what a week...

It's been some crazy week for me....

after completing exams, i've just been working and going to the lab...sleeping at 3 am almost every morning(that's my fault tho...since i've been watching a movie every night before i sleep...=p)but i do reach home at about 11.30 pm avg anyway...

but yeah...despite that, the highlight of my week was....

"WICKED"!!!

omgosh....it was a mind-blowing/spectacular/music/singing/acting sensation!tian was right...i should have got better seats eventhough sitting on Row T was actually enough...it WAS expensive just to buy backrow tix but it seriously was worth it...

grr... i should have bought the music cd instead of the program booklet !!grr...but nvm...it's enough of a souveneir with the addition of the tix...

i wont expose the contents of it but seriously...whoever's a huge fan of broadwayand all that jazz, PLEASE....you must not miss this...

yeah...that was wednesday night...

my thurs and fri was a little crazy now that i'm down with the flu + a sore throat...

Labs have been...lets just say that i was given a 2cm thick pile of just pure research material to read...it's literally drowning in scientific blabber ( media ingredients,techniques, discoveries,research materials...you get the picture....)

the most exciting(maybe gruesome actually...) was watching the researchers "cervically dislocating" 5 mice at a time out of about 20 and then dissecting them(dont worry..the mice die instantaneously without pain)...all this just to get the "ampula" of these female mice located at the uterine horns just before the ovary...it's only about 2 times the size of a needle hole btw....then after collecting these little sacs of embryos (or if the mice failed to mate with the designated male-just unfertilised eggs),they would then - under a high tech dissecting microscope - tear open these tiny sacs to collect the embryos, culture them and then use them for their respective experiments...

cruel you might say, this is what has to be done for us humans to get what WE want...in vitro fertilisation, knowledge on embryonic/foetal development/abnormalities/mutations, vaccines and so on...

but one thing has kept me from fully learning and absorbing all this info....slppe deprevation...

yes...i have been constantly keeping myself from falling asleep every 20 mins in the lab (every few mins when i was counting flourescing cells in a stained embryo) so now i better start sleeping...

BUT...

i'm leaving for the airport at 4 am for adelaide!

sigh...no more sleep but i am so gonna spend this upcoming 4 days devoting myself to spiritual growth and getting to know MORE ppl...

=D yet *yawn...