Thank you volcano

So I guess I have been too stressed recently. I realised that my talent in sleeping is gone! The magical touch on the bed that makes me feel sleepy instantaneously is gone! I've been so not in a mood recently, especially after uni started.

Thanks to the volcano that has been causing so much problem for making the school and lecturers extending the deadlines of courseworks and postponing the seminar.

Since I am having a day off tomorrow (not skipping lecture ok??) I cooked 'mee sua' just now. Yummy! It reminded me of home. Last week, I suddenly had a crave for sarawak laksa. So dear and I decided to cook laksa and invited a number of non-sarawakian friends to eat laksa. I can't wait till exam finishes and I will be going back to Malaysia! Er... please volcano. Stop erupting and let me go home please?

So, what did I do during my easter holiday? First week, I was slacking. Second week, I was in Iceland. Third week, I was PARTY-ING!! My new friend Michelle from KL came to Manchester to visit her friend and stayed in Dalton Ellis. She's a great chef and cooked so much food for us. 皮蛋瘦肉粥， 黄酒鸡汤， 猪脚姜醋... Then we had fun and talked and played till 3 or 4 am everyday! Ya that was during the holiday and I wished holiday has not ended :( She's a really friendly and playful friend and I really enjoyed the moments with her in Manchester. Wait for me in KL ya Michelle!

Also, over the easter holiday after eating so much, I became fat.....

Uni starts again

Airspace closed!! But I am in Manchester! Luckily I went to Iceland between the two eruptions. Or else I would be stranded in Iceland and burn a big big hole in my pocket! I got to see the Eyjafjallajökull volcano before it erupted. It was still nicely covered with snow when I saw it. While in Iceland, I got to see another volcano that just erupted on 21st March. Thank God for blessing me to back in Manchester safely and, more importantly, before all the chaos that is happening right now. 

So this is my first time blogging using my new MacBook. I am really satisfied with my MacBook. What happened to my old laptop? My poor Dell Vostro died. The nvidia graphics card killed it. I saw from the forum that a few other laptop models of other brands had the same problem too. So, I guess it's not Dell's fault. But sorry, I don't want my second laptop to be a microsoft one anymore!!! 

I was hesitating whether to buy a mac or not at first. I thought I could survive with my blackberry. At least the email part is solved, blackberry is good with the email services, but who knows, the uni just loaded us with presentation, courseworks and poster before the holiday. So I had to get one. (I admit that I couldn't resist the lure of the little white MacBook when I saw it. I knew it wanted me to bring it home!!)

Anyway, uni is starting today! It's nearly 2 am now. Whenever I think about MLP, I just feel extremely annoyed. I am not exaggerating but I really do feel EXTREMELY annoyed. Tell me, how can you learn to be a leader by making poster? Don't tell me that we can get the 'inspirations' from the leaders that we are going to discuss about. Nonsense! What is the difference between reading their biographies and discussing about them? I don't think that would have a significant impact on anyone. I am so not convinced. I don't know for how many times I have complained about this MLP. I've told you, I am EXTREMELY annoyed!

Ah, going to bed now. Too annoyed.

Are you a chemical engineer?

You might be a chemical engineer if:

• You have a favourite pump manufacturer
• You can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie
• You can size distillation columns in your head, but need a pencil and paper to figure the tip on a $45 restaurant bill...
• ...and think that spending $45 for dinner is exorbitant
• You see a good design and still have to change it
• You can remember 7 computer passwords but not your anniversary
• You know who invented Jell-O
• The microphone or visual aids at a meeting don't work and you rush up to the front to fix it
• You've modified your can-opener to be microprocessor driven
• You think "cuddling" is simply an unproductive application of heat exchange
• You've actually used every single function on your graphing calculator
• You've ever described your spouse in terms of MTBF
• You stare at an orange juice container because it says CONCENTRATE
• You can name 6 Star Trek episodes
• You've ever considered installing a scrubber on your chimney
• The only jokes you receive are through e-mail
• Your idea of good interpersonal communication means getting the decimal point in the right place
• You automatically associate the words "sexy," "beautiful" and "new butterfly valve"
• You look forward to Christmas only to put together the kids' toys
• You've used coat hangers and duct tape for something other than hanging coats and taping ducts
• Your ideal evening consists of fast-forwarding through the latest sci-fi movie looking for technical inaccuracies
• You have any of the following personalised items:
  • Hard hat
  • Safety goggles
  • Calculator case
  • Slide rule
• You have "Dilbert" comics displayed anywhere in your work area
• You carry on a one-hour debate over the expected results of a test that actually takes five minutes to run
• You know the direction the water swirls when you flush
• You've ever taken the back off your TV just to see what's inside
• A team of you and your co-workers have set out to modify the antenna on the radio in your work area for better reception
• You thought the concoction ET used to phone home was stupid
• You cannot write unless the paper has both horizontal and vertical lines
• You think the value of a book is directly proportionate to the amount of tables, charts and graphs it contains
• You once burned down the gymnasium with your Science Fair project
• You think you look rather snappy in a tie and short-sleeve shirt
• You'd really like to have a T-shirt that says "Chemical Engineers Do It In Fluidised   Beds"
• You've ever introduced your kids by the wrong name
• You have a habit of destroying things in order to see how they work
• People hound you for pocket protectors at Halloween time
• You think that when people around you yawn, its because they didn't get enough sleep
• Your spouse hasn't the foggiest idea what you do at work
• Your three-year-old son asks why the sky is blue and you try to explain atmospheric absorption theory
• You have no life - and you can PROVE it mathematically
• You've explained your position in the company to a junior engineer as "I am a vast oasis of knowledge in a desert of ignorance".
• You lost your wedding ring for six months and found it in a box of brass tubing fittings in your desk
• You and a buddy spend two work days customizing each engineer's phone ring so that you can tell them apart from anywhere-using cut-up lids from snuff cans and scotch tape.
• You refer to your children as your "pilot units".
• Your work clothes are almost as old as you are....
• ... and so is your car.
• You think of the Carnot cycle everytime you turn on your AC unit.
• When you look at objects in the distance and think of mean free path.
• You explain surface tension to your 10 year old when they ask why you are adding oil to boiling spaghetti.
• You have a clock with inverted numbers that runs counter-clockwise in your office and you prefer it that way.
• You make your own shampoo!
• You pick your girlfriends by their gpa.
• You refer to your wife as my.spouse@home.com
• You have ever thought about how coffee changes colour in the body.
• You read this page for the first time on a Saturday night.
• You try to explain entropy to strangers at your table during casual dinner conversation.

You KNOW you are a chemical engineer if you've actually read this whole damn message beginning to end!!!!

Happy Birthday!

Happy 21st birthday my dearest!

Thank God for you in my life.

Thank my dear for loving me so much,

and

I love you too!

xoxo

无题

等待，
期盼，
得来的是，
失望。

不是我不明白，
但我还是，
失望。