A visit to lab, before recess week

prof: so this is how the lab is now.
me: ok... so crowded.
prof: yes. but the exchange students will be gone after Christmas.. so next year there will be less people.. if you're doing fyp...
me: hahaa. ok.
prof: anyway the exchange students have some papers submitted already.
me: really?
prof: yes. and since English is their first language, i asked them to write by themselves.. so i only need to check what is written there.
me: woah, nice.
prof: next year it will be your task to write on your own.
me: ..............

How popular is Glee in Indonesia?

I'm wondering whether Indonesians are being refreshed from the popular songs nowadays (I shall not give any personal opinions on those songs, cos I don't listen to them) since Putri Ayu of Indonesia Mencari Bakat tries to popularize pop-operatic and classical crossover music in Indonesia (even though I feel that she was not supported enough, lately she did not collaborate with Indonesian "seriosa" singers as many as before and she was asked to sing pop music until Addie MS returned her to "classics" *and even asked her to sing together with Twilite Orchestra! oh how powerful a network is....*), or by the popular American series about show choir "Glee" which is popular in the US and at least, within my circle of friends in NTU. My friends in Indo are mostly favoring Japanese stuffs, so analytically, they will be unsignificant samples.. =P

That question popped up because I noticed that in the video below, there is the Glee version of "Defying Gravity". FYI it was shown when Rachel and Kurt were having a "diva-off competition" to get the solo for this song. It happened like "Hmm? It's Defying Gravity. Is it Rachel singing? I think so..... Is this the Glee one? WELL YEAH THIS IS KURT'S VOICE!!! This is certainly the Glee version!!!!!", all by heart.

Btw, I think it's a bit strange to have this song when Hudson told the audience about his mom, since this song was performed in Wicked when Elphaba flied (defied the gravity). Correct me if I'm wrong, though. If this were shown later (within these two weeks) maybe it'd have been more dramatic to use Kurt's version of The Beatles' "I Want to Hold your Hand".. Ok, just another "what-ifs".

At 1:45,


However,
GO HUDSON!~

Anyway, still in accordance with Glee,
I want Hudson (and Jessica) to challenge Kurt singing this song. I'm going to put Kurt's version.

Lea Michele (Rachel)'s laugh at the end was hilarious

Kurt only showed male's version (both of his "alter ego" or duet partner or whatever are males) although I had expected him to have a "female" counterpart since he dressed just like Hudson's two-faces. I want to hear Jessica also sing this, cos at Victor/Victoria, if I remember correctly, it was Victoria who sang this song. =)

Anyway my favorite act from Indonesia Mencari Bakat grand final (he should be competing there!!! Too bad he got eliminated at the big 4. Anyway, Hudson, your mom in Heaven must be proud of you):


video credits: YouTube (denimartono, misterioy)

google problem, come and go

Google/gmail dynamic theme has been back to normal! Yay! So happy to see the fox doing anything else than showering its duck.. =)
For some time back then, the google dynamic theme was frozen. I checked on google (the search engine) and found out that people were experiencing the same problem. The tea house, beach, and other dynamic themes were freezing at one particular image.
Last Friday night they started to function normally again.
So I get to see the fox gardening, sweeping house, eating, reading and sleeping now.
I just love foxes. They are CUTEEEEEE!

But there is one new problem. A big problem for me, I'm not sure how is it affecting other people..

Lately the photo uploading process to blogger takes quite a long time.. Sometimes it fails too. =(

I think it is written :

We accept jpg, gif, bmp and png images, 8 MB maximum size

and furthermore,

You are currently using 15MB (1%) of your 1024MB

Hey I haven't don't use DSLR cameras, it's only an old compact one, so one pic is roughly about 1 MB maximum size.. And I still have 99% of Picasa web album space left. Why is it so hard for me to upload even one single photo???

Statistics

I just realized that there is the "stats" tab in blogger now. Out of curiousity, I opened it.

Voila! I just knew that I could see my page views, referring URLs, referring sites, etc.
It's nice to see that people (especially, friends) are really reading what you've written or posted and trying to understand your thoughts, be it from page stats or their comments online or face-to-face, personal ones. At least I know that I'm not the only one reading my own blog.

