When I was working with my professor in the lab this summer, my cell phone went off because of a text message that I received. My professor annoyingly told me to "take the phone call", which left me bewildered because, to me, it was obvious that a short tone meant a text message and not a phone call.

A few days later, my prof intercepted me in the ( Read more... )

When I was five years old, my parents hired a maid (I never realized that the term maid was derogatory in nature until I came to america. Nanny or housekeeper would be more appropriate but I still use the word maid because in my mind it reminds me of one of the closest persons in my life and doesn't mean anything offensive to me). The reason was ( Read more... )

I am currently in New York already and I have been hit by a minor bout of bad luck (american airlines refuses to give me an earlier flight to saint louis, hispanic security guard wakes me up and says that I can only sleep on chairs in the airport, getting kicked out of the check-in area at 3am so that I can re-check in at 4am, unexpectedly missing ( Read more... )

This afternoon, I received a call from my housemate back in Saint Louis. He informed me that my french (2nd generation american french, that is) landlady had sent a note declaring that I had forgotten to pay rent for the month of August and should promptly send in the rent with a self-imposed 50USD fine, or else she would take me to court (ok, I ( Read more... )

Since I am bored and cannot pack my luggage, I shall write about my day.

1) Signed my honors thesis papers. I decided to be a loser and stay on in this lab with the jewish bitch because of (see 2).

2) I will be published in the upcoming paper to be sent out late Aug! It's confirmed! wheeeee.... I am gonna buy like 10 copies of journal of immunology ( Read more... )

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( why it's not hard to fall )

Germany deserved to win today, honestly. I just thought that it was a huge mistake for portugal to bring on figo SO late. Oliver Kahn announced his retirement right after the 3-1 win (figo's nice pass denied him a clean sheet, considering lehmann only let him play one game). Wah, 37 years old already, and he still could play so well! Lastly, chris ( Read more... )

I felt really sad when Portugal lost to France. It's not that France doesn't deserve the win. They absolutely do, just that the penalty kick by Zidane seemed kinda controversial to me and the last mins when Figo and Ronaldo were trying their best again and again was just too painful to watch. Worse still, Barthez had to clumsily swipe up the ball ( Read more... )

I just came back from the Independence Day celebrations. It was really spectacular. I went down with the immunologist from my lab and her friends to Schoenberg Park in the city of Manchester. They were playing live music (saxophones, drums and electric guitars)... kinda groovy! and then while we were eating our caesar salad and hot wings, it began ( Read more... )