Hi all, I have moved my blog to meldahuimei.wordpress.com

I could not create any new post on my friendster blog account for two weeks. After I tried many times reloading my web browser, I eventually could post something here. However, I thought that it would be better if I just changed my account to avoid the same things to happen again in the future.

Best wishes,

Melda

Today I went back from school around 1 am. When I wanted to brush my teeth, I was quite surprise that my Johnson and Johnson pH 5.5 body wash was gone!

I looked around to make sure that it was not dropped somewhere else. Nope! I couldn’t find it. Well, it was not so much left anymore, I had been using that for about 2 months. Just let the person took it, I told to myself.

Then I brushed my teeth and I met my civ reps in the toilet. I told her that I lost my shower soap. It was there last evening when I had my shower. Then she told me to put everything inside my room.

Oh well, I had been putting my shower stuffs outside my room since I moved to this room. I thought that it would be cleaner. I used to put everything inside my room including my shoes when I was in Hall 10.

Then, I went back to my room and put my toothbrush, toothpaste, shampoo into my room. Then I thought for a while that I also needed to put my roommate’s stuffs into the room as well. When I was about to open the door, I heard foot step from next door. Hmm, I got the feeling to open the door later. The foot step sound just stopped in front of my room. Hmm… suspicious. I peeked throught the door peep hole.

A guy with white t-shirt with blue strips on the sleeve put back my shower soap back to my place! Then I was wondering who was he? This is girl’s level, how come a guy walking around here at 1:30 am. I kept peeking through the hole and I found out that guy came from just my nextdoor room!! My neighbor’s boyfriend!!

Wah, that was super irritating. They were not only breaking the rules in hall (I think a guy may not stay in a girl’s room!), they also used neighbor’s stuff without permission. And the worse thing is that my nextdoor even never say any “hi” or smile to me like others on this 5th floor. How come she just let her boyfriend used nextdoor’s stuff?

Geez! This is what I hate from staying in hall. Besides I need to squeez all my stuff including frying pan in one small room, I also need to hang my undergarment inside my room. Then from now on, I think I also must put my shower stuff into my room as well! I’ll spend more moisture absorbent again =.=”

Where have I been these weekends? I was not going around for shopping nor mugging in my room. I was having a special “spa” service.

Just count the number of red arrows in the picture below…

I did use all those computers simultaneously for my molecular dynamics simulation. It was on Saturday night that I thought no one would come to the lab and I would not disturbed any classes in this lab. Each simulation would spend about 2-3 hours to finish and I needed to run 48 simulations. I restarted the computer after each simulation completed as I did not want to see “out of memory” error message for the second time in the middle of my simulation. When I finished doing the simulations, I switched off all the computers that I used.

There was no air-conditioning in the lab after 9 pm. Besides that, all of the computers were turned on. I felt the hotness in the room was different from hot Singapore sun shine. It was from the hot computer CPU which have been working super hard to cater about 18 groups’ molecular dynamics simulation - not all groups use so many computers as us as they explored different things.

I was not sure if what I did that night actually solved the problem asked in my project. I was not sure if what I did was silly that I manually did the computer simulation one by one. The only thing that I know is I got “some values” that I could used in my project.

Anyway, the other computers were used by the other groups, they just left the computer on for 2-3 days for the simulation. So, I couldn’t use all of them.

Refer to comment posted in this blog on “I Did!”, I think I got a spam comment LoL. It’s written like this:

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When I read it, I was wondering what was that. I even didn’t understand what that spam was trying to promote. Thanks to “Google translate” in translating them.

When I knew meaning, I was about to delete that spam. For a few seconds later, I thought, just let it be there :p

Then I am wondering if it is okay to let my blog open for any search engine? Why that spam was posted not in English?

This has happened quite some days ago.

It was the day when I went to Eunos Techpark II to know the way to my IA interview venue.

After I reached Eunos MRT Station, I walked all the way to the bus stop and waited for bus 15 to come. I waited for 10 minutes until I saw a “15″ letter with orange colour background approaching me.

When I got into the bus. I saw a yellow-orange shirt old man wearing a pair of square-lens spectacles came in as well. He did not try to find any seat in the bus. In fact, he stood next to the bus driver and talk a lot of random stories loudly in Chinese and Hokkien dialect. I did not really paying attention to what he said.

I looked at my phone, I should alight at the 3rd bus stop after this right turn. When the bus passed the 2nd bus stop, I was about to stand up and reach the nearest bell. Then, I saw an old lady stood up and tried to pressed the bell. However…

That yellow-orange-shirt man suddenly shouted “EEEEEEIIIIII…!!!”

