Salted & Fried
Thursday, November 24, 2005
More things left to do...
Things I have left to do before I leave... THIS COMING WEDNESDAY!!! ARGHHHHH 1 MORE WEEK!!! How to do all these!!!!
1)Re-enter data from REU-Natural Substrate project (a consequence of the mac crash, raw data backed up but not processed one...sigh)
2)Run REU-NS data through statistics (PRIMER)
3) Write up abstract of REU-NS project for January REEFRES meeting
4)Take photos of the nubbins
5)Process nubbin photos so send to Lucia
6)Accounts for Lucia's expenditure incurred from her stay here
7) Accounts for my own REEFRES WP
8) Project progress report (REEFRES WP10)
9) Confirm withOrchard Parade Hotel Copthorne Orchid Hotel for meeting in January
10)Send out reminder for abstracts to UK, Philippines and Thailand (submit to myself & Jacob Douek)
11) Fill in Wai/Juanhui on boat booking & diving procedures
12) Order chemicals for Juanhui for fixing her cubes/DNA extraction/PCR etc
13) PACK BAG FOR KILIMANJARO
14) Buy fleece, wallet (Planet traveller) & neck gaiter (Adventure 21)
15) Analyse remaining tiles and run data through some stats
ARGHHHHHHHHH.................. At least... I've got nice nice results and graphs from the REU-NS project... heh. 2 year's worth of data... Mmm... time flies eh... ¶ 7:36 pm 0 comments
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3) Write up abstract of REU-NS project for January REEFRES meeting
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7) Accounts for my own REEFRES WP
8) Project progress report (REEFRES WP10)
9) Confirm with
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11) Fill in Wai/Juanhui on boat booking & diving procedures
12) Order chemicals for Juanhui for fixing her cubes/DNA extraction/PCR etc
13) PACK BAG FOR KILIMANJARO
14) Buy fleece, wallet (Planet traveller) & neck gaiter (Adventure 21)
15) Analyse remaining tiles and run data through some stats
ARGHHHHHHHHH.................. At least... I've got nice nice results and graphs from the REU-NS project... heh. 2 year's worth of data... Mmm... time flies eh... ¶ 7:36 pm 0 comments
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Accepted.
Well, good to know I'm not a reject after all. Hehe. After all that waiting, finally got an offer letter for Newcastle Uni Tropical Coastal Management MSc. HAPPINESS. Well, I should be...Right? So many things to do and so many things happening now that there's no time to really sit down and let the joy sink in.
Diving today at Hantu. Managed to squeeze in 10min of diving. The vis was STUNNING! 4m! And bright... the colours were so vibrant! Lots of salps in the waters today.
Feeling the stress of everything having to be somewhat wrapped up in the next two weeks before Kilimanjaro. Looking forward to escaping to Africa for a while. Especially after having to do DNA EXTRACTION (ARCK!) this coming Tuesday. My GAWD. What was I thinking! Diving tomorrow to set down tiles. I think Wednesday will have to wrap up the remaining tiles in the lab and run the results through some stats on Thurs, before Reef Walk training at Labrador at 5pm. Have to settle admin and hotels for the meeting in January, and consolidate participants' details. BWV RF Explore list needs to be out for those who went for today's checkuot dive. Also need to transfer $ back to those who didn't meet the high standards we set.
This saturday is probably the only free weekend day before I leave for Kilimanjaro. More diving to do. ARGH PHOTOS OF NUBBINS FOR LUCIA! Admin work for claims! Work hours claims for the assistants! *STRESS* Ok... this will probably a reminder for myself as to how much I have to do within these 2 weeks.
I don't see myself having a life the next 2 weeks. Well...maybe some... heh ¶ 10:18 pm 0 comments
Diving today at Hantu. Managed to squeeze in 10min of diving. The vis was STUNNING! 4m! And bright... the colours were so vibrant! Lots of salps in the waters today.
Feeling the stress of everything having to be somewhat wrapped up in the next two weeks before Kilimanjaro. Looking forward to escaping to Africa for a while. Especially after having to do DNA EXTRACTION (ARCK!) this coming Tuesday. My GAWD. What was I thinking! Diving tomorrow to set down tiles. I think Wednesday will have to wrap up the remaining tiles in the lab and run the results through some stats on Thurs, before Reef Walk training at Labrador at 5pm. Have to settle admin and hotels for the meeting in January, and consolidate participants' details. BWV RF Explore list needs to be out for those who went for today's checkuot dive. Also need to transfer $ back to those who didn't meet the high standards we set.
