in the Sims 2, they added a new long-term thing to achieve to make your characters happy - Aspirations.
Today I felt like my aspiration column is a little filled.

This weekend I'm going down to Hamilton to see the Balloons Over Waikato - NZ's premiere hot air ballooning event every year. I've always wanted to go, at least once, and even my mum had ( Read more... )

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hmm I'm kinda seeing this guy at the moment, who's not into science stuff.
it's interesting to hear when he comments on science and biotech stuff:
1. he said he doesn't "believe" in the biotech industry, like how to make money and stuff (i think maybe he meant especially in NZ). I was quite taken aback when he said that, cos yeah I know that biotech ( Read more... )

Was at Spark 40K qualifier ceremony today.
very good, light-hearted, ran on time, smooth
only things I can nit-pick on are:
-the 55sec elevator pitch, people should stop when their time is up, otherwise it's no point
-there was no female speakers - Stephen Tidall was the guest speaker and speaking from the judges point of view was Terry from IceHouse, ( Read more... )

finally imported all the entry from the other blog that I briefly escaped to for less than a year.

news and olds (ie old news):

1. PhD provisional year review
the first year of PhD is called 'provisional', so you need to prove that you can take on the reminder of the PhD, and this review is quite 'serious' with first year goals set up that I had to ( Read more... )

ahhh so freaking busy lately
Got Chiasma starting up again. Being the CEO this year, I'm a little freaked. Half the time I think I can do it, the other half of the time I just wannna go home and sleep on my comfy bed ( Read more... )

you know how in Jan, you suppose to do the cleaning/tidying of your house because it's the new years. But actually you are so tired from the whole xmas/new year celebration and the numerous parties, you just feel so lazy and rather do nothing ( Read more... )

on wednesday at soccer practise
left my phone in bag
and bag used as a goal post
phone got damaged
lcd cracked
very annoyed
my beautiful Nokia 6288dunno why I just felt so upset about it ( Read more... )

yesterday afternoon, too hot to work in the lab, thought I'd come back in the evening when the temp cooled. That didn't happen. so ( Read more... )

from: Teresa
to: Lillian
date: Jan 21, 2008 10:59 PM (16 hours ago)
subject: (no subject)

I'm watching Doraemon, my bro got them from taiwan. I still remembered the theme song!
so funny
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from: Lillian
to: Teresa
date: Jan 22, 2008 1:36 AM (13 hours ago)
subject: Re:
i luv doraemon

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