I was surprised that one of the articles I posted about a Japanese porn star had lead people to my blog from google search result. Based on statistics, there are two keywords leading to it, and both of them are coming from google.co.id!! Oh, God. My blog is not intended to be a "source" for that kind of stuffs. I am supposed to make this blog positive! (fineeeeee, let's think positively, maybe they googled it and browsed until page 20++ and suddenly they found that article) People nowadays.....

And the most sites referring to my blog is google.co.id. It was kinda... "what???", but nevermind.. It supposedly directed them to my old posts, I think, since now I post mostly in English..

One good thing I found is that the keyword "CBC212" had directed people to my blog. Being my favorite subject so far, this finally has any use other than personal pleasure and immersing myself in dizziness with ligands, complexes and MOs. =)

Love banana and ice cream~

Banana is nice. It is healthy, a simple yet satisfying cure for hungry stomach, and yet, addictive.
Banana + milo is even loveable =) but milo is self-proven to be not good for your weight, I'm wondering if they have "diet milo" or less fat ones?

Yah, addicted to banana is better than abusing drug... Right? =)

(I just realized what's the background for the banana photo! I don't want people to be horrified upon seeing it.. So just pretend that it's an amazing thing to see, ok? It's only some organic chemistry structures. Hahaaaaa. =D)

Oh I just retrieved old pictures from my digital camera. These were taken while me and some friends were having some talk over ice creams at Breeks! Cafe, Harbourfront Centre, some time during the summer holiday. The place was super nice, the waiters were kind enough to let us stay for quite a long time, and the ice creams were undoubtly YUMMY!!!!~~~ (partially because I just loved love ice creams =P)
In conclusion: recommended place.

Hazy, dreamy days.

During the past week, the sky has looked gloomy all day. No clouds are clearly seen, neither is sun ray. I have prepared to the cold weather and the induced sleepy ambience... But then, no downpours, even though the weather forecast has said so!

Well, there are, but they are not as significant as I think they will be.

And it is hot. As. Ever.
I need air-con. But the fee is rather expensive, and I still can withstand the temperature, so I still use my fan. It is still a little sweaty and I just need to wash my hair more often. Cheaper way, I guess.
Poorly, as soon as I switch off the air-con (no 24h air-con or I'll be flat broke), my room become hot again. Usually my room will be a bit cold for a while (I never open the window afterwards) but now... NO. It's just like the hottest season in Singapore that should happen between January-May, and it is just (or already) October!!
So maybe it's not hot. It's damp.

And one day we heard about the haze problem. That there were fire in Sumatra (Indonesia) land. That the fire came from farms. And the smoke escaped to the neighboring countries: Singapore, Malaysia...
And that was where the gloomy sky came from.

HAZE, again and again.

It is terrible. It prevents sunlight passing through, and the dust and smoke it bring are just bad for health.

According to the news, in the past 2-3 years there had been no haze around. Means that there were lesser number of farm burning at the neighbouring land.
Can you just stop those actions?? Yes maybe it's a super effective way to clean your (or anybody's) land from everything.. But can you please be considerate? The smoke can just escape everywhere and does not stay in your land forever. It will not affect you, maybe, but it does affect people around!

If you think you're happy because you've successfully sent it to Malaysia, which you think are annoying and terrible enough... Oh. You're much more annoying and terrible. Even much much more annoying than me Rachel Berry. You're not being considerate to the Indonesian students studying in Singapore or Malaysia, or think about those Indonesian maid or sailors working there. They are experiencing the problem as bad as the locals there and it is because of the same haze, same smoke, same dust, so don't be happy about it.

Please, no nationalism-issue or whatever here... It's just.... environmentally unfriendly. Period.




see the skies!

However...
2 days back, when I went out of my room, I saw rays of sunlight along the hallway.



It may sound exaggerating as Rachel Berry as I often be but yes, I'm happy! Means that the haze has not covered up the upper atmosphere as much as it had before!

And what ends this even happier, it is raining now! Hopefully it will help to clear up the haze.
During the past 45 minutes a few fierce thunders roared. Maybe the sky is angry because of haze, too! Well, I guess everyone, and even everything is unhappy about the haze. Who's happy, then, if your health is on risk and your life is miserable?

