heyo emm! yeeling! :D how have u been??? haven't heard from u in freaking ages. haha great to see ya popping by. u should've seen my face when i saw ur comment haha :D e ultimate "reunion" face haha.

quite a long time since i blogged. distinctly recall promising knw's mum a space here pertaining to her culinary disasters - one particularly memorable episode in which the following (imaginary) dialogue transpired:

(knw prepares a pot of HEALTHY aka no salt kimchi soup and presents it to mum)
knw: hey ma, try this kimchi soup. i made it!
(mum takes a sip of the soup)
mum: wah. plain water with red coloured vegetable bits floating inside. no taste one arh.
knw: no la, eat "qing dan" good for health ma.

Later... (unbeknownst to our budding chef)
mum: this soup too bland but throw away very wasted. i remember my ma telling me about the wonderful qualities of dark soy sauce...
(pours a liberal amount of thick dark soy sauce into the previously pale pink kimchi soup)
mum: wah, looks better already. at least got colour... *sips* and got taste also.
(knw wanders into the kitchen and peers into her soup pot)
knw: WAH MA! what happened to my soup?!
mum: i enhanced it lorh... come let me tell u about the wonderful qualities of this thing called dark soy sauce... :)

lol. i anticipate rising sales of the brilliant dark soy sauce in view of the massive propagation of its "wonderful qualities". not least to mention its ability to create a savoury, black broth out of thin pink vegetable soup haha :D

am ensconced in the office creating comparison files out of the sequences obtained. today's the laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaast day :P


this is THE LAB OFFICE. i rmb asking wc to get me something to eat from outside once. something small that i can nibble surreptitiously in the lab.
his eyes BUGGED out.
"in the LAB! no NO NO NO! cannot!" he stuttered, shaking his head vehemently.
"huh, why...?" i was perplexed. (we eat ALL THE TIME in the office)
"got EB! contaminate the samples!!" yelled my mentor.


then i realised that poor mr organized has compartmentalized the LAB from the OFFICE. hence the huge objection to my small snacking :D hehe.

see why i say he's my dream husband??? ^_^


the lab proper. due to *AHEM* trade secrets, i can't tell you guys what the little green thing in the picture is. or the little blue things. or the little white things for that matter. or the little pink thing (though it's obvious that it's a chlorhex wash haha lol)

haha. the joys of IP protection.





miss RARA and miss NANA~ we rawk.

*cool handsign*








The Man Himself. At Work.

he refused to smile because it was against his personal principles to "smile when one is doing WORK". i guess "happy worker" doesn't really exist in his dictionary :D


but if u look closely u'll realise that he's already stifling a laugh haha :D so much for principles.

haha well. so that's about all from e lab... my 2nd home for the past half a year. extremely unhappy that i have to leave... it's what i call the "dammit, leaky eyeball+forced extradition from comfort zone" syndrome. *sniffle* and it's so strong that even the thoughts of me embarking on my future career of being an MBBS holder isn't enough to make me feel happier. yucks.

so this is true AFFECTION for my co-workers... colleagues... friends... mentors... kakis... sisters and brothers... Hungarian or otherwise :D i'll never forget XG's inopportune exclamations of "si bei" as and when he fancies haha!