Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Rest in peace, grandma.

Darling's grandma has been fighting against her illness few days ago, and now she had made her choice, to ease herself and also her lovely family, she choose to give up and let go. I feel so sad to hear the news this morning, and feel so sorry to darling and his family. Although i didn't talk much to her especially when i came to UK, but she never forget me, she always ask about me through darling and make sure we both are staying healthy and we take care of each other. She is really a kind person. Every time when darling call back home to speak with her, she will never fail to ask about me; is lay ming OK? When I recall this, my heart feel so uneasy. How can I be so rude by never talk to her or even ask her how do her feel with her illness. During CNY she also didn't forget to ask about me, and wish me gong xi fa cai, but I don't even talk to her and support her emotionally. When we were having meal together, and if she sitting beside me, she will keep on asking me what do I want to eat, and even take the food for me. But what did I do in return for her? I am a bad girl and didn't do anything for her before. Sometimes I even tell darling to sit beside her instead of me because I am scared of her taking too much food for me. How can I do that to her? She loves me so much but I never do anything for her. Before I came to the UK, she asked me, do I have enough jacket to bring along with me and wanted to give me her jacket, just in case I caught a cold. How nice of her. Although I am not her granddaughter but she treated me as I am her own grandchildren.

I hugged her for the last time when I was leaving KB airport to the UK on the 25th September 2006. She wishes me all the best in everything and I said I'll come back to meet her again during my summer break next year. Now, I have no chance to meet her anymore. I wish I was back in KB now to pay her my last respect. I want to tell her that I'll miss her so much, and I'll take care of myself all the time and study hard always. What she has done for me will always remain in my heart forever.

Darling feels so sad and moodless for the whole day, he loves her the most and she loves him as well. He is so patient to her all the time, fetching and sending her here and there when he was back at home during last summer. I don't know how to console him now, he must be very very sad but still pretend to be strong in front of everyone.

Grandma, hope you rest in peace and do not need to worry of us anymore, we will take care of ourselves, and you will be in our heart all the time, I will never forget you as my grandma.
 
posted by Lay Ming at 9:26 PM | Permalink | 2 comments
Sunday, February 25, 2007
农历新年的第一个星期已过去了，我再也没有借口偷懒了，是时候加倍努力了，弥补过去的懒散。大姐和小妹也回到新加坡了，家里也少了欢笑，隐约中可以感觉到家里的寂寞，不知爸妈会不会觉得不习惯，毕竟家里的吵杂声持续了一个星期，突然间的寂静该换来多少的不习惯吧！我也很想念他们，但经过倒数后，心里还蛮甜的，因为再过三个月就可以回家了。嘻嘻！

好啦，该开始复习了，星期二还有一个 law test，祝我好运！
 
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Sunday, February 18, 2007
Gong Xi Fa Cai to me, myself and I. What's a lonely Chinese New Year I am having. If you are also studying abroad and couldn't get back home to celebrate with family (like me), then I am here to accompany you, wishing you Gong Hei Fatt Choi as well.

Woke up at 1pm today, my very first time to wake up so late on the 1st day of CNY. Thinking of many things are waiting for me to do (of course all related to my studies), but come on, today is CNY, how can I concentrate in my studies during CNY. I want to enjoy. I want to get back home to celebrate this day with my friends and family. But i can't, all I can do now is sitting in front of my MAC PowerBook to online, waiting for people to online then chat with them.

There is no one online during this time, only left those who are studying abroad, so just chat with a few of them, we are on the same boat, that's why we are here freely to online.

I was looking at my Controlled Drug's lecture note since I woke up, but until now I just finished reading for 2 pages only. It really hard to draw my attention onto the lecturer's handout during this time. But I need to finish it tonight, and then keep going on with my lab report. Arghhh, a poor little me staying in this stupid country during this traditional festival that I celebrated since I was born. I want to enjoy as well.!
 
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Saturday, February 17, 2007
新年快乐
 
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Called back home few minutes ago, they are still eating the reunion dinner, so didn't talk much with them, will call back again later. Although I just called for a few minutes, but I can feel their happiness while eating, all the family member sitting down together eating while chatting, how much i wish i could be there with them.

In the Cardiff, there's no celebration for CNY at all. The most frustrating thing is they are selling mother's day stuffs right after valentine's day. There is nothing for Chinese New Year, really stupid! So the only way we can celebrate CNY among ourselves is EAT, EAT and EAT. We are going out for our so-called Reunion Dinner at the SpiceRoute in Cardiff Bay.

