oloria05
05 November 2008 @ 05:48 pm
They finally did something right.  
Thank FUCK Obama won. About bloody time the Americans woke up and smelled the roses. To bad it had to take a massive war that sucked all their money up and an economy crash for them to sit up and take notice. But like they say, better late than never.
 
 
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oloria05
28 September 2008 @ 10:37 pm
Drawing Post!!!  

Oh. My. God. This drawing has been in the making for almost a year. @_@

Ok, It was mostly because the wings were so hard to do and it kept putting it off and putting it off. I also didn't have enough shades of grey to do the wings properly. But hey, all that matters is that its finished now right?


Hope you guys like it. Constructive criticism is always welcome :3

 
 
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oloria05
06 August 2008 @ 12:52 am
We must be doing something right!  
Came into the lab this morning, to have Helder drag me to the corner and say "Sonia, you gotta look at this!!!"

Turns out, Surgilux, the polymer that I am working on for my Honours thesis, made it to the New Medical Breakthroughs 2008 of the WORLD in Reader's Digest! This is what they said:

Forget stitches, Australian researchers have developed a thin polymer film that can be smoothed like cellophane across a wound. Tests suggest the film, called SurgiLux, will be most useful in brain and nerve surgery, where invasive stitches often result in post-surgery infections and other complications. SurgiLux, derived from crab shells and developed at the University of NSW, is gently heated, allowing it to perfectly seal the wound, avoiding many of the complications that arise from sutures.

MUAHAHAHA!!!

My plan for getting the nobel prize is slowly taking shape...

Also found out that only 4 of the breakthroughs came from Australia and we are one of them. Oh the joy that my baby is being recognised!!
 
 
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oloria05
03 August 2008 @ 06:13 pm
In loving memory of Sarah (1985 - 2008)  
When I first heard the news today, I didn't really know what to think. After secondary school, we never really kept in touch. Yes, I did visit you a few times in hospital during your chemo sessions when I went back in Singapore for visits, but I never really got to know you all over again.

You are one of the genuinely nicest people I know and don't deserve to die (my selfishness speaks). Remember the times when we had to go to TKGS for MEP classes. They were horrible but we had to do it. I don't know if you remember, but we had this conversation about how its always the nice people that get taken away first and we were discussing how we would live till a hundred... LOL. Well guess what? You became one of the nice people that got taken way before your time.

I guess what I feel is the most unfair about you going is that I never really got to say good bye, or that I was grateful that you were my friend, or that I wish that I has made more of an effort visiting you at your place since we lived like a 2 min walk from each other. But then again, it is my selfishness that speaks yet again.

So, I have decided that I should celebrate you life. You brought so much joy to everyone around you and even when you were undergoing chemo you were always bubbly and cheerful and so so strong. I admire you strength and courage so much. Not once did you complain or say "why me". You just accepted it and took everything in stride. For that I applaud you and am grateful to you for opening my eyes to the things I have around me.


Thank you Sarah.
 
 
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oloria05
21 July 2008 @ 04:59 pm
Rejoice!! Another jewelry post!!  
Yes you saw right, yet another jewelry post. The result of 7 boring days at my aunt's and grandma's place. Stay tuned for a post on their swanky new house.

This little beauty matches the hair pin in the previous jewelry post




 
 
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oloria05
15 July 2008 @ 05:41 pm
Very belated jewelry post  
I think this post means the most to Lali. The poor girl had to deal with me putting it off and putting it off that I think she is a step away from flying back to Australia to spank me into action ^^;;

So here is the long awaited jewelry that I have made but not bothered to take pictures of. I've started experimenting with a totally different style. I hope you guys like it!!

I apologise in advance for the shitty background. I'm at my grandma's and the couch was the only thing in her house that is not shiny or a million different colours.


This piece I want to call Ice Queen. It look me so long and so much effort to make that I only made one side. Don't really remember what materials I used, but there are pearls, swarovski crystals and some glass ones too I think, and of course charms.




 
 
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oloria05
08 July 2008 @ 10:15 pm
What was I up to during the exams?...  
......I was Procrastinating with a capital P.

And to up the anti, I took procrastinated while procrastinating by taking pictures of us procrastinating XDD



And thats it folks of round one of the posting extravaganza. Stay tuned for more. If you are lucky, you might even see a dead animal or two
 
 
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oloria05
02 July 2008 @ 09:05 pm
It seems I am well read.  
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you really love (and strikethrough the ones you hate!).
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare I’ve read most of them
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini.
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden.
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley .
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding.
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie Amazingly good coming from Rushdie. I’m still trying to finish satanic verses though.
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson He is a genius writer
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker.
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom Do you really need a book to tell you things you should know already?
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

 
 
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oloria05
05 June 2008 @ 11:48 am
Random story of funny  
It feels weird writing this on LJ since I havn't written anything since the start of uni. Well I have been really busy and I am trying to finish my degree so I can graduate. I am only 3 subjects away from being done and starting on my honours :D

So on to the story. Yesterday, I had a test. The thing is, I spent the whole day studying for it and since I was up really early studying for it, I got tired at around 4ish. So I thought to myself, I'll just rest my eyes. Thank god I told tits to give me a lift to uni at 5 cause she came into my room at 5 to 5 and said don't you need to go to uni??

Boy did that wake me up. So I grabbed my stuff, hopped onto the back of the bike n the rain. In my daze I didn't bring a warm jacket for the bike so I was soaked and freezing. Thank god tits lent me her jacket for the exam. I stepped into the room just as they were starting. So I took my paper, sat down and spent 5 min trying to warm my hands enough so I could move them and unfuddle my head.

This is when my phone rang. Now my ring tone is I.V. by X japan. Those of you who know the song will know how LOUD the song is. Its pretty much heavy metal. So the damn thing rings and I can't find my friggin phone in my bag. But it stops ringing and I thought to myself the dumbarse that rang will get the hint and try later. And then it rings AGAIN!!!! Talk about major embarrasment. I finally found my phone and switched it off.

Thank god the test was ok. That made the day  little better.

Thats my funny story for the day. To the people who havn't heard I.V. or don't even know about the song, I suggest you go look it up and have a listen cause its the best song ever. :D
 
 
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oloria05
09 April 2008 @ 10:20 pm
Sometimes I wonder if anyone else thinks like me...  
I was told to post this up because its is amusing and stuff. I personally think its normal. But then again, I'm not exactly the most normal person around...

It is a conversation I had with Lali on msn about spazzing and drooling at pictures of Aoi-shi. Oloria is obviously me.

Oloria~ says:
can I just spazz about aoi a little first?

Oloria~ says:
I officially freak everyone out when I look at pictures of aoi dear

Oloria~  says:
I supposedly make disturbing noises while viewing pictures of him

Oloria~ says:
which I don't think is weird

Oloria~ says:
but obviously it is

Oloria~ says:
I have also heard comments that I do the homer laugh when I look at the pictures

Oloria~ says:
which I find amusing

Now, of the above mentioned actions that I do while viewing pictures of aoi and other awesomely gorgeous J rock guys, I find none of them disturbing or weird. Totally normal in my opinion.
 
 
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