Yesterday's practical was quite fun. We used the different emulfiying machines to make emulsions ( hopefully the emulsions will turn out better than the suppositories ). For a moment, i thought that i have stepped into a kitchen. There's the blender, mixer and measuring cup. I also saw this huge measuring cylinder, probably the largest measuring cylinder that i've seen so far in labs. =）

昨天，家里发生了怪事。早上，冲忙之中，我把手机落在家里了。可回到家时，爸跟我说他收到了我发的一个简讯。 我纳闷了。我手机都忘了带，那里发得了简讯?! 我立刻拿手机出来检查一边， 发现在1149时分，我的手机确实发了个“on my way" 的简讯。我问了妈和小妹，可他们俩都没动我的手机。见鬼了！那我的简讯是谁发的?!

昨天和伟律他们庆祝了我的生日。不意外的， 我们又去了kbox。值得一提的是，an ee 的进步好快哦！从以前只能静静的坐在一旁听我们唱，到今天的主动点歌唱歌，而且还唱得有模有样呢！他的秘诀呢？每天看3小时的you tube =）
我收到的礼物挺特别的，是个鸭子的tissue cover。

可爱吧？可惜我桌上已经太乱太乱了，连书本和笔记本电脑都没什么地方放，所以只好收起来了。

后来，我们就到angus的家打麻将。 由于我们都是生手，所以就随便玩玩。 我的运气还不错，赢了几盘...

Selamat Sore!!
I had my first tutorial for Bahasa Indonesia this morning. Found the class quite fun and interesting. But Ibu Luciawati speaks really fast and i had some difficulty catching what she's trying to say. I'm amazed that some of the guys in my class can actually respond to her questions when i'm still busily flipping my buku to look for answers. But tt's like the minority =)
Favorite vocabulary of the day - "O begitu"


Today's dosage form design prac is absolutely horrible. The suppositories that we made last week looked quite nice on the exterior but none of them can pass the tests. Our theobroma oil suppositories simply just refused to disintegrate within 30min. Polyethylene glycol suppositories cracked and gave a wide range when tested for mechanical strength. And the glycerinated gelatin suppositories failed the test for uniformity of weight. Haiz...
conclusion: Me, Siew Han and Janet cannot go into manufacturing...

yep的最后一个meeting。一切已告了一个尾声。
有些些的惆怅和感慨。坦白说，我们的付出对印度的那个小村落并没多大影响。想想看，我们教了一个星期的英文，可这能改变他们的教育制度，真正的提升他们的程度吗？说不定，等我们回新后，一切又会打回原型，所有的努力都是白费。其实，这一点，我早已看透，所以并没抱着多大的希望能改变什么。但，我并不后悔。我很开心我能出一份力，能为他们做些什么...尽管微不足道。这一趟印度之旅，对于自己，收获还蛮大的。我更清楚的看清了我自己，也重新认识了身边的朋友...
倘若还有机会，我想，我一定还会义不容辞的参与的...

中国女团体操夺金了！恭喜恭喜！！
不过，似乎好像有人输不起。

BEIJING – Marta Karolyi kept staring over at these tiny Chinese opponents, their faces caked in makeup, and the disgust would rise within her.

“Little babies,” she kept telling her team in the middle of the Olympic women’s gymnastics team final. “Oh, look at the little babies.”

The Americans would laugh about it, laugh at their coach bashing their opponents.

But for Marta, the U.S. national team coordinator, and her husband Bela, the NBC commentator, this was no joke. The Chinese had figured out how to upset their gymnastics dynasty, churning out these little athletic machines, perhaps so young they couldn’t even sense the pressure of the moment.

The Karolyis couldn’t handle the results on Wednesday, a precise Chinese team, powered by three girls under suspicion for being just 14 years old, blowing out a stumbling crew of Americans. Courtesy of a 188.9-186.525 score, China took gold to the Americans’ silver.

What kills the Karolyis isn’t that the Chinese would risk the health of their children by throwing them out here before their bones and muscles mature. It’s that the Americans won’t allow the Karolyis to do it, too.

This isn’t a morality play here. In truth, no matter Marta and Bela’s bleating, no one knows how old the Chinese girls were. This was a myopic focus of the Karolyis on someone outfoxing them.

Win or lose, they have to be the center of attention – from carrying Kerri Strug around for the cameras in Atlanta, to carrying on and on here in Beijing. It feeds their machine, increases their power in USA Gymnastics and convinces another generation of parents that they alone are best to make their tumbling daughter’s dream come true.

“One little girl has (a) missing tooth,” Marta sniffed with indignation at the Chinese, although she would offer no name and admit she “has no proof” of anything.

Later she’d claim, without any substance and lacking facts, that Olympic judges delayed Alicia Sacramone from starting her beam routine in an effort to shake her concentration.

“There was no reason for it,” she said.

Marta had all sorts of conspiracies going, a bushel of sour grapes.

American media accounts have alleged, citing birthdates on old documents, that China was using gymnasts under the mandated age of 16. The Chinese produced passports that showed the girls were old enough, the International Olympic Committee accepted them and everyone says the issue is closed.

Not with the Karolyis it isn’t. Earlier this week, Bela declared the Chinese were using “half people” and hammered them for cheating and arrogance. During the NBC broadcast of Wednesday’s competition, at least three times he reasserted the charge.

Marta was no less diplomatic. Her team had crumbled under the pressure, made mistake after mistake after mistake and, to their credit, took the result with dignity.

“They had a great meet,” Shawn Johnson said. “They deserve that medal.”

Marta would have none of it. For whatever faint praise she would offer the Chinese, there were wild accusations of delay conspiracies and cheat birthdays to put smaller, more nimble girls in the competition.

For each acknowledgement of her team’s own foibles, she stood in the middle of the media backstage swinging around, tossing out bombs, seeking more questions so she could offer more fuel to the fire.

“So much talk about this,” she said.

Even in the unlikely event everything Marta could dream up was true, even if the Americans had just been on the wrong end of this historic cheating, it was neither the time nor the place for pouting. Not after all the falls and stumbles.

Yet she kept claiming it was “a close fight.” It wasn’t.

This was all a losers’ lament, an embarrassment. The U.S. had no credibility left. The gymnasts understood that. They rightly accepted the blame for only winning silver with a team that is beyond reproach.

The Karolyis couldn’t just lose with dignity. They couldn’t accept their gymnasts’ best. They look across the way and lust over a system that might allow them to trot out a 4-foot-6, 68-pounder who bends and flips with ease. Bela coached Nadia Comaneci to seven perfect 10s in the 1976 Olympics. She was 14.

With glory like that, who would remember all the other little girls who were injured? Who would care?

This was a nightmare for Marta. She had to watch Sacramone, a 20-year-old woman, crumble under the pressure and stumble off a beam. Meanwhile, the Chinese kept sticking their landings.

“Little babies,” she barked.

It was too much to bear. The little babies had gotten her. The little babies were driving her and her husband nuts.

The little babies were winning gold.

嗤,真小家子气。拿不到金牌就大肆宣扬中国队使用未满16岁的未成年队员，要不就诬蔑他人毁了他夺冠的机会，反正就是不自己好好反省反省。严重鄙视...