Help! I seem to have lost a year!

Tomorrow is the last day of 2005.Where did all that time go? It's not under the carpet, not in my closet and definitely not under the bed.I've lost it.Completely lost it. Man...

Plans now stand as such:
Tomorrow-Finish literature review for thesis,go for watchnight service in church, and TSF countdown.
New Year's Day- sleep late,Type Lit. review,Print Lit review.
2nd January- To church again to paint props for Tsf water carnival(called H20).Happening on the 8th at Bukit Jalil Family Park( all invited).

No fun.Boring,boring,boring.(Except maybe the TSF countdown)*sigh*
My fault anyway.The lit review thingee was actually due last semester.But nevermind, 85% of my other coursemates also haven't passed up their's.Haha.
Oh, I have another assignment as well.:Constructing an icosahedral model of a T4 bacteriophage virus for virology class(taught by everyone's favourite Prof.- Dr. Khaty).I'll do that later.Dunno when-lah.Just later.
Semester started last Tuesday, after christmas.Took me THREE AND A HALF hours to drive back to Serdang from Melaka.Most of the time I was stuck behind this ugly brown truck.Almost fell asleep.
Christmas was nice, but quiet.On the eve of Christmas eve Mum, Sam and me went to the graveyard and repainted Joshua's headstone where all the golden engravings were washed away with age,as well as cleaning up Dad's and Gong gong's graves.On Christmas eve, My bro and me went to Portuguese settlement(10m from home) to look at the lights and stuff.We bought sparklers, which the both of us haven't touched since we were kids.Mum ordered Portuguese Chicken Pie, and that was super good.
On Christmas day,there was Curry Devil, Roasted chicken and mixed veg. from the same portuguese aunty who made the pies.Food, food, food.

Anyway, This is my LAST SEMESTER.I'm taking Virology,Lipid Metabolism, Korean 1 and French 3.

For now, It's back to my lit review on soy sauce and tempeh.

Tis' Christmas

Time to celebrate the small things.
The faithful friends,the ones you keep and the ones you lose.The ones you learn to love again, and the ones who'll persist in remembering you.
The family within four walls.
The material and the immaterial.
The smooth and rocky path that brought me here.
For when the BIG is taken away,all that's left to do is celebrate the small.
And when I do,I find, the small things matter most.

I celebrate my insecurities, for it makes me dependent on You , O Lord.
I celebrate Love in difficult times.
But most of all,I celebrate You.

When it Rains

Many times has it been quoted, that when misfortune comes, it comes in torrents.Like waters.Help me.

Mum and Sam came down last Wednesday,and stayed til Friday.I bunked in with them at The Summer Inn Hotel in Serdang Perdana, alternating between the lab and the hotel. It was a much needed emotional rest for all of us, after what the family has been through these past months.Went shopping in South City Plaza, but other than that not much.We stayed a lot in the hotel room and talked.
Was so depressed when I had to send them off to PuduRaya to catch a bus back to Melaka.But life goes on, and work helps me keep my mind off missing home.

On Sunday morning, I lost a friend.A sudden death until now not convincingly explained and the details are null.He was still okay when finals started.We can't understand. Why.
The realities of what we have read in our textbooks are now proving real, we begin to feel the pinch of what was only in theory, now affecting us in reality.
A curse on you, Pneumococcus pneumophila
for taking my friend away.

In Memoriam

Chan Wee Lee
(07.07.1983- 04.12.2005)
B.Sc(H)-Biochemistry, 3rd Year
Universiti Putra Malaysia

Was called home to the Lord on Sunday morning, in his hometown of Sibu, Sarawak due to heart failure.

"When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality,then the saying that is written will come true:"Death has been swallowed up in victory."
Where, O death is your victory?
Where, O death is yout sting?"

-1 Corinthians 15:54,55


Loyal friend and ardent student, even to the end.Deeply missed by his friends ,in our labs and our hearts.