My first casual book in a year

Cutting for Stone is the title of a book I read recently. To be honest, it started off pretty plain and described the background of each character too detailed to my likings. However, I did not stop reading. And I'm glad of it.

It's a big book that tells the life stories of many characters who crossed the paths of each other in all different ways at different environments across two generations. Genre of The Kite Runner but I like this book more. Perhaps I still couldn't get out of the book and hence my fondness for it at this moment. The author, Abraham Verghese, is too cruel though. Absolutely heart-rending.( I actually prefer it to be less tragic at one point).

Forbidden love, family secrets and a country in turmoil

Go fucking read it. You guys will love it so so so much!!! I can lend it to you!

my maths tutor

Well he is in fact a physical chemistry tutor but he gives maths tutes to we humble biochemists. Anyway this is what he said.

'Maths is beautiful. Pretty. Like a lady. Unlike that woman. What's her name? Gaga? Gaga something?

'It's Lady Gaga.'

WHAT LADY? She's not a lady! It's the last thing she'll be. God! Did you see her with the *motions describing some stuffs on her shoulders*... It's like she's carrying a chair on her shoulders! Good God! LADY!?

Quotes

'If you are not going to talk much in this enzyme class, I'm sure this will last for two hours, which is of not particular interest to me as well because I have enzymes growing upstairs.'

'I have given up in procrastination. Whatever it means...'

Cnt believe I finally have free days to do catching up. Behind what I've planned but pretty productive.

Only one lecture tomorrow, but cnt be bothered to go cz it's hell boring. Multicellular life. A common question in the prelims but even if it comes out, I won't do it. I'm sure I won't score high.

No labs tomorrow, cnt believe this. I think they want us to spend time doing the effing poster abt any lab session we've worked through so far. And a lecture was cancelled just nw cz the lecturer couldnt make his series of lectures this term. Thus these free thur and fri (except for the one lecture but who cares).

Will blog abt cny in london and jimmy choo soon. Yes, I met him and took a photo with him!!!! Oh, I love Oxford so much.

birds

Didn't go to the 9am lecture cz I knw it's a useless one. Txtbook is far more helpful. Sunlight shining through my curtain, good day. Took a shower and simply put on a t shirt and a hoody and off to my 10am lecture. Cooling breeze cz I felt hot after a shower.

Then when I walked bck, it's quite cold. Tolerable though. Then all of the sudden, BANG!!!! All the snow just poured down. In 10 min, the snow accumulated. Then the rate of snowing decreased. When I thought it's gonna be over soon, the snow storm occurred. Such a heavy snow, yoi!!!!

But when I looked out of my window, the two fat birds that resided on the tree were still there, sitting on the branch. Not in a nest. I think they were desperately clinging onto the branch. So sad. I felt like asking them to come in my room. lolol. But seriously, y didn't they just fly to somewhere warmer, forgot the term used.

anywhere, yeah, everything is pure white out there as no1 has stepped on the snow yet. Luckily it snowed at the lunch time when I was cooking, rather than when I was walking bck from lecture or will be walking to an organic chem tut.

Oh, I can't bear setting my eyes on those birds. I hope they don't freeze.

I don't think you can see the birds.

Bright sunlight again now... wth. The snow's going to melt soon.

groceries

If you look at the allergy advice of quite many products such as biscuits from sainsbury, it's printed 'Not suitable for milk or soya allergy sufferers due to the methods used in the manufacture of this product.'

Can someone kindly explain this sentence to me? Not that I'm expecting any one of you to answer this que. lol.

evil

hahaha, I don't think I should be a statistician in diseases. I had a question that provides data for the haemoglobin levels in individuals infected by malaria and non-infected one; there should be significant differences. Then they want us to outline additional experiments to differentiate between the hypotheses 'infection by malarial parasites might reduce haemoglobin levels in the blood' and 'individuals with low haemoglobin levels may be susceptible to malarial infection'.

So without thinking much, I wrote: Obtain a sample of healthy individuals and measure their haemoglobin level. Then infect them with malarial parasite and measure haemoglobin level again and do a significance test. If it's significant, then it shows the first hypothesis.

For 2nd hypothesis, obtain a sample of individuals with low Hb levels and infect them with the parasite. Repeat with healthy individuals as control. Bla3.

Then after that, I was thinking, 'But the question wants an additional experiment meaning it's a follow-up experiment from the data provided already, and won't these be too evil and notorious...' HAHAHA, only then I realised I should have written 'Treat the infected individuals from the previous experiment and measure their Hb level to see if there's any significant difference.'

I do knw it's very bio n stats so not very understandable but basically I should have treated infected ppl rather than infecting healthy ppl to ans the que. LOL, and my first thought is the latter one. I'm just effing dangerous.

lovely day

Sunshine!!! Even though it's cold but still, it's the Sun. lol. But I'm stuck in the lecture room having a training programme for Univ Ambassador Scheme. Basically, it's just a scheme to improve the access of Univ.

Ran through stuffs like procedures to hold events in Univ and to visit schools bla3. Then 15 min group activity to come up with an access event and talked abt it briefly. And the tedious CRB check again.

pffft, I've done it when I registered volunteering at the musuem, but it's not as tedious as this, which makes me kinda worried if the museum admin has actually done my CRB. Cz this time, I need to fill in various forms and provide different kinds of documents. And last time, all I need to do is providing contact details of two referees.

Not to mention I lost my CV file, in which I kept my birth cert and O lvl cert all those ultimately important documents. cb. Fking seriously need to find a time to go back to shr school to find if it's left there man.