I was shocked. I saw that old lady immediately sat back and did not pressed the bell. I looked at that man, he was staring on the centre of the bus with a very fierce look. About a second later, I immediately turned my sight somewhere. I was not dare enough to look into his eyes to know what was he staring at.

The only thing I knew was someone eventually pressed the bell and I alighted from the bus. At that time, I felt he still stared at one spot in the bus. Then, I heard he said “哦，想下车。。。” (Oow, want to alight from the bus…)

At that time, I was wondering: Was he shouted at me? What was wrong with pressing the bell in the bus? Then, I just assumed that he might have some mental problem.

These past 3 days, I spent my last recess time to finish my 2^nd part MB218 assignment. I have done about 85% for the 2^nd part. For me, this assignment is somewhat disturbing my core study. For the 1^st part, I needed to spend my whole weekends to read the textbook and write the summary manually (typing is not allowed). It is my elective this semester, but I feel like I put more effort in this subject compare to my core subject.

Today evening, I went to my lecturer office to collect my 1^st part assignment. He said that most of the students in this elective class overdid the assignment. So, most of us are not required to submit the 2^nd part of the assignment.

If he announced this to the class, I believed most of the students would clap or do something to express their happiness. But… Yes! There is a “but” word for me. Remember I did say: These past 3 days, I spent my last recess time to finish my 2^nd part MB218 assignment.

I have wasted my precious 3 days recess for something that eventually won’t be graded anymore. Argh!

The moral of the story: Don’t waste the opportunity to enjoy your life if you’re granted to do so.

I got flu… It seems that I never tried to recover myself.

It started after I had my sleepless night for a few weeks because of studying, the hot weather in my room, and noisy hall mates in the middle late at night. Then, I got flu. I didn’t consider it serious as I knew the reason: restless body. Anyway, I only sneezed several time after shower in the morning. It should be okay, I told that to myself every morning.

Recess has started… Previously I planned to have a good rest to recover myself. However, I just made my flu become worse. How?

Thursday night, I slept very late. Don’t ask me what I did that night. I just surfed the internet and actually did nothing important.

Friday night, I went for supper with 3 of my friends. Actually the supper itself wouldn’t cause flu as I went back to my room before 12 am. Then what? It was the clothes that I wore. The wind was blowing quite strong and I never wore any jacket or coat at all. Haha… I even wore a loose dry-fit t-shirt which seemed to welcome the wind into me. When one of my friends asked if I was okay with that t-shirt, I said I had no problem with it. However, the next morning, my flu got worse. It was not only morning sneeze and temporary runny nose. It occurred even for 3-4 hours. Well, I eventually bought vitamin C to help my body immune system.

Saturday night? I planned to leave at 9 pm from SMUKie Dinner at East Coast. Then, I could reach NTU around 10 pm and sleep at 11 pm. However, I was tempted to go out with my friends for supper at Bukit Timah. In the end, I reached NTU around 2.30 am. Hehehe…

Then, previously I had promised my roommate to wake up at 7 am on Sunday morning to clean up our room together. When I woke up at 7 am, I was barely able to wake up. I felt very dizzy and my head was very heavy. I told my roommate to wake me up when she was ready to clean up everything. Thanks to my roommate as she told me to sleep again until I felt better. I eventually woke up at 9 am. My condition was worse than yesterday. I had runny nose, headache, and a bit fever.

With that weak body, I didn’t have any intention to have rest after I mopped the floor! I prepared myself to go out with my friends for Singapore Flyer. I planned to return back to NTU at 5 pm then I thought it would be okay if I slept at 7 pm till morning. Again, I didn’t do things like that. On my way back to NTU, I got an SMS from a friend asking if I could have dinner together with some NTU-graduated friends together. Oh well, this was rare. So, I decided to go out for the dinner.

By the time I reached NTU around 10 pm, I didn’t immediately sleep. I forgot what I did that night. The only things that I remembered, I slept around 1 am with super tired body.

I woke up at 930 am in the Monday morning. I rushed for meeting to make the notice board for SCBE club. It took my whole day to do it. As I woke up slightly later than usual, I thought I should have enough rest compare to the previous days. My flu was slightly better. My headache was not as hurting as the previous day.

Monday night? I also slept super late as I visited my friend’s room at Hall 7 for her birthday. I reached back my room around 1.30 am.

Tuesday morning? Nah! I didn’t wake up so early. I thought my body was trying to recover myself by making me wake up later and later. I woke up at 11 am, I woke up with super refreshed feeling. I felt my flu had gone. So, I decided to go for another whole day to Eunos and Bugis. XD

These past few days were fun for me who almost became a forest girl inside NTU the Yunnan Jungle Campus. I believed if my body as well as the vitamin C that I took could talk, they would have scolded me. They must have been working super hard to recover me. Anyway, It should be okay! My body could recover me in the end. Hehe…

"I know u can multitask" This text appeared on one of my MSN screen.