Here's some conversation with my cousin;

ReginaLoo says: (2:25:40 PM)
happy new year

ReginaLoo says: (2:25:41 PM)
haha

ReginaLoo says: (2:25:50 PM)
we jz had our reunion dinner le, together wid ya family

* l a Y M i n g * 新年快乐！万事如意！恭喜发财！ says: (2:26:01 PM)
arghhhhhhhh, geram-nya!!!

ReginaLoo says: (2:26:14 PM)
so shuang lo, so many babaies, so many ppl

* l a Y M i n g * 新年快乐！万事如意！恭喜发财！ says: (2:26:27 PM)
STOP ..!!!!

* l a Y M i n g * 新年快乐！万事如意！恭喜发财！ says: (2:26:35 PM)
i am here all alone ...

* l a Y M i n g * 新年快乐！万事如意！恭喜发财！ says: (2:26:42 PM)
i want to go back also ...

ReginaLoo says: (2:27:21 PM)
ur family + my family + sharene's family + a siang koko n family + a fa koko n family + 2nd uncle n family + penny n family + 1st uncle n family

ReginaLoo says: (2:27:23 PM)
muahahaha

ReginaLoo says: (2:27:50 PM)
send u e photo na

* l a Y M i n g * 新年快乐！万事如意！恭喜发财！ says: (2:27:54 PM)
wei ... no need nahh ...

* l a Y M i n g * 新年快乐！万事如意！恭喜发财！ says: (2:28:05 PM)
i dowan to see also ...

* l a Y M i n g * 新年快乐！万事如意！恭喜发财！ says: (2:28:09 PM)
keep it for urself ...

ReginaLoo says: (2:31:37 PM)
this time our reunion dinner is really a grand 1 la

ReginaLoo says: (2:31:39 PM)
so many ppl

* l a Y M i n g * 新年快乐！万事如意！恭喜发财！ says: (2:33:12 PM)
i will enjoy myself over here

* l a Y M i n g * 新年快乐！万事如意！恭喜发财！ says: (2:33:21 PM)
tonight i am going out with friends as well ...

* l a Y M i n g * 新年快乐！万事如意！恭喜发财！ says: (2:33:29 PM)
then i take photo and let you see also nahh. ... haha.

ReginaLoo says: (2:33:33 PM)
na... myself n family isnt e same oooo

ReginaLoo says: (2:33:39 PM)
family more shuang lo

Argghhh, I feel like going to kill her already. She is right, celebrating with family isn't the same as celebrating with friends, but as for now, I will ignore what she said to me, I will continue to celebrate with friends for time being, will get back home to celebrate CNY after another 3 more years.

Wish everyone Happy Chinese New Year ...!
 
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Friday, February 16, 2007
此时此刻的大家，应该在忙着做最后的血拼吧，只为了准备明晚的除夕夜和后天的农历新年，真的好羡慕大家。已经好久没在家过年了，过年的气氛好像渐渐在我脑海中消失，都怪英国没有庆祝农历新年，嗨。。。接下来的日子里，好像都没有机会再庆祝农历新年了！“每逢佳节思故乡”现在还真的很想家呢！

祝大家新年快乐，万事如意，想什么得什么，恭喜恭喜，身心愉快，工作顺利，学业进步。。。
 
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Sunday, February 11, 2007
Snow-fighting on the 9th Feb 2007
 
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Did I mention something on my current part-time job as a assistant pharmacist in a chemist? I started to work on last Friday, 9th Feb 2007. It was a brand new experience for myself. I worked from 9am to 12pm (I had to attend Lab at 1pm). As a new learner, it was a bit too much for me to learn on the very first day of working. The pharmacist told me about the arrangement of the drugs, where do they keep the cream and oilment, contraceptive pills, tablets and capsules, solution and suspension, etc. Then he asked me to look for the drugs from the prescriptions, basically is just look into the prescription and pick up the exact drugs from the shelf. Imagine they have thousand of drugs on the shelf and I have to look for it one by one, took me quite some time to pick up just one drug coz I haven't familiar with all the drug's name.

After picking up the correct drug from the shelf, need to check for the quantities to supply to the patient, whether to give him/her the full original package or certain amount of tablets. Then print out the label for that particular drug. This is exactly what I learn in my PADC lab (dispensing session), I would say as in my position currently, I will not have to worry about the drug interactions and whether it is under or over-dose yet, because this is all done by the pharmacist and I just the assistant. But in the PADC lab, I need to check everything by myself, indication of drugs (what is the drug use for), drug-drug interactions (can the drugs be taken at the same time), the dosage of the drugs (child and adult dose for a particular drug is different), etc etc. I will have my PADC test on the 12th of Mac, and the passing mark for this test is 70%. OMG, I am so scare of failing the test. The rule of the test is, if you did a major mistake where you may harm the patient, then you definately fail the test, if you make some minor mistake such as didn't check for the dosage or expiry date, then you get zero for that prescription (we have 7 prescription all togehter in the 3 hours test).

