"Your mtDNA results identify you as a member of haplogroup D. This haplogroup is the final destination of a genetic journey that began some 150000 years ago with an ancient mtDNA haplogroup called L3 ( Read more... )

Back from Sydney. It was interesting to see how much Sydney has changed and yet, not. The Aussies were friendly as ever, the city still retains much of its colonial charm. What did changed was the demographics. There are more Chinese, especially PRC Chinese compared to my last visit some 8 years ago. Every corner of the street seemed to have either ( Read more... )

This is a doggy-dog year and the first quarter already seemed hectic and promising ( Read more... )

Been awhile since I came here. Trip to Tibet was not smooth at all, in fact, it was one of the most eventful trip, it's a wonder we survived.

Finally completed the journal on Tibethere. Think I broke a personal record with the most entries per journal so far ( Read more... )

The deed is done. 5 of us will be off to Tibet in a fortnight's time for a well deserved break. It would have been 6 ladies but Ms E's leave was frozen by her boss due to company restructuring.

Bummer. We shall miss her snores.

We are paying particular attention to the recent events in China, the de-pegging of RMB, the mysterious disease that ( Read more... )

I've been Promoted! Boss finally remembered to pass the letters from HR. Rather than the regular letter informing us of our performance bonus and annual increment, mine was a congratulatory one. Immediate supervisors had been planting dark hints in the recent months of my impending promotion, but one never can be sure until it is engraved in stone ( Read more... )

So it finally crashed...my laptop, 3 years running without major issues, it must be a new record. Got a guy off the newspaper who guaranteed no reformatting - he lied. System was reformatted and I lost some data and pixs. (*_*) Thank goodness most of my vital links and stuff are now either in thumbdrives, SD cards, work laptop or online ( Read more... )

It's been said that you'd never fully understand a person until you go on tour together. Well, the moon turned blue recently when Ms A decided to join us for a weekender to Penang. I was planning to finally take up Jennie's offer to visit her hometown and asked if SM would like to come along. Ms A got to know about it and wanted to come as well. ( Read more... )

We were planning to do the Karakoram Silk route, supposedly departing next week but the tour was cancelled at the last minute due to low response. *sigh* I was sooo looking forward to seeing cherry blossoms and the Himalayas ( Read more... )

It's been 1 month since the he-she metrosexual left our team. He couldn't take the heat from the 2 girls nor the demands of our work. Though he had good networking skills and a wonderful rapport with patients, he has shown little improvement management wise and knowledge wise (we are just now coming to grasp the full extent of his lack of knowledge ( Read more... )