Finally handed in my Literature Review for my Pharmacology course.
LITERATURE REVIEW: Ginseng and Its Active Compound: Ginsenosides
I brought my laptop to Stockholm, to Helsinki with me, hoping that I can finish it there.
But, you guess it... Bringing books, notes, assignments on a trip is always a stupid idea. ------------------------------------------------------------ Now that I have finish the Methodological Task, the 2 Lab Report, and this final Literature Review, the only thing left waiting for me is the 10-minute presentation next week on my findings. 10-minutes.. shouldn't be hard, just about 10 slides will do.. After that I will have my Final Exam on 4th June...
" i'm ok, but cannot call out or sms. will be fine kiet help me to inform mom...
huihui"
I was like 'huh??? hmm... maybe send wrong e-mail." ------------------------------------------------------------------ The next morning, I received another offline MSN message from my DAD. "Kan Hua said: There was a 7.8 level earthquake in Chengdu. Luckily your sis is safe Kan Hua said: the earthquake was 100 km away from hui's office Kan Hua said: hui has sms us that she has gone home already"
Now I'm like 'WHAT!!! Earthquake in 成都!!!"
FYI, my sis was posted by her architecture firm in Singapore to 成都(Chengdu) to work on a 杭州(Hangzhou) project. ------------------------------------------------------------------ May 12, 2008
Relief efforts were underway Tuesday, a day after a powerful earthquake struck central China, killing as many as 12,000 people, officials said.
The magnitude 7.9 quake was felt as far away as Vietnam and Thailand. It appears to be the most devastating earthquake to hit China in more than three decades.
At a news conference Tuesday, China's disaster response director, Wang Zhengyao, said that 11,921 people have died so far from the quake centered in Sichuan province. The death toll from the quake is expected to rise even higher, with state media saying thousands are still trapped in collapsed buildings.
Approximately 80 percent of the buildings in Sichuan's Beichuan County were flattened in the quake, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Monday. A chemical plant in Shifang city also was destroyed, burying hundreds of people and spilling tons of toxic liquid ammonia.
Outside the city of Dujiangyan, at least 50 students were killed and 900 trapped after the three-story Juyuan Middle School collapsed. Buried teenagers could be seen struggling to break loose from under the rubble of the three-story building, while others cried out for help.
There were reports that army-led rescue workers had difficulty accessing the disaster area and were hampered by a lack of equipment. But large cranes outfitted with lights operated into the night to lift massive slabs of masonry, said NPR's Melissa Block, who was at the scene. Ambulances ferried away the survivors.
Dozens of bodies of children were laid out on the ground, waiting for parents to identify them, Block said. Once claimed, the bodies were wrapped in shrouds and brought under plastic tarps. Hundreds of parents waited for hours in the rain for word of their children.
Parents built makeshift shrines and placed the bodies of the dead on pieces of cardboard or plywood as they grieved over the small lifeless forms. Some lighted red candles or burned paper money to send children into the afterlife. Others set off firecrackers to ward off evil spirits. The grim ritual played out by dozens and dozens of families as they kept watch over their babies one last time.
Students also were buried under five other toppled schools in Deyang city.
The earthquake struck in the middle of the day, around 2:28 p.m. local time. People flooded into the streets as the ground shook, and many were trapped in collapsed buildings.
One man said he felt the road start to buckle when the earthquake began. "The road started swaying as I was driving. Rocks fell from the mountains, with dust darkening the sky over the valley," a driver for Sichuan's seismological bureau told Xinhua.
Two girls were quoted as saying they escaped because they had "run faster than others."
In Dujiangyan, 45 miles north of Chengdu, a hospital collapsed with an estimated 100 people, NPR's Robert Siegel reported. Crane crews worked to rescue those trapped. Tents at a Red Cross center were set up to tend to the wounded as they waited for ambulances to take them to other hospitals.
The earthquake crashed telephone networks in Chengdu and plunged parts of the city of 11 million into darkness. Residents slept outside in cars or fled to the suburbs — far from the city's high rises — as more than 300 aftershocks rattled the area throughout the day, according to state-run media.
The devastation comes as China is preparing to host the Olympic Games, which begin in Beijing on Aug. 8.
------------------------------------------------------------------ Upon reading that, I can't stop feeling relieved to see this... Bet she will have a lot of stories to tell when we are back in Singapore. ----------------------------------------------------- ------------- 真是世间无常… 唉…我本来就不是个会去管国家大事世界新闻的人… 只要我阿姐平安就好…
It was Sunday, and I still have 3 deadlines to rush... My eyes are tired after staring at the screen for so long...
I went to the window, and look towards the greens... It was sunny... and windy... And then something caught my eyes... Something were floating in the air... For a moment I tot it was snowing... But no... it doesn't look like snow flakes, instead it looks more like the daddy-long-legs... I open the window, and some of them flew in...
To my surprise... They are the seed of the dandelions... So nice... At that moment, the air was full of floating dandelions....
-------------------------------------------------------------------- This page is dedicated to dandelion... The flower that brighten up my day...
Dandelions... at both sides of the roads...
The patch of land in front of my window... It's lush and green now... decorated with hundreds of thousands of dandelions...
Some time we really have to admire the Japanese's creativity... Making musical Instrument out of normal everyday vegetables.... Who could have thought of tat...
Carrot Ocarina: "London Bridge is Falling Down"
Broccoli Ocarina: "Angels We Have Heard On High"
Carrot Pan-flute: "Old Castle's moon" (Koujou no Tuki)
Paprika (aka Capsicum) Ocarina: "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
I like this best, a simple Capsicum, controlling the pitch with mere fingers...
Check out my 表姐, Shareen Png Hui Chuen& her partner, Zyanne Lee Zhien Huey in action in "Good Luck Beijing" 2008 Olympic Games Synchronized Swimming Qualification Tournament.
Duet Technical Routine
Duet Free Routine
What coincidence... First part so 'pirate', second part so 'stadium'...
The tournament ended on 20 April 2008 in the Water Cube, with our Malaysia Team placing #25, just a little bit behind the borderline to squeeze into the final 24 to compete in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games... Nevertheless, I am still very veryVERY proud of her.
虽然这次与奥运擦肩而过，不要紧！敢敢放眼伦敦奥运！ 慧君，加油！！
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am not a sports person, so I will let IOC do the explanation.
Synchronized Swimming It looks like perhaps the most effortless event in the Olympic Games, but there is more to synchronised swimming than what appears on the surface. Besides demanding strength, endurance, flexibility, grace and artistry, it requires exceptional breath control. It is no simple task considering they perform strenuous movements upside down and underwater while holding their breath. [Extracted from International Olympic Committee > Sports > Aquatics > Synchronised Swimming http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/disciplines_uk.asp?DiscCode=SY]
