Thursday, July 24, 2008
Embracing a healthy lifestyle
I heart East Coast Park!!! :)
Last Thursday was my last day working as receptionist at some advert company. And before my REAL job on Monday, I was happy to have Friday, Saturday and Sunday to ROT!!
Friday was insignificant cause I really cannot remember what I did on Friday. I prolly slept till late and rot in front of the TV. Oh wait, I went to Biopolis to sign offer letter. Hehe!!!
Saturday was PICNIC + CYCLING at ECP!!!
I prepared some sandwiches, fruits, chips, drinks and off we went to cycle. The bicycle rental was like "Buy 1 hour, get 1 hour free" so we cycled from Macs all the way to the end of ECP. Super shagged!!!
And we took many pictures!!!
Food!!!!
And if you havn't tried Ayam Chilli Tuna, you are missing out on some great canned food!!!
SERIOUSLY!! Go NTUC to buy now!! Only $1.90.
Whats better? Its a lift-tab can!! No need can-openers!!!
Starting soon!!! Still hyped up!! And my boyfren trying to touch my BREASTS!!
Hahaha!!
Acting cute by the pond!! :)
More side-tours!!!
Group picture!! Supposed to be a double date. But her hubby is an ultimate sleepy head. So Peifen (my bf's sis) is like the brightest lightbulb at ECP that day!!
And I think I am like BEST in setting cameras up for taking pictures on timer mode. My pictures all turn out nicely at cool angles!! :P
Very fulfilled day!! Very happy!! And I feel very happy!!! :DAnd my work at Biopolis? I would say its still early to judge.
My boss --> English and nice.
My colleagues --> All 9 of them from all over the world, nice, polite and couteous up till now.
My work station --> Empty but nice enough, and with a great view.
My project --> Dealing with 11 strains of knock-out / knock-in mice, breeding, genotyping and taking care of them.
Another 5 hours to convocation.
More pictures soon. :)
|12:13 PM|
Friday, July 18, 2008
Yummy foods (HongKOng)
Sweets at Xu Liu Shan!!
Checked - Craving satisfied!!!
Authentic Sushi after eons years of lousy sushi in US.
Checked - craving satisfied!
Yeah, we brought Shamu the killer whale home with us.
And forced him to watch us eat his friends.
*evil laughter*
Double Roast Rice = Char Siew + Soya Chicken :)
YUMMY!!!!
Checked - craving partially satisfied!!
Our favourite street food - Oily Shanghai noodles, Zhu Chang Fen with sweet sauce and peanut butter, Curry fishballs.
Checked - craving TOTALLY satisfied!!
ORGASMIC!!! :D
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Wash down the grease and oil with a bowl of herbal tea.
|11:55 AM|
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Washington DC (17-19th May)
I so enjoyed myself in Washington DC!!!
I am so glad and pleaseantly surprised about my findings in DC. Not the shopping arena, but the museums and botanical gardens and the imposing monuments of DC. Again, meeting people in the hostel and going to the hostel and staying at the hostel is another interesting experience again. I am so excited I think I should do a backpacking trip sometime soon, ALONE. :)
OK, just some selected pictures of my faves in DC.
Map of USA with neon lights showing all 50 states, White House, me in front of Capitol State Building.
National Air and Space Musuem, Capitol State Building, some pretty random building.
Some pretty chair in the park, me inked with hawaiian tattoos, day of the dead dolls!!
So, this is my last day at UConn, and so I'm gonna bid goodbye to colleagues and friends here. I do not feel very sad or anything because the weather had been horrible. Although I really think I will miss UConn and Storrs, how can one feel sad leaving a place with crazy weather?? Haha..
|9:38 PM|
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Philly
Hello hello,
I am in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania now.
If you watch National Treasure, you would remember this Indepence Hall, featured on 100 dollar bill. The top of the building where Nicholas Cage looked out at 2.22pm to find his next clue. :)
The 4th city of my 10-day (backpack) trip. Its really a historical town and there are lots of tourists. Yesterday we had such good weather that I could walk around in my tee-shirt. And I am so tan now cos of the blazing sun yesterday. So, I visited most of the sights and museums and read about US and its independence and the important leaders. i have to say I am not BIG on US history but yeah, I having a good time. Except for some little little things (like the bad hostel that i am staying in, with a LOCKOUT time from 1030-430pm).
BUT the biggest reward is meeting Peiyu (from taiwan) and Pamela (from Singapore) in the hostel. They are really nice people, whom I just had a two-hour breakfast with in this Double-shot cafe near our hostel. We are hiding here cos its raining so badly out there now.
SHIT!! :(
Peiyu, Me and Pamela at breakfast :)
Travelling alone can be really fun too.
OK, gotta go check out more of Philly and maybe grab some postcards. So long. :)
|12:53 AM|
Thursday, May 15, 2008
On the move
Hello peeps,
I am ON THE MOVE now!!
Yesterday I was at Niagara Falls, where I had steak, eggs and toast for breakfast and enjoyed the tranquility of tulips in beautiful gardens, the wonderful Niagara Falls and sipped the delicious hot chocolate from Tim Hortons after getting wet from the mist of the falls.
I love tulips!! :)
The American side of the falls. :)
And now, I am in a hostel in Toronto, Canada and I LOVE THIS CITY!!
Very clean, organised, with friendly people and enough to do for a one-day trip!!
I am also very happy that I need to gloat.
