Married...(not me! Yet)

This month itself I've known of 5-6 friends who are getting married or plans to get married. I was surprised by the number! But after thinking about the whole thing, I realised that we are all in our marrying stages of lives. I am 25 this year. Most of my friends are either older or younger than me 1-2 years. So, it shouldn't be surprising to me as this is the age where ppl should move on. No surprise to me if another 10 of my friends come running to me with their wedding invitations!!

Congrats to all my 5 friends. Aha, problem: where do I get all the hong-pau money hah....

When I was in my teenage years (say, 18-23 years), we girls will all giggle when we speak of people getting married, or even have a boyfriend! All love (at that time) was puppy love. Nothing stays. But, now, at this age at 25, if you don't have a boyfriend/girfriend, it's weird. Poeple will ask you why, and try to recommend you one. And somehow, you won't shave it off. "It is time", you realised.

When I asked my friends when they will be getting married, they won't even brush off the question. They are thinking about it!!! It was different if you ask them the same question 2 years back. hehehhee...

Weird day with my supervisor...

Yesterday, I had lunch with my co-supervisor. He reprimanded me for not consulting him on my temperature bioassay that I did last week. Well, I thought he was on leave and I assume that he would go on vacation or something. Oh, now I realised that (he told me) that even he's on leave he will return to UPM to finish some work. Weird, isn't it?! On leave but still in office?

Lunch was great. We chatted couple of hours. He tought me how to use the haemocytometer in the restaurant. Eyes were staring when he spoke rather loud and I guess people around was wondering what was this person doing - teaching a girl something with his pen and paper on the table, instead of a nice piece of meal on it. Again, isn't that weird?!

Oh, another weird thing is that he heard a-very-loud- knock on his office door yesterday at 7.45 am. And, when he opened the door, nobody was outside! He said that he was definitely not hallucinating. Hungry ghost la, maybe. Weird hah......

He complained that students in his microbiology class don't even know these words (see list below). He was lecturing about "Man and Agriculture" and he never knew that the universitiy student's mind and knowledge is soooooooooo shalllow and poor....very shallow indeed, if you don't know these words (below). I was surprise that students do not know:

1. B.C. and A.D. (as in 2006 A.D. and 2006 B.C.)      see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.C.E

2. a bison

3. a mammoth

4. Noble prize winner for peace (just name anyone)

.....and the students were blank, blur, and..whatever you call it - dumb founded!

My say is: Education without Discovery channel sucks! Don't they just watch a little tv?

He told me to leave this country ASAP. It's a time bomb here. "Finish your Ph.D. and off you go, Ivy!"

Guess which is which:





 

"don't be afraid of injury(ies)"

I was just waiting for this sentence to be said! And yesterday, my Aikido sensei mentioned it so clearly - "Do not be afraid of being injured" and "Do not be afraid of pain". Everyone is afraid of pain, but you will never know when pain comes. It is not the pain that I fear, it is the lingering thought of never knowing when this pain will actually hit you! Curiosity kills the cat.

This month alone, i sustained 4 injuries. One to my right hand (7 stitches!), one to the knee (bone), one to the wrist (sprain), and lastly (I hope this is the last!) one to the foot (bruise). How cool is that!? I some more had an old injury to my toe (not healed yet). Errrr, most from Aikido.

Each time the injuries hit, it is painful. But, I can stand excruciating pain. I just can't stand wondering when the next injury will hit. Just want to tell everyone in my life that my pain is my responsibility. I have never blamed anyone for the pain I sustained. In fact: no pain,no gain. I have learned soo much from pain. Learn from the pains and problems we face each time in life.

Come what may. I will praise God.