A compilation of two days~

Hello!! 

I'm back! Sorry for not blogging yesterday as I was busy preparing for my test this morning. I was feeling very tired as well. The moment my head touched the pillow, within the next few minutes I was knocked out. Shan hui told me that my breathing was so even it made her sleepy as well haha! I ended up influencing her to sleep instead of letting her study. 

DECLARATION: THIS MAY BE A VERY LONG POST. BE PREPARED. :D

(Enjoy reading! Hope you don't get bored.. If you do, JUST READ IT. :P)

And also, there's very little photos because I didn't take my phone with me to take photos. Sorry! Hope my descriptions can let you imagine how it is like.

Let me talk about my day yesterday. We had a very long and tiring IS talk yesterday by one of the persons-in-charge of the foreign language school. He talked about Chinese thoughts in history times and some influential people like Mencius and Kong Fu Zi. I actually am interested in the history but the ambience and the excessively wordy slides makes it kind of difficult for me to concentrate fully. Almost half of the class sitting at the back were not paying attention and busy studying for the forensic science test or sleeping. I was doing neither as I sit in the second row and I think it's really rude to not pay attention to the presenter especially when he is from another country. After the lecture, Shan Hui and I brought or ta pao rice with dishes back to my dorm to eat. We studied and slacked for awhile before going downstairs to assemble for our "Sports Day" event. What I thought or we all thought to be a bonding session with some China students turned out to be just an afternoon of games and sports among ourselves. There was rock climbing, an intellectual cum chinese culture game and a mini competition at the end. We first split ourselves into two groups. One of the group was called "yuan de bu neng na", meaning you can't take anything round. If you do say it out loud, it sounds abit Indian so I think that's why they named themselves that. Our group decided to be called Roulee Mijit. Rou from Ms Tan Yingrou, Lee from Mr Lee, Mi from Miss Mikia, and lastly jit from Dr Sujit. Hahahaha! It's so amusing to think about it. The way we students join our lecturers names together...

Our group first started off we the intellectual game. There are 29 picture cards that give us a clue to guess what number it represents. After finding out the numbers of all of them, we are supposed to put them in correct order. it was really a fun game as we had to think out of the box for some of them and put our Chinese culture knowledge to good use to guess. We took 9 rounds to place them all in the correct order. By the time we finished, it actually started to drizzle. All of us clamboured to get all of our friends' bags and place them under the shelter. I was worried for our friends who were at the rock climbing activity as they would be under the drizzle. Thankfully the rain stopped after a short while. This also meant that we had to rock climbing. I didn't rock climb because I couldn't climb for nuts but those who did try to climb mentioned that the steps were very slippery and were loose. After the rock climb, the two groups then went against each other for a mini competition. There were three segments of the game. Whoever finished the fastest obviously wins. First: 16 people hold onto a rope tied to a drum. A volleyball/netball is placed onto the drum. A success round would be when there are 8 consecutive bounces. Second: 10 people stand around in a circle holding a PP pipe vertically on the ground with only their palm. They will have to make one full round by switching places until they reach their original position again without dropping the pipes to succeed. Third: 10 people have to create a mini slide about 5-8 meters using a tube cut into half to allow the tennis ball to roll smoothly down all the way to the tin bucket. As the distance is quite long, the people at the front have to run behind to continue the slide all the way to the bucket to succeed. In the end, "yuan de bu neng na" won the competition. Even though we lost because we used too much time, it was a fun experience because we got to bond with other people from the other semester and the other course, MBIO, that we did not get to interact with during our school hours. 

After the sports event, I went back to my dorm to change to a more comfortable set of clothes before the BBQ session started. My group of girls and I were not intending to eat any of the BBQ food there so we went to the streets to get our dinner. I bought a wrap from the wrap boy as what Jovin and I call him as, fried dumplings which I shared with Shan Hui, and a banana pancake. Hehe sounds like a lot of food right.. Oops :P 

We arrived at the meeting place to set up the BBQ. I think it was the Chinese students' first time doing a BBQ because they didn't seem to know what to do. We kept changing locations of the BBQ because of inadequate lighting. Because of this, the fire could only be started at around 7 plus pm. They didn't seem to have the knowledge of starting the fire either. Jovin, Shan Hui and I tried to come in and help but the Chinese didn't listen to us and continued with what they were doing by putting more paper, twigs and leaves on top of the charcoal. There was fire burning, but it slowly extinguished as they turned into ashes. The charcoal still didn't heat up and burn. We spent a good 1 hour just trying to get the fire started. After a while, we gave up and just let the Chinese do whatever they want to do. Jovin and I stayed until 9 pm before we headed back to the dorm. After washing up, I sat down and started studying for my test until around midnight when I let tiredness take over me.

NEXT DAY~

I woke up at around 7.15 am to study more before the test. The test was at 9.30 am and I finished around a little more than an hour later. The paper was relatively easy as I could answer all the questions. The weather last week and this week is really drastic. There was very strong wind today. Thank goodness I wore my windbreaker today. I went for very early lunch with my 1MO5 peeps and ate chicken & mushroom handmade noodles again. I just love hot soup on a very cold windy day. :) 

After lunch, Shan Hui and I bought one pack of 8 1.5L water bottles back to our dorm. I'm super grateful to Shan Hui for carrying all 8 of them all the way uphill, downhill and up the 6 flights of stairs to our unit. 

At 12.45 pm, we went down to assemble for our biopharm visit. I was hoping that this trip would at least be more fun and interesting than the Coca-cola factory visit. I wasn't disappointed. At the entrance, there were actually some construction going on which blocked the biopharm building. I almost thought we were at the wrong place. We had to split into groups of 10 as the premises and some rooms are not able to hold too many people at once. The other 3 groups took a walk around the building and I took some of the greenery around.

 

When I finally entered, I was given shoe covers to cover the soles of my shoes to prevent contamination of the floor and chemicals. I was also given a lab coat and a cloth hat to keep my hair. This particular building manufactures a certain drug that is used for IV dripping. They have different bottles to contain different amounts of the liquid drug. The 500 mL bottles is soft and more flexible. The 250mL bottle is just like our glass bottle containers. They also produce a 10mL liquid drug to solid powder form that is mixed with saline solution before injecting into the IV bag. The equipment, the procedures of the production and the different strict measures they take to ensure a sterilized environment is very interesting and fascinating. This is a good eye-opener as it is related to my course.

I had dinner with Shan Hui and Kristine today at the beef lamian stall. I had my beef "chao mian pian", meaning noodle pieces.

Alright! That was really a very very long and wordy post. So sorry readers! I shall get ready to sleep now.I have my 8.30 am IS lecture tomorrow and at 2 pm I have my first forensic science lecture conducted by Mr Lee.

Good night, rest well and sweet dreams!!

xoxo
Zayneeer