_______hope S P R I N G S eternal______

Remark. lol.

'Hahaha... The lighting so cacat. Amateur shot (exclamation mark)'

Remark of the year that I'll never forget... Thanks Mr u-know-who-you are... Hahaha... I know, I'm not a good photographer but this is the best u can get from me after a super tiring hike... Mind you, this was the 18th plot of the day too =)

EXAMS ARE OVER~~ I'M SO GLAD... But not relieved... no idea what to do... Anyone knows a uni that will accept my average results? I'm interested in Masters of Marine Pharmacology or Microbiology =)

Cherrios~~ Can't wait for Singapore next week~~ Christmas decors already up... Hehe... here are some shots of the room I stayed at a month ago and will be staying again next week (same hotel, not room... hehe)

The entrance

Toilet

BED~~ Boring captions.. haha...

BED again...

View of Orchard Road from the room...

View of the road below at night~~

HMV~~ My favourite store in Sg... Followed by UniQlo =)

|| Lyññ ||<~~Snowy me~~>
2:04 AM

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In the year 2200 as predicted by Wells~~

Cities maybe underground, climates rigorously controlled, food genetically designed, all wastes productively recycled, transport so revolutionised as to eliminate death & injury, productivity so great that poverty has been eliminated, and the working day reduced to 2 hours. The challenge maybe to combat boredom, and reflect on the barrenness of a failing population.

Sounds cool! I hope we won't end up like the people in Wall-E!

Found this in a textbook I'm reading

Bored.
LMH in KL. I'm Stuck in uni. Doing assignment. Need to finish.

|| Lyññ ||<~~Snowy me~~>
2:57 PM

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.........

Those pesky mosquito bites I got from Mulu are still itching like mad!! Insect repellent really doesn't work against the wild mosquitoes... They still attack you... well, it didn't work on me... U can feel the mosquitoes when they bite you because it hurts! These huge mosquitoes will sting you and then steal yr blood... I really hate them...

Itchy itchy... Did I mention that I didn't get bitten by any leeches?? Spotted quite a few... two fell on my arms on different days but they didn't bite me cuz I swept them away... One of my team mates got a leech up his pants... near his............. lol... our team was laughing including him!! even our supervisor... hahahaha...

I wouldn't mind going back to Mulu again but then it won't be the same without all my friends... I still haven't been to the Clearwater, Wind, and Moonmilk Caves =(

I wanna try to hike to the pinnacles too!! The guides were surprised at how fast I walked back from the Dipterocarp forest... haha... they said, 'Waaa. Kamu jalan laju ya. Boleh pergi Pinnacles and Gunung Mulu sudah!'... I was like, 'HUH?? Tak boleh la... Terlalu jauh... Sekarang sudah penat...' and they laughed... About 2 minutes later one of my team member emerged from the forest with the rest of the team...

I don't think I'll even get the chance to go 'bush-bashing' ever again unless I have another project like this...

I've been slacking like crazy this week... Need to finish up my report... still have discussion and intro left... sighs...

~~TTFN~~

Deer Cave

|| Lyññ ||<~~Snowy me~~>
11:50 PM

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I'm back from the JUNGLE!!

I'm serious!!! Was in Mulu National Park for 9 days!! I was away for 10 days as I spent one luxurious day in Miri before I was far far away from civillisation... It was a really great trip!! Had so much fun!! Had to sacrifice my prom night though... BUT I made plenty of new friends and gained much much more experience that I don't think I'll ever be able to do again!!

Typing is soooo difficult now cuz the 'w' and '!' buttons of my keyboard aren't working =(

My comp wouldn't start while I was in Mulu (well the last 2 days)... No idea y... When I came home and asked IT expert, Mr Jason (yea nette, yr bro!), he actually used his super power to start it up! No kidding!! I was super shocked!!!! All he did was touch my comp and said the magic word 'Ohhhmmm' and my comp was running again!! ROFL!! When I told my friends, they just laughed and were like ,'Serious???'... hehe...

