I'm stuck in Doubletree today for a Biomass Conference. I'm bored. I want to join the conferences, but since I'm supposed to be manning the booths, I'm stuck.

My biggest gripe with my current job is that I don't get any exposure anymore in terms of attending conferences, symposiums or even workshops. Job satisfaction at an all time low as I feel ( Read more... )

Okays, in terms of stress levels, life has turned from one box of cigarettes every 3 days to one box a day. Of course, my housemate/friend Joshr has been smoking the odd fag or two, but still, my stress levels has increased and my only outlet is pretty much sucking on cancer sticks. Unfortunately, the other kind of stick I'd like to suck is ( Read more... )

Okay... cute guy canceled last minute due to an unfinished assignment, wasn't too annoyed... but what annoyed me was that he didn't really keep in touch after... when we started off, we were sms-ing sporadically, and seems like he's not interested in doing so now... bad signs? well, strike one for him, two more, and he's out ( Read more... )

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Don't you feel annoyed when people come to you while you're in the midst of something, and keep beeping you on MSN, even though you've put your status to busy/away? It's probably the equivalent to sitting in the office with a huge closed sign, and people keep knocking the door wanting to talk to you. I wouldn't mind so much if it was something ( Read more... )

For the benefit of muh friends here as well... x-posting from fb ( Read more... )

Those around me know I have an allergic aversion to anything new microsoft can give. I have full faith in XP, only because I've learnt from my past mistakes with Windows Me and 2000. God forbid I would be stuck in the same rut again. However, Vista on the other hand is just absolute excrement. Not only are the desktops and windows confusing, but it ( Read more... )

It's been a busy few months. In fact, so busy, the past 3 months felt like 3 years for all I know. Out of the blue, I look back, and I'm shocked that it's only April. I was thinking more in the lines of September ( Read more... )

I've just finally managed to get myself the ideal work time I wanted since day one of my research, aka overnight, when the rest of the university is safely at home and asleep. Call me weird, but there is something devilishly appealing about staying back in the middle of the night, and working your experiments through the night. I prefer it that way ( Read more... )

Life has been busy since Cathy's back. We're all very anxious as the lab tests are not performing well despite being optimized by our collaborator. I'm actually concerned that the early preparation step of extracting DNA is the problem, since we've been using a commercial kit instead (from a less-than-reputable, banana republic company instead of ( Read more... )