Archive for the ‘Reads’ Category
El Bulli Book
Posted in Cooking, Food, Happy Moments, Reads, Visual on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
NUROP, Whitebait & Kale, Wines, Books.
Posted in Alcohol & Caffeine, Celebrate, Food, Pharm, Reads on January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A super delayed post. It’s quite impossible to upload and crop photos for blogging on weekdays simply because I am usually too exhausted to do so, if not thanks to long hours in school, then probably the sickening S.L.O.W. trip home at rush hour. NUROP Congress If anyone catches me in lecture next Friday, please [...]
Quoting Pisano…
Posted in Reads on October 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I know drug R&D has always been rather bleak but I never quite thought of it this way… “…when pharmaceutical scientists begin working on a project, they can, in fact, safely assume that after years of effort, they will most likely not see their labor bear fruits as a commercially approved drug…” Just an interesting [...]
Things I’ve learnt…
Posted in Reads on May 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I think I learn better out of the prescribed curriculum. I think this spells a m-a-v-e-r-i-c-k in me. Mountain climbing has evolved as a leisure sport, and this is the consequence of urbanization. In the urban setting, people do not face risks and dangers in their daily lives and thus have to seek adventure…this they [...]
Random.
Posted in Reads on May 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From hk’s blog… biology is full of misnomers. interleukins (whose job goes beyond “between white blood cells”), prostaglandins (which are produced everywhere not just in the prostate gland), tumour necrosis factor (which might cause some tumours to proliferate), etc etc. Haha. And gosh, I realised I’ve developed the sociology paper syndrome…habitually enclosing terms in quotation [...]
Pablo Neruda. (it’s the sweetest thing…)
Posted in Reads on April 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light [...]
Singapore: The Encyclopedia
Posted in Reads on November 11, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I’m now the proud (new) owner of this delicious book. Some silly rich guy decided he didn’t want to lug it all the way to the middle east. His loss. (:
Bad service.
Posted in Reads on November 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I quote this from a response in STOMP forum: Bad service is like a communicable disease. If you stay here long enough, you will eventually get it.