I already uploaded the good pics on my facebook... Didn't bother uploading the different pics of forests as they pretty look the same to most of you =)

That's Gunung Mulu seen from Long Iman... Forest cleared for dry padi plantation

GROUP PHOTO

Aboveground Biomass group =)
L-R: Elly, Marcus, me, Andrea

Sunway campus group plus Dr Cathy and Dr Charles
1st row- Sui Peng, Dorin, Li Jin, Dr Cathy
2nd row - Natalie, Maleeha (Malaleila), me, XingKang, Dr Charles

That's all ^^

I came back with tons of mosquito bites n a sprained ankle... Leech bites?? NONE... but two leeches did fall on my arm but thanks to my super reflexes, I swept them off my arms before they hooked into my flesh =)

I pulled 2 leeches off form my friends' legs but for some reason, they wouldn't let go... Natalie had help from Patty cakes (Hah) and Sui Peng used rocks to get the pesky water leech off her...

FACEBOOK ALBUM

P/S: Mulu is not a cave... It's a mountain... It's Gunung Mulu or Mulu National Park NOT MULU CAVE... There are 5 caves (prolly more, not sure) - Lang Cave, Deer Cave, Clearwater Cave, Moonmilk Cave, and Wind Cave...

Sadly, I only managed to visit Lang and Deer Caves cuz not enough time...

Short description of what I did during my trip...

Day 1 - Arrived at Miri and my personal tour guide brought me around... hahaha...

Day 2 - Arrived at Mulu, chilled, had dinner & went for a night walk

Day 3 - Australian students arrived, briefing, visit sampling sites, watch the bats, night walk

Day 4 - Went to the alluvial forest and measured trees in 16 plots (radius of 9 m)

Day 5 - Went for the canopy walk in the morning, visited the mosaic forest and did 8 plots, then around 2.30pm went to the Deer and Lang Caves...

Day 6 - Went to the mosaic forest again and did 12 plots... Helped my friends search and identify frogs at night...

Day 7 - Went to the dipterocarp forest which was a 2.5 hours hike to the site... Did 20 plots but had help from 4 volunteers!! It rained on the way back... Took us only 2 hours to get back... went for a night walk again... preparing presentation... then got a call frm Dr Rohan saying that he found a TARSIER!!!! Back to presentation... slept at 3.30am...

Day 8 - Presentation session at 8am and then aussie students left... Relaxed... Played heart attack at night...

Day 9 - Went to Long Iman, a Penan village... Hiked to the waterfall then visited a keranga forest... went for a last night walk in hope of searching for another tarsier or maybe a slow lauris but no luck...

Day 10 - Sad day... Had breakfast, lats minute packing, chat chat chat, then left Mulu... Reached Miri at around 2 something... Left Miri at 4.30pm... Reached KLIA at almost 7pm, sent Dorin n Lijin home and then headed to Sa's house for dinner...

=)
Missing Mulu already

~~TTFN~~

My Tarsier

|| Lyññ ||<~~Snowy me~~>
9:12 PM

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Stressed out~~

This week has to be the worst week for me ever! Failed isolation, blank agar plates, horrible capsule staining... What else can go wrong?

THIS picture totally made my day!!

I was suppose to isolate two different bacteria from a mixed culture... I managed to isolate one but the other one for some reason refused to grow on my HBA!! I isolated twice and nothing grew... or at least I thought so... hahha... The pic above is my Neisser's stain performed on an 'empty' Loeffler's slope... Why empty? Well I couldn't see any visible colonies growing on the slope... Gram stained it and found SO MANY BACTERIA!! So I proceeded to do a Neisser's and got the BEAUTIFUL pic above... ahhhh...
Sadly there wasn't anything on my HBA so I couldn't proceed with a RapID test... *sighs*
But wait, I was asked to gram stain my 'empty' HBA and I got minute tiny tiny amounts of bacteria... I mean I could actually count how many G+ve rods thr were in one field... lol...

Well... Going out to celebrate JoyC's b'day tmr... Watching G-force!!! Cute little fur balls... hehe...

Ah Sam, here are the pics u wanted to see^^

BTW, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO VIN TOK TOK! Wishing you all the best in everything you do! All the best in your exams too! Cya in Dec, I guess... Not sure when u'll be coming back =)

~TTFN~
Gotta finish writing up my microbio report!

|| Lyññ ||<~~Snowy me~~>
11:09 PM

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...thanks...

. . . . . . . . feeling thankful for all the wonderful people around me . . . . . . . .

|| Lyññ ||<~~Snowy me~~>
11:15 PM

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CozyCot Holy Grail Party

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2:30 PM

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