my life

Once beaten twice shy, starting from now onwards, should not take things easily.

New year resolutions:

1) To get a first class honour in the next semester. Should surf internet often(not facebook... oh, ok, sometimes) to search for more information. Every piece of information will be in my hand. I will make sure of that. Basically, my next semester's module will be

i) Biochemistry II - Metabolism. This course deals with the basic principles, pathway, and regulation of metabolism required to understand modern biological sciences. The lectures will cover introduction to enzymes and enzyme catalysis, carbohydrate metabolism, citric acid cycle, oxidative phosphorylation, photosynthesis, lipid metabolism, amino acid metabolism, and nucleotide metabolism.

ii) Molecular biology. This course deals with the basic concepts of molecular biology, RNA transcription and posttranscriptional processing, protein folding and quality control, molecular oncogenesis, molecular biology of viruses, molecular biology of model organisms.

iii) Principles of genetics. This course deals with the basic principles of modern genetics, with a strong focus on molecular rather than classical genetics. The lectures will cover Mendelian genetics, DNA structure, replication, transcription, regulation of gene expression in Pro- and Eukaryotes, Rekombination, Genes and Development, Genome Mapping, Linkage analysis, Basic human genetics.

iv) Basic cell biology. This course deals with the internal structure and organelles of a cell and their function in maintaining a living cell. The lectures will cover membrane protein, protein targetting, secretion, endocytosis, cytoskeleton and cell cycle.

v) Laboratory.

For elective, will continue the German language, level II. :) And, for another elective, hope that I will get the easy one. :P

2) The second resolution is, hope that my singing skills will improve again, especially for the false voice, hahaha!!!

Last Saturday just performed 童话 for my aunt's wedding in Taiping. This Saturday will perform a Hokkien song for my aunt's wedding in Penang. The song title is 我问天. =)

P/S : There are 2 weddings because the Taiping wedding is for the Taiping friends, and the same goes to the wedding in Penang!!

Lastly, HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!!!

Was practising song when my friend told me that we could check our GPA online now!! I thought what GPA as the results are not released yet! Without feeling anxious, I went to the NTU website and to the student link and to the degree audit. Huh!!! The CGPA was being filled!!! AND WHAT I SAW WAS ONLY 4.3!!! Disappointment came. Haizz... I thought I could get at least a first class.

My friend told me there's 1 guy from our school got 4.92!!! Ok, that was very high. What to do?? Only a second class upper. T_T

SHOULD STRIVE HARD FROM NOW ONWARDS!!!!

3 in 1... White coffee??? :) No, 3 events for this holiday.

Breathed in the air of rain town on the 4th of Dec, Friday.

Went to BM the next day. About 15 people to go to BM. It was a 2 days 1 night trip. Reached a temple. It was the open ceremony of a new temple. Wow! The temple was big(3 or 4 houses combined). Took our lugages to the third level of the temple. There were many small monks who were having a 1 week retreat there. The funniest thing was, one of the small monks asked me, are you here to become a monk? Gosh, I still love my hair! hahaha. I answered them, no but to do charity work. At first we had to sleep with the monks, but it seemed that there were no place for us (5 men). In the end, we got a place to sleep, and it was between the room of the monks and the bathrooms. Ok, I was sweating all the way when I was about to sleep. AND, the small monks were so noisy, laughing, crying, shouting all the way, anyone, teach me, how should I sleep?

By the way, I did mention that we were there to do charity(help around), but I felt that I was there to sleep and help to eat around. LOL!!!

And yeah, I met someone there, Nick Shen Wei Jun!

On the 15th of Dec, friends from Gerik came back to Taiping. So, we Taiping friends decided to come out and meet them. At first, we went to Flemington hotel. But there were no place for us. Then, we went to The Gate Cafe, to have our lunch(Oh, not we, is their). :-) Don't forget I'm a vegetarian!!! So, we chit chat from 12 something to about 3pm. Afterthat, we decided to K in Rex Box. Everyone knew that Rex Box was terrible, but still they wanna go because they hadn't tasted how terrible it was. hahaha!!! Sang for 3 hours, and it seemed that it was not about singing songs after all. To me, it looked like a photo-taking event.

17th of Dec, went for badminton in Ji Yang Tang. Consisted of 5 people. Jing Xiang and Shawn were about to go back, so this would be their last badminton day. Huhuhu...

Till then, will update my blog later!!!

Yesterday I was supposed to have 2 posts, but was too tired, so I just blogged about the Goose's dream.

Was having 103 (Organic Chem) yesterday. Duh, the questions were so easy. I can easily say it here and now, it's Form 6 standard. =.=

MCQ 40 questions = 40 marks
Q1 to Q4 were asking about which is not Lewis acid, which is Bronsted Acid... zzzzz... This is really Form 6 standard. Then another few questions were, which molecule is not a linear molecule, which is not a planar molecule... =.= I thought I was having STPM exam at that moment. :)

Part B was the structure. Was quite easy. (30 marks)
5 marks to state whether it is a constitutional isomer or enantiomers....
10 marks to compare.
6 marks to state and explain whether it is aromatic.
5 marks to give the explain the terms with an example.
4 marks to state which is more productive and give a brief explanation.

Part C was the essay part. Easy. (30 marks) Choose 2 quests out of 3.
1)First part = give the product that is formed and name the mechanism and indicate regioselectivity and/or stereospecificity, if any. About 9 marks, I guess.
Second part = Draw the structure of all possible isomers and name any 2 of the isomers.

2)First part = provide a mechanistic explanation ( just put some drawings and explain a little bit) 3 marks.
Second part = Same as the first part of the first question.
Third part = Provide a synthetic scheme. ( Done a lot during form 6.) zzzzz =.=

That's the content of 103, organic chem.

P/S : Tomorrow will be my last paper, 102, biophysical chemistry. Then 3rd of dec night I will be departing to my hometown ( Oopss... my country). lolx