Ok, back to my work, as an assistant, means you need to do all the stuffs where the pharmacist don't want to do, so that the pharmacist can relax ;p I will need to do all the stock checking, re-arrange them on the shelf, send prescription to the medical centre, do some dispensing, order drugs, even need to deliver the dispensed drug to patient (I didn't do this on my first day but will do it soon). After all the hard work done in the 3 hours, the most happy thing goes to the salary collection. I earned 16.50 pounds for the 3 hours, which means 5.50 pounds per hour (last year worked in Phoenix Garden Chinese Restaurant only 4.50 pounds per hour).

I am going back to work again on this coming Friday 9.00am.
 
posted by Lay Ming at 7:28 PM | Permalink | 0 comments
I miss the snow ...

Here's few more photo about the snow in Cardiff few days back;



Nice snowing scenery in Cardiff? These photo have been stolen from someone else, original photo can be seen here. *Thumb up* for the photographer.
 
posted by Lay Ming at 6:35 PM | Permalink | 0 comments
Friday, February 09, 2007
Cardiff's weather on the 8th and 9th of February 2007;
08-02-2007
1.30am - 2.30am: sleet
4.00am - 7.00am: heavy snow
the rest of the day: sunny
09-02-2007
8.15am - 3.00pm: heavy snow

Conclusion; Cardiff is so pure white for this two days, and we were so excited to enjoy the snow although it was freezing. Today's snow is even heavier and thicker than yesterday. We build our snowman (this time I build a huge one with the help from friends), played snow-fight, walked and ran on the snow, enjoyed being hit by the snow, hahaha. This is really fun as this is the thickest and heaviest snow we ever had in the Cardiff (last year wasn't this thick).

still wearing our pyjamas while playing, haha


He was trying to do the snow-angel.
and this is .... the shape of the snow angel??

We thought that will be the heaviest snow we have in Cardiff for this year, but who knows this morning while having breakfast to get ready for work, Liet shouted for me and told me that outside was snowing heavily. Nobody expected this morning's snow, because there isn't any forecast about snowing for today. While I was working, I kept on looking outside to check on the snow, make sure there is still snowing when I am off work. It was still snowing when I walked back home after working, the ground is so slippery and have to walk carefully. Traffic jam in most of the main street as cars and buses couldn't move due to the heavy snow, lot of lectures canceled today and library is closed, buses and trains were forced to stop as well.

I was having lab session this afternoon so the session goes on, but the attendance was not 100% coz some of them trapped in the bus or train, and we finished the practical within 2 hours. After the lab, of coz it is time to enjoy the snow. We went to a park opposite my building to take photo and snow-fight, juliet, amanda and darling joined in few minutes later. Happy playing and enjoying the snow.




The snowman above were stolen from others to take a photo of them, and there are alot more snowman around. We did build our own snowman, will post it up by tomorrow ok, i am sleepy now.! ;)
 
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Thursday, February 08, 2007
* 5.15am now *

As the BBC weather forecast stated, Cardiff is snowing at 4am just now. I have been waken up by Juliet at 4.10am, then 2 of us played with the snow (Note: it was just 2 of us along the quiet street, playing happily and excitedly like no one business, syiok sendiri). We actually do have house-mates in the house, but 3 of them sleeping, 1 still awake but doesn't want to join us, therefore only 2 of us :(

We tried to build snowman from the not-very-thick-snow, actually the snow just covered the car surface by that time, so let see our cacat+mini+ugly+cute snowman.

First attempt, failed. Cacat and super ugly one.

This is Juliet's snowman, haha.!

Second attempt, this is alot better than the first one iziz?


And guess where did I keep my snowman?
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In the freezer. Creative right? Coz I wanna show it to darling by tomorrow. He has lectures at 9am later, so he didn't join us playing in the snow. This is my first time to build snowman, first time in my life, feel so excited. Although it was freezing outside, but we still enjoyed ourself so much. This may be the only snowing in Cardiff for this winter. Wonderful.



*We'd took more photo at 6am in the morning, where the snow get heavier and a lot thicker, it covers the surface of the street, the tree, and also the field in front of our house. I am very sleepy now, will update later after my lecture and lab session.
 
posted by Lay Ming at 5:16 AM | Permalink | 6 comments
BBC forecast that tonight Cardiff will have heavy snow, at about 3am in the morning. Will it be true? Everyone is waiting for the snow, if it really snow tonight, then this will be the 3rd time I experience snow in my whole life. Hope that the forecast is true. Pray hard and hope I still stay awake when it is snowing.