I booked 1 bed in 1 6-beds dorm and when I arrived after a 40mins walk from the bus station, they told me that I was "UPgraded" to a 4-bed dorm at NO extra costs!! HOORAY!! And then when I went to my room, I had the entire room to myself!! SUPER HAPPY!! Slept soo well cos I had bad nites all the while when I was in NYC (too cold) and on the bus (its a bloody bus seat that does not recline, what do ya think?)!! Haha...So I slept soo soo well!!
Toronto still has trams (they call it streetcars) which I thought was rather interesting. :)
CN tower, some tall tall buildings that tourists (like me) go ga-ga over.
Alas, I was lusting to be in front of the lens, so I took a picture of myself with beautiful flowers as backdrop. :)
So, I am 30 mins from going to the bus station to catch my bus back to NYC.
Then I am going to Philly and DC.
I am excited and pretty tired at at the same time! :P
|7:17 AM|
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Spring weekend
Its the Annual Spring Weekend in UConn this weekend.
Everyone was out drinking, partying, getting into fights, smoking weed, having sex in the laundry rooms, smashing cars in the parking lot.
And all I did was stay at home to watch movies and go to the lab to do work.
My life sucks.
I miss the party animal in me! :(
And the best part is, my boyfren who hates me going to clubs and getting drunk was out at St James partying his life away with his friends.
How ironic!!
|12:52 AM|
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Final Year Project
Many people have commented/envied my life in USA.
About how I am having fun, but not working hard enough in the lab.
About how some of my other classmates are so stressed out while I was having fun and traveling.
You see, I am actually very stressed too.
I am 5000 miles away from home, my loved one and my family.
I came with 0 frens (actually 1 if you consider Prof Urs "my fren").
And I had to adapt to everything, everyone, every place from scratch.
So, lets talk about my FYP today.
I am working on tolcapone, an anti-parkisonian drug, and its molecular mechanisms on hepatotoxicity. My study model is a novel, spontaneously immortalized human hepatocyte cell line that only my lab has. And people are practically begging us for this cell line. And results wise, I guess I am doing good, not great, but good enough. :)
I came with the intention of getting an A. Cos I know Prof Urs, and I understand his research. He is a great teacher, very attentive and gives his best for his students. The only disappointment was that I had no mentor and had to pick everything up from scratch. I have to troubleshoot my own protocol, plan my own experiments and do all the shit on my own.
But I'm not complaining. It was a great learning experience. :)
So right now, I am just hoping for the best. My A / A-!!
So, I am very happy working in this lab, I met some nice people in this lab, and at my place, some NUS exchange students and fren's frens...
My professor offered me PhD opportunity like 100times, but I had to reject him for the sake of "love".
I will be done in two weeks. I gotta write my discussion by this weekend. So I will not be going anywhere this weekend.
So so so, please wish me luck. :)
Love you guys,
Audrey
|1:24 AM|
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Sweet tooth!!!!!!!!!
I love desserts!!!After the yummy Sunday brunch at Pros Urs house that ended with yummy Apple cobbler and strawberry soaked in balsamic and red wine, I was craving for sweets again.
Today, I went for dinner at local diner's, Applebee's, with Jean.
We talked, gossiped and shared a steak.
And ended our meal with a yummy strawberry cheesecake served in a shot glass!!!
Very creative and delicious!!!
And Haagen Dazs is super cheap here!!!
Its only 3USD per tub, almost half price that from Singapore's price!!
This is my 2nd tub!!!! :)
YUMMMMMILICIOS!!!!!
|9:22 AM|
Monday, April 14, 2008
Two Great Weekends :)
SATURDAY 040508 RHODE ISLAND TRIP
Rhode Island is the smallest state of the 50 American states.
Newport is a small town, where rich people stay, eat and have fun.
It is famous for its seafood, so being the glutton, of course I fed myself some good food. :)
A (beautiful) cemetry behind me.
The Atlantic Ocean (and Europe) behind me...
I wanna swim over...
Me and Jean :)
The Breaker's House behind me.
Summer house for the breakers in the 1800s.
Very very big and grand. :)
Melisse, me and Adeline (at dinner).
Had some yummy Seafood Fra Diavolo for 22.95usd.
YUMMMMMMY!!!!
SATURDAY 041208 NEW YORK CITY
The main reason for this trip..
The Broadway show, Legally Blonde.
Times Square (in the day).
I like it better at night...
Flowers flowers flowers...
Spring is here...
HAPPPY!!!
Ground Zero..
It was a mess there.
Like many others, I kinda wished that that disaster never happened.
I just dun understand why people wanna pose infront of the huge construction mess.
Me in front of the New York Stock Exchange Centre.
I love the huge flags.
Me and Chengwei at New York Palace.
Pretty trees and beautiful flowers.
2 things:
1) Spring is finally here :) *grinz*
2) I like New York City a lil' better. :)
Sunday - 041308Prof Urs invited us to a wonderful lunch at his place...
So so yummy!!
There was too much good food, but I didn't take pictures of them cos I am not so socially awkward. :)
But it was a good time, talking about funny things, lab things, pollitics, New York, Taiwan, Singapore, Switzerland, and every every thing under the sun.
I had fun!!! :)
Carmen, me and Prof Urs :)
Me, jean, Veronica and Carmen.
Everyone in the lab :)
Me, jean, Rohini, Veronica, Carmen, Amanda and Urs.
Oh, maybe you haven realised.
But it was GREAT weather this 3 days...
Yippeee, I am not cursed anymore. :)
|6:07 AM|
