Feeling so blessed with the friends He has given me as companions in my life, whom I regard my close brothers and sisters whereby the only tie between us is the ties of a wonderful religion. Praise be to Allah :)

At the same time, looking back over the past few weeks, berlambak nye raya activities aku! Mwahaha.

Short, sweet and simple. Till the next blog post, if have, insyaAllah...

Hullo hullo! Finally I get to blog. Actually I'd been blogging in my head all week practically everyday, in my head. There's always something interesting, exciting, funny, hysterical, gloomy, scary moments to share. But unfortunately, either I can't access my internet or I'm too tired with work.

Speaking of work...

Hmm... I had three weeks without my mentor around (she went for honeymoon), whereby I had to learn to be independent. On the last week she wasn't around, my supervisor also went on-leave, leaving me completely independent. Cept, what I refer to as independent is the duration I take of doing things and however I wish to plan my time to maximise whatever time I have. Independent doesn't mean not talking to or getting help from the others in the lab. I still go to Hui Yi's mentor or my other colleagues to ask where can I find certain reagents or how should I go on with a certain experiment. Hey, it's better to ASK ok... At least that's what my mentor thinks.

My mentor

No, I'm not gonna bitch about her, I'll just be erm... talking behind her back? No larh, it's the truth... She is not much taller than me, I'm quite glad. But she's so intimidating, I tell you I am super glad she's not any taller, else I'd go and run and hide everytime I see her. At any rate, that's more or less what I'm doing. Anytime she's in the office, I'd avoid passing through there at all. I'd exit through the lab door which is longer. Oh she's not OLD or FAT and all. She's young and pretty and petite. But I dunno, the aura that she sends me like makes me suddenly timid. Sometimes my voice can't even get out of my thraot when I'm speaking to her that I can't even believe it myself the first time it happened. Oh well.

My project

My project's going fine. 50% success rate, whee~ At other times, I would be disappointed. I am too actually. But come on... I really can't turn back time, so let's just look forward okeh. I'll be doing Co-IP for the next two more weeks. OH! My supervisor actually praised me! I was surprised! Haha, but not SO surprised la. IF my mentor praise me, then I'd be SUPER DUPER surprised. I always feel so stupid around her. But I just put a thick face and ask her whatever I don't know anyway. Oh, and... I just found out last Friday, the day my mentor returned (which Alfred named 'Episode one with the mentor'... I would name it 'Episode 1: Return of the mentor') that my Co-IP is just HALF of my project. And the other half is actually a protocol she had just come up with and so it will have to be optimised first etc etc. And so, I'm very worried. What IF it doesn't get optimised in time? Gosh. No.

Episode 1: Return of the Mentor

It was quite uneventful actually, cos as usual I sound so stupid when I talk to her. Other than that, she almost made me do OT. At 4.30pm, I tell you I was rushing out everything - transformation, innoculation and pcr. Phew, I made it. With an appreciation to Hui Yi who helped me bring down the temperature of the water bath quickly and for the protocols she provided. And I guess I owe an apology to Jun Jie for chasing him away. I really needed the fullest concentration. Sorry man, you'd been a great friend actually.

Friends of TLL

Waaaaah! All that I'd typed long long all disappear!! Wekk...

Boo! Got to blog again! Haha, so slack these days... Actually 2 out of 5 days I'll be slack at work larh. 3 days to do MP, the other 2 to do random stuffs. But when my mentor comes back, I won't be able to blog at work anymore la. Won't dare to... Cos she sits right behind me haha. She's coming back on 17th Oct so yeah hehe.

Teringat LOTR. "So what were you doing?" Gollum: "Sneaaaaking"

Miss reading books. So tired with work already. K lah, I've got stuffs to do. A LOT of stuffs to do actually esp. updating my MP workbook haha.

3hrs incubation... Boo hoo... Lucky my supervisor very nice, she will try not to get me to do OT...

Oh oh! I met Siti during lunch just now! So nice to see her again. She hasn't really changed lol. Same old Siti that I knew since Sec 1...

Wonder how much I've changed.

K dah ciaoz.

Korang percaya tak?

Percaya apa?

Marliyana update ahh!

Mesti ah percaya, ni ngah baca pe... -_-

K dah, berbual sendiri pulak minah ni. Haha.

Well, I'm actually at work. SIP la beb.This explains my MIA-ness for the past month. Not only SIP, but Ramadhan activities took up alot of my time as well...