*updated at 2.30am*
Cardiff did has sleet just now, quite heavy snow plus rain at 1.30am, then the snow gone after 10 minutes, left only the rain. Arghhhh, was so excited and thinking of building snowman, now nothing.! Wait for 4am and will wake up to check whether there is snow. Pray hard.! :)
 
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Monday, February 05, 2007
I've got a job.! Hoorayy..! I'am going to work in a pharmacy, as a part time community pharmacist's assistant. This will be my first pharmacist experience in my life, how will it be? tough? can I handle it easily? can I still cope well with my studies after this? As I mentioned before, my timetable for this semester is really packed, and my pharmacist job is going to be during the weekday, and maybe saturday. So am I able to finish my studies and course works in time? I have to be more self-discipline, work harder at night where there is only my free time available, how about movie? Oh no ....

I am going to start my 1st day of job on friday 9am. I am quite nervous now as I don't have any pharmacy working experience. All the best to myself for the job and also for tomorrow RTS re-sit test.
 
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Saturday, February 03, 2007
I'll have more lab sessions to go for this semester, my timetable is really packed with all the lab sessions, from morning labs until evening lectures. At least last semester i had one day off (friday) for most of the weeks, but this semester there is no day-off at all, everyday got either lectures or labs. The only problem with lab sessions is the never-finish lab report to be done. One follow by another. Arghhhhh...

Yesterday I have the first Formulation Science Practical, which is something about preparation of non-sterile products, such as drugs in solution, suspension, cream and oilment. Yesterday practical was to prepare a few drugs in solution form. I was so blur til the end of the practical, not really know what was i doing, not sure about the calculation, the method, and the formulation, so i ended up non-stop asking from friends. Really need to put in lots effort into it, to figure out what is happening and to prepare for the coming test.

Today have another pharmacology practical, something to do with the guinea pig's ileum, where we have to find out what is the unknown drug given by examine the muscle contraction of the ileum with a few known drugs. I was lucky to finish this practical in 2 hours instead of 3 hours, the practical itself is quite easy actually, but the write-up will be a headache to me. Well, i have another 3 weeks time to finish this lab-report, due date is 23rd Feb. Cool.

To release all the stress I have within this first week of studies, I went for movies with darling, watched Babel and Blood Diamond. Both are really a good movie to be watched, highly recommended. I haven't been walking into the cinema for quite a long time, like one and a half month, since early Dec last year. This is the first time where i did not step into cinema for more than a week. I used to watch a few movies every weekend, but due to the exam, i stopped for one and a half month, OMG! Can't believe in myself.

The first time I went back to the cinema after such a long time was on the 25th Jan, with Juliet and her friends, we watched The Night in the Museum. Then on the 27th Jan, with darling, we watched The Return and Rocky Balboa. Darling missed the cinema so much, and because his exam finished on the 26th Jan, so he went for movie the next day, guess how long he had been sitting in the cinema for that particular day? I called it MOVIE DAY for him, he went to the cinema early in the morning, 10.30am, and started to watch MOVIESSSS, a total of 5 movies he watched that day, crazy rite? More than 12 hours he had been staying in the cinema, maybe that is his second house? He watched 3 in the morning until 6pm, then rest for an hour and half for dinner, I met him for dinner together then we continue another 2 movies at 7.30pm.

Weekend coming, so any programme for you guys? I've nothing or I should say, I have too much work to do within this weekend, so wish me lucks, and stay with me because I probably will do some nagging over here when i am bored. Enjoy the weekend.
 
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Thursday, February 01, 2007
Miracle just never happen to me all the time, am I so unlucky all the time? My sis will says this for sure, because you never wear or bring crystal with you all the time. Is crystal really can change our luck? Ya, I've failed the stupid RTS test, I seriously hate this negative marking system, why do we need to have so many test in our life? somemore with the really stupid marking system. I never pass smoothly for all of this stupid marking system's test, last year I failed my Law Test for the 1st trial, but luckily I passed the 2nd trial. This time I failed again in RTS test, hopefully I'll pass in the re-sit paper on this coming tuesday. I'm having another negative-marking-system Law Test on the 27th Feb, can I pass? I doubt it.

Almost finish the first week studies for my year two second semester, lot of things still unclear for me. Things getting tougher and tougher. I have another two new modules to cover in this new semester, plus three modules from the first semester, so a total of 5 modules to sit for in the final Spring Exam. Another nightmare coming soon. Can't imagine how am I going to survive for that particular period of dead studying. Argghhhssss...!
 
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