to, but Lily rejected her as she already told us that she was having menstrual cramp. She told us that if we were to stop the course, she would refund us. After thinking for some time, we have decided to continue the course as we have already learned halfway through and it was such a waste if we were to give up now. She promised us that she would try to be professional from now onwards and we trust her this one last time. Besides that, we really didn't know what else could we do.I knew that Lily was not happy not because of her absence today but because of the unhappiness accumulated from previous experience. Now that the lesson was being cancelled, i felt like doing something crazy-ear piercing, lol...This was not the first time i get my ears pierced actually. The first time i get my ears pierced was actually at one of the jewellery shops at my hometown 7 years ago. I went to one of those shops offering ear piercing service and told the shop owner that i was going to have one pierce on each of my ear lobe.i was utterly nervous and scared when the shop owner was going to pierce my ears. He kept on reassuring me that this was not going to be very painful and asked me to relax. I thought he was quite good at reassuring the customer. Finally i managed to calm down and once the piercing was done, i felt relieved and i was really surprised that it was not really painful afterall, the shop owner didn't cheat me, lol....now i have 2 pierces on each ear :) I told my best friend that i pierced my ears and you know what he said?? "ai sui mai mia" in Hokkien which means "love pretty and don't want life" lol :p

Manicure day :)

Today is Saturday, a day that i have been waiting for after 5 dreadful working days :) I woke up earlier than usual (11am, lol!!!! So you can imagine what time i usually wake up at on weekends) as i have promised Lily that i would be going over her house to practiced manicure together at 2pm. I think i was very hardworking today as i took out the theory book and read it before i went over her house, lol, maybe i felt guilty as i have been leaving the book aside everytime i back from the manicure and pedicure class, so bad :) We practised cuticle (Dead skin cells) removing and hand massaging. I think i was not doing cuticle removing fantastically as i was too worried that i might be causing pain to Lily hence not pushing the cuticle really hard. When it came to cuticle cutting part, i was so nervous till my hands turned cold and clammy, lol...Lily was quite stable anyway. She just pushed my cuticle and cut it in a relax manner. This work seemed so easy to her :) while she was so engrossed in pushing the cuticle of my right hand forefinger, i realised that blood was oozing out from my lateral nail fold. OMG!!! She didn't realise until i told her and she was so shocked and kept on apologizing to me, lol...I was the one who calmed her down, telling her that it was okay as i really didn't feel any pain at all..After cuticle removing, we buffed and conditioned each other's fingers. Our fingers looked healthy and shiny :) We were quite satisfied with the result despite the trauma moments ago. We ended our day by massaging each other's hand using a lotion smelled like strawberry(Yummy!! i wondered if it tasted like strawberry too?? :p) It was kinda hard for the massaging part as we had hard times remembering the steps and also applying the correct amount of strength. It was fun but tiring though. Tomorrow we will be attending the manicure and pedicure class again :) I think i better blog till here and rest. I can feel the stinging pain on my forefinger already, lol..good nite and enjoy your weekend!!! :)

All The Best and Thankew!!

Today is Hui Ling's last day at NCC and this lovely girl came to my lab to bid goodbye before the end of the day. I felt a sudden lost and was so reluctant to let her go as she has been very helpful to me in my work. Before she left, she gave me a present wrapped nicely with a small "thank you" card attached to it. She really touches me with this very simple act :) and i feel contented as she really appreciates the effort i put on her. I still remember the first day she joined NCC, my boss sent her to me and asked me to train her as she would be helping me out in my project. She was humble and willing to learn. As day goes by, we got along quite well and besides talking about work, we also talked about many other things (including gossiping, lol..:p). It has been very fun to be able to work with her and i truly appreciate her company and help. Now that she is going to pursue her study in Australia, i wish her all the best in her study and hopefully she will be able to achieve her fondest dream, which is to become a successful doctor. No matter where we are in future, hopefully we will still be able to keep in touch as this is a valuable frienship gifted by god to us. Thank you really, and all the best!!!! :)

Thursday Blues...

