German level 2 is kinda hard... May be I'm not too used too it... hahaha!!! Always doing silly and careless mistakes when comes to online quiz. By right should be 'sie trifft' and I chose 'sie triffst'... =.= sweat!!!
Modal verbs were kinda problematic... zzz.. problem child!!! hahaha!!! There are 7 modal verbs in German language, which consist of koennen(to be able to), moegen(to like), moechten(would like), sollen(should), wollen(want), dueften(to be allowed to), and muessen(to have to). Each of the modal verbs will change accordingly to the tenses that we are using. Past tense and present tense have different changes.
Past perfect tense was kinda fun, but it CAN'T BE USED in English. E.g Was machen Sie gestern? (What did you do yesterday?) Gestern, habe ich Fussball gespielt. (Yesterday, I have played football). For usual english, normally we will say, Yesterday I played football. German has past tense, but they rarely used it. What they used is the past perfect tense.
Subconjunction is just like 'if', 'because' ,' whether'.... In german, there are two words for because, denn and weil. If you were to use denn, then the sentence structure will go accordingly to the law (1st or 3rd place will be the subject and the 2nd place will be the verb). But if you were to use weil, then the sentence structure will go haywire. E.g Ich kann leider nicht kommen, weil ich keine Zeit habe. In english, it would be, I can not come, because I no time have). Note that the 'habe' is at the end of the sentence, compare to the normal sentence, Ich kann leider nicht kommen, denn ich habe keine Zeit.
Changes of the adjectives, another problem child. The word schoen means beautiful, but when the sentence has either the definite or indefinite article behind of schoen, at least, you must add an 'e' to the schoen, schoene. E.g. Ich habe eine schoene Tasche. (Tasche is a feminine word, means bag) Another example would be, Ich habe einen alten Tisch. (Tisch is a masculine word, means table) The word alt is in the accusative position, and it has an indefinite article, and it has a masculine noun, so have to add 'en' to the alt. zzzzz......
Ok, that's the only beginning of german language, more to come....
......... I do not know how to start my sentence. How should I put it??? Should I say, a sad chinese new year?? or a happy chinese new year?? Uhh... anyway, mixed feelings again here.
Happily waited till Thursday and went to Changi airport... 4:45 pm... Happily board onto the airplane. AK 5807, gate 37, I still remembered it vividly. Being sitted in the airplane and tick tock tick tock.... 600... Woo hoo... Reached penang airport... Saw my parents... Ok ok ok... I will stop elaborating. (You should know what happens next) :)
Friday
Chanting session!!! Yeah!!! Love chanting so much!!! :) And...... Ok, the story will continue after Saturday.
Saturday
It's the last month of the year(for chinese)... So, we were supposed to go for reunion dinner with our grandparents, but... this year, it would be different, cause we had our own reunion dinner(vegetarian steamboat) first before going to our grandparents' house. Nice!! Won't elaborate more...
Sunday
Solemn mood. Today was the first day of the new year. And around 7 something in the morning, I somehow heard that my father was saying that our friend had passed away. That was such a shock to us!!! ........... {Silence}.......... So the mixed feelings were... Feel sad because we would miss his presence, but on the other hand we felt happy because his soul is finally being liberated!!! May you be well and happy!!! May you be free from sufferings!!! May you be free from anger!!! May you be free from jealousy!!! May you be free from hatred!!! May you be free from any grudges!!! May you be free from coldness!!! May you be warm!!! May you find your way to Amitabha's pureland!!! Omi Tuo fo!!!
Monday and Tuesday
Nothing much to elaborate on these 2 days...
Hope that everyone will have your sweet and nice CNY!!!
P/S: To Uncle Tim, please remember to continue cultivating!!! Don't be stuck in the wheel of rebirth!!! Leave this samsara world and be reborn in Amitabha's pure land!!! Omi Tuo Fo!!! Namo Guan Shi Yin Pu Sa!!!
Sorry guys, I did not have time to update my blog. Yeah!!! It's the end of January, and this means that it's the beginning of February!!! hahahahaha!!! TIME FLIES!!!
A few updates on what I was doing for the past 2 weeks....
.......... Actually I had forgotten what I did for the past 2 weeks... wahahaha... Forgiveness plsss... =)
BS108 (Molecular biology) was fun!!! Learning about nucleus was kinda fun... how to compact DNA into the nucleus... :) And now I knew that mitochondrial DNA is inherited from our mother... :P
107 (principles of genetics).... One word... SUCKS!!!
106 (Biochem) was fun too... 109 (basic cell bio) so so... :)
German??? erm... learning some new sentence structure and again... A complete total difference from english... hahaha...
Human language puzzle.... Ok.. A comment from me... You can sleep in the lecture theater when they are showing you a movie( the movie will take at least an hour or so)... zzzzzzz... After you had waken up, then they will start explaining... Is this a communication?? See how the animals communicate with each other.... etc.
9 days left to receive the word of honour: Happy Chinese New year!!! O_O??? Oopssss... not yet... To count that the actual date is 12 days more... But why 9 days?? Cause on the 11th of February....... I will be back to my hometown once again!!!
