WHUT?

Back to blogger for a change. :D I've been trying to stay under the radar for so long now and have been quite successful until my cousins hauled me back onto facebook. It's like a great tool for us to communicate so I can't help but oblige. But I still feel some sort of aversion towards facebook.

At the beginning of the year, after I came back from Myanmar, I had a sudden revelation that if I wanted, I could do away with all unnecessary "communication tools" and life would still go on. The dreariness of blogging, the unwilling attachment to facebook and its notifications took its toll on me. And most importantly, the fact that my life has become like an open book for others to flip through felt so uncomfortable.

I thought, I don't need Facebook. In fact that's what I wrote as my reason for deleting my account. So sad that I'm eating my words half a year later.

But nothing goes the way we want. It was just a matter of time before I reactivated my facebook account and I knew it. :D

This Kind of Love is Getting Expensive.

I love CNY holidays cuz it means no school and more rest for me but I'm sure my Chinese friends would love it more. Who doesn't enjoy good food, family get togethers AND ANGPAOS? haha :D So, Happy CNY in advance! Instead of rotting at home or bumming through proposals like how I did in the previous years, I have decided to play my guitar conscientiously till my fingertips turn numb. :D Yesterday, Sally, Mona and I had steamboat lunch at Jiun's house and fun times ensued on blades and the scooter. Thanks jiun and jiun's dad! =) I wanna buy more books and CDs, a new guitar, blades so I can learn how to move about in them, a new bike, a new ipod, and get my cousins to help me buy stuff from the states and send it here and go for more courses like judo or get my uncle to teach me haha. But some will just have to wait till I earn my keep. =]
Caught Gwen Stephanie's Harajuku Lovers Tour on teevee last Thursday night and that got me high on Cool and Luxurious all over again. Gwen Stephanie has such a cool on stage personality.

Looking forward to the year ahead! Sure, school work's a hell lot but deep down inside, I'm not complaining. =)

Happy belated birthday Nat Koh and Mona!

I love my youngest niece!

+ Being happy is so underrated.

The trip back to Myanmar was a perfect break from life here and I'm rather sad to be back. During the last few days of my stay there, I wanted to do everything I could for my relatives - housework, massages, afternoon chats, taking care of the kids, etc.

I guess the most emotional moment was when every one of them took turns to give me advice. Really miss all my relatives. The house feels so empty without them.

Shwedagon Pagoda

Karaweik Palace


National Races Village, Us in the Shan costume


Inya Lake


My nieces

My cousin

I took a total of about 1400 photos and I can't stop looking at them.

ONE MORE DAY

8D

Since I'll be away for quite a while, send all important mails to t.khaingzin@gmail.com. Or you can send me offline messages. I might be able to log onto gmail and live messenger to reply but if not then.. I'll be totally cut away from the rest of the world. :) :)

Anyway, shall talk about RS yesterday. We did extraction + PCR + gel electrophoresis all in a day. And the best part is that we had results for all of the plant samples! Honestly, when you've gone through hours of experiments, you'll understand how marvelous it feels to know that the experiments were successful. Janine and I were totally satisfied. =)

And I think we have good chemistry, haha. There was this point where we couldnt talk for fear of contaminating the sample and still we managed to come to an unspoken consensus of who's doing what and everything was so systematic and coordinated. Janine and I da best! haha

Janine makes me laugh cuz she's just so spastic. We were on the 4th floor near the bio labs and we saw ms wong (last year's form teacher) walking through the parade square to the gates. Suddenly, janine just screamed ms wong's name and hid behind a pillar. I thought ms wong couldnt hear so I was waving madly at her. Who knew, janine's voice is soooo loud. Ms wong totally turned and looked really puzzled. haha! She didn't look up though. So janine tried that again a few more times and ms wong always turned back with that lost, confused, ??? look on her face. Haahha =D I think the lab techs heard us cuz they were laughing at us when we went in.

Haha, love janine and hope she enjoys herself overseas!

Yesterday, for the first time this holidays I actually slept real early at 8pm. Good sleep is too awesome. Yup. That's about it. =)

Happy Hols! I'm excited for tomorrow. =D

do you know you're unlike any other?

Happy happy birthday Charlotte! Bet you liked the present, eh? :D

We had cultural trail today and I sure enjoyed it a lot. The only glitch in today's activities happened after the trail. I am so unlucky! (or lucky, depending on how you wanna look at it. =.=) So there, that sums up about all.



4 more days! You know, I am seriously getting excited? :D

on a sidenote, chem teachers are awesome to the max! Notes compiled by teachers make life SO much easier. =)

I candy-coat and cover everything

But I'm still hiding underneath

Ho ho, I should be doing the report for the RS session today but oh well, Procrastination Is Key. Besides, I'm feeling drained and totally repulse the idea of doing any more RS. So yeah, the report will have to wait.

Yup, The session today was very effective and we managed to extract SEVEN plant DNA samples. Pro or not pro huh! =D Carried out 4 cycles and the last cycle took us only one hour which is really a great improvement from when we started. Janine and I da best whoohoowhoo! And at 4 o' clock, the lab techs chased us out of the lab so we settled for the quadrangle where we drafted the report and planned for the next sessions. I'm worried though. Our schedules clash so much, it's hard to find a day where 2 of us can make it. Just gotta take one step at a time and see how things go, I guess.

On another note, I think I've been eating a lot these days. I'm not even kidding man. Like today, char, mona, janine and I shared 2 pizzas and some of the extra food that char's icyl friend passed us. Janine and I were so bloated, we trudged up 4 levels and were totally groaning along the way. And a few days back, mona and I went to this indian restaurant to have lunch and in the end, the meal was like lunch and dinner put together. It made me so full that I seriously contemplated skipping dinner. (But at 9, I decided to eat instant noodles :p)

But no, I'm not complaining! Cuz.. what's wrong with gaining some weight? :D All in the name of good food.

(9 more days! 8D Whoohoowhoo! I CANNOT WAIT! )