This saturday is probably the only free weekend day before I leave for Kilimanjaro. More diving to do. ARGH PHOTOS OF NUBBINS FOR LUCIA! Admin work for claims! Work hours claims for the assistants! *STRESS* Ok... this will probably a reminder for myself as to how much I have to do within these 2 weeks.
I don't see myself having a life the next 2 weeks. Well...maybe some... heh ¶ 10:18 pm 0 comments
Friday, November 11, 2005
Moodswings...
Apparently... THIS is possible...
A friend of mine recently told me that he is quite scared if he were to work under/for me. And that I can be quite scary when it comes to work. This isn't true, is it? The topic came about when we were talking about female/male bosses, and how female bosses have the tendancy to have moodswings. I beg to differ since guys have the male version of PMS too, and working for male bosses means you will have to attend to male egos.
Another interesting gender topic was brought up by a student of mine. She asked why almost everyone (with the exception of one guy and the prof and the teaching fellow) in the lab are GIRLS. All the ones directly handling projects are girls! And it was us 11 girls at the peak of things last year... Found it rather interesting too. Is it because they just aren't really suited or committed to this kind of work? Or is it because our lab culture doesn't support nurture of males in the lab? Wai thinks that the latter is not true because working in a lab-full of girls would mean better news for the guy, right? But I think the girls in the lab aren't what you call "normal". Not meaning that in a negative sense at all though I admit it is true that we aren't like the majority of girls out there. We aren't exactly "ku niang" girls and, to some level, I think we like feeling and being independent in such a way that makes guys feel uneasy. Well, in my opinion at least. And I think that's why we don't have many guys sticking around in the lab continuing their projects etc. Nothing long-term at least. Hur hur... I realise BWV is also bring run by girls... and very few guys. ¶ 12:08 am 2 comments
A friend of mine recently told me that he is quite scared if he were to work under/for me. And that I can be quite scary when it comes to work. This isn't true, is it? The topic came about when we were talking about female/male bosses, and how female bosses have the tendancy to have moodswings. I beg to differ since guys have the male version of PMS too, and working for male bosses means you will have to attend to male egos.
Another interesting gender topic was brought up by a student of mine. She asked why almost everyone (with the exception of one guy and the prof and the teaching fellow) in the lab are GIRLS. All the ones directly handling projects are girls! And it was us 11 girls at the peak of things last year... Found it rather interesting too. Is it because they just aren't really suited or committed to this kind of work? Or is it because our lab culture doesn't support nurture of males in the lab? Wai thinks that the latter is not true because working in a lab-full of girls would mean better news for the guy, right? But I think the girls in the lab aren't what you call "normal". Not meaning that in a negative sense at all though I admit it is true that we aren't like the majority of girls out there. We aren't exactly "ku niang" girls and, to some level, I think we like feeling and being independent in such a way that makes guys feel uneasy. Well, in my opinion at least. And I think that's why we don't have many guys sticking around in the lab continuing their projects etc. Nothing long-term at least. Hur hur... I realise BWV is also bring run by girls... and very few guys. ¶ 12:08 am 2 comments
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
MORE WAITING!! ARGGHH!!!!!!
ARGGHHHHHHH WHYYYYYY THEY'RE MAKING ME WAIT LONGER!!!!! THE REPLY BETTER BE POSSITIVE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ARGGHHHHHHHHH HOW MUCH LONGER!!!!!?!?!?! I CANNOT TAKE THIS!!!! Come on.. just HIT ME... Get it over and done with!!!
At least they emailed apologising for the delay.... sigh.... my heart is beating so fast... What if it's a negative reply... Then where do I go from here?? ARGH!!!!! ¶ 5:20 pm 0 comments
ARGGHHHHHHHHH HOW MUCH LONGER!!!!!?!?!?! I CANNOT TAKE THIS!!!! Come on.. just HIT ME... Get it over and done with!!!
At least they emailed apologising for the delay.... sigh.... my heart is beating so fast... What if it's a negative reply... Then where do I go from here?? ARGH!!!!! ¶ 5:20 pm 0 comments
Monday, November 07, 2005
My no. 1 song
Hope dangles on a string
Like slow spinning redemption
Winding in and winding out
The shine of it has caught my eye
And roped me in
So, mesmerizing and so hypnotizing,
I am captivated, I am.... ¶ 11:39 pm 0 comments
Like slow spinning redemption
Winding in and winding out
The shine of it has caught my eye
And roped me in
So, mesmerizing and so hypnotizing,
I am captivated, I am.... ¶ 11:39 pm 0 comments