Recently, my hands were so itchy. Went to FB and search for David Archuleta. Went to view all people results, there were so many ' David Archuleta'. At first I found out 1 whom might be true, but afterthat, when I saw his birth date, it was so not true. His actual birth date should be 28th of Dec, 1990. And that poser put it 28th of Dec, 1991. =.= Ok, I went to search for another, and it 'seemed' that this might be the real one. So, I went and added 'him'.
In a minute, 'he' added me. So, I commented on 'his' wall by saying, ' Hey David, thanks for accepting me!!! I love all your songs. Your songs really inspired me very much!!! THX!!!' So, after a few seconds, 'he' commented back by saying, thanks... :( . I asked 'him' why is he feeling so sad. He replied, xd.(
I wonder is this the real David Archuleta. Ok, nevermind. Today again, he did log into FB. And I chatted with him in FB. I asked him does he has msn. He replied, yeah. Then I said, can I add you? What is your address? He gave me, and I added him on msn. It seems that the account is active and we chatted on msn. {bla bla bla bla}
So, is he a real DA or a fake DA? The mystery goes on...........
Quotation from Sir Cecil Beaton," Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore."
Yeah yeah yeah!!! I AM BORED!!! I AM BORED!!! I AM BORED!!! Nothing to do here since my semester has not started yet. Besides watching movies and listening to songs, my life for this week is just about eating, drinking, sleeping, shopping, watching movies.... and commenting on others' posts. (Disturbing people more I guess) :-)
Watched 'Beyond the realm of conscience'.(I know it's a bit late for me to watch this movie, since a lot of people had watched it). 女人心,海底针. This statement is a real statement. Since ancient days, people in the palace, because of money and power, they would use whatever techniques to reach their destination, including lies and murders. Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu!!!
In the previous post, I did mention that in penang, I could not find DA's CFTH right? Then I thought I would not find it even in Singapore. To my surprise, I found it in one of the shops in JP!!! Was so happy!!! Yeah!! Eventually, I did not miss even one of DA's CDs. Wanna know the reason I was so eager to buy his CD? The answer is, it was for my collection. LOL!!! Of course, I will only buy those quality music. Won't spend a penny on those lousy music. =)
Semester is starting soon. Hope that the lecturers will be a better one!!!
- 1st of January- Woke up at 10 am. Changed into shorts without bathing to send my cutie dog to 'hotel' (boarding). Came back and had a bath. Had lunch at 12 pm,then went to my grandparents' house to wait for my aunt to take us to the NORTHAM HOTEL in penang. Reached the hotel at around 245 pm. My aunt booked 3 rooms. One is the presidential suite(for my aunt阿姨 and uncle姨丈), and the other 2 is a linked suite(for my family and my mother's brother's family). Around 7 something, went for dinner in one of the vegetarian shop. Damn cheap!!! And nice food too!!! After that, went to my aunt's house. My grandparents were at my aunt's house. {Chit chat} At 11 pm, did some prayers and burned some paper money for the ancestors. Then, went back to the hotel at around 1 am. SLEPT.
- 2nd of January- Woke up at 730 am, as the hotel provided us with the breakfast buffet. As the food were limited for me, just took plain porridge with beans and 菜心, soba mee with baked beans, fruits and salad with olive oil, and guava juice/orange juice. IT WAS A BUSY DAY. After eating, went and had a bath. After that, the arrival of the bridegroom. The bridesmaid will have some games with the bridegroom before letting him seeing the bride. The first game was, using a badminton racquet to hit the shuttle cocks to a circle with numbers. The numbers represented money. If the groom hit a person, then the money will be doubled. :) He had 20 chances. The second game was, IQ test. Basically, all the best men couldn't get the correct answers that were set by the bridesmaids. They did it on purpose. Losers would have to eat ice- PURELY ICE. The third game was all the best men need to do pumping and to eat the banana provided by the bridesmaids. And the last game was, the bridesmaids had printed some papers with a multiple choices of mouths, legs, eyes and ears. This was to test how well the bridegroom know the features of the bride. Finally, the game finished and the bridesmaids let the groom into the room of the bride. :) Later, we went to the groom's house at Island Glade at around 11 something. WOAH!! There were a lot of people there!!! Couldn't breathe at all... zzzz... The ceremony ends!!! Went back to the hotel at around 1 something. I decided to take a nap. Woke up at around 4 something. Then we had to prepare for makeup, hairdo and all sorts of thing. And the most important thing was to prepare for my performance. :P At around 6 something, we started our destination to the HOTEL BERJAYA. The wedding session was supposed to start at 730 pm. But, the session started at around 8 something. =.= Ok, nevermind. What I mind is my performance. LOL!!! Performed the song, and I felt that the performance was superb!!! LOL!!! OK, wedding sessions ended at around 11 something. SLEPT.
- 3rd of January- Woke up at 830 am. Had breakfast buffet again. Chit chat till 10 something. Planned to go to Queensbay to shop but my mom's brother's family needed to go back to KL. Went to the mall with my aunt and grandparents at around 12 am. Wanted to shop for DA's CFTH, but all of the shops were saying that there were no stocks anymore. Was so disappointed. At around 2 pm, we decided to leave the mall for the airport. HUHUHU!!!
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!!!