Aniwaaaaiiii, this is from one of my favorite local team, mr brown show =)

another e-mail from prof

Dear All,

We will have a tutorial on your return to school next week (second part of the 9.30am class on Monday and 3.30pm on Tuesday in Week 8). CBC-***-Tutotial-2 is now up on edveNTUre for you you to download. This will be in preparation for your mi-term exam in Week 9 (9.30am-11.30am, 1.5 h mid term exam, Monday 1st November). Please note that the first part of the 9.30am class on Monday will be a lecture as usual. Hope you are all having a relaxing and enjoyable recess week. See you all next Monday.

All the best,

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My recess week had been relaxing and enjoyable until you uploaded that tutorial set.

And oh you spelled "mid-term" wrongly. XD

So don't go breaking my heart

Well, can't wait for Glee's new ep in 2 days~
I think it'll be a good ep, esp. the songs are great songs.. (not necessarily means the cover is also that good, but I think it'll be worth to watch)

And recess week is coming!~

This week I've got lots of quizzes.. And coursemates started skipping lectures ('til the lecturers got confused.. LOL)

and aniway,
why spectros seems more heart breaking harder than heterocyclic?
(or just a matter of teacher?)

fun joke, prof, thanks

Lecturer: OK guys, this is the end of my series of lectures. Dr **** will continue to teach you for the rest of the semester.
Students: Aaaarrhhhhhh!!
Lecturer: I'll post the latest problem set soon.
Students: ....
Lecturer: And starting from Monday, Dr **** will start teaching you.
Students: Aaaaarhhhhhh!!
Lecturer: What's with Dr ****? He's a nice guy, you know.
Students: Aaarghhhhhhh!!!!
Lecturer: ... even nicer than me...
Students: AAARGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!


See the students' response to find out what really happened.

Found this interesting (and must be applicable) article in msn indonesia

Ingin Ramping? Jangan Lupa Tidur Siang!

Memiliki tubuh ramping bukan hal yang sulit, terutama bagi Anda yang rajin berolahraga dan pintar memilih menu makanan dengan tepat.

MEMILIKI tubuh ramping bukan hal yang sulit, terutama bagi Anda yang rajin berolahraga dan pintar memilih menu makanan dengan tepat.

Namun jangan salah, untuk mendapatkan bentuk tubuh yang ideal, Anda harus berusaha maksimal. Kalau tidak, impian mempunyai tubuh layaknya model internasional tidak bisa menjadi kenyataan.

Nah, Anda yang masih penasaran mencari cara mendapatkan bentuk tubuh langsing, Anda bisa meniru kebiasaan dari masyarakat di berbagai negara di dunia. Apa saja?

Brasil, mencampurkan nasi dengan kacang-kacangan

Brasil terkenal dengan acara karnavalnya yang dipenuhi berbagai makanan lezat. Pastinya ini yang membuat Anda bertanya, mengapa banyak perempuan di Brasil mampu mempertahankan bentuk tubuhnya terlihat indah?

Perlu Anda ketahui, kunci mereka tetap langsing karena selalu mencampurkan nasi dengan kacang-kacangan. Sebuah penelitian yang dipublikasi dalam journal Obesity Research mengungkapkan, nasi yang dicampur dengan kacang-kacangan ternyata mampu menekan risiko kelebihan berat badan hingga 14 persen. Kacang-kacangan yang dicampur nasi akan membuat asupan kita lebih kaya serat dan rendah lemak.

Jerman, jangan lupakan sarapan

Bagi masyarakat Jerman, sarapan adalah makanan yang tidak boleh ditinggalkan. Tak heran bila 75 persen masyarakat Jerman tidak pernah melewatkan untuk sarapan. Biasanya, mereka menikmati sereal atau roti gandum utuh dengan buah-buah segar di pagi hari. Menurut mereka, sarapan adalah makanan pembuka hari yang bisa merampingkan pinggang. Mereka juga percaya, bahwa sarapan tidak akan membuat mereka makan berlebihan saat jam makan siang.

Jepang, sisakan waktu untuk tidur siang

Profesor dari Cornell University, James Maas PhD menjelaskan, penduduk Jepang yang terkenal rajin berkerja, di sela-sela kesibukan mereka masih menyempatkan waktu untuk beristirahat di siang hari. Mereka cenderung tidur siang selama 20-30 menit setiap hari. Maas pun menjelaskan, tidur yang berkualitas akan membuat bobot tubuh tetap ideal. Sebab saat kita kurang tidur, hal ini bisa memicu rasa lapar meningkat tajam. Tertarik mencoba resep langsing ini? (berbagai sumber)