Been busy doing interviews lately, and trouble getting my hands on internet...
Skype's the best. It does video between macs and pcs, and you can set it to automatically receive video calls...
love watching the loris in peaceful slumber...

been quite a stressful and tiring time. Upenn-->Emory-->Stanford where I am at now, and finally --> UCSF. I really can't wait to be done and head home. Meeting up with wenho was fun though...and the people at Stanford are a really nice and fun-loving bunch. Yeah, I think it'd be nice to do my PhD here. Astar's infiltrating all the top US universities! Just in the immuno dept alone (which I am interviewing with), 6 out of the 18 people offered an interview are from Astar/Singapore... Isn't that crazy??? seriously. there are too many of us.

it was nice visiting my aunt too. Baked a blueberry pie with my 14 yr old cousin who's the sweetest 14-yr old i've ever met. really. her brother's a terror though. Well at least according to my aunt...hah. But in a lot of ways he resembles me when I was younger... so I think he'll turn out fine in the end. We went to trader joe's where I bought lots of stuff to bring home. I really love trader joe's. I got macadamia nuts and organic cereal for my mum and dark chocolate for mr loris. Oh, a Singaporean recently set up Kopitiam near SF! With REAL CHICKEN RICE!!! can't tell you how big a draw that is to me...after a few months away from home, I start to crave for chicken rice. Good authentic chicken rice. So now I really like Stanford. There's chicken rice nearby. hahahaha. but the Kopitiam's not really the chain from sg la. It's just a small little eatery that serves real singaporean fare. you gotta tell them you're singaporean and they'll whip up the real thing, not the yucky american version. One of the bosses from boon tong kee came over to be their chef. how cool is that!

k lar...nuff of sg food...

i'm having lunch w one of the PIs soon...they say she's really nice. but i wish that they wouldn't do interviews over meals. Meals are sacred. I like my meal times quiet and relaxing. Either that or free and boisterous. And i can't have either while I'm an applicant for a school i like.

but yay, i'm really happy that the other astar people are coming over to SF soon. I'm staying with melissa at the hotel again haha...we stayed together in sweden too. coincidence...

Happy! =)))