Fu yooh, my Ramadhan alhamdulillah was filled with fruitful activities. Despite the busy SIP schedule (ahem, pernah sekali tu balik kul 10.30pm okeh), alhamdulillah diberi kesempatan solat terawih beberapa kali. Tak full uh, memang mencabar nak push self to the limits to go everyday. So kadang-kadang kita menang, dapat paksa badan yang dah lemah longlai lepas kerja, tapi kadang-kadang kita kalah. But yang best tu is not only the part dapat solat terawih but also the tempat I get to solat terawih. Memandangkan I'm working at Temasek Lifesciences Lab (TLL) near NUS (fyi, NUS is at buona vista) and my working hours are 8.30-6.00 AT LEAST, terpaksalah terawih in the west area. Alhamdulillah dapat join terawih pat Masjid Tentera, Masjid Darussalam and Masjid Hussain Sulaiman. Dapat jugak sekali qiyam pat Masjid Assyakirin. Woo hoo! Part adventure2 gini, Marliyana sukerr jer!

So anyway, Ramadhan pon dah lepas... Filled with RYC camp (Fityan), Family-in-charge (Ghufran), CPR + Qiyam at Masjid Sultan (Fityan + 15 other mosques) and Projek Jom Ittihad (NI/SP). Those were the major events uh. Yang minor minor cam agih bubur, tadarrus ngan ustazah, qiyam with friends, meetings, post mortem, outings etc added the extra flavour. Gerek ah Ramadhan ni.

Eventhough Ramadhan ni mungkin tak as committed as tahun2 lepas, I'm positive this year's Ramadhan meant more to me and in some ways, it was better than last year.Perception changed. Faith insyaAllah level UP sikit.Alhamdulillah... Memang segala puji bagi Allah yang telah memberi kesempatan seperti ini.

Oh, and tak selalu eh buka ngan air water cooler je and makan only time sahur the next morning. Sebab banyak sangat kerja pat TLL, balik lambat, nampak katil terus zoink.

So ya, as I mentioned earlier, Ramadhan pon dah lepas and now is... apa dia adik2? Tak dengar la, jawab kuat sikit... Apa dia? Syawal? Betul tuh!! K merepek. Jangkit Mus ah, confirm. Lol.

So hari baik bulan baik, walaupun dah terlepas hari pertama, saya Marliyana Binte Mohamad Noor ingin mengucapkan Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri (btw minal aidil wal fa izin makna apa eh?) dan memohon maaf kepada semua atas segala salah silap yang pernah saya lakukan baik dengan sengaja atau tidak, secara terang-terangan atau tidak etc etc... Sry memandangkan Marliyana sekarang kena bayar bill hp sendiri, dia dah belajar jimat sikit so tak main sms2 banyak2. Pakai blog eh hehe.

K tu dah lepas. Penting tuh...

Anyway, amacam Raya semua?? Gerek? Best? Berbaloi?

Mine wasn't so great.Terasa sedih sikit lah... Atas sebab2 tertentu. Tapi depan orang terpaksalah senyum kan. Start acting la sikit kan. Act to the social norms. Behave ow people expect you to behave...

Oh, korang pon cam aku tak? Kena ask the same old questions/advices that you get every single year? Macam TYS sehh... According to Ad, mungkin CYS - Century Year-old Series!!

"Ni yang kecik ni namanya siapa?"
"Dah habis belajar?"
"Belajar rajin-rajin, selagi boleh belajar belajar. Kat Singapore takde paper tak boleh jadi apa-apa."
"Results boleh masuk uni tak?"

Oh, if you guys are wondering, no, I don't get the "Bile nak kahwin" question haha. Firstly cos on first day my family visit those yang prioritise studies over anything else. Secondly because I've got two older brothers who already gets the question. Thirdly because I look too young. LOL.My granduncle thought I am 16!! Kembang la seyh! Dapat discount 3 tahun!! Haha. Eh penting tau. If people think you're as young as 16, you'd probably get duit raya =D Hehe just kidding lahh...

K dah dekat 1hr I take a break nih. Better get back to work. I've got PCR to run, and an MP synopsis to write. Not to mention my SIP logbook and MP workbook to fill in!!! Wonder what should I eat... Hehehe.

Oh I killed 32 flies just now by squashing them, urgh!

So, anyway, jangan lupa puasa 6 dalam bulan Syawal!! Once again, Selamat Hari Raya maaf zahir dan batin. TTFN, tata for now!