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Moments...: September 2007
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Thursday, September 27, 2007. Wet, Wet, WET! It's my 4th attempt biking to work, 1st using a road bike. the previous attempts were on my good old trusted KHS. Distance: 28.15 km. Max speed: 36.5 km/h. Average speed: 25.8 km/h. Time taken: 1.05.20 hrs. WET, WET, WET. This is probably the heaviest rain i've cycle in after osim.many people were concerned. "were you caught in the rain? What did you do when it rained? You've got a raincoat? My reply seemed to surprise them. "just continue to cycle" i said.
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Moments...: November 2008
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Sunday, November 9, 2008. A leisurely walk on a Sunday afternoon through Matikere painted yet another shade of this vibrant city. Families, some as big as 7, lived behind those wooden doors. In their little enclosure, a tiny 4-walled space no bigger than the bathrooms belonging to some of the houses in the neighbouring estate, they carry out their daily activities. Distinct is the disparity between the rich and poor. Saturday, November 8, 2008. It has been a lousy week. Failed experiments. NMR showed...
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Moments...: April 2008
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Sunday, April 6, 2008. 4 hours apart, 2 first aid cases, 1 first aider. It was a friday evening and it was to be an eventful one. there was my company's first ice skating event earlier in the evening, and there was the 55km overnight training later in the night. in both events, i had the opportunity to apply my first aid knowledge. Colleagues brought him jackets to place under his leg for insulation from the ice and he took it off. "that won't work", he said. a few others got some plastic sheets ...SM di...
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Moments...: December 2008
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Sunday, December 28, 2008. The last two months zoomed by, fast and furious, as I shuffled between OC and MBU, carrying out experiments from milligrams in one lab to micrograms scale in the other. Experiments after experiments, workups after workups, columns after columns. The cycle gets repeated every other day in OC: set up new experiment, quench and workup, purification, isolation and characterization of product. Once again, I had to start from ground zero in MBU. Instead of round bottomed flasks, ...
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Moments...: August 2007
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Sunday, August 26, 2007. Event: singapore bay run (ahm). Time: 1 hr 47 min. Route: esplanade bridge - cross street - south bridge road - maxwell road - east coast parkway -fort road - east coast park (u-turn) - fort road - mountbatten road - nicoll highway - republic avenue - ndp floating platform. I clocked my personal best timing for half marathon in this run. adding to the sweetness of the achievement, i came in 10th position in the women's open category! The u-turn point is at east coast park again&#...
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Moments...: September 2008
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Sunday, September 28, 2008. Start new experiment, monitor reaction progress, work up, isolation and purification, send for analysis and confirm results. That’s the routine at work. Depending on the type of reaction and purification process, each routine can take from three to five days. Then the cycle repeat itself. Sometimes they overlap, sometimes they lapse, it all depends on the outcome of the experiments. I hope he did not treat me as one of his students! Once, I tried to bring three of my chemistry...
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Moments...: October 2008
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Friday, October 31, 2008. There was a warning in bold on the packaging that says, "High frequency siren may cause ear damage at close proximity". The device looked very simple, there was no on/off switch or buttons that I need to press, only an activation pin with an attached chord. Putting the device as far away as my arms can extend, I braced myself for a loud and sharp sound, and pulled the attached chord. Thursday, October 30, 2008. Options for breakfast were dosa and bread toast. After a week of...
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Moments...: December 2009
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Thursday, December 31, 2009. Remembered when I was still in school, it used to feel like a lifetime for Grandma to tear off all the pages on the calendar. Now that she is no longer with us, the new year comes knocking even before I know it. Someone once told me, when you are 6 years old, 1 year is equivalent to 1/6 of your lifetime, and that’s a whole lot of things to experience, thus it feels so long for a year to pass. However, for someone at 60, a year will just be another year…. BIGMAC from MBU, IISc.
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Moments...: Blessings 2009
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Thursday, December 31, 2009. Remembered when I was still in school, it used to feel like a lifetime for Grandma to tear off all the pages on the calendar. Now that she is no longer with us, the new year comes knocking even before I know it. Someone once told me, when you are 6 years old, 1 year is equivalent to 1/6 of your lifetime, and that’s a whole lot of things to experience, thus it feels so long for a year to pass. However, for someone at 60, a year will just be another year…. BIGMAC from MBU, IISc.