Today the moment my alarm clock rang, I was reluctant to wake up and I had this dreadful feeling "shit!!!! Work again.." I had to drag myself to work and the moment i found out that there was a big possibility that my boss won't be coming in, i was so relieved and let myself loose. Instead of doing my benchwork, i cleaned up the whole cell culture incubator as this task didn't require my brain to work, lol..so bad of me :)
Just now i had a lunch date with an ex-collegue from my previous company. It has been a while since we last met. We had Japanese food and is really yummy. I found out that the taste of the few dishes that we had were quite similar, maybe is due to the Japanese soy sauce. There were still few other dishes that we didn't manage to try out and hopefully i will be able to try them out next time :) Blog till here as i am very tired,lol, good night!

Happy Belated Birthday!!!!

I just came back from having dinner with my collegues and ex-collegues as we were celebrating my collegue's birthday and my birthday. It was actually a belated birthday celebration :) We were having our dinner at Imperial Hebal Sinchi TCafe at VivoCity. The internal decoration is nice and there is a corner where the dining chairs are like a big hand. The palm is where you actually sit on it and the fingers are behind you for you to lie back and rest. They are very colouful and i think they are cute :) We don't have chance to sit on those cute chairs as the waitress led us to an ordinary dining table with ordinary chairs at the other corner of the restaurant. I think the food is nice but is expensive. the service is quite good also. We ordered a few dishes and the one that i loved most is the trademark dish-quick-fried egg white with dried scallop, yummy:) my collegues ordered "xiao long bao" and i was very excited as i have never eaten it before. When this dish was being served, i used my chopsticks to take it from the bottom of the "xiao long bao" and i was stopped by my collegues as they were worried that i might break the fragile "skin" of the "bao" and the precious gravy will flow out. Finally, i took their advice by taking the bao from the top. I felt so stress to eat the bao lol....when i put the whole bao into my mouth, everyone was staring at me (like i was an alien), then burst out laughing...lol..i think i really looked and acted funnily.. luckily the bao is small...i didn't bite it into half as i was worried that the precious gravy will ooze out and wasted...lol..thanks to my collegues' advice. Below are some photos of the food that we had ordered, they might not be very clear as they were taken using my mobile phone camera. Enjoy and Good night!!!

Xue Yu

Xiao Long Bao

Quick-Fried Egg White with Scallop

Pumpkin Claypot Rice

Jiao Zi

Jiao Zi

Gao Li Tou Sha

First Blog of Mei

Finally, I have my own blog :) I don't know if i will be able to update my blog on daily basis but i will give it a try. If not on daily basis at least on weekly or monthly basis. Today i went to Popular bookshop and as always, i will go to the Bestseller corner and check out if there is any interesting book that i might be falling in love with, well, no any luck. After that i went to the Chinese Fiction corner, hoping to find any new release from two of my favourite author "Zhang xiao xian" and "ju zi", too bad, no luck also. I was feeling regret at that moment as i didn't buy more books of theirs during that book fair at Suntec City. I find that it is so hard to find Chinese Fiction book here at Singapore, even if the bookshops do have sell these books, not many varieties though :( Leaving the bookshop in dispair (Sounds very "kua zhang" :p), i went to the pet shop nearby to see if there is any puppy on sale. I love puppy! i was so excited as there were 4 labrador puppies, two of them were black in colour, the other two were in yellow colour. They were so lovely, sleeping soundly in the display cage. I tried to tap gently on the cage but they just ignored me :) so cute. Suddenly i saw a Husky puppy at the other corner, she( i am not sure if is "he/she" but let's just assume is "she" :p) is lying at one corner of her cage and stare gloomily at nothing. I tried to catch her attention but she just ignored me, she must be missing her family? Poor thing, i wished that i could cuddle her at that moment.The dogs are so pity, they don't have freedom and have an unsure future. Will they have a good owner? Will they be treated nicely? I hope so..Ok, that's all for today. Before i leave, wish you have a great week ahead :p Aww!!! Tomorrow is Monday again...I am having Monday Blues in advance...lol :) Good night!