Airasia starts flying to LONDON

AirAsia starts flying to LONDON nonstop from next Mar. Tickets are on-sale now. It was first noticed by him, 2ways only RM1500 (very cheap, normally British Airway costs nearly SGD2000 2 ways; my tix SG-Newcastle costs me SGD1800,why am I spending so much T_T)and he was almost going to book it last night. But, I was in lesson that time...

After I took a look,i can even find RM1390 for 2ways in some dates. Then, we discussed tonight after his work. The price has risen to RM2007/2ways. I thought it could drop in the midnight due to lower traffic flow (which my friend had successfully booked cheaper tix in midnight).. But the price seems never lowered down again...

Alright, I will keep a close look for the prices. Anyway, it is really another cheaper alternative to come LONDON and EUROPE!

But but.. Chanbrothers.com does give good offer sometimes. Chanbrothers.com and airasia.com are our targets :p

Nie's pasta soup

First trial making this...

Chicken bone soup based + rojak vege + meatball...haha...

Cause i miss SP FC2 Macoroni soup...

I know it doesnt look like the one at all...

its NIE's version... haha.. anyway i like it :x

p/s: today we studied carcinogenesis. Before lecturer started the lesson, she mentioned: I know this is not a pleasant chapter, it affects many people. If you feel not comfortable, feel free to walk out and come back when we are done. However, the lesson ran quite smoothly, I enjoy this lecture very much, due to the charming personality of this young lady, who i first met her today.

Anyway, BBQ does cause cancer, its the charcoal... Reduce it :)

Finally today handed in Estrogen Assignment, this assignment has raised a considerable discussion among lecturers too, due to EXCESSIVE COMPLAINS about this super tough assignment.

A student asked: did u see the question?

Young lady lecturer: (shake head）i didnt give any comment, but looking at my expression, u know wat i think.

OMG, even this carcinogenesis-taught lecturer shakes her head for our estrogen assignment. i dunno how much am i going to score for this 30% of my overall year long module. God Bless.

My younger sister, ting is having her STPM, struggling for it too. This ben ben mei mei, hope she will stay fine till 3dec. Wish her good luck.

苦澀黑咖啡

趕報告時最需要的是一杯咖啡提神
可是我四點以後就不可以飲用咖啡
否則失眠是必然的

那天只睡了四個小時
早上起來昏昏沉沉
可是總得把報告趕完
所以在圖書館1樓
投進75p，約馬幣5塊
買了第一杯在英國的咖啡
是不加糖不加奶的黑咖啡
淡淡的　真的難喝
可是還是咕嚕咕嚕喝掉了
雖然還是昏昏沉沉到中午
沒必要　可不會再買咖啡了
把錢省起來去旅行時喝一杯異地的咖啡

昨天在圖書館４樓的安靜區　
跟香港同學一起趕另一份作業
他也買了同樣的咖啡
入口即吐　直罵難喝死了

我用那不咸不淡的廣東話小小聲說：
‘抱歉，忘了告訴你那天我也買了這杯超難喝的黑咖啡’
每次都擺着一張酷酷的臉，跟我弟同歲的他，說：
‘原來你也喝黑咖啡？很少人愛喝’
然後在安靜區小聲地聊幾句咖啡話題
本來就跟他沒什麽交情
因爲那張很吊的臉和
我（們-幾位宿舍朋友見過他）認爲有attitute problem的性格

我只是單純地愛喝苦澀的咖啡
不加糖不加奶的Americano
偶爾還是喝starbuck的奶咖啡
那杯越南高原上的煉奶咖啡也超想念

突然想起咖啡
一種我本來就很少喝的飲料
只是那位香港同學突然提起
讓我思考了一下下

我愛苦澀黑咖啡
因爲品嘗最原始的味道
即使苦苦的 還是滿足

或許跟我的人生觀相若
希望品嘗最原始的美好
保留最單純的享受

以上幾句絕對不是跟他說的
還沒跟他那麽好談

Nostalgic

I must blog. This girl is really making me nostalgically miss her and our times...

Link

I love salmon

Though stress for assignment, but i still manage to use 45min to prepare and eat a well-balanced and FAVOURITE meal for myself :p

I SIMPLY LOVE SALMON...

