Today marks the 2nd week of my cough and it doesn't seem to want to go away. I purchased another bottle of cough mixture this morning and the pharmacist advised me to visit a doctor if my cough still wasn't cured within the next week. Easy for her to say but I left my OHCS card in S'pore. The cough is irritating though; my throat itches so I cough to relieve the itch but that doesn't help at all.

I cooked bak ku teh a 2nd time yesterday. Only, this time, my guests were different. The new batch of guys after the ones from last year went back. Still, they are nice guys and pretty fun to be around. We had strawberry cheese cake (Sara Lee) provided by Mil and watermelon which Chris and I bought a week ago. After that, the girls watched Prison Break and NCIS with A while I chatted in the room with WS. I think we chatted for almost 2 hours while they were outside wathing tv. The funny thing is, WS was waiting for A because he thought that A wanted to watch the shows while A was actually waiting for WS because he didn't want to disturb our chat. These two idiots!!! I enjoyed the chat since although I have known WS for about 7 months now, we've never had a proper talk like this before. How refreshing to know more about someone new! But I didn't like how he made me feel small and insignificant at times...I wonder if he does it on purpose or not.

I had a pretty good time at my lab today. I finally got to do some hands-on instead of sitting around and reading articles. I made 4 litres of nutrient agar and poured about 100+ plates. I also learnt how to operate the autoclave (very important to know the proper way or you may risk hurting yourself or spoiling a very expensive piece of equipment). I did some streak plates too and was very stressed when this guy came and watched over my shoulder. So I told him outright that he was stressing me out and he said that he would go away. Haha my supervisor also berated him for harassing me! The atmosphere there is just so relaxing and the people are friendly and cheerful. I love going around since there are plenty of smiles to go around, plenty of good-natured teasing and they treat me like one of them. At lunch today, we were discussing about the other Asian girl (she's taiwanese) who's doing her PHD there but really keeps to herself so much that she takes separate lunch breaks and eats by herself. She doesn't interact with the rest and won't talk unless she is asked a question and even then, she gives answers like "yes" or "no". Then my supervisor turned to me and told me straight that she forbade me to take separate lunch breaks like her. Heh I was very happy because it meant that she cared and bothered enough about me to stop me from becoming potentially outcasted and totally anti-social. Plus, today, I had a chance to talk to this very cute guy....whahaha...motivation to go to lab tomorrow!