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November 12, 2005
Fountain of Youth
I felt extraordinarily youthful today. Waking up at 7am, I skimpily dressed and biked to campus. The weather was more frigid than ever: I had 4 layers on but the wind stung and pricked incessantly. Nevertheless, i biked on. The thought of Robin, my chemistry TA, glaring down at me screaming "LATE again!!" was unbearable. Surprisingly, I was early by 5 minutes today. And Robin was late. Transportation problem. Hah, look who's talking :P
Feeling extremely biosterous, I took charge of the experiment "visible spectroscopy". Yeah. We're separated into groups of 4, so David, Michelle (both Koreans), Madhu (a blurry guy from India) and I were in one team. They all had no idea what we're supposed to do. As I just did the same experiment yesterday for Biol 139, I had no problem recalling what to do. Spectrophotometer plugged to computer, warming up, put in cuvet with the solution and presto! the machine did all the work haha.. then it's just plotting graphs and writing lab reports. After that, I helped David with his chemistry homework in the Life Sciences Library (it has become a routine) and that's when I invited him to create a facebook account.
Seriously, a lot of Asians here have no idea what facebook is, and some just don't care. Well, I think that although it doesn't really matter if you are in facebook or not, but at least they should widen their social circle, and facebook is the trend, the place to start socializing (especially for shy people who doesn't like to initiate conversation like me).
So, I can just imagine my templates for 'conversation initiator' have just received another valuable member.
Me: hey, I'm pei xin, or you can call me Vegas. It's easier to remember.
so-and-so: hey, I'm so-and-so. Nice to meet you. Are you in the biol xxx class too?
Me: yeah! you can see my name under the course title in facebook. are you into facebook?
so-and-so: yeah(duh!)! I can add you to my contact!
anyway, i hope that my circle is widening soon. and thanks for everyone who's been there for me when i'm down. You are the truest friend of all, even if you are not in facebook!
Posted by peixin at November 12, 2005 12:23 PM
Comments
Haha, darn it PX! You have a PC to use with the spectrophotometer?!?!?! Heh, I remember having to squint at a tiny LCD screen to have a look at the readouts! Lucky you. =)
Posted by: Huei Ming Tan at November 12, 2005 07:56 PM