Finished my salmon, no more until next reasonable reward :p

0度的冬天

零度的天空下
有個我躲在房裏
默默地趕著功課

暖氣已是極限
卻好像不夠火力
窗縫只剩1哩米
還是感覺寒冷

搞得我懶懶地
圖書館的5分鐘路程
會因爲冬天的寒風刺骨
如5個小時般長遠

無論如何
努力衝刺到最後~

已經開始把保暖的衛生衣穿上
或許我還需要一件更保溫的大衣
請時間和金錢允許
願明年之前給自己添上一件吧！
總不能只靠姐姐那件不能支撐0度以下的寒衣 :p

1月的冬季瑞典之行
一件好的寒衣
才能更好地加強禦寒措施
其實還需要添購其他防寒裝備

Done inv. bio + First snow!

Few things to note:

1. just sleep 4-5hrs on 19 and 20 Nov to rush my investigative biology out...I'm damn satisfied for the hard work that i have put in, give myself 90%, for my hard work, never work so hard before :p

2. taken my first coffee here, its from vending machine, a very light one.

3. Handed in our group inv.bio assignment on Friday, though it dues on Monday. Cz Tuesday dues another assignment-estrogen signaling, im really going to die for it. These few days, full power will switch on for it. One of my classmate told us: this assignment is the PhD level's assignment, as told by her PhD friend. Because this issue has actually been discussing, and it still has not come to consensus, while we, degree students have to judge ourselves... I joke: I supposed we have PhD knowledge after doing this assignment...

figure1: our group assignment :p


4. I have time to be my friend's panelist, I miss sensory evaluation. I saved a lunch for sensory evaluation on sausages, muesli, coffee and bread :p Personally, SP's sensory lab is much more better!!!

figure 2: 3 of my groupmates. Doing sensory evaluation for fiona (in lab coat), while we are panelists of her muesli. This mini sensory lab has only 3 compartments and it is very different from what we knew from Jasmine leong, a perfect sensory booth. Without a 'cover' in front of u, it is very easily sidetrack by what the student is doing.

NET: DO YOU HAVE OUR SENSORY BOOTH PHOTOS?

5. I booked my air ticket to sweden last min of ryanair.com £0.01 promotion. After adding all cost, i paid £16 for return ticket to sweden :p ( 6-15jan) ( glasgow-stockholm, gotherburg-glasgow)

6. I experienced my first snow in the life!! It actually snowed at 8am, when i just woke up to do my assignment. it is a very short and mild one, so I thought it just kinda rain... and it snowed again at 930pm last night, and we confirmed that its snow! Put my hands out, the snow melts when it touches hands. Definately it wont accumulate since its so mild and short :p but we are really into winter...

UPDATED SNOW VIDEO

7. I grilled salmon for my dinner last night, to reward myself working so hard for inv. bio :p I realised Morrison sells salmon cheaper than chicken breast meat. More reason for me to take salmon :p

few newcastle winter's photos..

Talking to myself...U can skip this.

JUST TALKING to MYSELF:

370words written upon 2000words, considerably good progress. Im quite happy for the completion of introduction and genomic model, a little on non genomic model.

my brain is saturated, cant work further. Tomorrow morning I shall come to library too,continuously embrace library until i clear all assignments! theoretically, i should be in library for all times other than sleeping, attending lesson, and cooking&eating meals and washing&bathing.

Quite interesting to read the estrogen as i go further...Excuses to request more time only..haha..

Erm, tomorrow shall work on inv.bio i.e. evaluate the 3 studies on fibre and heart disease, first, to be compiled on thursday with groupmates. As I read more articles, I supposed I have better judgement to evaluate the quality of the studies related to the outcomes.

Hmm, i hate ryanair.com for further reducing the price to FREE SEATS! Lucky that the barcelona has increased the price. Free seats seems tailored to my central europe plan, but I want sun in Sicily, South ITALY... HOW HOW HOW? Im not sure if i can withstand the winter backpacking alone, plus the limited sunshine in this season..headache sia.. no wonder my brain saturated.. haha

This blog acts like my listeners..those read further..im sorry..haha... Just crap at this moment,to release some stress...... I mean there is still people listening to me personally, but I seems becoming more and more introvert. HAHA!

