Am I one of the very few people out there who still hasn’t ended their lab work for FYP? Excluding those who have gotten approval to submit their theses at a later date, almost everyone I know seems to have stopped doing their experiments by yesterday.

Just 3 weeks more to the thesis submission date, and I still have at least 2 rounds of PCR to run. Thankfully it’s just PCR though, and it’s not really time-consuming. I’ve written most of my thesis, just need to do the discussion, abstract, and fill in my last results after I get them (hopefully) next week. And of course to read through my draft and edit it again. I hope I can finish that by the end of next week, so that my supervisors have enough time to look through my draft.

It’s kind of hard to believe that I’m going to end my FYP soon. When I first started my project, time seemed to pass so slowly. I had to get used to taking up a whole project on my own, and learn all the different techniques. Towards the middle, there were times when I felt really frustrated and stressed, and wished that I would be able to finish the project soon. But now that the deadline is drawing near, it kind of feels as though everything is ending too fast. While I know some people can’t wait to end their projects because they don’t enjoy doing lab work or just dislike the environment they’re in, that’s not the case for me. I’ve gotten so used to and so comfortable with being in the lab, doing my own experiments and all that, that I’m sure that I’ll feel a sense of loss when everything ends. In fact, I’m starting to have those feelings already.

Just 3 weeks left to go, gotta make the best of whatever time I have left there. And I hope that the next FYP student who continues with my project will actually manage to express the protein!

さきAKB48の１０年桜を聞いた。（歌詞と英訳はこちら。）聞いた時、「あ～もうすぐ卒業だ・・・」こんな感じがあった。

大学での四年間はなんて早く過ぎる。この四年間、悲しいこと、つらいこと、もちろん楽しいこともあった。みんなといっしょうにすてきな思い出をたくさん作った。今から１０年後、みんな何をしてるかな？結婚して、家庭を持つ？その頃までにはみんな三十路を過ぎるね。（怖い！）

卒業後絶対また会おうね！

I’ve been meaning to posts some photos that I had taken with my handphone, but I keep forgetting to transfer them to my computer whenever I’m free. Finally did that just now, so here they are!

I’m sitting at home right now, waiting for the rain to die down before I head out to school. The rain is so heavy now that even an umbrella is of no use. I was really hoping that the rain wouldn’t start before I left the house,but I guess it just didn’t happen today.

Thankfully, I’m not in a rush today and I don’t have that many experiments to do, but I still hope to be able to do my transfections before lunch. Hopefully the rain won’t be so heavy then, and I can head out with my umbrella.

I like rainy days, but that’s provided that I don’t have to travel somewhere in the bad weather. Rainy nights are good for sleeping, but rainy mornings make waking up so difficult. My nose doesn’t quite like the cold weather though; I’ve been sniffing since last night, and all that blowing my nose is making my chest hurt. I don’t quite want to risk making it worse right now by getting wet in the rain. Having said that, I’ll just have to brave the rain and head for school if the sky really doesn’t clear up.

Please let the rain let up soon…

…Where things just don’t seem to go well. My laptops don’t seem to like me today too; both the ones I own take forever to start up, and it took me a few tries to get them to boot properly. Ordered McDelivery, and when I first submitted my order it got declined. Sigh.

Tomorrow’s Friday the 13th, but it kind of feels like today is the day instead. Oh well. There are good days and there are bad ones too.