In a world of my own

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Ah, it's been such a long time since I updated my blog. And it's because of the existence of Twitter in my life. It's really kind of addictive. Every time a random thought pops up in my mind, I just feel like 'tweeting' it. It's amazing how technology changes our life. Especially when you have a smartphone on hands and can just be connected to the world any place, anytime.

My intern friends were so shocked at my speed for checking for information on

my phone. Yesterday at Tiong Bahru Market, I mentioned that touting is illegal when a drinks stall auntie kept coming to our table to ask us to buy drinks. My friend then said that touting is illegal only when the stall owners 'ba zhan' (hog) the table and allow customers to sit at those tables when they order from their stalls. I was somewhat unconvinced, and decided to check the meaning of touting on my phone. It is simply to solicit business, and does not include the definition of hogging tables. This means that as long as anyone touts in a hawker centre, it is illegal. (Look at just how stubborn and aggressive I was in proving my point, Horrible me)

Just a few days ago, I was pondering over how this internship has been beneficial to me. What have I learnt? About myself, about chem stuff, about human relations, etc. I agreed with myself that although I did learn some stuff about 'humanships' (human + relations

hips, I've recently been very obsessed with combining two words), I don't think I gained much knowledge on the Chem side. There was this envy in me when I see some of the other interns writing reports to their supervisors regarding their projects. And then today, just when I was rather free, my supervisor came to me and tasked me with a rather heavy assignment. To come up with a manuscipt (in her words), something like a journal article. The data and all are already up, all that needs to be done is the typing and organisation.

What a shock. I'm kinda jittery now. My sup sat down with me today explaining to me about charts and graphs and standard deviation and the x variables and the y variables, etc. in chinese. I think I had a very obvious display of question marks all over my face that she just randomly and suddenly laughed out loud right in front of me.

Thanks sup. Oh wells, please wish me luck in writing the paper which apparently will not be accepted by any journals due to the lack of novelty (in her words).

- Be careful what you wish for
by snoopy_lim @ 8:57 PM