It’s summer…

My blog is dead… Wow. Almost 6 weeks without a single post, I’d be surprised if anybody still bothers checking for updates.

Well, summer happened, it’s still happening, and there’s about 3 weeks left of it before uni starts. By which time, I’ll hopefully be in Nottingham safe and sound.

Half of summer was spent at uni at Selangor where I spent two or three days a week at lab, some sort of placement. The remaining time of which was spent procrastinating doing lab reports, streaming tv series, hanging out with friends and the occasional trip to KL. Lab was pretty cool in some ways that we got to do stuff we didn’t get to do in class, like use the HPLC machines with minimal supervision and formulate nanoparticles (which really isn’t as fancy as it sounds). But HPLC, darn you time-sucking machine which takes up whole days of labs. The last few sessions of lab which required doing HPLC for like 8 hours a day, minesweeper was my salvation in between waiting for results. As was the occasional logging onto Facebook.

Then the other half of summer is now being spent in Kuching. Where days just disappear without you realising it. And really I’ve just been doing a lot of…

1. Facebooking, more out of habit than anything else
2. Twittering, I’ve finally succumbed to getting a Twitter account. It’s more active than this blog, honest.
3. Youtube-ing. Internet connection at home really does not allow me to stream on the sites I normally frequent and downloading is so slow. Youtube is just about the most bearable loading speed among all the options. I’ve since discovered the joys of the Natalie Tran vblogs, 10 Things I Hate About You (the tv series), HD movie trailers online, and the occasional random comedy video.
4. Did I mention 10 Things I Hate About You? It’s the thing I look forward to every Wednesday now. Started watching when they were airing episode 3, it’s been 5 weeks since. The storyline isn’t much to wow about, it’s the execution and the witty, amusing banter between characters that keeps things fresh. This shall do nicely for summer, before autumn comes and mmm.
5. Piano playing, almost everyday. But I don’t feel I’m getting any much better than it. Can only just about play simple renditions of songs by ear. Attempted a Sonatina the other day, my fingers stiffened in protest. Kinda do miss playing the guitar, even though I’m not any good at it, but strings would make a nice change.
6. Shopping in small doses, my mum actually “drags” me to shop. 3 out of 5 trips to Spring have resulted in me stealthily accumulating two jumpers, three shirts and two pairs of socks. How practical =_=. I still have yet to get jeans though…
7. Searching for the most random things about UK. Like how much grocery items would cost, hair care, toiletries, bedding. Google-mapping supermarkets, how to get to uni from my house (the pedestrian view function is awesome).
8. Eating! Enough said… I’m surprised I’m not a blob yet, what with my non-existent exercise regime.

Okay, end of post, who knows when the next would be. So much stuff left to do before I leave Malaysia.. Argh.