Friday, August 28, 2009

What inspired you today?

Since it's been a while since I last updated, I thought I'd take a moment's break from script-writing (editing?) and jot something down here.

Hey there y'all. What inspired you today? The sun, maybe? Or the storm?

I heard a very intriguing cacophony this morning. I'm guessing it's a frog sub-species' mating call. Sounded like a cross between a hyena and one of those wooden-frog-toys. I love those carved frogs.


Most of the time I do things for a better reason than just self-gain, but I have to admit, reminding myself that it is all for Berlin helps tremendously to push me to do stuff. It's a sorry excuse, but being sick really knocks one out of the cycle of things. All I wanted to do was sleep.

It's hard work getting there, and most probably I can't excuse myself to go back home end of this year (not with me leaving campus so many times already this year -- not for research), but I'm actually going to EUROPE!


I've also moved to a new place. Will put up pics of my new room if I'm ever in a narcissistic mood. If never, then let it just be said here that there's a tree outside my window. I really like that :)

Happy Merdeka Weekend,
Li Ying

Friday, August 14, 2009

the mouse that got away...

...but got caught in the end.

Or maybe it's a rat. But it's kinda cute.


Friday again, which means it's the technical end of the week, which means deadlines are getting closer, which means I'm dead. Today has been rather idiotically hilarious being that I got reprimanded for things that have absolutely nothing to do with me. Not only that, I didn't even understand what she was lecturing about apart from "not putting samples in our postgrad office" and "safety, ethics, first" (eh?)
Thing is, I just got back on Monday, and my research doesn't deal with samples, so I have absolutely no idea what's going on. Just the bad luck of being at the right place at the wrong time. No one else was around. Damn.
Owh well, it was rather funny though.
Blessed weekend y'all.
Li Ying

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

female warrior

Just out of randomness (and hoping my laptop doesn't crash with me running MapInfo and ArcGIS simultaneously), someone told me the other day that I look like Mulan.

You know, that Disney production one...most prolly 'cos I always have this look on my face:
it's called 'strangling the dragon'

LOL. I don't know. But I don't mind that comment at all. Firstly, the fact that they chose a character of Chinese heritage is already a huge bonus. That aside, I would say that this historical figure encompasses a lot of personal traits that I admire too.

So now I just have to find my Capt. Li Shang :)


And how come no one says I look like Pocahontas?

Back to work,
Li Ying

Sunday, August 9, 2009

post LEA Workshop

It's been a long time since I last had to spend hours in the airport and since the line in the airport is being quite sucky, uploading pics is currently quite a chore. Gah. 3 weeks back with only 10 days spent being really at home ~ this 'holiday' turned out to be way packed than I've expected.

So. Yours truly was in Bukit Hantu for the past 5 days having a whole load of fun with a bunch of really awesome people. Leaderonomics Entrepreneur Academy (LEA) Workshop, held in El Sanctuary, Malacca was a wonderful experience, all in all.

They made us think, they made us boil brain juice. They made us run uphill and downhill and uphill again. They made us do monkey dances and charades. We got chased by dogs and attacked by mozzies.
We washed cars,
they fed us really good food.
They brought in really prominent people to speak.
And it was great to meet new people and see the old ones again.

Aidan was 'affectionately greeted' by the dogs

Although I'm quite beat as I've been running low on sleep for the past whole week, it was still an experience to remember. Coming up with an idea, converting it into reality, creating a business plan for it, and pitching it to true blue investors.

Team InnoTitans were the winners!

Back to Sabah, and back to work. Progress report due, more training to do. So much to do, so much to look forward to too!

Loving it all,
Li Ying