Ok, wanna go back to hostel, take a bath, take a good sleep and tomorrow morning wake up earlier to do inv.bio before bioethnics at 3pm...

Sometimes, addicted to read journals, not too difficult one.

Increase your antioxidant-rich fruits and vege to prevent cancer!

I'm mad on reading the estrogen signaling assignments, however, i discovered this is really a good way to deliver knowledge academically. It is really different from what I have been doing in Poly where most of the time are so called "study deadly" by all those spoon feeding lectures, though there are assignments, but reading academic journals are really different. Here, you are required to cite the reference professionally and no sloppy websites allowed, very densely based on updated journals. Anyway, Poly doesnt subcribe the expensive NORA (journals search engine)...

For eg, a rapid signalling pathway has recently been discussed where u cant find the information in the textbooks. Bioethics topic that I chose-Nutrigenomics could be impossibly found in textbook as well cause it is a newly found technology/method since a decade ago. You are learning up-to-date knowledge.

But, the downside for students is ... it is really challenging.. Im hardly enjoying it... though i try to...

Btw, today molecular pathophysiolgy was about free radical, i find it more interesting and i can understand easier compared with his last few lessons on bored signalling pathways. Perhaps this is more lively and related directly to our bodies. Free radical can link you to cancer, aging, antioxidants? I supposed these are words appeared in your minds and you are absolutely right.

To your interest, eating vit C and vit E containing high antioxidant properties which reduce the possibility of oxidating the unpair electrons in your cells, and thus prevent the cancer. However, cancer is a multifactorial complex disease, could be your lifestyle that leads to the consequences. Since diet can affect your body greatly, and you are able to choose what is going into your body, why not taking a preventive action that you could? I sincerely appreciate the power of foods, and the longer healthier life you have, the better quality and enjoyable life you have, together with you love ones!

Start increasing the amount of vegetables and fruits that could better regulate your body, in many ways, while the fruits and vege below shows the amount of antioxidant properties, the higher the value, the higher the antioxidant properties! * I supposed the fresh forms perform better, however, in our life, we hard to get it fresh for most of them... But I eat lots of kiwi, orange here. Why blackberry is not in the list, i just bought 2 boxes of blackberry and 2 boxes of strawberry, 4boxes cost me £2, it is quite cheap :p

My final year project has changed the topic to investigate the effect of temporal migration on dietary habits, in this case, im based on chinese students in UK. Personally, i have increased the amount of fruits and vegetables I consumed as i control all my meals consumption by cooking myself :p

I eat lots of orange, red grapes, kiwi, red peppers and onions here! I shall increase strawberries,rarpsberries and brocolli, which I could get all in fresh at reasonable price!!heez

Blogging clears my mind... I shall back to my TOUGH TOUGH TOUGH assignments T_T

Estrogen signalling ??!

Steroid hormones are traditi0nally known to bind with nuclear receptor, to activate transcription factor. Estrogen is one of the steroid hormones that binds with homodimers. Genomic signalling pathway of estrogen has to be discussed... and collect the evidences to support the type2 signalling pathways which is faster in inducing the target responses...

I dun like this assignment, i dun understand... T_T

countdown 7days to hand in this assignment, god bless!

p/s: 26jan-2feb is confirmed to fly to Barcelona & Madrid (SPAIN) with crab, suchew and cyan..Book 4ways ticket < £50, considerably cheap as we caught Ryanair.com £1 promotion, of cos we needs to pay some HIDDEN fee (airport check in, check in luggage fee and visa debit handling fee), but still quite cheap. We celebrate our chinese new year in Spain, 25jan we shall have a reunion dinner and early morning in Chuyi we will fly to spain, and return on 2feb morning, just nice to have lesson, but should be a tiring monday,first day of 2nd semester! 26feb-29feb will be in Madrid, reminds you 馬德里不思議 from Jolin?? Anyway, through our research, Madrid is a disappointing tourist spot, especially after Barcelona, perhaps its good to go Madrid first, then Barcelona, to have an upgrade city feel :p