juliana's open house

Senawang, here i come!!!..for the sake of meeting our lovely Juliana at her Raya Open House. We decided to meet up after the Senawang toll as her map is not clearly drawn. haha...

Had our meals...chit chat...Juli showed us the newspaper cuttings on our convo..took one photo..then we left for another mini trip...to the nearby waterfall.

We saw a huge sign " Welcome to the taman ular sawa" ....sounds interesting to them...but not to me.. (i'm afraid of reptiles). Luckily the snake farm is under renovation. phew~ relieved...but still i acted as if i'm wanting to visit the farm ( you cannot disclose your fears to others ...learn this from my past experience during animal behaviour class, where we were asked to observed COCKROACHES). After complaining awhile (must show some disappointments), took some photo...then we cabut to makan seremban siew pau....hehehhe...poor pumpky..sweating like nobody's business..yet have to tahan his anger..because my friends were there. I actually saw him putting up his 'black face'. Cannot tahan ad...i have to say this...He is just not into nature....why am i saying that?? Because the day before, i accompanied him to bowling at Sunway. He 'leaks' as much (err..maybe a little lesser...but still sweat under air-conditioned environment), but he said that is normal because he is doing sports. Ah! okay....but why he got fed-up hiking a little uphill??? Weird!~

We ordered the steamed kirin ebi ....*thumbs up*....

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This morning i had a short meeting with my supervisor. He said i'm a little too late when submitting the abstract for the Bangkok conference, therefore i have to target on publishing a paper by Nov or Dec. Then he handed me a little something...

So sweet of him...(for the very first time)..haha..he said he didnt make it to my convo, so here is a little something.

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Nasi Lemak

The dishes

Asam prawn (note that the burnt sign is actually the asam)

Telur rebus

Nasi lemak

Curry Chicken

Most satisfying meal ever....

Tough times never last, tough people always do

The thoughts of me losing my masters causes me to lose out my beauty sleep. I was so worried knowing that my supervisors will be mad because of my slow progress in research. He did nagged a little but he appeared to be more helpful this time. He suggested to send me over to a conference by the end of this year to publish whatever results i have. with the condition..i need to pay for my own flight ticket...the rest is on him...well..on the grant..seems like this is the only way...

I just finished my writeup on the abstract...and i MUST work HARD within this two months...he would be expecting to see me at least once a week to discuss on my progress. Now i feel important again to him...as his first student. Sometimes, i wonder if this is all in His plan for me...how much i bragged on him neglecting...blablabla..now i feel welcome again. I thought He was on 'away mode' (quoting from TPT) when all my prayers were in the 'waiting list'. He actually hear me...i pray for wisdom and strength....now i have got so much to study and so many things to do ..to make me wiser and stronger... i believe that with God all things are possible.

Today, TPT sent me a link an article after knowing my problems. Thank you, PT...i know you are not good at comforting...i felt the concern from the every little thing you do. There is this line that has been repeated a few times by Dr.Schuller in the article.. Tough times never last, tough people always do!.. Let's just pray that my tough time will soon be over and i will see myself tougher after this. Amen.

Bad news~

I received a phone call today from my supervisor today. The first thing that came out from him is asking where am i . I thought he need me back but he asked if he could meet me tomorrow. I sensed something is wrong. He told me that we have something urgent to discuss. Then, he delivered a bad news for me. Apparently, somebody in MARDI is doing the same thing like i'm doing...and they found some results. Therefore, if they managed to publish the results, my masters will be gone. I'm worried sick . How can they be doing the same thing like i'm doing? what if they really managed to publish before me...??? what will happen to me??? I cant think of anything else but to pray hard. Let's just pray that i could come up with something like a collaboration or ...whatever....i just want to leave upm as soon as possible with my masters..feeling hopeless right now...wish to sink into his arms...