Is it true? I often chat, watch youtube, reply email/wall/comment, or do any other things in the same time. Those are simple things that I do everyday. I believe it’s common for some people. In fact, some of them can do more.

What am i trying to say now? I felt very tired to talk these past few days. Some of my friends said I looked dull, stressed out, sad, "shack". What did I do these days?

It started from the time when I got the email which told me about the unsuccessful hall application. I knew I needed to move my stuffs to my friends’ room. I started to plan everything accordingly. I tried to spread my things here and there since most of my friends said that their rooms could not occupied to many boxes. I did plan to bring back some luggage to Indonesia since my Mom said she wanted to visit me with my Grandma.

Besides that, I was doing my internship at IBN. That email was sent when I had done my main project. After I did my main project during my internship, my mentor added
additional project for me to do. It was a very slacking project in the
beginning. I only needed 3 to 4 hours on one day and slacked for 2 to 3
days. This means I had a lot of free time to relax. I thought that by the end of my attachment, I would be able to shift my stuffs as well as exit my internship happily.

However, those sweet plans did not really work as what I expected.

First, my mom cancelled her visitation. Well, this eventually made me need to think where I should put my remaining stuffs. I had a lot of things! On Wednesday and Thursday this week, I started to pack my things into boxes after work non-stop until 1 am. I only slept for 5 hours those days.

Secondly, the result of the additional project did not come out with a nice one. Most of the time, the machine could not detect my samples. I redid the last experiment over and over again to get the result. And then another machine that I needed was broken down and the staffs just started to repair the machine on my last day!

Besides that, I was between happy and sad to end my attachment. The happy part was holiday for me. How about the sad part? Although I know that my english skill was not good enough compare to my friends, although some of them might tease my communication skill, although some of the lab officers never replied my smile, I found that I like to talk with people in my company especially the intern students in level 9 (and newbie of level 4 ^^). They had different experiences to share with me. All those things were considered "new" for me. I realized that I was too close to my Indonesian friends that I did not know a lot about cultural differences, about this country, about world traveling, about being grew up in other country such as Japan, about foods, about crap conversation, etc. I felt like I would miss all the fun I had in IBN.

Furthermore, I need to prepare my presentation on July 25th later. With the "no result" experiment to present, I worried that I would not be able to present well.

By combining the stressfulness of my experiment result, sadness to leave my fun society in IBN, and the tiredness to move my belongings more than one time, I found that I could not do such multitasking. The unhappiness to leave and the pressurized feeling to get experiment result did not consume my energy much, but I still felt very tired. I did not have the mood to talk (except by MSN) for 1 week. Then, the 3-day almost full day working in lab and NTU caused my body unable to rest well.

I might think too much about what was happening with me these days. I might exaggerate the effect on me. I felt it’s tiring and not fun at all.

It has been a few days for me to bring my laptop to my work whenever I know that I won’t work for the whole day or I will have a plenty of waiting time. During lunch time, I will just leave my laptop in my office as I think people who can enter my lab need a card. I usually just flip my laptop and let it standby when I am having my lunch.

I remember that these 2 days my laptop was still in good condition, no distinct scratch at all. I did wipe my laptop 2 days ago to make sure that it was still in the good shape an shiny. However, this evening I found out the heartbreaking reality. SOMEONE DID SOMETHING TO MY LAPTOP! I feel sooooo sad!! I just found out that
my laptop got a very horrible scratch.

I remembered that I never
dropped or did anything that can caused any scratch to my laptop. Then
why my laptop became like this? This is cruel!

Currently, I’m doing my internship during holiday. It is a research attachment opened for students including secondary, JCs, polytechnic, and university. However, until now, I only manage to know JC, poly, and uni students in my company. I thought I found some secondary students when I had my first interview. Where are they?

Anyway… after my work, I usually just stay in my room, sit in front of my computer, and play game+chat with my friends through MSN. Until today, I am only able to finish two very old RPG game which I partially played 8-10 years ago, i.e. Legend of Legaia and Final Fantasy VIII. I just finished the latter tonight. So?

Well, I’m thinking whether I must continue to find another PSX game or just watch all the movies "deposited" in my laptop.

I like RPG games very much. But, I don’t know what game should I play next. I’m currently considering some games that I had in my Indonesia’s home but I never played that before.  However, I only have PSX emulator in my laptop so the animation quality is not so good.

The other choice is watch the remaining 7 GB movies stored in my computer since December 2007 hehehe… After watch the movies, I can delete all of them and let my computer work faster when I defragment it. Unfortunately, I don’t always enjoy watching movie as I may fall asleep in the middle if it gets into somewhat boring part.

So? I’m still thinking